Social and Church Festivities Highlight Holiday Evening
A large social event featured a birthday cake with holly, Santa topper, snowball ice cream, and red favor bags. Guests included Rupert Perry and many local families as they celebrated Margaret’s gifts. A piano bar and buffet followed, with decorations and a string orchestra. A separate recital at Mrs. Newhall’s featured numerous student performances. A marriage ceremony for Jessie George and William Preston Allen took place at West Monroe Baptist Church with a lush rival decor canopy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Margaret
All Eyes
Rupert Perry
Elizabeth Kennedy
Susanne Hirsch
Bertha Alice Masur
Irene Ivy Page
Jane Colbert
Dorothy Zeigler
Frances Davis
Dorothy Davis
Katherine May
Sue Graves
Catherine Cline
Beverly Gimler
Julia Schneider
Irene Quinn Renaud
Nibby McKenzie
Ellen Kent Millsaps
Annie Laurie Smith
Helen Cole
Frances Stroud
Billie Stroud
Freida Kaplan
Nannette Selig
Ann Platt
Anna Rosalie Herring
Wilma Inulk
Katherine Clift
Sarah Larche
Marie Andrew
Mary Fletcher
Mary Gordon
Joy Powers
Francis May
Tom Pete Godwin
J. W. Perry
Glenn Walker
Frank Kennedy
Leonard Lemle
Jack May
Thomas May
Will Wallace
Foser Wallace
Billy Herring
Lee Riles
Jack Breard
Tennyson Collins
George Sulk
Marion Freeman
Jack Masar
Buster Baur
Charles Baur
Custis Clark
Newt Knowles
Jack Knowles
Henry Colbert
Prentiss Gray
James Nisdale
Norris Trousdale
West Monroe Baptist Church
Jessie George
William Preston Allen
Margar the Devely
Mary Hannah
Santa
Social and club notices from Monroe December items
Community calendar items include dances at the Elks Club and Lotus Club for college students, bridge at the Lotus Club, and religious society meetings. Local guests visiting from Little Rock, New Orleans, Taylor, and Jackson are listed with residents hosting them, plus wartime era wedding attendees from Buie-Downes in Ruston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elks Club
Saenger's
Lotus Club
Armandine Renaud
Bridge
West Monroe Baptist Missionary Society
Stevens
Elegant Tea at Sholars Home Highlights Social Season
Enjoyable hospitality marked a four to seven tea yesterday at the Auburn avenue home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sholars. The event featured their daughters Henrietta and Carolyn Sholars and Alma Summer Potts, with gala Christmas attire and a display of crimson roses, poinsettia, holly, and red haw. Carolyn wore amethyst gown, Henrietta wore black panne velvet. Alma Summer Potts attended with her parents J. J. Potts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Sholars
Auburn Avenue
Henrietta
Carolyn Sholars
J. J. Potts
Alma Summer Potts
Miss A Henrietta Sholars
Elegant Nuptials Unite Miss Allen and Mr. Allen
The wedding featured a pre ceremony organ recital by Mrs. Fred Mitchell and songs by Mrs. Robert George. Miss Fannie Mae Coates served as maid of honor with Katherine Alice George as bridesmaid, while Miss Martha Nixon Hamilton was flower girl. The couple, tied by Rev. W. E., depart for a honeymoon in Trummon, La and Detroit, Mich, where Mr. Allen works for Burroughs Adding Machine Co. Friends and gifts followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Mitchell
Robert George
Fannie Mae Coates
Katherine Alice George
Martha Nixon Hamilton
Robert Coates
Robert Cowden
Fred Andrews
W. E
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Allen
How a Rat Nearly Destroyed Mrs L Bowen s House
A family feared a giant rat in their cellar for months until one night the creature chewed matches and started a kitchen fire. They used Rat Snap to kill the rat, claiming the product dried it up with no odor. Available in three sizes 35c 65c and 1.25 at Chase Amman Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. L. Bowen
R. I
Chase-Amman Drug CO
Stop That Itching Blue Star Remedy Ad
An old advertisement promotes Blue Star Remedy for eczema itching tetter cracked hands ring worm chapping sunburns and old sores. claims to relieve sore feet and is for sale at Collens Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collens Pharmacy
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Gavotte
Scholars
Harry Nwehall
Arkansas Avenue
Eleanor Atkins
Billy Webb
Mary ,Gordon
Spaulding
Nova Louise Smith
Engleman
Margaret Cudd
Twinkle Ann Platt
Rosalie Herring
Pearse Sigs
Atk
Aoe Lawson
Eloise Cann
Elis
Anna Laurie Smith
Adelb
Primrose
Aw Spaulding
Polanaise
Massa
Steinheimer
Katherine “Cliff
Ruth Faulk
Felecia
Sanford Willma Faulk
Beethoven
Wwe
Folie
Minuet
Irene Ivey Page
Firet Veelee
Dat
Louise Graves
Gautier
Ringuet
Lawson
Ae. Muller
Simpeeee
Eva C. Bradford
West Monroe Sunbeans
Tabernacle
West Monroe Baptist Girls’ Auxiliary
Mrs. M. Ehrenberg
Ann
Little Rock, Ark
Emma Sugar
Mr. Soloman Goldman
New Orleans
Mrs. L. H. Goldman
Irj
Mrs. Kidwell
Jackson, Miss
Mrs. G. B. Pace
Shreveport
E. B. King
W. D. King
D’armand Breard Willéave
Gay Cooper
Mississippi
W. C. Bridges
Mrs. W. A. Skinner
Wilfred Aubrey
Mrs. Anderson
Orange, Texas
Richard Downes, Jr
Aubrey Greens
Jackson
Miss
Buie-Downes
Rustop
Monroe
Richard Downes
Mamie Theus
Anderson
DeWitt Milan
Louis Haden
Ronald Lee Davis
A. Montgomery
HUNT
Tormorrow
Maxwell House
Maxwel i
Chrismas
Collens
DeSiard Street
Dodge Touring Car
Chandler
Firestone
Reed-Lennon Motor Co., Inc
Chase-Amman Drug Company
Sele
the Central, Inc
DeSiard St
Ensel
Saie
Henry Ensel
South Grand Street
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