From the Files of 1933:
June the 18th was temperance Sunday in Alabama in 1933. Let us vote to keep John Barleycorn in his grave a long time.
Mrs. Henry Meyer was the chaperone for a party of young girls of Cullman at Blount Springs this week, including: Misses Elsie Kempson, Esther Naomi Meyer, Lucy Guthrie, Opal Lee, Evelyn Blackburn, Freda Wooten, Jessie Keller, Virginia Blackburn and Dickie Meyer.
Best granulated sugar, 20 lbs – $1.00.
Doctor Carlie Burkart, of Hanceville, attended the state druggist convention, held in Mobile, on Wednesday and Thursday.
Doctor Dodson and daughter, Jane and Doctor J.C. Martin and daughters, Eunice and Grace, left Wednesday for a visit to the World’s Fair, in Chicago.
Maurice Norwood spent Monday afternoon in Birmingham.
Henry Wilhite and son, Verbon spent the past week in New Orleans.
Mrs. G.W. Thom and daughter, Viola, of Hanceville, spent Sunday in Cullman.
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Ponder, Miss Melda Ponder and Elbert and George Ponder, Junior will leave next Tuesday for the World’s Fair in Chicago.
Doctor and Mrs. Culpepper and Miss Verdie Kinney and Clark Griffith, of Hanceville left on the first of June for a visit to World’s Fair in Chicago.
There were four baptized into Eva Baptist Church, on Sunday.
Miss Esther Pritchard spent Saturday night and Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Wynell Federer at Oak Level.
There will be a play at Good Hope School, on Saturday night, June 17th, at 8:00 directed by Miss Rubye Hinkle. The characters in this play are: Gilbert Day, Collis Day, Frank Livingston, Newton Hendrix, Marion Woodall, Methvin, Mavis Hendrix, Thelma Day, Lena Woodall, Marie Schlichting, Beulah Day and Ozella Hinkle. The name of the play is “Poor Father.” Admission is ten cents.
Lum Hendrix and John Mangum had the misfortune of losing a barn from a fire at their farms in Simcoe this week. A New York newspaper columnist took a vacation not because he needed one, he said, but to give his readers a rest.
