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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1932
Page
3
A brief field note references a record in the state and a notable rose Ike a win, capturing a terse event with limited readable details. The fragment hints at a local or regional achievement, naming only the key subject and outcome in sparse OCR text.
Members led by Mrs Henry explain library functions with nine trustees and local staff. Women check out more books than men and children, with titles like A Lantern in the White and Flying commonly borrowed for extended periods. The board emphasizes education, no formal training, and plans to open the library to the general public as a free facility.
WASHVILLE Ark despondency over continued bad health blamed for the death of Naomi Falls found at her Johnson farm home at 10:30 am. A gun lay by her side. Sister Jer B. Johnson rushed to aid but she died. Relatives say two prior attempts were made. Mrs Ads 3 Bwicegood of Hope noted.
43 year old Fouke Texas marshal C. Cox was reported recovering at home from a gunshot wound suffered last week while responding to a disturbance near the Burley farm. He was found wounded and later moved to his residence for treatment.
A fragment from a 1930s column recalls past trips to Hot Springs and Fayetteville. The writer mentions the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, game rules, and a humorous miscue at a hurdles race. He muses on dusty Main Street, mud tracks, and the Watermelon Festival as memories fade into nostalgia.
L C Van derford, 28, of Clarendon Arkansas, was held in Memphis in connection with the death of a negro boy on April 18. Witnesses testified the boy ran into the street chasing a ball and lurched into the side of Van derford's car, and Vanderford was not to blame for the accident.
Texarkana police held Dudley Roberts, 25, and his cousin A. D. Roberts after a mid river dance stabbing left Dudley badly hurt. Less than 46 hours later he was arrested at a Still and jailed in Miller County.
Two chorus girls banter over garters and stockings in a Michigan motor news item. The first asks about garters that really up stockings while the second jokes about garters holding up motor traffic for blocks a day.
W J Lemke notes that six Ohio girls champion lip readers from Cleveland competed for the state lip-reading championship amid 10 million Americans with deafness. Miss Florence Rose represented Cleveland and Evain Rae supervised the tournament with the state conference of the Association of Hard of Hearing.
Jon Johnson heads the feature card at Shaver Springs school Saturday night in a boxing event to aid the community baseball team. Johnson meets Emmett Lewallen in the opener, Russell Lewallen fights Clifford Yount in the second bout, and Arthur Miller faces J T Cardicle in the third. The program, sponsored by the local baseball team, aims to raise funds for equipment. The bouts start at 8 o'clock.
A quirky exchange is reported as a woman recalls her suitors. She says John asked to marry her but would not leave her mother. Her father replies by granting permission and urging that she go with him, reflecting a playful family dynamic from a bygone era.
Standings show Little Rock 4 Chattanooga 3 and Birmingham 15 Atlanta 14 in ten innings. Nashville Memphis postponed due to cold. Thursday games include Nashville at Little Rock Chattanooga at Memphis Birmingham at Atlanta New Orleans at Knoxville Cincinnati 6 St Louis 4 Chicago 8 Pittsburgh 4. Various postponements for cold weather with several matchups listed across the circuit.
A dated exchange captures a father testing a suitor by asking if he has seen the mother. The youth replies that daughters do not always resemble their mothers, revealing concerns about appearances in marriage.
A humorous exchange has a lawyer noting that remarriage could shift a late husband’s fortune to his brother, prompting a witty return about marrying the brother herself. The joke centers on inheritance and comic misunderstanding.
Two Hope College athletes, Bael Sesreat and Jack Secrest, along with Robison, starred at the University of Arkansas across four years. Secrest captained football, led student activities, and was named one of five Razorback candidates for the most valuable student. Robison played center on the varsity squad, earned a numeral, and joined the A club.
A humorous exchange contrasts a modern son with an old fashioned father. The father claims his parents disciplined him, while the son replies his parents had no real trouble with him, highlighting generational differences in parenting styles.
Two youths named Bean, said to be brothers from Monroe Louisiana, were arrested near Wilmot after a gas station holdup Monday night. They fired on pursuing officers twice but did not stop, abandoned their car, fled into the woods, and were captured after a posse pursued them for several miles.
The Erwin family of Sutton will present a musical at Willisville High School auditorium on Friday night April 29. The program features piano, vocal, guitar and dancing numbers and begins at 8 p.m.
A humorous sketch contrasts a bemused tourist with a local in a quaint village setting. Wry exchanges reveal social contrasts and a sly comment on ignorance outside the village, capturing a lighthearted moment of cultural commentary.
A maid notes yesterday she broke a dozen cups and saucers and today four plates. She wonders what will happen tomorrow. Answers say too many soap boxes used by orators to stand and not enough to carry cleansing material, leaving untidy bones.
W. J. Lemke head of the journalism department at the University of Arkansas spoke to Miss Margaret Bell's Hope High School journalism class Thursday at 10. The talk centered on high school newspapers and their role in student journalism.
The Pat Cleburne chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will hold its annual memorial service Sunday at Rosa Hill cemetery in Hope. Major O. L. Bodenhamer, former national commander of the American Legion, will deliver the memorial address at 3 oclock p.m. The program includes a bugle call, invocation, a poem by Mrs. Shipley, introduction of Bodenhamer by Hon. C. Graves, roll call of Confederate, Spanish American War and World War dead, and a wreath ceremony by Frances Snyder and Evelyn Bryant.
A humorist quips that God made the first talking machine and Edison made the pies one that could be shut off. The remark plays on the idea of invention and control across a playful dialogue about speech and machines.
Sid Barlow Daniels a 18 year veteran of a Hope hotel recalls a vivid incident when a drunken driver tried to climb a lamp post he was leaning on. A Black hotel staffer from Hampsland county Arkansas he has worked from dishwashing upward amid mentions alongside Harvey Parnell and Joe T. Robinson.
A Tit-Bits item mocks a patient who sought a dental extraction at home and claimed possession of a portable apparatus. The fragment suggests a humorous or satirical note on medical practices and patient autonomy in a bygone era.
The piece notes that although girls are blamed for calling up boys to ask for dates, this habit increases telephone company revenues, reflecting social and economic implications.
A 2-year-old procurement by the Port Smith fire department includes a motorized firefighting vehicle recently added to the service fleet. The purchase, recorded in city accounts, reflects ongoing modernization of equipment.
RAST LANSING Mich Should Michigan State college's hurdlers prove extra good this season coach Milos Cantrel will give credit to sponge tube attached to the rubber tipped hurdles. Cantrel notes the best form requires clearing the hurdle with the closest margin possible and equipped the hurdles with rubber to prevent knee and leg injuries to trackmen. He says the men can hardly rest on the bars without being brushed off by the boys as they become perfect in judging their jumps.
Washington County expects a strong fruit crop despite late freezes and cold spells. County Agent C L McMurray says strawberries will begin harvesting in May with yields around 80 percent of normal for Klondykes and about 95 percent for Aromas, the area’s main varieties.
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