From the files of June 14, 1951
TEEN CHATTER
Seems lots of people have left for camp these days. Leaving Monday were: Barbara Cook, Bobby Bland, Betty Jean Fricke, Harold Keller, Peggy Armstrong, Joyce Chandler, and Hershel Arnold. Going to Camp Dunroamin near Fayetteville, Tennessee, Wednesday, were Nancy Graves, Carolyn Kilgoe, Joyce Martin, Bobby Chandler, Ann Vozt, and Joyce and Suzanne Ponder. They plan to stay a month.
Others away at camp during the week end were: Barbara Bland, Bobby White, Betty Handley and Dorothy Richard going to Jacksonville; Peggy Sticher, Mary Lois Warnke, Ott Tanner and Carolyn Burgess also visited the beaches last week end. Patsy, Ann, Faye Karter, Ellen Johnson and Dub Karter and Bill Arnold also were there.
Up at the Youth Center Friday night for a weiner roast were: Mr. and Mrs. Tom Walker and Finis St. John, Betty Johnson and Lewis Lindley, Betty Handley and Bob Black, Joyce Thompson and Ott Tanner, Joyce and Carole Ponder and Billy Dunlap, Joyce and Raymond Tucker.
Visitors Friday night were: Marilou Johnson, Margaret Joyce and Wayne Glasscock.
Skating Friday night were Marjorie Dean and Bill Hauk, Betty Johnson and Bob Smith, Betty Handley and Lewis Lindley, Jean Warnke, Dunlap and John Chandler.
Enjoying Cokes up at the Drug Store Saturday afternoon were: Mr. and Mrs. Tom Walker, Audrey Bush. Guests included Jane Hand, Janette Young, Elizabeth Ann Blalock, Ann Smith, Joyce Thompson, Emily Gibson, Esther Mae Sticher, Bill Hauk, Lewis Lindley, Hershel Arnold, Harold Keller, Bob Black, Elwin Robinson, Dub Jetton, Bill Johnson, Billy Dunlap, Harold Keller, Hubert Chandler, Charles Bottcher, Robert Bowling, Bob Bland, Bill Johnson, Jack Johnson.
Dates Friday night were: Joan Morrow and Bill Hauk, Patsy Sticher and Ott Tanner, Jane Hand and Jack Muse, Patsy Patton and Robert Boatright.
At the movies Saturday night were: Arlene Arnold and Lewis Lindley, Arvella Bradley and Charles Missildine, and Dick Schuessler.
Enjoying a weiner roast up at Tom Walker’s place Saturday night were: Ann Durham and Johnny Edwards, Carolyn Burgess and Neil Glasscock, Jean Warnke and Bill Warnke, Lorene Rigsby and Etcel Lindley, Patsy Luethers and John Chandler.
Others out Saturday night were Sally Brown, Peggy Sticher, Audrey Bush, Patsy Patton, Ott Tanner, Dorothy Land and Bill Morton, Jane Hand, Bill Howard, Jean Warnke, Billy Dunlap, Ott Suggs, Earnestine Shaw and John Johnson, Bob Hauk, and Martha Nell Speegle and Jack Johnson and Calvin Quick. Jane Tucker and Dub Jetton, Jimmy Wood, Billy Dunlap, Ann and Jackie Shaefer and Ed Hopke, Wanda Speer and Jimmy Bland, Joyce Ponder and Bill Arnold. Others were Katie Christopher and Robert Bowling, Arvella Bradley and Jack Missildine.
Hither and yon Sunday night were: Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jean and Rayburn Glasscock, Pat and Jim Sticher, Mary Emma Gray and Rayburn Smith, Pat and Johnny Lee Warnke, Jane Hand and Charles Sticher, Patsy Jetton, Jean Ann Owen and Jimmy Wood, Joan and Bob Hauk, Patsy Patton and Shorty Hodge.
Some people sure got a long distance call from up in Indiana, recently.
Johnny Burnham entertained a crowd of friends from out of town Monday night. Those there were: Barbara Cook and Bob Hauk, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Walker, Ann Brownie West, Dottie Shaefer and Ed Hopke, Patsy Ponder and Bill Arnold, Ann Smith and Jack Hand, Jimmy Wood, Jean Karter, Kaye Farrill and Hershel Arnold, Susan Cook and Elwin Robinson, Joyce Thompson, Jack Muse, Bill Hanes, Martha Speegle and Jack Johnson.
Up at the Teen Center for a Square Dance Monday night were: Neil Glasscock, Arvella Bradley and Pat Sticher.
Dates out Tuesday night were Jean Warnke and Jack Muse, Joyce Ponder and Jack Hand, Patsy Patton, Paula Aldridge and Marvin Scott.
Mary Nell Blair and Rosemary Smith visited in Cullman Sunday.
Mary Folsom visited her cousin, Betty Fricke, and also spent the week end with Carolyn Speegle.
Aranelta Bradley spent part of last week in Florence.
It is rumored that Jane has been having quite a bit of company from Johnny Edwards Saturday night.
Ellen Johnson is spending the week in Hartselle. She will return to nursing school last week. Ellen also helped the family celebrate a vacation trip last week. Mrs. Edwards is recovering from the measles soon.
A large crowd went to the ball game at the park last week end, guests of Patsy Patton.
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Estell Marks had her appendix out last week. She has recovered nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Easterwood are the proud parents of a baby boy.
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Bailey and sons of Trimble were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Marks last week.
Visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Marks a short while Thursday afternoon were Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Marks of Jones Chapel and Birl Marks of Haleyville.
Joe Burham is on a vacation this week.
M. L. Easterwood has been ill this week, but is better now.
Ronald Estes was the recent guest of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Abbott.
Mrs. T. F. Conwell and children are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Marks and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Elliott visited Mrs. Lula Johnson and Jerome Tuesday night.
Mrs. Effie Marks visited her daughter, Mrs. Jake Godfrey of Brushy Pond this week.
To and Fro
Six representatives of the Seventh Street Baptist Church left Sunday night for the Southern Baptist Convention in San Francisco. They were attending the Southern Baptist Convention. The six are Rev. and Mrs. T. J. Wade, Rev. and Mrs. Moye King and Mr. and Mrs. Adams Speegle.
Firemen are often called to find lost animals, give first aid, etc but Chief John Hassenbein and one of his assistants, Billy Wood, had a new experience Wednesday morning. They were called to rescue a few weeks old yellow kitten belonging to little Wendell Hassenbein from the City Well. The kitten fell into the well Tuesday and was causing a great deal of trouble to the Hassenbeins. One of two brother kittens, as well as Wendell and Bill the neighbors had thrown everything imaginable into the well, then slipped a noose around the kitten’s neck, lifted it into the bucket and drew it to safety.
The Sportsman Club is entertaining its members with a barbecue at 5 o’clock this afternoon.
Business began an upward swing in Cullman County during March, according to figures released today by the Bureau of Research, University of Alabama. Bank debits were up 10 percent more in March 1951 than in February 1951 and 15 percent greater in March 1951 than in February 1951.
A watch was given away at the Benoit Theatres last Saturday night. The watch was a beautiful one, one of the some six thousand. Fans attending the Saturday night matinee, Albert Messersmith, held the lucky ticket stub and got the watch.
Among the fifty one Florence State Teachers College Army R.O.T.C. students who will report to camp this summer is James 16 H. Jr. Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert H. Howell, Jr. of Vinemont.
To celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Kelley left last week for a trip to the West Coast for a vaaction. They left by plane Tuesday afternoon and arrived in Los Angeles at 9 p. m. last night.
Sunday afternoon when City firemen rushed to a report of a fire, all they looked and looked for, they only saw a bit of smoke. They decided some one was out in a field burning some trash. Sure enough box 25 at the City Hall, was pulled again on Sunday night. Those guilty of turning in false alarms will be fined.
When Sissy and Al Herr started to leave on their honeymoon Monday morning, they were dragging a string of tin cans behind the car. The best man, Sam Bolen, tied it to the back seat of the car. Sissy’s year old grandmother, Mrs. Will Grave sent Sissy’s dress out to be cleaned. They plan to spend a week and several miles down the highway. From there they plan to finally decided to let the newly weds go alone.
Of the more than two million dollars worth of U. S. Defense Bonds sold in Alabama during May, only $7,975 were sold in Cullman County. Jefferson County had the largest amount $742,289. and Cherokee also trailed $375,000.
Cullman Rotarians this week had the privilege to hear the Rev. Robert Glenn, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, USA, of White Sulphur Springs. Rev. Glenn was voted the “outstanding young minister of 1950 in a contest sponsored by the Progressive Farmer” magazine among the nominations from rural churches in 14 southeastern states.
