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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1931
Page
6
University of Alabama enrollment reached 4 196 by week end of registration, President George H. Denny announced. Compared with last year, total matriculated stood higher. Dr. Danny noted about 650 in-state students remained to be processed.
In a tense scene at the Alders family home Sam confronts Fourth Alders and Nelson Frye over intoxicated missteps and a veiled conflict involving Martha and Eugenie Frye. Fourth insists on calm, advocates tact, and plans departure with Eugenie while Sam grapples with fear and peril in the dim room.
Enterprise residents share news of visits and returns from Chipley Charleston Talladega and other towns. The piece also reports Alabama winter session admissions Denny's remarks and rising female enrollment at the university, with totals and projections for the season.
A crowded roster of Sunday and weekend visits includes Mr. Ararat and Mrs. Gay with the Hardys, Mrs. Henry Herriason with her mother in Dothan, Miss Louiss Maddox with Miss Valle Da, and J. D. Davie with John Stith. Numerous gatherings around Clayton and Kinsey feature the Maddox, Lassiter, Davie, Hardy, Whitten, and Lasseter families, plus Mrs. Sanford Burkett’s Jaekin visit. Milas Ola Milla’s marriage is noted for local readers.
The brief notes a visit from Metis Barfield to Jim Kirkland and a Saturday night gathering with Me and Mrs Richerd Herdy indicating small social exchanges among local residents.
Little Miss Francia Thomas entertained a number of friends with a party Tuesday in honor of Madge and Robert Collins who are leaving for home. Guests included Robert and Madge Collins, James and Sara Caroline Les, Curiton Thomas, Leather and Muriel Vann, Exell Webb and Mantes Newton, Mr and Mrs Gaston Smith who have returned from a two day visit in Montgomery.
Marquette University's football schedule includes three inter sectional games on consecutive Saturdays. The team will travel to Boston to face Boston College, then play Mississippi and Washington and Jefferson in Milwaukee.
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