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Newspaper

Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Dec 06, 1918

Page

2

Parsimonious Social News From Monroe Arcadia and Beyond

Social notes from Monroe Arcadia and surrounding towns list residents visiting friends, returning home from trips, and illnesses. Items mention Mr. and Mrs. V C Pipes in Arcadia, Mrs M L Morefield's Chattanooga visit, Jim O Reily arriving in New York, and many others at home or traveling, with influenza affecting schools and schedules. Reverend C A Leonard returns from France to preach in Monroe. Eastern Star officers are elected with Lillian Mason as Worthy Matron and E G Courtney as Worthy Patron.

V. C. Pipes Arcadia R. Downes M. L. Morefield Chattanooga Tenn C. E. Maroney P. O’reily Jim O’reily Aviation Corps New York Bessie O'Leary Vicksburg Otamm T. T. Weld Paul Potts Natchitoches Walter Culpepper Potts Sherley Sawyer Bonita May J.R. Wooten John Smith Collinston Monroe W. G. Saunders New Orleans Ira Pettit Ed. Culpepper Jeff Pine Street H. S. Hirsch Sarah Bertha Natalie Hill Chicago Josie Hill North Western Railroad Jewel McGuire Messrs. McGuire Boamey Grayson N. BE. Calhoun J. Neil West Side Bastrop Marcus Kaliski D. G. Trousdale Warren Ark Wordsworth Duke Selig Farmerville M. Gill Madie Moore City School Lucile McLeod Judge B. C. Dawkins W. F. Cummings Louisville Avenue W. T. Hunt C. H. Childers Wood Street Hunt Mamie Theus Auistin Texas University Isehool Ruth Washburn Lake Charles J. C. Theus

Local Patriotic Song Committee Plans Friday Play Lone Monroe

The Monroe branch of the National Patriotic Song Committee will present a merit attraction next Friday at the City School Auditorium. Mrs B C Greenwood will present a program including the local talent play Little Grandma for Monroe and vicinity audiences.

Martha Eleanor Wood Jessie Armstrrng Katherine Apgar W. E. Howes National Patriotic Song Committee B. C. Greenwood Monroe Grandma

Post Office Plans Aerial Mail Network Expansion

The report outlines aerial mail routes from New York to San Francisco and Boston to Key West with feeders to Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New Orleans. It urges aircraft capable of overseas service, cites censorship, rural truck lines, and a rise in postal savings deposits to $148.5 million as workers leave for higher wages.

United States Washington New York Philadelphia San Francisco Chicago St. Louis Kansas St. Paul Minneapolis Cleveland Pittsburgh Boston Key West Cincinnati Atlanta New Orleans Havana West Indies South America Oiffice Department Wr. Burleson Central America Department Postal Savings Bank

United States Army Plans for 80 Divisions in France by 1919

General March reports to Secretary Baker that the army planned 80 divisions abroad and 18 at home by June 30, 1919, with a total force around 4.85 million. The plan required draft-age expansion and increased funding, aiming to end the war in 1919 if shipment and logistics could support the campaign.

United States HMS Washington France Germany General March Paker Vareh Congress Air Service Tank Corps Marek Pershing Bliss Versailles

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