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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1939
Page
6
Social and civic news recounts meetings hosted by D Wake with Mrs. Neill’s Nova Scotia and France experiences shaping discourse. Circles One to Three report prayer, Bible lessons, poems, and shared refreshments as 13 to 16 members plus guests attend weekly sessions.
Jack Smith returns home from school to spend the summer with parents Mr and Mrs Lether Smith and J E Chappell family. Martha Aldridge improves after illness at Vaughn Memorial Hospital. Mrs Kate McCulloch of Evanston Ill visits sister H O Troup. H O Troup and guest Kate McCulloch to Nashville this week. Williams Day and Mrs W H Day with Mrs Elbert Patterson in Birmingham for the day. Beatrice Padgett and Blake Harper visit for Rodney Barron’s Decatur Senior High graduation. Mrs Pauline Barron ill at her Grant Street apartment. Rev Oliver C Cox and son stay with Mrs W B Edmundson at Wilder Place, joined by Miss Margaret Cox from New Smyrna Fla. they plan to leave early next week.
President Roosevelt released a letter marking the hundredth anniversary of baseball. The National Baseball Museum at Cooperstown and Doubleday Field will be dedicated June 12. The letter lauds baseball as a national sport and symbol of America, noting its origins in Cooperstown in 1839.
The Decatur Lions Club met at the Tennessee Valley Hotel for a luncheon. Atlee Hoff Jr reported on the club delegation to the district convention in Talladega on May 14 15 16. A TVA movie titled The River was shown, highlighting river benefits and conservation within the Mississippi system. Albert Clapton attended as a guest.
The piece notes the evolving role of the museum as a hub for diverse national origins and fans who demand one thing: can they play the game. It frames the centennial year as a spotlight for baseball’s cultural melting pot and public interest in its history.
A Bible school begins Monday at Southside Baptist Church with en listed workers from the church. Classes cater to boys and girls from beginner to intermediate levels including Bible study drills memory work singing and projects. Faculty includes Rev J A Chambers Pauline Johnson Doris Lee and several department superintendents. A faculty picnic closes the school.
Briggs Manufacturing Co announces it will not attend a peace meeting in Detroit as a strike shuts seven plants and idles more than 170 000 automobile workers. The firm says it will continue negotiations only through representatives.
Regarded as inadvisable a joint meeting with strikers' representatives and a federal conciliator. Sell that white elephant. Phone 46, ask for Ad Taker.
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