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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 01, 1950

Page

6

Weseyan Guild and Friends Meet Tuesday in Parish Home

Local society items list the Weseyan Service Guild of Memorial Drive Methodist Church meeting Tuesday at 7:30 pm at Mrs Frances Sheats's home. Also notes St Pauls Lutheran aux meeting Mary Martha class gathering and other club events around area churches and schools.

Memorial Drive Weseyan Service Guild Memorial Drive Methodist Church Frances Sheats 6Th Avenue T. Paul’s Lutheran Auxiliary St. Paul's Lutheran Church Iibur Geloneck Endlam Boule Norman Meyer Mary Martha Central Baptist Church Lonnie Pettey 5Th Avenue West Spinsters Club Mary Stuart Terrell Oak Street Mary Ethyl Williams Juanita Bowers 12Th Avenue West Lynn Keith First Baptist Church seVéfi Spotswood

Girl Scouts Troop Eleven Elects Officers in Somerville Meeting

The Girl Scouts Troop Eleven met Saturday April 29 at Miss Betty Davis’s home on Somerville Road. Officers elected were secretary Linda Gayle Pate treasurer Dottie Motes scribe Wyndall Dendy program committee Barbara McGlawn Wauldeen Bolte Beverly Culpepper social committee chair Martha Garnett and members Margaret Winton Betty Edgil. Meeting adjourned at 11 30 AM.

Girl Scouts Betty Davis Somerville Road Linda Gayle Pate Dottie Motes Wyndall Dendy Barbara McGlawn Wauldeen Bolte Beverly Culpepper Martha Garnett Margaret Winton Betty Edgil

Troop Five Prepares for Mother's Day

Davene Nichols reports Troop Five spent Friday in St. John's Episcopal parish house building a tree for their mothers as the Mothers Day project.

Troop Five Davene Nichols St. John's Episcopal Church

Overseas Bags Brace Troop Seventeen Event

Troop Seventeen members spent time Friday working on overseas bags. Carolyn Kitchens and Peggy Spain led the flag ceremony. A book was presented to the Junior High library and plans for a troop trip were set. Absentees included Rebecca Quattlebaum Libby Ree Plemons Mary Frances Wright and Jeanette Luke. Visitor Barbara Peppe attended.

Baby Ann Terry Carolyn Kitchens Peggy Spain Rebecca Quattlebaum Libby Ree Plemons Mary Frances Wright Jeanette Luke Barbara Peppe

Nature Study Meeting of Troop Six at Austinville School

Troop Six held a re meeting Thursday afternoon at Austinville Elementary School with Mrs Earl Foster as leader and Gaynell Woodall as scribe. The group studied Birds and Brownies presented a report on the program.

Austinville Earl Foster Gaynell Woodall

Troop Twelve Meeting At Littlehouse Day

All members attended Thursday’s meeting at the Littlehouse. Leader Mrs A C Brown and the group made banana boats. Mrs F N Phelps’s horse S One is finicky about the hay and green in his stall at Belmont Park.

Littlehouse A. C. Brown F. N. Phelps Belmont Par

Dear Miss Dix on Blushing and on a Possessive Mother

Dorothy Dix advises a teen blusher to seek psychiatry, reframing blushing as a youthful skill rather than flaw. She urges not to let the condition derail study or life, emphasizing self-perception and time. In a second letter a daughter condemns a possessive mother and Dix condemns the mother’s control, urging independence and healthier boundaries.

Miss Dix

Personal notices of ill health and visits across several states

Mrs Murphree is ill at her home on Line Street. John L Farris and wife and two children from Nashville visited Mrs T M Jones Jr. Sim Dutton returned to Jackson after visiting J W Pipkin family. Johnny Harvey of Hartselle and Brenda Beddingfield underwent hospital plans in Birmingham. Multiple couples travel between Tennessee Alabama and Georgia for family visits and events.

John L. Farris Nashville Tennessee T. M. Jones, Jr Sim Dutton Jackson Mississippi J. W. Pipkin Mr. Pipkin Grant Trees Brenda Carol Beddingfield Lloyd Beddingfield Children’s Hospital Birmingham Brenda

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