Visiting New Year Traditions and Local Social Highlights
The piece reflects on New Year customs such as visiting friends, sharing food, burning Christmas greens, and socializing to start 1937. It highlights a Phi Kappa ball at the Frances hotel with John Sherrouse Jr and Dorothy Sherrouse as a central figure, plus a quiet Christmas Eve marriage of Dorothy Williams to Guy Armstrong and future plans to reside in West Monroe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Williams
Charles Williams
Swartz
Guy Armstrong
H. A. Armstrong
West Monroe
I. L. Yeager
Morning After Headache Remedy Ad Says BC Helps
An old advertisement promotes BC as a quick relief for morning after headaches and neuralgia. It urges keeping BC on hand in 10¢ and 25¢ sizes or by the dose at fountains.
Upcoming social events and wedding notices headline
A sequence of social gatherings and celebrations is listed from New Year's Eve through January 11 at various venues including Lakeside Country Club and Lotus Club. The centerpiece is the wedding of Miss Mary Louise O'Donnell and Mr. Frederick Seaman on January 11 at the Frances hotel Cherokee terrace, with international speakers featured on an upcoming radio broadcast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakeside Country Club
Charles LeDoux
Grammont Breard
Mary Louise O'Donnell
K. W. Brown
Frederick Seaman
C. P. Gray
Seaman-O'Donnell
Lotus Club
Abe Arent
D. I. Hirsch
Suzanne Hirsch
Miss O'Donnell
Seaman
James Leake
Louise Morrison
Prioleau Ellis
Seaman-O’donnell
Cherokee Terrace
Frances Hotel
Winnifred Kydd
Kingston
Can
Agnes Macphail
House of Commons
Ottawa
Mme
Frantiska Plamiikova
Prague
Senate
Ernest L. Franklin
Sheila Kaye-Smith
Israel Zabgwill
London
Eng
Leon Brunschweig
Gertrude van Tyn
Holland
Daisy di Carpenetto
Italy
Betty Khelsberg
Norway
Sonia Branting Westerstahl
Sweden
Marie Ginsburg
Switzerland
League of Nations
Carrie Chapman Catt
New York
Hannah J. Solomon
Chicago
Arthur Brin
Minneapolis
Council of Jewish Women
Maurice L. Goldman
Rebekah Kohut
M. C. Sloss
San Francisco
Marion M. Miller
National Council
Sugar Bowl Guests from Deep South and Local Residents
Mr and Mrs Joseph Washburn will stay at the Roosevelt in New Orleans for the week and attend the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day. John Sherrouse Jr and Henry Bedenharn Jr motored to New Orleans for the game. Miss Ethel Lane of Walds Ark visited Miss Stella Vinson. Mr and Mrs Joseph Thompson of Collinston, recently released from Bastrop hospital, return home. Mr and Mrs George Trousdale travel to Long Beach for the Rose Bowl. Jack Rogers and Wilson Ewing visit New Orleans and plan to attend the Sugar Bowl. Mrs Reynolds McWilliams and children return from Eau Claire Wis to their home on Pine Street. Dr and Mrs R Gaston and son visit in New Orleans for Christmas. Mrs Mary Gary of Gulfport visits Lamkin family and returns Friday with Lamkins and Sara Talbert. Dr Joseph Brown and wife travel to New Orleans for Sugar Bowl. Daughters of the American Revolution inquiries surge at Washington HQ led by Mrs William Becker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Washburn
New Orleans
Roosevelt
George Trousdale
Long Beach
Calif
M. Collins
Jack Rogers
Wilson Ewing
Sugar Bowl
John Sherrouse
Reynolds McWilliams
Mrs. McWilliam
Eau Claire
Wis
Mr. McWilliams
J. W. McWilliams
Pine Street
Mary Gary
Gulfport
John Boamer Lamkin
Lamkin
Sara Talbert
Joseph Brown
Daughters of the American Revolution
National
Washington
William A. Becker
A. E. Wilenzick
Roosevelt Hotel
Sit-i-cide Scabies Treatment Promises Fast Kill
An advertised liquid preparation named Sit-i-cide claims to kill every scabies parasite in contact within thirty minutes by penetrating to beneath the cuticle. Marketed by The Death By Own Action Company of Commerce Georgia, it is available at druggists or by direct order for 60 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suicide Company, Inc
Commerce, Ga
DAR Chapter Growth and Holiday Socials Highlight Local News
D A R chapters report steady membership gains with 1 918 new members accepted. New York leads with 175 chapters, California 88, and western growth noted. Social notices list families visiting in Chicago New Orleans and Memphis plus a German Brockengespenst sunset phenomenon seen from the Brocken peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sue Reynolds Spencer
China
England
France
Germany
Italy
New York State
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Becker
California
Colorado
Oregon
Washington
Louisiana
Murder We By Laurence
Inspector Hylton pursues Arthur Burdett murder leads when a tramp places Dale Shipley near the victim’s house at the time. Shipley, Burdett’s half nephew recently cut from the will, becomes central as Hylton reshapes the crime around the tramp’s account. The tale proves gruesome and shocks Sergeant White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Synumsis
Hylton
Arthur Burdett
Dale Shipley
Miser
Dale
Hylton i3
Sergeant White
Shipley
White
Durley
Mr. Shipley
Shipley confronts dark deeds as Inspector pursues clues
In a tense scene, Hylton and White discuss a possible murder linked to Shipley's temper and prior taunts. A chess diversion follows as they project tomorrow’s fallout while private trysts unfold between Alice White and Harry Small. Inspector Hylton traces a store clue implicating Mrs Fenton and Mrs Reeves.
Holiday Visitors Stop In From Monroe And Marshall
Bonita Dr. and Mrs. E J Young and their children of Monroe and Bill Y Young of Marshall visited Mrs. Carrie Young over the holidays. Drs W E and Irma S Jones and Wood Scott of Monroe were guests of Mr and Mrs C V Shear. Mrs Walter Baggett visited in Gould Arkansas recently. Mr and Mrs Robert Hope and daughter Yvonne of Monroe and Mr and Mrs Charlie Hove of Oak Grove were noted in the social items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Graves
Ronald Lee Davis
St. Francis Sanitarium
E. J. Young
Monroe
Bill Y. Young
Marshall, Tex
Carrie Young
Walter Baggett
Gould, Ark
Robert Hope
Yvonne
Charlie Hove
Oak Grove
Christmas Visit With Mrs. R. W. Hope
The record notes a holiday visit spent with Mrs. R. W. Hope during the Christmas season.
Chapmans Host Northeast Center Students Visit
Enterprise Edison and Herbert Chapman, students at Northeast Center of Louisiana State University, visit their parents Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Chapman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Scott
Fred Yancey, Jr
Weedon Smith
Howard Wright, Jr
H. P. Wheeler
Louisiana State University
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John Sherrouse, Jr
Culver Military Academy
Phi Kappa
Cherokee
Dorothy Mae Sherrouse
Durwood Griffin
Horizon
Sherrouse
McVae Oliver
Jack Williams
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Ouachita Parish High School
Simonton Grain Company of
Siegle
DeSiard Street
Sadler Bible
John Munholland
James C. Liner
Melba Liner
F. C. Bennett
Catholic Ladies’ Altar Society
John Collens
Bres Avenue
Dean Selig
Irvin Wolf
Marty Louise O'Donnell
Ferd Levi Stat! Stationery CO
DeSiard St
Henry Biedenharn, Jr
Ethel Lane
Walds, Ark
Stella Vinson
Joseph Thompson
Collinston
Bastrop Hospital
R. Gaston
Robert Gaston
Nathan Gaston
Fairview Avenue
D. A. R. Chapters
Mollie Gregory
Women's Missionary Society of Calvary Baptist Church
Gertrude Gregory
E. D. Orwell
W. B. Ellerbe
J. S. Brady, Jr
A. R. Kirby
R. B. Alexander
A. A. Kemp
F. J. Grayson
Mrs. Louis Cohn
Chicago, Ill
E. J. Morton
Houston
C. S. Sims
South Grand Street
D. Atkins
Ruston
Harold Dixon
Mr. Dixon
Mary Trousdale
Maudice Cargill
Richard Sadler
Alexandria
Lorraine Matthews
Paul Matthews
Memphis
St. Elmo Newton
Brocken
Harz Mountains
Laurence
Alice White
Nyeton
Arry Small
Small
Harry Small
Alice
Harry
Jimmy
Old Burdett
Kingsley Hylton
Luxor
Miss Neve
Enderton
Jonesville
O. W. Spinks
Haughton
Charles West
St. Joseph
Louis Grayson
Grayson, la
Malcolm Grayson
Frank Cooper
H. W. le Tissier
Charles Wurster
A. P. Acosta
Bunkie
Roy Wellburn
H. D. Habergan
Texarkana, Tex
Elbert Davis
Mrs Gee Davis
Perry, Ark
Ophelia Jones
Marion, Miss
Charles Phillips
Mrs
Mack Phillips
C. C. Guss
R. B. Fritz
Wilbur Ellis
Lois White
A L. White
Katherine Beard
Sicily Island
Henry Attinger
Dorothy
Tennessee
H. W. Wright
Leo Armstrong
E. R. Yancey
Cyril
Mrs. L. Yancey
George V. Cotton
Winnsboro
N. R. Cotton
Jonesville Bridge Club
S. L. Marvin
E. H. Scott
Thomas Carraway
Marvin
Jackson
Mississippi
J. D. Field
Shreveport
Rex Farmer and Son
Rayville
Mrs. Farmer
W. W. Lester
Faye Foster
Grant, la
C. E. Foster
H. W. LeTissier
C. E. Enete
Cha Phillips
R. P. Boyd
L. C. Spencer
Henry Jene
EF. H. Scott
Beth Spinks
Elizabeth Spencer
Sophie Newcomb College
Misses Rose Geraldine Snyder
Neva Thelma Foreman
Sibyl Wurster
Effie Elaine Young
Mary Emmaline Kirby
Lillian Young
Elizabeth Beard
Hazel Beard
W. E. Beard
Chase School
Mary Fenton
Bonita
Jane Turner
Lee Tracy
Gloria Stuart
Capitol
THE
Mystery
Eddie Quillan
Charlotte Henry
Tom Tyler
Ev Ag
Paramount
Warner Baxter
June
White Hunter
Shirley Temple
Betty Boop
Eddie Bunchek
Polo Joe
LCM
Nca
Gallagher Joseph King - Cordon Eliott Codger
Ate Arucorshi
And
Mae West
R. W. Hope
Willie McWilliams
Gladewater, Tex
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