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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
8
Local notices advertise flour from Calla Lily Copeland's Grocery butter eggs oats and seed from Faulk Clark Latham Seed Co and Monroe Hardware Co for wagons and beds. Also flower planting for Easter bulbs at Kern's horse shoeing shop and Columbia Graphophone demo at J E Larkin's Jewelry Store with Monroe Lodge Elks meeting reminders.
Dolls and toys of every description fill the shelves at Smith Bros. store with a wide assortment of doll buggies wagons and toy sets. Fancy box paper toilet sets mirrors shaving sets necktie boxes and more offered cheaper than elsewhere. Visit Smith Bros Lt d today.
Mr W C McMurrain of Ruston visited Monroe today. West Monroe Lodge 180 to meet tomorrow night for annual officer elections and initiations. Stonewall Lodge 8 to meet tonight for regular session and officer elections. Col F P Stubbs attended funeral of Col W H Wise in Shreveport, Wise having died in a sleeping car at Jacksonville. Wise was attorney for W S & P railroad.
Ouachita Valley Camp No. 10 Woodmen of the World held a large meeting last night electing J. L. Adams as C C and C BE Garvey A L T J Naughton banker C Geismar secretary William Anding escort Web Hale Sentry and W J Bynum Jr manager. Degree work followed for Beverly Handy and Herbert Breard as new members welcomed to a flourishing lodge.
Now is the time to plant sweet peas if you want them early next spring. Get them at Latham Seed Company for 25 cents per pound.
Market report shows New Orleans spots at 14 1/4 with sales of 1730 bales and steady tone. New York spots at 14.70 with varied intraday ranges and closing around 14.55.
Liverpool reports 7.78 and 6000 hales in DRG IRM figures with noted production anomalies. Officials warn of possible delays and irregularities in the supply chain impacting market outlook.
Grain and provisions prices listed for Chicago with wheat corn and oats futures. The Mississippi cotton market shows improved tone from Liverpool on Egyptian crop concerns and steady export demand with light receipts and shrinking stocks.
A jury returned a verdict against O T Adams in his suit for 12 500 damages after a street car collision with an A L G passenger train at Forteenth and Adams streets. Attorneys Munholland and Dawkins led the plaintiff.
Classified notice seeks a plantation manager with ten years of experience in the Red River bottoms. Apply through G care News-Star at 2-101. Also a couple seeks room and board in a boarding house or private home. contact C. D. care News-Star at 2-1wk.
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