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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1916
Page
3
A workers meeting of the Sunday school teachers will be held tonight at 7 30 o clock at the home of Mrs George Hartung on Sitth avenue.
The pastor Rev G W Wilburn will preach Wednesday evening at the Southside Baptist church.
A passage reads from Matthew Arnold urging self-knowledge and independence. The column then shifts to a social note: A surprise party for Mrs. Emma Sparkman by the Lady Maccabees on Fifth Avenue with music, games, and a decorated dining room. About thirty guests attended. Miss Maud Morgan of Morganfield, Ky., arrives to visit Miss Katy MecJilton. Mrs. J. H. Corsbie visits daughter Mrs. R. M. Mc Glathery.
At the Alfred Tennyson literary club event the boys performed well in declamation before a packed Decatur high school auditorium. George Todd received the gold medal. Miss Alice Hatton and Miss Mabel Parker gave notable musical numbers. Helen Keller Literary club also held a successful play. The Woman's Missionary Society met at Central M E Church with Bible study and an ice course afterward.
Hon. Tennis Tidwell, prominent local lawyer, spent Monday on a business trip to Scottsboro, Alabama. Dr. Alonzo Graves of Russellville, Alabama, is in the area on professional business.
First day of the May term saw fourteen cases disposed of. Mary Woodruff and others faced nolle prossed on prohibition charges, Tapscott and Scroggs faced whiskey related cases, while Summersford Love and Easter pled guilty or were fined for abusive language or selling. Several defendants were fined twenty or fifty dollars for gaming or whiskey offenses.
A fragment expresses public health rhetoric urging sanitation and disease prevention. It references free bulletins on rural sanitation and the link between healthy living and outcomes such as tuberculosis being contagious but preventable and curable. The tone echoes civic health appeals from early public health campaigns.
The Varnell Orchestra at the Masonic Theatre presents an evening of opera selections and first class music. Mr Kopp, a noted local musician, joins to balance the program. The Cotaco Literary Club meets with Mrs David Humphrey Wednesday afternoon at the usual hour.
A letter to the editor describes long lasting misery in the back headaches and limb pain with constipation and poor sleep. The writer reports improvement after using Anese prego from Doctor Pierce of Buffalo and recommends the remedy to others with similar ailments.
Claims by Dr. Pierce’s Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute of Buffalo that Antric tablets for kidney and urinary disorders will soon be sold in drug stores. The letter notes backache dropsy bladder inflammation and scalding urine as treatable conditions and offers trial mail packet for ten cents with a full treatment for fifty cents.
Lim Lax portrayed as the stomach physician’s prescription with a 25 cent bottle. The ad cites Preuit Dillehay Drug Co and Decatur Drug Co in Decatur and New Decatur, plus other reliable druggists selling the product.
Local documen says catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated internally. Hall's Catarrh Cure marketed by Eney & Co claims to act through the blood on mucous surfaces, prescribed by top physicians, with testimonials offered.
Marseille May 23 The Greek steamer Adamantios Korain of 3 000 tons has been sunk by an Austrian submarine in the Mediterranean.
Former pastor Dr. G. L. Yates is scheduled to deliver a sermon at Central Baptist Church tomorrow night. The event highlights a regular evening service led by the guest preacher.
Mrs. J. B. Whittaker of McDuff Virginia credits Thedford's Black-Draught with preventing long illness in her family. She says the medicine, a vegetable laxative tonic, relieved sick headache and stomach trouble and is kept on hand for both young and old.
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