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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1920
Page
3
A collection of society items notes Mrs. W. M. Daily ill with pneumonia and a late evening shower for Miss Fietta Mainard. Mrs. E. L. Thomes hosted on Johnston Street with a quilt contest prize and pink white decor. Guests wore pink and white gowns and exchanged gifts of silver glass and linens.
Louis M. Kent of Honoraville writes that Granger Liver Regulator relieves headaches colds and liver complaints and urges others to try the remedy. He claims it performs as advertised and plans to keep the product at home, noting costs and availability from the Granger Medicine Co. Tennessee.
Saturday at three o clock a bridge party will honor Mesdames Julia Lewis and Martin Phelan with Mrs A E hacia as hostess. The Young Peoples Missionary Society of the First Methodist church Decatur met at Miss Sarah Humphrey s home for business and social hour with refreshments served. The marriage of Miss Madeleen Harrs to Mr Claud Warren took place yesterday at the Winton home. Mrs I SHacretives is at Beverton Hospital awaiting an operation. Mrs Thos A Bowles was called today by the death of Mrs Mary Sherrod.
In Huntsville reports note several influenza cases and recoveries. Mrs Emma Hi Sturdivant has recovered. Miss Evelyn Calvin recuperates in Hatizonsberg Virginia with Miss Schaffer. Capt J D McNabb and wife reside in Knoxville, Mr and Mrs J D Sharp plan a Texan move. Mrs P G Kimbrough visiting Albany, Miss Marie Evelyn Calvin convalesces in Trinity. Miss Evelyn Friend relocates home.
Personal notice states Walter Burleson of Ninth avenue South is summoned to Hartselle due to the death of his child Rupert Burleson. Also mentions E. D. Whitman ill at home on Jackson street and Rev. M. M. Crow returning from Sheffield after attending the Huntsville Presbyterial.
The Y M C A Glee Club will meet tonight at 7 30 at the association with about twenty five members at work on new music and growing interest.
The article notes ancient mentions of natural diving for mating and oyster gathering in Homer and Thucydides. It describes divers without apparatus who carried a stone to reach the seabed and stay about two minutes. It adds that natural diving is still used for sponges and pearls in Ceylon and the Mediterranean.
Surprising records mark long distance travel by Alaskan reindeer and the pace of Carl J. Lomen in a graphic magazine feature. The annual Alaska event saw two deer pull a sled five miles in 14 minutes 32 seconds and ten miles in 27 minutes 20 seconds.
F M Dunbar of 213 Washington Ave Montgomery Alabama reports severe indigestion gastritis and dizziness improved after taking Dreep remedy. He, in charge of Railway maintenance, says he feared eating meat and endured night breathlessness and heart pains before using Dreep and now feels much better.
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