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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1930
Page
4
A Victorian tale recounts Reverend Addison J. Wheeler of Thuralay England dying in sanctity and leaving a last wish to bury with him a hot water bottle. The piece muses on what personal item we would want saved for posterity as life ends and prompts readers to reflect on what truly matters beyond possessions.
A formal four course dinner at the Hotel Russell Erskine in Huntsville Alabama honored Miss Suzanne Jones and Mr Barrett C Shelton on the eve of their June seventh wedding. Guests included members of the bridal party and out of town relatives among the spacious blue organdie attire of the bride and corsage of sweet peas.
The article lists several locals attending colleges and events. Miss Helen Turner and Miss Mat tie Masterson head to Blue Ridge North Carolina to represent Woman's College at the YWCA gathering for two weeks. Others mention travels home and visits across Tennessee and nearby states.
Coningsby Dawson notes love as a carrot luring men from fields to stables. Helen Rowland argues bachelor life in California offers endless romance, but warns of the morning-after headache and loneliness of marriage, despite social pressure to wed.
M. A. Chapter No. 303 O. E. 5. will convene Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Masonic Hall in Austinville. All members are urged to attend.
Harry Stinson arrived Friday from Nashville where he studied at Peabody College to spend the summer with his parents in Memphis. Mrs. Duane Mills Carr of Boston visits her Neill family. Several local youths and families are noted visiting relatives, recovering from illness, or anticipating trips to Atlanta and Georgia.
Rev E N Hart reports that the Presbyterian General Assembly approved steps toward organic union with the United Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed churches. It endorsed Hoover’s call for law observance and disarmament, upheld temperance, and advanced church education and women elders. The Marriage Commission will continue to study reform through 1931.
Cool and comfy dress for small girls features a cape collar and white hem with a print body. Pattern 1923 shows options in dimity lawn batiste pique organdy or voile with sizes 2 4 6 and 8 and simple yardage and step by step instructions.
A notice requests payment of fifteen cents per pattern via coins, with buyers asked to include their full name address, style number and size requested. The brief emphasizes careful wrapping and clear mailing details to process the order.
Our pattern book offers Fifteen Cent patterns but ten cents when ordered via mail. Address all mail orders to The Decatur Daily Pattern Department at 243 West 17th St New York City.
The assembly elected Dr. Hugh Thomson Kerr of Pittsburgh as moderator while not electing Dr. Henry Buck Master. Kerr chairs the Christian Education committee with Rev. E. N. Hart joining. The group lauded Master’s decade as general secretary of pensions and pledged renewed Christian service for 2,000,000 members. Classified ads note varied needs.
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