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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1940
Page
6
The calendar notes a social gathering hosted by Miss Marian Smith and Miss Mary Ann Lite during the brides week in Rommel Meaghes, with an afternoon party at 4 o’clock on Tuesday. Miss Martha Houston is listed for December events.
Miss Virginia Lee Tate and Miss Evelyn Tate hosted a joint birthday party at their West Street home celebrating their twelfth and third birthdays. Guests enjoyed games in the afternoon.
The page details a First Methodist junior girls tea at Mrs M M McCloughan home with Christmas decor and a table tea service. later reports a wedding in Ashdown Arkansas where Miss Geneva Hunter marries J Rodgers, plus a second wedding in Texarkana where Mildred McCaney and Burle McMahen wed, noting attendees and gowns, and future plans.
Miss Ona Burnside of 216 South Washington street dropped a purse on East Second street. TL C Sommerville, Hempstead County Farm Bureau president, found it and brought it to The Star. A simi classified ad led Burnside to identify contents and recover $4.34. Christmas Eve relief followed.
A scrambled local notice recounts administrative ties of Nong A M College and Oklahoma A M College with Hempstone County AAA headquarters in Hope, Maine and Mes. It notes plans for a Broad apartments home after a honeymoon in New Orleans and highlights Mrs Ralph Routon hosting a Christmas recital featuring a large ensemble and many performers led by Mrs Routon.
Local notices list numerous holiday visits and arrivals. P D Smith of Dallas plans a city visit with Captain and Mrs R A Boyett. Charles Crutchfield, a View Institute sophomore, arrives from Houston for holidays. Many relatives from Dallas, Pine Bluff, Detroit, Washington DC, and Little Rock visit Hope for Christmas. A baby girl named Rosdyn Janet Fincher is announced born December 22.
British observers predicted a delaying tactic to weaken Fascist resistance as bombardment continued into a seventh day. The town’s fate hung on whether a direct assault could be postponed to reduce costs and casualties.
Greek government announced the capture of Chimara, a main Albanian supply base between Valona and Porto Kolda, and the seizure of the dare Battalion of the Fascist militia, about 800 men and 80 officers. Greek advance pursued retreating Italian forces toward Valona as air and ground forces moved to secure the position. The Royal Air Force reported shooting down eight Italian fighters while losing two British planes.
A night of air raids on an industrial English city left unclear casualties as bombs struck two public air raid shelters one housing nearly a0 people. A movie theater was wrecked and numerous buildings set ablaze after waves of bombers approached from the south and spread across the area. The attack began with flares and incendiaries before high explosive bombs followed.
Funeral services for Frederick C Marshall 60 of Texarkana were held Sunday at 4 in Texarkana with burial at Rose Hill Cemetery. He died unexpectedly at home Friday and was a well known figure in Hope and Hempstead counties. Survivors include widow three sons Lawrence Q Calvin A and George R, two daughters Mary and Margaret, and brother Henry Marshill.
The Gas Consumers Committee will release refund checks immediately despite petitions signed last summer. A mass meeting later will discuss lowering Hope’s gas rate and possible municipal takeover of Arkansas Louisiana Gas property. Traffic Manager L Carter Johnson drafts a report on local operations for public disclosure.
A fragment lists officers and attendees from a last summer mass meeting including Albert Graves as chairman A H Washburn secretary James H Pilkinton Syd E McMath and P Young.
Annual meeting of stockholders scheduled for January 8, 1941 at 49 p.m. at the Greening Insurance Agency office, P. E. Briant.
The text notes the moon is a large satellite relative to Earth, asserting Earth’s diameter is about 7,918 miles while the moon spans roughly 2,159 miles, contrasting their sizes and orbits.
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