Entertaining Notes Highlight Weddings and Guests
Breakfast at Mrs. D Barnum’s Ferry Street welcomed Manley Scales wedding guests. Miss Dinsmore hosted Cornealian Court Hotel dinner for wedding party members. Open House on Line Street honored Pennsylvania visitors Thomas Robinson and party with 150 guests. Pattern ad offers sewing pattern 4979 with tips and pricing. Various society items report births illnesses travels and Christmas gatherings across Decatur area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Smore
Jacqueline
Martha Dinsmore
Cornelian Court
Manley-Scales
First Methodist Church
Personal News From Three States Relate Visits and Travels
Mrs Edith Van Short of Lawrenceburg Tennessee visits Mrs Louis Hoff on Jackson Street and will attend the Cotillion dance. Bruce Henson of Lynchburg Virginia arrives to spend the week with Mr and Mrs Harvey Pride on Sherman Street. Mr and Mrs W H Armstrong Jr return home Sunday after ten days in Memphis with their son W H Armstrong III and family. Mr and Mrs J W Patton of Bessemer plan a weekend visit with their parents Mr and Mrs Early Phinizy Sr. Mr and Mrs Terry Moore of Mobile return home after Christmas visits with relatives.
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Edith van Short
Lawrenceburg
Tennessee
Louis Hoff
Jackson Street
Bruce Henson
Lynchburg
Virginia
Mrs
Harvey Pride
Sherman Street
W. H. Armstrong Jr
Memphis
W. H. Armstrong
J. W. Patton
Bessemer
Early Phinizy
Terry Moore
Mobile
Community Notes From Canal Street and Nearby Towns
Phil Pointer hosts news on Canal Street while Midshipman Carol Smith plans a return to the U S Naval Academy after Christmas. Several families travel, visit, or report illnesses and recoveries including W H Winton improving at Birmingham and S M C Cook able to sit in a wheel chair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Pointer
Canal Street
S. M. C. Cook
Two Fires Started By Defective Flues
City firemen extinguished two fires late Thursday afternoon both starting from defective flues and causing small losses. One at the home of Mrs. Nora Safley 1014 Wadsworth and the other at Pat Clemons 1513 Fifth Avenue E.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nora Safley
Wadsworth
Pat Clemons
Fifth Avenue E
Slip covers in spring thrift via Laura Wheele pattern
Step by step instructions and needlecraft tips show easy ways to make stylish slip covers. Laura Wheele pattern improvements promise concise directions with charts and photos. Send twenty cents to The Decatur Daily for pattern number and your details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Daily
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
Anne Adams
Laura Wheele
Needlecraft Dept
Flatbush Station
Brooklyn
Should a wife tell her husband she loves him
Dorothy Dix counsels that a wife should openly express love to her husband. She argues that affection strengthens bonds and that men crave compliments and tender praise as much as women. A loving wife helps a man feel valued and secure in the marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Dix
Dorothy Dix
No such animal doomed romance and rail mail history
The excerpt mocks a romantic dream and notes wives rarely join in law family issues. It mentions the first regular transcontinental airmail service between New York and San Francisco beginning in an unspecified year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
In York
San Francisco
Thompson and Bracken Wed in Decatur Marriage
James Walter Thompson aged 29 from Decatur married Velma Norene Bracken aged 31 from Decatur in a simple wedding recorded in the Daily Records. The ceremony united two local residents in a civic notice of marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Walter Thompson
Decatur
Velma Norene Bracken
Retired Minister Dr. B. F. Marshall Dies in Bessemer
Dr. B. F. Marshall a 78 year old retired Methodist minister died yesterday at his aunt's home in Bessemer Alabama. A Mississippi native he retired from the ministry about six years ago and had come to Bessemer after graduating from Southern University Greensboro Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessemer
Ala
B. F. Marshall
Marshall
Mississippi
Southern University
Greensboro
Grocer Sanford J. McGowin Dies in Alabama
Sanford J. McGowin a 54 year old grocer and former lumber company official died Wednesday night on the way to a hospital in Andalusia following a heart attack Funeral services were set from the Mc Gowin home Auburns football staff of six including Head Coach Earl Brown has a Notre Dame playing background.
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Grocer
Andalusia
Ala
Sanford J. McGowin
Lumber Company
McGowin
Auburn
Earl Brown
Notre Dame
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Pennsylvania
Walton Anderson
Garner Pride
George Wallace
Pride
Line Street
Thomas Robinson
Wilkes- Barre
Wallace
J. A. Counts
Mount Hope
Guy Ounts
Homey Stovall
Mr. Stovall
Jim Young
Birmingham
Marion County
John Wood
Decatur General Hospital
Mary Elizabeth Hodges
Grant Street
Reverend Turner Davis, Jr
Columbus
Annie Sue Cain
Montgomery
Anne Smith
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore
Carol C. Smith
E. C. McDaniel
Union Hill
New Orleans
Louisiana
Mrs. Allstone Hargroves
Skipper
Sandusky, Ohio
John Paul Sanders
Mary Augusta
Stelita Diane
Anthony James Thomas
Jennifer Diane
New York City
Sanders
Lawrence Saylor
B. Pearce
L. A. Saylor
George Mann
Fred Mann
Birmingh
England
Elizabeth
Prince Charles of
Edinburgh
Buckingham Palace
London
Rainey
Second Ave
Carol Smith
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Maryland
Dick Ennis
Detroit
Michigan
R. C. Sims
Mrs. Ennis
Mooresville
W. H. Winton
Roy Hendrix
Barbara Ann Harrison
Sally Berryhill
Ben Rowe
Dee Counts
Ann
Joyce
Washington, D. C
Homer Stovall
Guy Counts
Carl Harrison
Harold H. Kelton
James H. Head
Nashville
T. J. Hamilton
Eva
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Mr. Hamilton
White Swan
Caddell Drug Coo
Elizabeth Arden
Lucien Selong
Yardley
Marcelle
Laura Wheeler
Sam
Susie
C.L
Austinville
Bel Syndicate, Inc
Hartselle
Percale
U.S
Ay Ac
Goidel’s Drug Store
Albany Grain & Coal Co
Jones Coal Co
Turner Coal & Grain Co
Small
W.T. Grant Co
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