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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1936
Page
15
Miss Mary Elinor Coverdale and Miss Armandine Renaud will present several numbers in their dancing class recital. The program features varied dances showcasing the students' progress and artistry.
Funeral services under Christian Science auspices were held for Mrs. Joseph A. Biedenharn at the family home on Riverside Drive. Interment will be private. She was a Mississippi native and wife of the Coca Cola Bottling Company president. Survived by three sons and a daughter, Emma Louise Jam.
W. S. Bizzell of Oklahoma City Oklahoma selected as manager of the Louisiana voting and fire prevention bureau succeeding Rush P Strong who had led the bureau since 1918.
Doris Avant of Ouachita parish will travel to New Orleans as a guest of the New Orleans Association of Commerce. She led 4-H club girls in clothing work, winning first in a party dress contest at the Ouachita Valley fair and placing in state and national contests. Three Ouachita state champions—Mary Ella Sims, L Marie Bayles, and Sidney Alexander—returned from Chicago after attending national 4-H club congress with a snowfall memory.
Gardiner Young was chosen president of the Young Men’s Bible class of the First Methodist church for the coming year. Other officers include L. B. Gannaway as vice-president Fred Benson as secretary treasurer and M. C. Redmond as teacher. The group meets at 10 a.m. Sunday in the Woodmen of the World lodge rooms.
Corporal C V Cox announced here yesterday two new army recruits. Eugene J Petty of Monroe Louisiana will go to public accounting and Sidney L Crawford of Zebedee Louisiana is assigned to the army corps at Panama.
Grace Keegan of Chicago writes that after using a Vegetable Compound she was relieved from painful symptoms and can work daily as a waitress. She praises the remedy and notes almost a million women have written letters of endorsement.
Mack Bradley announces the marriage of his daughter Agnes Bradley to Harry N. Anders in Greta on November 27. W E Carpenter wed Carmen Lucille Casteel December 2 at the home of Rev Donna Terry. Rev Terry officiated.
R B Impson and Miss Eileen Eller bee were wed November 25 at the Burroughs home with Rev Keys officiating in Baskin. Miss Mary Elizabeth Mason and R W Wooldridge married November 2 at Boeuf Prairie church with Rev James T Harris presiding. Mason, a Winnsboro High graduate and LSU Normal alumna, is a Fort Necessity high faculty member and cotton program associate.
Federal mediators hope for a breakthrough in the six week maritime strike as shipowners and unions stage public push for support at a San Francisco debate. Roger D. Lapham will speak for offshore operators alongside Seattle Mayor John F. Dore and union leaders Harry Bridges and Harry Tundeberg.
In Tallulah Louisiana, Chicago Mill and Lumber announces a roughly five percent hourly pay increase for 675 workers at Water proof Somerset and Tallulah plants. President F W Schatz, visiting after a major fire, says rebuilding should begin soon and 450 unemployed workers will be rehired in reconstruction.
Toy Night at the L. B. Faulk post of the American Legion drew over 100 members as more than 250 new toys were collected for the Good Fellows. A receptacle in Hotel Virginia remains for donations through week’s end. Membership contest awards were given, and the attendance prize of a toilet set went to M. E. Dupont.
The U S civil service commission announces open competitive exams for senior medical officer female psychiatry at 4600 dollars yearly junior medical officer interne at 2000 dollars yearly junior medical officer psychiatric resident at 2000 dollars yearly at St Elizabeths Hospital Washington DC biologists wildlife management at 3800 dollars yearly soil conservation service department of agriculture full information from secretary of the U S civil service board of examiners at the post office in this city
In Rome on December 8 Cardinal Selvaggiani ordained eighteen students at the American college. Among the names read were Robert O Kane and Louis Flaherty from Richmond Virginia.
Joseph Williams, described as a negro, was arrested yesterday by sheriff's department members on a charge of non support.
Excellent talent has been secured for a benefit minstrel show to be held Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Ouachita Parish High School auditorium. Soloists include Dallas Goss Love Bird Garland Shell Mrs Clyde Sanders Miss Josephine Combs and others with specialty dances featured by the cast.
L J Pippen of Lake Providence underwent an operation at a Riverside facility yesterday. The report states the procedure was completed and his condition was reported favorable.
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