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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1912
Page
4
Mrs Dyke Echols and Mrs Louise Darwin hosted an Auction-Bridge afternoon with two charming hostesses. Scores reached 1216 by Mrs Harry Gill and Mrs W H Driscoll. Driscoll won with 2900. Ice berry course served. guests included Mesdames Echols and Elliott.
The Louisville and Nashville payroll is expected to arrive Monday or Tuesday, totaling about $90,000 to be distributed among company employees. Readers are urged to contact Buchheit's Bottling Works for Coca Cola and soda water with prompt delivery.
D B Dobbs of Mobile elected grand chancellor at the Knights of Pythias fortieth annual Alabama convention in Montgomery. Other officers include A G Patterson Felkville grand vice chancellor James M Dannelly and Evan Keeper of record and seal William H H Sanford grand master of exchequer J W Waldrop Florence grand prelate Graham D Perdue Birmingham grand master-at-arms Benjamin A Taylor Montgomery grand inner guard H L Gwin Gadeden grand outer guard.
A marriage license was issued yesterday by the probate judge to R. Smith and Mrs. Ida Britt of Hartseie. Certificate notes and publisher text praise Coca Cola bottle branding and Buchheit Bottling Works.
Dr J D Gwaltney will preach in Birmingham Saturday afternoon at First Baptist and Sunday morning at the South Highlands Baptist church. Rev J Francis of Town Creek will lead Gwaltney’s pulpit Sunday morning, with Rev E B Norton on Sunday night. Chamberlains Tablets praised by Darius Dewey for stomach and bowels relief, sold by Thompson in New Decatur and Decatur Drug Co.
William McBlyen an elderly Tennessee river fisherman is reported drowned after a fishing outing above Decatur on the Tennessee river. Neighbors say he had rested years and disappeared Tuesday leaving local residents concerned over the accident.
Athens May 17 directors of the Limestone County Fair association elected A. J. Crisham president with Ernest Hine C Seavey M A Phillips as vice presidents and Ti ti Walker as secretary treasurer Capt F B Welles named superintendent of races. October 8 set as opening date and the fair is now in the circuit.
The Montgomery Advertiser notes Alabama counted over a thousand miles of highways built by 1911 with 244 to 238 miles improved. Expenditures reached 1,450,118 dollars for 1912, with Macadam gravel sand-clay and graded earth used. Several counties filed no report while leaders praise rising public demand for better roads.
A few lots in the best residential part of Decatur will be offered cheap to builders to meet demand. Contact A. B. Lampkin. Also includes notes on Coca Cola as a refreshing bottle drink and a rheumatism remedy via Chamberlain's Liniment available from S. M. Thompson and Decatur Drug Co.
The Decatur Daily notes J A Buttrey and K R Chandler as prime examples, advertising daily and claiming steady trade gains. It urges consistent, long term ads and cites corporate lessons from AT&T founder Theodore Vail on advertising impact and revenue growth.
Bila Wheeler Wilcox argues that societies rely on a few "leaders" who lift and carry others. She notes in families churches and governments a small number do the work while others lean on them. The piece urges readers to stop leaning and to roll up sleeves and lift the burden daily.
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