Birthday party scenes and social gatherings in Decatur
Little Dorce Lee Wiggins celebrates her second birthday with friends at home as Addie B. Clark and Juanita lead games in the living room and ice cream and cake are served in the dining room. The day also features Mrs. John Davis hosting a bridge party for Mrs. Frederick Hunt, Misses Irwin hosting an afternoon bridge, a new Dancing Club event at Valley Country Club, tea for Mrs. Ellis of Clarksville, and Alpha Bible Club plans at Mrs. Malone's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorce Lee Wiggins
Addie B. Clark
Juanita
Mrs. Wiggins
Billy Ray Love
Leonard Lee Love
Thomas Glenn Counts
Marion Lee Counts
Betty Fay Julian
Sistina Moore
Jackly Price
Dolores Cobb
Mary Frances Waites
Eddie Beard
Etha Mae Laughmiller
Evelyn Juanita Laughmiller
Mary Catherine Laughmiller
Johnnie Ralph Stinson
Elizabeth Best
Ruby Best
Betty Jean Bridwell
Martha Jane Adcock
Jack Adcock
Willard Young, Jr
Jimmie Young
Martha Bryant Abbott
Bill Sears
Glenn Sears
Marguerite Lee
Doris McDonald
Johnnie McDonald
Doree Lee Wiggins
Hunt
John Davis
East Walnut Street
Frederick
Misses Irwin
Harriett
Jane Irwin
Wheeler Highway
The
Valley Country Club
Paul Puckett
Bama Darlins
Alpha Bible Club
C. E. Malone
Clarence Strother
Personal notices and visits fill column roster
Local notices list residents in recovery and travel plans. T M Jones II is recently convalescent after tonsil and dental work. C A Love moves from Benevolent Hospital to Fifth Avenue home. W F Love remains confined to bed. Mrs David Webb ill at sister’s home. Alfred L Frye visits from Birmingham. Margaret Ann Rogers to return Friday after Courtland visit. Claire Bloodworth ill at Johnston Street home. Mrs R B Graves from Sweetwater to visit daughters. Mrs Fred Couch and mother depart for Tupelo to see sister-in-law. Garner Pride improves after malaria. Duncan family to visit relatives in South Carolina. son Billy joins from there. Clifton Ferrell in Oklahoma City. Abner Bond to accompany home. Dr and Mrs Leroy Murphree and Bonnie Lee visit Tri-Cities. W A Mitchell arrives from Louisville to visit sister. Dr J Hamil returns from Birmingham on business. Mrs W A Pitts improving at home after operation. Hocken smiths and Bloodworths travel to Century of Progress Expo in Chicago. Mrs A E Humphrey and son Russell and Mrs John Kirksey return from St Louis stock purchase for new store. Mrs E W McLeod and son Webster return home after extended Bay area visit.
J. E. Stephenson Dies in Danville at 75
J E Stephenson a Danville resident aged 75 died at his home at 5 15 PM yesterday. He leaves two sons C G Stephenson of Wichita Kansas and C E Stephenson of Alton Illinois, two daughters Mrs B S Stover of Hartselle and Mrs John J Kell of Hartselle, eight grandchildren and five sisters. Funeral plans include a Masonic service with interment at Johnsons Chapel cemetery Gibson and Priest directing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Stephenson
Danville
C. G. Stephenson
Witchita
Kan
C. E. Stephenson
Alton
Ill
B. S. Stover
Hartselle
John J. Kell
Toute
Mart Ellen Stover
Moulton
Ark
M. A. Roberts
Decatur
J. W. Sandlin
Seminole
Okxkla
G. W. Wiley
Johnson’s Chapel Cemetery
Gibson
Grand Slam bridge comedy nets romance and satire
Warner Bros presents Grand Slam a witty romantic comedy about bridges as America’s national pastime and pest-time. Paul Lukas plays a waiter bumped to the nation’s top bridge expert with Loretta Young as his partner and Glenda Farrell and Frank McHugh providing sharp humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner Bros
America
Paul Lukas
Loretta Young
Glenda Farrell
Frank McHugh
Cine-Model Outfit Combines Linen Black and White
Madge Evans models a smart summer ensemble featuring a black linen frock with capelet sleeves paired with a white linen jacket. The look contrasts white on top or bottom with a practical uncrushable water resistant linen option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madge Evans
Denver Flood Threaten City as Cherry Creek Rises
Cherry Creek broke through its barriers in Denver on August 3 as a wall four feet high flooded the lower city, destroying two bridges and sweeping Mrs. Claude Hill, 50, toward Mathieson. The wall of water rose rapidly, raising fears for many valley residents along the torrent’s path.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Cherry Creek
Claude Hill
Mathieson
Guests of Grandparents Attend Hatchett Home
Buddie Lewter visits his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hatchett on Prospect Drive with sisters Elizabeth and Margaret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buddie Lewter
Elizabeth
Margaret
Mrs. W. L. Hatchett
Prospect Drive
Pattern 2461 jumper with guimpe for school wear
Anne Adams announces Pattern 2461 a girls jumper with shoulder tabs pleats and puffed sleeves paired with a guimpe and cute collar. Sizes 4 6 8 10 12 require fabric yardage and feature step by step instructions. Catalog and pattern offers and mail order address included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Anniversary Week Celebrated by Decatur Negro Singers
The Decatur Negro Singers observe Anniversary Week with daily programs from August 7 to August 11 at local churches. Each evening features sermons by named pastors, musical performances, quartets, readings, and a progress talk by L M Baugh and others, concluding with a collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Negro Singers
L. R. Womack, Sr
P. R. Shy
Webb
Johnson
Matthews
McDonald
First Baptist Church
Pollard
A. M. E. Church
E. Mixon
M. E. Church
L. M. Baugh
Delegates Named For August 8 Repeal Vote
A list of delegates from Alabama towns names representatives to meet August 8 in the state capitol. The body will organize in the House of Representatives hall and cast Alabama’s vote in the national repeal poll with Gov Hugh D Merrill opening as temporary chair and S Hugh Dent elected permanent chair. Mrs Solon Jacobs of Birmingham is planned as convention secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. O. Dark
James Gullage
Tuscaloosa
John D. McQueen, Jr
Pete L. Davis
Walker
A. B. Legg
J. L. Sowell
Washington
Howard G. Scott
Wilcox
A C. Carlton
P. E. Wallace
Winston
Thomas J. Burns
House of Representative
State Capitol
Alabama
Hugh D. Merrill
Anniston
Hugh Dent
Montgomery
Birmingham
Farm Administration to Combat Profiteering Reports New Price Information
Washington Aug 3 The farm administration will issue weekly reports on prices paid by consumers and to farmers for the same commodities to counter profiteering during the recovery program. Dr Fred Howe Consumers counsel announced a new service on food and textile prices with the first report scheduled soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Farm Administration
Fred Howe
Lambert brothers and Griffin visit Decatur on inspection tour
J. W. Lambert ex sheriff of Cullman county accompanied by his brother Ira Lambert of Tampa and B. M. Griffin of Cullman were in Decatur this morning en route to Muscle Shoals for a tour of vast government properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Lambert
Cullman
Ira Lambert
Tampa
Fla
B. M. Griffin
Decatur
Muscle Shoals
Lee Highway to Get Road Money
If federal highway relief funds are secured for the county the plan calls for spending half on the Lee Highway to Muscle Shoals and one quarter each on the Buck Island road and local paving on Clinton Pryor and Washington streets. The three Athens streets are trunk highways so one fourth of the funds can be used for paving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Als
Muscle Shoals
Buck Island , & Hon
Clinton, Pryor
Washington
Buck Island
Addison Poole Taken to Benevolent Hospital for Operation
Addison Poole of Flint was removed from his home Wednesday afternoon in Brown's ambulance to Benevolent Hospital for an operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addison Poole
Flint
Brown's Ambulance
Benevolent Hospital
Health Means Charm and Happiness
An advertorial urging women to seek health and vitality through Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It claims toned energy, better skin, and happiness, suggesting tiredness after work is a sign of minor illness and promoting the remedy as the helper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Beneft
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs. Ellis
J. H. Calvin
Joseph Woods
Ellis
Clarksville, Tenn
Mr. Jackson Calvin
T. M. Jones, II
C. A. Love
Shis
Fifth Avenue
South
W. F. Love
David Webb
T. A. Caddell
Mr. Caddell
Alfred L. Frye
A. Edwards
Margaret Ann Rogers
Courtland
Claire Bloodworth
Johnston Street
R. B. Graves
Sweetwater, Tenn
Fred Couch
R. H.scoggin
Tupelo, Miss
J. A. Scoggin
Garner Pride
Alabama Power Co
McNeill Apartments
W. J. Duncan
Marylee
Clinton
Columbia
Points
South Carolina
Billy
Clifton Ferrell
Oklahoma City
Okla
Abner Bond
J. R. Smiley
Leroy Murphree
Bonnie Lee
Bob Williams
Barbara
Tri-Cities
W. A. Mitchell
Louisville, Ky
Hugh Curry
Mitchell
J. ¥. Hamil
W. A. Pitts
Oak Street
Baugh Infirmary
William Hockensmith
F. A. Bloodworth, d Jr
Chicago
A. E. Humphrey
Russell
John Kirksey
St. Louis
E. W. McLeod
Webster
Bay
T. C. Chandler
St. Louis, Mo
S. BE. Patterson
Chattanooga
Tenn
Frank Harris
Ann Frances
H. D. Bynum
Move's Beauty
Suop
Princess
Caren
Iyi Y Son
Gus Kann
Fron
Marca
United"artists Pro Tie
Moran & Mack
Loretta Young and
Fortune
Fortune’s
Caddell Drug Co
Caddell Drug.co
Decatur Daily
Decatur Daily Pattern Department
West Seventeenth Street
New Joe City
Negro Singers
Bugs
Goidel’s Irons
Lee Highway
Speake
Warren & Ratliff
Oxfords
Speake, Warren & Ratlieb
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