Poetry Program Highlights American Verse at Club Meeting
Culture Club gathered at the homes of Mrs. Render Gross Chenault and Mrs. M. Jones to hear Mrs. T. B. Woody discuss Contemporary American poetry. She described poetry as narrative lyric and dramatic with Conrad Akin and Edna St. Vincent Millay named as notable poets. Millay is cited as America's greatest lyric poet and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Mrs. Woody concluded with her own poems as refreshments were served.
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Friday Culture Club
Somerville Residents Share Visits Across States
Mr and Mrs G Mikell of Somerville spent Monday in Huntsville visiting relatives including Mr and Mrs Roy Setliffe and Mr May of Mobile. The article notes travel between Somerville and Birmingham Auburn and Montgomery with several family updates and a hospital patient improvement. Beth Worley of Winston Salem NC is improving at Baugh Wiley Smith Hospital in Somerville. Charles Malone ill in Montgomery and Thomas J Kelley Jr visiting Tampa are also mentioned. Martha and Freda Schwachow’s family travels connect Searcy Arkansas Harding College.
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Aaron Worley
Winston Salem
N. C
Somerville
Beth
Baugh- Wiley-Smith Hospital
Bennie Malone
Charles Malone
St. Margaret’s Hospital
Montgomery
Printed Patterns 4769 4770 Coat and Dress Designs
Reader notice for pattern purchases listing Printed Pattern 4769 dress and Printed Pattern 4770 coat with half sizes. Includes pricing fifty cents per pattern, mailing details to Anne Adams at The Decatur Daily Pattern Dept. New York address, order form with name address zone size and style number. Also offers 304 design ideas and coupon for a free pattern with a 50 cent payment.
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Anne Adams
Deccatur Daily
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Miss Margaret Free Engaged to James Wade Jr
Mrs Freeman Coy Free announces the engagement of daughter Margaret Anne Free to James Ernest Wade Jr son of Mr and Mrs James E Wade of Trinity. Miss Free is granddaughter of Basil Wear Luna Wear and Walter Free and Decatur High School graduate. Wade is Lawrence County High School graduate and grandson of Thomas Wade and William Hicks families. A February wedding is planned.
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Freeman Coy Free
Margaret Anne Free
James Ernest Wade Jr
James E. Wade
Trinity
Basil Ford Wear
Luna Pickens
Mr. Wade
Lawrence County High School
Join. Thomas Wade
William Walter Hicks
Moulton
Mr. Hicks
Ben Jaco Speaks to Trawelers Garden Club on Birds
Ben Jaco a biologist with the TVA spoke to Trawelers Garden Club at their January meeting about birds and their habits. The group met at Mrs. Norman Meyer’s home with Mrs. Frank Carau presiding. Carau announced Garden Club meetings in New York in March and Atlanta in April. reservations required. Prize flowers named were marigold Mr. Sam and zinnia Firecracker. Mrs. Johnny Aycock chaired, Mrs. T. E. Baker won attendance.
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Ben Jaco
Trawelers Garden Club
Sam
Johnny Aycock
T. E. Baker
Shower Honors Bride Elect Sylvia Thrower For Pending Marriage
A bridal shower hosted by Mrs. J. A. Wright and hosted by Miss Patsy Coggins Linda McGriff and Sandra Adams celebrated Sylvia Thrower the bride elect to Roger La tham. Close friends attended as early spring flowers graced the table. Snakes are misunderstood animals with only a small fraction of species poisonous in North America.
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Canada
United States
Goren on Bridge by Charles H. Goren
The column analyzes a bridge hand played by North South in a game contract. It critiques South’s passive response to a one no trump opening and argues North held about 20 points in support. West’s play and East’s signals influenced the outcome, with a heart and spade misfires leading to the declarer losing the contract.
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North East South West
South
North
West
East
Dummy
Altho
Declarer
Decalus New Year Program Highlights Speech Theme
Decalus members gathered for a New Year program with the theme out with the old and on with the new. Mrs. Jack Coley led as topic mistress and Miss Janice Hornbuckle announced an upcoming parliamentary drill on how you say it.
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Tom Pittman
William H. Gossett
Janice Hornbuckle
Decatur High School
Jack Coley
Lloyd Jones
Billie Gates
Coley
Hornbuckle
Ralph Laymen
Clark Roundtree
Robert Harris
Albert Sandor
Jack Jones
Jones
Claire Flynn
Roundtree
Decala Toastmistress Club
International Toastmistress Clubs Inc
Decala Club
East Acres
Rotterdam Harbor Sees Vast Trade Between Ocean Ships and Barges
In Rotterdam Netherlands about 25 000 oce an ships annually exchange cargoes with ten times as many smaller inland craft indicating a massive port and inland waterway interaction that sustains regional commerce.
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Rotterdam
Netherlands
Inauguration Attendees Hear West Alabama Couple Wed
Guests at Gov George Wal lace inauguration in Montgomery include Mr and Mrs Joe Curry Mr and Mrs Miles Powell and many others. Gene Hendon sang at the ceremony celebrating the wedding of a bride whose beige lace dress matched pink corsage. The couple plans to reside in Decatur after a brief wedding trip.
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Gov
George Wallace
Montgomery
Joe Curry
Miles Powell
Lawrence Jackson
Sherman Powell
Newt Powell
Edwin Frazier
Zola Clark
Dick Fleming
C. A. Culver
Joe Odum
Art Gorman
Huntsville
Clyde A. Rogers
Chattanooga
Tenn
Gene Hendon
Lila
Nona Hendon
Charles Canterbury
Nashville
Clyde Rogers
Sherman Harris Decatur
T. Raper Jr
Birmingham
Decatur
Drake-Chunn Vows Pledged in Double Ring Ceremony
Mrs Mable Chunn of Decatur and George Edward Drake of Birmingham were married in a double ring ceremony at the First Baptist Church Ringold Georgia on January 7 at 8 PM. Greer Hendon minister of the Church of Christ Portland Tennessee performed the ceremony. The bride’s attendant was her daughter Mrs Greer Hendon and Mr Drake was attended by
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Mable Chunn
Decatur
George Edward Drake
Birmingham
Falkville
First Baptist Church
Ringold
Greer Hendon
Church of Christ
Portland Tenn
Drake
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Lafayette
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