Local Notices and Community Snapshots
Various brief items: Best flour promoted by Cal la Lily and Faulk Brothers groceries. 11 prisoners confined in parish jail. young people's Jewish chautauqua tonight at 7 20. Kern's horseshoe ing shop ad. Faulk Brothers grocery push. Rev J A H Wharton officiating marriage in Rayville. stenographer position wanted. best seed oats from Faulk and Clark. W H Hadley in Monroe on business. Monroe Commercial College winter term starts Jan 3 with holiday rates. Chattanooga Brewing sold agency to Miller Brewing. Mr A S Keller to retire. travel fare deals on V S & P. derailment of ten empty box cars west of Delta. ten days in city jail for Billie Miles and Bob Jackson for lumber theft. three others punished for same offense.
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Billie Miles
Bob Jackson
Judge Schulze
L. L. Lieber
Silk Stocking Club party and Monroe wedding notices
Miss Marguerite Lamkin hosted a Silk Stocking Club gathering with prizes for Stella Reily and Bernice Renwick among the attendees list. Later, Annie Sinquefield wed T. M. Parker at 6:30 pm at the Duff residence followed by a wedding dinner and plans to move to Ingie-Side. The notice also reports the death of Mrs. S. W. Ramsey after a one day illness and details of funeral arrangements and survivors.
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Marguerite Lamkin
Smilax
Stella Reily
Ber
Nice Renwick
Natalie Thomas
Dorothy Davis
Alice Nelson
Boyce Sadler
Bertie Moore
Eva Gundy
Margaret Imierson
Bernice Renwick
Lida Bradford
Eva Bradford
Claire Michie
Mitchel
Zenobia Wooten
Marguerite Layton
Katie Key
McKay
Verna Watt
8. W. Ramsey
Baker
Mount Lebanon
Carter
Dayline
Ramsey
The
Baptist Church
Monroe
Learn penmanship from an expert teacher
Monroe Commercial College offers Penmanship lessons with an expert instructor. Enrollment opens for a limited session, details available at the college office.
Cotton market report from New Orleans and New York
The Dec 30 1909 cotton notes show New Orleans spots at 15 11 16 firm with 2290 bales sold. Prices ranged from 15.86 to 16.82 with closes around 16.71. New York spots cited at 16.15 quiet with late range 15.69 to 16.46 and closes near 16.12.
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New Orleans
Close
Ysty
New York
Demand Drives Cotton Sales as Europe Feels Hunger for U S
The report notes 36 years of market history with emphasis on future supply security and prices as secondary. Liverpool sold 10 000 middling at 8 29, with spots up 9 and futures up 10. Europe faces an American cotton shortage, with about 158 000 less afloat this week than last year.
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Liverpool
Europe
Cotton Market Soars Amid Bullish Liverpool Outlook
Windes reports a further rise of about one dollar per bale in cotton prices with high markets for year end trading. Liverpool advices turn bullish as small crop estimates limit supply, urging buying on declines and signaling gradual parity adjustments with stronger futures. News notes light receipts and a December drawdown near twenty year lows, while Monroe gains a new grocery firm expansion as ER B Starsney joins Walker Bros Co Ltd.
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Monroe
New Orleans
Liverpool
ER. B. Starsney
Walker Bros. Co., Ltd
Starsney
E. B. Starsney
Walker Bros. Grocery Co., Ltd
Liverpool 8.49 Sale of 10000 Bales Report
Liverpool trade records show 10 000 bales sold under the SRA docket. The document notes POD K MAO and a 6 55-65 range indicating payment or grade details though the exact terms are unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Thanks to West Monroe Friends After Wife's Death
W M Kent expresses heartfelt thanks to residents and neighbors in West Monroe for kindness and aid during his wife’s illness and after her death on the prior Sunday. West Monroe, Dec 30, 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Monroe
W. M. Kent
Monroe and Southwest Railway to Hold Stockholders Meeting
Stockholders of the Monroe and Southwestern Railway Company will meet in Monroe Louisiana on Wednesday January 26 1909 at the company office to elect directors for the coming year. R Hanson President Nelson Sharpe Secretary. Dated December 30 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe & Southwestern Railway Company
Monroe
Louisiana
R. Hanson
Nelson Sharpe
Succession Sale in Mil ler Estate Near Monroe
In the matter of In re Succession of George W. Miller deceased the Sixth Judicial District Court approves an auction by administrator I John D Miller at the late residence two miles east of Monroe on Saturday January 15 1910. Personal property listed includes furniture dining set horse mule wagon harness churn stalk cutter sewing table furm etc with sale on twelve months bond for amount realized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Miller
Sixth Judicial District Court
John D. Miller
Bayou DeSiard
Monroe
Monroe Commercial College Ad Promotes Expert Teachers
An old advertisement touts Better than ever with new expert teachers in the South offering bookkeeping shorthand and telegraphy classes with special rates at Monroe Commercial College located at 28-5¢.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Monroe Commercial College
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Sahel
Lae Ao
Famous Co. Ltd
Heinberg
Kern's
Pat
Joe Kern
Prop
Faulk Brothers
J. A. H. Wharton
Rayville
Care News-Star
Faulk and
Clark
W. H. Hadley
Jones
Faulk Bros
Chattanooga Brewing Company
Miller Brewing Company
A. S. Keller
Chattanooga
Bsiness
Delta
Social
Miss Marguerite Lamkin
B. N. Duff
Annie Sinquefield
W. G. Dunn
T. M. Parker
Mrs. Parker
DeSiard Street
Mrs. Calhoun
Bastrop
Miss Credelle
Bonita
Earl Stanley
Whoise
Carrie Dunn
Ingie- Side
S. W. Ramsey
Monroe Commercial Colleg BE
TRE Markets
D. H. Key
Grain and Provisions
Chicago
Aig
Ee RT
Eee
Ss . Om
ST. Louis
Gilelge
Windes
Arkansas
Little Rock
E. D. Windes
Walker
Smith Bros., Ltd
Walker Bros. Grocery
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