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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1926
Page
5
Officials including Sheriff Milton Coverdale and the Police Chief H O Bear pledge a dry holiday in Monroe and parish with undercover agents watching for illegal sales. Rumors say large liquor shipments and home stills operate in the area as residents await a potential dry or wet Christmas.
A woman shot at Rev. Wm. Wear in a car with Mrs. Wear and others while returning from a Louisiana Baptist board meeting 15 miles south of Shreveport. The shot missed as the party sped away. a man joined the woman roadside afterward. No motive given.
The Southeastern Power and Light Company will form the South Carolina Power Company by merging four Charleston utilities: Charleston Consolidated Railway and Lighting, Charleston Consolidated Railway Gas and Electric, Charleston Gas Light, and Charleston Edison Light and Power. B. A. Hagood named president, with capital structure totaling 75,000 six percent preferred shares, 65,000 six percent second preferred shares, and one million common shares valued at $100 par, all held by Southeastern.
A meeting of the Stockholders of Monroe Grocer Company Ltd will be held at its office in Monroe Louisiana on Wednesday January 5 1927 to elect a Board of Directors for the ensuing year and to transact any other business that may come before the meeting W M Washburn Secretary 23 25 27 29
An excited Franklin parish 4 H executive meeting in Winnsboro laid a year long program to match any state unit. Officers were elected and a parish rally day is set for April 1927 with corn and poultry judging winners advancing to the Baton Rouge short course to compete with other parishes. The healthiest boy and girl will win a trip to Chicago.
Miss Emma L. Clause of Tech home economics returns home in Enid Oklahoma after severe injuries from an auto accident ten days earlier. Miss Gertrude Knepper also injured in the same crash shows slow improvement as Good Cheer Fund donations reach 750.50 dollars with expectations to top one thousand. Lincoln Parish Farm Council holds session at Chamber of Commerce with President A H Henderson presiding and sets January 12 for next meeting. Regular monthly meetings planned throughout the year with leading farmers and businessmen in attendance.
Continuous rains lash Kentucky Tennessee Arkansas and West Virginia as floodwaters rise. Death toll rises with at least six dead and hundreds displaced. Tug River overflow floods Williamson West Virginia leaving 300 homeless. Catlettsburg bridge collapse injures workers.
Joe Albritton a 19 year old worker for Williams Brothers contractors for Ford Bacon Davis was injured when a gas pipeline blast near Fowler threw him about twenty feet at 3 pm yesterday. He was taken to Riverside sanitarium with bad bruises and severe shock but no fractures. fellow workers called it a near miracle he survived.
E. F. Craighead was freed from the parish jail yesterday afternoon on a $1000 bond signed by West Monroe business friends. Deputies D. L. Roper and Clyde Mitchell arrested him earlier at his home after he admitted running landslides that covered tracks of several Kentucky and Tennessee mountain railroad lines.
Four of seven defendants convicted in Cheyenne face sentences exceeding 100 years for robbing a Union Pacific mail train near Rock Springs on August 18. Defendants Madigan Kerns Barnett Kamoriotis convicted on all counts. Theodore Sourla and Nagley face conspiracy terms. Ellis and Bradford pleaded guilty after evidence showed they aided in burying most of the loot.
In New Orleans deputies found twenty gallons of alcohol and one case of Scotch whiskey in a Lincoln roadster. Craighead, a prescription clerk at Hodge Drug Store of West Monroe, said he was transporting the liquor for the store, which denied any connection with the cargo.
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