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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1947
Page
6
Frances White of the Business Women's Circle of the First Baptist WMS notes a theme of enduring love and loss in a personal reflection. The group will hold a special prayer service Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Victory room of the church. all members are urged to attend.
Mr and Mrs David Kirkland host a sixteenth birthday party for daughter Dorta at the Library with games and refreshments. Guests include Betty Holland Jim Bond Fanchion Amerson Tate O'Brien Marjorie Manell Davie Gross and others. The Young Woman's Study Club meets tomorrow at 3 pm at Mrs Ingrahams home. Wanda Fain visits from Huntingdon College. H M Strickland returns from California for a visit before settling in Albany Ga.
Mrs Childs hosted the Cheser BR Viewery Unit number 12 Auxiliary meeting with co hosts and introduced new members Flora Joiner Lucian Anderson Rufus Davis and Earl Moore. Reports from child welfare spaghetti supper and Naples Field veterans club were given. Excerpts from Blue Bulletin discussed community service and rehabilitation.
The Methodist Circle met at Mrs. Webb with Mrs. Whaley Tredo presiding. Shelby Thomas led the program on Children and their Church. Mrs. J. H. Lee presided over business with plans for church improvements. Birthday corsages for Mrs. Pearl Ludlum and Mrs. Lucile Causey were presented. a salad course and coffee were served to members and a visitor.
Circle One of the WMU met with Mrs. A M Skipper for a Russia program with seven members. Circle Two with Mrs Fred Penuel had eleven participants. Circle Three led by Mrs Wilkerby drew sixteen members. The Business Women's circle met with Mrs V I Williams. other clubs hosted talks, receptions, and guest dinners. Local residents and visitors attended events at the community house and various city homes, with many names listed among attendees and speakers.
A mixed notes column lists local people visiting, traveling, or receiving guests. It mentions Normen L. Cate of Sainsbury in Dothan for the weekend, Prof. of Bobo Oni at Vanderbilt, and several families from Augusta, Atlanta, Thomson, Fort Worth, and Montgomery visiting or attending medical or church events.
Birth notices report the arrival of a baby in Hartford with names and dates obscured by OCR errors. The fragment mentions Ste and Mire and a family connection, reflecting routine public notices of newborns in the community.
Jackson County total for the March of Dimes is 2056.72, per county chairman Carl Neal. After expenses of 83.80, net to 1962.92, half for local treatment of polio and the rest sent to national headquarters. Marianna area contributed 10023.96 via chair J. H. Clark, with local chairmen listing multiple towns and sums. Cadet Sam Wexler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wesles, has been listed on the boner riff at Baylor School for Boys in Chattanooga Tennessee.
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