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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1930
Page
5
A Dickinson era collated column notes dances and dinners at Hope, listing attendees from Mrs. J PyrGovin to Geryl Henry and Mary Ard, with hostesses Mary Louie Keith and L A Keith. The report also covers bridge gatherings, club events, a Saenger theatre party, and missionary society activities, tracing a week of social engagements in vivid detail.
Infirmary Little Rock reports the remembrance for Billy Weldon, a baby son of Mrs Crawford. The service will honor Miss Grace Porter, formerly of this city, at the field.
Church service and Sunday School planned at St Marks Episcopal Church January 12. Communion at 7 30 morning prayer sermon canvass at 2 30 and parish meeting January 13 at 7 30 pm. J T Bovill rector invites all members to attend.
Sundry School at 9:45. Junior, Intermediate and Senior classes. Dr. T D Brown to preach at 11:00 a.m. Reverend W BR Chandler to preach at 7:30 p.m. Invitation extended to all. A hearty welcome.
Bible study on Lord's day morning at 4 o'clock followed by morning and evening services. Morning subject The Growth of Sin. Evening sermon The Christian Charge. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7 15. You are welcome to all services.
Mrs Neva Finley Paris a 21 year old prize winner in the last women’s national air derby died in a wreck near Woodbine. A Curtiss representative was ordered to inspect debris at Brunswick and to travel from Columbia to assist in the investigation. Paris had flown in from Mineola and circled at about 2000 feet before the craft fell without fire. She had taken up aviation in 1928 and earlier survived a mud landing after a propeller came off. She planned to recruit backers in Florida to buy planes. Paris was reportedly divorced in 1928 and had attracted attention years earlier over medical fraud allegations involving a Dr Friedmann. She is survived by her parents Mr. and Mrs. Finley and a sister and brother.
The Bible school grew to 212 last Sunday with space for more. Pastor Wilfred P Harman invites everyone to attend morning services on The Program of Ideals and evening sermon on Bargains of Life, urging fellowship and welcome.
The First Presbyterian Church in Anderson outlines Sunday school lessons on Baptism and Temptation of Jesus. Morning worship features a sermon on A Challenge to Individualism and Christ Dae Great Ex sample. Evening service at 6 43 p m. Women’s Auxiliary Circles meet with leaders listed and monthly officer meeting planned Wednesday prayer on The Calling of the Gentiles and Thy Rejection of the Jews.
Rev. Francis A Buddin leads tenth anniversary events with W J Lasinger address on prohibition from a lawyer's view. Church School 9 45 Epworth League 6 43, 7 30 sermon You and Your Family. Mission study 7 15 weekly for six weeks with Ebner J Clark book. All welcome.
Beatrice Jones leads a church Epworth League program featuring theme prayer Scripture from Matthew 18 20 hymns The Importance of Prayer The Wrong Use of Prayer The Right Kind of Prayer The Era and Prayer with voices and a Thombone solo by Robert O Neal and a prayer hymn offered by Rev F A Buddin concluding with an offering and benediction
The American Investment Company is warned to appear in Hempstead County Chancery Court within thirty days and answer the complaint filed by Sarah McEachran as assignee. Witness Willie Harris, Clerk, seal affixed, December 11, 1925.
A Chicago Board of Crime Report concludes after eight years that crime concentrates in three districts surrounding the Loop stockyards and mills. Using maps of 60,000 offenders over 30 years, the study links industry encroachment, rising rents, and shifting populations to juvenile and adult delinquency with district-wide patterns and potential police reorganization.
BELTON Texas Jan 11 Thirteen indictments charging forgery against Arthur 8 Crouch a fugitive for 13 years until recently were dismissed by District Judge Few Brewster on motion of District Attorney Henry Taylor. Crouch sailed for New Zealand where he had lived since 1916 before arrest and return to face charges. The indictments stemmed from alleged losses by City National Bank and Temple banks totaling over 100000. The bank requested dismissal as Crouch had resolved to surrender. Taylor did not oppose. The bank spent over 20000 on detectives attorneys and Sheriff Bingham’s trip to New Zealand. Crouch had vanished in 1916 and later resurfaced in Temple before fleeing again. He had become prosperous as a grain merchant and land agent in Temple and had been boomed for mayor before extradition.
In Birmingham Alabama on January 11 the Bank of Insley and its branch the Bank of Wylam failed to open for business at regular hours. This brings the district total to six closures in the past year due to heavy losses in real estate and loans after the Federal closure decision.
Lewisville reports three days of steady rain that has caused streams to overflow their banks. Highways remain open and in good condition as water levels continue to rise.
Miss Pay Beckworth, a two year student at Brown's College, won the Efficiency Banner for the highest record in her vocational department. President J E Brown offered the banner to the student with the top grade and efficiency in their work. Beckworth earned the extension department and department of offices distinction.
A. F. Skzilla of Hamburg Arkansas was hospitalized in Baton Rouge after being struck by an automobile while attempting to cross the street. He suffered a broken leg and minor head and shoulder bruises from the collision last night.
Japan announces its currency will be placed on a gold basis to redeem yen on demand, following a trend by 22 nations since World War I. The move is tied to past gold reserves, foreign loans, and pressure from speculators, with Tokyo preparing for the shift amid prior embargo removals and shifting trade balances. A separate public sale notice outlines a 1990 auction in Hempstead County, Arkansas, detailing terms and property descriptions.
In pursuance of the order entered December 21 1929 in a case between the complainant and defendants the commissioner will offer for sale at the door of the National Bank of Hope Hempstead County Arkansas on Monday January 1930 lands in Hempstead County to wit the southeast quarter of section township forty fourteen range twenty six containing about 40 acres more or less. Terms are monthly payments with eight percent interest and a vendor lien to secure the purchase price. Dated December 1929 Willie
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