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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
6
During the absence of the social editor Eve Bradford subscribers are asked to send all items of social interest to Violet Meyer. Contact numbers 4800 or 1976.
Saturday dancing by Sigma Phi Omega at the Frances Hotel Roof. Scheduled church meetings on Monday and Tuesday with guilds and assemblies. A Rainbow unit meets Wednesday at the Masonic Temple with a Wiener roast at Bernstein Park. Frances Elizabeth Harrison and Floyd Anderson Daugherty married August 24 at the bride’s home with Rev. R W Singleton officiating. The Daughertys will live in Bastrop after a wedding trip. Mrs. Nettles and daughter Mildred return from Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Blackmans to Alexandria for a camping trip.
Yesterday Kay takes Julia to Fieldstone Inn for lunch to spare her heartbreak. Julia says she knows Sandra will make Jeff unhappy.
Julia reveals Sandra and Jeffs engagement amid Ivan case tensions. Sandra and Jeff face suspicion after Julia accuses him. the landlady’s arrival interrupts, and Sandra shocks with pausing wedding plans. The narrator contemplates the trio as Adam delivers a manuscript and doors close on a tense night.
The Catholic Daughters of America were entertained Friday by a committee led by Mrs. Julia Scott and Mrs. Genieve Lohan as hostesses. Bingo highlighted the evening with clever prizes awarded to winners and ice cream and cake served to members.
A list of Kansas City residents including Miss Florence Powers and Mrs. Johnnie Elbert Jr visiting Calhoun hosts Mrs. J. B. Jones and Miss Florence Powers. The group includes James Marguerite Morrison Juanita Guerriero Margaret Burgoyne W. E. Reardon Fannie Oliver Julia Scott Genieve Lohan Virginia Elias and many others relaxing for several days.
The article notes a muskrat blend coat with full length silhouette and bell sleeves by Mary Martin. It also records a birthday surprise party for Miss Thelma Fiddler, various visits and outings of local residents, and summer activities at Monroe Recreational Center with children’s playgrounds and crafts programs.
Local residents and visitors are noted across Bastrop Shreveport Jacksonville Fla Monroe Pine Bluff Pensacola Ark Hope Ark Bogalusa Bogalusa and Houston as families travel for funerals reunions and vacations. Several households report relatives visiting kin in Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi and Florida with several trips mentioned to New Orleans and Pensacola.
Pattern No. 8771 offers a jumpers and blouse set for girls ages 4 6 8 10 and 12 with epaulette straps and braiding. Materials lists include wood crepe corduroy and linen fabrics with yardage for jumper and long or short sleeves and a braid trim. Send 15 cents plus name address style and size to News-Star World Publishing for pattern and Fall Fashion Book.
Directors Georgia Tucker Miss La Verne Larsen and Carlton McKeithen with leaders Jack Nolan Eloise Rhymes and Dorothy Hays invite children near their playgrounds to join daily play from 9 to 11 each morning. August 30 will bring a playground field day at Barkdull Faulk School with a program by all four playgrounds, an all-day event ending the summer session. Florence Powers, once a Vaughan Wright Bender Clinic patient, is at home. Mrs James D Dawson remains a Vaughan Wright Bender Clinic patient after an appendectomy.
Mrs Banker's brother wedding plans noted as part of travel to visit friends and relatives in Baton Rouge. Mr and Mrs Joe Tinney and their child return home Friday after visiting Mrs Tinney's mother in Baton Rouge who accompanied them home.
Miss Anna Lillian Hudson of Monroe was hosted by Mrs. A. B. Hudson. Gordon K. Adams joined W. P. Bush for a few days in Walnut Mississippi. Miss Ann Taylor of Ruston visited last week with Mrs. C. W. Taylor.
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