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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1944
Page
7
A colorful tirade urges women to value self reliance over marriage. It emphasizes earning success through effort, choosing a suitable career, and shaping happiness independently of romantic outcomes. The speaker warns against viewing marriage as life’s sole goal and calls for personal strength and practical ambition.
The Houston County Probate Office issued licenses this past week listing couples including Rene Edwin Durand and Minneapo lis Lou Blien Hodges along with others in varied locations such as Dothan, New Little Rock, and Gordon route one. Names include William Joseph Horgan Jr and Bus Osborne, Stevens Belknap and Mary Adelaide Broadwell, and several more pairs across Arkansas and Alabama.
Mrs T H Hayes entertained at the home of Mrs H J Hayes in Newton in honor of Miss Mary Rogers bride elect. Williams of Birmingham and Miss Rogers will marry June 17. Guests enjoyed bridge and domino games with prizes to Miss Norton and Mrs Adcock. Centerpiece featured a garden scene with handkerchief trees. green and white decor carried through dining room. Ice cream and cake followed the games.
A Ruth Mallett column urges war wives to keep copies of their letters to their husbands in the Pacific. Reading monthly reveals how the home front impression, loneliness, and overwork shape messages and avoids self pity. It cites an Idaho crash anecdote and critiques tired male jokes about women drivers.
The Dothan Recreation Center lists a busy week starting Sunday with coffee hour at 8 30 am and refreshments at 4 pm. Monday features talent and recordings with a Board of Directors meeting, and Napier Field band. Several evenings include music, dance, and social events hosted by volunteers and the Victory Belles. The schedule highlights bridge, Wives club meetings, and a Saturday open house with a band.
Lt W J Gedpaille of Nepier Field will be guest soloist at the morning service of Foster Street Methodist Church today. He comes from New Oriana and has sung with the New Orleans Opera Company and the French Opera Company. He taught chemistry and zoology at Tulane University and is noted for a wide baritone range. The public is invited to attend. A cemetery workday is set for Mt Pleasant Church on Cottonwood road near Ardilla, with all interested invited to attend.
A readable fragment notes a woman driving near an army camp, contrasting her ease with a soldier's likely weariness of the phrase woman driver. The snippet hints at gender norms and military settings without graphic detail, preserving era tone.
James Swilley, seventy one, died at his home on Newville route one after a long illness. He is survived by his wife, three daughters Mina Lodils Swilley of Albany Georgia Minnie Hicks of Eufaula and LG Cutchens of Winter Garden Florida, and two sons W H Swilley of Montgomery and J E Swilley of Eufaula. Funeral services will be announced by Hotmin Funeral Home upon arrival of relatives.
Second Lieutenant Mable Hughes, ANC, daughter of Mrs GC Hughes, 468 South Applettes Street, serves in the 43rd General Hospital in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. Public relations office announced Batuhday. The Emory University sponsored hospital in Atlanta treats casualties from the Italian front and works on malaria treatment.
Clarence T May son of Lucile May arrived at the Majors Army Air Field Greenville Texas for flight training. The public rescues office announced Saturday that women of the 11th century were leading combs because they believed lead kept hair from graying.
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