Contemplative Ode Opens Local News Notes
An old hymnlike verse reflects on honor and usefulness as residents recall a day of toil and virtue. The page lists local visits to Fort Worth and World’s Fair travels, family trips to Oklahoma City and Houston, and social gatherings from contract clubs to Sunday school outings, with updates on teachers, students, and community members in Hope, Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth
Clarence Baker
Ruth Baker
George Shipp
Fort Worth
Texas
W. Gi. Darwin
Tex
Arkana
Hope
Ghiena
B.N. Holt
Harrison, Ark
O'Neal Denies County Wide Beer Demand in 1993 Hope Message
N P ONeal, county drys chairman of Hempstead County, argues against widespread beer adoption. He asserts that redevelopment of beer access would not reflect two thirds of residents, noting that whisky beer and wine were banned 28 years prior and that most locals have no taste for alcohol. He predicts only curiosity seekers might buy limited bottles. June 5, 1993 Hope Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hempstead
Ike
N. P. O'Neal
Hope, Ark
Huey Is Squelched by State Plumber
Washington report recalls Huey Long aboard the Crescent Limited en route to a plumbers convention. Robert J. Barrett, a contractor, confronts the Louisiana senator with blunt remarks in a club car, calling him a disgrace to the United States Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Huey Lung
Louisiana
Huey
Robert J. Barrett
Crescent Limited
National Plumbers Association
Barrett
Bob Ind
Kingfish
Wes
United States Senate
Former Sheriff Ends In Shootout At Station
In a dramatic confrontation at the station, Miller and Weissman moved in with weapons to seize Nash. Detective Grooms fired first, wounding Miller in the arm, then Miller unleashed a machine gun fire. Nash was accidentally shot during the volley, and several detectives were killed in the ensuing exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
Weissman
Nash
Grooms
W. J. Grooms
Kansas City
Passion Play at Ouachita College July 14
A passion play depicting the life of Christ will be presented Thursday night July 14 in Ouachita College stadium at Arkadelphia. Representatives of the play organization announced the event featuring scenes including Judas betrayal the last supper Christ’s condemnation to death the crucifixion and the risen Christ announced by an angel.
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Christ
Ouachita College Stadium
Arkadelphia
Judas
International House at Saenger thrills with star packed cast
Paramount's new musical comedy International House opens for a three day run at the Saenger. An all star group including Peggy Hopkins Joyce W C Fields Rudy Vallee Stuart Erwin George Burns Gracie Allen Cab Calloway Baby Rose Marie Bela Lugosi Lena Andre Sterling Holloway Edmund Breese and Lumsden Hare performs with The Girls in Cellophane. A hotel in a Chinese city hosts bids for a marvel device as Bela Lugosi schemes to quarantine the American bidder. The farce heightens as Burns and Allen and Col Stoopnagle and Budd provide comedy and musical numbers.
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Paramount
International House
Hollywood
Seenger
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
W. C. Fields
Rudy Vallee
Stuart Erwin
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Siri Maritza
Colonel Steapnagle
Budd
Cab Callowey
Baby Rose Marie
Bela Lugosi
Erwin
Lugosi
Peggy Joive
Kansas City
Burns and Allen
Col. Stoopnagle
Budd Wsecrack
Cab Calloway
Savi Maritza
Rain-Desperate Oak Grove Drips with Community Visits
Oak Grove residents hope for rain after a long dry spell as neighbors share visits and chores. Mrs. Leo Collier and children visit Dora Jackson. Burl Ross and Barbara Ann see Mrs. Claude Wilson. Ernest Smith’s family visit Walter Anderson near Spring Hill and many others share weekends with relatives, including J C Collier, Willie Allen, and Miss Nora Lee. An accident ends with Mike Purtell being knocked from a mower in a hay-cutting mishap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Collier
Dora Jackson
Burl Ross
Barbara Ann
Claude Wilson
Algie Sherman
St. Louis
My. Ernest Smith
Walter Anderson
Spring Hill
Misa Blanche Ross
Walter Lee Allen
Elbert Jones
Ernest Ross
J. C. Collier
Willie Allen
Willie Putman
Center Foint
G. P. Putman
Ernest Smith
Nora Lee
Mildred Purtell
Jowell Ross
Charlie Sanderson
Mike Purtell
Weekend Visits Highlight Local Neighborhood
Mrs. Leo Collier was in Hope Saturday shopping while Roy Collier and family visited Luie Flantz family. Sid Skinner called on Elbert Jones family and Ernest Smith visited Mike Purtell family Sunday. Hattie Jackson and Askeen Wilson were guests of Bennie Jones, and Ernest Ross visited Luie Frentz family Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Collier
Hope
Roy Collier
Luie Flantz
Sid Skinner
Elbert Jones
Ernest Smith
Mike Purtell
Hattie Jackson
Askeen Wilson
Bennie Jones
Ernest Ross
Luie Frentz
Local Families Visit and Travel Notes in Prescott Area
The community lists visits and travel among residents. Green Laseter and J. T. Cumbie Jr. travel to Greenville Alabama to be with Mrs. J. T. Cumbie. Dorothy Robertson, Ruth Anne Cumbie, Louise Robertson, Katharine Cumbie and many others are noted visiting relatives and hosting guests across Bluff Springs Liberty Hill Shower Springs Oak Grove and Prescott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. Cumbie
Ray
Greenville
Ala
Cumbie
Lester Hamilton
Prescott
Carla Ellis
Dorothy Robertson
Ruth Anne Cumbie
Louise Robertson
Katherine Cumbie
Denville Eis
Jack
Charles Butler
Liberty Hilt
Frank Bailey
J. M. Stuart
Bernice Cumbie
Shreveport
B. R. Young
Betty Lou Ellis
Bluff Springs
Clara Ellis
Raymond Ross
Ernest Ross
Oak Grove
Sam England
Shover Springs
Mary Putman
Violet Ross
Charles Boren
Ethel Miller
Moss
Kansas City
Saturn
Iday
The First Wife by Pearl Buck reviewed in depth
Bruce Catton analyzes Pearl Buck’s The First Wife a collection of stories about China’s clash of old and new. The title tale follows a tea merchant’s son who returns westernized, causing a painful family readjustment. Other stories explore revolutionists, foreigners in treaty ports, and a missionary priest’s decline. Publication details: John Day Co. price $2.50.
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China
Pearl Buck
Treaty-Port
White
John Day Co
What Has Return Continued From Page One
Massachusetts revenue from licenses and permits during April 7 to June 17 totaled 181,822 for licenses and permits plus 73,741 from a one dollar barrel tax. Local fees can reach 500. State statistics project legalization created about 5500 jobs.
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Massachusetts
State Director of Statistics
Return of Ozan King and weekend visits across towns
Ozan Earl King returns to Little Rock after vacation with parents and relatives from Texarkana. A sequence of visits spans Chicago, Memphis, Hope, and Nashville households. Local groups B P A and Epworth League held a river picnic and swimming party. lawn party hosted by Joyce Lee Jamison’s grandparents. A family quip ends the column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl King
Little Rock
H. A. King
Ruel Robins
Texarkana
W. F. Robins
Rector Citty
Chicago
D. M. Citty
B. A. Barrow
Lucille
Memphis
Barrow
J. T. Smead
Troy Smead
Lillian Robins
County Line
W. D. Jones
Rush Jones
H. G. Stuart
Caddo Gap
W. FP. Robins
Robins
Hope
Mother
Nashville
Earl Robins
Work-Worn Women Find New Youth With Tonic
A vintage advertisement claims Grave's Tasteless Chill Tonic restores strength and vitality to tired women. It touts iron and tasteless quinine for blood purification, promising improved appetite, pep, and energy in three days with a pleasant, safe tonic available at local stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tenia
Grave
Grove
Delaware Liquor Licenses Push Under Local Option
A fragmented report notes Delaware license control shifts with local option approval raising tax revenue through mid June all from Wilmington. Rural areas vote to license while Quebec style model eyed by DuPont liquor commission er and multi millionaires. Connecticut May tax beer receipts 112 080 with July distributions planned. employment rose as breweries renovated and speakeasies largely closed.
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DuPont
Delaware
Prete
Quebec
Wilmington
Rhone Island
Connecticut
Legion Meeting Postponed to July 13 at Fair Park
A Leslie Huddleston American Legion meeting set for Thursday night has been postponed until Thursday, July 13. The gathering will be joint with the Auxiliary at Fair Park with playgrounds and a picnic lunch served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Huddleston
American Legion
Legion
Fair Park
Bright Star Sunday School Singing Attendance Noted
A crowd attended Sunday school and singing at Bright Star Sunday morning and night. Family visits include Mrs. Jess Calhoun and children with Mrs. A. L. Caudle and children, Stella Tomblin with Gurteen Caudle, and Barnum and Elly Wright with Johnnie and Billie Hamilton of Oakland. Walter Galloway visited Bodcaw and Boldcaw. Minor May, J. T. Wright, and V. C. Rothwell of Hope were mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
This Place
Jess Calhoun
A. L. Caudle
Stella Tomblin
Gurteen Caudle
Johnnie
Billie Hamilton
Qak
Barnum
Elly Wright
Walter Galloway
Bodcaw
Boldcaw
Oakland
Rocky Mound
J. T. Wright
V. C. Rothwell
Hope
Weekend gatherings and visits across communities
Relatives and friends hosted and attended multiple informal events. J B Mangum hosted a party with Mrs Dora Waters of San Antonio visiting relatives Maya and Marquin. Ruby Long entertained many young friends Saturday night. Various families, including Mr and Mrs Porter Hare and Mr and Mrs Otis McKnight, shared Sunday visits across Texarkana and nearby towns with extended kin and neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moter Davidaen
Mire
Porter Hare
Otis McKnight
Earl Thompsott
Texarkana
Rufus Crawford
Bodean
Mir
Mia
John Galloway
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Corbin Foster
Ini Futfle
Linda Louise
Orlands
Oklahoma City
George Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Thomas Wilson
Leowrence Talley
Beaumont, Texas
Anna Judson
Johnie Lou Shipp
Dallas
J. A. Sullivan
Mrs
Sam Sullivan
Houston
G. Frank Miley
South Pine Street
A. M. Key
J. #. Gorin
J. L. Green
Hot Springs
Ruth ‘Taylor
Hope High School
Martin
Tenn
Miss Taylor
A. P. Steele of
Ashdown
Fred Stroud
Mr. Stroud
Mins Glarice Cwhnon
Sundby School
First Methodist Church
Stempe
Mys L. G. Huckern
Mirabella Bailey
Rutha Mousel
Helen Howden
Jack Witt
Dillard
P. D. Smith
Dailse
R.A. Boyett
Comer Boyett
J. Hyatt
Monticello
David Neal Graves
Bryan Blaylock
Delta Price
O'Neal Insists
Souther Ice and Utilities Co
Phony
Araces Senate
Curio
Quachita
Bertram Willoughby
Grand Hotel
Burns & Allen
The
Girls
Saenger
Cual
Swift and Co
W. Homer Pigg CO
South
Walnut St
Green
Laseter
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Ozan
Trudia Mer Davidson
Rey Smith
Melba Davidson
Gerteen Caudle
Jesse Mae Wright
Ptt
Pati
Cendleland
Jina Winica
Kennedy
Ain Kennedy
Louise
Meni Lottie Boyce
Mrs. Altée
J W. Galloway
Elson Huck
DILCO
U.S
Esselene
Standard Oil Company of Louisiana
Essolene
Esso
Deglese
Maine
Ing
U.S. Pvt
Ess
Exsolube
Esao
Standard Ol Company
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