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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1939
Page
10
Winter sprays for fruit trees control scale and disease before bloom. Ware notes two main types: lime sulfur and oil emulsions, with lime sulfur offering dual disease and scale control. For 100 gallons, 12 1/2 gallons of 32 degree lime sulfur or stock emulsions are used. oil sprays are pricier but less risky to late-blooming trees.
The community sees several measles cases while residents list sick with various ailments. Social visits include Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Dungy with children at Pettus and Mrs. Annie Willis visiting the Hughes near Copeland. Families from Decatur and Louisville travel to see locals, with church services noted for Carey Baptist next Sunday.
Mrs Addie Wallace called to bedside of stepmother. Friday visitors included Mrs Floyd Halbrooks Mrs Cecil Belue and daughter Lezell and Miss Ozelle Vest. Numerous kin from Wallace Vest Long and Garrison families visited, shared meals, birthday and Sunday visits across the county.
Co op engineering students at Alabama Polytechnic Institute swap jobs on March 6 in a 12 week placement cycle. Section 1 returns to college from varied engineering posts while Section 2 leaves campus to assume those roles. A pictured group of male students is shown in uniform rows with names listed.
Friday and Saturday events include Jack Steele purchasing a pair of fine mares. Mr and Mrs Dave Lambert visited Mr and Mrs Sam Steele Sunday evening. Attendance at Corinth church singing Sunday evening. Grace and Lerline Poole attended church near Penn’s. Thelma Steele was Friday evening guest of Mrs D M Dutton. Odie Lee Hunter spent Friday night with Mrs Trannie Speake of Hartselle.
Homer B Fisher, a landscape gardener with the Alabama Extension Service, offers affordable landscape advice for farm home grounds. He urges using native or cheap nursery plants, sectioning grounds into front public and private back areas, screening with fences and shrubbery, and careful tree and shrub placement to frame the house and reduce lawn size. Copies of a plant list available on request.
Mt. Moriah faced Loosier in a close contest at Loosier schoolhouse last Monday with Mt. Moriah winning 12 to 11. Also notes visitations and church events including Elizabeth Clark from Decatur weekends with the Yarbroughs, Hubert and Lois Bradford visiting Arkansas, Sherrill relatives in Decatur, Arrie Box and Horace Thrasher’s singing at New Church, and upcoming preaching at Old Liberty Grove and Church of Christ. Victory returns to the area after three months near Moulton.
Lawrence County New Center notes a play at New Center School next Saturday night March 4 titled The Little Clod Hopper. An all day sing is planned at Oak Grove next Sunday March 5 with invites extended to all. Local visits include Mrs W J Manef visiting daughter Mrs Raymond Segars near Hartselle and Mr O J Standridge with Mr and Mrs Lorence Duffy visiting relatives. Rev Jake Clardy dined with Daniel Murphy. Thomas Whitlow shows slow improvement after recent double pneumonia.
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