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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1963
Page
5
Homemaker tips advise iron in the living room for pleasant surroundings and treat the room as company space. A reader shares a home spray starch mix that dissolves well and avoids white marks on dark fabrics.
Miss Dorcas Sewell and Julian Harris were honored with a buffet supper hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Norman Harris at their Brookmead Road home. Out of town guests included Mrs. William Leggett and Mr. Leggett of Lynchburg, Mrs. William Shinn and Mr. Shinn of Raleigh, and attendees from Huntsville, Courtland, and Birmingham.
Pattern 4643 offers three matched child tops and shorts in white and sunshine yellow cottons. Sizes 2 4 6 8 10 include yardage details. Mail 50 cents for catalog and 50 cents per pattern plus 15 cents first class mailing for pattern. Anne Adams The Decatur Daily Pattern Dept New York address provided.
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Mrs. Robert Lovelady and Mrs. Ed Wells hosted a coffee at the Lovelady home to honor Mrs. David Eugene Lovelady and Yeo manist Class Lovelady on a month long visit from Fargo North Dakota. Yellow and green chrysanthemums and marigolds decorated the rooms, with silver appointments throughout. About 100 guests from Decatur Athens and Moulton attended the morning and afternoon call.
A bridge column detailing a hand where South countered a poor layout with a deception aided by hearts, diamonds, and spades play. The narrative explains dummy, Easts double, and the endplay that yielded nine tricks despite rough trump positions.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Drinkard hosted a dinner party for Mrs. Charles B. Walton and daughter Barbara of Alexandria Virginia. Also present were Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Holtman of Birmingham, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Boyd and son Al of Birmingham, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hobbs and daughter Jane of Dallas, and Mrs. C. E. West Moreland of Marietta Georgia.
Reports list local residents in hospitals and at home after visits. Gilbert White Jr of Belle Mina is in critical condition at Huntsville Hospital following an accident. Fletcher Mason born Aug 2 at Decatur General Hospital to Judge Richard Hundley and his wife. Various families travel or visit, including Vanderbilt and Birmingham trips, and relatives in Falkville Morgan County and Oak Ridge.
Altrusans met at Mrs. LeClaire Dewey home with president Mrs. Edna Johnson presiding. A thank you note from Miss Peggie Orman was read regarding the National Convention in Philadelphia. Ways and means chair Mrs. Noel Callahan reported August 26 games and members voted to resume meetings on the first and third Tuesdays. Refreshments were served to 13 members.
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