Somerville Road School May Program Highlights
Somerville Road School hosts a May program Tuesday at 9 30 a m featuring Mrs Sixth Grade and Miss Hendon Fifth Grade pupils. Public invited to attend and enjoy the performances. Summ er Round Up planned for First Grade enrollment with Dr L R Murphree on Wednesday at 8 30 p m for examinations and vaccinations. Scout Troop One hosts a Mother Daughter party at Central Methodist Church basement with corsages, a program, and refreshments. Music Week at Central Methodist Church features Decatur Music Study Club artists and local performers in observance of National Music Week. Intermediate Girl Scout Troop meets at First Methodist Church for an outdoor party on the Canal with games and refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerville Road School
L. R. Murphree
Theentral Methodist Church
George White
Joan Harrison
Maitland McCulloch
Barbara Ryan
Mary Allen Spencer
Lois Tonn
Kathryn Ann Wiley
Patsy Ann Mar
Central Methodist Church
Decature Music Study Club
George Jackson
Florence
W. R. Norton
Russellville
E. R. Naylor
Athens
Clio Levin
Music Week
First Methodist Church
Albert Clapton
Comer Ezell
Canal
Fourth Avenue
Personal notices from a town social scene
The column lists visits and family events with several military moves and travel notes. Clarence and Tim berlake returned from a honeymoon trip. Major Foster and Mrs. Foster welcomed a son. Lt. Bloodworth and Lt. Grimes visit home on leave. families in Brownsville Knoxville and Columbia host relatives for Mother's Day and holidays.
Pattern 4739 combines cotton and percale for daily wear
Pattern 4739 offers misses sizes 12 through 20 and women's sizes 30 to 44 with required fabric estimates. The ad promotes a needlework pattern set, requests twenty cents, and directs readers to The Decatur Daily Pattern Dept New York for the patterns and a larger Anne Adams pattern book for fifteen more cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Daily
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Anne Adams
Victory Farm Volunteers Aid Alabama Potato Harvest
About 800 high school boys from across Alabama, aged 14 to 17, work as Victory Farm Volunteers in Baldwin County. Recruited by the Extension Service and schools, they help harvest, grade, and ship potatoes to support wartime food production as crop yields lag behind last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin County
Alabama
Extension Service
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Victory Farm Volunteers
U. S. Crop Corp
G. J. Fowler
Victory Farm
Morgan County Notes Visit Friends in Local Sunday Gatherings
Orlen Burnett and J P Thorn Hill of Danville visited Sunday afternoon. Families from Hartselle and Neel called on local residents including Mr and Mrs Homer Bogar and Mr and Mrs Edward Wright. W M S meeting announced for Thursday with all ladies invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orlen Burnett
J. P. Thornhill
Danville
Homer Bogar
Felix Pannell
Carl Shaneyfelt
Noah McGee
George Eaton
Maurice Knox
Hubert Lee
Thery Knox
Edward Wright
Local Social Notes from Morgan County Corinth
Several residents attended Friendship Sunday decoration. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carter of Andrews visited Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Carter. Tom Watt Thoronton attended Harrison Aaron’s birthday dinner with a noon buffet. Paul Kilpatrick called for U S Army exam. Jehrome Cooper heads to the Army Friday. J H Rigby vacationing in Indiana and Illinois. Hoover Cobb visiting Danville relatives. Bruce Bonds and Barto Blair in Cullman on business. Stanley Holland and family guests of his mother Laura Holland. Mrs. T A Price visiting J D Bonds. Fay Thoronton spent weekend with Olie Geranade and family. Mrs. James Oden called on Mrs. Howard Evans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friendship
Robert Carter
Andrews
T. P. Carter
Tom Watt Thoronton
Harrison Aaron
Paul Kilpatrick
U. S Army
Jehrome Cooper
U.S. Army
J. H. Rigby
Indiana
Illinois
Hoover Cobb
Danville
Bruce Bonds
Barto Blair
Cullman
Stanley Holland
Rual
Laura Holland
T. A. Price
J. D. Bonds
Fay Thoronton
Olie Geranade
James Oden
Howard Evans
War front poem from sailors sobers home readers
Sailors led by Thomas Fee Dodd publish a stark home front article urging civilians to unite with combat troops. It portrays the South Pacific battlefields, the Arlington Cemetery of the tropics, and the daily sacrifices of Marines and sailors including campaigns on Guadalcanal. It contrasts labor strikes with wartime duty and calls workers to support victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Fee Dodd
Dodd
Annie Dodd
Decatur
U. S. Navy
Arlington Cemetery
South Pacific
Valhalla
Sealark Channel
Mr. Striker
Death
Tom Jones
Dick Brown
Harry Smith
Tropics
Defense
Uncle Sam
Labor
America
Land of
Striker
John L. Lewis
Welder
Guadalcanal
Women should enlist in the WACS and serve country
Dorothy Dix urges unmarried women with schooling and health to join the Women’s Army Corps, noting equal pay, advancement, and benefits with men while supporting the war effort. The column argues parents’ restrictions are unjust and highlights the corps diverse job options and postwar career potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss DIX
WACS
Women’s Army Corps
WAC
Patterned apron and needlework catalog offer
An ad invites 15 cents for a transfer embroidery pattern apron and a 32 page Needlecraft Catalog with 133 illustrations. A wartime narrative recalls U S veterans returning, battles from Guadalcanal to Gettysburg, veterans’ sacrifice, and Brazil’s freedom of worship in a general, patriotic tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Daily
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
B. M. Bloodworth
Clarence Kent Timberlake
Points South
W. W. Foster, Jr
Washington,d. C
St. Margaret's Hospital
Montgomery
Major Foster
Washington
Foster
Louise Turner
B. A. Turner
James N. Bloodworth
Camp Barkeley
Texas
Ben Bloodworth
J. W. Darrah, Jr
Johnny
Brownsville
Colonel Darrah
Mrs
J. W. Darrah, Sr
J. M. Minor
Johnston Street
Phil Werner
Tuscaloosa
F. W. Woolworth
Ae Werner
Baby
Ater
Loyd Lively
Kathleen
New York City
Points
Pennsylvania
E. D. Bailey, Jr
Martha
Rufus Porter
Tuscumbia
Mrs. White
Columbia, Tenn
W. F. Childers
A. S. Kirkland
Birmingham
W. P. Baugh
Chattanooga, Tenn
John Grigsby
Elkton,Tenn
W. M. Voorhies
John D. Grimes
W. L.grimes
Grant Street
T. C. Corps Classification Center
Jimmy Davis
Llness
James Davis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Moye’s
Pettey’s Cleaners
Morgan County
Lebanon
Ruth Shaneyfelt
Morgan County Corinth
Sally
Dorothy Dix
USS
Sam
The
Bell Syndicate Inc
Slacker
A. F
Mr. Coal Miner
Roonmr
Railroad Man
Los Angeles
Frisco
Seattle
Middle Town
Japan
Red Cross of Mercy
Mother Earth
Five Sullivan
Brothers
Juneau
Schmidt
Diamond
Rivers
Coral Sea
Wake Island
Argonne
Belleau Wood
Bull Run
Gettysburg
Lexington
Concord
Bunker Hill
You
Brazil
Carmen
PEKOE
Helene Curtis
Evelyn’s Beauty Shop
Over ‘Speake
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
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