Grover Hall (1888-1991), Pulitzer prize winning editor of the MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER, was once a Dothan newspaper editor who was fired because he published a LETTER TO THE EDITOR that Dothan Methodists didn't like. One Sunday in 1908, a Dothan Methodist preacher gave a sermon condemning all show business because of the recent commercial activity of "the female members of a traveling troupe of actors- some of which female members were reputed to have been rather liberal in the bestowal of favors to some of our [Dothan's] virtuous male citizenry for a monetary consideration." An actor who was a Dothan native happened to be in town that Sunday and heard the sermon. When the preacher finished his tirade, the actor stormed out of church and he wrote a LETTER TO THE EDITOR of the Dothan Daily Siftings because he objected to the preacher's bigoted opinion. Grover was editor and ,even though the Methodists warned him not to print the actor's letter, Grover printed it anyway and that was the end of Grover's newspaper career in Dothan. According to Oscar L. Thompkins "everybody in town except me, our two Roman Catholics, the Hebrews and three Negro Baptist preachers cancelled his subscription to the Siftings; most advertisers withdrew their patronage; the Siftings went the way of all flesh and Grover was kicked upstairs." After the bankruptcy of the Siftings, Grover Hall would go on to fame as editor of the Montgomery Advertiser but he got his start in old Dothan and he was one of the greatest writers the town ever produced. (from January 12, 1941 DOTHAN EAGLE)