Society Party Highlights at Hodges Home in Sherman Street
A social page note details a Thursday evening gathering at Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Hodges to honor Miss Genevieve Warren of Birmingham. About 30 guests included local youths and college students with flowers adorning the Hodges residence and refreshments served throughout the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. R. Hodges
Sherman Street
Genevieve Warren
Birmingham
Susan Bibb
Sara Sue Hughes
Thelma Lee Mitchell
Nell and
Ruth Johnston
Betty McMillan
Bay Minette
Donnie Blackwell
Marjory Phinizy
Emily Ann
Stuart Peebles
Mooresville
Atlee Hoff, Jr
Louis Hoff
Charles Wiggins, Jr
Freddie Scarborough
Sam
John Felix White
Cranston Gray
Jack Moebes
Calvin Pettey
Pat Jeffrey
Charles Matthews, Jr
Phil Baugh
Lon C. Morrow
Howard Lanier
Walter Marvin Penney
Early Phinizy, Jr
Ben Johnston
Albert Clapton
Misses Warren
McMillan, Perry
Mary Kate Troup
Ruth and
Nell Johnston
Marjorie Phinizy
Jean Draper
Julia Dent Woodard
Frances Ann Green
Local society notes from Leighton and nearby towns
Mrs. Ben Fennell and others from Leighton host and visit in the area. Fay Wilson and sister Albert Alexander’s family connection is noted. Pred Waters of Birmingham visits his aunt C E Malone as guests arrive for luncheon. Several other visitors from Arizona, Nashville, Summerville, and Selma are named with travel plans to Decatur Hartselle Chicago and Knoxville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fay Wilson
Goodwater, Ala
Albert Alexander
Pred Waters
Birmingham
C. E. Malone
H. L. Malone
J. E. Thexton
Arizona
William Stewart
Hartselle
Clark Rountree
Monroeville
Ala
Sue Simpson
Nashville
Gowns In Which American And Cuban Girls Became Princesses
Cuban beauty wore a Worth satin wedding gown with sculptural lines and Swiss belt for her marriage to Prince Alexis Mdivani. Barbara Hutton wore a Patou ivory satin gown with lace shawl and diamond comb. Local social notes list várias visits and travels of residents, and wedding role mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worth
Alexis Mdivani
Barbara Hutton
Woolworth Millions
No Other Woman at Princess Theater with Irene Dunne
Irene Dunne, Charles Bickford and Gwili Andre star in No Other Woman at the Princess Theatre. The play shows a steel mill worker’s rise to wealth and a wife’s sacrifice to save their marriage amid temptations and separation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irene Dunne
Charles Bickford
Gwili Andre
Eugene Walter
Owen Francis
Eric Linden
Buster
Cotton bounty fight stirs Senate lobby in 4 cent plan
Alabama Senator Bankhead secures a 100 million dollar public works amendment aimed at an agricultural bounty paid from the treasury. Senators Smith Bailey and Thomas push Tugwell as lobbyists press for government payout while Wallace delays announcement and Cotton Ed Smith advocates a treasury bounty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Treasury
Congress
Alabama
Senator Bankhead
Treasury
Wallace
Smith
South Carolina
Senate Agriculture Committee
Bailey
North Carolina
Bankhead
Thomas
Oklahoma
Tugwell
Washington
Woodin
East Hampton
Dern
Willard Hotel
Marc Peter
Switzerland
Cohasset
Mass
Michael MacWhite
Erin
Faik Konitza
Albania
Swampscott
Calvin Coolidge
Lady Lindsay
Europe
DeWitt Thomas Visits Decatur On Association Business
DeWitt Thomas, representative of the Alabama Independent Merchants Association, was in Decatur on business this morning. He is making a swing through North Alabama counties to promote the Association’s interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt Thomas
Alabama Independent Merchant’s Association
Decatur
Thomas
North
Alabama
This Model at Home Sheers for Summer Afternoon Pattern 2603
Anne Adams pattern 2603 offers a sheer cool feminine gown in voile chif fon or lawn with a rippling cape and smart skirt seaming. Sizes 14 to 42, requires fabric and ribbon. pattern cost 15c with step by step instructions. catalog 15c, pattern and catalog 25c from Decatur Daily Pattern Dept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Decatur Daily Pattern Department
Vata
Seventeenth Street
New
General Lee's Aide Dill Buckner Cooke Reaches 95
Rev. Giles Buckner Cooke, once Major and Inspector General on General Robert E. Lee's staff and last survivor of Lee's official family, marks his 95th birthday in good health. The former terror of lagging regimental commanders later taught former slaves, then served as a Negro church rector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giles Buckner Cooke
NEA
Norfolk
Robert E. Lee
Army of
Northern Virginia
Cooke
Lee
Brasilian Ambassador to Live With Wife in Manchester by the Sea
The Brazilian ambassador and his Mexican wife will reside at Manchester by the Sea on Massachusetts North Shore. The note, copyright 1983 United Peatons Syndicate Inc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchesters by-the-Sea
Massachusetts
North Shore
United Peatons Syndicate, Inc
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Miss Warren
Central High School
Valley Country Club
Wiliam Rich
Gower Sullivan
Nick Masterson
H. E. McKelvey
Yarbrough
Erin ‘Walker
J. B. Harlow
Edith Swavely
M. Thompson
Rhae
Mack Brown
B. D. Wright
Emmett.Woods
C. A. Edwards
Rich
Thompson
Moulton
Henkel
Atlee Hoff
Louis Henkile
Blackwell
Central Methodist Woman's Missionary Society
Blackwell Place
Miss Chunn
Cornelia Szechenyi
Great Britain
Szechenyi
Eugene Roberts
Washington, D. C
Segal Razor
Goidel
Five String Band
Jack Hoxie
J.C. Penney
Ben Fennell
Jim Kirk Fennell
Harry Fennell
Leighton, Ala
Kate Life
Maggie England
Summerville
W. W. Green
Kansas City, Mo
B. T. Shelton
Mary Elva
Frances
Bowling Green
Louisville
Frances Shelton
East Church Street
G. L. Sturdivant
Mrs. Louis Henkel
Mrs
F. D. Peebles
Jackson Street
Kitty Lamar
Selma
Chicago
Ill
Knoxville
Tenn
Edward Warren, Jr
al Blackwell, Jr
Fashion News
Ellen Edwards
Lottie McCulloch
J. R. Hunter
Boothton, Ala
Emily Peebles
Elizabeth Perry
E. W. McLeod
Charles Tweedy, Jr
Jasper
New Castle
Joe Patterson
Ike Scheer
Knoxville, Tenn
Carl Watson
Aia
the Daily Washington
Mark
Princess
THE
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Decatur Daily
Miss Leonard
Claudine Leonard
Gaye
Boorrie
Bennie W. Malone
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