15 Oct 1933
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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1933
Page
1
The Monroe Little Theater drums up momentum with a new business manager Mrs Elmer Richards and production chairman Mrs O N McNeil. McNeil will oversee stage properties and craft, promising more detailed future productions led by Emma Alexander starting with Out of the Night in November.
The classified ads offer a lighthouse to find attractive apartments. Turn to the classifieds section next time you seek an apartment vacancy.
Union parish fair judges E. R. Strahan and Mrs. Jewel L. McQuiller were in Linville to judge agricultural and women’s department exhibits. Next week Union parish agent J. W. Rabb and Miss Josephine Houck will judge Ouachita Valley fair exhibits in Monroe.
A reflective verse meditation on living in a transformative era. The speaker remarks on wisdom in creation, advancing brotherhood, peace, and universal good. Miracles abound and every breath hints at future marvels, urging gratitude and cherished heritage.
Jane Wise celebrated her fourth birthday at home on the Fairbanks lawn with playmates. Prizes went to Dora Beth Montgomery and Herman Bernard Wilson. Cakes, ice cream, balloons, and dolls were given as favors by host family members.
A collage of short pieces includes a poem about brownies weaving blankets from pine rain and autumn leaves, a note on a petrified man in a circus box, a student travel diary to Lake Charles mentioning a flat tire, and a child’s bulletin about a bulldog named Bull with home and car details.
Transfers filed Saturday include Norman Pinton selling four acres to William Hendrix for 150 dollars and J T Tedeton selling multiple parcels in townships 18 north to Mrs Eva Biggs for 300. Lelia Kennedy and J P Kennedy convey 10.4 acres in section 26 to Mrs Odie Harris with mortgage assumption. Sillar Mae Campbell and Horace W Campbell sell blocks 7 8 9 in Biedenharn addition for 156 dollars plus mortgage of 2009.55. L M Lee transfers one household furniture lot to wife Neal Reeves Lee for 100 dollars as debt payment. A Johnsons Island blockhouse in Lake Erie once used as Confederate officers prison to be restored. Montana news notes petroleum products to be reclassified as public utility and subject to price regulation.
A mother father and child recount a train trip to New Orleans lasting a day of travel and four days in the city. They describe sights including Lake Ponchartrain amusement spots and end with a tired but happy return. Billy Armstrong writes as a Barkdull Faulk pupil. A Snake in the House is told by Sonn ie Lesher about finding a snake in a kitchen bucket, the mother’s scream, a cousin killing the snake, and disposal in the river.
A nine year old girl Betty Jane Yeldell describes finding a baby king snake on a driveway. She and her mother captured it in a fruit jar then released it in the yard after asking her grandfather about the species.
Readers share memories from a Barkdull Faulk school carnival and circus visits. Entries describe rides, games, animals, clowns, music, and playful scenes with siblings and cousins. A vivid collage of child perspectives captures wonder and small adventures at a summer fair.
A country childhood memory notes twin calves once motherless and raised in a barn with loving care. A poem about family faith asks for prayers for a sick child and ends with a note from Julia Ford a fifth grade writer at Barkdull Faulk school.
In Swartz Louisiana a dog fell ill while three children played. The doctor treated the dog with old quinine but the animal disliked it. a nurse applied salve while the dog rested in a tub. O'Neal Batson, first grade student.
EMALE GATTIS 6-B Barkdull Faulk writes of sirens, a big vacant house catching fire, and brave firemen who knocked down a door and controlled the blaze. Betty John and the writer helped hold the hose as the fire was put out with little damage to the house.
Opal Cummings notes a hen sitting for three weeks, heard peeping on the porch, and found eggs hatching with young chicks showing feathers the next day.
Bernice Louisiana October 14 Macon passed over here Friday drawing interest from 500 school children faculty and citizens for a brief period More than 5000 dollars in government cotton checks were received Thursday afternoon The bank was closed on Columbus day and recipients were eager to cash them The money will greatly benefit trade and local business
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