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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1933
Page
4
The annual Christmas Dance hosted by the girls and the married contingent is planned for December 22. Committee meetings are set for Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Hotel Lyons to finalize decorations. The Decatur Garden Club and other groups hold weekly or Tuesday meetings at various host homes and churches.
Local society column lists visitors and guests over Thanksgiving weekend across cities including Birmingham Nashville Florence and Montgomery. Illnesses include neuritis and chicken pox with names like Mrs J R Smiley L T Pride and Roy Billings Jr. mentioned among families and friendships frequenting Alabama Tennessee and Georgia locales.
The Alabama Polytechnic Institute board of trustees will meet Saturday December 9 in Gov Miller's office to discuss extending the WAPI lease to fifteen years authorizing land sale or lease to the Federal government for a soil tillage station and rebuilding Smith Hall the girls dormitory destroyed by fire. Governor Miller may be represented by his adviser John Peach due to illness. Board members listed include Lt Governor Hugh Merrill Aniston Dr A F Harman Charles Henderson J A Rogers C W Ashcraft H H Conner Victor Hanson Dr W H Oates T D Samford Paul S Haley Oakman Harry Hertfield and C S Culver.
Mrs FE H Nelson who underwent a four hour operation at a Birmingham hospital two weeks ago is showing steady improvement and will likely return home next week according to relatives. Miss Louise Nelson visited over the weekend.
Butler P A Hine and family attended Ernest Hine's 75th birthday in Athens on Sunday. A generous noon meal followed the celebration with children grandchildren and relatives present. Ernest Hine, former Athens mayor, is well known across Limestone county.
A zone meeting of missionary societies of the Decatur district will convene at Ninth Street Methodist Church on Tuesday at 10 30 in the morning. Luncheon will be served at the church and a large attendance is anticipated.
The Pilot Club will meet at 6 30 this evening at Arantz for their semi monthly dinner. After dinner they will go to Miss Mattie Jones home for a business session.
In Fort Smith Arkansas two women and a man likely Charles Pretty Boy Floyd were guarded in a hospital after an accident that injured three people. The incident drew sheriff and police attention as authorities pursued details of Floyd amid the investigation.
A meeting of officials and workers of the churches on the Somerville charge will be held at Somerville on Wednesday and will continue throughout the day.
The judge excused the jury, urged decorum, and warned against disrespect as Norris’s retrial proceeds. Dr. Bridges testifies minor injuries apart from a throat bruise. Orvel Gilley corroborates attack claims while noting defense expenses and witness travel arrangements.
Dr. L. G. Sturdivant presiding elder of the Decatur district will conduct the quarterly conference at Bangor on Thursday.
Miss Thomas reads a tale of mountaineers in Kentucky with pure poetry in speech and a 250 year old civilization. The book celebrates simple lives, old customs, and a vivid folk literature admired for its honor code and timeless wisdom.
Maxwell Field in Montgomery Alabama hosted two renowned aviators last week. Harold Gatty, famed for circumnavigating the globe with Wiley Post in 1931, stayed an hour on a Washington to San Francisco leg. Robert Ewing Thomason, the so called flying congressman from Texas, spent the night en route from Quantico to Galveston aboard a silver Bellanca monoplane piloted by Captain Merritt with two Marines as crew.
The senior play "Closed Lips" will be presented December 15 at Riverside High School with the athletic association as sponsor.
Russellville resident Yancey M. Quinn was named head of the Montgomery branch of the regional agricultural credit corporation, succeeding Jesse B. Hearin who resigned to lead the new producer credit corporation in New Orleans. Quinn, previously assistant manager, is a banking and business man from Russellville.
Mr and Mrs J B Austin announce the birth on November 28 of a seven and three quarter pound son born at their home at 1306 Seventh Avenue South
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