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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1933
Page
4
Mrs. W. P. Baugh joins district A. F. W. C. convention speakers in Tuscumbia. Delegates Mrs. Roan and Mrs. Bailey travel from Berean and Saturday Culture Club to the First District gathering. Families, guests relocate to Gadsden and Memphis for visits and weekend stays.
Decatur Mothers Club opens the year with a meeting on February Day hosted by Mrs Horace. City Federation marks birthday with 61st for Mrs 3 E Owen at Crowton home. Guests include Owen Nave Jones and many families. A noon grove dinner celebrated. Other clubs hold meetings with hosts Browne Parker Humphrey and Hargrove. Bible study group renews year with Mrs Brannum as host. prayer and verse readings accompany social hour and light refreshments.
Personal notices list many Decatur residents visiting relatives or attending events in Birmingham Montgomery and Montgomery Alabama and distant cities like Memphis Little Rock San Francisco Arcadia Fla and Elkton Tenn including Miss Lucille Giles in Birmingham Mrs W P Baugh and Dr J E Baugh among others with Kiwanis convention attendance and district gatherings.
Rev W N Dark opens a series at Austinville Methodist church tonight at 7 30. Preachers follow nightly through Saturday with Dr L G Sturdivant Sunday. The event will feature the annual first fruit of the soil display and sale to support the church. Sunday dinner and a basket program are planned. Pastor Rev T H Wilson notes 95 members joined in four years and funds ahead of last year. Twenty nine member farmers expected to attend and arrange the display. nineteen bales of cotton were donated in past two years, with another total this year. The church thanks The Decatur Daily for past coverage.
Ronald Colman appears in dual roles in The Masquerader supported by Elissa Landi Juliette Compton and David Torrence in a production by Samuel Goldwyn with direction by Richard Wallace. The drama, based on Katherine Cecil Thurston, unfolds amid London labor unrest and political crisis shaping the era. Colman sails the Aegean on a long holiday, signaling the end of his screen run for the time being.
A Maxwell Field scrapbook project in Montgomery aims to prevent serious landings by providing pilots with photos of major airports. Initiated a year ago, it now holds 50 pictures of southern landing fields taken by Maxwell cameramen to help pilots familiarize themselves before landing at unfamiliar airports.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt commends lieutenants under his leadership in a relentless fight. Governor Miller praises Alabama cooperation to relieve unemployment and restore normal business conditions nationwide.
Gov. B. M. Miller has proclaimed a half holiday at the State capital for Oct. 19 so employees and officials may march in Montgomery's NRA victory parade. The notice frames the national economic crisis as a battle between the United States and a severe downturn.
Deputies Willoughby and Walton with federal officers Clem and Lamon raided a still about two miles west of Decatur near the Tennessee River this morning. They captured Harvey Fleming and B. Hutto and destroyed a 60-gallon still along with several hundred gallons of beer and nine gallons of whiskey. the men are jailed awaiting a hearing.
W Morrow of Birmingham division passenger agent for the L and N Railroad Company spent Tuesday in Decatur on official business.
Governor B M Miller designates October 16 to 22 as Alabama Parent-Teacher Week urging churches schools and public gatherings to stress education. The proclamation highlights home and school as foundational, aims to boost PTA membership programs and child welfare projects, and calls for support from ministers and citizens for better understanding between home and school.
Birmingham observers report the National Anti Saloon League with Alabama groups planning a nationwide campaign to repeal the eighteenth amendment and restore national prohibition. Dr F Scott McBride says the effort starts locally and expands to dry states until 36 join before reentering prohibition into the federal Constitution.
Hartselle Alabama October 11 Special W H Gregory new Morgan county agent organizes a terrace school for farmers with J B Wilson Auburn extension agronomy engineer assisting The session covers terrace construction costs and soil erosion prevention noting soil conservation can add 5 to 8 dollars per acre value and reduce erosion that fills Wilson Lake and lowers reservoir capacity
Small coal heater and small oil heater for sale. Highest cash prices paid for used furniture. Phone 958 M. Phone 47. Wanted to rent a 2 room furnished apartment suitable for light housekeeping. Write AB care Daily.
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