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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1940
Page
6
Mrs J T Nelson hosted a Coia club Christmas party with a tree lights and readings by Maynard Layman and others. A Mason Crow class Christmas gathering, Sunbeams party, and American Legion Auxiliary meeting feature gifts songs readings and a Salvation Army toy drive.
Eighteen members and several guests of the Happy Band Sewing Circle met at president Mrs. Join Wiggins home for a Christmas social. Mrs. Wiggins distributed gifts, and children sang Silent Night as prayers and readings celebrated the season.
Miss Estalee Sherrod a University of Alabama student will return home Saturday for a holiday visit with her parents Mr and Mrs H F Sherrod In Birmingham Mr and Mrs E W McLeod spend the day in Birmingham Wilson Durham has been elected to the University of Alabama debating team Mr and Mrs Walter Durham and sons Walter Jr and Wilson will be Christmas guests of Mr and Mrs H F Sherrod William Busch a student at API Auburn will arrive.
A pattern preview celebrates Anne Adams version 4633 a shirtwaister with princess lines simple to stitch and adaptable. It offers fabric options from cotton prints to rayon checks and wool with optional contrasting collar and scalloped cuffs. Also promotes the Anne Adams Per Fit Foundation Pattern 4114 for custom sizing and fit.
Onas F. Lowery of the U S Immigration and Naturalization Service spoke at the Civitan Club in Miami about immigration and naturalization laws. He urged stricter rules amid the international situation. Bobby Freeman and Charles Mixon performed Christmas readings.
Albert Chink Thornhill a young Decatur business man on the local reserve list of the United States regular army has been notified by the War Department to stand by and be ready to report at Fort McClellan on three days notice when orders arrive He served three years with the 14th Infantry in the Panama Canal Zone years ago
A needlecraft notice offers ten cent patterns from The Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept. Patterns priced at ten cents. Readers are instructed to mail pattern number along with name and address to The Decatur Daily in New York City.
Alabama's 167th infantry and three battalions march from cities across the state to Camp Blanding Florida for a year of active training. Col. Walter M. Thompson leads the move with divisions based in Montgomery Selma Guntersville and Birmingham.
Permanent waves two for five dollars. oil shampoo and manicure two for six dollars. Allen's Beauty Shoppe at 228 Grant Street offers these Christmas specials with phone contact 502.
Artillery unit of over 1,000 men departed Monday. Engineers and anti aircraft units from Alabama will don uniforms and move to the camp in January.
D. R. Jones, prominent Hartselle citizen, died Thursday morning at a Tuscaloosa hospital after several months of illness. Funeral arrangements will be announced Friday by Drinkard Funeral Home.
At five o'clock Sunday evening at Westminster Presbyterian church a special Christmas vesper service will be held. The Westminster choir with Cora Lowery will sing carols and perform special music. Mrs John Fowler will read A Christmas Prayer. Rev John A Troxler will lead a candlelight consecrational service. The public is invited. Special Christmas music will also mark the morning service with altar decorations planned by Mrs Robert Harris.
Nearly 19 216 54 in taxes collected by Morgan county tax collector Charles G Hardwick from December 7 to 16 were distributed today The payments included 4404 32 to the State of Alabama 8218 88 to Morgan county 4927 57 to county schools 1351 55 to Decatur schools 239 61 to the City of Hartselle 2136 to Falkville and 5325 to Austinville
Robert P. Patterson of New York, then assistant secretary of war, was nominated by President Roosevelt to be under secretary of war. The post is a new position created under a bill approved by the president this week.
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