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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1947
Page
8
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The Presbyterian Woman's Auxiliary group met Monday afternoon with O L Davis hosting at her mother Mrs Floyd Xief. Charles Harmon led devotion and reviewed the missionary study. Ten members and one visitor attended.
Southside Baptist W M S circles met in members homes for mission study and prayer. The Macey Givens Circle reported ten members and a visitor Mrs Dean with members leading prayers and papers on Widely Traveled Church and If Two Agree. Ida Dykes and Lena Avery Circles also met with devotional talks and prayers.
Foster Street Methodist W S C S met by circles Monday afternoon at members homes. Carolyn Dowdell Circle hosted by Mrs. E R Porter with fifteen members and two visitors. Other circles led meditation and mission study including Bell Bennett Circle and Octavia Rush Circle with varied hosts and leadership.
The Methodist Youth Fellowship of Lafayette Street Methodist Church elected new officers at a Sunday meeting. Fred O'Brien Jr. was named president Betty Kirksey vice president Jane Olive Chalker secretary and Tom Carr treasurer. Committee chairs include Lois Cherry Williams Betty Lane Underwood Jesse Shinte Oliver Day Yvonne Keel Jean Thompson Nada Pelham with Joyce Keel as assistant. Installations set for 6 30 p m Sunday at the Lafayette Street church.
Dorothy Dix argues that many families suffer from self declared geniuses in both spouses and relatives. She warns that ambitious dreams without talent waste money and time and urges letting unrealized ambitions fail naturally to protect home life.
The Grandview Baptist WOMLU held its regular program at the church Monday afternoon led by Mrs. Wesley Thompson. G. H. Irraway gave a devotional from Isaiah, and speakers included Mrs. Thompson on The Todians and Their Religion, Mrs. Misrigz Whitaker on Indians as Baptists, and Mr. Pat McKeithen on Christian Baptists. The service closed with prayer by Mrs. C. D. Martin.
Mrs. Jesse Stringfellow hosted a Sunday luncheon at the Stringfellow home on route two to celebrate her husband’s forty third birthday. A long shade table served a picnic lunch and a cake marked forty three candies with guests including many local families and friends. Betty Malone departed for Tuscaloosa to join the Wesley Foundation at the University of Alabama as assistant director.
Huntingdon College prepares for a large opening enroll ment on September 18 with freshmen testing September 19 through 22 and registration spread across September 22 to 25. Senator J Frank S. Heflin will deliver the opening address at 10 a m in Huntingdon chapel. Orientation activities include dormitory tours, student government and association events, and an annual retreat at Camp Grandview to set the year’s program.
Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Woodham Jr of Midland City route two welcomed a son, Danny Richard, born September 6. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Woodham and Mr. and Mrs J. C. Paramore of Midland City.
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