Informal Parties and Weddings Highlight Community Notices
A slate of social events fills the scene with Miss Virginia Hower hosting a formal party in Alexandria. A Wheeler Dam family reunion brings together Berry, Bowen, Mitchell, Brothers, and many Decatur residents for meals and fishing. The article also covers the Scruggs Slonaker wedding in Cumberland with Marjory Burleson and Arthur Gordon Slonaker, plus church events at Willoughby Presbyterian and Central Baptist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler Dam
D. A. Berry
Christine
Myrtle, Bowen
Detroit
Mich
James E Berry
Doris
Decatur
Jimmy Mitchell
Arnie Brothers
Donald Wayne
Charles
Bassham’s Chapel
Fuller
Bice
Miss Scruggs
MR. Slonaker
Maryland
Mar Se Oeay
Marjory Burleson
Arthur Gordon Slonaker
Capon Bridge
West Virginia
Cumberland
Westside Methodist Church
C. H Wakeman
Edward R. Willison
Virginia
Austinville High School
Nashville General Hospital School of
U. S. Army Nurses’ Corps
England
France
Belgium
Beta Sigma Phi Meeting Tonight at Miss Caudill's Home
Sorority gathers at 7:30 with Miss Lucille Caudill as hostess at 814 Oak Street. Separate item notes a buffet dinner honoring Miss Faye Neville of Trinity, with guests including William Porter Smart and others, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Parks on Prospect Drive.
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Euzelian
Eurelian
Central Baptist Sunday School
James H. Crow
Country Club Road
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Lucille Caudill
Oak Street
Miss Neville
R. H. Parks
Faye Neville
Trinity
W. F. Parks
Prospect Drive
William Porter Smart
Huntsville
Jack Smith
Ed Johnson
Thomas F Parks
Charleen Garnett
Jimmy Newell
Bobbie Nevillé
James Bloodworth
Polly Biggerstaff
Clyde Smith
Hoyt Kelley
Pattersons and Betsy Elam Take Short Travels
Mr and Mrs S E Patterson and Miss Patsy Patterson depart for Mammoth Cave Louisville and other spots Miss Betsy Jane Elam heads home to Tuscaloosa after visiting Mr and Mrs Rex C Pou Pfc Robert V Jones of the U S Marines raised in China lands in San Diego awaiting discharge then will visit his mother Mrs T Jervis Jones Miss Betty Ann Cavender returns to Fort Worth after a visit with Mrs T
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Capon Bridge High School
Sheppard State Teachers College
University of West Virginia
U. S. Army
France
Slonaker
Capon Bridge
West Virginia
S. E. Patterson
Patsy Patterson
Mammoth Cave
Louisville
Kentucky
Betsy Jane Elam
Tuscaloosa
Rex. C. Pou
Robert V. Jones
U. 58. Marines
China
San Diego
Cal
T. Jervis Jones
Betty Ann Cavender
Fort Worth
Texas
Mrs. T
Make Up Rules for At Work Beauty and Restraint
A guide advises modest makeup, arguing powder first then rouge, avoid over painting at beaches, and use eye shadows sparingly. It notes lipstick and rouge remain common, blue eye shadow popular, and highlights how color choices suit different hair and skin types while urging restraint.
Social notes of visitors and travellers across towns
Jervis Jones on Fifth Avenue West hosts visitors from Silver Lake Wisconsin and others attending the Thomason-Gasaway wedding. Several families return home after visits, with plans for future moves and travels to California and Los Angeles. Also notes Hopi snake dances and a remark on scurvy as a historic sea voyage threat.
Dear Dorothy Dix on meeting nice girls after the war
A wartime letters page debates dating scarcity postwar. Ex soldiers criticize social shifts near installations and seek guidance. Irene suggests boldly approaching potential partners, while Miss Dix urges patience and protective friendship before marriage with a younger partner and a wary 30 year old pursuing a widow with children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy DIX
The Southern Cross pearls found off Australia in 1883
In 1883 observers reported a group of nine natural pearls arranged in a cross shape measuring 1 1-2 inches long. The discovery occurred off Australia and drew interest from natural history circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Heirs Sought for 600 Acre Farm in North Alabama Area
Walker seeks grandchildren and great grandchildren of Roan Price of Decatur and Mage Dipterntakeee Fyneee regarding a 600 acre farm in Marshall County. He says most heirs live near Decatur or Moulton and urges any claimant relatives to contact him by Saturday at 1005 1-2 Olive Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall County
North Alabama
Lake Walker
Olive Street
Roan Price
Decatur
Mages
Dipterntakeee Fyneee
Moulton
Walker
GOP Meeting Set to Choose Delegates in Morgan County
Delegates to the Republican district and state conventions will be chosen Tuesday afternoon at Morgan County GOP meeting at the city hall. H. G. Red Williams, chairman, said the session starts at two o clock. Delegates to the district convention August 20 in Decatur at Lyons Hotel will also represent Morgan County at the state convention August 21 in Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan Cne
H. G. “Red” Williams
Republican Party
Morgan County
Lyons Hotel
Decatur
Birmingham
Bank Robbers Cornered After Four Day Chase
Bandits who robbed the First National Bank of Walters Oklahoma of nearly 33000 last Thursday were trapped in the inaccessible Kiamichi mountains after a four day pursuit. More than 100 officers pressed the rugged terrain in the Southeast corner hoping to flush them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kora
Kiamichi
Ahso
Ee First Nationalbank
Walters
Okla
Also Mentioned on This Page
Miss Hower
Virginia Hower
Alexandria
C. C. Johnson
East Cain Street
Wheeler, Dam
Adies Aid Society
Willoughby Church
Ladies Aid Society
Willoughby Presbyterian Church
Mary Lou Dancy
O. E
Mary Lou Dancy Chapter No
Masonic Temple
Ann Bailey Coleman
East Walnut Street
Wesleyan Service Guild
Central Methodist Church
Jesus
Beta Sigma Phi
Second Ave
Vine ST
State National Bank
Fither Stroes
Tg Beauty Ae
Caddell Drug Co
2Nd Ave
OYD
Moulton and
D. D
Sherwin-Williams
Decatur Store
Johnston St
Helen Follett
Chen Yu
Jervis Jones
Fifth Avenue West
T. A. Brannen
Silver Lake, Wisconsin
Nathan Pryor
Orlando Williams
Jane
Sara
Harry
Mt. Pleasant
Tenn
Thomason-Gasaway
Frank Hobbs
Clyde Nichols
Barbara
Little Rock
Ark
Edgar Nichols
Herndon Thomas
Laura Grace Andrews
Atlanta, Ga
FE. D. Wilkey
James A. Gasaway
Thomason- Gasaway
Alton Hargrove
Tanner, Ala
Martin Smith
J. H. Jackson
Walter A. Hargrove
Arnold Embrey
Winterhaven, Fla
Charles H. Murphy Jr
Donna Lynne
California
Murphy
Monterey Park
Emma Hunter
Anna Nabors
Boothton, Ala
S. G. Peter
Montevallo
Ala
J. R. Hunter
Lorraine Peter
Miss Peter
Lazy K Bar Ranch
Big Timber
Montana
Mrs Garnett Young
Red Boiling Springs, Tenn
O. C. Godfrey
Montgomery
Los Angeles
March Field
Harry Lee Waesche
John Cason
Arizona
U. S
Che Grii Syndicate Fee
Irene
Brother
Miss DIX
H. W
Tam Pretty
Moye’s
Goidel’s Drug Store
Commercial Credit Corp
Bane Street
Chromium
Ginger Rogers
Selznick International
Dore Schary
Joseph Cotten
Shirley Temple
Princess Theatre
Lydia E. Pinkham
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Rainey’s Beauty Academy
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