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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1911
Page
12
A woman or girl in trouble should seek assistance at the American Salvation Army emergency home located at 312 Grammont street or write to Mrs. Capt. A. L. Gordon, muatron, for help.
Jewelry stock offered for early purchase with delivery later. The catalog includes small trinkets and elaborate ornaments and suggests choosing items now to avoid the holiday rush.
Capt W R Brickley visited the city yesterday. One Horse Cash Grocery advertises fresh country eggs butter and poultry. J D Barksdale and Alfred Mullen visit Monroe. Vollmer Apgar Auto Co promotes auto parts and tire service. A new flag pole and signal flags go up at city hall. Morrison's Stable offers carriage calls. A A Fort Gro Co sells Texas butter. J P Madison attends Parish School Board case postponed. Kern's horse shoeing shop advertises wagons. Phoenix Drug Store touts liniment and corn remedy. Laxative Bromo Quinidine for colds. Racket Store Sale extended to Dec 9 with bargains. Stone and brick delivery resumes for Baptist church construction.
Mrs E Apgar and Miss Mable left for a relatives visit in Kansas. Miss Mable will stay a month while Mrs Apgar due to ill health will extend her trip. White Belle Boarding House Monroe Louisiana notice. The Ransom place barn near West Monroe burned this morning at about 10 30. Fourteen hundred bushels of corn, hay and peas destroyed. Building and contents partially insured. Cause under investigation.
Prof. T. R. LeCompte of the city school receives a telegram announcing his election to the chair of science at Columbus Georgia High School with a salary of 1200. If the Parish School Board suit against the city fails, the city school may close January 1. The Monroe Home Telephone Co order clarification notes the Bienville parish company is the subject of the inquiry.
New Orleans on Friday December 1 1911 reports spot cotton at 93 16 steady with sales of 3220 bales. New York spots near 9 25 with varied highs and lows and futures values quoted across several grades.
Liverpool reports 8000 bales sold with price around 5.08 for January February period .4.88 percent interest or rate cited with 4.91 4.94 as possible range in latest note reflecting market activity.
Windes reports no major market changes during the holiday period. Liverpool dull and steady with small spot sales. South weather clear and cold likely hindering cotton picking and ginning. November movement reaches 2,692,000 bales. total marketed to December 1 is 7,110,000. Rumor cites National Ginners' Association about 13,000,000 bales ginned by end of November.
A New York market report says 9 cents for cotton seems unlikely with a crop now seen at 15 million or more. Port and interior stocks rise to record levels while imports threaten to push stocks higher. Prices at Marshall Field & Co drop to 7 1 4 cents and officials note large Chinese staff holds. Congress meets next week, cotton and woolen schedules may reappear in the president's message.
Phil Jones a colored railroad employee was run over and killed last night as a southbound train due from Little Rock at 10 30 p m pulled out from the depot toward the company shops on Adams street between Sixth and Seventh streets. He attempted to board a car when he slipped and fell under the wheels severing his body.
Mr J A Merrill who has been missing since a period of ill health rode a Vicksburg Shreveport Pacific train to express he was bound for New Orleans to enter a sanitarium for treatment. He had been in a precarious condition for a month yet continued work on the Iron Mountain route between Monroe and Alexandria until he disappeared.
The American Salvation Army will host a Christmas day dinner at the old Bohemia Cafe on DeSiard Street serving from 11 30 to 2 00. Capt Gordon aims to feed at least 250 people and seeks groceries chickens turkeys or money from the Monroe community. Any leftover funds will go to the toy fund as Santa letters arrive from poor children.
John Hart of Baton Rouge has been named to succeed Don Stafford as assistant adjutant general of the state. Stafford resigned due to ill health after serving in El Paso, Texas, where he had been for over a year. Hart is Stafford’s brother-in-law and has served as Active Assistant Adjutant General for several months.
Two rental notices listed in the City News classified. One six room house with large yard near City School for $22.50 monthly, ready January 1. Another two five room cottages at 104 and 106 South Fifth Street, contact R W McClendon, Cumberland phone 356.
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