Back – a – Bit
(From The Tribune Files of 1902 and 1932)
50 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Weeks and daughter, Miss Roxie, have la-grippe.
Best A grade mattresses $9.00 each. A. Dreher and Co.—adv.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Preston a son on Jan. 9.
John Smith of Baileyton has cleared 15 acres of new ground this winter.
Rev. A. Oberlander has received an interesting letter from his son, Dr. Hartman Oberlander, who is a government doctor for the Crow Indians in Montana. He tells about celebrating Christmas with the red men there.
P. H. and F. H. Kinney, who were recently burned out at Nauvoo, have moved back to Cullman.
Miss Bertha Engel visited in Birmingham the first of the week.
C. C. Yearwood of Crane Hill was in the city on business this week.
S. R. Daniels of Holly Pond was in the city, Monday.
Those who renewed their Tribune-Gazette this week were I. S. Allbrittain, T. J. Turner, P. M. Burch, H. C. Styles, W. T. Tillery, B. D. Cooke, A. H. Byram, J. C. Lewis, R. M. Bailey, G. W. Nonaker, C. M. Heatherley, W. A. Vest, Mary B. Katron, E. R. Foot, R. M. Brown, Chas. Brown, T. F. Adams, W. F. Adams, R. G. Miller, M. Holmes, J. L. Moore, M. B. Calvert, W. T. Roberts, G. A. Prinz, M. M. Hestla, J. D. Edwards, P. Burkhard, D. A. Smith, W. M. McClendon, Carrie Lander, J. G. Carter, Eddie Heitmuehler and Bertha Martin.
20 YEARS AGO
Cullman High basket ball teams both lost and won Tuesday afternoon. The boys lost to Tanner and won over Athens while the Cullman High girls won over Tanner and lost to Athens.
An autogiro, which is said to be one of the safest types of flying machine, paid a brief visit to Cullman Thursday morning.
Officers of the Home Economics Club at Cullman High are Annie Rascoe, president; Emilie Buettner, vice-president; Mildred Glasscock, secretary; Berta Dee Kilgo, treasurer; and Miss Gladys Elrod, faculty sponsor.
C. B. Sherrill announces the marriage of his daughter, Vela Faye, to Curtice Wm. Patterson in Athens, Ala., on Dec. 22, 1931.
A P.T.A. was organized at Good Hope on Jan. 22. Officers are Mrs. D. E. Ryan, president; Mrs. B. H. Reid, vice-president; Miss Stella Graham, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. G. W. Livingston and Mrs. G. Mize, program committee.
All the 12 new postage stamps carry pictures of George Washington in celebration of the 200th year since his birth.
Two pounds of coffee, 60c; 24-lb. bag of flour, 55c; pure hog lard, 8-lbs., 69c; six cakes Palma-Almond toilet soap and six salt shakers for 30c. Stiefelmeyer’s Grocery.—adv.
An afternoon singing was organized at Baileyton on Sunday. John Hulsey was elected chairman; D. D. Whatley, vice chairman; Miss Imogene Buckner, organist; and Miss Myrtle Holden, reporter.
Mr. W. A. Parker is visiting in Georgia.
Hulaco Activities
Mrs. Ethridge Price returned home from Arab Hospital Sunday. She is much better. Her callers Sunday afternoon were Mrs. Dewith Crawford and Sue, Mrs. Asir Densmore and Mr. and Mrs. Dee Price, Mrs. T. P. Wright.
Franklin Price returned home from Arab Hospital last Wednesday. He was able to go to church, Sunday.
Both Mrs. Euell Smith and Mrs. Boyce Hare remain on the sick list.
Mrs. Euell Smith has received lots of cards from friends since Joe Rumore called her name on his shut-in list of names, on radio station WVOK, Birmingham. Will all who reads this, who have not sent cards please send her one, Rt. 1, Joppa, Ala.
Mrs. Price would also enjoy cards. Her address is Rt. 1, Joppa, Ala.
Home for the week-end from Aiken, S. C., were Monroe and Jimmy Albright, Euell Allen and Algie Humphries and from Auburn Quinton Wright and from Gadsden Theo Wright.
Dud Charles, who was ill last week, is feeling much better.
Ryan W.M.U. met at the home of Mrs. Joe Crawford Tuesday to make quilts and sew for the unfortunate of the community.
Glory Hill News
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Tucker and Dearl of Brushy Pond spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Downing.
Bertha Davis gave a wedding dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Dillard Hines, who were married Saturday.
Mrs. Marie Tubbs and children and Roberta Tucker and Thad McDonald went to Hartselle, Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Bertha Davis left this week for Akron, Ohio, with her daughter, Wilma.
Mr. and Mrs. Odell Goodwin spent Sunday in Pell City, visiting her sister, Glendis Gossett.
Mr. and Mrs. Avon Tubbs have moved into their new home just below Glory Hill Church.
Mrs. Vedman Hammond and children visited Dewel King, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Edd Goodwin and Dewel King went to Hartselle Friday night.
Union Hill News
A. B. Marsh has purchased a new car.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gober have returned after spending a few days in Montgomery with Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Gober.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Nesmith have moved into their new home.
Mrs. Elsie Flemings spent a few days with her sister, Mrs. Elmer Marsh, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cobb and boys are spending the winter in Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. Gussie Marsh visited their daughter at Boaz, Saturday.
Mrs. Ella Fowler and son, Wayne of Attalla visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Gober last week.
Rev. and Mrs. L. B. McGill were dinner guests of the V. L. Nolens, Sunday.
Mrs. Annie Ruth Gober is ill.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Gober and Richey of Shreveport, La., spent several days here with relatives recently.
To and Fro
At a Rotary directors’ meeting this week the following officers were elected: Allen Hyatt, president; Rev. Robert Wiltenburg, vice-president. Vernard Vines was re-elected secretary – treasurer. Their one-year term of office begins July 1, 1952.
For months Dr. H. F. Farr, who is now in Africa and his wife, Mrs. Farr (Margaret Dorrough) who is in Cullman had been trying to get a phone call through to each other. The great moment came Wednesday when connection was made all those thousands of miles and they talked to each other. By-the-way, Mrs. Farr had mailed Dr. Farr a cake a few days before and the postage was over seven dollars.
Fifty dollars in prizes are being offered by the Cullman VFW Auxiliary in an essay contest “America Is Everybody’s Business”, sponsored this spring in the high schools of the county. The winner will be given $25 and a chance at the state prizes. Second and third place winners will get $15 and $10 respectively. Any student interested in entering may contact Mrs. Opal Gorham of Cullman or Mrs. A. R. Burks of Baileyton or may get details from his or her teacher.
All for the new speed laws is Cullman’s Chief of Police G. C. Chapman. Within the city police jurisdiction there were 22 wrecks during December and during January there have been only two.
The week Jan. 24-31 has been proclaimed “National VFW Week in the City of Cullman” by Mayor W. J. Nesmith.
Dewey Buchanan, manager of the meat department at the local A & P Super Market, was welcomed as a new member at Rotary this week.
Several special events have netted quite nice sums for the March of Dimes. Ewing Wallace reports “Coffee Day” for which he was chairman, brought $120.57. The East Point Home Demonstration Club collected $31 on their recent food sale. The Elks Club dance last Saturday night made $35. Donations to the fund are being taken by the S.T.A.R. Club at the Cullman and Ritz theatres this week. Through Monday night they had collected $131.46. Mrs. W. B. Milner, rural chairman of the drive, urges all clubs and P.T.A.s to turn in their funds as soon as possible to Mrs. Bess Morrow, treasurer.
Beginning February 1st Route 8, Cullman, will be extended, according to the U. S. Post Office Department.
T. S. Morrow, superintendent, North Alabama Horticulture Substation, conferred with specialists in entomology, plant pathology, and horticulture at the A.P.I. Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn, last week in making plans for conducting new research projects at the Substation in Cullman County. The group also reviewed work underway at Alabama’s other Horticulture Substations and Horticultural Fields.
On the Deans List at Union University is Peggy Jo Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Walker of Hanceville. Miss Walker is a freshman at this Jackson, Tenn. school.
When there is a job to be done the best way to accomplish the task is to get busy, advise members of the Young Adult Class of Oak Level Baptist Church. The church basement needed a coat of paint so the members of the class—Mesdames Ed Smith, Luther Seibenhener, T. A. Smith, Watson, Pruett, Ralph Oaks, Ellie Jetton, Dorothy Duke, Stella Keese, Jack Chandler, Harrison Reeves, Oscar Federer, Jasper Harris, Ola Keese, M. Posey, Ossie Oaks and Bill Hughey—met last Thursday and completed the job. That also gave them a chance to try out the new electric stove recently installed in the church basement.
A Cullman County teacher, Mrs. Emil Dahlke, who is on leave of absence this year while studying at Florence State Teachers College was on the Dean’s list at that college for the last quarter.
Home from two years military service in Alaska are Cpl. Leo Hasenbein and Cpl. Louis Hasenbein. These twin sons of the Frank Hasenbeins experienced frigid weather as low as 34 degrees below zero.
