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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1929
Page
4
A damaged OCR fragment describes a newspaper delivery notice at Hope Station. It instructs customers to report missed papers and a special delivery will be arranged. The text mentions evening delivery and circulations, but details are unclear.
Seasonal mentions show Charles Burgess relaxing with friends in Hope Ark. Letha Prazier from Washington joins Geo W Robinson & Co as a department manager. Genie Chamberlain returns to duties at Katghs Bank & Trust after a west vacation. Mr Shaffer rents Edgewood Street space formerly occupied by Fy Daniels as montgomery ward store plans unfold.
Hundreds of visitors joined the Little River Country Club anniversary celebration on Labor Day. The event offered golfing, swimming, boating, hunting, dancing, bridge, playgrounds, and a golf tournament with an orchestra. Picnics filled cabins as guests from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana attended by invitation.
Lois Pantages wife of theatre operator Alexander Pantages stands trial in Los Angeles Superior Court on a murder charge arising from a collision that killed Japanese man Joe Rokomoto. Testimony at the preliminary hearing says she was drunk during the crash. Pantages faces separate counts of assault against Eunice Pringle, a co-ed dancer, with dates set for September 2.
Airman Captain M C Mc Gregor of Hamilton flew a Moth biplane inside the crater rim of the active Ngaruahoe volcano in North Island New Zealand. He circled the inner rim with a companion on board and then emerged, completing the interior circuit.
The American Bar Association committee on radio laws released a report urging an almost complete revision of existing radio legislation. The standing committee highlights gaps and calls for modernizing statutes to reflect new technologies and services.
Fort SmithSept 3 Two women are dead and the husband of one in critical condition after a highway detour accident near Fort Smith last night. Mrs Ava Wingfield 24 and her sister Oya Lanier 22 died when the car missed a bridge and plunged into a ten foot dry creek bed. The Wingfield family lived in Cordell Oklahoma and the Lanier family in Maxazine Arkansas.
Rogers Arkansas Dr Robert L Selle 64 long time Methodist minister died at his home after 45 years in the ministry He was prominent in Methodist affairs in Arkansas and Oklahoma His first pastorate was Hot Springs he also served Fort Smith and Little Rock before moving to the Oklahoma Conference Selle had been in Rogers three years came to build a church without funds to pay a pastor He organized a Sunday school class of 180 known as The Builders Class
A church man reports a new disease named morbus sabbaticus or Sunday sickness that fatally afflicts the soul of church goers. Rev A V Astin, vicar of Christ Church Chadderton, says the attack appears Sunday morning during services after a symptomless Saturday night. It vanishes after church ends and returns next Sunday.
LITTLE ROCK Sept 3. Tax settlements for 1928 totaling 106,053.00 were paid into the state auditor's office today by sheriffs of Crawford and Logan counties. Auditor Humphrey said the remaining six counties have ten days to pay. Among them are the two largest counties Sebastain and Pulaski.
In El Paso a 500 pound safe was removed from a crib room and held $200 in cash and 75 in jewels. The thieves buried the safe in the sand hills nearby but passersby discovered it and alerted police. Authorities believe the robbers were exhausted after the long haul.
Enumerators must be residents of their districts and complete work within 30 days in districts, two weeks in cities with 2500 or more. Pay is per capita, total from 75 to 123 dollars, or 5 to 8.87 dollars daily. Supervisors may appoint an assistant, stenographer, and clerk at each headquarters. About 100 enumerators per district in Arkansas.
Leavenworth civil prison to take over the military prison for federal convicts awaiting court martial. The plan includes vocational training, farms and shops, with a historic prison mutiny cited as context. The move signals tighter civil control over personnel punished for violations of military discipline.
The Census Office plans to split Arkansas into eleven supervisors districts with appointed leaders in each, aiming to define enumeration areas clearly. Supervisors will count population and farms, reveal county and city figures, and coordinate with Washington for timely, public data releases. The project will use modern equipment to compile population, farms, and state manufacturing data for 1920.
Mrs. Ligaie Blevins of Richmond Ohio recalls being pale, thin, frequently in pain and unable to walk well as a young woman. After trying Cordus on her mother’s advice she took three bottles, then improved markedly gaining color, appetite, weight, and strength. She endorses Cordus for other young women.
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