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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1938
Page
6
Society hosted a large Christmas hour at the Virginia hotel with Mr. and Mrs Claud Harrison and Mr. and Mrs. Charles W Wallace as hosts. Guests enjoyed music, confections, coffee, and aperitifs in a festive ballroom setting.
Natchez Garden Club announces its eighth annual pilgrimage to Natchez antebellum homes and gardens from March 20 to April 2 with visits to Jefferson College Rosalie Edgewood Mount Repose and other historic sites. The event features period hospitality and a finale dinner at Melrose with guests including notable local figures and university affiliates.
Olive Roberts Barton advises against overstating Santa Claus gifts to a family with a limited budget. Helen tells Bill that promises of earthshaking toys will disappoint Albert, urging simple, honest Christmas expectations and a modest gift plan for the child.
Marion residents report visits with relatives in El Dorado Arkansas and Monroe. H G Holloway and family from Monroe were guests in Marion. Reita Andrews a Sardis teacher and Vivian Kilpatrick a Downsville teacher spent a weekend at home.
A packed week features Armandine Renaud and Margaret Stovall hosting Christmas tree parties for dance students at their studios. Social and missionary meetings occur across churches, schools, and community centers with talks on spirit of Christmas and Dawning Light. Union dances and banquets fill the calendar at Frances hotel and Lotus club culminating in New Year’s Eve festivities.
Cape Cod detective Asey Mayo shadows Pam Frye who vanishes after Varina Lorne is killed by a left handed blow from her sister. Tim Carr, a Octagon House boarder, smokes Turkish tobacco and is suspected. Nettie Hobbs reports Pam as the murderer while Peggy Boone calls her a liar. Roddy Strutt pays Nettie to keep his name out of the tale.
Asey and Nettie clash over Roddy Strutt as a five thousand dollar check signals Roddy's deep involvement in a murder case. Tourists flood a scene, planes crash, and a mural decays while locals debate responsibility and petty town scrambles. The pilot is hospitalized as Asey muses on crooked money and town duty.
Members of the Methodist missionary society gathered at Mrs. C L Chennaults home and drove to Mrs. James Borger s new residence for a surprise shower. Refreshments followed for a large group including Mesdames W E Person Chennault A W Hoon E H Batterton and others. Mrs Rose Guice hosted the Thursday Night Bridge club with Miss Rose Guice winning first prize and other prizes awarded to Mrs W H Sadler and Mrs K T Hazlip.
Mrs N H Rogillio Miss Anna Louise Rogillio and Mrs A D Hedrick visited relatives at Natchez Mississippi recently. Mesdames Ehlert Sadler and Marron were visitors at Monroe. Dr L Pollard Coleman and Dr W L Jones of Shreveport and Dr Thomas White of Plain Dealing were guests at the plantation home of Mr and Mrs E D Coleman. There never has been around the world airplane flight in that such a flight would require girdling the globe at its greatest circumference.
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