Society Club Luncheon and Music Week Events In Decatur
Mesdames E. H. Barnett S. B. Broadus and W. H. Long will host the Progressive Culture Club luncheon at the Cornelian Hotel next Tuesday at one. Florence Womans Music Study Club plans multiple programs weeklong with Miss Vivian Ann Howell to perform piano at Lelia Cantwell Seton Hall and Florence meetings featuring Clio Levin Oscar Napps and others. A surprise party hosted by Olin Sanders at Mrs. Marvin Yarbrough’s home included games gifts and a blindfold table. Monthly Central Methodist Womans Society of Christian Service meet next Monday at 3 pm. The Coterie Club enjoyed Fun Night at Nell Beach Dix’s hosting Miss Mary Vernon Dix and gifts for the bride-elect. Mrs. Sherrod elected second vice-president of the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs.
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S. 8. Broadus
W. H. Long
Progressive Culture Club
Cornelian Hotel
Florence Club
Decatur Womans Music Study Club
Lelia Cantwell Seton
W. P. Baugh
Seneca Burr
Sanford Cox
Olin Sanders
F. L. Weaver
Eloise Sparkman
Marvin Yarbrough
Howard Thompson
Witter
W. H. Curl
C. P. Aday
Sarah
Ruth Aday
Mawin Yarbrough
Katherine Thompson
Doris Sandusky
Dorothy Sandusky
Margaret Sparkman
Naomi Sandusky
Mildred Vaughn
Dorothy Curl
Messrs
Willard Matthews
Billy Curl
Sidney Boyce
Larry Joe Yarbrough
Central Methodist Women
Central Methodist Womans’ Society of Christian Service
Nell Beach Dix
Mary Vernon Dix
Winifred Tindall
Nell Glenn Moorer
Westminster Presbyterian Women’s Auxiliary Meeting Notice
Westminster Presbyterian Women’s Auxiliary will meet at 3 p.m. Monday for the May business meeting at the church. A called Circle Three meeting will be at 2 30 o’clock in the church parlors. Reports by officers and secretaries will be given. First Methodist business meeting also announced.
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Westminster Presbyterian Womans Auxiliary
Circle Three
First Presbyterian Womans Auxiliary
First Methodist
Guest Meetings and Local Club Activities Highlight May
Saturday Club hosts Guest Day at Lelia Cantwell Seton Hall while LE Club Entre Meres meets May ninth with Mrs De Levin as hostess. Decatur Mothers Club plans a guest meeting at the same hall with hostesses L Murphree Sherrod Baugh Alverson Griffin and Eddens. Cotillion Club discusses June dance with De Witt Shaw orchestra and leaves of absence for wives of Army service members. Several social notices follow including church and PT A events, visits, and arrivals such as Samuel Irwin Timberlake’s birth and various travel mentions.
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Lelia Cantwell Seton Hall
LE Club Entre Meres
Mothers Club
Decatur Mothers Club
L. R. Murphree
H. F. Sherrod
W. P. Baugh
S. E. Alverson
Horace Griffin
Quince Eddens
Cotillion Club
Carnegie Library
de Witt Shaw
Orchestra
Birmingham
First in Series Hosted by Mrs Stone and Mrs Caddell
The article notes that two hostesses per event will oversee the remainder of this year's meetings with Mrs Frank Stone and Mrs John A Caddell organizing the first session next Thursday.
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Frank Stone
John A. Caddell
Wise Girls Embrace Outdoor Life And Fitness
A column urges women to leave comfort and take up swimming tennis rowing archery and walking to tone muscles, shed adipose, and gain vigor. It argues motor cars spoil health and promotes public swims in winter, calling for active outdoor living and regular exercise.
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Diana
Teta
Local Notes From Oakville Lawrence County
Reda Ann Gillispie is sick with whooping cough. ErTine Sandlin has mumps. Charley Kenum's family had mumps last week. Bernice Clark of Decatur visited Union Grove relatives last weekend. Field day at Speake school marked closing exercises for Jr. grades. F D Folette of Oakville lost a finger on Saturday. Sympathy goes to Amos Hogan and family of Tenn on their daughter's death, burial at Lebanon cemetery. Lois Kirby and Berlie Clark are ill with mumps and Employed at Decatur. Forney Miller of Enon celebrated his 17th birthday with a dinner. Guests included Fred Kenum, Howard Kenum, Jenkins family, and Jesse Miller family. Mrs Fred Folette and son F D were in Moulton.
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Reda Ann
Grady Gillispie
ErTine Sandlin
Charley Kenum
Bernice Clark
Decatur
Union Grove
F. D. Folette
Oakville
Howard Kenum
Jenkins
Jesse Miller
Fred Folette
F. D
Moulton
Crop prices rise for Alabama farmers in April
Alabama farmers received substantially higher prices for staple products for the month ended April 15 than the prior month average. Cotton and cottonseed led gains with about 3 dollars per bale for cotton and 2.20 dollars per ton for cottonseed. The average price rose about 10.8 cents per pound, the highest since July 15, 1937.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
State
Anne Adams Pattern 4751 Dress Offers Saucy Back Buttoning
Pattern 4751 by Anne Adams features a back buttoning dress with a broad waistband and soft bodice gathered above the waist. The pattern lists sizes 12 through 40 and requires 358 yards of 35 inch fabric for size 16, with pricing at fifteen cents for pattern and twenty five cents for book and pattern together.
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Anne Adams
Decatur Daily
Pattern Department
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Land Taken for Childersburg Powder Plant Reservation
Government acquires 162 acres in Talladega County near Birmingham to expand the reservation for the Childersburg powder plant. The land adjoins previously acquired parcels and will form part of the plant site.
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Birmingham
Ala
Childersburg
Talladega County
Land Purchase Payment Reported for Reservation
A payment of $2,318 was made toward reserving the land. The record notes the amount and the action of securing the property.
Home Coming Day at Church of Christ in Pettusville
In Limestone County Pettusville residents announce a Church of Christ Home Coming Day on Sunday May 4 with sermons at 1 and 2:30 by Bro. Elred Stevens and Bro. McLaning. Attendance invited as local families and neighbors are listed among visitors and attendees.
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Church of Christ
Elred Stevens
Bro McLaning
Laura Wheeler Uses Simple Stitches In Exclusive Pictures
Needlecraft item promotes transfer patterns for two pictures to embroider in silk or cotton floss. Local social notes list attendees at Better-Honey Day events and various gatherings in Athens and Elkmont, with many names and addresses.
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Laura Wheeler
America
Home
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Coterie Club
First Presbyterian
Hartselle, Ala
Carole Lombard
Robert Montgomery
Mrs. Smith
Gene Krupa
Popeye Cartoon
Frederic March
Betty Field
Bagdad
Conrad Veidt
Sabu
June Duprez
Big Ag Don
Red” Barr “the
Tulsa
Clive Brook
Dr. Satan
LE Club
ST. John's Auxiliary Meeting
St. John’s Episcopal Womans Auxiliary
J. B. Wiley
Gordon Sherard
Douglas Dodd
Julian Harrin
Wilson Orr
Snérard
G. H. Nungester
Carlisle Barracks
Pennsylvania
H. A. Nungeater
Camp Claiborne
Louisiana
J. R. Kendrick
Baxley, Ga
H. A. Nungester
Kate Lile
W. F. Boswell, Jr
Kathryn Boswell
Huntingdon College
Miss Boswell
Mary Ford Tillery
W. KE. Steed
Auburn
Billy Steed, Jr
Rufus Peerson
Miss Constance Peerson
Alabama College
Montevallo
James Garnett
Selma
Lafayette Street Grammar
J. B. Hurst
Joe Wheeler School
P.T. A
Esther Morris
Opelika
Mrs. Whiting
Atlanta, Ga
Mrs
Paul Whiting
A. M. Roan
Alabama Congress of Parents and Teachers
John Norwood
Houston
Texas
Harry Rice
Fifth Avenue West
Elizabeth Ann Norris
Seventh Avenue West
Cecil H. Timberlake
Samuel Irwin
R. A. Sparkman
Nashville, Tenn
Miss Eloise Sparkman
Little Larry Joe Yarbrough
Sara Neville
Tuscaloosa
Mrs. Rayburn Neville
Trinity
J. O. Colvard
Florence
William Martin
Billy
East Vine Street
Hair Style Review
Decatur Armory
Decatur Hairdressers’ Association
All Decatur
Beauty Shops
Alice Marble
Helen Follett
Lawrence County
Capitol Theatre
Darryl F.zzanuck
Irving Pichel
20Th Century-Fox Pictu Oran
Gene A
Henry Fonda
Dorothy Lamour
Bob Steele
Billy the Kid's
Linda Darnell
Chad
Hanna
Walter D. Edmonds
Technicolor
Limestone County
Pettusville
B. F .Hodges
Lola M. Pettus
Virginia Robinson
Frank Spencer
Iry
Bill Powers
Athens
Lola Pettus
Joe Molt
Mamie Pettus
Benton Pettis
Annie Holt
Bertha Robinson
Beulah Spence
Homey Dunnavant
John — Atkinson
Ruby Spence
Piney Chapel
Otispollen
Raymond Gilbert
Ditiytown
Pettus Tamale
Aaron Harlow
Arverticor
Claud Shubert
Our Village
Howard Mead and Son
John Head
Vann’ Head
R. E B. Hodges
Clifton Hodges
B. B. Scoggins
Ruth Scoggins
J. D. Harlow
Carl Spence
Jess Hobbs
Max Hobbs
Thomas Davis
Luthie Locke
Roy.Hatchett
Joe Holt
Homer Durriavant
Lola M Pettus
Elkmont High School
Alvin Holt
R. Ff. Scogain
Erskin Bates
Robert Daly
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
Gopr
Nerolecraft Service, Inc
Decatur's
NEW Theatre
ROXY
Trail OF the
Ray Corrigan
John King
Shirley Temple
Broadway
Hepburn
Ruth Hussey
John Howard
Roland Young
John Halliday
Mary Nash
Virginia Weidler
Walt Disney
Goofy
Goidel’s
Rooney
Ith Fay Bainte Eorge
Bancrofirginia
Weidler
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Vie Labile
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