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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1947
Page
3
When I have time lines urge timely deeds of kindness for friends and neighbors. Now is the time to scatter loving deeds before they fade from life. Mr and Mrs Donald Hammond and children have returned to Dothan after two months at Sunnyside Beach cottage.
Mrs W Merritt Burns Jr hosted a tea at her Woodland Drive home for Miss Betty Spann, betrothed to John Walter Stowers, with a reception line including Mrs Hugh Spann and Miss Lucy Burns. Attire featured apricot Ninon, table settings emphasized white. Guests numbered over a hundred, with Jane Spann and Gloria McKeen among the attendees.
Friends and relatives gathered at T. E. Cherry’s Route Four home for a luncheon in honor of his sixty second birthday. Attendees included numerous named relatives and friends. others had recently returned from Mobile after a brief visit.
A Herring family reunion was hosted Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hathaway in Black, Alabama. Attendees included numerous Hathaways from Black, plus guests from Geneva route five, Dothan route five, Midland City, Oilswood, Hartford, and other listed relatives and spouses.
Mrs Hodges hosted a Sunday dinner at her Cottonwood home to celebrate the seventy first birthday anniversary of Mr Hodges. The gathering included Mr and Mrs John Whatley Miss Martha June Cane, Hayt Cannady, Mrs Otis Lane, Galatin White, Mr and Mrs Espy Exum, Glenn Exum, Odile McCord, Wayne Exum, Charles Exum, Naldo Pravis, Annie Pearl Maxum, Wash Hutte, Reffelle McCord, Jane White, Sue White, Mr and Mrs Frank Daneford and daughter Barbara Divine, all of Cottonwood.
The monthly Cradle Roll Workers of the First Bupiet Sunday School meeting scheduled for Thursday afternoon with Mrs Hobson Eddies has been postponed.
Dorothy Dix answers readers on household duties and affection in public with husbands expected to provide and wives to cook while modern wives claim equality. She warns against loafing but supports helping a sick spouse, and urges clear boundaries to prevent marital strife.
Eleven children of the late George and Emma Scarborough gathered at Bethel Church Sunday for a reunion luncheon. One relative, Mrs T A Watson of Dothan, was absent due to family illness. Grandchildren great grandchildren and a great great grandchild attended along with many friends and relatives.
Glaring sunlight exposes grooming faults indoors and outdoors, urging caution with plucked eyebrows and hair color. The piece then shifts to local social notes, birthdays, visits, and a health clinic update noting ninety-one registrations for an X-ray chest clinic at the Houston County health department.
Mr and Mrs Luther Gamble announce the birth of Dennis Harold at a local hospital on July 21. Grandparents are O D Gamble of Headland route three and E C Drinkwater of Ashford route two. Mr and Mrs Jim White announce a daughter Sylvia born in a Dothan hospital on July 6. Mrs White is Zelda Vinson, daughter of Zeaman Vinson of Headland, paternal grandparents J B White of Headland. Mrs James Givens and daughter Helen Marie returned home after a week with W E Hubbard and wife in Slocomb route one.
The marriage of Martha M. Dykes of Dothan to Howard McMichael was held July 19 in a quiet ceremony. Attendants included Mrs. Volee Harris and Dewey Forcand. The couple resides at 208 East Crawford Street.
The Euresian Sunday School class of First Baptist will gather on the church lawn at 7:00 p.m. Thursday. Service Honor Roll members will host, and each attendee should bring a covered dish.
Ozark couple announces the engagement of Marie Robinson to David L. Howell son of J. H. Howell of route three The marriage is planned for an early date.
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