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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1932
Page
5
The True Trusted and Tried Sunny school class at Southside Baptist Church met Tuesday at Mrs J W Motes home on Eighth Avenue South. Guests enjoyed games, contests and a watermelon cutting with Miss Bettle Cloud named tackiest.
Master Ralph Moore entertained Wednesday night at Helen Mahaffey’s home with games and watermelon slices. Guests included Dorothy Ross Fred Lee Charles Mahaffey Ruby Nance Marvin Nance Letha Dutton Mitchell Williams Dorothea Lovelace Nelson Buck Nellie Poole Norman Safley Nell Fields Donald Doyle Dorothy Jacobs Buddy Lovelace Clara Mahaffey and Helen Mahaffey. Mrs J E Crow of Crowton is seriously ill. Willard Young Jr rests with grandparents after tonsil surgery. Mrs J W Featherstone returned from Birmingham. Ads Ohio visitors Dean McElroy and C J O Bryant Jr with parents. They may arrive Friday night or Saturday. Mrs C O Foote and Mrs C J O Bryant visited Birmingham. Mr and Mrs J W Featherstone plan to move to Birmingham. Lula Dillehay of Pensacola visiting Decatur. Mrs Bob Huie called to Birmingham for mother’s illness. Mrs Frank Ellenburg of Knoxville visiting Mabel.
A stream of visitors and relatives converges on Florence for weekends and holidays. Notables include Mrs. Rhea Lide Carson of Atlanta with her mother, Mrs. C. K. Lide, and sister, plus Rev. Tucker of Tampa who recently conducted services and heads to Monte Sano for summer.
Step by step instructions and diagrams for Pattern 2391. Sizes 36 to 48 require 3 5 8 yards of 36 inch fabric and 2 3 4 yards of binding. Fifteen cents per pattern, include name address size. Catalog offers Anne Adams designs with lingerie pajama kiddie models. catalog and pattern together twenty five cents.
Mrs Brockman Sanders and Miss Nettie Lou Witt visit in Murfreesboro and Atlanta. Athens College area hosts dinner with extended guest list from Denton to Memphis. Wednesday Nite Club honors Mrs Hunter’s sisters. prize goes to Mrs Jack Rogers. Younger set attends Legion Park after dance. trips include Swan Lake and New York visits.
Prof A Dunstan recovered two radium needles valued at 1700 dollars from the Florence city dump after locating the waste area where hospital trash from July 30 was dumped. He and two assistants searched the operation room, hallways, basement, and waste-cans with sensitive instruments before discovering traces near a burning pile.
Politicians note Col William J Donovan of Buffalo known as Wild Bill seems less focused on Hoover's 1932 re election than his 1928 victory. Observers link his possible New York governorship bid and past Hoover support to a cabinet exclusion that may have disappointed him. He sails for Europe but could return to run for NY governor if desired.
Melvin Chambliss and Ed Aday pleaded guilty to burglary in Lawrence County. Each received a year and a day in the state penitentiary after arraignment before Judge W. W. Callahan. They are also held on two counts each of grand larceny linked to thefts of vehicles belonging to George Collier and Fred A. Bloodworth Sr., though those counts were not heard.
The week features Mrs. W. E. Flood and her young son visiting relatives in Detroit. Temple Tutwiler of Birmingham visited Athens. D. L. Rosenall Jr. returns from Red Boiling Springs. Eunice Draper visited Huntsville. Lila Coleman stayed with Col. George S. Houston at Belle Mina. Margaret McQueen of Birmingham guests Miss Zuleika Glaze. Vulcan is noted as the god of fire in myth. The Koran forbids death by one’s own action.
Methodists and Baptists of Athens plan a charity game next Wednesday at the local ball park. A team of ladies and girls from each church will oppose each other to decide if sprinkling or immersion best fits producing baseball players. Three players have been injured in workouts but a full team is expected.
A psychology note explains Weber's Law as the relationship between perceived sensation and actual stimulus intensity, outlining a constant proportionality that governs sensory thresholds and perceptual changes.
A brief note traces the viol as the immediate precursory instrument to the modern violin, highlighting its role in shaping string family lineage and instrument evolution.
Judge William E Fort and John Harris recount arguments on a life prisoner’s bid for release. Protests mount led by the slain Miss Lee’s mother, plus Alabama resident Comer C Williams citing Edwards as a minister who married an Asheville girl, deserted wife and child, then fled to Canada.
Plans proceed for the Rotary club annual picnic to be held Thursday afternoon at Dr. Erskine Chenaults camp west of town on the Danville road. Rotary-Anns will prepare lunch. Members and Rotary-Anns depart Decatur about 3 30 arriving by late afternoon for a swim. Joe Duncan serves as general chairman.
The statement notes Xenophanes as the founder of the Hleatic school of philosophy, identifying him as an originator figure in ancient thought and linking him to a named philosophical tradition.
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