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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1916
Page
8
Local notices and classified ads for Kern's horse shoeing shop meat markets and wood yard services. Items include pricing on meats eggs and sausage at MODEL MEAT MARKET New Star Meat Market and The People’s Wood Yard, plus holiday goods from THE RACKET STORE and IRON MOUNTAIN BAKERY. Also offerings for photos books Bibles and a Christmas picture studio special.
Local court notes record petty larceny and drunkenness fines, and land sale transactions involving Henry Barnes C W Parnell and others. The Police Jury considers a new court house and jail with bond issue support, plus a traffic and road widening debate on Millhaven road as a Dixie highway link. District Attorney Fred M. Odom attends the Police Jury session.
Mr J A Woolley of Huttit Ark purchases four lots in Terminal Heights adding to the growing district. He plans to move his family to Monroe after rebuilding one house and selling other property. Other buyers include prominent businessmen betting on the Iron Mountain railway improvements.
After a 30 day delay in delivering the tax roll, Sheriff Grant’s office will stay open at night through year end to handle the influx of tax payers. Assessor Joe Hanna blamed the delay on confusion over the West Monroe School tax and said the roll remained open to include this year’s levy.
A prominent defense attorney comments on reports about a change in the federal clerk's office under a new judge. He criticizes a Justice Department investigation a year ago that praised LeRoy B. Gulletta, the present clerk, as one of the best organized and most efficient in the United States, and he favors retaining him.
The United States circuit court of appeals in New Orleans ruled that jitney mobile operators must post a $5,000 bond before operating. The case Feliz Lietze vs City of New Orleans upheld Judge Porter’s denial of an injunction to halt the city ordinance. Also noted are graduation notices from Kansas State Agricultural College and assorted local notices and advertisements.
Gulf coast chamber members from Louisiana Mississippi Alabama and Florida urge congress to pass the Broussard bill to grant gulf ports open port rights for cattle imports from Mexico and Latin America, arguing Texas ports currently receive favorable treatment. The action follows promises by Texas representatives to withdraw opposition or yield consent to Texas port openings.
National guard camps held celebrations as troops were ordered to return to home stations. The Sixteenth Pennsylvania Infantry is expected to be the first regiment to leave the border, with officials saying they would depart about January 1.
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H. R. Speed's Daily Cotton Letter from Monroe La reports an unsettled tone in markets with early declines on light buying but improvements seen as census data hint less cotton ginned. Sentiment fluctuates with Liverpool and European demand, yet long positions cover if demand strengthens. Export prospects remain large and prices at or near bottom with signs of potential rebound.
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