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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1911
Page
8
Any woman or girl in trouble and needing assistance will apply to the American Salvation Army emergency home at 312 Grammont Street or by letter to Mrs. Capt. A. L. Gordon, matron. 4-2mo. Sweet Cream, Ouachita Valley Boiling Works, 20-tf.
Capt W R Brickley and J D Barksdale with Alfred Mullen visit Monroe. Auto supplies and services advertised by Vollmer Apgar Auto Co Morrison's Stable offers carriage calls. A new flag pole and weather signals planned for city hall. Racket Store Sale extended to Dec 9 with extra stock. Stone and brick delivery resumes for the new Baptist church after a short layoff.
Mrs C E Apgar and her daughter Miss Mable left this week for a visit to relatives in Kansas. Miss Mable will stay about a month while Mrs Argar, in poor health, plans an extended visit. White Belle Boarding House at Monroe Louisiana operates. A fire destroyed the barn on the Ransom place near West Monroe with fourteen hundred bushels of corn and hay lost. Insurance covered building and contents. fire origin unknown.
Prof T. LeCompte of the city school Science department is elected chair of science at Columbus Georgia High School with a salary of 1200 dollars. If the city loses the Parish School Board suit the city school may close on January 1. A telephonic notice corrects an error about a state commission order affecting Bienville parish rather than Monroe.
The New Orleans cotton market on Friday December 1 1911 shows spot prices at 3 16 steady with sales of 3220 bales. Dec and May futures quoted with highs and lows listed, while New York spots close around 9 25 with futures like Jan at 8 84 and May around 8 95.
Liverpool market notes show sales in 5.08 bales for Friday December 1 1911 with January February at 4.88 and 1 March April at 4.91 to 4.94. Prices quoted in dollars and cents per bale across periods and grading.
Windes reports no major market changes over the holiday with Liverpool dull yet steady and spot sales very small. November movement reaches 2 692 000 bales, up from last year and two years prior, while total marketed to December 1 stands at 7 110 000. Weather in the south stays clear and cold affecting picking and marketing. Rumors circulate about the National Ginners Association report estimating ginned total near 13 000 000 by end of November, up from prior estimates.
The day’s trading shows a barely steady market with a downward tendency as sentiment sours over a potential crop of 15 million bales. New York reports record port and interior stocks while heavy receipts threaten further stock growth.
Phil Jones a colored railroad employee was fatally run over by a southbound train as he tried to board a departing car after the Little Rock bound schedule. The accident occurred on Adams Street between Sixth and Seventh streets when he missed his footing and the wheels passed over him.
Mr. J. A. Merrill, whose disappearance has sparked speculation, rode the Vicksburg Shreveport and Pacific train to seek treatment in New Orleans. He told the conductor he planned to enter a sanitarium, though his current whereabouts remain unconfirmed.
The American Salvation Army has secured the old Bohemia Cafe on DeSiard Street to feed at least 250 people on Christmas Day from 11 30 to 2 o clock. Capt Gordon appeals for groceries chickens turkeys or money to support the event and mentions surplus funds will go to the toy fund. Santa letters from poor children have been received as support for this charitable effort.
John Hart of Baton Rouge is named to succeed Don Stafford as assistant adjutant general of the state. Stafford resigned due to ill health and remains in El Paso, Texas, for an extended period. Hart, a young Baron Rougeau and Stafford’s brother in law, has served as acting assistant adjutant general for several months.
Eyee offers a six room house with large yard and modern conveniences near City School for $22.50 per month. Possession January 1. Address care News Star office. Also two five room cottages at 104 and 106 South Fifth Street. Apply R W McClendon Cumbo phone 256.
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