From the files of July 10, 1945
Etha News
The Rev. Roosevelt Pepper is supplying the pulpit at Shady Grove. Rev. C. E. Rush supplied his pulpit there last Sunday night.
Miss Ora Herrin is visiting Mrs. E. M. Hines.
O. W. Harris is visiting his brother, Judge O. W. Harris of Chattanooga, Tenn., who is ill.
Mrs. E. G. Johnston of Birmingham, has returned to her home. She was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. W. M. Johnston of Cullman.
Mrs. Lucille Johnson was the Sunday afternoon guest of friends in Holly Pond.
Mrs. Danniell of Arab was the Sunday guest of her sister, Mrs. Roy Brock and family.
Mrs. S. B. Smith and little son, Jerry of Detroit, Mich., are the guests of friends and relatives here.
Mrs. Olen Drake and children have returned to their home after her mother, Mrs. E. J. Carroll, and Mrs. Gertrode Crumpton spent last week with relatives in Birmingham.
Welcome News
Mr. Clyde Rent spent Sunday with Mrs. Claude Bailey.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Love and children and Evelyn Gunn attended a picnic at the Reservoir.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Waldrop are spending a few days in Birmingham visiting a nephew who is in a veteran’s hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Self, Eloise and Pauline Wright, and Mr. and Mrs. Chambers visited the Grotto at St. Bernard, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Waldrop and Miss Waldrop visited Mrs. Hoy Crumpton, Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Ossie Stanly and Mr. Christine Miller, of Birmingham, visited Mr. and Mrs. Will Waldrop.
Mr. and Mrs. John Miller and Myrtle Knop and Louise Allbritten visited Mrs. Mae Miller, Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Stevenson.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Austin Bailey, Louise and Mrs. Austin Bailey, and Brindley Bailey spent Sunday with Melba Miller.
Mt. View News
There will be no school at Mt. View this summer, as the school buses will be routed for the school to Cullman, Fairview and Hanceville. Fairview will go to Providence.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Reece and daughter, Miss Lena Mae, have moved here from Akron, Ohio.
Miss Lena Mae and Globe Miller are able to be up after illnesses of pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Morris and Mrs. Mollie Shikle and daughter, Miss Mollie Ruth, spent Friday in Pinkerton at Fairview on Wednesday, 11th.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Worth Crumbley are spending a few days here as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Poan Stapp.
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Pattillo, of Crane Hill spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Loyd a few days last week.
Clifton Layon, Ray Flint and Chas. Morris of Fairview, were visiting at Gold Ridge, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Loyd visited Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Loyd Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. North Vinemont spent Sunday at Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Loyd.
Ensign Alvin Wenzel will leave Tuesday to join his new company with the Merchant Marines after a few days visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wenzel of Route 5, Cullman.
To and Fro
The deciding game for the North Alabama semi-pro baseball championship between Cullman and Huntsville on Sunday afternoon, at the Cullman baseball park, resulted in a 4 to 3 win for the visitors of the city. The game was played Sunday afternoon and made one all in games played in the series.
It’s not unusual for Pfc. Lester L. Blackwell, of Waterloo, N. Y., and O. M. Sheppard of Waterloo, N. Y., to be sharing the same foxhole, but when at least one of these day soldiers have the same initial and the same service number, there is trouble. Both artillerymen are about to embark for Germany and say their laundry just can’t keep their other paperwork straight.
Beginning his fourth year of service, Pvt. Carl M. Miller, 31 months overseas is the son of Mrs. T. D. Kenneth A. Miller of Fairview. A graduate of Fairview High is a radio technician on the Pacific. Pvt. Miller is now on Luzon. Two brothers are also in service, Robert, in the Infantry, is in Italy and Kenneth is in the Navy in the Pacific.
A new pest on the farm is the ground hog. The dogs can bark as fiercely as they can but the ground hog can’t be found. He dug under a rock and then probably laughed at them and the way he found it was a ten pounder.
More than 300 military men have flown home from Europe. More than 70,000 soldiers… Sgt. Billie Wood spent about a month in the Purple Heart, after an operation. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wood, of Vinemont, after 28 ½ months in Korea.
The Bronze Star for meritorious service has been awarded to Cpl. Thomas W. White of Crane Hill. Serving in North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium, Germany, he has now 107 points to his credit. He is the son of Mrs. Virgil M. White of Crane Hill.
The annual sacred harp singing will be held in Dothan on the 8th and 9th of June. The announcement was sent to the Tribune by W. C. Martin, president of the Cullman County Sacred Harp Singing Association. Cullman County’s best singers to sing this year. Misses Sara Nell and Virginia Blackman, will have a radio broadcast over WAPI, Birmingham, at 11 o’clock.
Cpl. Edgar E. Barber has arrived in Birmingham after two years overseas. He served in the other parts of England and France until February when he was transferred to England for six weeks training and then back to Alabama. He says, “How good it is to be with one’s relatives and friends again.
