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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1929
Page
1
Fire at the Dothan Oil Mill caused extensive damage estimated by officials. A hot box on the grain elevator is considered the probable origin. The sprinkler system helped limit the loss as the Fire Department fought the blaze for about four hours.
Alabama Public Service Commission will conduct a four month expert survey of Standard Telephone & Telegraph company service in Dothan to determine needed improvements. City Attorney Oscar S. Lewis filed the complaint and the commission promises thorough investigation and coordination with city officials to bring service up to a proper standard.
George Watkins aged 58 died this morning at five o'clock in Hodgesville after a period of ill health. Cancer of the stomach was given as the cause. Survived by wife and six children Damon Raymond Jesse Hosea Johnnie and Mrs Cerrie Jenkins all residents of Hodgesville. Funeral services held today at the family home.
The fourth annual Cheetahwatchee Area council roundup drew several hundred Southeast Alabama and Northwest Florida Scouts to City Hall. Mayor Clem Ezell welcomed them as Eagle Scout Perry McLendon led the pledge to the flag. Awards included three Eagle Scouts John Van Landingham Jahanna Edwin Taylor and James Deese.
Chief Detective Paul Cole says Robert H. Knowles of Moulton is held in Birmingham for questioning by the attorney general’s office in the Claude F. Avant murder case. Avant, Slover High School principal, was stabbed and found near the Florida Alabama line after vanishing September 23.
Officials of the Guanajuato Reduction and Mining Company say president C L Kurtz will appeal to the U S government after two engineers J M Underwood and another were killed by Mexican bandits. Kurtz travels to the mines from San Antonio as threats of kidnapping had been made a month earlier. Berlin reports Kaulsdorf suburban line timetables to the half minute marking a world first.
Captain George Fried whose life story My Thirty Years at Sea begins in the Dothan Eagle on Monday February 25 has been a maker of big news through daring rescues and an accurate reporter for The Associated Press. His seamless coverage of storms and lifeboat actions earned AP honorary staff status, and his Florida rescue accounts have fed millions with vivid, crediting detail.
A 1897 portrait of William McKinley from Canton Ohio details his inaugural front porch campaign address to a crowd of about one million. The procession to the Capitol included Civil War veterans and a large crowd along Pennsylvania Avenue while Mrs Cleveland and reporters observed from nearby. The article notes the era’s public interest in bikes and the wife of the president and offers a vivid, era typical description of ceremony and spectacle.
The annual midwinter Bible School begins Tuesday February 26 at Newton Institute, continuing three days. Dr. A D Zhinden of Hartford presides, meals and home entertainment arranged, and sessions study the book of Acts with speakers including L W Dockery, N Y Beall, C Cunningham, W M Bush, J W Phillips and many others delivering expositions and addresses on Acts chapters 1 through 21.
Judge Oscar S. Lewis, Pensacola radio speaker, lauds George Washington and the American Legion Auxiliary on WCOA. He extols duty to veterans, mentions Alabama measures for a 300 bed general hospital and the Luce Hospital Bill in Congress. He then profiles Dothan as the Queen City of the Wiregrass, noting growth since 1890, current population around 15,060, multiple churches, schools, and civic institutions, with details from E M Weatherly.
Fair weather across Alabama with frost in the far north tonight. Sunday brings clearer skies, rising temperatures, and a fresh northeast breeze along the coast.
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