Singers Meet Planned Here In Monroe
In Monroe the monthly singing convention opens Sunday at the Missouri Pacific Booster hall on Ouachita avenue at 1 30 p m with A A Moss directing and Gardner Mair assisting. Visitors from Columbia Point Ansley Bastrop Farmerville and Holly Ridge among others are listed with Monroe and West Monroe participants to expand the program. The sessions will be held on the first Sunday of each month.
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Monroe
Missouri Pacific Booster Hall
Ouachita Avenue
5. A. Moss
Garland Mair
Amog
A. C. Banks
Columbia
Travis Bottoms
Point
Vaughan Melody Girls
Ansley
Chatham Quartet
Chatham
Stamps Melody Girls
Bastrop
T. T. Jarvis
Nolan
Farmerville
L. L. Robinson
Holly Ridge
West Monroe
Famous Diamond Owner Hosts New Year Party in Washington
Mrs Edward Beale McLean owner of the Hope diamond invites 6060 guests to her Friendship estate for an annual New Year’s Eve gala. The event, begun over 30 years ago, is the capital’s largest holiday gathering, outshining last night’s White House youth dance hosted by John and Franklin Roosevelt Jr. The president will observe.
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Washington
Edward Beale McLean
White House
John and
Franklin Roosevelt
Lincoln Zephyr 1938 models reveal tear drop front design
The 1938 Lincoln Zephyr V twelve cars feature a teardrop front inspired by racing planes with a closed grille and two lower air openings. The redesign includes a longer 125 inch wheelbase and hypoid rear axle gears marking a streamlined, modern approach in Lincoln Zephyr development.
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Lincoln-Zephyr
Roosevelt Witnesses White House New Year’s Eve Dance Debut
New Year’s Eve passed quietly for the president and his family but about 500 guests attended the White House “big apple” dance. The event featured rafter shaking novelty and a buffet supper after midnight with Mr Roosevelt observing for a few minutes.
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Executive Mansion
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Real Estate Transfers in Ouachita Parish Marked by Cash Sales
Yesterday the Ouachita parish clerk recorded transfers including Worthen selling to McCleery the West Monroe lot for 87 dollars, Gilespie selling to Priest the Hudson Riverside lot for 2222.29, Walton selling to Johnson one acre for 35, and Breece selling to Hart a 249 dollar quarter. Oil and mineral leases were assigned between Riley and multiple Little Rock parties with prices from 10 to 1200 dollars. Also Butler of Dallas sold mineral leases to Eckart for 10 dollars each. Pittsburg Teachers College honors its founding with apples given to pupils on March 27 annually.
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Ouachita Parish
Edward W. Worthen
Charles G. McCleery
T. E. Flournoy
West Monroe
Frank R. Gilespie
Norman S. Priest
Hudson
Riverside
Monroe
Amos Walton
Mary R. Johnson
G. E. Breece Et al
Howard H. Hart
J. R. Riley, Jr
Little Rock
Ark
A. W. Strauss
Gordon G Brown
A. W Strauss
Louis B. Siegel
Gordon G. Brown
Oddie Maxwell Anderson
S. P. O'Bannon
James A. Noe
S. D. Hunter
Gulf Coast Exploration Company, Inc
J. K. Butler
Dallas
Tex
R. R. Eckart
J. R. Butler
Hold Negro on Murder Count in Louisiana
In Ruston Louisiana on December 31 1936 sheriff deputies from Lincoln and West Carroll parishes captured Lewis Thompson a 27 year old Black man in Delhi after a manhunt for the alleged killer of Alton Gipson also 27 of Hico Thompson was said to have shot Gipson three times over a former wife Their pursuit began near Epps and included a trap on a Gowan plantation and a search of Delhi with a $100 reward to Deputy Moseley Thompson faced an affidavit for murder and was to be held for the March grand jury.
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Ruston
Epps
Lincoln
West Carroll Parishes
Lewis Thompson
Offico
Alton Gipson
Hico
Thompson
Gipson
Tipton
Okla
Bryan Thigpen
Lincoln Parish
Tom Thompson
Gowan
West Carroll Parish
Thigpen
Clyde Frazier
Frazier
L. B. Moseley
Oak Grove
Delhi
Moseley
A. m
Grand Jury
Hiro
Reunion Brings Brothers Together After Twenty Years
A Christmas reunion in Ouachita avenue brought joy to the two Baird families when R. L. Baird, a veteran Illinois Central station agent, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Baird after twenty years. He was accompanied by his daughter Evelyn Baird.
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R. L. Baird
Illinois Central Station
City
J. H. Baird
Ouachita Avenue
Evelyn Baird
Baird
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Booster Club Hall
Rown’ Food Store
Catalpa
Poren
Texas
California
Hormels
Red Fox
Armour's Spring
Nia Labourday
Florida
Ancy
Pearl
del Monte
Prunes
Gebhardt
Wm. Rogers
J. H. Ables
Vicksburg
Maxwell House
Commerce St
South Grand Monroe
Trenton
Heards Market
Lard & Ibs
Lde
Luzianne Chase and Sanborn’s
Canova
Happy Hour Coffee
Phillips
Marrison
Ataindstrei
BACON
HAMS
Pittsburg Teachers’ College
Pittsburg
Kan
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