Methodist Youth Fellowship Meets at Ninth Street Church
The Methodist Youth Fellowship of Ninth Street Methodist Church met at Miss Etna Ree Carroll’s home for a regular gathering. Members enjoyed games and singing and birthday ice cream with pink candles. The meeting closed with the Mitzpah benediction.
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Ninth Street
Howard Speegle
Memorial Drive
Donny
Uth Peek
Paul Draper
Speegle
Onny
Rita Brown
John Edward
Margie Nell Tucker
Bobby Lane Draper
Bob Turney
Tommy Cary
Paul
Josephine Cagle
Margie
Francis Hargitt
Billa Lane Rhegness
James Johnson
Janice Smith
Ralph Hallmark, Jr
Bobby
Sandra Schwachow
Personalities scatter across region in weekend travels
Mrs. Charles Eyster will spend Tuesday in Sewanee with her son John a University of the South student. Mrs. Rufus Peerson Miss Con stance Peerson and Miss Elizabeth Houston visited Florence Sunday. Numerous families return home Sunday after visits to Atlanta Pickwick Dam Elizabethton Jackson Birmingham Huntsville Excelsior Springs and other locales. Relatives from Cartersville Florence and Decatur visit kin in Alabama Tennessee and Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Eyster
Sewanee
Tennessee
John
University of the South
Rufus Peerson
Constance Peerson
Elizabeth Houston
Florence
M. H. Lindell
Edna Holland
Houston
Georgetown
Texas
Lindell
Miss Holland
Trinity Road
Axson Smith
Fred Hunt, Sr
Atlanta
Georgia
Alvis Briscoe Named County Red Cross Chairman
Alvis Briscoe will serve as chairman of the Morgan County Red Cross board this year after being elected at a recent group meeting. Oscar Napps is first vice chairman, Mrs. Tom Russell is second vice chair, and Miss Nina Wood is secretary.
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Alvis Briscoe
Morgan County Red Cross
Oscar Napps
Tom Russell
Nina Wood
Doroth y Dix Advice on Independence and Marriage
A 28 year old woman asks whether to leave her strict father to seek marriage. Dorothy Dix condemns parental domination, urges independence, notes long-armed control by fathers over daughters and earnings, and advises striking for freedom.
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Dix-t Amr
Open South Carolina fight shapes 1948 presidential plans
The Associated Press reports Thurmond works on states rights rally while South Carolina groups map lines for Truman and Democratic party operations in Columbia. Governors Wright and Fielding Wright meet in Birmingham as Southern leaders plot slates for Wallace and Dewey-Warren tickets amid easy ballot access.
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Pers
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Birmingham
Ala
Fielding Wright
Mississippi
President Truman
National Democratic Party
Columbia
Dave Baker
Thurmond
Congress
Democratic Executive Committee
Baker
Progressive Party
Henry Wallace
U. S
Maybank
D.,s.c
Dewey
New York
Warren
California
Planned Shelbyville show at the tenth Tennessee walking horse celebration
The tenth annual Tennessee walking horse national celebration will be held in Shelbyville on September 14. Three thousand free bleacher seats on the east side follow paid general admission, with reserve and single night tickets on sale at the celebration office. The event is billed as larger than any prior year.
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Shelbyville
Celebration Tickets
Marriages and Property Transfers in Local Ledger
Daily records show marriages for Pervin Isley Jr. and Mary Lee Corum of Decatur and John Luther Handley and Flora Inez Sellers of Anniston among others. Deeds list transfers from Hill to Ward for 500 dollars and Katz to Sherman Allen for 700 dollars along with several other property trades and prices.
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Pervin Isley, Jr
Decatur
Mary Lee Corum
1Lth Avenue
John Luther. Handley
Falkville
Flora Inez Sellers
Anniston
Joseph Theodore Hogan
Danville
Dorothy Nell Shoemaker
Deeds Thomas A. Hill
Fred L. Ward
Nite P. Katz
Sherman Allen
She
Lamons
Lee D. Blevins
John W. McCant
Aaron S. Julian
Elvie L. Terry
John B. Austin
Sarah Jane Woodall
Evelyn McCulloch
Seek an Eye Doctor's Advice If You Have Headaches Often
Nine out of ten headaches lead people to suspect eye trouble, but eye strain is a minor cause. The article urges an eye examination for persistent headaches to rule out serious eye conditions like glaucoma, acromatous changes, and iris inflammation, and notes other sources such as nerve overstimulation, foods, brain tumors, and high blood pressure.
Raft Weighs Retirement as Film Career Lingering Question
Hollywood, Aug 30. George Raft contemplates quitting the movie business to tour the world though he has yet to sign with a major studio. He worries that audiences seek top casts and fears being sidelined without star names, while noting past suspensions and a possible life story film as his swan song.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
George Raft
Fred Astaire
George Brent
Raft
Tye
Mug
Foreign Legion
Morocco
Katharine
Hepburn
Spencer Tracy
June Allyson
MGM
Warners
Pegler
Notice of Sale in Equity Case Burns vs Kitchens
Under a decree dated August 28 1948 in the circuit court of Lawrence County Alabama I will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the courthouse door in Moulton Alabama at 11 00 A M on Saturday September 4 1948 the gin property described by metes and bounds beginning at Section 24 Township 6 South Range 6 West running along the south line and road margins with specific bearings and distances to an iron pin and back to the starting point as the property to be sold to satisfy the decree in the suit Annie L Burns complainant versus Addie Kitchens et al defendants.
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Grey Branch
Section 24
Township
Section
Decatur-Moulton Road
Atth Township
Range
Ernest Shelton
Circuit Court of
Lawrence County
Alabama
Annie L. Burns
Addie Kitchens
Circuit Court
Moulton
Mortgage Foreclosure Notice in Morgan County Alabama
The First National Bank in Tuscumbia announces a mortgage default by William L Lynn and wife Carlyn Lynn from 1947. The bank will sell the described real property at public outcry for cash before the Decatur courthouse door on September 29 1948 at 11 am.
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Alabama
Morgan County
First National Bank
Tuscumbia
Congress
William L. Lynn
Carlyn Lynn
Decatur
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Vera Holes
Athensity
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Line St
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Trussville
Mrs. Quince Eddens
Pickwick Dam
Gilbert Key
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J. R. Smiley
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Courtland
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Barbara
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Elmer. Loyd, Jr
Howard College
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Robert Riddle
Cartersville
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Robert Ray
P. H. Sandlin
Dorothy Pryor
Alabama College
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Eugene Wright
University, Alabama
L. B. Wright
Dan Morton
Catchings
W. A. Byrd
Tom Chandler
St. Louis
Missouri
Sam Stephenson
Sam
W. C. Bailey
Ferry Street
Mrs. Foster Bailey
Wells Street
Comer Ezer
Shelbyville, Tennessee
Red Cross
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Billy
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Henry Ford
Robert Breedlove
Mobile
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Mr. Blankenship
F. D. Peebles
Highland Baptist Hospital
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C. H. Hayes
Celia Anne
Catherine
Washington, D. C
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H. P. Still
Hamil Clinic
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S. C. Cartwright
York
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Mr. Adickes
Line Street
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Betty Throckmorton
Guntersville
J. T. Nolen
Montgomery
F. D. Peebles, Jr
Mrs. Peebles
Frank Chenault, Jr
Daytona Beach
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Sharon and
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University of Alabama
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Ramsey High School
R. G. McClure
Kenny Hart
Dallas
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Mrs. Wray Handley
Thora
Dorothy DIX
Papa
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Griffin
Lee St
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