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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1930
Page
3
Readable letters from children across Monroe and surrounding towns listing gift requests for Christmas. Each note names the writer’s age, school grade, and hometown, with wishes ranging from dolls and toys to clothes and practical items.
Christmas programs filled Ouachita parish and city schools as students prepared for holidays. City high school staged a charity celebration for needy children with 350 students, led by Miss Clara Hall, featuring a Santa Claus visit by Durward Griffin. About 200 food baskets were given to needy families.
A slate of Saturday and Sunday visits mark the Rochelle area. Residents travel to Alexandria Selma Monroe Rhinehart and Beade while hosting guests from Good Pine Jackson and Ola. The column notes multiple households entertaining kin and neighbors. The item ends with a South Dakota State college led test on farm ice wells for summer refrigeration.
Regular Sunday services and a 11 am main sermon at Our Twin City churches highlight Christmas worship. Christmas program and hymns in Sunday school, festive services at Woodman Hall, and Christian Science gatherings on Auburn Avenue offer prayers, readings, and lessons for December 21.
Calvary Baptist Church invites the community to a Christmas program on the night of the 24th with a regular Christmas sermon and special music. A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend worship. Sunday school and B Y P U meet at their usual times.
The First Baptist Church choir and orchestra will perform a Christmas cantata by H W Petrie Sunday at 7 30 pm. The 30 voice chorus will be accompanied by the church orchestra directed by Mrs G C Cornett. Visitors welcomed and services include Sunday school at 9 45, worship at 11, and B P U at 6 15 with a Holy Child selection by Norman during morning service.
Gordon Avenue at Dixie Street invites Sunday school leaders and departments led by Mr. Robert H. Goza Mrs. E. K. Reeves Mrs. S. A. Martin Miss Mildred Dennis and others The pastor delivers a Christmas message at morning service The evening program includes hymns a solo a duet readings and a sermon The night talk invites reflection on aging illness and hope at Gordon Avenue Sunday night
Grace Church at Fourth and Glenmar Streets in Monroe invites the public to attend Advent services. The schedule lists Holy Eucharist at 7 30 a m Church school at 9 30 a m and Morning service with Litany and sermon at 11 a m. The Fourth Sunday in Advent emphasizes Christmas anticipation and the Lord's earth presence with a welcome and blessing hoped for.
Ernest Duncan Holloway invites readers to celebrate Christmas as a world day of peace and joy and to attend services at First Presbyterian Church Grammont and Catalpa. Sunday worship and a mid week prayer meeting are planned, with church school at 9 30 a m and pupils from the intermediate department asked to attend the White Cross service at the Paramount theater.
The church schedules a 10 a.m. Christmas program for all, with junior departments in regular times for gifts and aid. Morning worship at 11 features a sermon for youth. A 6:30 p.m. Christmas pageant replaces 7:30 p.m. services and supports aged ministers and orphans.
The Trenton Baptist Church led by Pastor C. B. Gates invites all to Sunday services at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Prayer meeting Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Choir practice Fridays at 7 p.m. Sunbeam band meets Fridays at 4 p.m. A Christmas program will be presented December 23 at 7:30 p.m. All welcome.
Roy Whitfield, minister, extends a welcome to all for Sunday gatherings. Sunday school starts at 10 o clock, followed by an 11 o clock morning service on the theme Little Things. Evening sermon at 7 30 is Being Unquestionably Safe. Wednesday Ladies Class at 2 30 and prayer meeting at 7 45. Young People meet Friday at 7 30.
Thomas Avenue at Richmond minister H F Camp invites hundreds to three Sunday services at 11 am 3 pm and 7 pm with Uncle Bud sharing his hospital experience if space allows The evening service marks his last appearance before departing for California A community Christmas Tree will be held by the Sunday school on Tuesday December 22 with all visitors welcome
First Methodist Episcopal Church South W Winans Drake will lead Christmas services. At 11 am the sermon is Emmanuel God with Us with choirs and solos by Mrs Clyde Sanders. At 7:30 pm the sermon is No Room in the Inn with musical numbers by a Sanders Jordan Wright and Garnett quartet.
The schedule lists a tenor solo with chorus by Joe Wright. Sunday school departments meet at 9 30 a m. Epworth Leagues devotional service at 6 30 p m. Board of Stewards holds a special meeting at 7 30 p m Monday. Woman's Missionary Society meets Tuesday at 3 p m. No mid week prayer service next Wednesday. Worship with this congregation.
Corner Stone and South Third St. N Yeager, pastor. Sunday school 10 a m morning worship 11 o clock Christian Endeavor 6 45 evening preaching 7 30 Thursday prayer 7 30 p m Everyone is welcome to attend and worship God this Yuletide with us None are neglected all are invited to join in services and seek the Saviour
The Church of Christ under Minister W. J. Johnson holds Bible classes at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. on Sundays in the former American Legion building. Evening service at 7:15 p.m. and midweek study at 7:15 p.m. The study address is 1811 Jackson for the ladies while the Philippians study focuses on righteousness.
Graf Zeppelin carried 4,063 passengers and nearly a million pieces of mail during 104 flights totaling 71,250 miles. Revenue covered crew, fuel, insurance, and depreciation, with potential gains from regular trans Atlantic service if mooring and refueling facilities were established. A four to five ship line could cost about 20 million dollars to set up.
A two hour benefit program at the city school auditorium drew a large crowd for the Goodfellows Fund. About 40 performers from KMLB presented vocal and instrumental selections with Miss Omega Braddock and Mrs. Jack McIlwain among the soloists. Mayor Arnold Bernstein praised KMLB and the artists. The program featured the Louisiana Serenaders and the Four Horsemen among others, ending with orchestral pieces.
Since its maiden flight in 1928 the Graf has logged about 150000 miles and carried 6278 passengers and 2200000 pieces of mail and freight. Overhaul this winter may reveal how many more miles are possible while a 1931 program remains tentative with a potential North Pole flight if business improves.
The article explains how modern policing uses fingerprints and photographs to identify fugitives. It notes ten fingerprints and multiple photos as branded identifiers kept on Monroe police and Ouachita parish sheriff boards and shared nationwide among peace officers.
Ollie Dorson, a Norfolk man, was arrested in Norfolk and charged with murder in the shooting death of James T. Howe, a hunter and trapper in Princess Anne county. Dorson admitted being at Howe's home but claimed another man did the killing after Howe fired from a window.
In Madrid on December 20 the martial law status appeared theoretical as troops withdrawn from street patrols and placed in barracks. Premier Berenguer, ill but back at work, denied rumors the cabinet planned to resign while the government stayed alert for emergencies.
St Margaret's hospital physicians warned burglars who ransacked the laboratory and stole four live rabbits that the animals were germ inoculated and would incur almost certain death if eaten. The note follows other local statistics on fires and school attendance.
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