Society notes announce Miss Dolly Pitt and Ray Howell wedding
Society pages report Miss Dolly Pitt engaged to Ray Nance Howell son of Mrs. William McCurdy and nephew of the Sherrills with a September wedding planned. Also detailed are bridal showers and weddings for Miss Betty Simmons Miss Phyllis Barnes Miss Willodyne Campbell Miss Dolly Evelyn Shelton and other local society events with family, church and club gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolly Pitt
Ray Howell
Lewis D. Bennett
4Th Avenue West
Miss Dolly Pitt
Ray Nance Howell
Hartselle
William McCurdy
Mobile
S. L. Sherrill
Hartseil
Betty Simmons
Mary Jean Sittason
Jack Thomason
Miss Sittason
8Th Avenue South
Gerald Feild
Pat Patterson
Miss Simmons
Miss Pitt
Stork Wins Race to Irwin and Dyar Infirmary
In a remarkable early morning event in Moulton, a delivery by ambulance driver Kyle McWhorter helped a neighbor give birth en route to Irwin and Dyar Infirmary. The stork arrived first, prompting a humorous warning about speed from the veteran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kyle McWhorter
Five Points
McWhorter
Irwin and Dyar
Revival Services At Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Revival services begin at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Wren at 11 this morning led by Rev. Dick Cassity of Birmingham formerly pastor of Wren. Services run 11 each morning and 7 30 each evening through Friday night Sept 2. Reunion set for Sept 4 at Wheeler Dam picnic grounds for the Lawrence county families Lucy Greenhaw announces correction from Sept 24 to Sept 4 first Sunday. Sixty acres. 14 stills destroyed in county by federal officers over 10 days with beer mash. Lawrence listed among top liquor producers in the state. Dr J H K Jacobs sustained acid burns to face and eyes during lab prep. resting, later to Florence for specialist care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Wren
Dick Cassity
10Th Avenue Baptist Church
Birmingham
Cassity
J. A. Gomes
Pleasant Grove ‘Church
Lucy Greenhaw
Montgomery-Roberts
Lawrence County
Wheeler Dam
Miss Greenhaw
George D. Byars
Byars
State Beverage Control
J. HK. Jacobs
Florence
First Girl Scouts Meet of the Year Elects Officers
Local Girl Scouts gathered last Tuesday in the Roy Warren grocery basement under Mrs. Kenneth McCorkle and Mrs. Walter McCullough. Officers chosen were Wanda rene Naylor secretary Mignonette Warren treasurer and Normaine Elmore reporter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Warren
Kenneth McCorkle
Walter McCullough
Wandarene Naylor
Mignonette Warren
Normaine Elmore
Paving Projects Planned on East Danville Wren Road
Probate officials say contractors will move in next week to pave several miles of the East end Danville Wren road and build bridges on Lawrence county’s portion. A grading and drainage contract for the West end is also to be let. Work should finish this fall. Hillsboro Morris Chapel farm to market road grading is underway by local farms to market administration with grading this year and paving next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville-Wren Road
Lawrence County
Hillsboro-Morris Chapel
Prisoner total at local jail rises during circuit court
Sheriff G. D. Byars said yesterday the jail held 16 prisoners for about ten days during the recent circuit court term, a figure that had dwindled to eight by Saturday morning as the term progressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. D. Byars
Trustees Election Set for August 24 in Lawrence County Schools
August 24 is designated as election day for Lawrence County school trustees across white and Negro schools. Elections will run Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 5 at all county schools. Patrons are asked to nominate six persons for trustees and submit the names with vote counts to the county board of education where three will be chosen as trustees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence County
Leon E. Moody
County Board of Education
Chicken Fry for Class at Moulton Baptist Church
The Young Men's Sunday school class at Moulton Baptist Church held a chicken fry at Wheeler Dam on Thursday afternoon. About 60 class members and guests attended the pleasant event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moulton
Ginning Time Near at Moulton Oil Mill Gin
Local cotton activity shifts from boll weevil talks to ginning with A H Turner owner operator of the Moulton Oil Mill Gin predicting ginned cotton next week He reports 23 seasons of ginning with August activity only once since 1926 Benny Lovell returns to Birmingham with Mrs Pettus after summer stay in the area General updates include Mr L A McKelvey building a new residence between Moulton and Wren and Mrs Johnnie Jackson recovering from illness with others visiting and relocating between Wren Chattanooga Lookout Mountain and Birmingham Jacksonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Turner
Moulton Oil Mill
Hurley Cross
Wren
Craig
Wilbur Coffey
Chattanooga
Mountain
L .A. McKelvey
Moulton
Johnnie Jackson
G. F. Whitlow
Caddo
Benny Lovell
Tom Pettus
Birmingham
Local News brief from Montgomery and surrounding areas
Reported hospital convalescence for Fla Fennell Flannagin after spinal surgery in Nashville. Mrs Speake remains at his bedside and plans to return home Monday. Families travel to Chattanooga and Kentucky to visit relatives. Ray Armstrong builds a new home near Wren. Gwyn Thrasher to enter API next month with architecture major.Mrs Vince Sparks described as improving slowly at home. The Owens family visits relatives in Kentucky. Turner family returns from Price Texas after funeral of J E Ashworth. Bernice Terry, 14, injured in arm sling from a Thursday accident. Guests at H S B Alexander’s include Catt Wilcoxon Greenville DC, Mrs D T Wilcoxon Florence, and Miss Mae Thorton Montevallo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fla
Fennell Flannagin
Moulton
Veterans Hospital
Montgomery
A. Huff Speake
Nashville
Speake
Robert Jenkins Sr
Town Creek
Earl Aldridge
Chattanooga
W. A. Givens
Givens
Robert Jenkins Jr
Ray Armstrong
Wren
Cecil Thrasher
Gwyn Thrasher
Auburn
Gwyn
API
Vince Sparks
R. E. Owens
Roswald Owens
Kentucky
Hoyt Turner
Price
Texas
Terry
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J. A. Gasaway
Willie Sittason
Mesdames Jones
Eyster
Miss Barnes
Cornelian Hotel
Arthur Jones
Charles Eyster
Phyllis Barnes
Hodges
Willodyne Campbell
David Hodges
E. E. Anderson
John Flowers
Car
Allgood
John Patrick Gibbons
Grant Street Church of Christ
Sherman Street
Melvin Ozier
Davis Hodges
Ben A. Campbell
Lovely
Pearl Gibbons
Littleton
West Virginia
Elect
Carl Allgood
Maurice Barrett
Newt Hardy
Tom Hamilton
Talmadge Dixon
Elbert Lee Jolly, Jr
Howard Dutton
Dan McCoy
Jane Walker
Martha Blizzard
Mary Jo Reeves
Billie Sittason
James Fite
W. E. Sivley, Jr
R. M. Campbell
Grant Street
Atlanta
Sammy Pruett
James Pruett
Georgia
Decatur Country Club
First Ward
Guy. Habercom
5Th Avenue West
Parent Teacher Association
Clifford Vaughn
Louie Ellison
Frank Kennedy
H. R. Leeman
Odie Cavnar
Walter Roberts
Garland Roberts
Johnston Street
Walter “Frog” Roberts
O. L. Reed
Robert
Mesdames Homer Smith
Claude Aycock
Lawrence Frahn
R. A. Nunn
J. T. Weatherly, Jr
Robert Powers
Barnes Ross
Truitt Mitchell
Clyde Smith
Grady Hanks
Mary Thompson
J. T. Bryant
Clyde McRae
Bob Wells
D. L. Blackwell
Elton Reeves
Gilbert Young
B. Romine
Katie Weatherly
Marjorie Reeves
Mary Frances Roberts
Shelton-Atkins
R. E. Atkins
Hart- Selle
Dolly Evelyn
Lloyd Price Shelton
Olen Shelton
Trinity
Iuka
Mississippi
Shelton
Ts Shelton
Bell Telephone Company
Alabama
7Th Street
American Legion Auxiliary
Morgan County
Legion
Bank Street
Nelson
Lems
Our Service
WBA Ek
OWLE
TOWLE
Benjamin Fa
Tal
KLIN
Tee
Towle’s
Seville
Sejowles
Old Newbury
Constance
Paul Revere
Lady Mary
Virginia Carvel
Towle's
Dorleans
Huntsville
Jewelers
Decatur
Ussie
Ift
Alleries
Suttrey's
Balceny
Imperium
Moulton News
STORK
Miss Almon
Mary Almon
Selective Service Board
Selective Service System
Almon
North Alabama
Lawrence Simms
Alexander Building
Department of Veterans Affairs
Elaine Jones
Wandalene Naylor
Wanda Lee McLemore
Martha Faye Shelton
Mary Ann Beene
Sylvia Jean Terry
Margaret Elmore
Bettye Hogue
Barbara Richbourg
Audrey Martin
Landersville
Secidet
Martha Ray Cowan
la Beth
Penney’s
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