Back Home Pastor Kenyon Returns to Cottonwood Church
The Rev Kenyon, scholarly and devoted, returns as full time pastor to Cottonwood Baptist Church after serving elsewhere including Athens and Los Angeles. He praises the church’s support and plans to resume sermonettes in The Eagle. Local merchants note varied business conditions with meat prices down and quality up, while peanut crops and hiring trends shape Cottonwood’s economy.
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Cottonweed Dial Telephones Set Wiregrans Pace
Cottonweed has operated dial telephones for a year, establishing a pace-setting standard for the Wiregrans and signaling modernization in local communications. The milestone reflects growing adoption of automated service in the region.
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Bird hunting in Cottonwood area declines
Dan Marshall notes the Cottonwood Wiregrass bird hunt is not as good as in the past. He hears from local bird hunters that fewer birds are available this year, attributing the decline to heavy thinning by other hunters.
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Cottonwood Sightings of Men with Guns Attract Attention
Readable lines note that in Cottonwood at this season men with guns and dots move through town, creating a sense of activity regardless of birds being scarce or not.
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Cottonwood
Granger Keeps Order in Small Town Jail
Police Chief Red Granger, a 300 pounder, maintains order as crowds swell on Saturdays. He notes that while most days stay peaceful, some rough characters end up in jail. Daytime patrols cover enforcement with a night watchman on rounds.
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Carmel burglar returns stolen loot by parcel post
Mrs. B L Coates in Carmel, California, reported a burglary that took a camera, light meter, jeweled elk tooth, fountain pen, and jewelry. A week later the loot arrived by parcel post from Los Angeles with an unsigned note claiming the thief took items while intoxicated and pled forgiveness.
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Mince meat production blooms in South Royalton kitchen
Mrs. L. D. McIntosh in South Royalton Vermont is busy making four tons of mincemeat this year. She crafts the traditional batch annually for sale across the nation, drawing on a steady local practice that supports her nationwide distribution.
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Television Foreseen As Major Industry
New York report quotes Orrin E. Dunlap Jr predicting a billion dollar television industry by 1960. He says TV must evolve show business style, with shortened speeches and headline events across News, sports, cartoons, and movies, to outpace radio and home appliances.
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Army Canteen Makes Long Ocean Voyage
PORT ARTHUR TEX. It is a big ocean but a small world says Corporal Willam G Akanry who tossed his army canteen overboard from a Europe bound transport. More than three years later Curtis Hamm port agent for the National Maritime Union found the canteen on the beach and wrote Akanry at his Ohio home. The corporal said the ship was about 1000 miles east of the Bahamas when he cast the canteen aboard.
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Fried Spud Craving Breaks Up Romance
Milwaukee man Gregory Call lost his wife after he craved fried potatoes for breakfast. Judge Allen Young granted a divorce to Mrs. Lillian Call citing his long absence and erratic behavior, plus drunkenness and failure to account for actions. In Olympia, a dairy truck collision slammed into the Ripley front yard, sending milk boules onto the porch and smashing the parked car.
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Albino Fox Sighted Near Village by Local Residents
Randoph Viz reports an albino fox, described as a rarity of the animal world, seen near the village by Deane Manning and Keith Campbell, drawing local interest and curiosity.
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Rabbits Demand for Berlin Rabies Lab Hits Shortage
In postwar Berlin the Robert Koch Institute struggles with a rabbit shortage for rabies serum production. A request from the Central Heat Administration to German citizens to donate rabbits met scant response as locals face hardship and prefer meat. Only one man offered a Kron rabbit and five young pigs for NS marks, highlighting the severe supply gap hindering serum manufacture.
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Peasants Batter U S Tractors in Poland Report
In Lower Silesia Polish peasants severely injure US tractors supplied by UNRRA. An agricultural expert estimates 40 to 63 percent of the 500 tractors are out of operation due to negligent use and sloppy repairs by the peasant operators. The article notes heavy forestry work and declining maintenance.
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Anxiety over new earth reclaiming machine gains attention
Demott described a European built machine by Baléwis Locomotive works at Pa that can reclaim lease sandy soil or earth to support large structures. It measures 100 square feet per area and can depth up to feet, promising use in airport runways water retaining dams and marsh reclaiming.
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Greece Repairs Its Lighthouses
ATHENS AP The navy group of the American Mission for Aid to Greece backs a project to rebuild and rehabilitate lighthouses along Greece. Condr H L Jukes says the Greek admiralty approved buying 224750 dollars of lighthouse equipment from Sweden. War damage left navigation aids neglected across the 400 major lights along Greece s extensive coastline.
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Ward-Wilson Mortuary Service in Dothan
Ward-Wilson Mortuary in Dothan offers dedicated funeral services for families. The firm emphasizes peace of mind through reverent remembrance for loved ones, serving homes churches and chapels.
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