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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1949
Page
3
A damaged OCR fragment presents a long mixed list of words and numbers across lines. It includes partial entries such as deer, antlers, Greek letters, verbs, pronouns, medicines, and mythological terms with stray digits and misread letters, lacking coherent narrative structure.
Graceville residents and relatives are listed with service branches and postings in World War II era. Names include Freddleweorge, Nevy Chief and Trudy Ashcraft, with postings aboard the USS Salisbury the Blue Nose, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt and other vessels in Pacific and Arctic theaters. Also mentions families in Dothan, Geneva, Cottonwood, Midland City, Malvern, and Oska Japan, plus Army, Navy and Air Force assignments and reenlistments at Fort Lewis, Pearl Harbor, Lucke, and Fort Jackson.
The Webb Junior High School Gite Club will present two performances of the Christmas operetta The Magi at a Houston County Teachers Association meeting Wednesday and for the general public Thursday night The show follows a little girl's belief in a legend about one of the Three Wise Men appearing each Christmas The production features a prominent cast and festive scenes set around the holiday myth
The old mys taxy play is directed by Miss Kah lyn Land with Mrs Betty Cox serving as director of the glee club and Mrs Elinor Smith as accompanist.
The George S Houston Library releases the weekly bookmobile stops across the county. Routes include numerous stores and churches such as Richey’s Store Port Road Snell’s Store Reynolds Store Hughes’ Store Palgrim Rest Church Wickburg LL Holland’s Store Chuben of Christ Thormley’s Crossroads Branton Stand Selma Church Thompson’s Store Geneva Highway Rehobeth Big Greek Church Newton Store Haddan’s Store Madrid Skupper’s Crossroads Hodgesville Caseys Store Cameron’s Mall Union Hill Highway Garage Cottonwood Rexall Drug Cowdrey’s Store Grangeburg Smiths Store Harper Place Waller’s Store Ardila and Adams Store.
The Alabama Jersey Cattle Club held its annual meeting in Montgomery with W D Hunt of Winfield presiding. More than 200 members attended to hear W D Knox of Heard's Dairyman and other experts discuss herd feeding, production testing, and classification. A lunch for 4H and FFA dairymen featured awards and trophies for junior Jersey exhibitors and state winning judging teams from Burney and Albertville.
Echo Junior High presents the comic operetta A Mountain Wedding in the school auditorium at 7:30 a.m Friday. Students rehearse four of five choir members, with a wedding ending the contest. New stage curtain and a first time use of the school’s 8-piece choir cabinet enhance the production. Admission is 15 cents.
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