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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1924
Page
4
Final showings of the William de Mile Paramount production open at the Princess theater tonight. Agnes Ayres and Jack Holt lead the featured roles with a handpicked supporting cast.
Morgan County Alabama announces a June 1 meeting at the Decatur courthouse to review protested property valuations. Taxpayers may file written objections by May 26 1924 detailing the itemized property and disputed assessed values with Board Secretary H O Troop.
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Social calendar lists Thursday Club activities at the Cox home with Mrs. HM May and Mrs. C C Cox, Thursday Bridge Club with Mrs. Robert Want, and the Friday Thirteen event hosted by Mrs. B P Wallace. Also notes Canal Street Rock Club, Silk Stocking Club, and the Federated Missionary Societies Social Service Committee events.
The Berean Club enjoyed a midweek picnic on the Fifth Avenue West home grounds with white tablecloths, sandwiches, fried chicken, Brunswick stew, cakes, pies, and iced tea. Committee members received thanks for service. L. P. Troup spoke on the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs trip to Montevallo. The annual club contest crowned Milton Harvey’s side over Lou Giles’s, with a luncheon planned for May 21. Guests included Mrs. Harry Wyatt and others from Denver and local members.
The Federated Missionaries Social Service Committee plans a 3 PM Friday meeting at the YMCA. Several residents travel or return from visits, including Mrs A H Higson and son from Philadelphia, Miss Susie Aycock from Atlanta, and others. House guests and illness updates surface as Mrs Eugene Morrow and family, Mrs Dolan Jones and Nell visit, with several residents preparing moves to Birmingham or Asheville.
An old advertisement touts Peptona as the ideal tonic to counteract inactivity and confinement from indoor work. It claims the product aids in combating conditions and helps rebuild run down systems.
Miss Hattie Johnson returns from Nashville after a two day visit with relatives. Mr and Mrs Mack Dillon vacationing with Mrs Alice Johnson and daughter on Second avenue host Miss Madeline Summer convalesces at home. Miss Katherine Parsons visits friends in Athens. Mrs Virginia Graham leaves for Montgomery to stay with her son. Oneonta visitors Mr and Mrs O A Pfaff stay with Mr and Mrs P B Hale. Miss Flossie Griffin resigns from Tennessee Valley Bank to join Alabama Power in Birmingham and departs Saturday.
Herbert McCain returns from Montgomery and South Alabama trips. J R Daniell departs for Mobile for a two day session of Alabama Insurance men convention. Clyde Sharp back from Florence business trip. H R Summer also returns from Florence trip.
A. J. Harris sues for $200 for services as a Morgan County board of revenue road supervisor. Judge Kyle reviews if the Foreman bill allowing $5 per day while on duty but not $50 quarterly to all members blocks or permits the $50 quarterly payments.
A two story residence for Mrs. J. W. Murphy rises in the new neighborhood near Decatur high school. The home at Line and Pond streets will include modern conveniences and be ready soon.
John T Masterson of Moulton celebrated his seventy ninth birthday with family and relatives present. The piece notes his limited medical practice in recent years and a postponed May pole contest for Moulton public school children due to bad weather. It also outlines local election considerations in Lawrence county and announces Ora Devers earning a $1200 Rockefeller Foundation General Education Board scholarship for further study at Peabody.
The survey head reports the Moulton to valley road cost will be small. Over half the route is surveyed and early contracts loom as work accelerates. Nearby activity includes Moulton catur highway storage and right of way clearance toward the Morgan County line. Local residents and visitors fill Sunday in Moulton, with several names listed among social and business visits.
The Jenolan Caves Wishing Pool in Sydney raises a record 1,755 dollars for two local hospitals after 13 months of collections. The haul comprises mainly small coins including 10,138 three-penny pieces and 13,381 pennies.
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The column records numerous visits and movements around Moulton including sermons by Tero in May, Miss Olivette Sutties visiting Florence, C P Prewit traveling east of Moulton, Claude Craig with nursery agents to Florence, Walter Burch and Mamie Burch visiting Albany, Lyndon Houston and Dean Pickens in Town Creek, Bud Masterson and family in Moulton for his mother’s illness, J R Vaughn visiting Albany, Miss Ethel Young tending I B Bradley in Dixon Tennessee, Clark and Edd Burch to Newburg, S L Morrow county agent in Moulton, Oxford Windham and Arthur Young from nearby towns joining Lawrence County Farm Bureau directors meeting, and R P Irwin painting his home.
Preuit Holland, after closing a successful term at a large consolidated school in Walke County, spends the first of the year with his father near Moulton.
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