Social Realm notes lively events in Monroe society
Mrs H A McDonald hosts Friday club at 2 30 PM Miss Louisa Flournoy enters Musical Coterie at 3 45 PM at her home Mr and Mrs A Arent host 201 Hudson Lane for Miss Hena Taylor from 6 to 10 PM Prentice Jay Gray and Vet Wood visiting from Newport Tenn at 1 8 to 11 PM. Sunday open house 205 Pine Street for Sadler Bible Class. Monday Alpha Delphian meeting at 2 30 PM. Tuesday Baptist Missionary Society and Temple Sisterhood meetings. Christmas party for Baptist Sunday School class of 21 girls and 25 guests at West Monroe home. Lotus Club Yuletide dance draws broad attendance on ninth floor with debutantes in regal gowns and festive decor. Emma Louise Biedenharn’s Vicksburg concert praised as a triumph. Rev M E Weaver and family back from Memphis for the holidays. Senior B Y P A event postponed. Esther Rubin visits. Junior Missionary Society met with 28 members and one new member Herrice Worthington. Noted Monroe boy William Wunsch visits New Orleans and discusses serving as author and educator. plans for 1927 state drama convention in Chapel Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Arent
Jack Morrion
West Monroe
The
Baptist Church
Sames
Lillian Ruin
Evelyn Hill
Joe Mary McKain
Mary Lee Simmons
Bessie Catalina
Ev. Hastings
First Artist Church
Joe Mary MecKain
Jude Jarmon
Inez Hattaway
Ednarde
Hazel Barkley
Mary Lee Simons
Virginia Ates
Katherine Barkley
Wilma Arneil
Dorothy Fuller
Alice Hill
Nez Miller
Edwin Mitchell
Corine Immons
Lillian Ervin
Patrice Cowan
Marcelina Hill
Alice Ahe Coats
L. Tastings
B. M. McKain
M. Jarmon
Carvin
A Roberts
D. L. Boyett
Sheppard
P. E. Pilcher
E. Schrodt
C. H. Hill
C. Webb
Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Claudia Scholars
Herrice Worthington
Mrs. Pollard
Frances Jones
Jessie Gray Worthington
Brazil
William Wunsch
Monroe
Robert Wunsch
New Orleans
W. H. Byrne
North Carolina
Wunsch
Asheville
New York
Columbia University Interscholastic Press Association
United States
Canada
North Carolina Dramatic Association
Frederick H. Koch
North Dakota
Chapel Hill
Monroe High School
Best-laid schemes fail as sweets tempt New Year gifts
Fanny Darrell notes that New Year resolutions by young girls often fail, benefiting a candy maker and suitors. She recalls how on New Year's Eve at 11 45 pm a vow of "No sweets" holds, yet next day boxes arrive from Frank Jack and Fred, tempting indulgence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Jack
Fred
Neill Family Returns From Holiday Motor Trip
Rev and Mrs W E Neill and two daughters Misses Madge and Edna return from a holiday visit to El Dorado Ark accompanied home by Miss Lois Goodwin who will stay several days. Lee Wooten Slagle named for newborn daughter of Mr and Mrs Elmer Slagle. Kathryne Clift a patient at St Francis sanitarium convalescing from operation. G C Comstock and wife back from holiday visit to New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Slagle
Lee Wooten Slagle
Kathryne Clift
St. Francis Sanitarium
Family reunion at Turnley home on Christmas day
A family gathering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Turnley brought together Mrs. M. W. Pate of McComb Mississippi Mrs. R. R. Branch of Mississippi Mr. G. H. Turnley and Mr. J. D. Turnley of Amarillo Texas and Miss Mattie Turnley of Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Turnley
M. W. Pate
McComb
Miss
R. R. Branch
Mississippi
G. H. Turnley
J. D. Turnley
Amarillo
Texas
Mattie Turnley
Philadelphia
Penn
White Hobbs Couple Wed at West Monroe Baptist Church
Miss Ethel White and Mr Aubrey C Hobbs married in a December 29 double ring ceremony at West Monroe Baptist Church conducted by Rev Weaver attended by immediate family and a few friends. They reside at 2606 Lovers Lane. Also noted are Mrs Hamilton Cade’s Christmas visit with her parents and Miss Dorothy Schulze’s return to Baton Rouge to resume studies at LSU en route to Alexandria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton Cade
T. E. Flournoy
Mr. Cade
Dorothy Schulze
Baton Rouge
Alexandria
Double Hanging Brings Penalty to Two Youths
James Gricius and Thomas McWane were hanged at Cook County Jail shortly after 7 am for the July murder of three people in suburban Cicero. The double death sentence followed a high profile trial in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
James Gricius
Thomas McWane
Cicero
Cook County
Youth Linked to Church Slayings and Taxi Driver Killing
McWane and Gricious faced charges for the slaying of Frederick Hein and Miss Marie Blanc after a church service and the subsequent killing of a taxi driver. McWane at 20 and Gricious at 22 received clemency appeals citing McWane did not fire the fatal shots. Berlin expanded to 1852 acres with the Dueppel-Dreilinden estate purchase in Teltow county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Hein
Marie Blanc
McWane
Gricious
Berlin
Dueppel-Dreilinden
Teltow
Bus Waiting Room at 208 South Guard
Brief item notes a bus waiting room location at 208 South Guard Street with contact telephone 772. The terse entry records a transit facility detail and a dialing number for inquiries or service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Guard
Empire Oil and Transport forms to drill wildcat blocks
New York London and Monroe investors, led locally by Sam Collins and Anthony Gibbon, form Empire Oil and Transport Ltd chartered in Delaware with two million capitalization. The project aims to develop wildcat acreage in Louisiana beginning with a 1900 foot test at Natchitoches parish tied to J F Palmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
Monroe
Sam Collins
Anthony Gibbon
Empire Oil & Transport Company, Ltd
Delaware
England
America
Natchitoches Parish
J. F. Palmer
Shreveport
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eva Bradford
H. A. McDonald
Louisa Flournoy
Jessie Sadler
Pine Street
Sadler
First
Alpha Delphian Chapter
J. D. McCranie
Baptist Missionary Society
Temple Sisterhood
the Cemetery Association
Bradley Waelder
Herbert R. Smith
Newark City
W. R. Hagendorn
Orange
Lotus Club
Merry Trongs
Emma Louise Biedenharn
Vicksburg
Vicksburg Herald
Biedenharn
J. Biedenharn
Boston
Mass
Theodore Schroeder
Schumann
Brahms
Wagner
Miss Biedenharn
M. E. Weaver
Memphis, Tenn
Yuletide
Esther Rubin
Marrus
White House
J. W. McWilliams
Fanny Darrell
Kate Boyce
Presbyterian Annex
Home OF Flowers
the Grand Floral CO
Grand Ave
Monroe, la
Associated Press
Automotive License Bureau of
D. M. Doughty
Mer
Anthony Gibbon and
Collins
Gibbon
Richland Parish
LaSalle Parish
Urania Petroleum Company
Urania Company
Flower Shoppe, Inc
Arent
Hirsch
Ed’s
Louisiana
Hotel
Virginia
Ladies Exclusive Shop
Monroe Furniture Co
Miunholland-Danwitz Furniture Co
Home Furniture Co
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