Houser Family Dinner Honored National Guard Members
Mrs Ollie Tudor hosted a lawn dinner August 12 honoring Lawrence and Doyle Houser of the National Guard of Hartselle. Attendees included Guard members Leon ard Cryer Cleo Calahan Roger Hanns and more with swimming and watermelon cutting after a birthday dinner for Jimmy Richey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Doyle Houser
Ollie Tudor
National Guard
Hartselle
Doyle
Leonard Cryer
Cleo Calahan
Roger Hanns
C. L
Delver Maxwell
Ronnie
Quinton Houser
Linda
Dewey Houser
Mabel and
Allen
Elizabeth
Davis Houser
Elbert Tuder, Jr
Wayne
Harold
J. W. Cook
Betty Tuder
Calvin
Yvonne Houser
Lorene Tuder
Elbert Tuder
Jimmy Richey
Austinville
Gurley Richey
Cecil Richey
Gene Richey
Marvin Woodall
Luke Richey
Lawrence Oliver
Elmer Bartlette
Newcomers Club Plans Called Meeting in Decatur
Spokesmen for the Newcomers club of Decatur announced a called meeting for Thursday afternoon August 17 at 3 in the assembly room of Westminster Presbyterian church to elect officers and discuss the club by laws. Women who moved into Decatur in the past year were invited as charter members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
Mass Chapel Methodist Church
W. B. Harvel
Shirley Wallace
Kathryn McElroy
Roman Higdon
Shirley Moore
Marvin Griffin
Decatur Garden Club
Jack Higginbotham
Tom Edgis
England
Newcomers Club of
Decatur
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Good Fellowship
Central Methodist Church
Loyal Temperance Legion
Clio Levin
Revival Notice and Local Visits In Pine Grove
Mrs Flora Allred and relatives visited Thursday afternoon while Mr and Mrs William H Legg welcomed a baby girl. Many locals, including the Jacksons, Keenes, Pruits, Cole and Robbins, spent days visiting and hosting. The community invites all to attend this week’s revival services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Montgomery
Russell Clemons
Don
Edgar Jackson
Gordon
Jackie
Lowell Cole
Frances
William H. Legg
Master Hoyt Hill
Tass Jacobs
Claude Hyde
William Neal
Decatur
John Pruitt
Ward Pruitt
Minnie Adair
Avery Lee
Michigan
Nadine Nelson
Rena Cole
Cole
Culbert Robbins
Bill Alexander
Elaine
Mt. Hope
Crib Robbins
Personal News Briefs From Decatur Area Residents
Miss Cecil Rigel returns to Greenwood Mississippi after visiting Decatur relatives and friends. She previously taught sewing for Singer and now oversees millinery for DeLoach in Greenwood and Memphis. Several local families travel or visit relatives in Decatur, Birmingham, Atlanta, and other cities, with trips to Miami Key West Smoky Mountains Monroe City Indiana and Scottsboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Rigel
Greenwood
Mississippi
Decatur
Singer Company
DeLoach Company
Memphis
Tennessee
Leonard Robertson
Mary Sue
Smoky Mountains
Anderson
Indiana
Birmingham
Atlanta
Georgia
Daisy Rigel
Elizabeth
Monroe City
Reverend W. Malcolm Rigel
Ratliff Family Hosts Sendoff for National Guard Members
A Sunday gathering at the home of Mr and Mrs Tom Ratliff on East Moulton Street honored Gene Ratliff and Max Kanady of the local National Guard as they prepare to depart for Army duty. Mr and Mrs Thomas Ratliff Jr have returned to Birmingham after visiting their parents.
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Ward
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Ninth Street Methodist Church
Delano Park
Diane Smith
Shirley Butler
Birmingham
Barbara Branum
Dianah Smith
Carolyn Cowan
Scottsboro
Tom Ratliff
Gene Ratliff
Howard Craft
Kenneth and
Timmy
Martin Brown
Robert Hammond
Bobby
Thomas Ratliff Jr
Kenneth
L. B. Hammond
Ernest Hestla
Jane
Hanceville
Kay Hammond
Mary Lou
Cullman
Billy Hammond
Billie Marie
James Britain
Florence
Max Kanady
Sandra
Janice
E. J. Kan
Thomas Ratliff, Jr
Mrs
Mothers-in-law and marriage woes in a shoe-strewn home
A reader asks if a future wife can accept a mother living with them. Helen advises it hinges on the mother’s tact, the husband’s temperament, and the wife’s ability to manage harmony. The second letter dismisses petty complaints about a husband’s chores, urging perspective on real hardships.
Dear Miss Dix Advice Column Fragment
A letter describes a seemingly happy marriage unsettled by small quarrels. The wife reads late, sleeps late, leaves breakfast tasks for her husband, and complains about dirt tracked in. The husband responds curtly with a terse reply.
Dear Dorothy Dix on logical definition of love
The writer asks Dorothy Dix for a logical definition of love. Wee We Ke responds that love has no logic and cannot be revived once dead, since it comes and goes at its own will and its causes are unknown.
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Dorothy DIX
Attentions from Married Man leaflet by Dorothy Dix
A Dorothy Dix leaflet titled Attentions from Married Man analyzes the dangers of an extramarital relationship from the girl's viewpoint. To obtain a copy, readers are instructed to send 5 cents and a stamped self-addressed envelope.
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Dorothy DIX
Naming Of Their New Princess Delights Britons
Britons today enjoy a guessing game over the name of the royal baby, a six pound girl born to Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The newborn is their second child, with Charles aged 21 months. Doctors report mother and child well as 41 gun salutes greet the princess in London.
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London
Elizabeth
Britain
Royal Family
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Charles
Hyde Park
Tower of London
Rise in British wages since 1938 reaches seventy two percent
The rise in the average wage rate of the British worker since 1938 is about 72 per cent, exclusive of overtime.
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Raymond Woodall
Omie Craft
Mrs. Richey
Mrs. Woodall
Moss Chapel
Central Baptist Church
J. P. Garnett
W.C.T.U
Apes Club
Woodall’s
Moulton High
Aubrey Free
Martha Bailey
East Walnut Street
Jo Harvey
Lawrence County
Flora Allred
Gordon and
Uea
Jerrell
ArremeRie
Florida
M. P. Wilson
Edna Elizabeth Adcock
Linda Marie
Winterhaven
J. R. Adcock
Joe Flynn
Fifth Avenue West
Sidney Patterson
Pat Patterson
Miami
Key West
Arthur Matthews
Miss Mary Frances Matthews
Lydia E.pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss DIX
O. K
Helen
Mother
Frigidaire
Bank St
Velour
Fire Furniture CO
E. Moulton St
Decatur, Ala
Care Newspaper
P. O. Box
Times Square Station
New York
W.T. Grant
Monty
Second Avenue
Justin McCarty
Coats
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