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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1942
Page
5
Christie Colton debates marriage with Bart Sander a pilot in training while Jan, Christie’s sister, falls for a chemist at the Wainwright Company. Christie imagines future plans as family tensions mix with wartime anxieties and young love.
Thomas F. Grayson has organized the Grayson Company in Prescott to expand clear lumber production for timber holders. With long experience, Grayson sees sustained yield on small tracts and will guide forest owners toward continuous harvests. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters and American Foresters Association, and helped found the first two school forests in Arkansas at Bluff City and Laneburg high schools. Democratic Primary Tuesday in Nevada County voters will choose county officers including tax assessor candidates John D. McGuire, W. Sverett Barlow, and Chester May. county treasurer candidates Jesse Stockton, Herbert M. Ridgell, Dallas M. Atkins. Young Business Women's Circle to meet Miss Gladys Hunt at 8 p.m. Monday, July 27.
Civic groups schedule classes and sewing work for Red Cross production and surgical dressings. Peach canning lessons led by Miss Mary Claude Fletcher at First Methodist Church Kitchen. Knitters race to meet August quotas for sweaters and helmets. Institute on surgical dressing slated at Pine Bluff High School with Mrs. McMullins and Mrs. De Woody. D. A. R. notes cancelled stamps donation limits. Builders class picnic and games at Pair Park with 35 attendees.
Coming and going notes report Miss Mary Elen O'Dwyer and Master Buddy O'Dwyer visiting relatives in Louisiana and Texas. A. B. Cox and Mrs. Cox return home to Dallas after a weekend with Mrs. L. B. Young and Mr. Young, with Mrs. R. R. L. Broach in Little Rock. Dick Broach visits relatives, and Miss Jennie Herndon is injured in a bicycle accident. Mrs. Kline Snyder moves to 404 West Second Street from Julia Chester home.
Thomas Kinser Jr of Hope completed his freshman year at the University of Arkansas and is listed on the spring semester honor roll released by Deut H G Hatz, College of Education.
The Shover Springs 4-H Club met July 18 at the community house. Willard Rogers opened the meeting and minutes were read. Plans were made for a picnic at the Experiment Station. One new member joined. The pledge and America the Beautiful were sung, and games followed. Malaria causes 2,000,000 deaths worldwide annually.
A fragment notes rattlesnakes and warm blooded creatures linked to the United States in early 1940. It mentions exports of mice gophers and rats and lists 193 849 pounds of peppermint oil as part of the period’s commerce.
Society notes list Mr. and Mrs. Mike Shanahan of New York arriving Friday to spend a month at the Shanahan farm near Prescott and visit friends. Lena Dean of Lawton Oklahoma visits her sister Mrs Nat Martin for several weeks. Carolyn Guthrie of Little Rock was weekend guest of her parents. Bertie Bonvillion leaves for Stuttgart. Allen Gee and family spent Sunday in Booneville. Margaret Hart returns to Little Rock after visiting her parents. H E Rouse spent the weekend in Hot Springs. John A Davis leaves Monday to visit in Little Rock for several days.
Judge W K Lemley presided at Hope City Hall as multiple cases were heard. Defendants faced fines or forfeitures for disturbances, gaming, drunkenness, reckless driving, improper turns, license issues, and other offenses. two suspects secured dismissals by city attorney motions. The docket included pleas of guilty, appeals noted, and several forfeitures, with a stray note on birds and Gar Wood.
Miss Maude McDaniel hosted over the weekend with Miss Martha Thornton of Emmet visiting. Mrs Ed Barham and Miss Sara Ann Barham of Little Rock spent Sunday in Prescott visiting relatives. Captain George P Shanahan left Saturday for San Francisco after a month’s stay visiting friends.
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