GOSSIP & PERSONALS

Lauderdale County AL

Anniston Star Alabama 17 March 1929
Miss Dorothy Russell will leave today for Florence to resume her studies at the Florence Normal School.

Anniston Star Alabama 22 March 1929
A second attempted jail break within a month was frustarted by Sheriff W.L. Stutts of Lauderdale County hee today. Negro prisoners were caught int he act of battering bricks from the wall with window weights they secured by cutting through the window with a knife. A plot to effect a wholesale delivery was discovered several days ago when a bar on one of the windows was found sawed through.

Anniston Star Alabama 28 March 1929
Economy Wholesale Company recently established in Florence.

Anniston Star Alabama 09 April 1929
Mrs James Roberts of Florence, and Mrs. W.O. Stevens and Mrs. E.P. Kingsber of Huntsville will attend the session of North Alabama Presbyterial in Anniston the 14th and 15th of April.

Anniston Star Alabama 27 April 1930
Florence AL - April 26, 1930 - G.D. Wallace, 32 and his brother R.H. Wallace, 37 of Cherokee, near here, wee killed today when cars on a freight train they were riding became uncoupled, throwing them beneath the wheels. Friends said they boarded the train to go to Bell buckle in search of work, G.D. Wallace was kiled instantly and his brother dies shortly after an ambulance reached Bell Buckle with him.

Anniston Star Alabama 8 April 1937
Mrs. Benjamin Cunningham and Mrs. Mervin Koonce left today for Florence after being the guests of Mrs. Gerald King for the meeting of the North Alabama Methodist Womans Missionary Society at teh First Methodist Church.

The Alabama Courier (Athens Alabama) 03 Feb 1944
Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Powers of Veto, announce the wedding of their daughter to Mr. T.C. Burgess of Portland ME and Decatur AL, the wedding ceremony having occurred at Florence, AL, Saturday January 29, 1944 (Decatur Daily)

The Alabama Courier (Athens Alabama) 18 December 1947
Dr. and Mrs. W.C. Wood and Pat and Ann of Florence were week end guests of relatives.

Misses Alice and Cruse Patton of Florence spent Sunday here.

The Alabama Courier (Athens Alabama) 15 September 1949
President Perry B. James and Mrs. James, Professor and Mrs. Boehm and Dr. harrison L. Euler motored to Florence last Sunday afternoon where Dr. James had a conference with some friends relative to Athens College.

The Alabama Courier (Athens Alabama) 05 May 1949
Bryant Miller of Florence State Teacher College and Miss Genie Peacock of Florence will spend Sunday with the former's mother, Mrs. Mattie Miller.

Anniston Star Alabama 7 April 1953
Mrs. Mervin Koonce of Florence and Mrs. Ira Lutz of Wedowee are the guests ofMr. and Mrs. Frank L. Kirby, having arrived to attend the WSCS conference.

The Alabama Courier (Athens Alabama) 19 September 1968
Clint Holland of Rogersville is a patient at Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital in Florence following a heart attack.

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