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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1939
Page
8
Newellton Boy Scout Troop 1 reorganizes with 16 charter members and a new charter. Olan H. Black of Ouachita Valley Box Scout council announces council now has 38 troops. Elgar Allen Poe to direct the troop sponsored by the American Legion post of Newellton.
O'Donnell Flowers and Gift Shop unveiled its relocated business on South Second Street near Stone Avenue. Owner Mrs. R W O'Donnell said the move from the home at Stone and Second expanded offerings with gifts such as pottery and vases alongside flowers. A group of women, including Mrs J C Theus and Mrs Roger White, received opening gifts during the ceremony.
Terrebonne parish rural cultural agent C C Cousidhon announced he will begin duties January 1 as assistant farm management specialist with Louisiana State University agricultural extension service. The change follows his prior role as agricultural agent in the parish and signals a broader vocational shift within the extension program.
A compact list of across and down clues with numerous misspellings and garbled entries. The puzzle includes animal names, historic terms, measurements, and common words, with several errors in letter placement and spacing throughout.
A 70 year old Black laborer Joseph Johnson uncovered a tin box of cash worth 12 thousand 900 dollars while wrecking an old house in Kansas City. The money was partly recovered from a church and other locations after police questioned Johnson, Kathryn Williams, and Bishop William F. Taylor. The fate of the funds awaits court action.
The Lions Club held a Christmas luncheon with Dr A M Freeman delivering a talk on The Picture of a Map. The event featured music by George Modfert and a quartet including Georgia Bell, Irvie Lee Harm, Willer, and JC Wal, with Mrs Dun Can Spots and Mrs Dwight Petts among attendees.
Three men, two white and one Black, were transported Wednesday from the state penitentiary at Angea by sheriff’s officers. Charley Perkins is to begin a three year term for breaking into the JOP Johnson home on July 16 and taking clothing. Justo Villanueva, a Mexican transient, was convicted of breaking into Holloway’s Pharmacy and stealing merchandise. George Perkins, a Negro, will start a three year sentence for entering Isaac Burnett’s store in March and taking groceries and small change.
Ouachita Parish reports 19 285 people registered in 1939, up from 18 125 in 1938, an increase of 1 160. Ward tallies are given and books closed at 6 p m with poll books to remain open until midnight December 30 per Sheriff Milton Coverdale.
Judge JE White mailed packages to his sister and her family in Indianola Iowa. He then received three telegrams reporting his sister killed in a car crash his niece died of injuries and her husband also died. A Negro named Allen Johnson was arrested in a separate false pretenses case. He is held in parish jail on a warrant by W C Holstein.
Washington reports the census bureau data show cotton ginned to December 19 totaling 11 275 550 running bales with 169 424 round bales counted as half bales. Last year ginnings through December 13 were 11 412 139 bales and 1937 reached 16 803 013 bales. American Egyptian cotton totaled 21 539 bales this year versus 16 878 last year and 8 555 in 1937.
Fred Smith, who began work at age 13 in 1872 for a St. Louis furniture firm, was honored at a chamber banquet. He and 985 others with 40 years+ at a single firm attended, and Smith received a gold watch along with George D. Markhan who has 58 years with his employer.
Smith recalled a past week saying you got lamb chops for 15 cents per portion, reflecting on lower prices in that era.
Charles F. Messinger, 48, former M G M unit manager, left his wife during Christmas tree decorating and shot himself in the garage. Mrs Messinger said he was in ill health and had spoken of dying by his own hand.
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