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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1932
Page
5
All over Monroe this holiday week glow fairy lights and Christmas trees as residents plan dinners. Edgar Guest quotes frame reflections on hardship and courage while local families welcome guests and arrange festive tables with modern touches.
It promotes a satin or velvet dress with puffed sleeves and a high low waistline. Pattern 2486 comes in sizes 12 to 20, requires 378 yards of fabric for size 16, and includes illustrated sewing instructions. Send 15 cents for the pattern, or 25 cents for catalog and pattern together, to Monroe News-Star Pattern Department in New York City.
A busy schedule lists Baptist and Methodist Missionary Society programs at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Christmas dances at the Frances hotel and Riverside Country club, a New Year’s Eve ball, and multiple charity and club events. Also noted are the Louisiana Federation of Women clubs interdistrict meeting in Shreveport with Mrs. Claudia Jones and Miss Winifred Pirkle, plus the Hudnall Young nuptials in Pensacola and a postponed Fine Arts exhibition due to influenza.
The Neville High School PTA met Monday at 3 30 p m with Mrs Clyde Paine presiding. Mrs H J Feinstein read the prior minutes and Mrs C E Kenney was elected treasurer to replace Mrs R L George who resigned.
A vocational guidance talk was given this morning by Fred Williamson of the Morning World and News-Star to Neville high school pupils and later to Ouachita parish junior college students on the same theme. The talks align with the Vocational Guidance association plan and a speaker will address local schools and the college in January and February. Questionnaires will be distributed after the February address to aid future student plans after graduation.
George Lowery Jr a biology student at L S U returns home to spend holidays with his parents in the city. Jack Anders son of Willis H Anders drives from Baton Rouge to join his family for the break. he is an L S U student.
The Louisiana Training Institute reports a flu outbreak with about 25 boys and three officers affected. Judge Charles Schulze says additional staff have been hired including one nurse and two other employees to handle the cases.
SHREVEPORT La Dec 19 Funeral services will be held at Zwolle La today for R S Gibson 60 builder of the first hardwood lumber mill in Louisiana who committed death by his own hand Saturday at his tourist camp near Minden La Friends said he was worried over financial difficulties Mr Gibson built the first hardwood lumber mill in the state at Zwolle in 1908 He also operated lumber mills near Vicksburg Miss
In this installment of Adele Garrison’s serial Revelations of a Wife, Nick the gangster is captured and tied, then freed by Wynne and Harry Underwood. Dicky bursts in to confront Nick, who lunges at him as a tense confrontation unfolds, promising a violent confrontation to come.
Christmas season inspires home candy making says Mrs. Jewel L. Mc Quiller. Recipes include divinity fudge with sugar syrup eggs and nuts, peanut and popcorn balls, Creole pralines with nut meats and soft ball stage, all prepared at home as cheaper options.
A joint Y M C A and Y W C A event at Ouachita Parish Junior College gym starts at 7:30 pm. The student body is invited with no charge. outsiders pay a small fee. The YWCA asks attendees to bring clothes and food baskets for the city’s needy, with items received through Wednesday in the Y room.
Icy blasts sweeping the nation claimed two lives in Louisiana yesterday. Franklin Parish coroner Dr. R. B. King said Richard Berry, 60, died of exposure in a cotton field near Winnsboro, and a 15-year-old enslaved girl known as Lemon was found dead in New Orleans rooms, death attributed to exposure and heart disease.
Kiwanis and Rotary clubs aided 154 West Monroe students by providing shoes in sizes No 2 or smaller. Kiwanis contributed 100 pairs while Rotary supplied 54 pairs. A need remains for about 200 pairs in larger sizes.
Sicily Island pupils will present the three act comedy Where is Grandma at the school auditorium Tuesday night December 20. School will be suspended Tuesday afternoon December 20 through January 2 for holidays.
A fragmented synopsis centers on Santa and her ex husband Dicky, as Dicky exposes Santa’s urge to control others. Santa, after Clive leaves for war, clings to a belief that Dicky is mistaken while anxiously awaiting Clive’s disapproval.
Santa and Clive confront the aftermath of divorce and a forbidden bond with Dicky as their fragile marriage strains against suspicions and lingering feelings. The trio navigates fragile trust, emotional debt, and the lure of past passions amid a tense domestic scene.
The annual fine arts exhibition and dance revue by the Fine Arts club is postponed tonight because of an influenza epidemic. Chairman A L Armstrong says it will likely be held within 30 days. Club president Mrs Annie Livaudais leads the organization.
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