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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1939
Page
5
Society items note the engagement of Elizabeth Gertrude Dawson to Alva Jackson Rawls of Jacksonville with a December 27 wedding at the bride’s home. The couple will reside in Jacksonville after January 1 as the groom elect runs a local business.
Christmas party notes from Central Baptists and Le Club Entre Meres plus church and W C T U events. University of Alabama students listed for Xmas holidays include Miss Gray Finley Hamilton and Bloodworth among others.
Local groups announce Sunday practice at First Presbyterian for a 5 PM December 24 pageant. Central Baptist W M S circles meet Monday at various homes at 3 PM except Circles 3 and 7, Evergreen Circle hosts a 6 PM covered dish supper. Cotaco Literary Club holds a Christmas party Wednesday at 3 PM with E E B Hargrove and Eugene R Guy as co hosts. Joe Wheeler U D C meets Thursday at Mrs B F Martin Sr Line street with Alabama history program and a salad reception. Mizpah Chapter 19 O E S meets Tuesday 7 30 PM at the Masonic Temple. Euzelian Class Party follows.
Miss Margaret Nash of Tennessee Knoxville arrives Tuesday to spend Yuletide with her mother Mrs L R Nash. Kenneth Odom of McRae Georgia visited relatives here this week. Various families plan Christmas visits and Sub Deb dances with relatives in Arlington Mobile Birmingham Montgomery Columbia Des Moines Nashville and other cities.
A light feature promotes facial exercises to firm muscles and improve appearance. Instructions include wide mouth, pulling lips back, balloon blowing, and nightly cream application followed by icing. Suggests morning cold rinse, no rouge, and milk and cream drinks. Readers may send beauty questions to the Beauty Box Editor.
Combined with coppery hair the cherry lip stick is judged terrible. The redhead should choose a complexion batik to avoid clashing with the flaming halo as her chief beauty asset. Red hair varies in tone and no rigid rules apply. Skin is usually fair.
The Oxford community in Limestone county formed a PTA unit with Jake Bates president, Hollana Bates as vice president, Mrs. Quinton Bates secretary-treasurer, and Mrs J H as reporters. A special meeting is set for Wednesday night December 20 to plan Christmas tree and decorations. Committees appointed include Program, Improvement, and Landscaping with named members Ell a Bullington Bates Green Trudie Adams Holland Brackeen Bates McLemore Bullington Davis Fivhnagah Kelly.
Paris dispatch reports British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain skipping tea time during a tour of the British expeditionary forces. Observers noted tea time as a wartime custom, but he said he has no time to take tea and has lost the habit.
A cantata titled New Born King will be performed Sunday at five o'clock at the First Methodist Church. About twenty singers will participate under Kenneth Hennessey, director of the Decatur school band. An offering will aid the Selma orphans home. the public is invited to attend.
Lyn and Billy of Montgomery plan to arrive late next week to visit Judge and Mrs W W Callahan over the Christmas holidays. Bobby Wilds of Sheffield will spend this weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs B H Wilds.
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