09 Jan 1924
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1924
Page
1
Social items mark events at Monroe Hotel and local clubs. Announcements include banquets, auxiliary meetings, D A R activities, hunting trip departures, and family visits. Funeral arrangements for Mrs E S Wallace and updates on residents’ travels fill the week’s local notices.
The Monroe traffic bureau manager says Ouachita River freight facilities are under consideration from Monroe to New Orleans. The Monroe Chamber of Commerce seeks new partners while the Arkansas Louisiana Navigation Co faces unresolved issues and a Louisiana Barge Co reorganization plan awaits return of Captain Giles S. Doty. A new plan from Bradford Transportation of Baton Rouge is also being developed to serve Monroe shippers without heavy capitalization.
In a ceremony attended by immediate family and close friends, Mrs. Spire wore a brown tailleur with matching accessories and a corsage of bride's roses and valley lilies. After services the couple left for Denver then Washington to reside, with Mrs. Spiro planning to join her husband there.
The family thanks friends for kindness during the illness and death of their mother Mrs. Emma Prewitt.
Pamona College in Claremont announces a special training table for female athletes in hockey tennis and basketball starting February 5. All meals will be regulated to strict dietary standards banning ice cream and candy as part of a varsity football style regimen.
Union Power company progresses on parish's first carbon plant near Spencer, with a $300,000 project expected to be in operation by mid February. Drilling continues on eight wells across sections in Union parish, with three units to be completed and the plant supplying the three burning units.
Huey Long spoke to about 1000 attendees in Monroe praising taxation reform and vowing to cut government costs. He attacked opponents as Parker and Fuqua backers and accused the press of bias while promising tax relief and state led farmer warehousing.
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