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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1925
Page
1
In a tense confession scene Adele Garrison sketches a complex plan involving coded telegrams and a looming robbery mystery. The narrator wrestles with loyalty to friends and family while plotting with Lillian to manage the dangerous threads surrounding Steve, Allen Drake, and a potential arrest.
Listings show services, Sunday school, and youth groups at First Presbyterian, First Baptist, Grace Episcopal, First Methodist, Methodist Protestant, Christian Science, Temple B nin Israel, and House of Justice. Events include morning and evening worships, youth and missionary activities, and midweek study sessions across multiple times and venues.
South Side Mission invites neighbors Thursday evening and Sunday services at 3 30 p m. West Slonroe Baptist tabernacle led by Pastor W E Neill offers 10 a m service 11 a m labeling and 6 30 p m B Y P U 7 30 p m preaching. Other churches include Church of Christ Apple and Second streets Bible study 9 30 a m preaching 11 a m and 7 45 p m Ladies study Wednesday 3 p m. St Matthew's Catholic Church Jackson and Grammont offers masses 6 30 a m low mass 9 30 a m high mass 5 p m benediction public invited. First Christian Church E R Clarkson minister Bible school 9 45 a m Lord's Supper 11 a m sermon 11 15 a m What Doth it Profit a Man Sermon 8 p m Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor prayer 7 p m. West Monroe Methodist Church Rev W D Jordan pastor Sunday School 9 45 a m services 11 a m Epworth Leagues 6 45 p m 7 45 p m Wednesday prayer 7 15 p m. Assembly of God Cypress Street pastor E L Tanner 10 a m Sunday school 7 p m preaching prayer service 7 p m Tue Thu.
A garbled ad fragment touts a Shipman-Ward rebut and rent terms for a Ten Day period. It mentions a trial guarantee of five years on a factory rebuilt typewriter with new parts and a refurbished Underwood model, though details are unclear.
Washington selection names the Jefferson, Old Spanish Trail, Dixie Overland Highway and Mississippi Scenic Route as Louisiana’s approved routes. Jefferson runs 415 miles from Waskom Texas to New Orleans. Old Spanish Trail spans Gulf Coast through Slidell to Vinton. Dixie Overland Highway runs Delta Point to Shreveport. Mississippi Scenic Highway links Baton Rouge to Vidalia and north to Arkansas. Pershing and Lone Star highways are dropped despite popularity.
The Lake Providence area nears completion of 151 miles of drainage canals moving 4 500 000 cubic yards of earth. The project has opened thousands of acres for cultivation, increased land loan values, and attracted new farmers. Engineers from Memphis praise the system as highly comprehensive. Community growth includes schools expanding from under 20 to 150 pupils and urban development in Lake Providence with new hotels, stations, garages, stores, and streets. A Diesel engine powers the city lights as water works add pumps, continuing rapid growth. A bankruptcy hearing notice follows in Shreveport for H Godwin, with discharge sought under the Western District of Louisiana.
Notice to Contractors bids due at 11 am September 2 1925 in Monroe Louisiana by the Ouachita Parish School Board for a four room frame school at Sterlington and a three room frame school at Mineral Springs Plans and specs from J W Smith Monroe LA bids opened there by order of T O Brown September
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