Earwood Family Reunion Highlights at Seneca Springs
Earwood family members gathered at Seneca Springs for a Sunday reunion with meals swimming and photos. A watermelon cutting at B M Earwood's Decatur Route Three home followed, with numerous relatives in attendance including the Linderman and Earwood families and others. Mizpah Chapter 19 Eastern Star meets Tuesday at 7:30 PM at the Masonic Temple to honor pro tem officers and invite all local Star members. The Decatur Assembly Rainbow for Girls calls a Thursday meeting at 7:30 PM at the Masonic Temple for all members. Mrs Wiley R. Cox Jr hosts a luncheon and bridge honoring Mrs Robert Donnelly at the Village Barn Athens. Miss Suzanne Shelton hosts a gathering for guests Miss Van McRady and Miss Nancy Harvey.
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Earwood
Seneca Springs
B. M. Earwood
Decatur
John Thomas Earwood
Whitney Earwood
Paul Earwood
Cullman County
Oscar Holbert
Quiten Stewart
Charles Grant
W. C. Earwood
Pauline Hamilton
Tilman F Earwood
Slate
Travis Tanner
Mizpah
C. E
Order Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Order
Eastern Star
Rainbow For
Decatur Assembly of the Order of Rainbow For Girls
Donnelly
Wiley R. Cox, Jr
Robert Donnelly
Beaumont
Texas
John C. Bragg
Athens
Smith Trimble
Martha Dinsmore
Withers Peebles, Jr
Apartment for sale and social notices from Decatur area
For sale an apartment with size electric range in good condition available at 1413 8th Ave East. The text then lists a string of social notices naming Mrs Milton Harvey and several guests. A sequence of anniversaries and social gatherings follow including Mr and Mrs Margrave at Village Barn Athens, Mr and Mrs Reynolds on their 25th anniversary with family in Huntsville and Athens, a Birmingham group hosted by Mr and Mrs Baggett for Baptist Church youths, and visits by Mr and Mrs Isbell from Crossville and Decatur area.
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8Th Ave
Margrave
Jess Margrave
Gleason
Bill Reynolds, Jr
Judy
Tonkawa
Oklahoma
Edison Reynolds
Tommy
Decatur
Claud Black
Norma Gene
Ronnie
Birmingham
W. M. Baggett
14Th Avenue East
66Th Avenue Baptist Church
Southside Baptist Church
Woodall’s
Bag
Personal notices list many weekend and visit events
Mrs R M Grantland of Trinity was weekend guest of Mrs Pear Monroe in Hartselle. Edward Latey Monroe accompanied her home. Several families record visits to Illinois Tennessee Florida and Alabama. Names include Baggett Berry Harris Isbell McMasters Jones Ferguson Woodall Ezell Farris Littlefield Duff Bynum Morrow Nungester Thompson Hunter Jacks Scroggins and Grantland. Many travel to Birmingham Nashville Monteagle Guntersville and Cuba with relatives and friends.
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John Farris
Nashville
Tennessee
T. M. Jones, Jr
Hands Tell Tales How to Make Nails Lovelier and Polished
The article urges meticulous hand care insisting on daily lotion weekly facial massage remnants, regular nail brushing, and shaping with emery boards. It stresses matching polish to lipstick, buffing for lasting smoothness, and avoiding heavy overdone makeup in fashion.
Dear Miss Dix Advice Column Dilemmas on Marriage and Hosting
Dorothy Dix counsels a wife and husband with clashing personalities to drop humor from their marriage and focus on basics to save the family. A reader questions hostess etiquette at luncheons and dinners. Emily Post-like guidance stresses guests deserve the host’s participation at table.
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Miss Dix
Dorothy Fix
Emily Post
Masked Children Form West Virginia Klan Parody Band
Charleston police rounded up 20 masked youths aged nine to 15 who dubbed themselves Junior Ku Klux Klansmen. The group included 11 white boys, six Black boys, and three white girls. They wore robe outfits with crosses and skulls, roamed in packs to vandalize cars, steal bikes, and assault smaller children using wooden blackjacks. Parents were aware, but the youths were released to their guardians after a warning.
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Charleston
W. Va
Riddle
Mrs Baggett Hosts Relatives Return From Visit
House in Tennessee and her niece Miss Bernice Barnard of Hazard Kentucky have returned to their homes after a visit with Mr and Mrs W M Baggett.
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Barbara Geary
Ruth McCulloch
Ernest McCulloch
Kenneth
Florida
House
Tennessee
Bernice Barnard
Hazard
Kentucky
W. M. Baggett
Modest Maidens event and community notes unfold
The piece reports a Modest Maidens event running August 30 through September 3 with groups and trophies. It highlights Luther Poteete, a former county resident now in Detroit, who won a 1949 Mercury Sedan in a local union raffle but declined the prize to aid the benevolent fund. It notes a quiet local political scene, social news from Athens area families, and upcoming movie plans for Elkmont and Ardmore.
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Ment
Luther Poteete
Detroit
Poteste
Ford
Nevolent Fund
Poteete
Ford Motor Company
Alice
Cruse Patton
Fiorende
R. B. Patton
Colonial Club
R. L. Cooley
St. Augustine
Florida
Luella Chambers
Starkville
R. A. Chambers
Elkmont
Ardmore
Mamie Martin
Joy Rosenau
Kay Kennemer
Too-too Booth
Gertrude’. Coleman
Trussville
Ala
ShirrFrock Charmer Pattern 4830 Advertisement
Advertisement for pattern 4830 detailing shirred frock with no side placket and a smart collar. Includes illustrated instructions and sizes 12 through 42 with size 16 needing 358 yards of 39 inch fabric. Send twenty five cents to Decatur Daily Pattern Dept for pattern and catalog.
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Decatur Daily
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
Athens News in Brief Local Guard Return and College Drive
Athens details two weeks at Fort Benning Georgia National Guard unit returns and marches to the Athens Armory. Pastor Dr. R B Lavender plans return for next Sunday services. W A Caughran chairs a 30000.90 fund drive for Athens College underway. No executive secretary for North Alabama Tuberculosis Association yet. Sarah Witt to oversee office temporarily. Association includes Morgan Madison Limestone counties with Father Flynn of Huntsville as president. E L Evans presents ten pears from his orchard. An Athens city tennis tournament is noted.
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Alabama National Guard
Fort Benning
Georgia
Athens
R. B. Lavender
First Methodist Church
W. A Caughran
Athens College
North Alabama Tuberculosis Association
Edward C. Duncan
Sarah Witt
Duncan
Morgan
Madison
Limestone
Father Flynn
Huntsville
E. L. Evans
Athens City
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van McRady
Suzanne Shelton
Miss van McRady
Fayetteville
Nancy Harvey
Tuskegee
Milton Harvey
Anne Layman
Carolyn Gregg
George Voehringer
Jerry Murdock
Allison Bailey
Dan Nerbig
Alton Doody
Caddell Drug Company
J. F. Smith Insurance Agency
P. O
Goidel
Preston Baggett
David Lynn
Mrs. Baggett
Illinois
R. C. Berry
E. N. Harris
Auburn
M. S. White
Hamilton
Alabama
Oro
B. E. Isbell
Bill Isbell
Henry Powell
Piney Grove’ Church
Falkville
J. T. Jones
A. E. Jackson
Hartselle
Marian Bloodworth
Sara Redding Sewell
Trinity
Hill Ferguson, Jr
Fletcher Sedberry
Montgomery
Harry Higdon
Mrs
Meredith Woodall
Mrs. Comer Ezell
Shelbyville
Tenessee
Ernest de Grummond
J. C. Houseman
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Rutledge Thomas
Robert A. McMasters
Mimai
Miami
Cuba
Robert Harris
Garner Pride
John Bragg
Skeggs Crawford
Comer Ezell
Guntersville
Margaret Gail
Betty Littlefield
Mrs. W. K. Littlefield
Gordon Drive
Dudley Howell
Greenwood
Mississippi
R. E. Duff
Helen Bynum
Courtland
Miss Frances Nungester
New York City
Columbia University
Milton Norris
Dothan
Nancy Thompson
Betty Hunter
Katherine Jacks
J. F. Scroggins
Marjorie Scroggins
W. W. Reynolds, Jr
Johnny White
Near Chapel Hill
R .M. Grantland
Leon Grantland
Mabel B. Baggett
Vere
Pinkham
Helen Follett
Sally
Dorothy DIX
Bell Syndicate Inc
West Virginia
Ray Milland
Paramount
Princess Theatre
Milland
Modest Maidens
U. S
Patent Office
Anne Adams
Athens News
Grant St
Loyd
The
ABC of Good Telephone Service
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
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