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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
6
Notice states the City of Monroe will purchase five thousand ninety wood cards for use near the water works. Bids or delivery terms are to be arranged with the city.
Mrs. Virginia Eaton, state cottage cheese specialist, will demonstrate uses of cottage cheese at City High School at 3 30 this afternoon. All housewives of the city are invited.
Aqua-Vitae Mineral Water offered at 7 cents per gallon with delivery. Mattresses renovated and delivered the same day, guaranteed by an expert mattress maker. L W Gresham invites inspection of his machinery. Western Union announces weekdays telegraph office hours will end at 4 PM.
Yow top next to be made new at Ouachit saddle and Harness Co 208 South Grand street. C A Boyd general contractor offers building screening and repairing estimates on short notice using phone 1313. Knickels Blacksmith Shop provides car wash and grease with prompt service opposite Court House on South Grand Street during open hours.
Monroe Rotary Club members are notified of the regular monthly business session to be held at the Monroe Hotel tonight at 7 o clock sharp. Secretary F B Surgaine urges attendance for important business. Also note Ouachita Tire and Rubber Co announces tires and tubes vulcanized.
Ouachita parish local board announces 161 of 284 registrants will be selected for the colored draft quota to report around June and 261 are to be sent to Camp Funston Kansas. The list includes numerous named registrants and notes many will be deferred if proven bona fide farmers.
The Louisiana Jersey Breeders Association, meeting at Happy Home plantation, adjourned after inspecting Jersey herds and dairy barns. About 50 attended as they planned an August gathering at Jeanerette Iberia experimental farm and a fall consignm ent sale at the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport.
The News-Star reports 1915 Tulane University graduates include Edwin F. Marx son of Sig Mars, invited to the 88th annual commencement on June 8. D Aubrey Haas returned from Piloxi Mississippi after a three week health visit.
In May 1918 at Camp Beauregard Louisiana Secretary H W Blanks requests Monroe editors to invite mothers and sweethearts of North Louisiana soldiers to visit the camp. He offers personal assistance and open access to the Hut No 69 Y M C A for families of new recruits. A class of graduate nurses sets fixed service rates for 12 hour and 24 hour duties at Sanitarium and private homes. Josephine McNally and others listed. Also notes J W Turner Jr, formerly of FF A N A, Camp Pike, will return home soon. A classified ad promotes rental listings in the News-Star.
Two city firemen were fined in city court this morning for an altercation at Fire Station No 1. Rye and Chambers of Station No 3 faced a 12.50 fine for fighting, while Pike Neal of Station No 1 was fined 12.50 for alleged weapon exposure. Other cases included vagrancy dismissal and midnight drunkenness fines. Culpepper sanitary complaint targets Kaliski for failing to connect to the sewer at 706 and 708 Oak Street. Extra seeds advertised by Millsaps & Co.
City Councilman W A Walker told a News Star representative he is willing to make public the salary list of city employees under the 1918 19 budget. He said he has no objection to giving the public all the facts about the budget set. A delegation of citizens praised the News Star for insisting on full salary disclosure and noted taxpayers deserve complete information.
Several recruits for the American army tank service were secured by Capt. Gunning here yesterday. Names include Fred G. Pettit Bryan A. French for Ouachita board Robt H Holmes for Lamburg Ark board and Pant 4 Jean for East Baton Rouge parish board. John B. Major of Monroe and Jas J. Nelson also seek enlistment.
Competitive civil service tests for clerk carrier and stenographer will be held at the Monroe post office. Salaries range from 800 to 1200 dollars yearly for clerks. field service stenographers and typewriters also scheduled. A post office quartermaster clerk earns about 1000 dollars annually, rising to 1200 after six months.
Grain and oats prices for June and July shown with high low and close figures. Despite OCR garble, listed values include corn and oats entries with figures such as 1-2 138 and 78 162, indicating daily trading ranges and settlement levels on the Chicago board.
General Robert M. Michie of the American army dies suddenly on a railroad train near Rouen France. The report notes his unexpected death despite good health prior to the incident. The item also records a Louisiana probate sale order for the Chinn estate with a June 22 1918 auction date in Monroe.
The News-Star reports a campaign to help a 10 year old invalid child with infantile paralysis. Associated Charities will receive all collected funds for treatment, clothes, transport, and braces. A list of subscribers begins with a Newester entry and early donations total 11.00 dollars.
An Atlantic port reports that the captain and six crewmen of the schooner Edward R. Baird Jr were landed today by a destroyer after the vessel was sunk by a submarine off ace Charles Tuesday.
President Wilson sent a telegram to the Louisiana legislature urging adoption of woman suffrage. He called the issue one of world wide significance and a standard by which to judge democracy, expressing deep public interest in its settlement.
Advertisement notes a lost gold frame glasses for a child. reward offered on return to Mrs. L. J. Cosper at G-31.
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