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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1942
Page
2
The Ouachita Parish high school senior class celebrated their final exams with a festive senior banquet at the Franices hotel terrace. The evening featured informal style, colorful floral decor, four course dinner, and light music. faculty spoke briefly as graduates made bows.
The Lionettes of Ouachita Parish high school practice marching under Harry Henson. Forty girls train daily on the campus with drills resuming August 17 to stay fit. Next year’s officers are President Mary B Harper and others including Margaret Ann Harper, Betty Cook, Ann Mallet, Joan Cole, Ada Dean McKenzie, Billie Brewton, Dorothy Corry, and Carolyn Watts. The year ended with a picnic at Bernstein Park last Saturday.
Announcement records the marriage of Miss Lizzie Hollingsworth of Briggs to Mr Olive Whitten on Saturday afternoon May 16.
Mr and Mrs Roy Wheeler announce the marriage of their daughter Flora to Mr Jessie Hicks on May 21 at the family home with Rev E P Cantwell Baptist minister officiating They will reside in the Clear Lake community
Bonnie Nell Yates and Lowell Smith married May 23 with Rev. J L Smith officiating. They will reside at Cullens where Smith is employed.
Announced marriage of Miss Doris Pickett of Little Creek to Private Dock Morris of the same community. The notice notes the couple’s forthcoming union and invites friends and relatives to attend the ceremony.
Miss Blanchetta Hair of Washington DC visits her parents in Fort Benning Florida. Mrs Mary Harrison and her two sons Bill and James Harrison join John Frazier of Belize British Honduras and companions for graduation at Jefferson Military Academy. The group includes Miss Jeanne Frazier of All Saints College Vicksburg and Miss Katherine Ross of New Orleans. Dinner in Woodville after the exercises. James Harrison returns to Baton Rouge for summer studies at LSU.
A local meeting urged families to produce enough eggs to feed the household and market surplus for the armed forces. Each member was asked to contribute funds for the U.S.O. Mrs. McQuiller spoke on the subject of the U.S.O. and its war work.
Miss Gertrude Hart of Georgia Tucker school plans her annual summer vacation with her sister Mrs James McCowan and family in Mobile Alabama at their summer home in Clear Point Alabama.
Miss Armandine Renaud announces proceeds from her annual dance revue next Monday night at Neville High School auditorium will be devoted to the Crippled Children's fund.
David J. Garrett Jr. of Louisiana State University spent the weekend in the city with his parents and returned Monday to continue studies in advanced military training. He was commissioned first sergeant of honor company I, the highest honor conferred upon a junior student in advanced military training.
Members of the Music Guild will donate funds from a musical tea on Wednesday afternoon in the Mirror Room of the Frances Hotel to national defense projects. A silver offering will be featured during the afternoon.
Miss Martha Jane Hill returned from Shreveport where she was entertained in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Yarborough.
Fort Jackson soldier Private Noble Pumphrey arrives home to care for his ill mother Mrs J R Pumphrey at St Francis sanitarium. Also at bedside are Mrs Keiser Seamans of Hamburg Ark and Mrs H D White of El Dorado. News covers family gatherings, local club meetings, upcoming events and a large social calendar from Logtown and nearby cities.
Mrs Merrill Bush travels to Alexandria where she is joined by her daughter, Miss Merrilyn Bush, student at Sophie Newcomb college. They will spend the week in Alexandria as guests of friends and relatives.
Dr and Mrs O A Hill depart Monday morning for Arizona to spend the summer on their ranch, continuing a family residence planned for warm months away from home.
Miss Evangeline Permenter of Shreveport will visit during June as guest of Mr and Mrs T H McMillan. The notice highlights a social engagement with local family hosts and a June stay.
Mrs Frank Gordon of Marion Alabama enjoys a two week visit with her sister Mrs Bridger Thornhill. Miss Rosa Belle McDonald a Georgia Tucker school faculty member plans to enroll at Peabody University for a special course this summer.
W M A hosted a Tuesday Royal Service program in Vienna with a noon luncheon followed by an afternoon business meeting. Attendees included Mrs H D Boyd Mrs Buster Holleman Mrs Emma Lee Grafton Mrs W B Rabb and others. US Marines under Lt Col Waetson joined General Scott in Mexico on August 6 1847 to capture the halls of Montezuma.
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Tullos Mr and Mrs O G Milam and children John Dan and Janet attended a Home Coming at the Granville church Sunday. Mrs C H Timberlake returned from a visit with her son Loyd Cook Jr who received his wings at Kelly Field Texas last week. She also visited relatives in Houston. Mrs D L Burrus and daughter Nadine were Alexandria visitors Friday. Mrs Jimmie Bardin Mrs C P Mauserer Mrs Ralph Miller and Mrs W E Gammill Jr shopped in Alexandria Monday. Leon Mosely is doing nicely after a tonsillectomy at the Urania Clinic Monday.
The garden club will meet Tuesday May 26 at Mrs R S Guenard's home with cohosts Mrs Mark H Brown and Mrs M L Levy. Mrs C R Evans conservation chairman will present a conservation program. Miss Marion Leach a senior at LSU has earned a mathematics fellowship at the state university for four years of excellent work.
Mrs. W H Aldridge's death summons Mrs. Grossman to Forrest City to stay with her mother. Ensign Jack Wyly II and wife visit Lake Providence after Memphis wedding. Local hosts Mr and Mrs W F Trieschmann host a dinner for Wylys and friends including Grady Wyly and multiple Brown and Evans families. Helen Key Van Fresen marks sixteenth birthday with Fischer Hotel dinner and a film. Numerous local ladies attend Philathea Society meeting and message readings on child welfare.
Mrs Rabb spent three weeks at a home in Mansfield after a visit with Dr. and Mrs J Terral. During the stay Mrs Terral and Mrs Rabb visited Memphis where Mrs Rabb consulted an allergist.
Mangham Rev and Mrs R L Cooke and Mrs F A Childress hosted a fellowship meeting at a Methodist church on Wednesday evening attended by about fifty people from all denominations. Guests played several games and were served sandwiches and iced drinks. The fellowship meeting will be held on the last Wednesday of each month.
Brownsville Herald reports from Matamoros that a high federal official says more than 40 aliens were taken into custody between Tampico and Nuevo Laredo as part of a nationwide spy ring advising submarine commanders.
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