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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1926
Page
3
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A long list of social events from Hart and Honcy outlines Christmas dances, bridge gatherings, luncheons, and open houses. Notable items include Lotus Club parties, Musical Coterie entries, a Riverside Country Club ball, and a house party at Miss Irma Michie's. Local families and guests attend from J Udson Lane to Riverfront West Monroe and beyond.
The group reports year end business and confirms a good cheer fund committee. Circle No 5 met with Mrs Rochester with 20 present and planned a distribution committee for flowers and remembrances to sick and shut-ins. Mrs Powell led Genesis study and a farewell party for Mrs Worthington with Mrs Monk as guest. The Missionary Society opened with a hymn and a devotional by Mrs Powell on following Jesus. A talk urged church responsibility to working children. The group voted to raise five dollars monthly per Circle for the treasury and to rotate program meetings among Circles while all Circles study the same mission and Bible lesson.
White Aubrey C Hobbs and Ethel White of Monroe. Colored Webster Brooks and Ida Wilson of Monroe. Printis Hicks and Willie May Hansford of Calhoun. Hiram Hansford and Willie Ann Dade of Calhoun. Silvester Hall and Ruth Bunch of Lemkin.
President Coolidge urged global peace and international treaties to limit arms while reflecting on Washington and Trenton centennial events. He stressed self reliance and a shift from idle wealth to character through education and religion, urging moral disarmament rather than fantasies or bigotry.
The Kiwanis club questions water rates as Monroe plans a new waterworks. Council says current flat rate based on taps yields low per thousand gallons and that meters could reduce costs for average users, depending on future rate structure, with citizens choosing between flat or metered pricing after supply is improved.
C. E. Jarrell, 26, of 208 Haynes Street, West Monroe, a fireman for Stovall Drilling, was burned on hands head and face by a gas explosion at Guthrie No. 3 about one mile east of the Sterlington power plant. He was treated at St. Francis sanitarium. He said high gas pressure around 600 pounds caused the pipe to rupture near his position as he turned off a boiler burner, a flame igniting the escaping gas and triggering a flash.
The sesquicentennial ceremonies were briefly interrupted when the British steamship Clearton sent an S O S after losing its rudder off the Virginia coast. Broadcasts resumed after the distress call as the president spoke about tolerating faith and loving thy neighbor and the training that helps the mind see into the heart of things.
Angelene and Frozen Fruit Cake Ice Cream were delivered. The message lists contact numbers 536 and 537 for further inquiries.
A brief notice notes a bus waiting room located at 208 South Grad near the telephone 772. The snippet provides a place and contact cue without further context or events.
A man is resting well at the hospital after a fire caused by strong air pressure and flame from a fan incident. Details on the cause and location are not provided in the readable text.
Baton Rouge December 380 Governor Simpson announced the appointment of E R Kaufman as a member of the Lake Charles harbor and terminal commission to fill a vacancy created by term expiration. The reappointment takes effect December 31.
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