Personal notices from a town long ago
Local society items list residents visiting relatives and traveling. Names include Mies Metelle Hendrix, Albert Clopton, Mrs Ben Craig, Miss Elizabeth Craig, Mrs K Vaughn, George Jackson Jr, Raymond Srygiey, David Webb, Mr and Mrs Joe Rector, Mrs B W Watson, Miss Abigail Crawford, Miss Frances Cooke, Ben Craig Jr, Mrs R C Berry, Mrs James Tolley, Mr Glenn Newharinga, Mrs E A Bradley, Mrs J R Griffin, and Mrs A W Hil with movements between Auburn Florence Birmingham Memphis Moulton Cullman Decatur Akron Goodyear plant and various homes and hospitals.
Athens Personal News Recaps Week End Visits and Returns
Local column lists week end trips returnees and visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Young Wall and Mrs. J M Hatfield spent the weekend in Nashville with friends. Mrs Harper Cole returned from a two week visit in Goodwater Alabama. Christine Wilson returned from the University. Baylis Hightower and Van Gilbert visited Hartselle. Odelle Stewart left for Pulaski Tennessee to stay until Thursday. Stewart is a TVA home economist teacher for the district and Pulaski. Jennie Hobbs Garth returned from a year at the University. Lonnie Lanier left for Florence on business. Students returning for summer include Billy Malone Maclin Pri Jake Teks Roy Malone Jr Winston Garth Jr Billy Hagan from McCallie. Ruth Crutcher from Alabama College Martha Anne Malone from Brenau Academy. Malone honored into Academy Honorary. Richard Tyler Wood guest of his parents from Chicago. Mrs J W Blackburn formerly Olga Isom and a former high school teacher visited Athens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Stewart
TVA
Pulaski
Jennie Hobbs Garth
Univer
Lonnie Lanier
Florence
Amog
Billy Malone
Maclin Pri
Jake Teks
The
University
Roy Malone, Jr
Birmingham Southern
Winston Garth, Jr
Billy Hagan
McCallie
Chatenceenal
Ruth Crutcher
Alabama College
Martha Anne Malone
Brenau Academy
Gainesville
Malone
Academy
Richard Tyler Wood
Chicago
George H. Wood
J. W. Blackburn
Paris
Texas
Olga Isom
Athens
Relative visits and student travels span Asheville and Auburn
Miss Wilma Jane Patterson will return Monday night from Auburn where she attended college the past two semesters. After spending a week here she will return there for summer school to receive her degree in the fall. Lucien Bloodworth and Emmett Phillips of Birmingham were guests of Miss Dorine Knouff. Town Creek's Dr and Mrs R M McGlathery hosted a Sunday guest. Taplin Hanson visits from Auburn after a year at A P I for summer study then returns next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Craig
Florace
Elizabeth Craig
Wilma Jane Patterson
Auburn
Dorine Knouff
Town Creek
R. M. McGlathery
Taplin Hanson
A. T. Hanson
A. P. I. Auburn
Tax Collection Gains Across State Top One Million Dollars
Montgomery May 27 AP Gains in state tax collections from January 19 to date exceed one million dollars totaling 6,472,009 with a net increase of 1,001,443 over 1934. Largest gains came from gasoline taxes 34,674 corporation franchises 245,711 tobacco 133,718 and income assessments 195,501.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Henry Long
State Tax Commission
Long
Tax Commission
Belcher Rites Held For Mrs. Belcher At Roselawn
Mrs. Willie B. Belcher aged 42 died at her Athens Route 1 home Saturday. Funeral services led by Rev. Will Steelman were held at her residence, with burial at Roselawn cemetery. She is survived by husband W. G. Belcher, four daughters Myrtle Cramer Hester Irene Martha, two sons William and Henry, her parents Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Thomas, and three brothers Lonnie Roy Monroe Thomas, all of Decatur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie B. Belcher
Athens
Roselawn
Will Steelman
Belcher
W. G. Belcher
Myrtle Cramer
Misses Hester
Irene
Martha Belcher
William
Henry Belcher
M. T. Thomas
Lonnie, Roy and
Monroe Thomas
Decatur
White Man Shot Negro Held In Jail
A man named Mack Steakley was treated at Benevolent Society Hospital for a pistol wound in the right leg after a shooting on lower Bank Street around 7 30 Sunday night. Richard Previtt, a Black man, was jailed in Morgan County pending assault and shooting charges filed by R H Moore, relative to the victim. Hospital attendants said Steakley’s condition was not dangerous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mack Steakley
Benevolent Society
Richard Previtt
Morgan County
Eaid
Lower Bank’ Street
Steakley
Brown
R. H. Moore
Old Fruit Desserts and Pineapple Betty Guide
SISTER MARY'S KITCHEN presents fresh fruit desserts for hot weather including sugared cherries rhubarb compote and pineapple betty. directions cover washing pitting sugar marinating rhubarb and baking with bread crumbs butter and orange with cinnamon and cloves. Also notes cold lunch ideas and a deep sea platter with salmon tuna shrimp sardines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary E. Dague
Rhubard
Record Insurance Policy Rumored
It was reported that U S Steel has arranged with eight life insurers for a large group life policy worth about 40 million dollars for around 200000 employees. Insurers named include Aetna Life Insurance Co Equitable Life Assurance Society General American Life Insurance Co John
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.S. Steel Corporation
Aetna Life Insurance Co
Equitable Life Assurance Society
The
U. S
General American Life Insurance Co
John
Simple Summer Frocks Pattern 2322 By Anne Adams
Pattern 2322 offers casual warm weather frocks with a cool yoke sleeve and four pleated skirts. Sizes 12 through 40 available. size 16 requires 3 1/2 yards of 36 inch fabric. Includes illustrated sewing instructions. Price 15 cents. pattern and book together 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Annie Adams
Decatur Pattern Department
West 1
Btreet
New York City
Boosters Arrive Early Wednesday in City
The booster train with 66 leading businessmen and a 12 piece band will stop at Grant street at 1 a.m. Wednesday. They detrain at 8 a.m. to be greeted by a city delegation. Mayor Nelson will present city keys to L. Lee Gamble. The visit includes bouquets, a city tour, a program at Princess theater, and speeches, followed by a band concert before departure to Athens at 9 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Street
Boosters
James A. Nelson
L. Lee Gamble
Princess Theater
E. W. McLeod
Chamber of Commerce
Boosters Unit
Athens
Princess Theatre
Nashville Boosters to be greeted in Athens
Plans set for a 9 30 Wednesday morning welcome of the Nashville Boosters in Athens. A brief meeting on the east side of the courthouse will feature talks by Fred Wall and Dr. E R Naylor. The official welcome will be given by D L Rosenau Jr with a reception committee led by Mayor R H Richardson Jr and other local leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Ala
Nashville Boosters
Fred Wall
E. R. Naylor
D. L. Rosenau, Jr
R. H. Richardson, Jr
D. L. Rosenau
Merchant
Merchant, and Dr. Naylor
Athens College
Dr Ruth Dean Denied New Hearing In Murder Case
Mississippi supreme court refused to reopen Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean Greenwood woman physician in a life sentence for murder tied to the poison whisky highball death of her surgeon associate Dr John Preston Kennedy The high court overruled error suggestions and dismissed the appeal in Jackson May 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson, Miss
Mississippi Supreme Court
Sarah Ruth Dean
Greenwood
John Preston Kennedy
High Court
Insurance firms cited in historical report
Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. of America and Travelers Insurance Co. are named in the document. The excerpt references these entities as part of a discussion on policy providers and financial institutions. No dates or actions are specified.
Brothers Slain in Family Row in Mississippi
In Zama, Attala County, Mississippi, Clinton Arnold, 38, and Ernest Arnold, 36, were killed in a family dispute. Ernest was shot by his brother, and Ernest’s 14 year old stepson Edgar Hay then killed Clinton. Edgar Hay is in Attala county jail on a murder charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kosciusko
Miss
Clinton Arnold
Ernest Arnold
Attala County
Zama
Here
W. T. Blanton
Edgar Hay
Blanton
Kidnap Notes Warn of Rules and Ransom Demand
A taunting message claims three years of planning and warns victims to follow its rules. It threatens to return a loved one within a week for a $200000 ransom if rules are followed, asserting the writer is educated and capable of avoiding discovery.
Three Suspects Held After Farmstead Incident
Sheriff Blanton said officers released no bond pending a preliminary hearing. He noted the affair occurred on a farm place near a community where the three persons involved lived in the same house, with details still unavailable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mies Metelle Hendrix
Sneg Eee
Albert Clopton
J. W. Clapton
Mrs. K. Vaughn
George Jackson, Jr
Akron
Ohio
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Raymond Srygiey
Birmingham
R. M. McGrathery
David Webb
Sheffield
T. A. Caddell
Ae He
Joe Rector
Oklahoma City
Morristown
Tenn
Harold Doss
Moulton
B. W. Watson
Pineapple, Ala
William C. Watson
Abigail Crawford
William C
Frances Cooke
Cullman
Ben Craig, Jr
Jackson
Benevolent Hospital
R.C. Berry
Hamilton
James Tolley
Birmingham Infirmary
Tolley
Belle Mina
Ellen Irvine
Glenn A. Newharinga
E. A. Bradley
Memphis
J. R. Griffin
Birming
Ms. A. W. Hil
Koko Mikami
United States
Commercial Printing Department
Decatur Dany
Asheville
N. C
Lucien Bloodworth
Emmett Phillips
Treasury of State
Peter Dana
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Jack Fisher
Sister Mary’s
Princess, Ride
Ruth Dean
Princess
Hollywood
Hollywood Studios
Apatite
Constantine
Mississippi
Moye
Move’s Beauty
Aaa
Disney
Oy Rid LD
Rosemary Ames
Kitten
Fawerdeutche” Gate
Ster Wydenven
Reser Reber
Ialee Py Jehe Directed
Leighton Pialsee
Shirley
Our
Little
Joel McCrealyle Talbot
Erin O'Brienmoore
Princess Howing
Ture
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