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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1916
Page
6
Kern's horse shoeing shop advertises wagon making to order and delivery. Meat market offers choice beef pork sausage oysters and price list. New Star Meat Market promises quick city delivery. Hair specialist offers dyeing shampooing and wigs. O Z O syrup agents promote country syrup. Catholic ladies sale of fancy work listed for early December.
List of marriages between Charles F Eckhart and Miss Mat tie Zelmar, Jesse M Ryals and Mrs Elia Hines, Gilford L Ward and Miss Esther Gerlither, plus several land sales: C H Peers to Wilder Williams, Ponsford Cann to F H Durden, Abe Arent to Queen Johnson and to Ed Sherman, Albert Britton to Green Foster, Railroad Lands Co to H D Briggs, Briggs to O B Morton and J J Potts, Potts to Morton. Local fines listed for Jerry Coats, Mary Been, Elmira Benn, Billie Douglass, Will Smith, Charles Phillips, Eugene Walker, Tom Boutwell, F G Calvert, Jack Webber, Dan Jackson.
Parish agent B M Jackson will demonstrate caponizing at the residence of Mr C A Smith in West Monroe on Tuesday Dec 12 at 8 pm All interested invited Ouachita Lodge No 2 I C C F asks all members to attend Thursday night for important business Secretary F L Rucks 30 81 and tf
Local notices promote a Phonograph club, pecan sales with phone numbers, and wood sale offers. The Monroe Wood Saw Co advertises lumber and home cut lengths amid Christmas portrait offer by The Art Studio. Catholic ladies announce a fancy work sale on December 5th and 6th.
A union stance letter from T Smith refutes claims by H C Ray about clashing over clerks. Also a notice of license application to operate a bar on 514 DeSiard Street Monroe Louisiana, with petition to the Mayor and City Council for liquor sale approval.
London Dec 4 A public announcement by Alexander Trepoff confirms an earlier 1915 pact with Italy granting Russia the right to Constantinople and the straits. Russian forces press on Bucharest Moldavia and Dobrudja while German Bulgarian forces push toward the capital, suggesting a postponed collapse but potential shifts in the Roumanian campaign.
Roumania remains center stage as Teutonic forces close toward Bucharest while Romanian and Russian units reinforce defenses. West of the capital, fighting forces Teutons back, with casualties and prisoners reported. Austria Italy fronts see gains and a sunk French transport Karnak near Malta.
Official reports confirm Carranza forces reoccupied Chihuahua City last night with no resistance. Villa bandits were driven out, and telegraph lines to Chihuahua City have been restored. Six trains carried reinforcements south, and General Ozuna and General Marcula were active in the capital with renewed operations against Villa followers.
Leroy Jackson, a negro, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Fred Pettit on a murder charge for shooting Golby Faulk near Phillips bridge on the DeLlard road last Wednesday. Both men lived on Bayou Bartholomew in Morehouse parish and were returning home in a wagon when the quarrel occurred. Faulk died within half an hour from a bullet wound. Jackson claimed the shooting was an accident. The incident came to light Sunday after Deputies Pettit and Milton Coverdale investigated.
The state Commerce Commission today sustained a rate of cents per hundred pounds on beet and cane sugar from California to Texas points. Californians argued the rate harmed competition with Louisiana's 44 cent rate.
New York spot and futures quotes from Monday December 4 1916 list Vesty in Jan at 30.07 19.86 20.06 20.09 and Mech in Jan at 20.30 20.06 20.28 20.22 for May 20.51 20.27 20.56 20.53 with quiet trading and closing near these levels.
Liverpool market notes list Spots 113.99 with quiet sales and pricing figures. January February shows 11.78 with 12.9 percent. March April records 11.96 and 12.18, reflecting small fluctuations in values.
Fragmentary OCR records show a Chicago dateline dated Monday December 4 1816 with garbled data and misread figures. The legible bits hint at market or weather details but are not recoverable into coherent events or names.
Monroe La December 4 1916 New Orleans reports a further drop of over 1 per bale due to British politics and bull support lacking with partial afternoon recovery as southern spots steadied Liverpool quote fell 33d to 38d on old crop and 22d to 25d on new crop then recovered. Cotton acreage and gin counts show varied estimates: Watkins bureau 11,126,000 bales excluding linters vs 11,191,000 last year final 11,068,000. Alabama spot house cites 11,460,000 excluding linters. National Ginners Association rumor cites 10,231,000 ginned by November end vs 9,706,000 last year. Cotton goods market quieter for cloths. yarns firm with higher season levels and gains on last week. Trade adjusts accounts ahead of December crop estimate.
In Chicago trading, wheat opens lower on Argentine rains but expectations of early export lift. Belief of a forthcoming embargo lift and strong demand supports a rally, with December corn showing buying strength as traders anticipate tightened supplies and continued consumption in the US.
Washington December 4 The Supreme Court today held Alabama’s franchise tax on domestic corporations unconstitutional. The decision rejects the claim that federal law permits the levy. In a separate local item a cr ap game ended in a fatal shooting in Haynes addition to West Roe. Monroe Bailey, eight, died after being wounded during a dispute over a craps game. Ridney Wright is alleged to have attacked him with a razor and firearms. Bailey died at a sanitarium after leg injury and blood loss. Witnesses William Gibson and Lucas are in custody.
Mr Gilford L Ward of F ville and Miss Esther Gerlich Mangham were married Sunday afternoon at five in the hotel parlors with Judge Chas officiating. The couple were attended by Sheriff John D Minnion parish and Mr J D man of Farmerville.
Advertisement seeks return of a red Jersey cow described with ear marks and crop details. Cow has sawed off tips and markings noted as swallowed and underbit in one ear, upper half cropped in the other with a circle. Return requested to W. D. McIntosh at 7 West Monroe Avenue.
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