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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1945
Page
5
The page blends verse about bidding farewell to the Old Year with reflections on new beginnings by Frances M. Morton and EF Burleigh, followed by a social note from Hartford. Mrs Glenn Gibson hosts the Mid-week Card Club with eight players including J T Holman and W M Lanier.
Mrs Fred Moseley hosted her bridge group Friday noon at her S Orange Avenue home. Guests included Mrs Curtis Adams Mrs Harry Hall Mrs La Bruce Hanahan Mrs John Ayres Mrs D C Halsten Mes J L Harris Mrs Myer Blumberg and Mrs James Lady. Refreshments followed the games and the high award went to Mrs Hanahan.
The Lafayette Street Methodist Church morning worship opens with Mrs Whittenburg at the piano and Pachulski as preludes. Choir numbers include Send Out Thy Light by Gounod and Flower Song by Faust. Evening service features Mountain Idyl and a Nolte piece. Betty Seymour solos Irish melodies Above the Hills of Time. two air trainees Elby and Margraf to perform at Foster Street Methodist Church.
Hartford P T A meeting held in the school auditorium with Mrs Marvin Wood in charge. The program opened with the school band directed by Jeff Strickland playing The Star Spangled Banner and Dance with a Dolly. Members receiving awards for class winners and renewed cooperation in Edmondson's school following a recent fire. Private Neil Hampton WAC completed basic training at Des Moines and reported to Rome N Y for duty. Miss Eleanor Logan Martin returns to Judson College after home visit. Sergeant George W Varris, an A B-24 gunner, visits Dothan. awarded the Air Medal with oak leaves, the DFC, and the Presidential Unit Citation. Mrs Pat Fo Moore Jr and family move to Miami as Mr Moore serves at the Naval Air Station.
Circles of First Baptist W M S meet at listed homes. some postsponed to Tuesday. Foster Street Methodist W S C 5 meets at specified homes with circle hosts and chairmen. Dothan Pilot Club holds semi monthly meeting at Houston Hotel. Dothan Garden Club, Episcopal Womans luncheon, Baptist W M A reorganizing meeting. Wednesday events include Baptist luncheon, Fine Arts Club, Book Review Club. Local residents Mrs. Van Ritch and Mrs. Harold Coe travel. Americus visitors Mrs. J Louis Filis in Dothan.
Roberts Malone and Corntlea Hammond hosted a Country Club party Friday evening for about one hundred elementary attendees. Roberta wore a rose taffeta dress and Corntlea a pale green frock, both with pink camellias. Games dancing and refreshments followed, chaperones Mrs Hammond Mrs Maone and Mrs Spann overseeing the event.
Headland Avenue Baptist W M U has elected officers for the new year. Officers include Mrs J E Woods president Miss Dorothy Ward junior G A counsellor and circle leaders with circles meeting at 3 o clock except Circle Four at 3 30 p m.
Betty Jim Green wed Lieut Gleason in a November 28 ceremony at the Army Air Field chapel in Charleston South Carolina. The bride wore a spice brown ensemble with gardenias. she attended Fort Gaines Albany Andrew College Cuthbert and is the daughter of Mrs Pearl Greene and B F Green. The groom is a U S Army Air Forces graduate from Burr and Burton who received his commission at Moody Field Valdosta. After a brief honeymoon the couple reside in Manchester Vermont.
Names and locations from a society notes snippet: a wedding planned in Fort Lauderdale Florida with visits to New York City and Vermont. Lieut Gleason assigned as pilot of a B 24 aircraft on foreign duty. Misses Linda Cauley Martha Dave Sapp at Vernon Fridays for the weekend. Vining Mrs James W Sapp.
The Dothan recreation center week program opens today with free coffee and doughnuts for servicemen from 6:30 to 10:80 am. Evening events include the Guz Program at 7:10 pm, an 8:00 pm candy making party Monday, and bingo and card instruction later in the week. Mrs. Evelyn Taylor of Tagman, Arizona, visiting son W. M. Taylor in London, Connecticut, left yesterday.
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