Ouachita Parish Plans New Court House and Jail
The Ouachita police jury approved studying finances to fund a modern courthouse and jail. A committee of police jurors was appointed to investigate parish finances and report at the March meeting with funding recommendations, backed by local clubs and officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Grant
Kiwanis and Lions Clubs
Ladies’ Department Club
Ouachita Parish
Allan Shomura
David Garrett
Fred M. Odom
Ouachita
Phillips
Breard
Hodge
Littlepage
Russell
Sheriff Grant
Monroe
Scholars
Brown
Parish
Kiwanis Club
Louwisiana
Morehouse Parish
Bastrop
Garrett
Paillipy
Inerauehiy
Ouachita Parish Police Jury Donates to Local Legionnaires
The Ouachita parish police jury voted to donate 5000 to the American Legion Convention fund after secretary B. W. Rumbarger urged support for entertaining Louisiana veterans. Breard noted a prior 500 allocation remained unused and could back the Legion's August event in Monroe. Rumbarger also offered Monroe Legion support for a new courthouse and jail project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Parish
American Legion Convention Fund
B. W. Rumbarger
Jean Legion
Monroe
Louisiana
Breard
American Legion
Legionnaire
Monroe Legionires
Winter's severest cold wave sweeps down from north
Associated Press reports a bitter Alaska and Canadian northwest cold wave intensifying across the upper Mississippi Valley with forecasts of eastern reach by today or tomorrow. Temperatures plummet, trains stalled by snow drifts, and widespread disruption follows as Portland Seattle streetcar and telephone networks falter under wind driven snowfall.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Alaska
Canadian Northwest
Mississippi Valley
Florida
Northwest
Lewiston
Mont
Gulf States
Arkansas
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
West
Pacific Northwest
Sierra Nevada
California
Sierras
Portland
Seattle
Mardi Gras Fire Kills Two at Minden High School
A Mardi Gras celebration at Minden High School ends in tragedy as Miss Mabel Hickman and Miss Dorothy Cheshire die from burns. Eight other girls suffer serious injuries after costumes ignite from sparklers. the blaze originates on stage and injures no audience members.
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Minden
Associated Press
Dorothy Cheshire
Bessie Cheshire
Eugenia Burt
Alma Sullivan
Associated Proes
Mabel Hickman
J. B. Hickman
Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad
Minden High School
Betty Sullivan
R. F E. Burt
Eloise Hough
Valerie Watson
Vashtie Bullock
Ruth Reagan
Eva Eleanor Lowe
Igen
Wabi Baseball
Germans Prepare to Stabilize in Financial Circles
Paris dispatch reports Germany asks Reichsbank to inject 2,600,000 gold marks to stabilize the mark. Bank governors resign over futility of the move while the government presses the demand. Also notes a New York influenza epidemic and a Ladies Garment Workers union drive to establish exclusive member sales.
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Ese
Paris
Reichebank
Borlig Ryodnynd
Big
New York
Move to cut in half calcium rate by freight association
The Southern Freight Rate Association launched a campaign to immediately halve calcium nitrate rates used by farmers in the cotton belt to combat the boll weevil. Committees were appointed to study interstate commerce matters and a regional territory was outlined along the Mississippi River region.
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Savannake Ga
Southern Freight Rate Association
Cotton Belt
Aha
Mississippi Rive
Idaho Klan meeting forwards claim of planted Lake Lafourche bodies
Dr. Lew Burger of New York alleged at an Idaho Falls Klan gathering that Watt Daniels and T. F. Richards were alive in New Orleans and would appear. he also claimed the two Lake Lafourche bodies were planted by New Orleans medical students. Louisiana official Walmsley denied the accusation, citing positive identifications and family corroboration.
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New Orleans
Lew Burger
New York
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Ku Klux Klan
Watt Daniels
T. F. Richards
Lake Lafourche
Bastrop
Walmsley
Louisiana
Mr. Walmsley
Morehouse Grand Jury Draws Near in Kidnapping Case
Bastrop February 14 The Morehouse jury commission selected a panel for the new grand jury to hear testimony on the kidnapping cases that left Watt Daniels and T. F. Richards dead last August. On March 5 twelve men will be drawn from twenty nominees to serve as the grand jury. The panel includes four Bastrop and four Metairie residents among diverse occupations. Attorney General A V Ceco says he will present hearing testimony and review the jurors panel records when the March session opens.
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Associated Press
Bastrop
Morehouse
Watt Daniels
T. F. Richards
Morehouse Jury
Rouge
A. V. Ceco
Arkansas Solons Move to Start Blue Laws
The Arkansas senate considered a house measure to ban fishing and all games on the Christian Sabbath, with amendments making prosecutors liable for nonenforcement and requiring action when citizens provide evidence. Exemptions would apply to Jackson, Poinsett, and Mississippi counties, with emergency effect if enacted. The bill follows a defeat of a Phillips county seven day baseball measure.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Senate
House
Jackson
Poimsett
Mississippi
Phillips County
Armour Control Passed to Bankers of Chicago
Armour and Company control shifts from J Ogden Armour to a trio of Chicago and New York bankers for five years. Fifty one percent of common stock to be held by the trustees. formal announcement slated after the February 20 stockholders meeting.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Armour and Company
J. Odgen Armour
Chicago Packers
J. Ogden Armour
New York
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Illinois
Arthur Reynolds
Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago
Samuel M. Roberts
Metropolitan Trust Company of New York
Albert H. Wiggins
Chase National Bank of New York
Morris and
Morrisnd
Newsspaper
Tames FR. Forean
First Nation Bank of Chicago
Wiggin
Armour and Morris Common
Armour
Morris
Morris Company
Ap- Prox
Farm leader chosen to represent club in Baton Rouge
J. H. Watkins, Ouachita parish farm leader and American Farm Bureau Federation secretary, was unanimously selected by the Kiwanis Club to represent the group at the Louisiana Farm Bureau Cotton Growers Cooperative Marketing Association board meeting in Baton Rouge. He will push Monroe as the association’s headquarters, a decision to be announced at tomorrow’s directors meeting. Entertainers today included Frank Tripp solo with Mrs. F. C. Holoen and Master Billy Webb in recitations.
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J. H. Watkins
Ouachita Parish
American Farm Bureau Federation
Kiwanis Club
Louisiana Farm Bureau Cotton Growers’ Cooperative Marketing Association
Baton Rouge
Suncheon
Kienix Club
Watkins
Monroe
Cotton Growers’ Association
Frank Tripp
F. C. Holoen
Billy Webb
Fortune in gems believed intact after Maiden Lane blaze
Experts said a fortune in jewelry valued at $2,000,000 plus lay in safes buried in the ruined Maiden Lane six story office building. The building housed more than sixty jewelers and silversmiths and authorities guarded the site as flames threatened nearby St Johns Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Maiden Lane
Asheland
St. Johns
Klan Tenets Discussed in Monroe Meeting by N Orleans Man
Rev. Barr of Orleans spoke at Monroe Klan No. 4 Roof Garden addressing about 1 000 attendees. Dr. Barr defended the Ku Klux Klan saying the order is a human organization misrepresented in public discourse and claimed it upholds constitutional principles and Christian teachings.
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Monroe
N. Orleans
Barr
Orleans
Ouachita Roof
Monroe Klan No
America
Dr. Barr
Rh. W
Germany
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William Bennis
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Bankers OF
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First Christian Church
Dr.Thompson
Genasco
South Grand Street
Grammont Street
Wexler
World Gem Center Burns
Parsh
Jas. Rabun
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ANCE
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Methodist Church
T. C. Morrison
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Monroe Lodge
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