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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1934
Page
3
A reflective verse section compares life to a masquerade with lovers dreamers and clowns. It ends with a club Christmas dance notice announcing the Country Club annual Christmas dance on Saturday December 22 at 9 PM with ornate club house decorations and a nudge to read the classified ads.
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1624 B offers two lengths a three quarter and full length apron smock with back opening and a gash waist tie. Sizes 14 through 20 and 40 available with busts 32 to 40. Size 16 needs about 6 yards of 36 inch fabric. Tomorrow: A four piece pattern.
MEMPHIS December 17 AP There are few two year olds who appear in grand opera with Mary McCormic yet Bessie Lynn Sanderlin will. She took three curtain calls with Miss McCormic during the San Carlo Opera Company's Madame Butterfly in Memphis Two hours before curtain Wilson Mount discovered the child who would play the role of trouble The tiny blonde clung to Miss McCormic only once Reesie Lynn got a rose after Santa Claus failed to appear She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs C R Sanderlin.
A Pattern No Name and Address instruction asks to include pattern number size and full address and to wrap calms securely in paper. It appears as a formatting notice from 1934 Bell Syndicate guidance for enclosing and mailing items.
Barbara Mdivani, the Princess, sent a $5,000 check after Ed Sullivan’s open letter. The Daily News column spurred a plan to fund a Princess Barbara Christmas for New York’s poor families and their parents. A church aid network will distribute baskets for Christmas dinners and weeks of meals.
The Spinsters Club met Saturday at 26 Mark at the Houston Hotel electing for the new year Miss Marjorie Moody as president Miss Ruth Colton as vice president Miss Eleanor Owens as secretary and Miss Edith Holman as treasurer They planned a Christmas dance for the 27th and engaged the Curtis Davidson Orchestra. Several members attended a charitable planning session and many members were listed as present.
Dothan repair building permits rose in August to November 1934, totaling 17 permits and 8100 investment, vs 1 nominal in 1933. Alabama cities, including Birmingham and Mobile, reported 1481 repair permits totaling 435,797 for four months in 1934, up from 611 permits and 121,225 in 1933, a 126 percent rise in permit count and 127 percent in value.
Mrs. Fh. Deese was guest of honor at a surprise party celebrating her 72nd birthday at her Cottonwood home Saturday night. Numerous relatives attended, including the M. G. fam, G. C. Peese, Whitehead, Clemmons, Alten McCox, Barney Deese, Purvis, Messer, Henry McCroy, Millan Messer, Vera Gray, Jack McCoy, Alex Derse, and R. S. Creel among others. Also noted, Rainbow Girls plan a meeting at 7 oclock this evening for their regular event.
Mrs O P Green is spending the holidays in Valdosta Georgia with friends and relatives enjoying a family season retreat away from home.
Impromptu meetings may be arranged as Saturday date approaches with tentative arrangements and notices indicating flexible scheduling.
Hollywood blows into headlines as Clara Bow and Rex Bell welcome their bouncing son seven and a half pounds. The newborn adds to Hollywood’s film colony, with Clara’s nurse noting strong lungs and Bell pacing the corridor in Santa Monica Hospital after a sleepless night. Bell bought a Shetland pony for the hoped-for son and faced fatigue awaiting news.
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