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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1931
Page
2
The Checkered Cafe, famous nationwide, now offers noon service and midnight lunch from its new North Hervey Street home. Ramsey, with Mrs Piney and Miss Vinay, expanded from a soda fountain and previously ran a restaurant business nearby.
Prosecuting attorney Jack Holt says hearings for Sheriff Will Jones and Treasurer Curtis Young of Newton County on embezzlement and misuse of public funds are set for November 18. Each official remains free on $750 bond. They allegedly misappropriated $23,000 of county funds.
Classified notice offering sale of household furnishings and a furnished apartment at 342 Metae Street. Includes full contents and indicates bargain pricing with a 1-4 date contact.
Notice declares action under authority of the decretal order of the Chancery Court of Hempstead County dated October 1931. The decree directs further legal steps and publication as required by law. Readers are advised to follow official directions and timelines specified in the order.
Senator McNary proposes a unity conference with Farm Bureau and Grange leaders to unite behind a single plan for farm relief. He aims to align equalization fee and the debenture with the agricultural marketing act and warns that without coordinated action no farm legislation may pass this session. The two groups remain split on doling surplus while backing the same goals.
Commissioner of the court will offer at public vendue the East Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 22 and related parcels totaling about 380 acres in Hempstead County Arkansas. Sale on November 25 1931 at the Hempstead County Courthouse Washington Arkansas with three month credit and 8 percent interest.
MEMPHIS Tenn A meeting of Southern Nation of Baseball Club owners is set for Monday to discuss bids for the Mobile Knoxville franchise and possible changes to player and salary limits. President John D Martin says Cardinals representatives and others may bid. Branch Rickey of St Louis is expected. Also noted, John Lashley of Camden Tenn may bid. spring meeting planned in Birmingham. Southern Illinois farmers received 1275 loans totaling 169284 from congress drought relief appropriations.
Burns fatal for manager of gin at Parkdale as he died from injuries while trying to extinguish a cotton press fire. He was 4 Sanders, a Warren native, survived by parents, wife, two children, three brothers, and three sisters. Funeral services were held at Warren after a Parkdale Baptist church membership.
The body of Mrs. Alice Papenti, a 10 year Riverside taxicab operator, was found in an orange grove Sunday after her bloodstained car was found at Colton six miles away. The victim, linked to a Boston family, had faced publicity requests, with references to Aimee Semple McPherson in surrounding remarks.
Clarksville hosts Exchange and Trades Day with a large attendance. Farmers traded surplus supplies and farm products for goods from merchants. Local merchants and Lions Club coordinated the event with County Farm Agent Harry Wise assisting. The Clarksville Junior band performed on the court square and a Halloween carnival was held in the evening.
County agricultural agent Stanley D Carpenter in Mississippi writes that the South Mississippi county farm bureau requests many cotton pickers be sent into the region. He notes several farmers in this county have finished picking and would be available elsewhere. Mississippi cotton pays about a hole to the acre. Five thousand pickers are wanted and 50 cents per hundred pounds is offered.
New York dispatch reports that Jack Wilson, a 53 year old vaudeville performer in blackface, died by suicide in his Boston hotel room on Sunday. Wilson had faced career struggles, seeking backing for a radio venture, and reportedly told colleagues to wait before a rehearsal. A pistol and a bullet wound were found beside him. he died later at a hospital.
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