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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1918
Page
1
John F. Yarbrough, a popular Farm Demonstrator, will leave Friday to wed Miss Lorena Parker in Notasutga on Monday. They plan to return home early in the New Year and reside here.
Miss Carrie Alexander of Decatur is spending the holidays with her parents Mr and Mrs T R Alexander.
Mrs Rowe and Mr Big, two local high school teachers, are spending Christmas at their homes in Anniston and Birmingham. A baby boy weighing 15 pounds was born to Mr and Mrs Tom Sims.
Mr and Mrs Will Simms plan to leave soon as Willie has accepted a position in Town Creek. Canvassers for Mail subscriptions to the Birmingham Ledger seek applicants nationwide. The Methodist church gave Rev R W Sides a Christmas shower last week. C C Kerby attended the Conference of County Superintendents in Montgomery. Tom Alexander, a Mobile Medical College student, is home for the holidays. Rev J M Roberts is reported quite sick at his home south of town.
The note mentions Anne and Katherine Forney coming home for holidays from Florence Normal College. It reports year 1912 data through December 12 with 12 591 bales pinned that date compared to last year. It also records a Baptist church pound ing for Rev J W Jones and a burial of an infant. Hubert Elkins, son of Mr and Mrs Orren Elkins of Mr Hope, wounded in France, returns on a ten day furlough. A number of soldiers, white and colored, have returned home.
Mr and Mrs W T Lowe of Decatur stayed several days this week visiting relatives. T G Masterson and family of Albany spent Christmas with Dr and Mrs J T Masterson. The brief social visits reflect holiday gatherings among local households.
Lawrence Gillespie shares a Texas reminiscence from Scurry with notes on emigration, cotton prices, a hog, a schoolhouse fund, and playful memories. He recalls old friends, a 7,700 dollar school brick, and humorous incidents from rural life in early Texas days.
The map marks most European nations facing severe hunger with Belgium, northern France, and Serbia highlighted as critical. The piece urges immediate relief from America, noting Ukraine famine centers and vast needs across Poland Finland Balkans and the wider Baltic region, warning of revolt and peace erosion if unaddressed.
A nostalgic note from Lawrence Gillspie invites old friends to Chalybeate Springs for reminiscences and lizard tail pranks. The message ends with a lost gold watch from Illinois Watch Co bearing a W. O. W. emblem and a Jr. C. U. American Mechanic button, offered for return to A. B. Murphree, principal of Moulton High School, Alabama.
Captain Robert W. Waite of Company G Seventh Infantry reports Corporal Robert A Masterson was killed by shell fragments while on the front in Europe. Waite notes Masterson refused earlier duty reassignment, endured, and is buried with comrades’ care. He sends heartfelt sympathy to James T Masterson of Moulter Alabama and honors the fallen soldier as fully performing his duty.
For sale 80 acres of land three miles east of Moulton. Well improved with a new house and barn and ample water. Can furnish a complete abstract. Write T. A. Burgess Whistler Alabama 16t.
Mrs. L. A. Drinkard of Jefferson City Missouri credits Chamberlain's Tablets with rapid improvement from stomach trouble and nervous fatigue after a week of use. The remedy is sold by Sandlin Cowan Drug Co.
C M Smith known as Cal in Knoxville Tennessee recounts a severe bout of acute indigestion with gas and weakness. He credits Tanlac for a rapid improvement after three bottles, saying he feels like a new man and can eat normally. Tanlac is sold by Savdlin Cowan Drug Co Moulton Alabama.
The following Hillsboro pupils received blue ribbons for perfect attendance last month: Water Blackman, Mary Horne Woodall, Cora Malone, Lois Hames, Lillian Malone, David Woodall, Clara Kirkpatrick, George Hames, Evelyn Irwin, Lola Mae Malone, Kenneth Odom. The school donated 12 dollars to the War Work Fund. Notice: an application will be made to the Governor of Alabama for the pardon or parole of Richard Madry, convicted of second degree murder in Lawrence County Circuit Court on September 11, 1917. Mrs. Lucy Madry.
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