New Pastor Appointment Details Prompt Local Discussion
Fragmented OCR text references a new pastor and community reactions. Mentions “New Pastor,” local figures, and questions about support. No clear names, dates, or places are readable.
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1915
Page
3
Fragmented OCR text references a new pastor and community reactions. Mentions “New Pastor,” local figures, and questions about support. No clear names, dates, or places are readable.
Rev. Farrington urged a moral discussion during a special service at Forest Baptist Church. He argued against double standards, stressed marriage fidelity, and warned that love and lust must be kept apart. The service included baptisms for ten new members and an invitation to further questions about church beliefs.
The League to Enforce Peace begins forming Texas units chaired by former Judge Alton B. Parker with Governor Colquitt invited as temporary chairman. Former Presidents and officials push resolutions to present to Congress and state legislators and seek league platform planks.
Colonel Ruffin Pleasant, Democratic candidate for governor, skipped New Orleans and spent the day in Lake Charles with his party. Campaign manager John Marshall said Pleasant planned three speaking events tomorrow at lawn, Vincent Settlement, and Sulphur. Local officials and supporters including Sheriffs Reid and Swords, Deputy Tat, and editor FE Shanks pledged support, with optimism in Opelousas and Jennings.
F. J. Morath reports from Oleander as commander in the New Orleans district addressing Mabry. The telegram notes Morath's status and official position within the Oleander command structure.
Camp 74 of the W O W responds to W A Mabry after his criticism of posters in Gretna. The message questions Mabry about placing a Lieut Gov Barret picture in a hall used by Woodmen circles Maccabees Druids and other groups and denounces the hall as a low dive in Louisiana.
Cambridge mass Dec 5 The discovery of two new comets by astronomer Tallov at the Cape of Good Hope was announced in a cable from Copenhagen received at Harvard observatory today. The comets were seen near Delta the left hand star on the Belt of Orion and later reported moving slowly north by Sir Frank Dyson at Greenwich.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo accepted an invitation to address the Southern Commercial Congress in Charleston on December 16. He will likely use the occasion to discuss the new merchant marine before a representative body of business leaders.
Baton Rouge warns Louisiana farmers to avoid Vithumus fertilizer after a joint federal and state inquiry finds the product practically worthless. Dr. W R Dodson of the State Experiment Station notes circulars making extravagant claims were mailed, and postal regulation concerns were explored.
Washington reports Ambassador Page in London filed a vigorous protest with the British government against requisitioning vessels of the American Transatlantic Company without prize court formality. An odd insert about a truss ad follows.
The News-Star lists candidates for Democratic primary races in Ouachita Parish including D D Eh Brown for State Senator Twenty sixth District, Webb for Representative, PIPES for Representative, George Selman for Representative, J L Haas for Representative, and sheriffs candidates O C Clark Emmett Ramsey D A Johnston Arthur Grant. Also listed are Willis H Anders for Parish Assessor, W G Haynes and Aubrey L Green for Clerk, R L Moore Ward 1 Police Jury, W M Ruffin Ward 3, Pred Peters Ward 8, W G Dunn Ward 3, R T Faulk for Ward 4 Police Jury, George W Phillips reelection Ward 5, Mo M Breard Jr Ward 10, C A Krichbaum Ward 10, Renaud Ward 10 Police Jury, Charles Schulze and Joe Mangham for City Court, M B Hill Hugh Biggar Ed Strong for City Marshal.
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