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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1938
Page
2
A Red Cross senior life saving class will start Monday at 1 p m in Swayze natatorium under the direction of Russell Harding. Mrs W C Holstein Ouachita chapter secretary urges interested people to attend to strengthen the local life saving corps.
Finland informed the State Department it will pay 1.391 billion 661 670.39 dollars due June 15 as part of its wartime debt to the United States. It would be the only debtor to respond with a payment. Estonia had earlier sent funds. Other nations listed include France Great Britain Hungary Italy Latvia Poland Romania Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia with various totals owed.
Sandy Byrd Williams sold to Lawrence LeRoy Thomas et al six tenths interest in a 48 by 165 foot lot and six tenths in a 50 by 165 foot lot in Filhiol's Guinea Monroe for 250 dollars. A P Tugwell sold to Culbert Lee a lot in block 20 Cole addition Monroe for 500 dollars. D W Bareswill sold to Raymond L a 212 acre tract in Chapman township 27 18N 3E less one half mineral rights for 125 dollars. Tillie H Wolff sold to Willie Calloway lots 1 and 2 original Brownsville for 100 dollars.
In the school auditorium last Thursday Miss Jean Calhoun and Miss Lillian Albritton were valedictorian and salutatorian of the class of 58, who received their diplomas. The event included members of the school board and was reported from Union Parish. The text also oddly mentions tungsten's boiling point as 5830 degrees centigrade.
Rayville La June 4 Special commencement exercises were held at Rayville High School. Diplomas were awarded to seniors after a invocation by Carolina Holloway who ranked second in scholarship. The program included vocal solos, talks on Who is a Good Citizen, piano pieces, and readings by a long list of graduates.
Inter city traffic through West Monroe is rerouted via Trenton street around McGuire golf course to the Dixie Overland at Knowles station while Cypress street is repaved. Old concrete paving from Fuqua era being removed and hauled away for fills and erosion control on highways in the area. Cypress street will become a four lane concrete highway from Quechus River bridge to North Seventh street.
The amendment to house bill No. 124 proposes 425000 dollars annually for Louisiana Tech for the next two years plus 27000 for purchasing the T L James farm near the campus. Rep T Ashley Wright delivered the amended bill to Ruston and said the total matches the state board of education request.
The Fifth District Medical Society will convene Friday at 5 30 p m at the Frances hotel. Dr. Morgan Simonton, secretary, announced the scientific program featuring papers on roentgen pelvimetry, banana powder therapy in infant diarrhea, gall bladder concerns, and office gynecology by physicians including Guerriero Smith Socola Irvin de Sellers and Sanders, all from New Orleans. A banquet and routine business follow.
Commencement exercises at Marion High school featured Rev. Guy Hicks as principal speaker. The program included invocations, salutatory by Maxie Lee Arrant, diplomas to graduates, seventh grade certificates, and a melon feast with a barbecue team led by Frank Reitzel and Ivy Jordan.
The Major Memorial Bible class of First Baptist hosted a barbecue at Bern Stein Park on Friday night with about 150 members and families present. The event served as a farewell for Dr. C. C. Calvert, bound for Baton Rouge as a Louisiana State University instructor this summer. A membership enrollment challenge from the Young Business Men's Bible class was issued and accepted, with the loser to pay for a water.
A crew of seismograph operators is working in the Bonita and Jones territory.
Miss Jewel Jones age 18 of 2811 Lee avenue was severely cut by flying glass from a broken windshield when a car driven by her uncle Claude Jones crashed into a telephone post outside V Frank Lynn company in Gordon avenue. She was discharged from Riverside sanitarium Saturday after improving. Claude Jones was shaken but not injured.
The Central Baptist church will hold daily vacation Bible school beginning Tuesday at 9 am led by Rev. D. D. Cantrell. Primary and junior ages are invited regardless of creed. The program runs two and a half hours daily. advance enrollment is by calling the pastor. Rev. J. T. Walters will assist.
Members of Calvary Baptist Brotherhood met last Thursday to hear a discussion on the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary led by Chief Steward H S Clawson and his unit. Participants included J S Pinkston H Hillibrand Clyde Cutler J A Gregory and J E Venable. The weekly program will be headed by Chief Steward J A Gregory and the public is invited to attend.
Rev M A Treadwell of the First Baptist church announces a series of revival meetings at the church in Farmerville beginning Sunday June 12 with Rev H E Kirkpatrick pastor of the First Baptist church at Minden as principal. J D Carroll of Henderson will lead the choir and meetings are expected to run eight days or longer.
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