From the files of Feb. 28, 1952
South Walter News
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Burks of Cullman spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Guthrie and attended church at Pilgrim’s Rest.
Mrs. Alice Ladwig and son, Charles, and Mrs. Mary Grimmett of Steppville spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Felix Foust and Talmage.
Mrs. W. L. Bice spent Tuesday with her son, Thalbert Bice at Mulberry.
Mrs. W. F. Guthrie of Baileyton spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Braswell.
Cpl. Wilmer Nuss, of Fort Benning, Ga., spent the week-end with his mother, Mrs. W. H. Nuss, and Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Baker and daughter, Carrol.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Pierce and children, Allen, Sarah Lou and Martha Sue spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Pierce at Summitt.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Foust and son, Max of Anniston spent Sunday with relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dunkin of Birmingham are spending their vacation with her mother, Mrs. A. C. Bice and Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Smith. The Dunkins also attended the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday night.
Harold Baker is employed with the civil service in Anniston.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Boyd of Arkadelphia and son, Marvin Boyd of Detroit, Mich., spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rogers and Mrs. S. M. Harding.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Barnett and children of Center Hill spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Barnett and children.
H. L. Stewart is employed in Birmingham.
Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Little spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Fulmer in Birmingham.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dunkin of Birmingham and her mother, Mrs. A. C. Bice, went to Carrollton, Ga., Wednesday to visit Mrs. Bice’s sister, Mrs. J. H. Kidd. Mrs. Bice plans to stay two weeks in Georgia and visit another sister, Mrs. Myrtice Huckabee in Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Huckabee is ill with lukemia.
Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Little spent Tuesday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jones in Mulberry.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith of Birmingham and Earnie Bice of Barton Rogue, La., spent the week-end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bice.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Teague and children of Cullman spent Thursday with her sister, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Armstrong and children.
Ronald Burns is ill at his home here. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Burns.
The Walter basketball team played Good Hope Friday night at Good Hope. The score was 21 to 38 in favor of Good Hope.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hicks and son, Keith, of Birmingham are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hicks.
4-H Club social at Walter School house Tuesday night. Mrs. Sue Smith 4-H Club leader was hostess to the club. Co-hostess was Mrs. Lois Barnett, rural youth leader.
Miss Ruby Jean Harper won first place in the Sweet Heart contest the runner-up was Betty Joe Glascock second place, Sarah Barnett third and Sandra Daniel fourth.
Back – a – Bit
From The Tribune Files of 1902 and 1932
50 YEARS AGO
Mrs. J. F. Weeks assisted by Mrs. Susie Bounds entertained at a Valentine social at her home recently.
Miss Pearl Gibbs of Hanceville is visiting Birmingham relatives.
H. Ehrensperger was in Bangor on business Tuesday.
Mrs. George H. Parker and daughter, Miss Sarah, went to Birmingham Wednesday.
A. J. Peek, better known as “Uncle Jack” died at the home of his son, J. H. Peek at Simcoe on the 11th.
Wanted a boy who can read fairly well to learn the printing business. Apply this office. adv.
Married Sunday the 9th were Miss Loy Nixon and J. M. Moses.
J. R. Tucker, merchant of Jones Chapel, was in the City Monday.
Brooklyn now can boast of a sawmill, grist mill, gin, blacksmith shop, planing mill, one store a church and a two story school house.
Walter Woods, who has been working in Wylam, returned home last week.
Mrs. J. B. Kuydendall died at her Loretto home after several days illness.
Fred Thompson has pneumonia.
Emil Hauk, who has been ill several weeks, is able to be out again.
Sol Gay of Vinemont was in the city, Monday.
Attorney R. L. Hipp attended court at Moulton last week.
C. A. Stiefelmeyer and W. A. Heck went to Birmingham Tuesday on business.
John Christian closed his school at County Line last Friday.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Crutchfield a son on Monday.
20 YEARS AGO
“Uncle” Charley Alvis received a painful eye injury Monday while riding along a road in his wagon a limb hit him in the left eye and shattered his glasses. His son, H. L., brought him to a doctor to see if any of the glass had stuck into the eyeball.
Three hams and a shoulder of meat were stolen from the back porch at D. Kings Tuesday night.
Married last week were Miss Idessa Peppers and John Leonard Carter.
“Bobbie Takes A Look” will be presented at Berlin on March 5. The cast includes John Lovelady, John Teichmueller, Nix Lovelady, Marvin Grizzard, Curtis Patterson, Hulet Payne, Mae Patterson, Freda Lovelady, Mrs. Curtis Patterson, Ruth Turner, Icy Beckworth, Lerner Arthur, Mrs. W. F. Key, and Mrs. Marvin Grizzard.
Mrs. M. S. Whiteside and Mrs. Hester Noland attended the performance of “The House Beautiful” at the Jefferson in Birmingham on Saturday.
“Deacon Dubbs” will be presented at Battle Ground on March 5. The cast includes J. A. Humphries, M. W. Holmes, Elmer Brewer, W. E. Humphries, Raymond Humphries, Stella Hallman, Jewel Vickery, Mrs. M. W. Holmes, Ethel Tucker, and Pauline Gray.
Mrs. Robert Clark and Mrs. P. G. Hartung and son spent the week-end in Russellville.
Carl Peinhardt was home from Auburn for the week-end.
Members of the Junior Study Circle were honored at a leap year party Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Robertson.
Helen Engel won the George Washington oration at Hanceville High School Monday. She represented the Sophomore Class.
“Uncle” Sam Foust was honored on his 88th birth anniversary Sunday.
To and Fro
A couple of couples here have sent their reservations for the Rotary International Convention in Mexico City, Mexico this year. They are Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Griffin and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hyatt. Mr. Hyatt is the newly elected president of the Cullman Rotary Club and will be installed July 1st.
A Cullman High student has been declared one of fifteen national winners in the Quill and Scroll “Political Quiz for 1952 Contest”. This student, Henry Frank Arnold, Jr., was presented a creative writing award at assembly program at CHS Monday morning by Principal Allen Hyatt for the Quill and Scroll, an international honor society for high school journalists. A further elimination in the contest will be made in September when these fifteen winners take part in Part II of the Quiz. The final winner will receive a scholarship.
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but Wallace Hathcock’s inquisitive nature has put him well on the way to becoming one of the best sweet potato growers in the South”, thus begins a feature article in the February issue of “Farm and Ranch” magazine. The article is illustrated with several pictures of Mr. Hathcock and his potato beds and house out on Rt. 6, Cullman.
The Tribune has been informed by Winton M. Blount, president of the Eisenhower state organization, that Alabama leaders for the General’s presidential candidacy, are interested in organizing an Eisenhower for President Club in Cullman. Included in his letter to The Tribune was this message, “We are ready to come there and go over the situation with people interested locally at any time.”
Now a senior clerk in headquarters at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina is Cpl. Betty Jane Glascock, who enlisted in the Air Force last September. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Glascock.
Here for a visit with Cullman Republicans last Friday was Curtis Adkins, Alabama G.O.P. National Committeeman. Mr. Adkins, is a former probate judge of St. Clair County. He was elected in 1928, same year that the late Homer F. Mitchell was elected by a Republican majority for his first term as probate judge of Cullman County.
Guest speaker at the meeting of the Cullman County Chapter American Red Cross directors last Thursday afternoon was Paul M. Moore of Atlanta. Local people attending the meeting, which was held at the Cullman Health Center, were W. O. Buettner, T. A. Robinson, Wallace Green, Ruffin A. A. Powndra, Henry F. Arnold, James Moultrie, Allen Hyatt, Dr. M. S. Whiteside, Dr. E. B. Barnes, Rev. F. J. Mehrtes, and Mesdames F. M. Howell, Wilbur Green, J. M. Oldacre, Ila Dean Gilbert and Ethel Morrison.
