Christmas Society Notes Brighten Decatur with Visits and Caroling
Visitors in Decatur shared Christmas cheer with receptions hosted by Mrs. Cortner and others. Guests wore blue chiffons and satins in the drawing room and dining room, poinsettias and candles decorated the tea table, and carol groups toured streets to lift spirits for families and invalids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Grayson Emens
Helen Rauschenberg
Charles Grayson
R. A. Prazier
Grayson
Frazier
Decatur Garden Club
Miss Myrtle Graves Spending Christmas Holidays
Miss Myrtle Graves is spending the Christmas holidays away from home with relatives and friends, enjoying seasonal festivities and gatherings during the holiday season.
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Asbury Malone
Baton Pone, Ia
Myrtle Graves
Joe Broadus
Nashville
Lucian Boodworth
Birmingham
Mrs Hoover’s Embroidered Mull Dress For Formal Washington Day
Mrs Hoover wears an embroidered cuffs and collar white mull blouse with a dull black crepe dress. The long flaring skirt features a belted bodice. A black coat with a high Persian collar and a small hat with a silver band completes the ensemble.
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Washington
French Evening Gowns Feature Corsage Garlands
Paris designers note a floral touch with one or two gar denias tucked into corsages atop chasades of round or v necked gowns in white pale pink or dark tones.
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Paris
Bride Wears Petal Muff in London Cathedral Style
Bride carries a flower muff fashioned from petals in a London cathedral wedding setting. The accessory adds winter chic to the event described with reference to Helen Bourne and Dr W Copeman.
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London
Helen Bourne
W. Copeman
St. Alban’s Cathedral
Rogers to sponsor $52 million veterans hospitalization bill
Rep Edith Nourse Rogers Republican of Massachusetts announced she would sponsor a $52,000,000 hospitalization program to provide 13,200 additional beds for veterans.
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Ssociated
Edith Nourse Rogers
Republican
Massachusetts
Illinois supreme court grants rehearing for Chicago bandit
Willie Poe, a midget bandit from Chicago, faces death sentence for murdering a suburban police chief. The Illinois Supreme Court granted a rehearing just days before execution and his case drew fresh attention as Associated Press released a photo with the report.
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Associated Press
Illinois Supreme Court
Willie Poe
Chicago
Christmas in Decatur Brightens Local Life and Commerce
Christmas observances at St. John s Episcopal church drew large congregations for both the Eve Eucharist and Christmas morning service. Local morale rose with quiet holiday activity as merchants report more cash sales and fewer lawsuits during the season. A charity ball at the Lyons hotel and the Sterchi store party highlighted community spirit while police logged little crime. People traveled, returned home from Memphis, and local weather offered a mild, white Christmas.
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St. John’s Episcopal Church
Decatur
Children Pajamas Pattern Promises Easy Warm Sewn Fit
An ad offers a pattern 1807 for children pajamas with flannel fabrics in sizes 6 8 and 10. Priced at fifteen cents, the pattern includes raw edges finished with colored braid and a stuffed trim, with a winter fashion book and transfer patterns available for mail orders from Pattern Department, DECATUR? Beat Street New York.
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Pattern Department
BeatTth Street
New York
Athens Personal Notices and Club Activities
The Athenian club met at Mrs. Fred Martin's College View home with Miss Gracia Sanderson as vice-president welcoming Mamie Nichols and Miss Olga. The program highlighted Miss Mary K and Wilda Weaver. refreshments followed and bridge games aided charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Martin
College View
Gracia Sanderson
Oo Mamie Nichols
Olga
Mary K
Wilda Weaver
Carol Singers Hide Jail Break Noise In Alliance
Two bank robbers Harold age 28 and Forest Cook age 23 were in Alliance Nebraska jail for a Christmas visit when a Christ celebration jammed the jail. They had agreed to plead guilty to robbing the first National Bank at Springs Nebraska in September hoping to win a Christmas cell visit. no trace of the fugitives was found.
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Harold
Forest Cook
First National Bank
At & Springs
Neb
Social functions planned for college days
Social events are planned as returning college activities resume after the holidays. Students and clubs anticipate gatherings with card clubs largely paused until after the new year.
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H.B. Zeitler
Ann
Carolyn
Mooresville
Sanders Cortner
Sanders, Jr
Thomas Bowles
Thomas, Jr
Bartlett
Burton
Mooren
Lewis Hardage
Nashe
Miss Bee Dickerson
Greenville
Ala
Raymond Rowe
Polly
Mrs. Morrell
Elkton
Tenn
Edward Parks
Pulaski, Tenn
Lover Bunday
A. C. Simmons
Columbia, Tenn
Bob Moseley
Jean
Cornelian Court Apartments
Grant Street
N. B. Greenleaf
Isuaboor
Barbara
Memphis
Saturn
Charles Hamlet
W. H. Johnson
Huntsville
Willie Hughes
Atlanta
Mr. Hughes
Edythe Bloodworth
Grayce Hamilton
Martin College
Barron Newton
M. D. Newton
Robert Merie
M. M. Newton
R. L. Reidero
Bobby Linden
Lena Elmaline
Phil Campbell, Ala
A. E. Humphrey
Camas
Russell Humphrey
Y . B. Hill
Mrs. J. C. Smith
Florence
Mrs
Chas. W. Smith
Sam Thompson
Marcia Bullard
Athens
Henry Binford
Little Bob
R. E. Crafton
Fort Deposit
R. G. Cortner
Lucien Bloodworth
Birming
Ham
F. A. Bloodworth, Sr
John Summersell
University of Alabama
James Ferrell
Mobile
Ann Smith
Elkmont
Ann Zeitler
Hauntsville
Emmett Phillips
Eye Aes
Louise Phillips
Logan Morrell
M. Roller
C. Q. Beech
Scottsboro, Ala
J. D. Garren
A. P. Nesbit
Columbia
Mrs. W. J. Nesbit
Walter Morris
Memphis, Tenn
Annie Morris
Lawson Draper
J. L. Draper
David Chunn
Gary Cooper
Kay Johnson
Betty Compson
Rex Beach
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William Boyd
James Kirkwood
Harry Green
Slim Summerville
Mrs. Hoover
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First Bay State
Emma Fall Schofield
Sadie Lipner Schulman
Ecatur
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Malone
Deuar
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Bilox
Robert T. Sheppard
Pulaski
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Decatur Rotary Club
Sterchi
Second Avenue
Mr. Moore
Sfill
Moore
Moran
Mack
Willoughby Presbyterian Church
Central Charities
Bonanza Quartette
Benevolent Hospital
Crouch
Rock Creek
Marvin Crouch
Church of God
James Daniels
Athens Aggie
Auburn
Alabama
Decatur Daily
Anne Adams
Syed
Bunny
Jack Rogers
Lee Cox
South Clinton Street
C. J. Hayden
C. D. Feigley
Louis Grasse
J. R. Wa
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