Dramatic Club Promotes Whirl at Saenger Theatre
Fifteen shopping days before Christmas and a list of social events fill the week. Dramatic Club presents the DeSiard Street Whirl at Saenger's Theatre at 8 15. Various civic groups meet through Saturday with gatherings at churches, clubs, and homes. Local residents greet guests and report births, deaths, and travels as the season of social activity continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dramatic Club
DeSiard Street
Saenger’s Theatre
Monroe
Krex Company Department Store
Methodist Sunday School Hosts VOA Grocery Shower
Volunteers of America received a largess grocery shower as Methodist Sunday School entertained their children with music and sweets. Supervisors in charge of the primary department were Mesdames Davis W Bazone and W T Gattis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Sunday School
Volunteers of America
Mesdames Davis
W. Bazone
W. T. Gattis
Girl Scout Patrol Forms Under New Feminist Creed
Irene Clark and eight fellow girls form a patrol led by Lady Bird Ruffin to qualify as tenderfoot scouts after the fourth meeting. The program rejects tradition claiming girls can practice woodcraft, build fires, erect shelters, and climb mountains as men do, signaling rising feminist influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irene Clark
Louise Culpepper
Eleanor Butler
Jewel Brown
Esther Snell
Avarice Tucker
Mary McDonald
Georgia Lee Keller
Lady Bird Ruffin
Community carol singing linked to Yule observances
Preparations for outdoor carol singing on Christmas Eve spread across communities. Detroit maps routes for city wide coverage, uses lighted window signals to end songs, and mobilizes YWCA, Sunday schools, high schools, and clubs. Carollers visit hospitals and raise funds for needy children, then meet at a central tree or community center before dispersing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Detroit
West Monroe Missionary Society Elects Officers in December Meeting
The West Monroe Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church held its regular December business meeting in the church parlors. President Mrs. C E Faulk presided, readings from Corinthians were given, and minutes were approved. Officers for the coming year were elected including President Mrs. W M Hunt and Secretary Mrs. J G Cobb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Monroe Missionary Society
First “Methodist Church
C. FE. Faulk
12Th Chapter of
Corinthians
Elliott
Hood
Epworth League
W. M. Hunt
C. E. Faulk
T. L. Hood
J. G. Cobb
J. L. Cummings
W. A. Kirkpatrick
Pace
E._¥. Connor
Mable Murphy
W. T. Green
Bananas Ripen in Yard on Hudson Lane, Ruston Youth Aged 14
In Ruston La a 14 year old youth from Mr Albert Heruff’s family returned from vacation to find fruit ripening on a banana tree in the yard on Hudson Lane. The piece notes the fruit’s sweetness and references a poem about English usage and a whimsical tale of language reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert. Heruff
Hudson Lane
Horuff
Mrs. Good English
Mrs. Bad English
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C. Bradford
Eagh
Catholic Ladies Altar Society
Civic Department
Department Club
City Hall
Council Chamber
Fred Millsaps
Grace Church Guild
Fred Fuduker
River Front
Guy Stubbs
Euchre Club
John Sanders
Pine Street
West Monroe
Henry Montgomery
Fort Mire
T. E. Wright
Bruce Frizzell
Carroll Fourmy
Four Leaf Bridge Club
Louisville Avenue
Melvin Dixon
Theus
Grace Sylvester
Shreveport
George Selman
Portsmouth
Virginia
Lieut
Augustus Selman
P. C. Willis
Judson’ ‘Smith
Willis
Alice Nelson Briggs
Jackson
Miss
Mrs. Craig
Mary Virginia
Clyde Williamson
Eugene Mount
Mildred Ward
Birmingham
Ala
Emma
Jennie Smith
H. G. Cooper, Jr
Mrs. W. Smith
Orlando, Florida
Sam Smith
George Presteridge
F. T. Whited
E. A. Frost
City
H. Baer
Hilda Baer
Henry Steineau
Dallas
Philip Lowenberg
Leon Shhlenker
St. Louis
Julius Lemle
David Weingarden
Michigan
J. Lemle
Weingarden
R. W. Dunn
Cargile, Ark
J. Thompson
The
Good Samaritan Home
Civic Department of the
Federation
Baton Rouge
U. S
the Millsaps Co., Inc
Girl Scouts
Stent
Bond's Barker Bakery
Brung
Mars
the Kalisk! Music CO
Monroe, LA
Pioneer Music Dealers
Monroe Business College
Monroe Hardware CO
Krex Company Department
Dessard Street
Lots
Ana
W. 5. & P. Depot
Krex Co
the Krex Company
Pooler Gas Department
Louisiana
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