From the files of July 11, 1940
Good Hope News
Teams that played ball on the Fourth of July at Good Hope included Simcoe, Logan, Welti, Good Hope and a few others. Everyone who attended the picnic enjoyed it.
A game of soft ball was also played by the Logan and the Good Hope girls. The score was four to five in favor of Good Hope.
Mr. R. I. Hulsey and family of Gadsden, visited his sister, Mrs. J. R. Copeland, at Good Hope, Sunday.
An ice cream supper was given at Good Hope church, recently.
Mrs. J. D. Quattlebaum of Good Hope, spent two weeks with her mother, Mrs. W. E. Grimmett, and sister, Mrs. R. W. Quattlebaum, of White City.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmus Phillips have moved to Decatur, where he has accepted a position as a mechanic.
Mrs. J. D. Quattlebaum, mother and sister spent Thursday with Mrs. Elmus Phillips of Decatur.
Sardis News
Miss Norell Calvert spent Sunday with Miss Nell Duke.
Mr. and Mrs. Grover Duke spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Duke.
Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Collins and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Jones and family and Mr. and Mrs. Dewey McAfee and family enjoyed a trip to Guntersville, Huntsville and Decatur on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Hancock, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Needhem, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Duke, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Needhem enjoyed a birthday dinner at Battleground on last Sunday.
Mr. Bonnie Hendrix, Mr. Erving Wilson spent Sunday with Misses Nell and Lola Duke.
Mr. Winfred Speegle spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Herrin.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Jones and family and Miss Francis Collins stayed a while with their aunt at Falkville when returning from their trip on last Sunday.
The ice cream supper given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Duke’s was enjoyed by everyone.
Mr. and Mrs. Olan Calvert spent Sunday with Mrs. Ester Green of near Good Hope.
J. D. Jones visited his grandparents on Monday.
Mrs. Vassie McMinn is nicely recovering from a recent operation.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Parker spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips.
Mrs. W. B. Holden is ill at her home this week.
Miss Willie Lee Pledger, is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Holden.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Nell spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Herrin.
Logan News
The spirits of this community are very low at the present because of the rain.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. McClung’s daughter of Decatur, spent the week with them.
Mr. E. W. Kilgo and Mr. Pierce Bailey attended the Mail Carrier’s Convention in Birmingham on last Friday.
Thomas Moore Denson, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Oren Denson, died here recently.
Mrs. Otis Watson of Birmingham, was in Logan recently.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Entrekin and Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Nix and daughter, Juanita, enjoyed a trip throu the National Forest recently, where they visited Mr. David Patillo of the C. C. C. Camp.
Mr. Arnold Leak of Howard College, spent the week end with home folks.
Howard Entrekin, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Entrekin, is suffering from an injury sustained when he stuck a pitch fork through his foot, recently.
New Hope News
Alene and Helen Sizemore spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Mandel Wright.
Lucille and Nellie Dean Howse, Lera Gay Wright and Geneva Thomas enjoyed a picnic on the creek Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Duffle of Decatur, spent last Sunday with Mrs. G. W. Turner and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Knopp and family spent Saturday night with Mrs. Bessie Bailey.
Quinton Wright left Monday for the C. C. C. Camp.
Mr. and Mrs. Hyatt Hayes spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Coker Howse.
Mrs. R. V. Howse and Mrs. G. W. Turner visited Mrs. John Wright on Sunday afternoon.
Salem News
Everybody is very busy fighting the hefty growth of grass in this section.
Mr. Aubrey Guthery and Miss Theda Guthery were the guests of Miss Odrey Whitaker on Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Olmer Wisner and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Scott spent Sunday with Mrs. Hazel Wisner.
Mr. Willis Wisner has been very ill for the past week.
Mr. Willie Brisco, of near Ebenezer was the guest of his mother on Sunday.
Mr. Verna Shepard has been sick for the past week.
To and Fro
Dr. T. A. Robinson and County Agent C. T. Bailey, of Cullman, and Claud Quattlebaum and Carl Burkart, of Hanceville, attended the Baldwin County Fishing Rodeo last week. Because of bad weather and choppy water these four followers of Isaac Walton’s sport returned home without the proverbial story and the pictures to back up the big ones.
Birdo Windsor, County Tax Collector, who has been receiving treatment for the past several weeks from Canada’s famous foot specialist, Dr. Locke, is much improved and is expected home this week end. On his trip from the Dominion, Birdo stopped for a visit with friends in Detroit, Michigan.
Dr. M. S. Whiteside, Wm. R. (Bill) Griffin and Henry F. Arnold plan to attend Rotary’s District Assembly in Selma early next week. Joel Chandler Harris, Jr., of Atlanta, Past District Governor of Georgia, will speak at the dinner meeting on July 15th.
L. H. Lee, back in the home town Tuesday after a 3200 mile trip to Maine, says that weather in New England on the 4th of July was only a few degrees above the freezing stage. The greatest wonder he found on the trip was how the people of Rhode Island make a living. (This state, the smallest in the Union, is thickly populated on land very undesirable for cultivation.)
Si Carlisle, likeable sales representative for one of Nashville’s paper firms, this week was high in his praise of the Cullman hospitality. Commented Si, “Cullman was the only city, visited by the Boosters on their recent trip, where a free lunch was served.”
Myron McEachern, of Tampa, Florida, told the fellows at Rotary Tuesday night one of those seemingly impossible fishing tales. From the reaction noted it would not be surprising to learn that one of Cullman’s Rotarians nominated Myron for a place in the famed Tall Story Club.
W. D. Alston, Rural Development Supervisor for the Southern Bell Telephone Co., stated today that 60 applications for rural telephones had been signed by residents of the county. Of this number 51 were in the eastern section and the remaining 9 southwest of the city.
Subject of conversation overheard in Cullman this week: Rain, rain and also rain. According to official records kept by Father Gabriel at St. Bernard College, the sandy loam of Cullman county, which is now more like a thin mud, has received, since the first of July, 9.74 inches of rainfall. The raining began, Father Gabriel said on July 2nd and has rained every day since then except Independence Day. This averages almost one inch per day and the average rainfall per year is about 55 inches.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Robertson will leave for the Democratic Convention in Chicago via the “Bankhead Special,” which will stop at Cullman on Saturday night.
