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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1935
Page
7
Mrs Roy Hendrix hosted a Wednesday afternoon celebration for Roy Winton Hendrix turning seven. Guests received joy straw hats novelty horns and leaping frogs as games on the lawn provided merriment while Miss Elizabeth Houston directed activities.
The article lists L. N. Phélps of the State Board of Health holding birth and death data and disease statistics. It describes a celebration with a spider motif and a grand march, awards, a decorated cake, and numerous named guests. It then mentions the marriage announcement of David A. Patton of Athens, Alabama.
Pattern advertisement outlines Anne Adams afternoon frock in sheer multicolor dotted wool and red taffeta lining. It lists sizes 12 to 20 and 30 to 40, with pattern X2369 from the Decatur Daily Pattern Department in New York. Also notes a Patton-Athens to Riddle-Talladega wedding in Washington, D.C. and a birthday party for Dorothy Jean Hardin with guests and games.
William FP Black was appointed chief of the Transportation Bureau of the Alabama Public Services Commission, reflecting years of service in the field.
A crowd of about 200 persons in OSYKA, Mississippi, hung and burned an effigy of Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana last night. Hugh White, a successful gubernatorial candidate, accused Long of backing opponent Paul Johnson, who denied the charge. The effigy was suspended from a pole on the state line between Louisiana and Mississippi.
Harold McCall, once a sign painter for the Oklahoma relief administration, painted a memory of the Winnie Mae that the Smithsonian Institution accepted for display. The painting, created from memory, will hang beside the ship later going to Washington as a government purchase.
Athens Ala Aug 20 Special The Limestone county high at Elkmont will open for the term on Monday September with the same faculty as last year Special opening exercises will take place and one speaker will address the pupils The opening is later this year due to a delay in obtaining proper textbooks.
In Athens Alabama Limestone County organizes a separate county fair for Black residents following the white fair scheduled October 1 to 4. The Negro fair will run October 6 to 8 on Limestone County Fair Association grounds with Dr I V Legg named secretary to manage premiums and attractions under way.
The project began spreading about 836000 dollars worth of paint to cover 20000 five room dwellings. The Oakland San Francisco Bridge requires 200000 gallons of paint with four coats. Three coats are standard lead paint and the top coat is aluminum.
In Mississippi politics the editor Fred Sullens of the Jackson Daily News shifted from opposing the senator to backing White after White led in returns. Senator Theodore Bilbo, once at odds with Sullens, admitted breaking his galluses as he pressed his case for White.
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