Bodenhamer Outlines Legion State Convention Aims
Bodenhamer told the State Convention of the American Legion at Fort Smith that the organization’s progress rests on record membership and early enrollment for 1931. He cited plans for universal service in law, highlighted Rogers Hospital Bill gains, and anticipated continued advocacy by 1940 members as Armistice Day nears. Delegates from Hope and other areas attended as speakers and guests were listed.
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Eathree
Hope
The
American Legion
Fort «Smith
William Romsey
Homer Burke
Jack
Pill
Focal Post
Smith
Legion
Bodenhamer
National Cor Uand
Arkansas
Mquet
Feaat
United States
Joe T. Bobinist
Parnell
Holloway
Oklahoma
Oder
Lst
End of America Legion Week
Universal
Wivw
Universal Service
Time of Land
Le 1
America
Savannah Watermelon Feats Spark Georgia Sports Pride
Georgia papers celebrate a Sandersville farmer sending a 128 pound melon to President Hoover while Arkansas claims bigger melons. The Savannah Morning News reports on Hope Arkansas and Sandersville growers, noting 160 pound plus melons and a nationwide craze over record weights.
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Georgia
America
Arkansas
Sandersville
Hoover
Savannah
Southeastern
Associated Press
Star
Atlanta
Morning News
the Star
A. B. Turner
Talbot Feild
Hempstead County
E. T. Clements
Clements
Alex Washburn
Hope Star and Daily Press
Hope
Ark
Atd
United States
Washburn
Tarenr
Turner
Fall Planting With Moisture Boosts Winter Food Supply
County farmers report sufficient moisture for fall gardens and planting of oats rye and wheat. Landowners offer free help to plant crops. Rye and turnips, Irish potatoes and pastures will provide feed through winter, with oats easing pasture for stock this fall and spring. University trials show open furrow oats winter better than harrowed. use a grain drill or three rows in cotton middles and fertilized fields boost returns. County Agent Lynn Smith notes rain already improved pastures in several areas.
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Extension Service
University of Arkansas
O. A. McKnight
Washington Route 1
Lynn Smith
Few Chicks Start Farm That Makes $250 Monthly
SAXAPAHA,N C Sept 1 4 Starting in the poultry business with tee chickens Joe A Nicholson has built a plant that pays 250 a month in eles profits Purebred stock is Nicholson s answer to any who ask how he does it He imported three birds from England for a start and the 2000 laying hens on the farm are descendants of the original trig Though specializing in eggs for table use Nicholson sells about 20000 baby chicks ever year and ships eggs for butching He grows feed for his flocks on his 15 acre farm and also maïages a smell dairy
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Saxapaha
N. C
Tee
Joe A. Nicholson
Eles
Nicholson
England
Girl Struck by Lightning Injures Heath Daughter Near Mena
Severe thunderstorm hits south of Mena Arkansas as lightning strikes the Heath dairy home. Mary Heath, 17, was knocked unconscious by the bolt while standing in a hallway. She was attended by two physicians and expected to recover.
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Mena
Ark
O. B. Heath
Mary Heath
Heath
Gunfight Fatal To Both Barbourville Officials
Barbourville Kentucky police chief G T Lockhart and carpenter Pete Goodin were killed in a pistol duel last night after a disturbance drew a crowd. Lockhart died at close range, Goodin died soon after as both men collapsed near each other. Lockhart served four years on the force and left a widow and six children. Goodin was described as uneducated and illiterate by associates.
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Barbourville
G.T. Lockhart
Pete Goodin
Carpenter
Goodin
Lockhart
Asockhart
Tovklit
Unis
Pin Money Turkeys Grow to Twenty Thousand at Marion Farm
At Marion, Maude and Edy Sheelkler descendants of pioneers who cleared Ohio forests, run a modern turkey operation ten miles from town. Ten years ago they started with a small project to earn extra income and now manage 20,000 birds in their contemporary facility. They know the birds’ preferences from hatch to market.
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Marion
Maude
Edy Sheelkler
Sheelders
Ohio
Marios County
Coste Leads Atlantic Flight Toward New York Landfall
Capt Coste and co pilot Maurice Bellonte take off from Le Bourget in the Question Mark for an east to west crossing. The seven ton plane carries 1950 gallons of gasoline and aims for New York, weather permitting, with a projected 35 to 50 hour voyage.
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Lebourget
France
Dueudooe Coste
Isis
New York
Cosle
Maurice Bellonte
Alose
Caste
Coste
England
Ireland
Great Circle
Robbers Take 78 From Crenshaw Brothers
Two unmasked robbers halted the Crenshaw brothers on highway No 3 near the Cleveland County line in Alabama and robbed them of $78 in cash. The brothers said they were en route to St Louis to start a business venture.
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Fine Bluff
W. R
J. B. Crenshaw
Birmingham
Alabama
Crenshaw
Highway No. 3
Cleveland
St. Louis
Suberl
Heat Prostrations From Washington Heat Parade
More than 60 people were prostrated by the heat during a Labor Day parade along Pennsylvania Avenue. Temperatures around 42 degrees sent victims to emergency hospitals, with ambulances and private cars ferrying spectators to care stations.
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Washington
Pennyaylvanis Avenue
One Killed as Wind Storm Hits Houston Tex
A wind storm in Houston, Texas caused one fatality and damage across the city while emergency crews responded to downed trees and power outages. Weather disruptions added to the unrest described in dispatches from international coverage.
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Houston
Tex
Virginian on Watermelons From Hope Festival Foiled
Miss Bucy Baker of Burlington reports West Virginians struggle with large watermelons. She recounts a campfire slice that required over thirty people to finish and contrasts it with Apple Blossom Festival lore. Rube also weighs in favorably on watermelons over apples.
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West
Rube
Red Cross Plans Drouth Relief Fund Drive
LITTLE ROCK September 1 A county Red Cross drive aimed at boosting relief funds for drouth victims was planned. Senator Joseph T Robinson urged forming an organization to distribute fall seeds and proposed funds pass through the central committee at Little Rock. Several counties reported little need and would be asked to aid less fortunate areas.
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Little Rock
Red Cross
Drouth
Joseph T. Robinson
Central Committee
Lit- Ye Tock
Harris Studio To Reopen Tuesday
Miss Pauline Harris will reopen her dance studio here on Tuesday September 2 for the fourth season. Harris teaches a large class at the Elks club each year with focus on juveniles. Her revues twice a year are standout local attractions at the Sundar theatre.
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Pauline Harris
Harris
Elks Club
Suencer
Wreck Investigation Underway After Six Die in Train Derailment
ST LOUIS Sept 1 Investigators probe cause of the derailment of the St Louis San Francisco Texas Special near Osage Hills station killing at least six. Coroner Dr John O Connell cites rocks on the rail as possible cause with rail officials confirming a rock pile and timbers found bracing them. Engineer C E Ray Newburg Mo and Fireman E T White Maplewood Mo among the dead. passengers from Washington DC and other locals identified. crash left locomotive and first three coaches overturned and several cars destroyed.
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ST. Louis
San Francisco
Pasenger
John O'Connell
O'Connell
C. E
Ray
Newburg
E.T. White
Maplewood
Osage Hills
St. Loui
Fort Worth
Dallas
San Antonio
Tex
Charles Newton
Washington, D. C
Kirkwood
Man Claims Gave Diamond to Woman
PINE BLUFF September 1 police said they obtained a confession from Embry Majors who admitted giving $4,500 in diamonds taken from L W Quattlebaum to a Shreveport Louisiana woman. The woman said to have the diamonds denied the claim. State politician H Bradley Jobe, under indictment at Hol Springs, was also arrested in connection with the case.
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Pine Bluff
Embry Majors
L. W. Quattlebaum
Majors
Quattiebauim
Shreveport
H. Bradley Jobe
Hol Springs
French financier leans to plane death in France tragedy
In Montpellier a French financier Jean Casteran leaped from a plane, leaving a note of romantic disappointment and naming the woman who crossed him. The act mirrors a former financier’s suicide attempt by diving into the English Channel. A second report describes a Houston tornado that struck the municipal airport, killing 73 year old William A. Glover and causing major damage.
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Montpellier
France
Iupi
Lowenstein
Jean Casteran
Laye
William A. Glover
Special Election Next Spring Attorney General
Sixty two bolls of cotton and more than a dozen blooms were counted on a cotton plant brought to the Star office last Saturday evening. The plant stood about four feet high and had a large quantity of foliage. It was produced by Frank Bishop colored farmer of Route 5 Hope on one of Ruffin White's black land farms.
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Star Office
Frank Bishop
Route 5
Hope
Ruffin White
Mrs McPheeters Opens Hope Studio in Prescott
Mrs Nell Bush McPheeters of Prescott announces the opening of her Hope studio a dancing and dramatic art school on September 18 next to Shipley's photo rooms on Second Street. A noted physical education instructor with degrees from Galloway College Peabody College and the University of Wisconsin she has directed physical education at several colleges. The curriculum will cover limbering body building corrective dancing recitative and pantomime.
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Nell. Bush McPheeters
Prescott
New Hope
Shipley
Second Street
McPheeters
Galloway’ College
Peabody College
Ameriicamy College of Physical Education
Chicago
Chicago College‘ of Expression
the University 'of
Wisconsin
Grand Rapids
Mich
Ned Wayburn
Swoboda
Janet
Ruth St. Dennis
Clardy Suits Dip Officers In Test Case Damages
In Howard Circuit Court Nashville the August term closes civil docket. A key case pitted Rep James W Clardy against Gee Humphries and Perry Tollett over dipping a bard of cattle. plaintiff won a consent judgment for 4 with witness fees. Grand Jury adjourned Friday with 37 indictments returned.
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Nashville
Howard Circuit Court
James W. Clardy
Gee. Humphries
Perry Tollett
Clardy
Too Many Coyote Scalps Lead to Quartet Arrests
In Yopeka Kansas four men were arrested after a motor car held a bundle of coyote scalps and balls. They admitted taking scalps from fur dealers in eastern cities and selling them to Kansas county authorities. The bounty program offered a dollar per scalp to curb the pests.
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Kansas
Russellville Store Robbed of $100 in Merchandise
Merchan dise valued at $100 was stolen from the Lowell-Overman Dry Goods company by thieves here Saturday night. They entered through a side window and stole several outfits including suits, shoes, women s dresses and women's undergarments. Roy Anderson returned home after a two week trip to Cuba visiting Havana and other points.
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Russellville
Lowell-Overman Dry Goods Company
D. M. Overton
Anderson
Roy Anderson
Cuba
Havana
Norwood Interprets 1893 Act on Hope City Elections
Attorney General Norwood discusses the 1893 act and how Hope Arkansas should conduct alderman elections. He notes that voting should be citywide for eight aldermen and that the new municipal judge position may appear in spring elections. He concludes Hope will hold an April election ending current terms.
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Norwood
Gentvral
Gee High
N Spring
A.A
Gentry
Hope
Arkansas
Senator Gentry
Winter Weather Seen In Minnesota Region
A frigid report from Helen Montana notes temperatures around 2 degrees below freezing at Cut Bank signaling the waning of August. A light snow drifted across the territory as residents brace for an extended winter weather period.
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Minnesota
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