Social Women and Club Activities Highlight Athens
The column reports Norma Lee Sharp and James Versa Henderson’s Nashville wedding, Harvest Day at First Methodist with Athens College glee club planned, and numerous society events. It details Circle Three at Central Baptist, Zeromen Club, Whist and Bridge games, Luncheons for Patterson and Kennedy, Working Circle, U D C notes, and T. H. Broadus recovering from a hospital infection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Harley Sharpley
Hartselle
Ala
Norma Lee
James Versa Henderson
Nashville
Tenn
Woodard A. Adams
Gallatin
Henderson
Personal notices of visits and illnesses among Huntsville residents
Local society items list Mrs A Z Bailey and guests traveling to Huntsville, visitors from Flint Michigan, and many Huntsville residents hosting or visiting Birmingham and nearby towns. Notable entries note Claude McBride Jr ill with pneumonia, families touring cities, medical treatments, and holiday plans with relatives in Donaldson Georgia and Mobile Alabama.
For God's Sake Accede Is Plea Of Prison Head
A prison riot at Auburn led by long term convicts followed the warden and staff into a hall as mutineers seized control. Guns drawn and telephone lines cut, the uprising saw Warden Jennings and others held while a demand for surrender or release of captives was pressed. The main gate was opened by a guard to signal willingness to negotiate as state troopers and guards surrounded the yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennings
David Winney
Winney
Durnford
Auburn Prison
Lehman
Christmas Rush On In Earnest
Christmas shoppers flood Morgan County as Decatur merchants gear up with a full head of steam. Local stores boast abundant holiday merchandise and festive prices competitive with larger cities as Old Santa Claus is due within days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Morgan
Improvement Seen In Local Conduct In Decatur
Conduct of Decaturites has improved in early December compared with a year ago. Police blotter shows sixty eight cases in the first eleven days of December 1928 versus forty six in the same period the previous year.
Trade in Decatur Center of North Alabama Belt
Trade activity in Decatur highlights the city as the hub of North Alabama's agricultural belt with steady markets and growing farm commerce across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
North Alabama
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First Methodist Church
Woman's Missionary Society
Rufus Peerson
G. D. Williamson
Athens College
Helen Swisher
Margaret C. Shelton
Hartwell Davis
Williamson
Dent
Crow
Central Baptist Woman’s Missionary Society
Mason Crow
W. Pipkin
Mesdames Heath and Williams
Christ
Town of
Bethlehem
Jewell Howard
Jesse Crane
Arwin Draper
L. C. Mayes
Stanley Wyatt
E. T. Sheppard
C. W. Knight
H. L. Peterson
Knight
Robin Thomas
Mary Genusa
W. J. Duncan
Robert Warren
Lougene Clem
8. E. Patterson
Mesdames Patterson
Kennedy
Logan Patterson
Pulaski
Berthold Kennedy
New York City
W. M. Voorhies
Patterson
Voorhies
Mrs. Kennedy
McDaniels
Athens
Bridge
Echols
Hunt
T. A. Bowles
Charles Rountree
H. H. May
Will Wyker
F. 8. Hunt
Robert Banks
Marvin Rankin
A. W. Hill
R. H. Walcott
R. M. Rawls
McDaniell
D. S. Echols
Club
Humphrey
Bridge Club
A. E. Humphrey
Jackson Street
Rutledge Thomas
H. R. Davis
E. T. Rushing
The
First Christian Church
S. M. Thompson
Grant Street
H. G. Rice
B. D. Wright
W. O. Talley
B. A. Ross
U. D. Co
Joe Wheeler
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Frank Duffey
T. H. Broadus
Cambridge Mass
Mr. Broadus
Hunter Furniture Co
Alabama
A. Z. Bailey
Pulaski, Tenn
Huntsville
Will Wolcott
Flint, Mich
R. H. Wolcott
Claude McBride, Jr
Claude McBride
Sixth Avenue
A. B. Davis
Joan
Donaldson, Ga
T. L. Kelley
Prospect Drive
William Watson
Eutaw, Ala
Mrs. B. Crawford
Earle Calvin
Birmingham
M. H. Todd
Gadsden
Robert Stuart Banks
James Alton Brittain
Mobile
George Jackson
Brittain
Vance Gordon
Scottsboro
Westminster Presbyterian Church
W. A. Brittain
Raymond Brittain
Martha Rasch
T. M. Sheats
Berea, Ky
J. E. Morrow
W. R. Carmack
Springfield
Billy
Billy Carmack
Angus McGwier
R. J. Moseley
J. M. Bloodworth
Edythe
Rebecca Grant
Will Grant
Columbia
Lamar Penney
B. Hill
Tempest
Paramount
Arizona
Oxfords
Brown
Kkwik
Pers
Moseley Shoe CO
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