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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1929
Page
4
Alvin Chapman reports rising business since June and plans carpet and drapery replacements plus repainting. He offers cash prizes to farmers delivering the largest truckload of people on Mondays and Tuesdays, plus a prize for the largest family. A property description in Hemstead County Arkansas appears with sale terms and court conditions.
A fragmented verse speaks of hunger and longing as a beloved sends a message of love. The speaker, haunted by time and loss, seeks meaning in silence tears and a single token or word. The tone is wistful, lyrical, and intensely emotional, echoing longing and memory.
The column records visits by Mr. and Mrs Ebert May and children with Mrs. M. Beck in Bidcaw and Miss Kate Bridewell in Whe Inetwork, plus returns to Ret Springs. Wesley Barnes and the Bridewells of Little Rock visited family and friends from Texas to Arkansas. Numerous locals hosted or visited in Shreveport, Lonoke, Pine Bluff, Camden, Minden, Tulsa, and Texarkana, with travel plans and extended family ties noted.
Dr. William Covert of Chalmers Philadelphia will keynote at Pen-Mar Virginia as 4 Presbytery branches discuss a probable merger uniting about 18 600 churches and over 3 000 000 members. General secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education Mr Chalmers attends as guest of Lipscomb family. Nearby social notes list visitors and gatherings in Little Rock Arkadelphia and Prescott with several local hosts and guests.
A local submission by doh i Whatley proposes renaming the Queen Vieiter to honor Kalhint Moll and support Hope’s upbuilding. The effort aims to reflect community pride and progress with a fresh title for the theater project.
Miss Elizabeth Bowden died after a brief illness in a Texarkana hospital. Funeral services were held at the home of C. J. Bowren with Rev. W. A. Bowen officiating, burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. She was a Hempstead county native from a pioneer family, with siblings in Hope Little Rock Los Angeles New Boston Idabel and Oklahoma City.
James E. Henry aged 82 died Sunday morning in a local hospital. Burial was Sunday afternoon at Shower Springs cemetery with Tri level services led by Rev. John G. Reese. He had long resided in Hempstead County and was widely known. Surviving are five sons A Henry of Nashville J Henry of Dallas Robert Henry of Little Rock John Henry of El Dorado Willie Henry of Center Point. two daughters Mrs L J Lee of Hope and Mrs A J Collier of Okay. two brothers Bob and Sam of Bluff City and a sister Mrs Bradshaw of Malvern.
Shrader of the U S Department of Agriculture will speak at Farmers Week Poultry Sectional on Primary Farmers which Influence Profits from Poultry. G W Knox Jr University of Arkansas Poultry Specialist will cover Breeding for Higher Egg Production Keeping Records and Poultry Calling. W L Bleecker will lead disease control work and the poultry plant tour will explain University of Arkansas experiments.
A 230 pound giantess, 21 years old, Laura Weaver of Toulon Ill, confessed to a torch murder. She strangled her husband Wilmer Kitselman with a belt, kicked his body down the stairs, wrapped it in a blanket and burned it. The scene was in a court filing dated July 19 1929 with a chancery commissioner seal.
Notice is given that per the decretal order of the Chancery Court of Hempstead County Arkansas dated July 7 1929 in a case between Federal Land Bank of St Louis and Lubertha Wicker et al the commissioner will offer at public vendue at the front door of the courthouse for sale to the highest bidder the property described in the decree.
Court to sell at Hempstead County Court House on August 12 1929 the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter and related parcels in Section 13 Township 20 South Range 26 West totaling 60 acres plus miless subject to mortgage balance and prior lien. Terms require a three month credit for the purchaser.
In pursuance of a chancery decree dated July 4 1929 in Cause No 2080 The Federal Land Bank of St Louis as complainant will sell at public vendue at the Hempstead County Courthouse front door Arkansas on Monday August 12 1929 the North half one half of Section described real estate to be fixed by law for judicial sales.
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