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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1932
Page
2
Five Tennessee Valley counties report the Bethlehem revival concluding Friday night with baptisms in Mr Cave's pasture. The piece notes Victories and social visits during the event and lists local residents attending church and gatherings in Union and nearby towns.
Mrs. Jessie McBride hosts visits by F. C. Jones and family. Nadine Jones and others call on relatives. Several residents travel to Decatur Birmingham Hillsboro and Mattoon. revival at Wheeler draws attendees. church events include Bible study and prayer meeting with topic What Must I Do To Be Saved.
Mrs R D Foote hosts news in Cedar Creek as Mrs John Allen Free and family enjoy a Flint fishing trip. Master Robert Holmes leaves for Center Grove to visit grandma Mrs Ratliff. Homer Hill returns from Tuscaloosa hospital. Miss Anice White of Addison visits Aunt Roxie Hendrix. Services planned Saturday at 2 PM and 7 30 PM and Sunday at 11 AM.
A series of Sunday visits and family gatherings are reported in Danville Route 1 News. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Morris and family hosted and visited relatives including the Doss and Hogan households. Church services at Friendship drew a large crowd.
Mrs Flora Cole, eighty four, of the Sardis community was laid to rest in Bethlehem cemetery Thursday afternoon. Other notes mention visits by Roscoe Gray to Walter and various local residents hosting weekend guests.
Receipts at Birmingham market include hay corn shorts flour cotton cotton seed potatoes onions watermelons peaches. Prices feature delivered hay 12 to 18 dollars per unit, corn 40s to 48, oats 28 cents, cotton seed 16 dollars per ton, portorans 70 cents per owl, turnips 40 cents per dozen bunches, tomatoes 50 cents per half bushel basket. Market commentary notes corn and oats steady while cotton seed rose one dollar per ton.
Dora Reid visited friends at Centerville with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Parker and Mrs. Pearl Handley on Sunday afternoon.
Social notes record Miss Verna Hawkins and Miss Irene Gurley visiting in Eva and Birmingham with relatives, a chicken fry gathering, and multiple local visitors. Obituaries note Mrs Linzie Wallace's funeral, while birth announcements include a daughter for Hilbert Weaver and Beatrice Marg et. Community updates cover church events, singing, revivals, and farm losses like a milk cow and a horse.
Saturday afternoon note reports Halyard Hawkins visiting Birmingham as a business guest on Friday.
Mrs Latte Sage Speae and Mr Harvey McKee spent Sunday with friends. Melvin Lake is ill with flu and malaria at home. Verie Falls returned from Johnson Chapel after visiting her parents. Baptism and ordination planned at Baptist church on Sept 10. An all day singing is set for Sept 18 with invitations to attend.
Circles one and three of the Missionary Society met at Mrs. Mary White's home Monday afternoon. Memphis visitor Clarice Griffin stayed with Jo Crossthwaite, while Decatur guest Ruby Hill visited Lois Montgomery. Russel Hightower left for the University of Alabama to study. Boots Heflin plans Montevallo study as a senior at Alabama College. Garner and Heflin in Birmingham. Mrs. Mary Cunningham of Hartselle visited relatives in Moulton.
Danville report says Floyd Hogan Jr. is resting fairly well after a Saturday fall while at play. The brief item notes the injury as serious but not life threatening and records no further details.
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