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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1939
Page
5
Social notes report the marriage of Glean Chambless to Grant on June 9 with a teal blue net gown and white accessories. After a Southward wedding trip, they plan to reside in Pairview.
JOAN BANKS offers advice on daily nail maintenance including cuticle care with olive oil, emery board smoothing, and polish application. Warns against cutting skin around nails and advises medical help for skin rashes and persistent pimples. Readers urged to send beauty questions to the Beauty Box Editor.
A simple elegant wedding took place at the Duncan home on the Country Club road with Dr. B F Tingle officiating. Miss Kathleen Hodges wore cyclamen chiffon to wed Thomas C Lee son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence W Lee. After a wedding breakfast the couple departed for Washington DC to reside.
Miss Frances Nungester leaves for the Art Colony near Montgomery to study for several weeks. Gilbert Ford returns home from the Benevolent Society Hospital after an appendectomy. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McBhannon plan to return Sunday after a week with his parents in Nicholson, Ga. The McBride family moves to First Avenue and Second Street West. Mrs. R. M. Reaves and her son visit uncle R. L. Stephenson in Birmingham. Miss Gladys Garnett of Orlando, Florida, stays with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Johnson for the weekend. Mrs. A. S. Darnell visits Birmingham and attends the wedding of Miss Mary Winston Martin to the Rev. John Dudley McCready in Morganton, North Carolina.
The Civilian Conservation Corps will enroll 677 young men from Alabama during July, per state welfare commissioner Laula Dunn. Enrollment is limited due to few discharges from camps since April.
Policeman Walter Whitting testified before Municipal Judge Dennis O'Brien that Erwin Stielow of Omaha was the nicest man he ever arrested. Stielow drove 45 mph and exclaimed he should go to jail. Judge O'Brien suspended a $5 fine and five day license suspension.
Revival at Fast Limestone School near Capshaw Ala features Rev Sullina Dosser preaching on Bethel vows and Jacob’s legacy. Dr J A Keller and P O Davis headline talks on education and agriculture with community events, games, and free meals planned for July 20.
The Fast Limestone Junior High trustees reappointed the same teaching staff for fourth consecutive year. A WPA project finished this April added to an improved campus by Monroe and Coker. Two new classrooms will ease crowding, and enrollment is expected to rise twenty five to thirty percent. The Big Annual Barbecue and School Rally is planned for the third Thursday in July.
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