Ardmore Texas Klan Influence Reported in Oklahoma County
County officials in Ardmore react to letters from the Ku Klux Klan claiming watchful control and urging that acting Sheriff Ewing London be kept permanently in office. The letters followed a shooting in the county attorney's office that left three deputies and one former jailer slightly wounded.
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KU Klux Klan
Oklahoma
Ardmore
Associated Press
Okla
Carter County
Buck Garrett
Ewing London
Eerican Legion
Y M C A Moves To Open Monroe Branch
Local leaders and national Y M C A officials met at the city hall to discuss establishing a Monroe branch. A. G. Bockwalter and state officers outlined steps to form a nucleus committee and begin organization of the association in the city.
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Young Men's Christian Association
Monroe
City Hall
A. G. Bockwalter
New York City
National Association
A. K. Jones
Baton Rouge
Fred D. Thompson
Prof Browns Motion Sparks Monroe Community Center Move
At a Monroe City Council meeting last night Prof T O Brown led a push for a universal community building. John E Mitchell urged a democracy of service for all ages while Mrs J E Doughtie and Mrs L Owens pressed for rooms and quarters to house activities and a future center. The council unanimously backed creating a community center with a large hall and club rooms and instructed the budget include rent and equipment for a center free to all residents.
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Prof. Brown
Council Meet OF
Monroe
John E. Mitchell
J. E. Doughtie
L. Owens
C. E. Faulk
T. O. Brown
E. S. Vawter
Drive Plan Outlined To Boost Local Legion Membership
At Leonidas Bark dull Faulk Post No. 13 American Legion meeting plans for a membership drive to enlarge the local post roster. Committees will form active teams to compete by number of applications. several hundred veterans in Ouachita parish qualify for membership and the Legion seeks them. Noting recent new member gains from the Yank smoker for State Commander John D. Ewing, leaders aim to maximize turnout for the National Convention in New Orleans, with posts in Washington and New York already chartering steamships to attend.
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Leonidas Barkdull Faulk
American Legion
Ouachita Parish
Legion
John D. Ewing
New Orleans
Washington
New York
Carbon Plant Leases Acreage At Sterlington
The Thermatomic Carbon Company has leased 3.02 acres in section 29 20N-3E from A. L. Smith for ten years and 2 acres in section 30 20N-4E from D. Y. Smith as part of the Belle Hope plantation for a carbon black plant and a gasoline factory.
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The
Thermatomic Carbon Company
Delaware Corporation
A. L. Smith
Sterling Plantation
D. Y. Smith
Belle Hope Plantation
Conductor Surprised During Caboose Robbery
Conductor J. Holingsworth of the Vicksburg Shreveport and Pacific railroad reported an east of Rayville robbery on a freight train. Two men rushed from bushes, boarded the caboose, and looted a overcoat, trousers, a suit, a railway check for 116 dollars, and loose change.
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J. 3. Holingsworth
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad
Sheriff's Department of
Monroe
Rayville
Caboose
Hollingsworth
Income Chief to Aid Taxpayers in Monroe
J. M. Collins, acting division chief deputy for the internal revenue service based in Shreveport, will be in Monroe February 22 and 23 to assist taxpayers in filing and preparing their 1921 income tax returns. Collins was here today.
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J. M. Collins
Internal Revenue Service
Shreveport
Monroe
Collins
Missing oil worker Charles Herman sought by police
Charles Herman a 55 year old former oil and gas driller has vanished from Swartz Ouachita parish searchers scour swamps after moonshine rumors Sheriff Arthur Grant leads inquiries two daughters aged 12 and 15 placed in Volunteers of America Orphans Home by Judge Charles Schulze and Juvenile Officer Wright while Monroe court lines up separate search efforts over three weeks missing
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Charles Herman
Julian Ramsey
Swartz
Ouachita Parish
Arthur Grant
Charles Schulze
Monroe
Herman
Wright
Schulze
Volunteers of America Orphans’ Home
First Ouachita Highway Work Bids Sought
The parish engineer and police jury president seek sealed bids on March 23 for ten blocks of a Forsythe park driveway, grading and surfacing the Bosco-Blankston highway, and bridges over Bayou Chauvin and Bayou DeSiard at Fairbanks. Project cost about $35,000.
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Forsythe Park
Bayou Chauvin
Bayou DeSiard
Fairbanks
Dirigible Roman Explodes Over Hampton Roads
Newport News Feb 21 The Times Herald reports the dirigible Roman exploded over Hampton Roads and sank immediately. Langley Field confirms the incident with no casualty figure yet. several passengers were aboard.
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Newport News
the Times- Herald
Hampton Roads
Langley Field
Stock law decision up in today’s ward election
In Aiken South Carolina wards 4 5 and 7 vote on stock law with West Monroe excluded. A Negro suspect named Sumpter is under investigation for a deadly early morning fire that killed Mrs. E E Monts and her three children and badly burned Mr Monts.
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West Monroe
Aiken, S. C
Sumpter
E. E. Monts
West Monroe Water Still Unfit for Drinking Warns Public
The water supply remains unsafe due to incomplete plant controls and should be boiled before drinking. One typhoid fever case reported. unvaccinated residents within the past year urged to obtain serum at City Hall on Saturday afternoons, per Ouachita Parish Health Unit director Dr. M. Schrieber.
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West Monroe
Monroe City Hall
Saturn
MD. Schrieber
Ouachita Parish Health Unit
Duel is Farrer at Chester and new clue in crime
Monroe police believe C R Hatten and Homer Myers fought at Chester La with Myers alive and under guard. Myers is charged with murder after a beating with a club, while a burglary ring including Willie Cranon Sol Ross and Jim Joiner is under investigation in Columbia. D J Dunn and Elizabeth Reitzell deaths are reported, with funeral services held. Police seek E E Farrer who may explain the Hazlehurst murder case.
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Monroe
Farrer
Chester
Hazlehurst
Texas
Monroe News-Star
Columbia
C. R. Hatten
Homer Myers
Myers
G. L. Alford
Willie Cranon
Sol Ross
Jim Joiner
D. J. Dunn
Elizbeth Reitzell
Bowen Reitzell
Riverton
Hillside
Baptist Church of Columbia
J. M. Brooks
Grayson
W. J. Porter
Columbia Methodist Church
Mrs. Reitzell
Elizabeth
Monroe Grocer Arrested Over Liquor Charge in Hood Law Case
Sam Cicero, a Monroe grocer, was arrested Saturday by Sheriff Arthur Grant and deputies on liquor possession charges. He was released on $500 bond to await trial before Judge Fred M. Odom in district court on Hood law violation charges.
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Sam Cicero
Arthur Grant
Milton Coverdale
D. L.roper
C. D. Meredith
John Brothers
Fred M. Odom
Monroe machinist brown heir to estate. police seek missing Levern
George W. Levern a 71 year old Monroe machinist and former railroad worker is named as a beneficiary of a $70 000 Memphis estate. Police report he cannot be located though he was known to live in Monroe in the past and his current whereabouts are unknown.
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Mary Goss Charities
Kansas
Monroe
Louisiana Baptist Orphanage
C. B. Morion
C. E. Bynum
George H. Lowery
Louisiana Baptist Orphanage Committee
Mary Goss
Frank Manling
Kansas Plantation
Baptist Orphanage
Inspector Heap
Detective Tarver
Hazlehurst
Louisiana
E. E. Farrer
E. E. Heap
Hudson
Memphis
George W. Levern
R. E. Heap
J. B. Burney
Lovern
Police Department
West Monroe Mercantile Co Organized with 15000 Capital
The West Monroe Mercantile Company, Inc., formed by West Side business men, will operate a general merchandise business. It holds a charter as a corporation under state law with 15000 capital, expandable to 30000. Directors are C. W. Parnell, W. C. McMurrain and G. P. Goodwin, with Parnell as president, McMurrain as vice president, and Goodwin as secretary and treasurer.
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West Monroe Mercantile CO
West Side
West Monroe Mercantile Company, Inc
C. W. Parnell
W. C. McMurrain
G. P. Goodwin
Parnell
McMurrain
Goodwin
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Tripp
Masling
le Rabe
Sterlington
Abouts
Ouachita
Dirigible
Hampton Road
Clue
Mississippi
Here
Ed Owens
Monroe Grocer
Stonewall Lodge
K. of
Court House
Saunders’ Garage
South Grand
Weaks Supply Co
Genasco Roofing
Ouachita National Bank
Central Savings Bank & Trust CO
Louisiana Savings Bank & Trust CO
Monroe Lodge
J. M. Cobb
F. B. Surgaine
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