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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1930
Page
6
The Garrett Memorial Church invites all to attend tonight at six o clock for a cordial service led by Wider Shereill. The message emphasizes faith and community, inviting broad participation and reflection.
Saenger Theatre in Hot Springs stages a Watermelon Festival dance at 10 p.m. with Faank Hartling as manager. Ruel Oliver's Orchestra and Arlington Hotel musicians provide music plus spotlight dances and novel lighting. Watermelon Pageant guests attend. theatre opens at 10 a.m. and runs all day with Wings of Adventure as the feature film.
Fragmented text blends poetic inquiries on the wind with a long list of festival guests and local social notices. Mentions of the Watermelon Festival, arrivals of Mr and Mrs Spring er and families, church circle meeting, funeral attendance, and a surgical operation highlight community life in August 1948 across Pine Bluff and nearby towns including Hot Springs Little Rock Memphis and Oklahoma.
London August 6 UP Mrs Rosina Franklin for 37 years rode a street car nightly to meet her husband Harry Franklin after his work in the West minister district. A truck struck her near her home as she waited for a car and she died moments later in hospital.
Cass county boasts the oldest twins in Michigan with Francis and Franklin Phillips, 72, listed as born at Florence in St Joseph county. The Aug 6 report notes their ages mark a record for the state.
Mrs Roy M Sutton visits St Louis to shop fall millinery for Polk Millinery. Leon Pressley of Little Rock visits brother C B Pressley in Hope. Mrs Rex Byers and children return to Texarkana after week with E T Kennedy and family. Dr M G Daly and son Jim from Little Rock arrive for several days visiting. Otis Stanley of Liberty Hill and Hillis Steltz near Patmos return from Jefferson Barracks CMTC camp praising time and plan to attend again next year.
York Aug 6. A huge bull frog captured at the water station by Guy Parrott was brought to town on a string and provoked a street struggle when a crowd watched as the frog squared off against a dog. The amphibian reportedly swelled in size and showed a fighting spirit before the dog’s owner withdrew him.
Aug 6. In York County North Carolina the first woman candidate for probate judge enters a race that funds about 12000 annually. Five candidates compete including Mrs J Ace Shannon who pledges strict scrutiny of marriages and vows not to perform if not fit.
A Daily Herald report notes 12 people killed and about 150 injured in communal riots at Sukkur Northwestern India on Tuesday evening. Police fired on Hindus and Muslims as violence spread. Two hundred arrested. Indian troops moved to Sukkur from Hyderabad to quell the unrest.
The Saenger theatre will feature motion pictures of the Lenz oil field near Hope on Watermelon Festival day. Spectators see the well oil spouting, derrick action, and gear in oil. The program also includes Wings of Adventure with Rex Lease and Amida Hay, and a dance with Ruel Oliver's orchestra after the 10 p.m. closing.
Dallas police grilled a defiant blonde who was arrested as a suspect in the Sunday night robbery of R. McCafferty and Miss Virginia Long. Detectives believe she sat in a car while two male accomplices carried out the holdup. previously she had been brought from her upscale apartment in connection with a prior sensational Dallas robbery.
Dallas elder J. E. Sherrill, an Interstate Missionary for the American Baptist Association, arrived in Hope en route to Sweet, to preach in the city tonight.
Officials of the Southern Pacific and Cotton Belt Railway spent hours in Pine Bluff on Tuesday inspecting Cotton Belt properties and then departed for Shreveport. The group included SP President Daniel Upthegrave, VP F W Grove, CSP General Superintendent W E McGraw, Chief Engineer W S Hanley, Cotton Belt President A C McDonald, and Exec VP H M Lull.
At Roosevelt Field L 1 Aug, pilot Eric Wood of the Aviation Country club at Hicksville escaped with a parachute after his left wing crumpled during stunts. He landed safely. the plane struck a nearby chicken farm, killing 141 birds.
Aug 6 Bentonville reports the wife of state Senator Sam Beasley fractured her hip in a Rogers fall. She was transported later to a Joplin hospital for treatment.
CAMDEN Aug 1 The D F Hufstedler home on Breckenridge Street one of Camden’s oldest landmarks was destroyed by fire of unknown origin early Tuesday The house was vacant and fire was discovered by a train crew.
Indianapolis state Mrs F Griener completed a 75 inch square crazy quilt this week. The piece represents 44 years of patient labor. The project culminates in a vivid mosaic of fabric patches reflecting a long personal history and craft dedication.
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