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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1916
Page
2
Local Monroe calendar highlights social club gatherings and society notices. Readers can track upcoming meetings, receptions, and community happenings across clubs this month, with event venues and host organizations noted for resident attendance.
Saturday evening features Santa's Advance Man at the West Monroe Methodist church as part of Christmas entertainment in the Sunday school. A parade of visitors and engagements includes Mrs Davis Whitfield and son visiting Mrs Joe Mangham, Miss Maud Leigh Taylor holidaying, Captain H M Marshall visiting, and numerous hometowns planning hol idays. The week also hosts the Ernest Gamble Concert Company at the Monroe Auditorium as part of the Free Lyceum Course.
Critics hail a vocalist who turns each selection into a miniature drama. The article lists training backgrounds, noting Paris pupilage under Shriglia, links to the De Rezki brothers, Nordica, and Pol Placon, plus London study with Blume and Wood, and Berlin tutelage under Ferguson. Other artists cited include Pau line Kuhn, nicknamed The Youthful Caveno, Vernon Page, and their studies with Jacobsohn, Bendex, Banner, and Halir.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs Henry Haas led a gathering of North Side Bridge Club members and guests including Mesdames Arent Schlenker Kuhn Glenn Selig Bloch Caspari Kaliski Haas Hirsch Hirsch Liebreich Liebreich Miles Florsheim and Adeline Haas Crimson roses and ferns decorated rooms Prizes went to Mesdames Hirsch Glenn and Edgar Florsheim A key luncheon followed the game
Suburban tracts in Terminal Heights Addition are moving quickly. Call 877 for an appointment to inspect the property and explore available lots.
King R C Brown advertises wood for sale with contact phone number 111-3 13-61 available for inquiries and orders.
Shreveport Dec 20 The Times reports about 37000 dollars allocated to state missionary departments for the year ending November 1917 plans to raise 24000 dollars among Louisiana Baptists for home and foreign missions outside the state and 46000 dollars for a boys dormitory at Louisiana College. The Alexandria Sanitarium was taken over and a broad evangelistic campaign of four months is planned with 18 evangelists and 12 singers statewide starting May 1917.
Do not decorate trees with inflammable materials use nonflammable decorations and secure the tree keep matches out of reach and supervise candy lighting electrical lights to prevent fire risks. Do not leave trees indoors after holidays as dry needles can ignite and cause casualties.
Organizations from more than thirty colleges, including Harvard Yale and Princeton, will attend the tenth annual Cosmopolitan Clubs convention in New Haven next week. The Yale Cosmopolitan Club will host the event organized by the Corda Fratres Association to foster better understanding among men of different nationalities.
The Temple Sid will serve lunch on Wednesday featuring soup sandwiches and salad. The Webb building next to No South Drag Store is the serving location on Thursday and Friday. 18-2.
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