P T A CLOSES YEAR AT Lafayette Street Grammar School
Society notes report Lafayette Street Grammar School P T A holds its final meeting of the year with president Charles Winston presiding. Mrs. J W Shearers presents a devotional on Jesus Homes and Mrs. Paul F. Dix leads installation and honors officers and long-time members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette Street Grammar School
Charles I Winston
J. W. Shearers
Paul F. Dix
Lafayette Street Grammar” School
Mary Banks Terrell
Winston
Congress of Parents and Teachers
Montgomery
Royer
Meeting closes with benediction at Decatur group event
Rev Foster led singing while Mrs. Edgar Saunders served as recreational director for the evening. Rev Freer gave the benediction as about thirty one young people joined hands in a friendly circle and ended the meeting with a moment of reflection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Christian Church
Decatur
Christian Youth Fellowship
District One
O. T. Foster
Cullman
Elmer Freer
van Boskins
Florence
Foster
Edgar Saunders
Freer
Personal notices of visits and local movements
Local residents plan extended visits and short trips. Margie Corley returns home with her parents after graduating from Huntingdon College in Montgomery. W A Hoppers and Katherine Hoppers visited Selma to see David Hoppers receive his wings. Lt. Hoppers accompanies them home for a brief leave. Mrs Harold Hildreth of Tuscaloosa visits sisters Echols and Lynne for a week. Georgie Miller underwent a minor Birmingham hospital operation and is recovering. Pvt Homer Shelton at Shepard Field spends furlough with wife and children. Henry Sigman and family relocate to a renovated home on Line and East Walnut. Lt Richard H Albrecht, now with 2138th Base Unit at Craig Field, Selma, is a visiting guest of the Catletts. Joseph J Johnson and wife travel to Tuscaloosa for his medical studies at the University of Alabama after his service as a War Food Administration supervisor.
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W. A. Hoppers
Katherine Hoppers
Selma
David Hoppers
Craig Field
Lt. Hoppers
Richard H. Albrecht
Massilon
Ohio
Ala
R. E.catlett
Joseph J. Johnson
Tuscaloosa
Johnson
University of Alabama
Food Administration
All Day Singing at Union Grove Baptist Church
The community is invited to an all day singing on Sunday May 28 at the Union Grove Baptist Church in Morgan County. The event is open to the public and will feature hymn singing and fellowship.
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Union Grove
Morgan County
Anne Adams pattern details for toddler sundress and patterns
Todays pattern by Anne Adams features a cotton sundress for toddlers with butterfly wings, sunsuit bon net and panties. Pattern 4800 offers sizes 2 to 6 and includes yardage for 35 inch fabric. Also includes a needlework motif collection. Send twenty cents to The Decatur Daily Pattern Dept for patterns and size information.
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Anne Adams
Decatur Daily
Pattern Dept
West 17Th
New York
N. Y
Summer Hand Conditioning for Gardeners
A vintage beauty notice advises gardeners to protect and pamper their hands. It emphasizes gloves during digging and proposes cornmeal cleansers lemon rubs and daily lotions to keep hands young and smooth through summer labor. It describes massaging lanolin from fingertips to wrists and caring for cuticles to prevent damage.
Army life and youth warn against rash marriage
Dorothy Dix counsels a 18-year-old considering marriage to a 16-year-old to delay nuptials, noting both are too young and the girl’s wish for luxury will clash with army life. She warns debt and discord will doom the partnership, urging the boy to reconsider. A separate exchange on silent spouses finds the woman often initiates conversation, while a wife and husband debate smoking and harmony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy DIX
Mama
Papa
Lions Club Meeting Reports and Delegates Named
Members and guests of the Lions club met at the Hotel Lyons noon Tuesday for a briefing. Delegates and alternates to the state Lions convention were listed from the Decatur club with new member B G Ryan welcomed to the club.
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Lions Club
J. C. Blaylock
Chicago
Burns
New Orleans
L. E. Shaw
Charles Dominick
Decatur
Lyons
Lions
Charlie Ed Howell
Sam Wheat
George White
R. B. Freeman
Ed Rogers
Bill Stone
James Wade
Robert McMasters
B. G. Ryan
Lawrence County MT Hope Social Notes and Health Test Results
Local social notes record visits and travel among residents of Lawrence County and nearby towns including Moulton Russellville Hatton and Gulfport. A health department report from Montgomery notes Sumter county showing syphilis evidence among tested residents and outlines a state plan to broaden compulsory blood tests across Alabama counties.
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Montgomery
State Health Department
Sumter County
Alabama
Needlecraft Pattern 856 for Embroidered Apron
Advertises a transfer embroidery pattern 856 for a luxurious apron with lazy-daisy motifs. Includes pattern pieces and directions. price fifteen cents plus mailing to Needlecraft Dept at 82 Eighth Avenue New York. Also offers a 32 page Needlecraft Catalog for fifteen cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Daily
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Masonic Lodge Plans Past Master Celebration Event
The Masonic lodge schedules the Past Master Celebration for Monday May 2 at the Masonic temple. Supper by Eastern Star at 6 45 p.m. in the dining room, then blue lodge meets at 7 30 p.m. with a team of past masters conferring a master degree. Refreshments during intermission and visiting Masons invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Masonic Lodge
Irs
Masonic Temple
Eastern
Temple
Blue Lodge
Governor Sparks Endorses Jewish Havens Proposal
Montgomery May 24 Gov Chauncey Sparks yesterday endorsed a proposal to establish havens in the country for Jews rescued from Nazi dominated Hungary. The endorsement came in reply to a request by former Gov Alfred E Smith of New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Chauncey Sparks
Hungary
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Back to Camp Pvt. Victor Compton Returns to City
Pvt. Victor Compton returns to San Francisco after furlough with his parents Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Compton at Rescue Morgan County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Compton
San Francisco
Cal
FE. C. Compton
Rescue
Morgan County
Patton Promotion Held Up by Senate Military Panel
The Senate military affairs committee delayed action on Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. advancing from colonel to major general over a slapping incident. The panel favored promotions for Somervell McNarney Marshall and Wainwright Stilwell to higher ranks, while no formal ruling was made on Patton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
George S. Patton, Jr
Patton
Cavalry
Chandler
D-Ky
Sane
Brehon B. Somervell
Army Service Forces
Joseph T. McNarney
George C. Marshall
Jonathan
Wainoaghe
Joseph W. Stilwell
China
Ruling on Ice Cream Labeling in Alabama
Montgomery May 24 The attorney general ruled that a mixture with less than eight percent milk fat cannot be sold as ice cream in Alabama. He advised that a product resembling ice cream but not an imitation may be sold under a trade name if the place of manufacture appears on the label.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
William McQueen
Agriculture and Industries
Joe N. Poole
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