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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1917
Page
3
Local notices promote the White Way Restaurant offering 25 and 26 cent dinners and suppers. A cabinet maker advertises services at 110 North Third Street. Also details for a gem demonstration at curb market by Mim Manie Miller and a music teacher contact. Bids for Salt Water Natatorium checking privilege due June 11, 1917. HW D Apgar mayor. Moaree La. June 7, 1917.
To water consumers. Owing to limited pumping capacity and four months' delivery for a new sump, all water users are urged to waste less water and fix leaks now. Lawn irrigation and hydrant running are forbidden to prevent a summer water famine. Mayor Wi. D. Apgar issues the notice. Ed Johnson advertises awnings and tops. Mr and Mrs J B Morris return from Clarks after funeral of Mrs Claude Jackson.
Civil Cunea, Hartwell Co. and others file notices with May records. City Court actions include Ruth Brown fighting discharged and Mattie Harworth fined 25 dollars. Other citations list Sam Holton minor prostitution entry, J T Hardy drunkenness, Gertrude Clayton vagrancy, Gertrude Caldwell disorderly conduct, and E P Elli fighting with various small fines.
The New Stan Meat Market advertises fresh beef pork and oysters with quick delivery to any part of the city. Phone 273 Bolm. Club members from Canning Poultry Corn and Pig clubs to meet in Monroe on June 11 12 and 13 at the Chamber of Commerce for housing assignments and record book checks led by Miss Marie M Miller and Mr B M Jackson.
WANTED By young lady. Board with private family. References furnished. Address R. I. C. care News-Star. T-bt. a . FOR BET five room house corner Grommont and Sixth. Phone no SOS, empt. WANTED Twenty-five young ladies to study shorthand. Call at once for particulars. Office over Postal Telegraph Co. Monroe Shorthand Institute. Monroe La. T-31. FOR RENT Nicely furnished room one or two gentlemen. Apply 310 irammont street or phone 481. -3k.
German air raid over eastern England fails to achieve surprise as Allied forces shoot down eight enemy planes. In the Channel and North Sea combats, 16 Invaders are downed or forced to retreat, while a British squadron sinks a submarine and a French steamer damages another. On land, Allied and German artillery exchanges surge near Arras Dixmude and Wytschaete with numerous prisoners taken. In the Alps the Austrians push at Jamiane near Trieste as Italian forces sustain heavy shelling.
Will open a new restaurant project by W.OT HGR and OT. W. Richhart in the former Faust Cafe site. The interior has been renovated for a Saturday light dinner opening with Regicar meals for clients. The venture aims for quality service amid high supply costs.
The Chamber of Commerce garden program turns vacant lots into plots with about one hundred gardens already listed. Inspections start next week and gardeners yet to list should contact the Chamber office with name and plot location. A inspection committee will be named and prizes totaling 70 dollars will be awarded after inspection.
Off the coast of Ireland an American torpedo destroyer encountered a German submarine shelling lifeboats from a sunken vessel. The sub vanished before a rescue could be attempted. Twenty survivors from two sunken ships were saved and brought to a British port. The ships named were the Russian bark Lynton from Pensacola and the Norwegian bark Madura from Mobile. No loss of life reported on the Lynton. Washington June 7. Public notice urges city canning and fat recovery. department suggests home drying and waste reduction to conserve food and fats for war needs.
In Durant Oklahoma the four motherless and fatherless Wilkerson children told Judge Poullin how they planned and carried out their father's murder as he slept. The two older siblings reenacted the act for the court while the younger testified that they killed on their elder siblings' bidding. All four were sent to the state school for delinquents.
Thousands of yards of laces and embroideries advertised with new improved handling and easy shopping. Wide embroidery flouncing offered for skirts with lower prices than last year. Also lawns dimities voiles organdies malls and plains white fabric selection highlighted.
The page shows stock figures with entries for Vesty Wy and Vega and mixed numerics. Data lines include price points highs lows closes and trading volumes with annotations like Get eps and teed pela. The legible items point to a busy market section with scattered ticker-style entries.
July to October movements mark the closing of Vesty with two figures 14.60 and 14.65 in twin sessions. The entry references Ta860 and notes the period July to October in the context of the sequence.
H. R. Speed's Daily Cotton Letter notes New Orleans opening slightly lower then rallying on crop progress and rain in northern Belt. Liverpool spots advance. southern spots remain strong. Drought persists in southern Gulf states. Weather bureau calls for thundershowers in east Gulf and south Atlantic, fair in Florida and west Gulf. July NY stocks tight with 18,000 certified for delivery. June 26 sees first July notice day.
The document records a stockholders meeting in Monroe Louisiana on June 6th approving an amendment to increase capital stock from 100 000 to 200 000 dollars. It notes Article 3 revised to 200 000 dollars divided into 2 000 shares of 100 dollars each with common stock. Secretary B M Florsheim certifies the true copy and signs.
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