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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1944
Page
5
Mrs. B M Bloodworth reports Elizabeth Leemon wed Rev. Jasper Kelley of Lawrenceburg Tennessee in Florence on May 14 with Rev C E Harbin officiating. After a wedding trip to Ohio they will reside in Lawrenceburg Tennessee.
A reader argues a husband should share the car for one night despite a wife’s control of it, while a second query about public displays of affection elicits a cautionary answer. The column closes with a note on butter burial as a historical curiosity.
Miss Mary Robertson will leave soon to spend a month at her Powderly Alabama home before returning. Mrs. Alex Phillips formerly Jane Bethany and her young daughter will depart for California after visiting Mrs. C. Lt. George Sarles Jr. and Mrs. Sarles visited his parents in Cleveland. Mrs. Sarles visits her mother, while Lt. Sarles moves to Fort Bragg. Lt. C. W. Ethany Jr. on Corsica reports via letter he is well.
The Office of Price Administration announced expected sharp watermelon price cuts this summer. Ceilings will be set for country shipping points and wholesalers to reflect parity returns to growers. Retail mark ups will translate into consumer price ceilings from an undetermined start date until July 4 at 33 dollars a ton, then 26 dollars a ton through season end.
The Rubber Reserve Company has purchased more than 1,000,000 short tons of scrap material since June 1942.
Dear reader seeks help for lonely evenings during war time. Dorothy Dix prescribes developing a love of reading with engaging stories or learning a trade to aid future income, suggesting a nightly hour of reading to become a “bookworm” and avoid restlessness.
Anne Adams offers pattern 4714 a soft flattering dress in cool cotton with a tiny ruffle trim and contrasting jacket. Available in women sizes 32 through 48 and requires 314 yards of 35 inch fabric. Also sells needlework motifs and a larger 32 page pattern book with free patterns.
Decorative crochet presents pineapple design doilies with two sizes for lunch sets, buffets or dressers. Pattern 859 lists stitches materials and directions. Send fifteen cents in coins to Daily 42 Needlecraft Dept 82 Eighth Avenue New York 11 N Y. Write plainly PATTERN NUM
An advertisement offers a new Needlecraft catalog at fifteen cents more. The catalog features 32 pages and 133 illustrations of embroidery knitting crochet quilts home decoration and toys. The push targets readers seeking needlework designs.
Sheriff John Starke confronts a hot Elberton scene after a prisoner returns to the car for a weapon left behind. The incident highlights tense expectations as officers recover the six shooter amid the heat of day.
The dust bowl of the southwest at its peak in the dry 1930s blanketed about 16,000,000 acres, signaling one of the era's most severe agricultural and environmental crises.
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