Beauty and War Echoes at River’s Green
Excerpt shows Isabel Fiske Conant poem lines amid wartime imagery. The prose note mentions Homer Preston Jr in the V-12 program stationed at Newberry College, visiting family in Newberry, S C, with classmate Don Regan from Mobile accompanying him to Dothan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jobo
Isabel Fiske Conant
The
Christian Scieore Monitor
Homer Preston, Jr
Newberry College
Newberry
S.C
Homer’ Preston
South Appletree Street
Dothan
Don Regan
Mobile
Recent Bride Honored at Thursday Tea by Mrs Mullins
Mrs J Morton Mullins hosted a bridal tea at 114 N Bell Street honoring her daughter in law Mrs J Norton Mullins Jr formerly Mary Vanell Kelly. The setting featured narcissi camellias and spirea with pastel centerpieces. Eighty five guests attended including Mrs Kelley mother of the bride and Mrs Corbin Lively sister of the bride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Norton Mullins, Jr
Mary Vanell Kelly
Melton Lee Kelly
Huntingdon College
Mullins
Court of Common Pleas
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
University of Alabama
Dothan
Norton Mullins, Jr
J. Morton Mullins
Hostese
Inlaw
J. Norton Mulling, Jr
Gwendolyn Stephenson
Mr. Kelley
Corbin Lively
R.P. Williams
Earl Moody
Lex Dowling
Linton Warren
A. C. Rodenbough
Floyd Baxter
Lot. Farmer
Dorothy Emfinger
Catherine Horace
Donalas Lanier
W. D. McRae
Graceville
MelRae
Ed Wells
Forest Sparks
J. P. Ashmore
Gordon Club House Shower for Mrs George Henderson
Mrs Ralph Bell and Mrs Tom Henderson hosted a miscellaneous shower at Gordon club house for the bride Mrs George Henderson (Martha Hartley). Narcissi and greens decorated the rooms as contests and prizes entertained guests. a salad course followed. Also notes Walter Woreld Arnold, a seaman, has retired in Great Lakes after a five day visit with his parents and awaits new assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Bell
Tommy Henderson
Gordon Club
George Henderson
Martha Hartley
H. B. Meadows
Robert Meadows
W. W. Hartley
E. D. Moss
F. E. Hartley
Jack Parrish
Woodrow Hartley
Ashford
Dar Harley
Panama City
L. F. Brabham
Jack Hartley
Dolan
Jennie Whitaker
Rex Henderson
Che Jeffcoat
Frank Wilson
A. D. Lamb
L. C. Blur
Ed Willams
H. H. Odom
W. Womack
J. D. Smith
Doris Harrison
Gordon
Walter Woreld Arnold
Applephoe
Great Jakes, ML
Aihol Farmer
Headland
Ooe
Brooks Pearce
North Vallege Street
Young Arnold
Baptist Circles Report Meetings
Pre Ann Judson Circle of Head land Avenue Baptin WALLS met doronday with Mrs. Core Lee Hicks. Mire. Arthur Lane gave the stewardship devotions and Mrs. THicks taught the Lesson on Light On Life's Duties. Ten members were present. Members of the Ids Keston Circle were entertained by Mrs Bul Ward. Toe Bible reading wae given by Mrs Alfred Reynolds x4 the booklet Pray Ye was taught by Mrs Vance Ward and Mrs J. C Sims. Seven members were in attendance.
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Ann Judson
Headland Avenue
Doronday
Core Lee Hicks
Arthur Lane
Thicks
Ids Keston
Bul Ward
Alfred Reynolds
Vance Ward
J. C Sims
Henry County Girls Attend Troy College
Henry County girls from the Troy area attend Troy State Teachers College as members of the Troy Senior Flats. E l a Frances Berndon Vivian Hopkons and Irene Mobley are Abbeville High School graduates serving in college clubs sororities and student roles.
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Henry County
Troy State Teachers College
E'la Frances Berndon
Vivian Hopkons
Irene Mobley
Troy
Abbeville High School
Ella Frances
Athenaeum Club
College
College Girls
First Baptist Church
Troy Hugh School
Vivian
Sigma Kappa Epsilon
Irene
Shorterville
Shackelford Hall
Recreation Center Activities Listed
Recreation Center activities today start with coffee from 8 30 to 10 30 a m a fan session from 4 to 5 p m ten hour from 6 00 p m and bingo from 7 30 to 8 30 p m with a free telephone call home as grand prize Open house Monday night and a dance Tuesday A Recreational Council meeting with Ozark Enterprise and Dothan at 2 p m Wednesday informal music hour at 3 p m Thursday hostess service committee at 10 a m and a quiz at 4 p m A Friday bridge party and Saturday closing dance Hostess groups listed by day and organization for the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ozark, Enterprise and Dothan
Hostess Service Committee
J W Kelly To Speak On Layman's Program
J W Kelly will be principal speaker and W D Clifford will preside Sunday evening at seven o clock at First Methodist church for the annual Laymen's Day program in Marianna Special music by the Men's Bible class and a Junior choir offertory The general theme is Call of the Church and H A Lee notes the laymen leadership Mrs Harold McCaskill will be at the console Reverend D C Whitsett is pastor.
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Marianna
J. W Kelly
W. D. Clifford
First Methodist Church
H. A Lee
Harold McCaskill
D. C. Whitsett
Miss Cleoris Kelley Weds Sergeant Word in California
Miss Cleoris Kelley married Staff Sergeant Norman E Word at Ramona Chapel in San Diego California at 7 p m February 6. The ceremony featured organ music by Lester Ellis and a white Carnation floral theme. Attendants included Mrs Edythe F Ellis and Staff Sergeant William E Snell Jr. A reception followed at the Ellis home in San Diego.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleoris Kelley
Sergeant Word
California
Ramona’s
San Diego
Minna Cleoris Kelley
Norman Emeon Word
Jacksonville
Fla
Orus E. Thylas
Lester Ellis
Edythe F. Ellis
William E. Snell, Jr
New Orleans
Navy
Tal Mmage Park
David Lawson Kelley
Dothan High School
Ordnance Office
Detroit
Michigan
Washington, D. G
Word
U. SS
Marine Corps
T. A. Word
Wildwood
Florida
States
Church calendar of meetings and circles for Baptist and other groups
Monday afternoon events include Headland Avenue Baptist W M S business meeting at the church and multiple circles with numbered designations and host members. Lafayette Street Methodist W M S holds mission study. B T U Workers Council meets at First Baptist Church. Business Women's Circle gathers with Mrs A B Lynch. Tuesday lists Episcopal auxiliary chapters at homes, Young Womans Study Club at D G Halsten’s, New Century Club at W S Wilson home, Sunday School Workers Council at First Baptist. Wednesday notes Business Womens Y W A at noon.
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Lafayette Street
Methodist
I. D. Hassler
A. D. Sheehan
L. Poitevint
Marevin Scott
Headland
Ala
Sadie Kelley Sperman
Victory Bellas
A. A. Winter
Wilton Sturges
First Baptist W. M. A
C. C. Hughes
J. M. Snell
Rufus Cherry
New Century Club
Clement Ritter
Mason Rowe
W. T. Burkett
Round Table Study Club
R. M. Ward
Walter Watford
Presbyterian Womans Guild
Headland Avenue Baptist W. M. S
First Baptist W. M. S
H. Cannon
C. W
H. D Harrison
Leon Harvard
Fred Moseley
Ireies
EL. Coe
Jesse Harwell
A. R. Gissendanner
F. T. Ussery
Lafayette Street Methodist
B. T. U. Workers’ Council
First , Baptist Church
Business Women’s Circle
First Baptist
W. M.S
A. B Lynch
Episcopal Woman's Auxiliary
la Bruce Hanahan
South Park Avenue
Episcopal Aichhary
Perry Clark
Woodland Drive
Young Womans Study Club
D. GO. Halsten
Catalpa
WS. Wilson
Mary In Cook
Weddings and Engagements Involving Colemans Hegenwalds
Rebecca Lou Coleman of Allania Georgia marries James F. Hegenwald Jr son of New Orleans residents. The ceremony was Feb 16 at The Church of Our Savior Amanda Episcopal Church Los Angeles. The couple will live at 1938 Wellington Road Los Angeles. Other notices include Dorothy Weaver and C Fisher marriage in San Francisco and Evelyn Coleman Beall wedding to Walter Beall in Richmond with later move to Wilmington North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan
Hegenwald
North American Aviation Inc
Inglewood
California
Wellington Road
Los Angeles
Cal
Fisher-Weaver
Marianna
Dorothy H. Weaver
Belvidere
New Jersey
Mer
C. Fisher
San Francisco
Paul Minton
Robert H. Marsh
Marsh
Beall-Coleman
Evelyn Coleman
Richmond
Virginia
Tiger
Walter H. Beall
United States Army Air Corps
First Baptist Church
New York
Wilmingon
North Carolina
Elizabeth Coleman
M. 0. Patrick
Sgt
John Selby Visits University Class in Alabama
John Selby, famed writer and former AP staffer, spent days in Tuscaloosa interviewing writers and inspecting manuscripts from Hudson Strode’s University of Alabama creative writing class. Selby, longtime literary critic for AP and editor at Farrar and Rinehart, left with a completed novel manuscript and parts of unfinished books, amazed by the students’ achievements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University
Ala
John Selby
Associated Press
Tuscaloosa
Hudson Strode
University of Alabama
Selby
Farrar and Rinehart
Strode
Violinist Behrendt Aids Troops With Army Service Concerts
Corporal Behrendt, son of Mr and Mrs Robert Behrendt of Altoona Pennsylvania, played violin in Army service programs at Drew Field Tampa Florida. He taped the Crepel Hour Concert with ten men, visited camps in Low qcene and Texas and made Red Cross recordings for troops over Rene as part of Special Service broadcasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maianna Spemali
Janneton Saphony
Johneiowt
Benusy Ly End
Cincage Cave Symphony
Ies
Be Soon Bes
Uni
Low Qcene
Texas
Drew Field
Tampa
Floside
Behrendt
WSPA
Army
The
Red Cross
Rene
Corporal Behrendt
Robert Behrendt
Crawford Avenue
Altoona
Pennsylvania
Yes
Church Musical Program Announced
The Lafayette Street Methodist Church opens with Mrs D. 5 Whitten burg as organist playing Prende by ebuly. The choir sings The Holy City and an accordion offertory Santa Lucia. Bates Bowers is soloist with The Lord’s Prayer. Evening includes Meditation and Come Unto Me with Romance as offertory. Miss LeMerle Penn directs both choirs.
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Lafayette Street Methodist Church
D. 5
Whittenburg
Ebuly
the Holy City
Adams
Santa Lucia
Magnante
Cullen Scarborough
Bates Bowers
Ges
Mollote
Costa
Abt
Richards
LeMerle Penn
Fragmented notes on wartime pricing and local names
A garbled OCR passage mentions prices and vegetables and a Private John Mo Riley, son of W. T. Kirkland, with an address at 15 South College Street. It also references a South Pacific war zone and spending, but details are unclear due to text corruption.
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John Mo Riley
W. T. Kirkland
South College Street
Lame Am Forough
Pacific War Zone
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Pealms
Henry G
E. Troy
Caer
Young Drug Co
East Main
Martha's Beauty Shop
Martha’s
Beauty Shop
Foster
N. Foster
H. D. Harrison
Optometrist
Aad
Wadlington Hotel
Baptist Circles
Troy College
J. W. Kelly
Mrs. Norman Emerson Word
Parker Hebbex and
Sealpur
Rogers Beauty Shop
I. Cox
Ruby's Beauty Shop
Marianna Club
Marvin Lewis, Jr
Brookiey Field
Marvin, I
Ss. Wr
J. W. Newton
Headland Road
McAlester
Oklahoma
Maewatserere
Roy Camp Fhone
Midiaed City
Dethar
Luray
China
Logue’s
Elf
Ideal Jewelry Co
Victory Military Store
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