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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1942
Page
8
Mr and Mrs J M Baptiste 65 and 60 discuss gifting their 10000 acre Kansas City area country estate after 19 years of development. They offered to donate to a group or organization with free maintenance and residence in one of two cottages, but no takers emerged.
The Rotary club held a Thursday noon impromptu program at Hotel Virginia with E. L. Neville as chairman. Members shared how the war affected their business and vice versa, interspersed with humorous recitals from Aubrey Haas, C. E. Faulk, Ben Downing, J. L. Keenan, and C. Alston Prophit. Guests Buck Brown and Jake Freeman attended. Major C. V. Hammer of the Salvation Army resigned to transfer to Washington, D. C. One new member, C. K. Crandall, was admitted.
New Orleans and Henry Bernstein Jr and Travis Oliver of Monroe sold the Monroe Hotel to Monroe Hotel Inc for 122150. The deal included hotel fixtures and two ground plots with detailed parcel descriptions and several other transfers to Peoples Homestead and Savings Assn for sums from 1700 to 4060.
House bills introduced include H 836 authorizing a 400 bed pulmonary tuberculosis care facility and $940000 for construction and maintenance in Pineville Shreveport Lafayette and New Orleans. Bills acted upon cover costs for judicial records H 149 posting defense plants H 212 and funds for court clerk expenses H 267. Senate bills acted upon include S 30 S 52 S 1 S 92 S 104. Many measures withdrawn or passed with votes and noted details across judiciary tax and civil matters.
The Monroe hotel formerly owned by the Doughue Hotel Company Limited, after bankruptcy sale, has been acquired by George P. Bywater. The transfer completes a bank sale process begun earlier, with Bywater listed as new owner and the property’s change in hands finalized in the records.
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