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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1946
Page
3
The de Vingt Club cancels its August meeting due to members being out of town. Mrs Leander Taylor and Hubert Taylor of Newville were seen in Dothan today after a weekend visit. The page also quotes literary lines about opportunity and beauty and notes social updates from Mrs Taylor and the Taylors in Columbia.
Mrs Broward Murphy entertained at her Westmont Drive home for her son Billys eighth birthday. Guests enjoyed outdoor games and refreshments with a central birthday cake, and favors were given to attendees including David Stinson Robert Kelley James Yvonne Bully Gene and others from Gradvills Fla with Mrs Alice present.
Stinson, Mrs. Howell Ivey, Mrs. Jack Peacock, Mrs. Rubye Weeks, Mrs. James Hughes, Mrs. Robert Kilgore and Mrs. J. B. Baxley are named among recent social guests and community figures in a society page listing.
Mrs Hettle Enfinger of Dothan announces the marriage of her daughter Carolyn Enfinger to Willie F Edwards, son of Mrs Arnold Waller of route two. The marriage was solemnized in Dothan August 7.
This week at the Do than Recreation Center schedule includes Wiregrass model aero club at 7 30 p m on Tuesday scooter club at 4 p m on Tuesday WEW and Auxiliary at 8 p m on Wednesday square dance 8 30 p m to 12 a m on Friday and a Saturday progressive game night for teenagers playgrounds operate 8 11 am and 2 5 pm the swimming program runs Wednesday and Friday mornings 9 30 to 12 noon school league games Tuesday feature Southside Pirates vs Highland Pelicans at Southside and Minnie T Heard Bears vs Young Junior Baby Tigers.
Mrs Dora Parmer celebrated the sixty second birthday anniversary of her son in Headland with a Sunday dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs A C Parmer and family. Attending were Mr and Mrs A C Parmer and son, the Palace Baxley family, Milford Sellarg family, Perry Parmer and children, Wilson Parmer and family, Mrs Lilen Deal, James Neal family, Judge Roberson and King Roberson, D P Harris family and others from Headland routes one two and three.
A Sunday birthday luncheon at Mrs. Amos Mixon’s Ashford home honored Mrs. Mixon and her grandson Raymond Hawkins. Attendees included George Hughes, Ely Ward and daughters Ann and Esther Headland, Sgt. T. C. Mixon, Sgt. and Mrs. Jack Mixon of Columbus, M. J. Hardy, Mrs. W. L. Arnold, Ross Hinson and family, Raymond Hawkins and children Ray and Carolyn, plus Mrs. Mixon. John Leslie Jr. spends week at Panama City Beach. Alice Watford and Trudie King of Geneva visit Montgomery. J. R. Brown family returns from Columbia Louisiana. Alton Roland Irwin of Delhi accompanies them. Louie Pilcher family plan week at St. Andrews Florida. Nettie Jean Lewis returns after Ridgecrest North Carolina stay with stops in Atlanta and Birmingham.
Miss Jewel Lavelle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Lavelle of Headland, married Hubert Taylor son of Mrs. J. Q. Cutchen of Newville on July 11 at Rev. A. C. Kelly's home in Newville. The couple will reside with the Cutchen family after a Florida honeymoon. bridegroom Kermit Lavelle and Miss Jean Armstrong attended. Also noting Mr Henry Brackin remains ill at his Headland home.
Two high school games headline the schedule with Highland hosting Minnie T Heard as the Pelicans face the Bears. At Young Junior High, the Young Junior Baby Tigers collide with the Southside Pirates in another prep matchup.
Mrs. Carlton French announces the marriage of daughter Joan to Private Billy Lehman McDurmont at the Methodist parsonage with Rev. Earl Dubois officiating. The column reports a series of family visits and travel, including Mrs. R. E. Aman visiting, the Hassells from Valparaiso Florida visiting, and others returning home from Mobile. It notes Erskine Crews called home from Fort Knox due to his father’s illness and death.
The Ladies Auxiliary VFW and Wire grass Post 3037 will hold a joint meeting at eight o'clock Wednesday evening at the Recreation Center. A social hour with bingo entertainment will follow the business session. Mrs. Alva Lewis visited Panama City Beach over the weekend. Dr. Joe Stearns of La Grange Ky convalesces after an appendectomy at St Luke's Jacksonville Fla. his wife Winifred Brock of Daytona is with him.
In clinical tests conducted by doctors more than 100 persons lost 14 to 15 pounds in a few weeks using the AYDS Vitamin Candy Reducing Plan.
Mr and Mrs Ben Barnes announce the birth of a daughter Ruth at Jackson hospital on August seventh. Mrs Barnes is the former Elizabeth Mase of Bainbridge Ga. Veda Mauds born at Jackson hospital on August 1 to Mrs Rhodes formerly Bernice Ruth Byrd Graceville. Mrs Glenn Newton left yesterday for Andalusia due to her father’s illness. Mr and Mrs Robert Jones of Columbus Ga attended a birthday dinner for Mrs Jones’s mother Bell Jones in Newville. Mr and Mrs E N Lawson and daughter Billie Jean return after a week in Winter Park Fla with J D Bledsoe. Mrs Eunice Folkes returns home after three weeks in Greensboro with daughter and son-in-law Maurice Steensland. Mrs Steensland accompanies her mother home and will spend this week in Dothan.
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