Dothan Social Notes Highlight Parties and Visits
Mrs Hammond Robertson hosts two bridge gatherings at N Foster Street with yellow and orchid decor and prize winners named. Dothan society guests include Miss Sue Malone, Mrs H A Hicks, Mrs Elgin Cowart, and Mrs Joe Sanderglow, while Mrs L W Benjamin departs for Cleveland. Local residents and visitors from Enterprise, Hartford, Columbia, and Panama City are noted with multiple attendees and brief travels. upcoming U C V convention and Silver Tea planned with Miss Emily Byrd featured as pianist and Miss Alice Munn Carroll as guest artist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammond Robertson
L. W. Benjamin
Cleveland
Robertson
Sue Malone
H. A. Hicks
Harmony Club
Dothan Country
Emily Byrd
Alice Munn Carroll
Zark
Byrd
Courier-Journal
Louisville
Dallas
Tex
Miss Byrd
Miss Byrds
Community Activities At Mt Ararat School And Local Notices
Mt Ararat hosted a mothers day program with Mrs Bill Owen and pupils at the school. Peanut shelling events led by Mrs David Harrison drew many locals and prize winners were Mrs Richard Hardy and Mrs A M Gay. Numerous social visits and family updates follow, including hospital stays and weekend visits among residents such as Lasseters, Davises, Streets, and Gay family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Owen
Mt. Ararat
David Harrison
Fred Williams
Horne
Richard Hardy
A. M. Gay
J. J. Maddox
Arthur Cochran
Mary Burdeshaw
J. D. Davis
Curtis Whitten
Roy Bush
John Smith
Anne Douglas
Inez Paramore
Bertha Davis
Edna May Phillips
Bertha Floyd
Mary Burtleshaw
Jamie Sue Lasseter
Legion and Auxiliary to Meet at Legion Tonight
The American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary will hold a joint outing at the Legion on Thursday night at 7 30. Acting Commander de A Byrd announced the plans. Dancing is to be enjoyed after the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
The
Legion Auxiliary
Legion
de A. Byrd
Man Wanted in Quincy Embezzlement and Bad Checks
John Bruner, alleged involved in embezzlement and pasting bad checks, was arrested in Dothan and returned to Quincy, per police records. The story notes a constabulary action and references a "heavy reading" trend in Delaware area literature with Dr. Harlan T. Stetsor commenting on Perkins Observatory publications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
John Bruner
Dothan
Apolies
Quincey
Police Department
Delaware
Harlan T. Stetsor
Perkins Observatory
Weegan University
Hee Side
Prisoners stage riot at Missouri state pen
Seven hundred fifty inmates mutinied at the Missouri state penitentiary in Jefferson City, refusing to leave the dining hall until given meat. Prison officials at 2 20 PM marshalled forces as the disturbance continued following a dispute over the noon menu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Missouri State Penitentiary
Price setters in Chicago face fraud charges over grain bids
Chicago dealers are charged in federal complaints to have sold at least 345 bushels of wheat last summer at prices above and below market. They allegedly sent misleading market information to influence prices, with hearings set for April 7 in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
The
Tribune Today
Tribune
Malinta-Grelton girls net 300 points in season
Miss Fleaner Heckler scored 152 of the 643 Malinta-Grelton girls basketball points this season. She averaged 25 points per game across 20 games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Malinta-Grelton
Fleaner Heckler
Lily Turner on Trial for Murder in Birmingham
Mrs Lily Turner faced circuit court in Birmingham on murder charges arising from the killing of Oliver Glean a Birmingham youth. She pleaded self defense in the trial that began today amid tense courtroom proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Lily Turner
Oliver Glean
Almanacs preserve century of world history in Maryland
John Franer preserves a 50 year history of world events chronicled in almanacs. He saved copies of J Graber's Hager town Tow and Country Almanacs, all published at ibauzertown, Md, starting shortly after the Franco-Prussian war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
John Franer Her
Fraher
J. Graber
Hagertown
Ibauzertown
Nine Tenths Preventable Mosquitoes Message
A short public notice promotes mosquito prevention with guidance and urges readers to obtain a bottle from Dothan Drug Company for effective protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan Drug Company
Mine Explosion Kills Eight At Yukon Crown Mine
An explosion at Crown Coal’s Yukon mine in Arnettsville West Virginia killed eight men and left three missing. Rescue crews from the US Bureau of Mines and state teams searched the mine area as officials blamed gas. five bodies were recovered and identified at a temporary morgue near the mine mouth. Names identified include night foreman J H Livingston motorman E N Castel brakeman Charles Jacobs loader Henry Willis William Thompson loader L H Harvey and superintendent J Lewis Evans. Also arriving were J M Cook Imperial Coal general superintendent and mine owner representatives from Johnstown Pennsylvania. The mine opened in 1922 and employs about 225 workers on day and night shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnettsville
W. Va
Ami
Yukon
Crown Coal Company
J. H. Livingston
United States Bureau of Mines
Avella
Morgantown
Fairmont
Livingston
E. N. Castel
Charles Jacobs
Henry Willis
William Thompson
L. H. Harvey
J. Lewis Evans
Johnstown
J. M. Cook
Imperial Coal Corporation
Crown
Interests
Dinner Menu For Company and Dessert Treats
A menu listing includes Oyster Cocktail, Cream of Asparagus Soup, Roast Beef with Browned Potatoes and Mashed Buttered Turnips, Rolls, Currant Jelly, Fruit Salad and French Dressing, plus Cheesed Wafers, Pineapple Sherbet, Chocolate Cake and salted nuts. It notes Mrs. W. C. Segrest of Coffee Springs visiting Dothan on Tuesday.
Bank President in Alaska Also Train Conductor
Frank L. Knight of First National Bank in Anchorage doubles as a train conductor on the Alaska railroad. A Lafayette Ind. native, he has worked from dock foreman to railroad brake man and has conducted since 1916. Anchorage, a modern city on a plateau above Knik Arm, hosts growing vacation traffic and federal plans for a peninsula tour, with Knight riding along as banker and conductor on the unique railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anchorage
Alaska
Frank L. Knight
Knight
First National Bank
Alaska Railway
Lafayette
Ind
United States
Alaska Railroad
Knikarm
Cock Inlet
Washington
Van Sickel Will Coach Miami Sports All-Around
Dale Van Sickel, All-American end in 1928, will join the Florida coaching staff next fall to assist in football, basketball and baseball. He is a star in all three sports at the Gator school, where he is a senior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Sickel
Miami
Dale van Sickel
Florida
Gator School
Funeral services set for Mrs Leila Senn in Dothan
Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at 3 o clock for Mrs Leila Ella Benn Senn 54 who died yesterday at her son's home 200 South 2nd street after weeks illness The service was to be at the home of her son Theo Senn with Dr H C Bass pastor First Baptist Church In Dothan she had owned cafes and was active in Woodmen Circle and Practoriang society Survived by two sons Theo and Cooper a sister and several brothers Interment planned in city cemetery with Woodmen Circle aiding arrangements by Houston Funeral Home
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sloconib
Senn
Dothan
Tate
Robert
Sean
Thee City Cemetery
Houston Funeral ‘Home
Also Mentioned on This Page
Maude Baughman
Contract Bridge Club
Cecil Canty
N. Foster Street
Contract Card Club
R.W. Armstrong
Fred Yarbrough
Carr
Flossie Gamble
Frasier-Ellis Hospital
E. G. Gamble
Montgomery
Opal Chapman
Ruth Wilkes
Johnnie Gore
Slocomb
Peat
Wil Peterman
Lamar
Tharice Clanton
Mack Miller
Pansma City
Carolyn Ward
Columbia
D. R. Hipp
Helen Horn
Rene Skipper
R. S. Ward
Hartford
Déthen
Seog
Mabel Burdeshaw
Heatland
R. L. Miller
Graceville
Lucille Loflin
Enterprise
Cora Johnson Hicks
New Orleans
W. B. Thomas
Marianna
Will Baxter
Lottie Lee Holman
Elizabeth Lee
Conservatory
Mrs. W. 23. Lee
Beatrice Sager
H. S. Dumas
Fultinge
J. XN. Whigham
Edgar Gibbon
Aubeville
L. F. Warrick
Blakely
W. C. Etheridge
Liocomb
Ruth Robinson
R. L. McKenzie
Panama City
U.G
Helen Logan
Lillie Mae Jones
Eastern Star
Dothan Chapter
Masonic
Ollie Brooks
Worthy
Mae Pemberton
J.C. Bruner
J. W. Bruner
Ashford
Ruby Lane Mellinger
Woman’s College
J. G. Mellinger
K. W. Harrison
J. T. ‘Trawick
Carolyn
Fla
C. M. Engram
John Shaw Engram
A. J. Shaw
Fort Gaines
Wits
George Reynolds
K. P. Phelps
Newton
George Adcock
Ruby Adcock
Slyacauga
T- A. Brooks
J. W. Walker
J.B. G
Bernice Woodham
Midland City
A. M. Cook
Caryville, Fla
Jimmie
P. N. Spann
Jim Brennan
Jim
Bamburg
South Carolina
Ararat
Bera Pearce
Jack Lasseter
E. J. Maddox
Flarahen Whitten
Dothan Hospital
Ola Kirkland
Madeline Smith
Baker Hill
Louise Maddox
Tommie Mae Lasseter
W. W. Whitten
B. H. Whittes
Headland
M. C. McCord
Grace
Wayne
Wallace
Mary Frances
Ed Smith
Arthur Cochrane
Lytan Lasseter
Legion and Auxiliary TO
Missouri ‘State
West Virginia
Drteidien
Spy
W. C. Segrest
Coffee Springs
Frank Ci
Asuel
Dal Sow
Ward
Montgomery and Dothan, Ala
Brown
Jack
Réater
Houston Motor Co
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