Juvenile Music Club News and Local Society Notices
The Society notes cover the Juvenile Music Club meeting with hostesses Misses Gillespie Thornton and Gillespie, new members Virginia Prince Calvin and Ella Bess Gillespie, and a program featuring Beethoven and Chopin pieces. Chapters and PTAs host upcoming Christmas events and recitals at local halls, with names like Mizpah Chapter OES, First Ward PTA, Cotaco Literary Club, Joe Wheeler PTA, Lafayette Street PTA, Martha and Mary Guild, and several local families mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Kate Gillespie
Nancy Kate
Lorinda Thornton
Sadie Gillespie
Martha Frances Kilgore
Betty Foster Pointer
Virginia Prince Calvin
Ella Bess Gillespie
Alabama
Betty McGehee
Beethoven
Carl Conley
Mendelasohn
Nancy Kate Gillespie
Chopin
Nancy Kate Thornton
Walt Whitman
America
Betty Pointer
Vandevere
Adolf Weidy
David Gibson
Nell Frank Moore
Schubert
Peggy Wilds
Personal News Notes From Local Social Roundup
A long list of visitors andportions of Christmas travel plans fill the column. Mrs. L N Robertson and daughter Mary Sue visit Birmingham. Ben Bloodworth plans Montgomery return. Newt Wiggins to spend holidays with Mississippi State College. C W Matthews returns from Louisville. E D Bailey Jr and daughter Martha Porter visit Tuscaloosa. Stevie Dudley to visit from Pleasant Hill. J R Kendrick from Columbia arrives for holidays. W F Williams returns from Birmingham. R N Elliot of Birmingham entertained in Decatur. Reid Sherard Jr and friends in Birmingham. G H Nungester to spend Christmas in Piichard. W A Emens visiting Scottsboro. Coker and Bitting families visit. Jack Doss and Phil Pointer guests. Jewel Nettles and Alice Nettles visit Piedmont. Dolly Greer returning from Washington DC. Mrs H D Greer and Mrs John C Bragg host sister visits. Charlotte Broadus and Mrs Redding Emens to Birmingham. Harry Malone and Pinckney Previtt to Birmingham. Mrs Margaret Broadus expecting holiday guests from Charlotte.
Slimming Anne Adams Pattern 4272 At Home Frock
Advertises pattern 4272 by Anne Adams with at home versions in short and long sleeves. Describes fabrics percale calico gingham crepe and offer sizes 34 to 48 with yardage for size 36 and 3 38 yards. Provides ordering details and prices 15 cents pattern 25 cents for combined orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Decatur Daily Pattern Department
Waith St
New York
N. Y
Notices of Meetings and Seizure Notices Across Morgan County
A compilation of legal notices includes annual stockholder meeting details for New Morgan County Building and Loan Association in Decatur Alabama on January 2 1937 at 7 30 PM, and multiple vehicle seizures by the Treasury Alcohol Tax Unit in Alabama with claims deadlines in January 1937. R E Tuttle is listed as District Supervisor in Madison and Morgan counties. Also included are probate notices in Morgan County for the estate of C Edward Mienhardt and sale of estate assets by Spur geon Speer and Benjamin Speer. North Alabama Building and Loan Association announces its shareholders meeting in Decatur January 25 1937, with officers Clyde Hendrix and A T Hanson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County Building and Loan Association
Decatur
Iahome
Wyker
Treasury Department
Internal Revenue Service
Forsyth St
Atlanta
Georgia
Huntsville
Madison County
Scottsboro
Jackson County
Stevenson
Alabama
R. E. Tuttle
Morgan County
C. Edward Mienhardt
Lulu H. Mienhardt
C. Edward
Mienhardt
B. L. Malone
W. R. Speer
We. Spurgeon Speer
Benjamin Speer
Utilities Operators Company
Tri- Utilities Co
Federal Water Service Company
North Alabama Building and Loan Association
Tennessee Valley Bank
Clyde Hendrix
A. T. Hanson
Francisco
58th Birthday Celebrated for M. C. Lee Farmer
The 58th birthday of farmer M. C. Lee of Somerville route 2 was celebrated with many relatives. Guests included Mrs. M. C. Lee and grandmother alongside six sons Marvin Leonard Walter Roy Lonnie and William Lee, three sons-in-law James Thomas Willie Wilson Walter Bates, five daughters Rosie Florence Veda Ola and Annie Hill, and four daughters-in-law Ethel Tasale Opal and Buline Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. C. Lee
Somerville
M.C. Lee
Marvin Lee
Leonard Lee
Walter Lee
Roy Lee
Lonnie Lee
William Lee
James Thomas
Willie Wilson
Walter Bates
Rosie Lee
Florence Thomas
Veda Wilson
Ola Bates
Annie Hill
Ethel Lee
Tasale Lee
Opal Lee
Buline Lee
Notable Snippets and Jests From a Wayward Town
A compilation of short, humorous vignettes and dialect bits. The text hops between father son reflections on memory actors and stage life to comic exchanges about haircuts poverty and relief. Dialect humor frames encounters between Annie May Lula Bell and others with sharp social observations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie May
Lula Bell
Lulu Bell
Red Cross
Double Talk and Domestic Drollery in a Quiet Street
A humorous exchange shows a freckled youngster naming milk products butter cheese ice cream and cows while adults spar over status and possessions. The banter touches class, politics and neighborly life with quick, witty lines.
There Is One Sure Test For An Ideal
A concise line hints at the enduring measure of an ideal amid shifting standards. The phrasing invites reflection on the core criterion that proves an ideal’s worth beyond appearances.
Quotable Bits From a Humble Paper's Mixed Bag
Snatches of humor and social scenes unfold from a classroom joke about unaware to a boxing manager’s demand for a smiling pose. A baptismal anecdote recalls sweeping change as a comely girl testifies to spiritual rescue. A baritone on shore jokes about plans for tomorrow evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Satan
Worries and a Chorus of Caution in Fractured Advice
A string of brief, wry lines offers cautions about job loss money worries and life prospects. The speaker jokes about borrowing from a mother and facing gray skies and death while a friend notes his wife’s grouch and a man asks about illness. A final quip targets credulity and listening.
Cochran Wins Chicago World Three Cushion Championship
Welker Cochran of San Francisco clinched his third world three cushion billiards title in Chicago defeating Kinney Matsuyama of Japan 50 to 37 in 53 innings to earn the lion's share of the starring honors in the 1936 angle tournament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Welker Cochran
San Francisco
Kinney Matsuyama
Japan
Successor to Payne to be named soon
The Rev. 8 A Payne, pastor at West Side Presbyterian Decatur for 18 months, resigned last night. Under his ministry church membership rose and the building was roofed and remodeled. Payne previously led First church Athens and will be replaced by a successor to be named soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Payne
Board of Nationalissions
The
Presbyterian Church
West Side Presbyterian Church
Decatur
Payne Ee
Athens
West Side Church
Florida executes two in racially charged slaying case
In St Petersburg Florida on December 4 two Black men Richard Williams and James Walker were executed for the holdup slaying of grocer J. D. Yasmin. The state carried out the sentences in the Raiford prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raiford
Fla
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mary Stuart Terrell
MacDowell
W. P. Baugh
Katie Gillespie
Marguerite Jernigan
Masonic Hall
Scrooge
Woman's Music Study Club
Lella Cantwell
Jeanne Tyler Coleman
Jackson Coleman
Jeanne Tyler
Billie Rhea Simmons
Ann Bingham
Felix Grimsley
Sammy Stephenson
Emily Barnum
Gene Brown
Nancy Miller Jernigan
Christine Ray
Mary Dell Sheppard
Martha Porter Bailey
Frances Ester Burgess
Margaret Ann Collier
Elizabeth Calvin
Linda Shealy
Shirley Williams
Katheryne Ann Wiley
Janet Coleman
Bill Callahan
Fred Murdock
Gene Ray
Emory Ray
Stanley Lang
Joe Oakley Rogers
Bobby Ray Walton
Joe le Blanc
Bert Burgess
These Nurses Association
Drs. Chenault and
Chenault
Happy Band Sewing Circle
John Wiggins
Cotaco Literary Club
Alfred Hodgins
Joe Wheeler
Lafayette Street
P.T. A
Elizabeth Houston
Mary Robertson
Riverside High School
Martha and Mary Guild
Bill Alexander
Dorothy Whaley
Hos
Goidel
Prince
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Joan Crawford
Clark Gable
Fred Astaire
Nelson Eddy
Franchot Tone
May Robson
Winnie Lightner
Ted Healy and
His Stooges
Electrich
Dancing
Robert Benchley
Ted Healy
Nelson Eddy, Art Jarrett
Ben Bloodworth
Montgomery
Ala
Newt Wiggins
Mississippi State College
Mrs. C. N. Wiggins
C. W. Matthews
Louisville
E. D. Bailey, Jr
Martha Porter
Rufus Porter
Tuscumbia
Stevie Dudley
Pleasant Hill
E. D
J. R. Kendrick
Columbia
8. C
H. A. Nungester
W. F. Williams
Birmingham
J. H. McMath
Mr. McMath
R. N. Elliot
J. H. Mc
Ed Sproles
Guntersville
Mrs. Reid Sherard, Jr
Frank Stone
Jed
Birmingam
G. H. Nungester
Piichard
Mrs. Nungester
W. A. Emens
Bob Coker
N. K. Bitting, Jr
Jack Doss
Hartselle
Phil Pointer
Jewel Nettles
Alice Nettles
Piedmont
Hubert May
Murdock Apartments
Dolly Greer
Dorothy Patterson
Washington, D. C
Hubert Young
New York City
H. D. Greer
John C. Bragg
Charlotte Broadus
Mrs. Redding Emens
Harry Malone
Mrs. Pinckney Previtt
Charlotte, N. C
Margaret Broadus
Carter
Santa Claus
Your Creek
Morgan Brokerage Co
Grant
China
SAM Frank & Moore Bank Street
W. M. Voorhies
Bob Lee
Cochran
Payne
Lidren
Elam’s
Second Ave
Evelyn’s Beauty Shop
Over Speake, Warren
Buttrey
Rip Davlg
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