Society notes and wedding announcements from Decatur
Edith Fussell wed Dr Cecil Gaston on December 25 1937 in Little Rock Arkansas. Rosemary Morgan married Woodrow Callahan at First Baptist Church with at home to follow. Lula Mae Pruitt wed William L Pruitt at Central Baptist Church Christmas Day. Eunice Puckett married Marvin Gridmore at Sixteenth Avenue Baptist. Club meetings and socials noted including Tuesday Club, Sew More Say More Club, Friday Thirteen, Apes Club party, and La Fiesta Club dance invitations.
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Cecil Lorrain Gaston
Ninth Street
Little Rock
Arkansas
Callahan-Morgan
J. B. Fowler
Rosemary Kennemer Morgan
Woodrow Callahan
Jesse F. Ray
First Baptist Church
Ray
Callahan
Third Avenue West
Gridmore-Puckett
la Fiesta Club
Decatur
Valley Country Club
Personal notices of townsfolk at holiday time
Mrs. Annie Lou Burr’s illness has improved at Cornelian Court Hotel. Betty Jean McRae visits Birmingham grandparents with cousin Dol McGraw. Lt and Mrs J W Darrah return from Nashville to spend holidays with Darrah family. John D Wyker to study at M A in Columbia after holidays. Georgie Miller returns from Jasper visit. Betty Luck and Marjorie visit Nashville relatives. L R Nash family returning from Corinth. J H Jones visiting aunt in Memphis. Almons attend Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day. Clyde Hendrix Jr returns from Little Rock wedding trip. Walter H Todd Sr leaves for California for California vs Alabama game. Mary Heard visiting. Eva Lee Mitchell ill at East Cain St. Neal Wells family return from Columbus. Caudell announce birth of James Anders on Dec 13. Rev C L Cobbs ill at home. Mine couple to be at McNeill Apartments after Jan. Marion Schimmel returns from Belle Mina visit. E S Morrow improved after bronchitis. Eugene S Morrow Jr and family to visit for New Year. Mrs T G Morrow to return from Corinth. Virginia Brandal visiting Seybourn Lynne.
How to Make the Most of Beauty for Blondes
This guidance advises blondes on harmonizing hair color with makeup and gown colors. It distinguishes natural, ash, platinum, and golden blondes, recommending warm reds for bleached hair, light creamy powder, brown mascara, and soft eye pencils. It also outlines flattering gown tones for each hair type.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Bank cashier shoots at skylight during Cornell College game
Gerald Hill the town bank cashier fired toward the skylight ending the first half of a Cornell College basketball game in Lisbon Iowa. Feathers from a pigeon cassing dropped to the floor as students hid in the rafters above and laughed.
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Lisbon
Gerald
Cornell
Oliver Goldsmith: English writer excels in three literary branches
Oliver Goldsmith is regarded as the sole English author who achieved success in three areas of literature novel writing playwriting and poetry, demonstrating versatility across genres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Goldsmith
Bems Club Dance Highlights Holiday Weekend in Athens
Athens event at Star Dust featured festive decorations and a Christmas theme. Members and escorts socialized at a buffet at Mrs. Bruce Nelsons home with Mrs. Leslie Nelson assisting in serving tea. Attendees included numerous local couples and escorts, with several out-of-town guests and stags. News includes Rose Bowl travel plans, Alabama California game attendance, a recovery update for C S Gatlin, a fishing trip, and the death of Myrtle Lambert. A vocational agriculture building project begins at West Limestone High School as second semester nears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bems
Star Dust
Bruce Nelson
Holly
Leslie Nelson
Mary Kate Garth
Ryice Sherrill
Betty Roper
Joe Burleson
Decatur
Edwina Powers
Richard Waldrop
Martina Nelson
John Nelson
Marion Relue
Bailey Braly
Mary Hampton Wall Ard
Billy Clanton
Sarah Hunter
Leonard Moyers
Wille Richardson
Ray Sadler
Katherine Nelson
Nick Flood
Martha Gilbert
Murfreesboro
Flobert Harman
Margaret Rogers
Leeds
Emory Cannon
Juanita Stewart
Bill Chandler
Stags
Nick Nichols
Clay Sherrill
LeRoy McIntire
Byron Carrell
Pruitt Cartwright
Claud Hayden
Athens
David L. Rosenau, Jr
John W. Wilson
Bob Henry Walker
W. &. Garth
Myrtle Lambert
Lakin Lambert
Isam
West Limestone High School
Christmas Holiday Visits In Cedar Creek Area
Mrs. Bob Vickery of Birmingham visits her parents Mr. and Mrs. T. and Storie for the holidays. Mrs. Walker travels to Anderson Alabama to spend Xmas with her brother A Reithmaek. Several couples host guests including Hewlet West and Carman Evans. Coleman Holmes of Lebanon visits his in laws Mr. and Mrs. Holm s. R D Foote trades as business visitor to Decatur. Cedar Creek community sing set for Thursday at 7:00 PM in the school building. public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. C. Grisham
Athens
F. T. Richardson
Mooresville
Athena
Joe Sarver, Jr
Virginia
J. B. Sarver
Crutcher and White Hardware
Bob Vickery
Birmingham
T. & Storie
W. H. Walker
Anderson
Ala
A. Reithmaek
Simmons
Hewlet West
Lestie West
Carman Evans
Coleman Holmes
Lebanon
B. W. Holms
R. D. Foote
Decatur
Cedar Creek
Cullman County Leads Alabama Farm Output in 1934
Cullman county produced 1,035,897 dozens in 1934, the highest among Alabama counties per the federal census. Baldwin county followed with 1,009,278 dozens. Only these two counties surpassed the million dozen threshold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cullman County
Baldwin
Slenderizing Pattern 4455 Promotes Spring frock
Anne Adams advertises Pattern 4455 a three quarter sleeve yoke bodice with collar and bow, a flared skirt to flatter hips, priced fifteen cents with book and pattern at twenty five cents. Sizes 34 to 48 and yardage noted for 29 inch fabric. Send order to The Decatur Daily Pattern Department New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Decatur Daily Pattern Department
17Th St
New York
Company Moves North Side Aquare to Vacant Store
A company relocated Tuesday from its former premises to a vacant store building on the north side of the aquare. The move updates local business access and storefront presence in the area.
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Aquare
Lone Star pupils choose one day Christmas break
In Eagleville Missouri Mrs. Fern Ballew a Lone Star rural school teacher reports that her students decided the Christmas vacation length. Rather than two weeks or longer the children opted for a single day off for the holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagleville
Fern Ballew
Lone Star Rural School
Growth of free-choice hospital plans cited in 1933 note
A 1933 record showed only one non-profit free-choice hospital service in the United States. An insurance survey now counts at least 37 plans with total enrollment exceeding one million people nationwide.
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United States
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Gaston-Fussell
Pride
Eet
Warner Willis Fussell
Edith
Will Wyker
Wyker
Phil Pointer
Central Baptist Church
John GC. Cowell, Jr
Minnie Belle Pruitt
William Russian Pruitt
Pruitt
Floyd Elkins
Railroad Street
J. W. Cunningham
Apes Club
Ial
Town Creek
Paramount
URAL
Lonesome Pine
Robert Louis Stevenson
Romance OF the
South Seas
Stevenson
Adolph Zukor
Oscar Homolea
Gaumont British Picture Corporation Limited
Frances Farmer
Ray Milland
Lloyd Nolan
Barry Fitzgerald
Bertram Milibsuser
Lloyd Osbourne
Lucien Hubbard
Jamer Hoges
Popeye the Sailor
Ali Baba
Annie Lou Burr
Cornelian Court Hotel
Betty Jean McRae
J. T. Bryant
Dol McGraw
Murfreesboro,Tenn
J. W. Darrah
Fort Brown
Tex
J. Ww. Darrah
Nashville
John D. Wyker
Columbia, Tenn
M. A
J. W. Wyker
Georgie Miller
Charles Tweedy, Jr
Jasper
Betty Luck
Marjorie
F. S. Hunt, Sr
Hunt
J. H. Jones
Memphis
T. C. Almon
New Orleans
Clyde Hendrix, Jr
Edith Fussell
Gaston
Walter H. Todd, Sr
California
Alabe
Mary Heard
Clanton, Ala
Mrs. Ponsonby Kyle
Eva Lee Mitchell
East Cain Street
Neal Wells
Dorothy Jean
Mary Wells
Ruth Elizabeth
Thomas Wells
Columbus, Ga
Earl Caudell
Falkville
Louisville, Ala
James Anders
C. L. Cobbs
Marion Schimmel
Belle Mina
Ruth Pettus
E. S. Morrow
Eugene
T. G. Morrow
Corinth
Miss
H. 8. Green
Virginia Brandal
Knoxville, Tenn
Mrs. Seybourn Lynne
Gloria Stuart
Gladys Glad
Dead-Eye
Schick
Goidel
Alton Cannon
J. M. Cannon
University of Arizona At
Tucson
Alabama
C. 8. Gatlin
A. 8. Pitts
First Methodist Church
Gulf Coast
Scranton
Cretonne
Choice
Ose
Buttrey’s
Dillehay Bros. Druggists
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