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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1922
Page
2
A poem describes a small comforting home as a fortress against despair. It portrays the home as a loving, protective shrine where one seeks solace, gathers strength, and reaches toward a hopeful dawn amid hardship. The imagery blends intimate shelter with spiritual aspiration.
Thursday activities include Alpha Delphian Chapter meeting at City Hall 2 30 p m and Night Euchre at J M Cobb home 8 00 p m. Saturday events feature Judson class gathering at Mrs W G Saunders home 8 00 p m.
Mrs. J. H. Ferguson of Albuquerque New Mexico is welcomed by old friends as a guest of Mrs. Rh. W. Whitehead in Lovers Lane.
The West Monroe Baptist Missionary Society held a highly enthusiastic year end meeting reviewing activities and framing plans for the future. Miss D Morgan and Mrs R F Langston left for the Louisiana Baptist Convention in Bogalusa La. Mrs George Calver of Rayville has been visiting W L Stevens. Newton Wright Walker of New Orleans and Miss Freda Singer of the local area were married in Donaldsonville with Rabbi J Heinberg officiating. Harry Muzree served as best man and Miss Rosina Singer as maid of honor.
An annual birthday dinner for Dr A H Gladden was held December 4 at the Bohemia Hotel. Guests enjoyed an 8:00 PM feast with reminiscences and laughter. He received a silver cigar and spectacle case from a group of gentlemen including Messrs. Prophit Blanks By num Gray Parker Adams Graves Morton Renwick Lively Prophit Saunders Kelly.
Sister Margaret, the administering angel at St Francis sanitarium, lies ill within the hospital walls. Patients and visitors recall her tenderness and mercy, reflected in flowered rooms and daily inquiries. She has been operated on recently and is on the high road to complete recovery.
The eighteenth annual National Rivers and Harbors Congress meets in Washington for two days while coal operators and miners resume wage talks. Dairymen in Milwaukee plan a national cooperative marketing study. Halifax marks the fifth anniversary of the 1917 munition ship explosion with heavy losses. David S. Walsh urges President Harding to emulate Grant and disband the Ku Klux Klan. Walsh, from Leominster, rose to Massachusetts governor after a legal and political career beginning in Holy Cross, Fitchburg, and Clinton.
One year ago today Wiberell prevailed in the Canadian general elections. A treaty signing in London created the Irish Free State marking a major shift in British policy toward Ireland.
Monroe community project funds show a pageant underwritten by business leaders with a $2500 pledge. Receipts total $2239.92 from queen contest ticket sales costumes and concessions. Expenses include insurance prizes advertising stage construction costumes and transportation with a final balance of $177.75 and salvage value noted.
Lists of meetings opening today include the Richmond Virginia branch of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and several Chicago associations such as Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers, Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers, and the Horse Association of America. Also noted are Topeka Girls Friendly Societies of the Episcopal Church Birmingham Alabama Congress of Mothers and Parent Teacher Associations and the Georgia State Baptist Convention in Atlanta.
Memphis December reports that the cotton states commission has a permanent organization and a definite work plan. Angus W. McLean said the unofficial commission’s two years of work has produced satisfactory results, highlighting efforts to unite federal and cotton state actions on boll weevil control and related insect nest problems.
A Ruston Louisiana letter thanks Mrs J C Sadler and Monroe Woman's Methodist Auxiliary for a carload of groceries and items for the orphanage on Thanksgiving. The note credits volunteers along the Missouri Pacific route from Vidalia to Rayville and from Jones to Monroe to Oak Ridge, plus the V S and P cars, for arranging and transporting goods at no charge. Robert W Vaughn Superintendent laments the value of the gift and asks public notice.
The document lists outstanding pledges and payments for the Monroe Community Service fund. It notes $955.81 due on the October installment, $510.65 balance remaining, and a January 1 1922 due date for the final roughly $400.00 installment. The committee urges subscribers to complete payments to support the year’s program, signed by President George G. Weaks.
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