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Newspaper

Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Jun 06, 1921

Page

3

Monroe Hites Real Stride In Baseball Sunday

Prohits Huskies defeat Alexandria by six to one after losing to the same team five to one Saturday. New lineup shifts include Waller at short and Stewart at third. Fluker drives in two runs and Waller handles thirteen chances without an error.

Alexandria Monroe Stewart Waller Bush Charlie Miller Slade Fluker Keystone Wiggers Russell McDonald Boone Bird Morgan Lee Gladney Tucker Monteville Willis

Baseball Pirates Lose Narrow Ninth Inning Collapse

A lengthy late innings sequence sees multiple runners advance on errors and steals. Key plays include Monteville and Mashaw combining for scoring in the eighth, Bush driving in Fluker, and Higgy with a decisive double as Wiggers and Bush add runs. Morgan starts the ninth with a single before a string of outs ends the game.

McDonald Boone Wiggers Higgy Bird Fluker Tucker Waller Daughtry Miller

Convention Near Peak as Constitution Faces Opposition

Delegates resist submission of the constitution amid fears of personal bias in votes. They call for printing and five day review before final adoption while tensions rise from forty weeks of intense work at the capitol. Officers share the anxious mood as adjournment nears.

Capitol

Police Court Grist

Frank Jones and William Schulze fought without a lawful cause. Tom Beckworth also charged with fighting without a lawful cause. Pat Smith was charged as drunk and down.

Frank Jones William Schulze Tom Beckworth Pat Smith

Sheriff Sale in Ouachita Parish Louisiana June 1921

The Sixth District Court in Ouachita Parish orders a sheriff sale of the Northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section fourteen township sixteen north range two east with improvements. The property of John and Jake Edwards seized to satisfy a writ of fifa and costs. Sale at the court house front door Monroe on July 9 1921 between legal hours, cash with court appraisal to the highest bidder. T A Grant Sheriff Monroe La June 6 1921.

State of Louisiana Parish of Ouachita Sixth District Court Citizens National Bank of Monroe Louisiana John Jake Edwards Sixth Judicial District Court North Range Fife

Market Notes New Orleans June 6 1921

Spots 11.25 steady with sales 944. Vest'y July vecccccce2.07 11.87 11.95 12.02 Det. vee 12.79 12.58 12.66 12.73 Dee. .0000.18.14 123.00 18.98 18.11

New York Market Snapshots and Odd Figuring

A fragmented financial snippet shows New York stock figures with mixed decimals and months. It references July and October values, a spot price around 12.60 and a higher 18.58, and a terse note on sales of 4,000 units plus a cryptic 8.51 item labeled TEP NODES.

Wheat Corn and Oats Futures Digest From Chicago Market

Chicago markets show early June 6 1921 futures for wheat corn and oats with July and September contracts quoted. Price ranges indicate modest shifts across wheat and corn while oats display steadier levels and small gains on front months.

Favorable weather boosts cotton prospects amid market pressure

L L Smith reports in New Orleans June 6 that favorable recent weather supports crops while foreign exchange weakness and British labor tensions press markets lower. showers in many belts follow reports of weevils and funding shortages raise pest damage risk. London talks seek compromise to end the national coal strike.

L. L. Smith New Orleans England Lancashire Thelt Montgomery Ala London Federation of Miners A. & B. Beer

New Classified Advertisements

WANTED two or three furnished light housekeeping rooms on first floor or small furnished cottage. Permanent and refined couple. Phone 1473. FOR SALE two hundred feet wild cherry lumber 708 Oak street. FOR SALE Joe Lemley residence 617 Wood street ten rooms and a bath. Low price and good terms. For quick sale phone 398 H B Phillips. WANTED to rent five room house close in must be reasonable. Phone 677 during day after six o'clock phone 313. CLERKS men women over 17 for Postal Mail Service 120 month Examinations June. Lost black and white spotted hound and puppy with 1919 tag on collar. Reward for return to O B Brown. FOR RENT unfurnished front rooms with or without board. Apply 418 North Fifth street.

Joe Lemley Wood Street H. B. Phillips O. B. Brown

Gasser in Good Shape Says Monroe Agent

William X. Looney of Monroe reports the Federal Petroleum Company well in Union parish shows no crater formation after a major gas blow out. He says the well is checked and the issue was a stuck drill stem with expected no further trouble.

Federal Petroleum Company Union Parish William X. Looney Monroe Department of Conservation

Tent Revival Proves Success

Tent meetings on the court square are held nightly for two weeks with non-denominational services led by Rev. M. Ward of Oak Grove. A large turnout praises the singing. tonight Professor J. O. Mayo of West Monroe will lecture amid a special musical program.

Court Square M. Ward Oak Grove J. O. Mayo West Monroe

American Beauty Parlor Sells, Bailey Buys It

W. A. Corbett and wife sell the American Beauty Parlor to Harry C. Bailey and wife for 354.20 with the assumption of outstanding obligations. The parlor occupies the second floor at the corner of Third and DeSiard streets and will continue to be run in the same efficient manner despite Mrs. Corbett’s illness.

W. A. Corbett Harry C. Bailey

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Mrs. J. E. Bethancourt will continue with the new management as former staff are promised the same courtesies under the new leadership.

J. E. Bethancourt

Picture Garden Tuesday Spotlight on Alice Calhoun

Vitagraph presents Princess Jones a romantic comedy drama starring Alice Calhoun shown at the Picture Garden Tuesday. Calhoun a new star at eighteen credits fan letters for her rapid rise and emphasizes self reliance over lineage.

Alice Calhoun Vitagraph

Seizure Sale Notice in Sixth District Court

In the case Six District Court I Baer Company Ltd versus Number 10 637 D C Warner a writ of fi fa has seized a Burroughs Adding Machine seven column Number 688344. The item will be sold at the front door of the Monroe Louisiana courthouse between legal hours on Saturday June 11 1921 to satisfy the writ and costs. Monroe La May 30 1921.

State of Louisiana Parish of Ouachita Sixth District Court I. Baer Company, Ltd D. C. Warner Sixth Judicial District Court Monroe Louisiana Towit Burroughs

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