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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1949
Page
6
Athens residents Mr and Mrs Thomas Fink Byars announce the engagement of their daughter Jo Anne to Herman Clifford Andrews Jr son of Mr and Mrs Herman Clifford Andrews Sr of Athens. The wedding is planned for September 14.
James Norwood Jr. is at home after summer school at Alabama Polytechnic Institute Auburn. Mr. and Mrs. James N. Garnett and family spent Labor Day weekend in Tuscumbia at the Hurston family reunion. Margaret Ann Norwood will return home Tuesday from a Fort Walton Florida vacation after attending summer school at Alabama Polytechnic Institute Auburn. Mr and Mrs. F O Smith at 702 Line Street welcome friends. Gilbert Hunter returns from Murfreesboro Tennessee visit. Helen Johnson returns from a two week vacation to Fort Dodge Iowa Grand Island Nebraska and Chicago Illinois.
Members of the Trowelers Garden Club are reminded the first meeting of the new year will be held at the home of Mrs. E. J. Briscoe on Jackson Street on Wednesday morning.
Funeral services for J. T. Harris a Church of Christ minister in Lawrence county will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Lawrenceburg Tenn Harris died at his Lawrenceburg home Sunday morning and was known from his appearances in the Caddo and Moulton communities The Hopewell Village furnace in Pennsylvania made cannon and shot for George Washington soldiers at Valley Forge.
Dorothy Dix advises a young man seeking a wife without a martyr complex. She suggests looking near home and at mothers’ helpers who contribute to families, not party crowd types. She emphasizes shared effort, praise, budgeting help, and mutual respect as keys to a joyful marriage.
A reader asks whether a widow who loves a younger man can wed without social stigma. The letter questions new ideas about matrimonial role reversals and whether age norms apply when true love exists.
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