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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1909
Page
10
The plain tailored models feature neat self folds satin bands and buttons. Skirts fit perfectly hang gracefully and cannot be equaled under 6.50. Throughout the week choose any skirt from this collection for 4.80, saving one-third to one-half of the usual cost.
The report shows New Orleans spots at 107 8, steady with bales at 525 and a range of prices for October December futures. New York spots quote 11.45 with quiet activity and futures for July October December trading within narrow bands.
New Orleans reports Liverppol futures and spots down 4 with 6 500 bales traded as liquidation follows good Sunday weather. New crops fall to about 10 65 while a western rain system nears, bringing unsettled conditions midweek. Correspondents from Texas note drought and doubts on a cotton crop, while reports from Paris Clarksville Honey Grove Bonham Sherman Alabama and Meridian highlight varied rainfall and crop prospects.
The Grand repeats last night’s program tonight with The Drive for Life a Biograph melodrama about jealousy and a forged note. Vaudeville acts Williams and Van Allen and Polly Dear entertain. Miss Alice Robinson stars at the Lyric all week with a hit song and encores.
Brief items from Monroe and vicinity cover community meetings concerts and business notices. Civic league plans a Tuesday 4 PM meeting at City Hall while the Monroe Concert Band prepares for Thursday concerts and fund appeals for river boat line proposals.
The police jury met in regular session for the annual reorganization and to sit as the local board of reviewers on the tax roll. All current officers were re elected: DP A Breard Jr president J F E Hanna clerk and O B Morton treasurer. Other business was transacted before the tax review duties began.
Flooded fields and grassy uplands slow early cotton progress. Futures steady on bad weather and heat in the west. Oklahoma averages 96 degrees, injurious for young cotton. North Texas and Louisiana report 93 to 98 degrees. The report is by Hayward and Clark.
In Jackson Kentucky on June 7 ex sheriff Edward Callahan known for Breathitt county feuds was ambushed while sweeping out his store. The bullet struck his abdomen and he is believed to be fatally wounded. Bloodhounds are on the trail as the community reels.
Kern's Horseshoe ing shop advertises custom wagon construction. Joe Kern, proprietor, notes ability to make wagons of any kind to suit customer specifications.
Portland voters go to the polls with the principal issue being opposition to direct primaries. The June 7 report notes the campaign centers on party rules and candidate selection integrity in the Portland area.
The city faces a clash over the Oregon direct primary method. Former U S senator Joseph Simon leads the Republican slate for mayor against R Albee a state senator and primary faction leader running as an independent. Judge M J Manly the Democrat and Daniel Kellaher also seek the post.
A special Green Brier Tenn dispatch says the balloon Hoosier landed there this morning. Captain Baldwin reported a safe landing.
Chicago June 7 a national conference on criminal law and criminology opened with the fiftieth anniversary celebration of Northwestern University School of Law. Judges sociologists and criminologists gathered to discuss reform abolition of the jury system imprisonment for minor offenses and revised penal codes among other topics.
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