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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1952
Page
6
Society notes announce the Cotillion Club regular meeting scheduled for Friday September 5 at seven oclock in the evening at the Lyons Hotel. Attendance was urged for a strong gathering.
The Brookmeade Garden Club meets September 9 at 10 am in Mrs. Norman Harris’s home. Mrs. Julian Harris hosts. speaker Mrs. Ben Britnell on fall planting and an informal garden plot designed for color and effect.
A roundup of local social items notes Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Slate and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rowe visiting the Smoky Mountains and Indian pageant in Cherokee. It lists hospital updates, travels to Nashville and Birmingham, and guests at weddings and gatherings.
Mt. Nebo Baptist church will host an all day singing this Sunday starting at 10 AM with dinner at noon. Guest quartets and trios include the Melody Girls of Ft. Payne the Melody Trio of Blountsville the Thomas Family of Trade the Charlie McKay family of Arley the Hardin and Summerford quartet from Falkville and other singers. Mt. Nebo is seven miles NW of Cullman and two miles south of Longview. Allen Humphries, chairman, invites the public.
In Birmingham Douglas Fairbanks Cochran 25 was mistaken three times for fugitive convict David Taylor. Each time he was questioned at length and released with apologies. Taylor, handcuffed, escaped from officers en route to an Alabama prison after a mass breakout.
Malayan government reports that RAF bombings of Communist jungle hideouts caused wild elephants to stampede into cultivated areas. Floyd Sherrod Jr spent the holiday weekend in Tullahoma Tennessee with Mr and Mrs Patrick Sandlin and daughter Sarah Scott. the Sherrods have returned home while Floyd Jr stayed longer.
The Decatur City Teachers institute meets at 8 30 A M in the Decatur high school library with Rev Paul Krohn opening devotionals and four discussion periods led by Alabama Education Association officials. New teachers include Mrs Virginia Brigham Somerville Road school Mrs Fay Camp Somerville Road grade one Miss Mary Lou Cannon Somerville Road grade one Mrs Nell Clem Decatur high school commercial Mrs William Crawford Decatur high school industrial arts Mrs Sarah B Fant Somerville Road school Mrs Leah Hays Decatur high school and Joy Howell Gordon Bibb upper grade.
Frank L Grove secretary of the Alabama Education Association will lead the discussion at the annual Decatur city teachers institute on Thursday He has led Alabama teachers for 25 years and was honored with an oil portrait by the AEA last year He edits the Alabama School Journal.
A brief note confirms Spitsbergen became governed by Norway in 1925 following a shift in territorial oversight. The statement anchors Spitsbergen’s long status under Norwegian administration since that year.
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