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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1932
Page
3
Smith Equipment Company captured the bowling playoff at the YMCA defeating the Disco bowlers in four points. R G Smith led with 539 pins as Smith Equipment won the second half after Disco took the first two periods in the season finale.
Receipts in carrots and various commodities listed with unit prices in Birmingham market. Cotton spot prices show noon middling at 5 5/8 cents and a drop of 12 points from prior. Poultry eggs fruits and vegetables priced with steady or mixed changes. note prime cotton seed at 10.00 per ton f. o. b. Alabama shipping point.
Sheriff Bud Davis of Decatur was in this community on business Friday. Morgan and John D. James of Red Oak attended the singing Thursday night. Blanche Winton shopped in Decatur Friday afternoon. Ada Herron left Thursday for a visit on Route One with friends. A daughter named Mable Ruth was born to Hobart and Mrs. Turner on Thursday April 28. Velma Jett Young visited Decatur Friday afternoon. The piece notes a large turnout for the Decatur singers Thursday night and wonders if flu kept others away.
Sheriff A. W. Davis and several Decatur residents joined the Thursday night singing gathering. The host extended an invitation for more visitors to attend and promised entertaining performances from the singers.
Miss Lorene Reeder and Destine Westmoorland were Wednesday night guests of Miss Gladys Coleman. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Denton of Cherokee visited relatives here this week. Mr. and Mrs. Oden Golling were Thursday night guests. Earl McCalg and Wilbert Wallace hosted visitors Saturday night. The community attended a Falkville play Friday. Comner Jenkins of Falkville was Wednesday night guest of Herman Sandlin. Miss Lorene Reeder is ill at home.
A grocery listing shows backbone radishes sold by the dozen bunches and Strawberries priced per quart. The entry uses concise abbreviations like do or c for price units.
Eason Shumake was among the Decatur visitors seen in Chattanooga on Sunday.
A horned toad, possibly the same species as the legendary one in a Texas cornerstone, was captured this morning by O. K. Fowler while spraying flowers at the Rogers home, 511 Prospect Drive.
Harman Stormer of Quincey Illinois plans white walking canes to aid the blind. Mrs Julia Lewis of Decatur reports the idea and notes towns have passed ordinances to grant the blind certain rights.
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