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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1931
Page
4
A verse excerpt contemplates fate as cards are dealt while a flurry of social items from Texarkana recount visits to cities like Galveston and Dallas. Notes mention John Enyard's business trip, hospital improvements for Mrs. Sweeny Copeland, overnight guests en route to Dallas, and numerous engagements, trips, and bridge club gatherings featuring local residents and visitors.
Charles Goiries of Oklahoma City and Aubrey Staley of Sasakwa Oklahoma left Wednesday for their respective homes after an extended visit to Mr and Mrs L A Stanlay on Hone Rate 2 It will be remembered that Mr Stanley was seriously burned on February 24th of this year in Wewoka Oklahoma and the news of his recovery will be gratifying to his many friends.
Fayetteville Ark August date set for a Methodist Episcopal Church South institute on temperance and social service under the church board. Dr E L Crawford announced a tentative program and listed several speakers and participants.
Williams of national prohibition ranks head a gathering titled Qutour Way with sermons by Bishop W N Arinsworth of Birmingham. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Arkansas helps plan the program. Dr Atticus Webb of Dallas speaks on Education for Temperance. Dr Maryin T How, Missouri Anti-Saloon League president, on The Church and the Social Task. Mrs Anne M Blakeney of the Arkansas State Board of Health discusses A Practical Social Hygiene Program.
Partial OCR fragment mentions Dr A C Millar of Little Rock Arkansas Dr Elam F Dempsey Atlanta Ga and Luther Harrison Miss Elizabeth House president of Oklahoma W C T A will deliver an address with Mrs John P Aldiande view presient of the Arkansas Woman in the ProHilen Move.
A continued analysis lists U S divorce to marriage ratios by state for 1930 and notes wide gaps due to differing marriage license waiting periods. It cites Georgia with 12.9 marriages per divorce and Nevada with 2.3, while states near Texas and California operate under laws affecting ages, examinations, and waiting times.
About 12,000 petition signatures sought a referendum on a new divorce act at the next general election. The secretary of state invalidated them following AG advice, Hot Springs lawyers appealed to the state supreme court, which set September 28 for a hearing. If valid, the measure goes to voters after 1932 elections. Meanwhile Hot Springs gears for a divorce center rivaling Reno. Representative Campbell and Garland County ally Tack Garland led the passage fight.
James T. Jardine, brother of former U S secretary of agriculture William M Jardine, will become head of experiment stations in the State Department on September 1 and assistant director of scientific work. A Idaho native, 50, he has led the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station since 1920 and previously held forest service roles. He will coordinate research across 53 state and insular experiment stations totaling about 9,500 projects.
The ceremony, attended by immediate family and a few close friends, featured a navy blue travel suit and a formal dress. After the rites, Mr and Mrs Tunstall departed for a motor trip to Newton and other Kansas points, as described by Rev Dr J L Cannon.
Alonzo Crumpton Ragsdale, about 35, walked into the Hot Springs sheriff’s office Monday night and surrendered after a four day manhunt in Marion county. He was fatally wounded in Marble township during the fight before surrendering. Officers say alcohol was involved. Ragsdale died Friday night from his injuries.
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