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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1933
Page
4
A society party hosted by Mrs J D Garren celebrated with dancing and dainty delicacies for forty guests. The Latin instructor served as chaperone and plans were announced for future gatherings at Morris Apartments.
Local notes list numerous holiday visits and travel plans. Miss Lillian Mouser recovers from chicken pox while many relatives from Birmingham, Atlanta, Montgomery, Gadsden, Florence, and beyond plan stays or journeys for Christmas and the New Year.
Practical kitchen remedies cover saving scorched vegetables by rinsing and resuming cooking, preventing sticking by shaking pans, salting cures with raw potatoes, re emulsifying broken dressings with a fresh yolk, and reheating lumpy sauces. The column offers techniques to prevent waste and embarrassment in everyday cooking.
A sequence of meals lists items for breakfast lunch and dinner including fruit, cereals, sausage, buckwheat pancakes, soups, salads, rolls, canned fruit, beverages, and a wed dinner with lettuce and dressing.
An all day sing is scheduled for the fifth Sunday in December at Cairo Limestone county. Local singers are invited to attend.
Three choirs junior intermediate and senior will perform a 45 minute program at Central Baptist church Sunday evening on Christmas Eve starting at 7. After the service the choir will sing Christmas carols at the hospital and other points.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet at 7 30 tonight in Martin arena and all overseas veterans are urged to attend. Commander Butler P A Hine said important business will come up for discussion at this evening's gathering.
Robert Farish a ministerial student at Harding College will occupy the pulpit at Grant Street Church of Christ for the regular Sunday morning services. Farish is the son of E H Perish of 1311 Seventh Avenue South.
The First National film portrays police methods in missing persons cases. Starring Bette Davis Pat O'Brien Lewis Stone and Glenda Farrell the drama follows real life disappearance cases like Dorothy Arnold and Joseph Crater. Screenplay by Robert Presnell adapts Capt Ayres and Carol Bird accounts of New York City Bureau of Missing Persons.
E. R. Barkley a Lebanon church farmer near Parkville suffered a heavy loss when his barn burned down this week. The blaze destroyed five mules seven cows a horse eight bales of cotton and 13 head of stock including corn. Cause of the fire was undetermined.
Dr. D. C. Walker reports a medical kit stolen from his car parked in his garage on Wednesday night. The discarded bag was found in an alley two blocks from his Johnston Street home after thieves ransacked it, revealing only first aid materials.
The Tanner Methodist Missionary Society hosted twenty members with a Christmas program including preludes, songs, poems, and scripture. Social hour followed with gifts from the tree and refreshments. The group plans to meet January 1, 1934, at Mrs. W. A. Biles's home. Also reports Tanner and Athens teams basketball results and local social notes.
Central Baptist church ends its Christmas musical program with a plan for the choir to visit and sing for shut ins. Those wishing the Baptist choir to visit should contact A. L. Moye or Mrs. Seneca Burr after Sundays service.
The Decatur city council meets tonight at City Hall to discuss a light-plant loan request to the Public Works Administration and to consider a police force successor to W M Simmons who resigned to enter the restaurant business.
Mr and Mrs P Parker announce the birth of twin daughters on December 19 named Leatha Nan and Jo Ann.
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