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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1943
Page
7
A poem echoes desire for silence to calm nerves amid conflict and chaos. Annette Buschburn Ehlert and family report returning from Columbia South Carolina after visiting Mrs Hall’s mother. Arthur D. Ussery underwent a medical operation yesterday in hospital.
The Dothan Red Cross appeals for volunteers to work in the surgical dressings room. Chairman Morris Malone says 190,000,000 dressings are needed by March 1 for the Surgeon General. Volunteers will work 9 am to 4 pm Tuesday through Friday in the Cota Cola plant ladies room on North St. Andrews Street.
Mrs B W Hawkins home at 104 South Park avenue hosted the Tuesday Bridge Club yesterday. The reception room featured pink and rouge flowers including carnation azalea bicome and japonicas. Guests included Mrs J H Bryson Mrs Sally Doek Mrs Frank Newton Mrs Reynolds May Mrs Preag Thornton Mrs H B Burdeshaw Mrs AK Merrill and Mrs N B Boloman Jr. Burdeshaw won high score and received defense stamps. A salad course with hot ton was served by the hostess.
Mrs Core A Dudley of Webb announces the marriage of her daughter Johenis to Ralph E Mendheim. The couple wed January 8 at the Rev J W Yeoman's Ashford home with a small circle of intimate friends. Both attended Ashford schools and plan to reside in Ashford after a wedding trip to Florida.
Marion Alabama report lists dormitory council selections with Nina Kathryn Howell and Dorothy Kilcrease among elected hall representatives. Notes residents traveling for military assignments and visits by Mrs Crawford and daughters amid ongoing local college activities and intercity trips.
Yasid Anderson hosted a Saturday afternoon party at Herring Street for eight year old Bip with a small group of friends. The rooms were decorated with valentines and balloons. Punch wafers and a birthday cake with eight candles were served before a film at the Houston Theater.
Miss Blondie McQuagge, daughter of Mrs F G McQuagge, earned a WAAC commission after completing an intensive Fort Des Moines training course. She is the first Dothan resident to enlist, formerly worked at Bainbridge Nash Air Force School and Napier Field, and will report to the WAAC training center in Daytona Beach.
Mr and Mrs Curtis Cunningham of Midland City announce the birth of a daughter on February 15 named Julia Elizabeth. Mr and Mrs D B Clark of Pensacola Florida announce the arrival of a son James David on January 18 in a Pensacola hospital. Mrs Clark is the former Miss Nell Ivey of Dothan.
Miss Annette Zorn of Columbia earns Straight A on Judson College honor roll. Forty seven Judson students listed for semester honors with college scholarship privileges. West Burdeshaw PTA to hold regular session at 2:45 PM Thursday in school auditorium with music and a talk by Mrs Quackenbush on life in the Philippines.
D Y Dowling celebrated his fifty eighth birthday at a Sunday dinner at his Wartford route one home. A large group of friends and relatives attended including Phelps Parker and daughter Joy Hartford, plus numerous Dowling relatives from Hart foul, Ronisay, Dothan, Daleville, and Colum yots.
Fifteen defendants appeared before Judge Oakley in the Court of Common Pleas today. Nine charged with felony alone, five for vagrancy, and one for speeding all pleaded guilty. Fines set: five dollars for each drunkenness charge, one dollar for each vagrancy, and fifteen dollars for speeding. A separate note defines the term blackguard in historical usage.
The Urareville Garden Club met Wednesday afternoon at Mrs. Getcke Monroe’s Graceville home. Members discussed cemetery planting, fertilizer prep, and lawn care with program leaders covering Peonies Gladiolus Daffodils and gardening tips. New member Mrs. J. W. Reitz joined. social hour followed with iced tea.
Martie Haymeng, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Dartie of Dothan, has been commissioned abroad to the Army Air Corps after graduation from Blytheville Army Air Field. Staff Sergeant J D Dupree Jett travels to Camp Cook California with his sister visiting in Dothan, while his wife and daughter stay in Vicksburg with her parents, reflecting the growing number of wives left behind as husbands join the service.
A wartime column analyzes whether a wife left by her husband at war benefits from motherhood. It cites two main factors: the family’s financial need requiring the wife to work, and the wife’s emotional readiness to handle constant child care. The piece discusses how these elements affect the child’s prospects and the mother’s well being.
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