September 17, 1953

September 17, 1953

B. & O. Pharmacy had a camera go missing from the store and received a letter from the shoplifter a few days later. Dr. Hurt reported that the letter included a one-dollar bill along with a note stating that twelve dollars would be sent, a dollar a week, to pay for the camera. The newspaper added, “Doc days he believes their conscious must be hurting them… he will be glad to get the twelve dollars, although it was a $14.95 camera.”

Members of the Hohenwald Baptist Church honored their minister, Brother Marvin Wayland, with a picnic and going away gift. Wayland was moving to...