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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1941
Page
5
The Love Live and Lift Sunday School class met at the home of Miss Beatrice Hargitt for its monthly business session followed by social hour. Miss Jewel Smith attended as a visitor and Miss Martha Collier led games and refreshments.
A period piece offers home care guidance for hands with rubber gloves and soothing lotions. It urges oil massages, finger exercises, and cautions that deep liver spots require medical treatment and not home remedies. Readers are invited to send beauty questions to the Beauty Box Editor via the newspaper.
The item lists dancing events and attendees including Martha Fay Roper and many others at a social gathering. It also covers church auxiliary meeting plans, a Christian Endeavor Society party, and various local residents recovering from illness.
Mrs L R Nash spent the day Friday in Birmingham on business. H H Prasa, who has been ill, is mentioned in the same item as part of the personal notices.
The two day Wiba poultry school and egg show in Elba Alabama featured state commissioner May Paterson urging families to raise poultry for home consumption. He cited that 100 hens yield seven and a half bales of cotton income and urged industrious cooperative effort to improve farm living through poultry and eggs. Experts from extension service and the southeast attended the event ending today.
Dr. R. F. South, Morgan County veterinarian, was re elected as rabies inspector for another year by the county board of health in a Thursday night session at the county health offices on Second Avenue. The county has nearly stamped out rabies since dog vaccination began over two years ago. Earlier, the Morgan County Medical Society met to discuss PSA medical practice work.
Dr. Harry Lee announced the Jefferson Hospital, a $2,250,000 facility in Birmingham, will open February 1. The plant was dedicated at early January ceremonies.
Pattern details for spring motifs with crochet and cross stitch charts. Includes dimensions from 4 1 4 by 9 1 4 inches to 2 by 5 inches and required materials. Send ten cents to The Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept for pattern number, with name and address in New York.
The Morgan County Unit No. 15 American Legion Auxiliary will meet Monday evening at Mrs. Margaret Jones home on Walnut Street. Judge T C Almon, guest speaker and unit legislative chairman, will lead the program. Hostesses include Mrs. Margaret Jones, Mrs. Fannie Jones, Mrs. Vera Loggins, and Miss Ruby Jones.
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