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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1968
Page
9
A long hospital notice lists numerous individuals by name and town with a series of discharges and infant or adult mentions. The fragment reads like a community roster of patients tied to Decatur Athens Hartselle and nearby areas, including Dover Creek and Moulton.
Funeral services for Mrs Lentern Harris 70 of Decatur will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Sand Hill Baptist Church Priceville with Rev John Williams officiating. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery Reynolds Funeral Home directing. Survivors include the widow Theo Harris of Montgomery a brother G C Garth of Decatur and other relatives. Pallbearers Bobby Howard and Bracie Allen. The body remains at Gunthorp Funeral Home until services.
Graveside services are planned for infant Sabrina Diane Howard who died Tuesday morning at University Hospital in Birmingham. The service details will be announced by the funeral home.
A partial admissions roster for Athens Limestone lists William Wilkerson Lovell, Ella Catherine Shirley, Ewing Gris som, Mary Sue Mattox, Claude C. Big gers, Paulie Varnell, Nancy Ann Snead, Woodrow Wilson Scott, Middlebrooks lens, Kimberly Collins and others from Athens Harvest Keens and Keen locations.
Funeral services for Sammy Jackson who died Monday in Detroit will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at King's Memorial Methodist Church with Rev. G. R. Russell officiating. Burial follows in Sykes Cemetery. Reynolds Funeral Home handles arrangements. Survivors include three brothers William Jackson of Detroit Will Hunter Jackson and Morgan Jackson of Chattanooga and three sisters Linnie Hudson Ruth Jackson and Addie Little, all of Chattanooga and Cleveland. The body arrives at Reynolds Funeral Home Thursday.
Mrs Celia Johnson died today at a Hartselle rest home. Services will be announced later by Turner Funeral Home.
James Earl Sharply aged 23 of Hartselle and Mary Francis Orr 19 of Hartselle, along with James Leslie Watkins 48 of Decatur and Etella Cole 59 of Decatur, obtained marriages. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Jerry Marlon Roger in Athens at Athens Limestone Hospital. Recorder docket lists 7 traffic light disregards, 4 speeding, 4 disorderly conduct, 2 improper muffler, 2 improper tag, 3 intoxication on a public street, 3 prohibition law violations, 1 improper turn, 1 DW I, 1 resisting arrest, 1 failure to obey officer, 2 petit larceny. Building permits issued to S & M Construction of 1211 Eleanor Drive.
S and M Construction at 1207 Eleanor bids 16000 for residence work. Dr James E. Storer at 712 3rd Ave SE bids 100 for utility room. Homer at 2208 Willow Ave SW bids 200 to demolish a barn. Edward Hancock at 1204 19th Ave SE bids 150 for patio. J and J Construction Co at 1614 3rd Ave ISW bids 3900 for carport and utility room.
Chicago resident Mary Maloian sells distinctive scents by the pound or quart in a quirky odor focused business. She offers Wet Dog at 9.20 per pound, Green Pastures at 51.75, corned beef and cabbage 1.95, ocean spray 5.10, cigar smoke 3.40, and moldy air 518.50, running a singular odor oriented theater.
The Borg-Warner Science Hall hosts the environmen chamber featuring a 15 minute film tracing man's progress in controlling his surroundings. The show demonstrates 12 changes in temperature humidity lighting and odors, with a dramatic moment where temperature drops from 110 to 50 degrees and humidity from 90 to 50 percent in two seconds.
Keep an extra dustpan near the kitchen oven for safe removal of hot pastries. It helps scoop a pie or cake without burning fingers and avoids direct contact with the heat.
A list of individuals tied to Cullman and nearby areas including Mrs. Linda Abbott, George L. Buchanan, Mrs. Pearl B. Craft, Mrs. Clara M. Freeman, R. C. Morgan of Hanceville, Mrs. Odell Ann Nail, Hubert Price, Tommy Roden of Holly Pond, Mrs. Essie Smith, Grover H. Weldon, Mrs. Bessie Williams, Mrs. Bessie Jane Baker, James E. Peaceman, Mrs. Mary Hanceville II, Verdeen L. Morgan of Vinemont, Paul E. Owen of Hanceville, Edsel Pilgrim, Mrs. Dorothy Piper, and Mrs. Thelone Yeager.
In Morgan County Alabama equity case Mary Neal sues Arthur E Neal a non resident with unknown address. Publication required weekly for four weeks in Decatur Daily to plead answer or demur by October 16 1967 or bill may be confessed. A stray nonlegal sentence about coffee is included but ignored for record.
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