Society notes honor Mrs. John T. Jones at birthday dinner
A surprise birthday dinner was hosted for Mrs. John T. Jones at her Austinville home Sunday with attendees including the Jones family and local visitors from Florence State Teachers College, Decatur Route Three, and Cleveland Tennessee. Beta Sigma Phi meets Tuesday at 7 30 in Miss Virginia Gilliam’s home on Sherman Street. Hugh Thompson hosts Burleson family reunion Sunday honoring Mr. and Mrs. R A Burleson of Vicksburg Mississippi, visiting for a month with a noon picnic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Jones
Austinville
Joseph A. Jones
Florence State Teachers College
Florence
B. M. Jones
Bradley Gayle
Walter Jones
Barbara
Frances
Tommy
Curtis Corum
Decatur
Joyce Faye Massey
Sarah Schrader
Cleveland
Tennesseee
Betty Joyce Stover
Carolyn Partee
Beta Sigma Phi
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Virginia Gilliam
Sherman Street
Burleson
Hugh Thompson
Decatur Route Two
R. A. Burleson
Vicksburg
Mississippi
R. C. Bodry
S. L. Jaynes
Eugene
Oregon
Mr. Jaynes
Fred Lee Bodry
Perry
Davis
Gadsden
Kittie Prewett
Betty Burleson
Ba—Davis
Decature
Frank Waldrop
Judy
Washington, D. C
Waldrop
John Lanier
Atlanta
Georgia
E. B. Garner
Foster Pointer
Ferry Street
Karl Wolfe
Michael
Jackson
R. C. Nungester
Church Street
Laura Wheeler Pattern Sales Offer for Doilies
Advertises petal doilies and pineapple designs for Thanksgiving and Christmas decor. Describes pattern 618 with crochet directions and Laura Wheeler’s improved charts and photos. Requests twenty cents for the pattern at The Decatur Daily mailing address and fifteen cents for the Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Wheeler
Decatur Daily
Needlecraft Dept. P. O
Flatbush Station
Brooklyn
Personal notices from Decatur area families
Courting updates and travel notes show Mr. and Mrs. John Paul Sanders returning from Atlanta after attending the funeral of La Sue Nelson. Many friends report improving health, visits to relatives in Alabama Tennessee Florida and Michigan, and several family reunions and guest stays around Decatur including Shelbyville Gadsden Columbus and Pensacola with letters of sympathy and well wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Paul Sanders
Eighth Avenue West
Atlanta
Georgia
Charming la Sue Nelson
J. B. Nelson
Decatur
Georgia Baptist Hospital
Dear Miss Dix Tea of Advice on Faithful Wives and Faiths
A reader Mrs. M. B. writes about a thirty year marriage ending in divorce for a younger lover. Dorothy Dix counsels resilience and social consequences for the husband, praising the faithful wife and warning against smug mistreatment. The column also advises on a husband wife church disagreements and child guidance. Numerous social notices follow detailing visits and travels of local residents to Monteagle Memphis Shelbyville and nearby towns. A shrimp sauce recipe closes the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Dix
Dorothy Oix
Good Posture Habits and Salons Promote Slimming Routines
The piece describes how posture correction and slimming salons offer exercises and apparatus to reduce waist size and tone thighs and hips. It stresses self effort, with steps including torso twists, squats, and hip walks, alongside diet limits to fats starches and sugars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Little Princess Set Anne Adams Pattern 4536
Very new for the very young outfit features a pleated Princess dress with its own panties and slip Tiny bolero completes the set Includes illustrated instructions and fit tested pattern 4536 comes in sizes 1 through 6 Size 2 dress requires 1 4 yards of 35 inch fabric plus contrast yarn Send 25 cents to The Decatur Daily Pattern Dept 243 West 17th St New York NY The Small World catalog adds child fashion ideas for sewing affordability
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Decatur Daily
West 17Th St
New York
Love Songs Reflect Techno Society, Says Michigan Scholar
East Lansing Tuesday report notes Dr. Paul Honigsheim of Michigan State College teaches a new science the sociology of music. He argues American love songs rebel against gadgets and industrial life, while Soviet and Nazi music serve propaganda aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alton L. Blakeslee
Associated Press
East Lansing
Mich
Paul Honigsheim
Honigsheim
Michigan State College
Dr. Honigsheim
Motorist Cleans Window With Crank In Quick Exit
Patrolman Robert McGarvey stopped a motorist in Kansas City for a cracked rear window. The driver promised to leave the ticket if he cleaned it, and in two minutes used a crank to shatter the window, then drove off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Building Permits Issued for Local Residences
Walter M. Penney authorized to build brick and frame dwelling at 801 Johnston Street for 7500 dollars. Four rooms and bath with Coffee as contractor. A second permit issued to J. P. Miller for a four room bath frame dwelling on 200 block of 10th Avenue W at 900 dollars. Self is contractor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter M. Penney
Johnston Street
Coffee
J. P. Miller
10Th Avenue W
Self
Last Rites For Sgt Gillam In Missionary Grove
Funeral services were held for Sgt Fred Gillam age 23 on August 19 at Missionary Grove with Rev Garlang. burial followed in the church cemetery. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs W O Gillam of Hafficeville Route 2 four brothers and three sisters. He was killed in France on November 9 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sgt
Gillam
Fred Gillam
Missionary Grove
Garlang
Church Cemetery
VFW
W. O. Gillam
Hafficeville
Route 2
France
Aged Man Laid To Rest In Joppa
Funeral services for Andrew M. Holmes died August 18 at Corinth Church near Joppa with interment in the adjoining cemetery. Surviving are his wife three daughters and one son. Final service for youth William Alonzo Suggs held at First Methodist Church with interment in West Berlin cemetery. Surviving are his parents two brothers John and Paul. Pallbearers named. North Alabama Highway Patrolmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew M. Holmes
Joppa
Corinth Church
William Alonzo Suggs
Alton Suggs
Cullman
First Methodist Church
Fagan Thompson
Dickerson
West Berlin
John
Paul Suggs
Carl © Ruehl
Arthur Keyes
Milliard
Buchmann
Bankhead
Bates
Seldon McCoy
Newt Seav
North Alabama
Service Held for Solomon C Williams at Union Church
Funeral services for Solomon Cicero Williams aged 66 of Cullman Route 2 were held at Union Church with Rev J S Schultz officiating. Interment followed at Providence Church cemetery with Mass Service in charge. Survived by wife Martha Ann Williams four sons four daughters two brothers and one sister. Masons assisted at the grave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomon Cicero Williams
Cullman
Union Church
J. S. Schultz
Providence Church Cemetery
Martha Anne Williams
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Louis Seibert, Sr
Decatur General Hospital
R. G. McClure
Mrs. W. H. Lee
Fort Deposit, Alabama
Edwin Davidson
Eddie Sandlin
James W. Davidson
Vance
Charles Henry Davidson
Bobby Riddle
Cartersville
Davidson
Shelbyville
Tennessee
Rogert Doss
Tuscaloosa
Mrs
J.ross
Robert Bibb
M. Jones, Jr
George Housen
Chattanooga
Ella Davis
St. Petersburg
Flor
Ida
Perry Davis
Sam Wheat
Shelbyville, Tennessee
Peggy Lanning
Birmingham
Mrs. CG. D. Cottingham
Finley Island
Albert Campbell
Mary Wells
Columbus
Jean Gardner
Sheffield
Diane Harris
Robert Blackwell
Memphis
Mrs. C. A. Moore
Ed Humphrey
Trinity
Bennett Cox
Henry Davidson
Harry Collier
Frank Richardson
Bonnie and
Skipper
Mooresville
Fred Cocke
Clarksdale
Betty Lile
F. D. Peebles
Baptist Hospital
Claudie Shumake
Sylvia
Diane
William Ward
Tndiana
Charles Norman
Jackson Street
John Wood
Clark, Williams
Jimmy Wiley
J. B. Wiley
Nannie Pritchett
Ben Britnell
Margaret Ann Emens
Virginia
H. N. Townsend
Pensacola
Florida
J. O. Townend
7Th Avenue West
Carl Arantz
West Point, N. Y
Mrs. C. F. Arantz, Sr
Oak Street
George Sletcher
Ypsilanti
Michigan
Slet
Philip Humphrey
Huntsville
P. Kyle
J. T. Jones
Robert Oliver
Monteagle
Mimi Jones
Cuba
Perry Orr
Jonathon
Orr
J. B. Orr
Monteagle, Tenessee
Mrs. H. D. Barnum
Comer Ezell
Dorothy DIX
Oy Bell Syndicate Inc
M. B
Asmwer
Mrs. Ezell
Robert Harris
Eugene Bailey
Martha
Frank Malcolm Martin
Earl Alverson
J. E. Stone
I. R. Neher
L. R. Jacks
James Bradley
Vera Austell
Malcolm Austelle
Thomas Terrace
Frank Baker
Frank, Jr
Eufaula, Alabama
John B. Sewell
Frank I. Spengler
Dunedin
E. L. Thomas
on-Serman Streets
Carrollton
J. O. Richardson
W. R. Rackley
Pulaski, Tennessee
Mrs. L. L. Frazier
Mr. Frazier
D. W. Irwin
Louise Stinson and Sons
Line Street
Bill Farlow
Martha Argend
Bill, Jr
St. Paul
Indiana
Louis Argend
Beeline Highway
Bob Blackwell
Robert Anthony
Columbia, Tennessee
Helen Follett
Mona Paulee
Little Princess
Office of
Paul E. Frutiger
Belk Hudson Building
Hartselle
Crump Camera Shop
Bank St
Lewyt
H. Ryan
John V. Hummel
Barbara Jo Walker
Tenn
Betty Jean Ferguson
Halifax
Hamilton
Ontario
Sally
the Times
Hitler
Wagner
Dr. Privnlenaiee
Atend
Honigs
Paris
Italy
Western Union
Decatur Delivery Service
Cullman News
Croe
Griffin
Goidel
Ave
Grant St
E. C. Worley
Mgr
Clements Drug Stores
Good Drug Stores
Moulton St
6Th Ave. E
Lydis E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia EK
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