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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1949
Page
4
Society notes and club announcements list Le Club Entre Meres meeting hosted by Mrs Eugene Chenault and Mrs J O Colvard at 524 Johnston Street with program titled Where Goes The South. Members urged to attend.
A string of local personals notes lists visits and travels of residents including John Nelson of Hot Springs and Decatur visitors, Mrs. T. G. Morrow and others in Guntersville for Presbyterial meetings, multiple families visiting Decatur, Greensboro and Birmingham, plans to attend a cotton convention in Savannah, and a move to Gadsden.
Heavy rains push the Tombigbee and Warrior rivers toward flood stages. The Tombigbee reaches 38.4 feet at Aberdeen Mississippi and 44 feet above flood stage elsewhere. the Warrior nears flood level at Tuscaloosa Alabama as forecasters await further watershed reports for additional rises.
An advertisement promotes crochet and linen patterns from Laura Wheeler Needlecraft. It details Pattern 563 with motifs and edging, requests twenty cents to The Decatur Variety Needlecraft Dept, P O Box 13 Brooklyn, and invites readers to send fifteen cents for the catalog with 108 illustrations.
John E. Montgomery, chief investigator for the Florida forest service, was named Tallahassee police chief replacing W L Prater who resigned after a dispute with city manager over authority in the department.
Three year old Philiperre Givens died after a gang plow detached from a tractor rolled onto him as he tried to climb it in Headland Alabama. He was taken to a Dothan hospital where he died en route.
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