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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1949
Page
3
A dated promotional piece by John Robert Powers on winter skincare and beauty tips. The guide emphasizes protecting skin from harsh weather, choosing suitable foundations, layering primers, and applying makeup techniques to maintain a radiant complexion. It includes a sales pitch for color guides and swatches.
Miss Wolctle Green celebrated her sixteenth birthday with a party featuring cake and punch. The section lists many local residents, engagements, births, visits, and military mentions, including arrivals like Judy Lynn Dargrove at Bolte Air Force Base Hospital. Funeral services for Louis Carlisle were held at Cottondale Baptist Church with burial at Orange Hill.
Enterprise report covers the monthly 4th Baptist WMS meeting led by Mrs. M C Shivers. Mrs D H James delivered the divotional Out of the Slavery of Sin, with prayer by Mrs H Stephenson. An on air devotional Christ the Answer for the Pagan People aired via radio. Installation of new officers by Mrs W H Beat and business session chaired by Mrs Joe Jeraigay. Circle count reached 67. focus week planning noted for November 18.
Mr. and Mrs. Wiley M. Philman will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary October 18 at their Blakely home. They were married at Cedar Springs by Rev. Jesse Ingram. The couple has five daughters and one son, 22 grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. The family includes Mrs. Foy Williams of Cedar Springs, Mrs. J. A. McCormick, Mrs. G. Wa. Davie of Blakely, Mrs. J. J. MeMullen of Jakin, Rheba Pailfreon of Cedar Springs, and W. H. Philman of Donalsonville.
The Susannah Circle of the Methodist Church met at Mrs. Margare Haire's home with ten members present as Myrtle Sellers led a program on Wisdom Is Price. The Baptist WYA elected Ella Wilkerson president and officers followed by refreshments. Various church circles held meetings this week, birthdays were celebrated, and local residents noted travel, hospitalizations, and newborns with several births at Enterprise hospital and Augusta area travels.
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