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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1938
Page
5
A Womans Missionary Society meeting in Flint hosted by Mrs. Leonard Grigzard drew three guests from Decatur First Church Society, plus local members. New member Mrs. Whitten joined. devotional and mission study were led by Mrs. Warn and Mrs. Betterton with light refreshments following. business meeting set for July 6 with Mrs. A. J. Haymaker.
Mrs J O Gilmore Mrs Hugh Cargile and Miss Sue Morgan of Birmingham arrive Thursday as guests of Mr and Mrs Roy Fite. Jimmy Fite will leave later for Camp Westmoreland. Mrs Louis Goldberger of Natchez MS and her daughter Mrs Ben Freeman of Memphis TN visit brother uncle J S Patterson. Lawrence Cooper returns home after weekend visit. Victor Golden and children back in Pulaski TN after visiting grandparents Mr and Mrs J A Evans. Lesser family expected home from Atlanta GA. Jennie Lovelady and Mrs Ora Graham join Mrs B B Morris for a Miami vacation. Tootsie Huddleston of Birmingham visits W P Moore. R W Nelson and children visit relatives on Prospect Drive. Mary Lou Dancy Chapter O E S members attend Eastern Star ceremonies in Fayetteville TN. Mrs B R Ross and mother spend weekend in Birmingham. Mary White improves after operation at Benevolent Society hospital. Kathryn Edwards and Margaret Ann Rogers dine with Mrs James H McCoy in Athens. John Jackson returns to Loretto TN after visiting. Frances Clift of Diana TN visiting friends. Adelaide Whitfield returns to Pulaski TN. Sue Clift and Edith Beard visit Pulaski and Diana. Edward Hart Dickinson of Birmingham visits uncles J B and W S Dickinson. Betty Monroe of Huntsville visits W J Br online. Zana Dean Bradley leaves for West Coast trip visiting Arizona and California. Eva Love Wyatt attends summer school at Alabama College. Mrs Ernest Beard to have tonsils removed Saturday morning. Joe Wilder and wife travel to Birmingham for daughter Ormond Frazier’s operation at Infirmary Thursday. Jack Carr of Birmingham visits grandmother Annie Orr. Annie Orr returns home after visiting son Guy Orr and daughter Mrs D M Carr.
Funeral services were held at Mt. Tabor for Clark L. Posey aged 68 a respected Morgan and Cullman counties resident who died at a son Henry Poseys home in Somerville Survived by wife seven children Henry Jessie Maggie Nelson Katie Sams Clarence A J Posey Leona Posey and twenty grandchildren with a nine year relocation from Ebenezer to Somerville.
The annual singing will be held at Mt. Zion Sunday July 3. Mt. Zion lies five miles southeast of Hartselle and an invitation was extended for all to attend.
The famous Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton duel occurred in Weehawken New Jersey opposite New York City's 42nd Street.
Homer Jones superintendent Cooper-Wells hosiery mill with Mrs Jones and their sons travel from Florida to Cuba and Porto Rico. They plan deep sea fishing at Fort Myers and glass bottom boat viewing at Silver Springs. They will sightsee by air from Key West in Cuba and possibly Porto Rico before returning along Florida's eastern coast.
U S Senator Gerald P Nye held a commanding lead over Governor William Langer for the Republican nomination as returns came in from the primary. The Nye Langer contest centered on state government issues and overshadowed a sparse Democratic race with few challengers.
Governor Bibb Graves pads the Talladega County Commission with Alford J. Turner of Talladega named to District 1. The announcement came from Montgomery on June 20.
Federal Commissioner Louise O. Chariton acted as judge and detective in a Birmingham courtroom. While presiding over charges against Harriet Andrews and Bill, two other witnesses named Sittoers were arrested after warrants were issued in the same case.
Chicago July 20 opens talks under the railway labor act. Representatives from 18 unions and carriers’ joint conference committee will pursue a 15 percent wage reduction after a preliminary meeting held yesterday.
A fourth of the quadruplet girls born to a 98 pound peach orchard worker's wife near DeQueen dies early today. The first of the four had died yesterday, leaving three survivors.
Ralph Podesta aged 41 of Gulf States Paperation died today at a local hospital from injuries suffered in an accident last Friday near Tubocalooba Alabama. Authorities reported the incident occurred in the nervous area and the cause remains under investigation.
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