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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1933
Page
8
Dr L R Murphree warns the season brings contagious colds that can lead to pneumonia or tuberculosis and burden schools, workplaces, and taxpayers. The best protection is home rest for those sick and preventive measures for the healthy.
Dr. W I Myer deputy governor and Albert B Goss with farm credit officials will arrive in New Orleans October 23 to organize two new agencies the Production Credit Corporation of New Orleans and the New Orleans Bank of Cooperatives to supplement the Federal Land Bank and Intermediate Credit Bank and serve Alabama Louisiana Mississippi as the sixth district under the Farm Credit Act.
Advice stresses staying home to recover from colds, rest, warmth, and proper care. It urges coughs and sneezes be covered, and hands kept clean to prevent spread. It notes avoiding crowded overheated rooms and maintaining general health through rest, diet, and hydration.
Miss Ida Belle Price daughter of Dr and Mrs W F Price has matriculated in the department of graduate instruction at Vanderbilt University for the coming school year and is pursuing work toward a degree in that department. Vanderbilt offers top facilities faculty and equipment with a beautiful campus in Nashville Tennessee. The university finished last year without a deficit and has not cut its educational program.
Gilbert J. Criscoe a prominent Union Grove resident was in Decatur today for business purposes visiting local firms and meeting contacts.
First and second farm mortgages along with short and intermediate term credit for crops and livestock, and discount and loan facilities to aid farmer cooperatives and local agricultural lenders.
The Boy Scouts of Troop Four visited Hillcrest farm home of Mr and Mrs Henry Goad on Bee Line highway last Saturday. They built a nail free bridge over a stream with vine fastenings and guard rails, felled two trees to form a primitive crossing, and cleared sand for cooking fires. Dr and Mrs Frank Chenault and Rev Peter M Dennis provided transport, driven by Miss Margaret Chenault.
Miss Hilda Walsh of Fostoria Ohio president of the Pan-Hellenic Council at the University of Alabama and member of Alpha Xi Delta is in Chicago for the National Pan-Hellenic Congress annual meeting. This year delegates discuss sorority rushing problems and solutions.
The afternoon session saw Junior Scouts Warner Sartor Randel Cullom and James Orton earn fire fighting tests. Second class Scouts Frank Troup Julian Bibb William Dennis Henry Day Johnny Smithers John Cullom Frank Lee Chenault and Raymond Parks completed woodcraft and cooking tests. The troop thanked Mr and Mrs Goad for using their farm for Troop Four activities.
A fragmented list shows prices for eggs butter sweet potatoes turnips greens kale cabbage carrots tomatoes cucumbers and poultry. Items include fresh market rates for hens fryers geese turkeys and onions among others with per pound or per bunch pricing.
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