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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1932
Page
3
A clipping lists services for several churches in Lafayette, detailing mass times, Sunday School, and worship schedules. Stresses parish life with Catholic, Christian, Episcopal, Methodist and Baptist congregations, including pastors, directors, and guest speakers.
W. L. Bickerstaff, pastor of Oster Street Methodist, invites the public to a young people's service at 6 00 and a Wednesday night gathering at 7 00. The notice emphasizes reaching out to attendees and fostering fellowship within the church community.
A condensed biographical sketch notes Washington as a athletic man with charm for Martha Dandridge Custis. It recounts their May 1768 meeting, a swift proposal, and a January 1759 marriage that brought wealth and land. Washington cared for Patsy and John Parke Custis, faced Patsy’s epilepsy, and Martha managed Vernon House while accompanying him in campaigns during the war.
Grand View Baptist Church lists Sunday School at 9 45 a m preaching at 11 a m and 7 p m by Pastor H Gunter. Presbyterian Church on North Oates Street has morning sermon at 11 o clock on Joshua's Wise Decision with Christian Endeavor at 6 15 p m and vesper at 5 p m. vesper replaces evening service with prayer meeting Wednesday at 7. Christian Science Society in Laurie Building holds a 1 a m lesson sermon Soul with midweek testimonial at 1 30 p m. cites passages from Lamentations Isaiah and Psalms and discusses Soul as divine principle.
Gen Charles P. Summerall resigns as The Citadel president. John P. Thomas, chairman of the Board of Visitors, received the notice by mail and hopes Summerall may reconsider. Summerall departed for Jacksonville Florida to give an address and offered no public statement on his action.
Vergil L. Bedsole, a University of Alabama history graduate student from Dothan, found documentary evidence supporting February 11 as George Washington's birth date, not February 22. He cites entries from his mother's Bible and Washington's diaries noting February 11 in 1796 and 1799, and explains calendar changes from Julian to Gregorian accounts for the discrepancy.
Cold winds and heavy snow disrupt springlike weather across the Midwest. Widhipeg Man reports massive drifts blocking highways while prairie temperatures drop 10 to 30 degrees below zero. Five deaths linked to early storms, with more cold likely. European winter grips, and calendar notes recount the 1752 calendar switch and Washington's birth year confusion.
The fund seeks financial support from the patients and community to provide assistance to the children of Georgia suffering from infantile paralysis. The foundation operates to fund therapies and care at Warm Springs for affected youngsters and related medical services.
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