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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1938
Page
3
Dr M E Dodd of Shreveport will speak at First Baptist church Thursday at 7 30 pm on Circling a Continent for Christ. He and his wife made an 18900 mile air trip visiting South American countries. The free lecture is sponsored by the W M A as part of the Christmas program and foreign mission gift.
J. W. Bryant, president of J. W. Bryant Inc. Plaquemine, elected first president of the Motor Operators' Service Association of Louisiana at a meeting with about 60 fleets. Officers include J. W. Brown as vice president and O. Ted Madsen as secretary-treasurer. Directors span Alexandria Ruston Monroe Baton Rouge and West Monroe with a January 17 board meeting planned in Alexandria.
Ferriday Louisiana December 14 special newly elected officers for Ferriday lodge No 300 F and A M and the local Eastern Star chapter were installed at a joint meeting at the Masonic hall J W James of Columbia district deputy grand master presided The list includes P H Farmer as worshipful master D B Mitchell senior warden and others for the lodge and Blanche Garner as worthy matron Miller McDougald worthy patron and several named conductresses and officers for the Eastern Star
Charles Grace arrested December 5 by Officers Burns and Ham for larceny of a purse owned by Mrs. J. H. Fuller of 100 South Fourth street received a 30 day jail term from the date of arrest. Willie Parker and Clarence Evans were fined 15 or 15 days for trespass on Illinois Central property. Seven traffic offenders paid a total 16.50 in fines and one drunk offender forfeited a 7.50 cash bond. Spearstown lodge elects officers for the coming year with Upshaw as worshipful master and Elkins as treasurer among others in Spearsville Louisiana.
An assembly at Northeast Center featured a campus fashion show with student models displaying the latest apparel. Music by S C Wimbish orchestra accompanied acts including nurses' dance by Roan School of the Dance and various model segments. Proceeds funded the upcoming Phi Theta Kappa convention at Northeast Center.
Five Louisiana congressmen met in New Orleans and planned a Washington visit to seek a lower sugar requirements estimate for 1939. They criticized Secretary Wallace's figure as above market expectations and harming prices. Representatives Maloney De Rouen Mouton Griffith and Fernandez emphasized enforcing the sugar act to stabilize prices and support domestic industry.
Choudrant lodge F and A M elected officers led by Worshipful Master O W Hogan and Senior Warden A R Kinman. Other posts include G W Gillum junior warden and W G Kelly secretary with W A Sanderson treasurer. Additional appointments cover deacons master of ceremonies chaplain stewards and finance committee.
Voters in Ward 1 including Sterlington and Palchanka favored wet liquor proposals by small unofficial margins. Whisky and beer measures showed mixed results across precincts with Sterlington dry on both, Pairbenks voting wet on whisky and beer. Official results to be proclaimed by Ouachita parish police jury in a Friday session.
Helen Amonds Jackson and others sold one acre to William W Neal for 105 dollars in cash. The transfer was recorded yesterday at the Ouachita Parish clerk of court's office. The parcel lies in the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section T M, township 4 north, range 3 east.
Police report says a black overcoat and a blue pinstripe serge suit were taken from an automobile owned by B. H. King of Abilene Texas while parked downtown Tuesday night or early Thursday. The text ends with an unrelated sentence about a millipede rolling into a sphere.
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