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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
HMS
Washington
France
Germany
General March
Paker
Vareh
Congress
Air Service
Tank Corps
Marek
Pershing
Bliss
Versailles
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the Style Shop
Larche Dry Goods CO
Props
West Monroe
China
Eastern Star
Lillian Ma
Mr. E. G. Court
Estelle
Marshall
Annie Bennett
Tressurer
Edith McDaniel
Kate Strong
Susie
Man
Ada
May Gardner
Ruth
Dora Weil
Estha
Florence Brothers
Ent
Panama
Walier
Sugar Bros
Monroe, la
Varrer
Valitr
RED Cross
American Red Cross
England
Gulf Division
Uzianne
Reity-Taylor
Luzianne