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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1948
Page
5
Mary Lou Dancy Chapter 320 of Order Eastern Star will hold a regular session Tuesday at 8 PM in the Masonic Temple. A covered dish supper will precede at 7 PM. Members urged to attend and bring a dish.
Readers learn of illness at Decature General Hospital and a long list of weekend visits and trips. The column names weddings, visits, and travel as locals visit relatives in Birmingham, Nashville, Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, and Washington with many returning.
Ad copy for Simplicity or similar sewing pattern 4577 offers a side draped dress that flatters figures with new lines and fabric contrasts. Shows pattern size range 34 to 50 and yardage for size 36. Includes instructions and promotion for catalog and a sun tan halter pattern.
A health article urges women to stay active with sunlight and simple exercises. It critiques fashion focused fitness, promotes posture, breathing, walking, and a two count leg raise sequence to keep a youthful appearance and improve core strength.
Dallas B Hall of Westoco Texas seeks urgent word from Alabama kin believed to live around Decatur. A letter to the Chamber of Commerce asks help in locating descendants of Tom Reed who married Hall’s great aunt. Hall’s lineage includes Jackson Hall John Hall and a Waldrup.
Thersa is visiting Florida for ten days with an uncle. Mrs Edward James and children Ed Jr and Susan leave for Auburn after a week with their parents Mr and Mrs Foster Pointer and their grandparents.
Dorothy Dix advice panel addresses the mother son dynamic and the mother in law feud, urging mothers to abdicate control as sons marry. Cornelia praises the piece as a blueprint for healthy boundaries, while a reader asks about a spendthrift boyfriend and another wonders if a drifting partner truly loves her.
Pattern 543 offers filet crochet squares for handkerchief cases scarves and pillowtops. Laure: ie provides simple needlework with charts photos and concise directions. Send twenty cents in coins for this pattern to The Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept B O Box 13 Flatbush Brooklyn NY. Include pattern number name address and zone. Send fifteen cents for Laura Wheeler now.
A speaker advises ending contact with a hesitant suitor who shows no serious intent. The piece mocks men who “take their temperatures” to decide if feelings are devotion or mere appetite, warning that waiting too long turns a girl into an old maid.
Dorothy Roe notes Aaron Gray revolutionized rainwear with decorative, stylish raincoats using fabrics from gingham to satin. Designers translate Paris to New York trends into rainwear, offering silk treated coats, sturdy weaves, vivid plaids and gabardines. The army returns to pre war fabrics as rainy day fashion gains steam.
William Sims secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce says the city draws national attention with requests for information. The Daily notes two mail inquiries today from Gonzales Texas and Chicago Illinois asking for material on Decatur as examples of growing interest.
A vintage catalog touts the Needlecraft Book as featuring 101 illustrations of embroidery crochet knitting and accessories. It notes free instructions for weaving on Huck Toweling as a new hobby trend.
Funeral services for John A Powell, 74, 203 Sanders Street, Athens, will be held Tuesday at 11 A M at First Baptist Church. Interment will follow in Emus cemetery at Cullman. Powell died this morning at 3 45 at his residence. He is survived by a widow, four sons L E George W and Roy all of Decatur and Frank of Tennessee, one daughter Mrs Glenn Channey untsville, one sister Mrs Bertha Benhemma Texas, eight grandchildren. Acting as pallbearers will be C D Hacker A J Rawls J H Lipham RC Cathe F M Free C L McLemore.
Sixty two workers died and twenty eight more are expected to perish after a lightning strike hit the Yung-Pei shirt factory in Shanghai. The four story building housed about 140 workers at the time of the disaster.
Weekend storms in Britain and France killed at least 22 people and caused extensive damage. British crops were flattened and areas flooded. Brest port damage was estimated over 100 million francs. Several small boats and a trawler sank and port installations were damaged.
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