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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1940
Page
9
The piece laments an awakening clock that disrupts sleep with insistence on daylight saving. It laments humans waking for a changing time and wonders how people can persuade crowds to accept the shift. The poem uses humorous cadence to critique the seasonal clock shift.
Beginning Monday night May 13 a teacher training school will be held at the First Presbyterian church each evening from 8 to 10 o clock. Three courses include Evangelism taught by Rev. Alex Batchelor Pulaski Tennessee Junior work by Mrs W F Cann Evergreen Alabama and Total Youth Program by Mrs David Edington Monroeville Alabama. The school runs five nights Monday through Friday with all interested invited to attend.
Bob Williams 68 of the Somerville Route 2 community died at his home Friday morning after a brief illness. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Valdermosa by Minister Lindsay Allen of Grant Street Church of Christ. Burial by Drinkard. Survivors include five brothers four sisters four half sisters and two half brothers. Nephews will pallbearers and nieces arrange flowers.
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