Social and church notices fill Decatur society pages
Mrs. Louis Argend hosts W C T U meeting with ten members. Devotionals by Rev C L Cobb on Mothers. Y W A and Sunbeams plan a church social and field trip. Sadie Deere Conference well attended with chapters from New Hope Athens Cullman Florence Town Creek Moulton and Decatur. Several members visit, entertain and travel for upcoming events and tours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Argend
C. L. Cobb
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
J. R. Huie
W. H. Winton
J. J. Rose
Sadie Deere
O. FE. S
New Hope
Athens
Cullman
Florence
Town Creek
Moulton
Decatur
Mizpah
Mary Lou Dancy
Masonic Temple
Woodall
B. R. Ross
Alathean Sunday School Social and Business Meeting
Members enjoyed a social and business session of the Alathean Sunday school held at the home of Mrs. J. N. Hodges. Friday night’s gathering featured hostess assistances, decorative gladioli, and a devotional led by Mrs. H. S. Roberts, with Mrs. Elton Reeves presiding over the business portion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Roan
Decatur
Hodges
Roberts
Roan
Nina
Willie Hodges
Lile
Barnett
Alathean Sunday School
J. N. Hodges
I. J. Quinn
George Morris
Reece Robertson
L. M. Robertson
A. M. Matthews
Jimmy Murphy
Elton Reeves
H. S. Roberts
Miss Billie Rhea Simmons Visits Lamons Weekend
Miss Billie Rhea Simmons spends the weekend with grandparents Mr and Mrs W W Lamon on the Danville Road. Mr and Mrs Charles H Eyster and their three sons Charles Jr William and John will leave the first week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone Park
Joan Keneippe
Mt. Carmael, Ill
8. O. Nelson
Dudley Howell
Jackson, Miss
W.B. Morrow
B. B. Comer
Mildred Carter
Florence
Mrs. E. J. Carter
Billie Rhea Simmons
Mrs. W. W. Lamon
Danville Road
Charles H. Eyster
Charles Jr
William
John
Legion reports record 1940 membership of World War veterans
The American Legion announces a 1940 enrollment of 1,054,267 veterans, the highest in 21 years, surpassing the 1931 peak. National Commander Raymond J. Kelley credits growing defense appreciation and militant Americanism for the rise, noting a 45,000 increase over last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canapolis
American Legion
Raymond J. Kelley
Wrinkle care and body shaping advice from old article
An old health piece recommends maintaining mental and physical health to stave off wrinkles, with diet, exercise, sleep, and cheerfulness. It promotes skin care routines using light creams, nightly facial massage, cold rinses in the morning, and sunlight for circulation. It notes bow legs can be corrected in children but not adults, and suggests massage and specific techniques for leg toning.
Roosevelt Sets Up Refugee Aid Fund in Washington
President Roosevelt established a $50 million refugee relief program aiming to purchase and ship supplies for European refugees displaced by war. Secretary Wallace will buy agricultural goods, Morgenthau will handle other materials, with the American Red Cross handling transport and distribution overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Red Cross
Stephen Early
Local Legionnaires Attend Birmingham Banquet
Post Commander T. C. Almon and Morgan County Post No. 15 leaders Garner Pride Jon Pettey LeRoy McEntire W Le Grimes and TB Middlebrooke will attend the Legion banquet at the Tutwiler Hotel in Birmingham tonight. The event precedes the three day state convention starting Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Almon
Garner Pride
Jon Pettey
LeRoy McEntire
W. le Grimes
TB. Middlebrooke
Morgan County
American Legion
Tutwiler Hotel
Birmingham
Town Captured at Frontier in Italian Report
Rome reports the capture of Curmuk, a British fortified town on the frontier between Ethiopia and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, by a Fast war correspondent for Il Giornale D'Italia. The date is given as July 277 in the dispatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Curmuk
Ethiopia
Sudan
Per Il Giornale D'Italia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs. Argend
Central Baptist W. M. S
Central Baptist Church
John C. Cowell
Central Methodist Circle
First Baptist Y. W. A
First Baptist Church
Fred Simmons
Estherlee Sherrod
Jean Gray
Rebecca Pettey
Flo Pickens
Robert Pettey
Martha Frances Pettey
Atlanta
Mrs. J. W. Montgomery
Frances Armstrong
Deland, Fla
Margaret Timberlake
F. X. Hathcock
Mildred Ross
Sheffield
Lillie Hillis
Corinne Spencer
J. A. Hines
Frank Ewing, Tenn
Mrs
R. R. McGuire
Cee
Thomas C. Lee
Washington, D. C
Joe Duncan
Betty McGehee
Tuscumbia
Sarah Ellen Schmidt
I. M. Sheffield, Jr
Atlanta, Ga
J. .G McGehee
Stella
Lillian Orr
Grant Street
D. F. Owen
Anniston
Lester Sheffield
Shelby Jean Yancey
Mrs. Heney Yancey
Lacey's Spring
Route 1
Allen
Goidel’s Drug Store
Capitol
Donald Barry
Jesse James
Priscilla
Rosemary
Lola Lane
Gale Page
Jeffrey Lynn
May Robson
Claude Rains
Eddie Albert
Frank McHugh
Walt Disney
Goofy
Wilbur
Oley Te Reagan
Litel
Lee
LYS
Ran Priston
Speake
Warren & Ratliff
Areno
Ecru
Speake, Warren & Ratliff
Travis Stewart Cavnar
Odie Cavnar
Legion Highest
Helen Follett
Refugee Aid Fund
Moye
Romero
Mee
Texas
Gene Autry
Tian
Wesley Ruggles
Claude Binyon
W. Somerset Maugham
Columbia
Arthur Murray
Caddell
Walgreen Agency
Hartselle, Ala
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Jean Parker
Kennedy the Great
Ray Mill
Patricia Morison
Geo. Olsen and Orchestra
Granite Hotel
Swanee River
Don Ameche
Andrea Leeds
AL Jolson
Dark Command
Claire Trevor
John Wayne
Walter Pidgeon
Walt Disney Cartoon
Smiley Burnette
Oregon
Popeye
Porky
Mechanix
Entertainment
Dennie Moore
Dorothy Peterson
WOME
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