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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1944
Page
3
Advertisement lists 20 acres for sale at 50 dollars per acre, owned by Mrs W E Wallace of Harteville Route 1 near Oak Ridge, southwest of Hartselle. Also requests: WANTED 25 cords Hickory wood 4 feet long and 6 inches, small pieces. Contact Arrow Provision. Ads note several sellers sold livestock and rents.
H D Coffey Jr of Wheeler selects registered OIC hogs a dairy calf and a beef calf as his primary 4H projects. He recently bought a registered OIC boat and will provide registered pigs to area farmers with access to a superior boar. He also plans corn home improvement and garden projects while enrolled in Town Creek senior agriculture and active in FFA under E L McGraw.
Census Bureau figures show by Oct 18 this year’s cotton stood at 6,262,155 running bales, far short of 7,792,249 a year ago and 8,182,596 two years back. The Agriculture Department pegs this year’s crop at 11,953,000 equivalent 500-pound bales, up from 11,427,000 last year, with state ginnings including Alabama 711,110 and 794,424 and Georgia 534,650 and 674,267.
Mrs Ethel Roberts of Austinville sustained a painful cut leg after snagging it on a nail at her residence Tuesday afternoon. She was moved to Baugh's infirmary for treatment and later returned home to recover.
Multiple notices seeking land, labor, livestock, rentals, and trades. Carl M Murphree of Tanner posts several requests including building a three room house and milking cows. W T Murphree also in Tanner advertises 800 acres for rent and registered bulls. R D Nesmith seeks a nurse or helper near Parkville. S B Morris offers a trade involving a 1936 Chevrolet pickup near Decatur.
Anne Wilson visits John Thatcher’s private rose garden in Talbot where Thatcher hints at friendship and peace away from the big world. He urges her to stay, notes gossip about her and Dan Smith, and reflects on Third Haven as a haven for people. The scene ends with a promise to continue.
Morgan County farmers coordinated teams to finish picking cotton within two weeks. The note highlights S Foote and wife from Hartselle route 3 harvesting for neighbors and commends older farmers for assisting. It also mentions 4-H dairy projects, peach borer control with paradichloro benzene, and erosion work by Ryans Cross Roads residents with Soil Conservation Service terrace farming.
A county considers designing a terrace system to receive runoff from two or more farms. The plan would replace line ditches which are seen as undesirable on most farms and aim to reduce erosion and improve drainage.
A volunteer mission led by Lt. Thomas G. Archibald of Aliceville Alabama dived through low clouds before dawn and destroyed or damaged nine locomotives and about 100 freight cars in the Citadella area 25 miles northwest of Venice.
Residents and families in Morgan County and Rock Springs gather for church services visits and dinners. The piece lists visits from Woodrow Roberts Orlando relatives and local families at church events, and notes pastors Rev. W W Coffee and Rev F O Parker conducting services. It also mentions B T U meetings and weekend visits among residents.
The Alabama state horse show will run November 3 to 5 in Montgomery with entries from seven Southeast states. Sponsored by the Montgomery Junior Chamber of Commerce it features eight classes and total prizes of 3000 dollars at the Board-stables.
Actor producer Orson Welles, ill with a throat infection, has passed all danger and now faces convalescence, according to his manager Jack Leighter. The update comes as Welles rests in New York.
Washington reports the government seized the Lord Manufacturing Co plant in Erie Pennsylvania after alleging the company raised prices and failed to supply war materials under a 1943 price order. Navy Fo and White House said the move seeks continued war production and fair pricing.
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