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Newspaper

Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Aug 07, 1944

Page

3

Wedding Anniversary Event At Slaters Home On Wood Street

A party Sunday afternoon on Wood Street celebrated the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Slater. About 100 guests arrived between 4:30 and 6:30 PM to share in the elegant reception with floral arrangements, a tiered wedding cake, and lime frappe. The couple expressed gratitude and noted plans for a future fiftieth anniversary celebration.

Mrs Lewis Slater Wood Street Ests Niversary Rs. Slater Mr. Slater David Garrett Henry Montgomery Annie Windes C. E. Barton Kay Ethridge Slater Mrs. Slater G. A. Campbell J. B. Holland North Seventh Street West Monroe First Presbyterian Church Stewart Scott Fairview Avenue H. W. Collins North Second Street W. E. Smith Sterlington Road Sidney Stroud North Third Street Walter Veach K Street J. M. Hilton Jonesboro Road A. J. New Standifer Street Woman's Society of Christian Service Stone Avenue Methodist Church I. L. Yeager Thelma DeCell Grayson Guthrie Beloit J. R. Coulter St. John Drive J. A. Reid A. C. Ransom Alexander W. C. Faulk North Second Tom Lees Arkansas Harvey Maude Mullen Riverside Arthur Tidwell Jackson John Brothers South Grand Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church C. D. Carnett Pershing Place J. H. Tucker Grayling Lane W. T. Moore Georgia Street P. E. Ragland Morris Avenue H. H. Benoit Jackson Street Aline Banister Oak Street G. D. Holland Forsythe Avenue Mary Cloud North Fifth Street Julius Chandler G. W. McDuffie Sue Hunt Clayton Street

Bette Davis Moves Into Producing With Cautious Precision

Hollywood reports Bette Davis will co produce one of her three films yearly starting with Stolen Life, bought for her by Warner Bros. She plans to learn budgets and editing, preferring small units over big studios, and will act as herself in her first co produced project. Kay Francis also to co produce three Monogram pictures.

Hollywood Bette Davis Stolen Life Elizabeth Berger Warner Bros Bette Frank Capra Kay Francis Monogram

War Today Analysis on Normandy Front and German Home Front

DeWitt Mackenzie assesses the Normandy flank collapse aiding Allied breakthroughs into Brittany and the Paris push. He notes Hitler’s rear crisis, the Reich’s morale issues, potential decisive weeks ahead, and rising resistance inside occupied Europe including Warsaw and French civilian actions.

Hitler Normandy Brittany Paris Mayenne Seine Leine Caen Montgomery Germany Reich Fuehrer Europe Warsaw

Out-of-town wedding guests and engagements noted

The record lists guests at Miss Joyce McKain and Lt. J. B. Swanson Jr. wedding including Mrs. B. E. Berham of New Orleans and her daughter-in-law Mrs. Erle McKain Barham of Met Rouge Louisiana. It also notes Mrs. Nathaniel R. Spencer visiting her parents and other relatives from Carlisle Pennsylvania and Miami Florida. An engagement is announced for Mimi Jean Vosburg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Sydney Vosburg, to Sgt Wayne D. Stump USMC.

F.B. Aylward Patricia Lynn St. Francis Sanitarium J. R. Gayne J. P. Aylward Pace Aylward Eloise Goyne Delano Drive Annie Sue Miller J. D. Miller West Monroe Washington, D. C United States Navy Department Louisiana State Normal College J. D. Brunston New Orleans Horace Josey Fred Hayton Brunston Gloria Jean Hester Sigma Delta Pi Louisiana Tech Northeast Junior College J. Graves Hundley St. Petersburg Fla Mrs. Hundley Lee Hawkins Austin Tex Lieutenant Hundley Fluitt Hundley Hundley Florida Cpl. C. S. Hixon Camp Fannin B. N. Hixon Mangham Hixon Corporal Hixon Margaret McLain W. Y. McLain Gloster, Miss Albert Cook Jr Louisiana State University University Baton Rouge Sergeant Cook Webster Street E. W. Hixon Nellie Jo Adcock Sheppard Field W. S. Adcock Hayes Street Margaret Hixon Alexandria Adcock Joyce McKain J. B. Swanson Jr B. E. Berham Erle McKain Barham Met Rouge Nathaniel R. Spencer Carlisle J. E. Walsworth Park Avenue Spencer Barrier Mae Walsworth William Sydney Vos-burg Mimi Jean Wayne D.stump United States Marine Corps R. A. Stump Manitou Springs Colo Stump San Diego

Research Official to Visit Ouachita Parish Committees

Dr. Robert W. French director of the bureau of business research at L S A will visit the Chamber of Commerce office Tuesday morning. He will meet with the farm survey public works consumers and employers end survey committees to interpret data from these surveys.

Robert W. French Bureau of Business Research Chamber of Commerce Ouachita Parish French

Gresham Gets Permit for Junk Room at 2910 Jackson

L W Gresham is granted permission Saturday to build a one story frame junk room at 2910 Jackson with costs not to exceed 25. J J Masters will add to a one story frame residence at 3600 Dick Taylor with expenses not to exceed 150. Sound is now recorded by magnetism on hair fine steel wire.

L. W. Gresham Jackson J. J. Masters Dick Taylor

Bed Falls Five Stories as Bomb Strikes Coast Hotel

German flying bomb hits a coast hotel and sends Prof. Harold Laski tumbling five stories in his bed. He lands right side up, awake and unhurt, though the room is wrecked and the building damaged.

London Harold Laski Laski

Black and White Ointment Skin Remedy Ad

An old advertisement promotes Black and White Ointment and Black and White Skin Soap for acne eczema ringworm and other skin irritations. It claims immediate relief antiseptic action and 25 years of success with money back guarantee and small to large size options.

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