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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1948
Page
5
A man in New York makes 25 resolutions at year end, asks the angel of truth for delivery, and learns from prior lists that he seldom keeps them. The encounter ends with a comic twist about the water cooler and a hint of reform as a new year begins. Andorra is the world's smallest republic.
In Concordia parish thirty years of progress led by County Agent C. P. Seach. He recalls shifts from dirt roads and mule power to modern drainage, electricity, and machinery. Cotton moved from Kings and Simkins to diversified farming with better yields and gins, while schools and post offices transformed with consolidation.
Yesterday in Ouachita parish clerk office multiple transfers were recorded. Benjamin F. Dunagan sold to Paul E. Sherrard portions of Riverbend addition for 8000 dollars. L. A. West sold to Claude R. Simpson West's Parkview addition lot 5 for 10500 dollars. E. P. Mathis sold to Bernice F. Johnson lots 19 and 20 in Honest John's addition for 450 dollars. Ouachita Cotton Mills sold to Ernest W. Cruse lots 19 and 20 in Ouachita Cotton Mills Second addition for 550 dollars. L. M. Harper sold to Willard R. Bryan lot 6 in Lovers Lane addition for 9500 dollars. L. J. Yeats et al sold to Glenn E. Fried parcel in Crescent Bend addition for 9495 dollars. L. M. Ray Construction Corp sold to Gilbert F. Sweetman lot 31 in Riverbend addition for 6200 dollars. Ella May Jones sold to Thomas Smith et al lot 9 in section 3 township 17 north range 3 east for 110 dollars. Robert L. George sold to Justin J. Glass lot 2 in Crescent Bend resubdivision for 700 dollars. John S. Fox sold to Jeffrey Young parcel in Delery's Second addition for 1020 dollars. T. A. Grant Jr sold to Albert A. Kirby lots 15 and 16 in Honest John's Second addition for 250 dollars. E. M. Watkins et al sold to Lee McClendon lots 14 15 16 17 in McKaskle addition for 450 dollars.
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