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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1931
Page
5
Ellen Carrigan of Ouachita Arkadelphia visits family as area social events fill the week. Teachers from Lewisville and Sain of Ouachita join homefolk for weekend gatherings while club meetings plan final Day program rehearsals.
Personal Mention covers Ed I Rephan returning from New York Eastern markets with goods for Arkansas and Oklahoma stores. Includes birth of Marian Measles in Lewistown, Lafayette County, and Carl Measles as County Superintendent. Brown separation attempt. Murrah shopping in Hope. Stephenson family moving after March 1. Effie McCulley’s surprise bridge party. Jewelle McCulley gifts. Geo W Robison buying Spring stock in St Louis for Hope Prescott Nashville stores. Buster May improving after surgery. John H Barrow delivering poultry to New Orleans for Mardi Gras.
SARATOGA Misses Nora Herman and Fern Williams and Leon Douson attended the show at Hope Saturday. d. R. McJunkins of Mandeville visited his parents here this week. Mrs. B. Bridgeman and Mrs. H. C. Walkup served dinner at the Okay school Friday. Mr. Arthur Holland is visiting relatives In Smackover this week. Mrs. Mollie McDowell of Ogden visited Mr. and Mrs. Mitchard McJunkins Sunday. Mr. Eugene Cox is working on the new highway between Hope and Bleving. Tony Erwin of Texarkana visited relatives here this week. Mrs. Anna Hutchins spent Tuesday with her daughter in McNab. Miss Nancy Johinson and Miss Mabel Sipes spent Tuesday night with Miss Bertha McJunkins. Miss Gladys Campbell of Hope is visiting friends here this week. Remember the Bible Class every Sunday night.
Dust in the middle of the Mississippi River has risen to reveal sandbars between Helena and Vicksburg as river channels shrink. A narrow Arkansas side passage is used for traffic while water levels remain too low since May last year. Engineers say a flood in Arkansas or Mississippi deltas this year is unlikely.
Miss Dorothy Winberry hosted a party with many friends last Tuesday night. Various visitors and overnight guests are listed with the Winberry family at Waldo and nearby towns. A seven pound girl was born to Mr and Mrs Jesse Rasterling, both mother and daughter Berling reported well. A singing gathering is planned at the place.
New York report notes border terrier making its first major appearance in American shows. Three of the dogs owned by Charles W. Thayer of Villanova Pennsylvania, a West Point cadet, are displayed at the 55th annual Westminster Kennel Club show closing Thursday. The breed is long associated with homeland history and features a stocky, short legged build and sandy wiry coat.
In Stratford Connecticut a vertical wind tunnel built under Yale University Professor D B Olshevsky is used to test model airplanes for structural weaknesses. Sikorsky Aviation Corp manufactured the tunnel locally after convincing Igor Sikorsky of its practicality. The vertical design allows 360 degree observation and identical wind and gravity orientation for balance measurements.
Shelby England, 51, longtime banker in Little Rock and more recently with an insurance company, died Thursday at home after a weeklong illness. Survived by widow, two daughters and a son. England worked with his father and brothers in banking.
Frederick Clausen, 25, one of the U S America crew rescuers of the S S Florida, sold two Medals of Honor he received for the rescue to buy a bed and a meal. The medals were awarded about a year and a half ago for his part in the sea rescue.
Washington directory officials report President and Mrs. Hoover are added, extending the District of Columbia directory with two new entries. The notice notes their inclusion amid ongoing updates to the city listings.
In the new edition the only concession is placing Hoover, Herbert C. (Lou Henry) President the United States residence the White House in bold. Several hundred other names also appear in bold type as part of the same display.
Prof. W. E. Allen of Scripps Institution of Oceanography says sea research can yield practical products from food to fertilizers and aid understanding Earth's history and life. He notes that studying life and conditions in the sea helps compare present forms with past.
Brookline Massachusetts residents approved a plan for a new cinema, the town’s first, offering locals a theater option instead of traveling to Boston for films. The project signals a shift in local entertainment.
The Vermont Legislature is asked to appropriate 2000 dollars to buy an oil painting for the State Capitol. The work would depict Calvin Coolidge receiving the oath as U.S. president from his father Colonel John C. Coolidge in the Plymouth homestead kerosene lamp glow.
Pittsburgh amateurs of the Academy of Science and Art create Valley View Observatory in a wooden shack with an aluminum dome. The homemade ten-inch telescope, ground by Jews in months of work, sits on property owned by Leo J. Scanlon, the section's secretary treasurer and a plumber.
The term honors roll names sport captains from Massachusetts Agricultural College Joseph Gula baseball Leon Stanisiewsky basketball Allen West Jr relay Edmund L Frost hockey Donald M Mason cross country and Robert C Rooney track. Eight other lettermen earned honors.
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