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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1932
Page
6
Local notes list visits and gatherings among Oak Grove residents and families. J G Collier on sick list. Clarence Barns and Centerville relatives shared time with J G Allen family. Willie Putman and Cent . Paine visited G P Ross family. Elbert Jones and children with Frank Jones at Shover Springs.
The record lists many social visits and church attendance from the previous weekend. Names include Rev Burgess of Little Rock, Mrs Hattie Crews, Mr and Mrs Bill Prescott, Mrs John Card of Washington, Jack Rogers, Ada May England and her pupils, Mrs H W Fore, Leon Darwin, Joe England, Rev Chandler of Hope, Mrs Hugh Laseter, Mrs Pete Laseter of Hope, Allen Walker and family, Will Rogers, Roy Rogers, Elmer Lane of Hope, Miss Forrest Ruggles, Harold Williams of Prescott, I S Reed, Albert Smith, Henry Bearden, Sid Churchwell, Jett Williams, Loy England of Ashdown, Early McWilliams, Albert Robertson, Jennie Givens, John Crews, and J W McWilliams. Residents hosted and visited at homes, churches, and meetings, with several Sunday services and dinners noted.
DeAnn residents attend singing at New Hope with Miss Faye Samuel visiting home folks. G W Ware hosted a picture show at the schoolhouse and gave a farming talk. The DeAnn string band performed, and A M Clark and sons planned music for Washington Friday night. Mr and Mrs J J Samuel moved back for the term.
Social notes from Holly Springs list visits by Mrs. E. E. Phillips to her sister Mrs. John L. Wilson and Mrs. M. E. Butler visiting relatives in Providence. Tarply of Spring Hill stays with daughter Mrs. Otis Butler while Mrs. Clark of Boughton visits daughter Mrs. H. B. Green and ministers to Isac Milligan. W. S. McDowell and wife visit his mother Mrs. M. E. Butler. Brice Jones visits his niece. Mrs. Roy Butler also noted. Isac Milligan dies after two months illness. funeral at family home led by Brother Rodges of Hope. burial at Huckabee cemetery.
In Los Angeles Judge Dudley Valentine rules Ben Finnerman must pay $15 a week for child support to Mollie Finnerman after she testified of the divorce. The husband claimed he gave $200,000 to his ex-wife at divorce but the court still imposed the weekly support.
Local schools expect a half day Friday with noon dismissal so teachers can attend the Arkansas Education Association convention in Hot Springs. The convention began Thursday. teachers will join late Friday while Miss Beryl Henry, city superintendent, travels for executive matters. City high school and grades will remain in session Thursday and Friday morning.
At Mackinaw City Michigan the Fort Michilimackinac stockade from 1712 to 1781 is being restored Excavations revealed upright log stubs beneath the surface crude hardware muskets and other Levies were uncovered The 1763 massacre saw seventy one British soldiers killed in seventy nine minutes when Chippewas lured them to watch a baggatiway game and overran the stockade
The family sails to Europe on their first trip. Willie, the lone child, keeps his appetite while others lose theirs and prompts a humorous appeal to Henry. Government workers map prospector routes from Baranof Island harbors to mineralized zones. A Helena sheepman uses watermelons to quell a car fire started after a collision with cattle.
The article lists multiple crossword style clues then mentions Hempstead lodge No 4 and a long local social note. It notes Harrell Burns and Mrs. Ollie Formby on a Lewisville trip, Mrs. Carl Jenkins and Mrs. Latha Hornton visiting Patmos, and several Sunday visits among local residents in Columbus and Bennet Springs area.
A Negro high school hosts a literary elimination contest Friday night at 7:30 in the Henry C. Yerger auditorium. Winners advance to the Southwest Arkansas district contest in Hope October 28-29 and then to the State Literacy Contest in Little Rock in February. District 10 association president J. A. Harris heads the Yerger School effort with participation from seven counties and hundreds of students.
Pelham D. Glassford, longtime superintendent of the Washington police, resigns after clashing with city leaders over troop use to evict the bonus army. He oversaw policing of the encampment near the capitol, objecting to forcible removal as federal forces later cleared the riot.
Long obituary notes the death in 1875 of Sallie Newton Jones wife of Col. Columbus and later his marriage to Julia Wilson producing three more children. Survived by five daughters in Arkansas and Tennessee, 20 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. Colonel Stuart last surviving member of Mount Horeb Ma history.
Mr. Nebo and Mr. and Mrs. S W Crank visited Mr and Mrs R L Williams Friday. Mrs Irene Powell and Miss Ethel Powell, Mrs Georgie Archie were Hope visitors Saturday. Walter Jones, Emory A Jones and Dr Carrigan of Hope attended a fox.
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