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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1939
Page
5
The quiet ceremony took place Friday at 7:30 PM at the First Presbyterian Manse with Rev. Edward V. Ramage officiating. After a short wedding trip the couple will live at 620 Canal Street. Both are prominent Decatur residents.
Miss Wilda Huie of Birmingham visits aunt and cousin in town. Mrs. Madgie Alexander and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Alexander guest near Hartselle. Johnny Hodges recovering from cataract surgery in Memphis. John Berry Jr and Henry Berry with families visiting, celebrating John Berry Sr’s 89th birthday. Mrs. Alfred Clements and Alfred Jr. visit Birmingham. Mrs. T. G. Morrow returns from New York World’s Fair. J O Casper family depart for Birmingham. Mrs. Prank Yaney attends luncheon at Russell Erskine Hotel for Mrs. Joe Foster. Prank Rogoski returns home after visits with Mrs. Yaney. Mrs. J. C. Finney and Carolyn to Montgomery. W K Littlefield and son Billy Winn visit Nashville. Bill Martin family planned to return to Spotswood Apartments. Betty Carlisle leaves for Rome. Eleanor Warren departs Jacksonville to Birmingham as an attendant.
In Perryville, Sarah Anne conquers a fear with a first parachute jump and later asks for a second, finding renewed calm. At the parsonage Judy returns in sunshine, while Bob Kennedy appears friendly to Judy but distant to Sarah Anne as he talks of a new ship and his leg.
Mrs. Georgie Miller and others visit New Orleans while Richard Yaney prepares to return from Camp Happy Hollow Tennessee. In town, Sarah Anne Melton contemplates parachute jumping as Bob and Judy react to evolving relationships, and the Miller twins ask Sarah Anne to teach.
Fiorello LaGuardia arrives by steamer and learns a reception awaits him. He is greeted by Norfolk Mayor John A. Gurkin and speaks by a microphone as stevedores unload cargo. The mayor and Mrs. LaGuardia head to Wilmington, North Carolina for an address to the law enforcement officers association of the Carolinas.
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