Athens Society Notes Highlight Summer Weddings and Club Plans
Athens Alabama society pages report several weddings including Nancy June Rawls and Lieut. Donald B Kennedy at West Point. Also announced are Opal Lee Kent and Lloyd Patrick nuptials in Owens Cross Roads and Ruby Hendon to Charles William Howell in Brooklyn. Community events include a bride-to-be party for Anna Powers, Happy Band Circle plans, WCTU program notes, Joe Wheeler PTA committee setup, and Spinsters Club activities with Christmas planning and a weiner roast at White Springs.
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Baerepr-Ba
Athens
Mies
Nancy June Rawls
Walter Rewils
San Antonio
Texas
Donald B. ‘Kennedy
Charleston
Texas University
Kennedy
Kelly Field
Army Air Corps
Mitchell Field
New York
R. M. Rawls
Alabama Courier
John Kent
Owens Cross Roads
Opal Lee
Lloyd Patrick
Birm
Clyde Patrick
Roy Stone
Patrick
Birmingham
Ragland Bros
Ala
Anna Powers
William Morris Anderson
Weakley Cunningham
Elizabeth Malone
A. Powers
Widwina Powers
Frances Hightower
Ann Kimbrough
Line Street
Bessie Peach
Edith Kloppfer
Elinor Green
Carolyn Zeiller
Mary Sue Hardin
Jane Harris
Eees
Ruth Banks
Marge Penick Jones
Nell Glenn Moorer
Louisa Barnett
Weiner
White Springs
Kimbrough
Personal notices highlight local college and travel plans
Mrs Seybourn Lynne and baby visit Knoxville relatives. Several students head to colleges including Alabama and University of Tennessee. Local residents plan moves and trips to Birmingham Huntsville and Hot Springs with teaching posts and family visits noted.
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Earle Calvin
University of Alabama
Favorite of Earliest Quiltmakers in Laura Wheeler Pattern
In early quilt days the Pineapple pattern was a favorite for its beauty and ease of cutting strips. Pattern 2891 includes accurate pieces, block diagram, cutting and sewing instructions, finishing steps, yardage chart, and quilt diagram. Send ten cents and provide pattern number name and address to Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Avenue York NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur Daily
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
York
N.Y
Homewood City Council Volunteers for Civilian Defense
Mayor E. C. Bloom and ten council members volunteer for civilian defense work in Homewood. Bloom is appointed chief air raid warden for the area by Col. R. M. Nolan, executive director of the Jefferson county defense council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
E. C. Bloom
Homewood City Council
R. M. Nolan
Jefferson County Defense Council
Narcotic Cache Spurs Kilby Prison Probe
Discovery of a narcotic cache in the heel of a shoe worn by a capitol trusty led Col. W. B. Persons to order that nine convicts who work in the capitol building be segregated from others. The cache, described as constructed by addicts within Kilby, was found by Howard Thames, the capitol custodian. The prison director said the cache shows a traffic in narcotics at Kilby and warned of possible injury or death if the drugs had been obtained.
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Montgomery
Ala
Capitol Trusty
Col. W. B. Persons
Kilby
Capitol Building
Howard Thames
Capitol
Yreens
Community Notes From Ellisville and Surrounding Areas
Most farmers in the community are busy picking cotton and hauling hay. Mr. and Mrs. Truman Aldridge returned to Flomaton after a week with relatives here. Virgil McDaniel of the U S army, stationed in Virginia, visits his parents. The Humpreys of Birmingham spent Monday night with Mrs. Johnie McDaniel. Walter Looney now works at Huntsville. The McKay family spent Sunday with the Aldridges. The Looney and Phelton Looney families attended a Sunday gathering with the Hill and Aldridge households. Mrs. Felix Aldridge and Mrs. Clifford Aldridge were in Decatur Saturday. Clarence Aldridge and family visited John Aldridge on Sunday. Aulton Blankenship and family spent Sunday with Mrs. Georgia Segars. Clifford Aldridge and daughter visited Mrs. G. A. Adair and family at Cove Spring.
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Truman Aldridge
Flomaton
Virgil McDaniel
U. S. Army
Virginia
Bill Humprey
Birmingham
Johnie McDaniel
Walter Looney
Huntaville
O. W. McKay
Felix Aldridge
Phelton Looney
Loos
L. P. Hill
Clifford Aldridge
Decatur
Clarence Aldridge
John Aldridge
Aulton Blankenship
Georgia Segars
G. A. Adair
Cove Spring
Jobs at Big Plant Report Shows Morgan County Residents Hired
E. B. Coffey, personnel director at the Huntsville arsenal plant, reports 83 Morgan County residents have jobs on the project, or 5.4 percent of all workers. Current employment reaches 1,522, with an expected total of about 12,000 during construction.
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E. 8. Coffey
Huntsville Arsenal
Morgan County
Mother killed by car in front of home in Gadsden
Mrs. O Hl Cornelius died after being struck by an automobile in front of her Gadsden home last night. Her husband and several children survive.
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Gadsden
Ala
O.hl. Cornelius
All Night Singing at Hamby's Chapel Sept 6
The annual all night singing is set for Hamby's Chapel church on Saturday night September 6. The committee invites everyone to attend and especially invites all singers for a night of good singing and a good time.
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Hamby’s Chapel
Spencer Resigns as State Bridge Engineer for Army Center Post
H. G. Spencer an Auburn alumnus and senior engineer in the state highway department bridge division resigns to take a role as consultant engineer at the army training center under construction at Ozark.
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Montgomery
Ala
H. G. Spencer
Auburn
State Highway Department
Army Training Center
Ozark
Safe Ways to Use Depilatories for Arm and Leg Hair
Advice on removing body hair with depilatories and alternatives. Discusses shaving, bleaching, and chemical depilatories, including application tips, timing, skin safety, and testing for allergies. Recommends avoiding overuse, not applying after antiperspirants, and testing on the arm first.
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Howell
Brooklyn
Happy Band
Happy Band Circle
L.G. Smith
Wo C-T. Ur
P. H. Sandlin
J. R. Huie
J. E. Blair
Eugene Speer
Tuscaloosa
Joe Wheeler
Persinger Parker
J. T. Weatherly
Elizabeth Jones
Tom Phillips
R. L. Penn
L. BE. Moody
Ernest Wilson
el Circulo Espanol
Rosemary la Planche
California
Atlantic City
Frances Marie Burke
Philadelphia
Mary Elizabeth McClure
Teerday F. Montavelette
Berni
Scheola
W. J. Sandhin
Sixth Avenue East
Baptist Hospital
8. H. Malone
Frances
Rauschenberg
Greenville, D. C
Sara Neville
Mrs. Rayburn Neville
Trinity
Gulf Coast
W. F. Rauschenberg
Helen Rauschenberg
Rayburn Neville
W. E. Kimbrough
Betty Foster Pointer
R. L. Handley
Kitty Ivy
J. L. Sanders
Huntsville
Thomas Pettey and Son
Reeder
Wells Street
Constance Peerson
Alabama College
Emma Hunter
Anna Nabors
Boothton, Ala
J. R. Hunter
Pi Kappa Alpha
Nan Ingram
University of Tennessee
Guy Blackwell
D. C. Shaw
Bill Hammond
J. C. Finney
Maurice. Walton
Joe Calvin
St Ar
Luke Pryor
Rey. Sturgis
R. L. Sturgis, Sr
Rock Hill
N. C
Warren Sherrow
T. Z. Bailey
Thomas and
Brad Bibb
Hot Springs
Ark
Jack Dillehay
Hot Springs, Ark
H. R. Davis
Baby Bess Beatty
Newsander
Arrid
Goidel’s
Ideal Beauty Shop
Grant &T
Paulette
Fred Paulette Astaire
Goddard
Skc
Pas
Pietere
Artie Shaw
Meredith
Gloria Byrnes
United States Supreme Court
James P. Byrnes
South Carolina
Tom Heflin
Alabama
Helen Englert
New Orleans
Feron Dumas
Arkansas
Madeline Smith
Mississippi
Gen
Robert E. Lee
Mitzi Strother
Florida
Davy Crockett
Louise Baker
Miami
Laura Wheeler
Ruby Terry
Grant St
Bee A. L. Moye
Move Beauty Shop
Lawrence County
Ellisville
Spencer
Lydia E. Pinkham
Allen’s Beauty Shoppe
Bank &T
G. H. Nungester
Helen Follett
Brenda Joyce
Rotabnd Russell
G&clarence Browns
Bombay
Jessie Ralph
Reginald Owen
Matthew Boulton
Een
Peter Lorre
Clarence Brown
Hunt Stromberg
Ric
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