Decatur society notes and holiday gatherings
The December Junior High PTA meeting featured a Christmas program with devotional songs and a story, chaired by Mrs. Tom Edgil. Women’s Chamber of Commerce held a Christmas party at Cornelian Court Hotel with 78 attendees, speakers, music, games, and a gift exchange before adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pron High
Os A
R. B. Freeman
H. N. Peurifoy
Robert McRight
Tom
Briscoe
Women's Chamber of Com
Cornelian Court Hotel
America
8. E. Alverson
J. T. Jones
John A. Caddell
Paddy Loozier
John McGehee
Questers Club
High Terry
Annie Martin
King’s Daughters
Hartselle
Central Baptist Sunday School
Tom Stewart
The Message of Christmas by Newman Campbell
The Old Story of Christ birth told in Luke 2. It covers Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem, the shepherds and angel chorus, Simeon and Anna at the temple, Jesus in the temple at twelve, and the family returning to Nazareth. Luke’s narrative highlights Jesus growth in wisdom and favor with God and man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Luke
Jesus
Jerusalem
Temple
Caesar Augustus
Joseph
Mary
Bethlehem
David
Christ the Lord
Simeon
Israel
Anna
Nazareth
God
Red Top Cab Driver Missing From Call Response
If a call for a Red Top taxi is answered by someone other than the driver in the cab, report the incident to our office immediately. The notice instructs patrons to alert the agency about mismatched responder to improve safety and reliability.
Christmas Personal Notices From Local Families
Lt. (jg) Thomas Burks Huie arrives for a ten day leave joined by his wife and son Robert of Birmingham. Valley area visitors include Henry Papenberg Jr and family from Vallejo and other relatives from Florence, Athens, Rogersville, Somerville, Decatur, Lacon, Birmingham, Montgomery, Fort Davis, Falkville, Town Creek, Sebring and Jacksonville, with multiple holiday visits and recent military discharges noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Burks Huie
J. R. Huie
Robert
Birmingham
Henry
Sonny) Papenberg Jr
Herman Papenberg
Vallejo
Cal
Henry Papenberg
Brownies: Mythic British Fairies Explain Their Native Folk
The article explains that the mythical brownie is a type of fairy from British folklore. It describes how brownies are considered helpful household spirits tied to homes and farms, aiding with chores in exchange for kindness.
Morgan County and Auburn Holiday Social Notes
Local social notes list visits and family holidays across Morgan County and Auburn. Families mentioned include Oden, L. E. Oden, and Mrs. Lillian Patterson with relatives in Birmingham and Cullman hospital. Eunice Oden from Auburn visiting parents. Manard Chaffin’s death mourned. Hyland Ryan in Auburn holidaying with Robert Adams family. Clyde Teague and son visiting in Decatur. Odell Hawkins and Homer Hawkins in Auburn. Beatrice Frost of Cullman weekend visitors. Elbert Childers and Beatrice Frost noted. STRAYED large red cow, 730 pounds, long horns referenced with contact at Decatur Stock Barn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler
Birmingham
Eunice Oden
Auburn
L. E. Oden
Clara ‘Chaffin
Manard
Hyland Ryan
Itr
Robert Adams
Clyde Teague
Decatur
Lillian Patterson
Odell Hawkins
Homer Hawkins
Talmas ‘Woodardsg
Cullman Hospital
Oval
Childers
Jack Miller
1St Ave
Call
Desperate Advice on a Marital Standoff
A husband in a distant city pleads for guidance as his wife clings to her mother and refuses to join him. The column urges her to fulfill wifely duties, threaten loss of support, and pressures her to move, noting the mother’s influence and the husband’s loneliness.
Dear Miss Dix Advice Letter on Marital Strain
A woman, 30, asks Miss Dix for help after seven years of marriage. Her husband loves another woman in his office and asks for divorce with offer of support. She has no family or place to go and feels unfit to work, seeking guidance on what to do.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Simmons
Mrs. Simmons
Miss Beatty
Verner McCrary
W. R. Rogers
Redus Collier
Marguerite South
R. B. Freeman
Russell Breeding
Dorothy DIX
John. L
Tve
Miss DIX
Husbanss
Heartbroken Question on Marriage and Divorce
A reader asks how to hold a husband determined to leave, noting that physical restraint cannot stop a breakup and questioning the value of keeping him present when his heart has departed.
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Huches-Brown
Mary B. Brown
Falkville
Alabama
Richard J. Hudes
Tuscaloosa
First. Baptist
Moebile
Barnett
Joseph W. Brown
Mr Brown
Martime Service
Groom
Ottie Hudes
United States Army
South West
Hudes
D. H
Decatur Senior High School
First Methodist Church
Harold Pruitt
St Mellons
Wales
Ryan
R. B. Ryan
Tara Whitten
John F. Cooper
West Pearl Street
Walter J. Prucnal
Cooper
Roy Whitten
A. C
Tommie McRéea
Bill Cost
First Ward
Gurney Tucker
Ross Dublin
J. W. Darrah
A. A. Tucker
Woodrow Chapman
J. P. Sims
O. N. Troup
C. M. Guschke
Louis Namie
Odier Cavnar
Neal Cagle
H. E. Dunnavant
Carl Doss
Ed Waits
By Newman Campbell
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Mackinaws
Patterson
Bank Street
Arthur Holder Jr
Pamela Grace
Columbia, Tenn
Arthur Holder
E. E. Hargrove
Hartsellie
W. S. Grice
Miss Grave Huey
Rogersville
Ila Hagood
Athens
Wanda Day
Somerville
J. B. Collum
Lacon, Ala
Beverly Hodges
Montgomery
Yuletide
Mrs
Davis Hodges
O. L. Ozier and
Melvin Ozier
Mrs. Austelle
Austelle
Weil Bros. Cotton
Elizabeth Eich
Fort Davis
Ala
Mary Robertson
Birming
Elizabeth Griffin
Jacqueline Johnson
Anne Revereams
Mary Stuart Tering
Fla
James H. Johnson
Kimbrough
Johnson
Sebring
Terrell
Malcolm Austelle
Town Creek
Souther
Vera Austelle
Che Gee Ae
Goidel
Morgan County
Brooks Lindler
Atlanta
Bec
Affgorne
OPA
Alexander Harris
Elbert
Childers and
Saesty
Beatrice Frost
Cullman
Moye’s
W. W. Hamilton
J. T. Russell
J. E. Schroeder
Bank ST
Chenille
Esmond
Syndicate
Nobothy Hix
Sears
ADER
Second
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