Local classified ads list farm housing and goods for sale
A collection of yard sale type notices includes FOR RENT farm housing near Neel School, FOR SALE horses, land, pears, tractors, and a 60 Oliver tractor. Other listings include a Warm Morning theater, a grocery store for sale or trade, seed and plants, a baby sweater order offer, and lost a brown change purse. Various decatur area names appear, with Route 1 Town Creek, Danville, Lacon Mountain, and Priceville as locations.
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Lacon Mountain
Highway
Robert James
Lacon
Favorite Recipe Cakes From an Old Kitchen
Recipe notes describe marble cake and a simple cake. Instructions cover mixing eggs and sugar, folding in flour and milk, and baking at 350 degrees for about 1 to 2 hours. Includes frosting with butter confectioners sugar milk and lemon extract to finish the cake.
Lions claim the classiest name in football
Detroit Lions highlight Kinsley van Rensselaar Dey, a 23 year old end from the University, noting the distinctive and classy name as part of the player profile.
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Detroit Lions
Kinsley van Rensselaar Dey
Button Clover Used for Winter Grazing Advice
S C Alexandria of Route 1 Eva Alabama states his cows grazed on button clover during winter and spring after receiving 40 pounds of seed from the Soil Conservation Service. He recommends upland drill prepare fertilize and plant similar to crimson clover but use scarified button clover seed inoculated with alfalfa. He expects a volunteer crop this winter and notes button clover as a good reseeding winter legume.
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S. C. Alexandria
Route 1
Eva
Alabama
Soil Conservation Service
Alexandria
FFA News Falkville Members Receive Pigs From Chapter Chain
Hoyt Lee Penn Ottis Alford Morris Couch and Dorman Lee have received pigs through the Chapter Pig Chain begun last year. Two Jr. Ill boys will get pigs later. An officer meeting discussed financing plans. Three typing tables and two benches were completed by the FFA shop. To date two members have paid dues for 1948- fiscal year.
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Falkville Hoyt Lee
Penn
Ottis Alford
Morris Couch
Dorman Lee
Red Shield Boys Club Winners to Enjoy a Banquet
Winners in the Red Shield boys club softball league will be honored Tuesday night at a banquet at the Greystone cafe at 6:30. Frank N. Wade, regional director of the Boys Clubs of America, will meet at that time with the organizers.
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Red Shield
Greystone Cafe
Frank N. Wade
Boys Clubs of America
Salvation Army Board and Boys Club Committee Plan Dutch Banquet
A local Salvation Army advisory board and the Red Shield boys club committee are urged to attend a banquet described as a dutch affair. The note promotes plans for the event among board and committee members. Also, a statistic notes lightning causes about 400 deaths and 1,000 injuries annually in the United States.
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Red’ Shield Boys Club
Salvation Army Advisory Board
United States
Good Results At Wienfield Winfield Substation
Agricultural experiments at the Upper Coastal Plain Substation near Winfield show soils once considered poor now yield strong crops. Forty-four bale cotton on 33 acres in 1947 and grain sorghum with 35 bushels per acre over three years highlight soil building programs including sericea alfalfa and crimson clover.
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Upper Coastal Plain
Coas Plain
Atwood
Faytte County
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
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Farmers Exchange
Luther Sherrill
Danville “Road
Neel School
Perkins Mila
Hartselle
John. Morris
Albert Lamon
Decatur
Moulton Highway
Hatton
W. C. Taylor
Town Creek
Harv FP
Sewell
Decaur
Robert McAbee
Annie Stewart
H. Ff
Bice
Danville
Fitagerald
James Douglas
Parkville
H. M. Blankenship
Route 2
L. A. Douglas
J. T. Wallace
Forrest Chapel
Clifton
Scott
J. B. Robinson
Priceville
Hatchery
Bank
Fire and Auto Insurance
J. F. Smith
P. O. Box
Tennessee Valley Cooperative
Ala
North
Alebeme
FFA News
Red Shield Boys Club
Ree
Wickert
Moe W. Brady
Wienfield
Great
Tennessee River Valley
Carnation Company
Alabama Dairy Products
Bank Street
Oreo
Decatur, Alabama
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