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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Mar 22, 1949

Page

8

Massey Home Demonstration Club Meets at Mrs England Home

Massey club members and one guest gathered at Mrs J F England's home for the March meeting with devotional by Mrs J England and talks on Family Religion by Mrs Price Bryant and Mrs James Morris. Birthday gifts were given and refreshments served during social hour.

Massey J. F. England England Massey Home Audrey Woodruff J. England Neal Doss Ben Jones Gertrude Rafford Price Bryant James Morris Phe

Colonial coffee named best by experts and tasters

Impartial tasters tested numerous leading brands and chose Colonial as best in quality and flavor due to a special blend featuring Antigua coffee. Local Huntsville resident E. L. Fanning endorses the claim, urging readers to try Colonial at the popular price.

Colonial Antigua Alabama E. L. Fanning Huntsville

Circle Meetings Hear Devotionals and Welcome New Member

Three o clock circle met at Mrs Richard Watkins home with Mrs W D Sims presiding. Devotional on Covetousness referenced the ten commandments and eleven members plus one new member joined. Miss Elizabeth Houston spoke on Religion In The Home during the social hour refreshments were served.

Circles OF Westminster Woman's Auxiliary Westminster Presbyterian Church Circle One Eugene Chenault Johnston Street Tennis Tidwell Hubert Quinn John Patterson, Jr Culpepper Eugene Culpepper Annie Jervis Enolam Boulevard W. S. Hunter Watkins Home Richard Watkins W. D. Sims, Jr Tom Walton C. P. Tuck Elizabeth Houston

Willow Timber Outlasts Common Woods in Water

The 003 of the willow tree is noted as more durable in water than other common timbers. This fragment highlights superior water resistance of willow wood compared with typical building timbers.

Dorothy Dix Advice Columns on In-Laws and Marriage

Dorothy Dix counsels a reader to assert boundaries with in laws living in the home and urges the husband to support himself. She critiques a quarrelsome marriage pattern asking the wife to stop fighting and to pursue harmony instead.

Dorothy Dix

Make-Up Removal Rethink Promises Hygienic Change

Helen Follett argues against the dirty powder puff habit urging hygienic shifts in cosmetics. She notes women buy many puffs, keep them in desks and drawers, and wash only to spread dirt. She suggests discardable pads or multiple puffs with compacts to curb skin infections.

Protest over rail freight rate hike heats up in Montgomery

March 22 hearing before ICC Commissioner J Hayden Alldredge enters second day as Southerners press against a 13 percent freight increase. Shippers warn higher rates hurt rail traffic, push freight to trucks, risking fertilizer and box industries. Witnesses cite cost pressures and Southern manufacturers losing markets to Northern rivals.

Montgomery G. W. Leyhe Atlanta Armour Fertilizer Works C. Maruer ICC Maurer Mason-Dixon Line

Birthday celebration for Mrs Broadway in Austinville

Mrs Broadway marked her 51st birthday with gifts and cards as Mr and Mrs WF Broadway and Mr and Mrs P C Goforth Sr of Decatur hosted a dinner. The Austinville Baptist B T U held a scavenger hunt at Mr Manley’s home for 30 attendees. Homer Griffin died Thursday in an oil truck crash after losing control and hitting a pole. Mrs Sallie Hastings returned home from Athens for treatment with Dr Powers. Mr and Mrs Charlie Osborn and their two children resumed their stay in Union S C distant trip residual.

WF .Broadway P. C. Goforth Sr Decatur Robert Broadway Guy H. Davidson Murfreesboro Athens Dr. Powers Charlie Osborn Union, S. C

Local Families Update Moves and Visits This Weekend

Mr and Mrs Bill Sawyer moved here Friday from Decatur and stay in a house with Mr and Mrs Wilson Kirby Billie Joe Monk writes friends that he has been transferred from Paris Island to Etaora California and will go over seas within a few weeks Mr and Mrs Wilburn Crow and three children visited her sister Mrs Ebner Osborn and baby Julia Wynett of the Forests over the weekend

Bill Sawyer Decatur Wilson Kirby Billie Joe Monk Paris Island Tora California Wilburn Crow Ebner Osborn Julia Wynett

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