From the files of May 31, 1956
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From the Tribune Files of 1906 & 1936
50 YEARS AGO
Prof. Homer F. Morris will begin a 20 day singing school in the basement of the M. E. Church South next Monday.
Mrs. A. Dreher will sing a solo and Mrs. Chas. Herfurth and Miss Elizabeth Fricke will sing a duet at the special services at St. John’s Church Sunday.
St. Bernard’s baseball team defeated the Birmingham Athletic Club 10-7 and 5 to 3 on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
Mrs. W. E. Spain and little son, Adlai, of Decatur were guests of relatives here this week.
Mrs. John F. Linderman left for an extended visit in Germany.
Johnnie Gertes is in Memphis this week.
John Phillips of Wylam visited Berlin relatives last week.
Henry Schnittker is expecting to ship several hundred bushels of potatoes this season.
Bud Yeager and John Cook spent Monday in the city.
A singing was held at J. W. McAfee’s Saturday night.
Prof. D. V. Smith has bought the E. E. Matthews residence, one mile west of town and will move there soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fastnacht of Birmingham are guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Arndt here.
Mrs. E. Hicks will move to Atlanta next week and J. R. Allison will move into the house which she now occupies.
The management of Oak Dale Grove Park will give the grandest picnic of the season at this beautiful place of amusement on July 4-6.
Charlie (Baby) Brown has gone to Birmingham to work in the printing business.
C. A. Owen, commander of Confederate Veterans has announced a reunion at Jones Chapel for July 4.
20 YEARS AGO
Miss Ruth Wilbanks underwent an appendectomy on Tuesday at City Hospital.
Mrs. Clyde Porter (Opal Yates) of Long Beach, Calif. is the guest of relatives here.
Miss Dorothy Warren of Winchester, Tenn. is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Henry Buett.
Miss Elizabeth Otwell will visit friends in Virginia and Washington, D. C. before returning home for the summer.
George Swann, lineman for the city of Cullman, was injured Monday when a 30 foot pole fell on him. He is expected to be out of the hospital in a few days.
Eighty students were graduated from Cullman City School Monday. Mary Lovelady was valedictorian, Carolyn Nash, salutatorian. Rev. Theo Mehl and Representative M. L. Robertson made addresses. Students presenting music, poems, etc. on the program were Marise Daves, Marguerite Smith, Troy Thompson, Euline McElrath, Richard Meyer, Eva Hancock, Louise Vest, Margaret Dorrough and Norma Wooten.
M. L. Robertson was elected president of the Alabama Bankers Association at the 47th annual Convention in Montgomery last week-end.
Marie Eckl of Florence will be valedictorian and Clara Price of Cullman salutatorian of the Sacred Heart Academy at commencement on June 2.
Miss Kathryn Terrell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Herrell and a student at Judson College, Will represent Cullman in the celebration of the 124th anniversary of Elston on June 5 in Birmingham.
Little Dolores Hicks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hicks, is recovering from a bad wound on her foot made by a piece of glass on which she stepped.
New Harmony News
Mr. and Mrs. Junior Crochran are parents of a baby born in Guntersville Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Rhodes visited relatives in Gadsden Sunday.
Mrs. Mattie Tipton spent a recent visit with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Noles at Arab.
Mrs. Gerdis Benefield is getting along nicely after being sick for several days.
Clarence Willis is at home for a few days leave from the Air Force in Texas.
Mrs. Lillian Gober of Arab visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Noles, recently.
To and Fro
A grandson for the mayor! Born to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Nesmith (Audrey Vaughn) was a son. They have named Wm. Warren, Jr. He is Mayor and Mrs. F. E. St. John’s first great grandson. They have three little grand daughters, children of Mr. and Mrs. Maxcy Nesmith.
Three students from Hanceville will receive the Associate of Arts degree at Southern Union this Friday. Wadley on June 2. They are Sherman Freeman, Billie McGlawin and Jack W. McGlawin.
The M. T. Brogdon trophy has been awarded to Destis Rasco, son of Mrs. Brogdon Rasco, of Cullman as the most outstanding member of freshman class members of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at API. Yr. 1955-56.
A Cullman girl, Frances Wamp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Wamp, who has been elected to Lambda Tau honorary scholastic society at State Teachers College. Three women from each sorority are chosen for this honorary organization each year. Frances is Lambda Delta Alpha.
Born on Friday, May 25 was Gary Skipper, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Skipper. This was a real birthday present for Mrs. Skipper having been born on her birthday. To make this event doubly true the fact that the Skipper’s daughter, Susan, was born three years earlier on her father’s birth anniversary.
One of fourteen members of the 1933 Bessemer football squad to receive appointments to receive letters this springer is Bill Bailey, son of Mrs. James K. and Conrad Martin of Cullman. Bill played tackle on the Southern team this year.
Local Selective Service Board 22 has been advised its address has been changed to 208 1/2 Walnut St., Anderson. The board’s telephone no. thereabouts is requested to call 1599.
Among the vice-presidents elected at the Southern Baptist convention meeting this week were Mrs. Arthur H. Culhane of Cullman.
After a business engagement in St. Louis, Mr. W. S. Alldredge and Mr. E. C. Kinney of Columbia, Mo. to visit Mrs. Gibbs an old friend. And when enroute home they stopped their son Sidney, who is a student at the Tennessee Medical College there.
Two Cullman students, Betty Sapp and Gray Mann have paintings on exhibition in the state student art show at Birmingham Southern College this week.
Only 1493 people voted in Cullman County in Tuesday’s run-off Democratic primary for the two year chairman of the Alabama Public Service Commission. Only slightly more voted in the June vote in this county was Owens 399 and Batchelor 296. delegate at large to the Democratic national convention was Stone 713, Batchelor 530. Batchelor was leading in the state.
Labor’s role in politics, improved social security coverage and working women were among topics at the Labor’s League for Political Education’s first regular weekly meeting Tuesday night.
