Miss Neel Wartime Bride Plans Three Day Wedding
Wartime romance drives many weddings with brides in uniform and rapid planning. Miss Roberta Neel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Neel, will marry Lt. Thomas L. Downes at Grace Episcopal Church in three days as he is on leave from overseas. Downes departs to a California camp after the ceremony. A June 12 wedding with full church trimmings is announced but names are withheld. The report also notes a Colony Home Demonstration Club gathering and other wartime social updates.
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Monroe
Roberta Neel
W. Neel
Thomas L. Downes
Grace Episcopal Church
Downes
California
Hap
Government Girl Social Vignette at Selman Field
Wives of officers at Selman field gather for weekly Cameo room card party at the Virginia hotel. Mrs. R. Reynolds presides as prizes go to Mrs. J. C. Wilkie, Mrs. William Galloway, Mrs. W. S. Ammerman, Mrs. E. L. Kronfeld, and Mrs. James Beattie. Attendees include a long list of locals and travelers. A Monroe musician and others, plus Miss Kelma Connaughton and Mrs. Tilley’s party, are noted with travel plans and connections to Baton Rouge and Calhoun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selman Field
Virginia Hotel
R. Reynolds
J. C. Wilkie
William Galloway
W. S. Ammerman
E. L. Kronfeld
James Beattie
Mmes. W. B. Ward
Walter Scarborough
Jack House
Richard Freyberg
Charles Cross
Rip Rohrer
J. C. Kirkpatrick
O. J. LaBarge
C. D. Lyons
P. F. Fisher
Stanley James
W. Galloway
R. E. Buckwalter
E. BE. Lawrence
W. D. Lines
W. R. Henderson
A. W. Chappell
W. E. Beaty
L. E. Farrer
R. E. Dahl
Arthur Feagies
John Porter
G. M. Lang
Wiley Crockett
R. J. Courtney
G. D. Leighten
W.S. Ammerman
G. L. Walker
Butler Durham
H. S. Graber
F. O. Marion
Daniel Winter
Robert Reynefis
Kelma Connaughton
W. M. Snyder
William Tilley and Son
Bonifay, Fla
Tilley
Delores Grant
Baton Rouge
Army Post Chapel Wedding Unites Lt deMahy in May Ceremony
May 21 wedding at Fort Jackson post chapel unites Lieutenant deMahy of the US Army Medical Corps and his bride in a ceremony conducted by Father Farrell. Major Galbreth played organ. Major Kennedy gave the bride in marriage. They honeymooned in Charleston and plan to reside at the post. Relatives and friends from Lake Providence attended, with reception and club activities noted, including Red Cross work and a piano donation commitment to Selmanfield in memory of Lt John Ansley Ball Jr.
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Post Chapel
Fort Jackson
S. C
deMahy
United States Army Medical Corps
Father Farrell
Galbreth
Shreveport
Major
New Orleans
United States Army
Charleston
Lake Providence
J. Martian Hamley
F. X. Ransdell
Frank Voelker
T. E. Pinkston
Alto Cultural Club
Red Cross
Selmanfield
John Ansley Ball, Jr
Fifth District
C. N. Hatch
Ethel Watson
Mangham
St. Francis of
Japanese ration meals mix science and tradition in field diet
Washington June 71 Board of Economic Warfare documents a Japanese army field ration described as highly unscientifically balanced yet nourishing. The menu includes a staple biscuit made from wheat and seaweed, a fermented drink marin, the yeast preparation florylin, wheat germ tablets, tinned rice and curd, and wakamoto wheat germ vitamins.
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Washington
Board of Economic Warfare
BEW
Red Cross Surgical Dressing Drive Schedule
Red Cross suspends half day operations across all units from May 11 through summer. Schedule lists weekly windows for dressings at West Monroe centers, Northeast Junior College, Sterling ton, Sterlington locations, and American Legion homes with specific hours Monday through Friday.
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Red Cross
West Monroe Community Center
American Legion Home
Northeast Junior College
West Monroe
Ridge Avenue Baptist Church
Sterlington Fairbanks
Sterlington American Legion
American Legion
Ridge Avenue
Sterlington — Fairbanks
Sterlington-Fairbanks
Community meeting notices and circle group schedules
The Business and Professional Women's Club meets at Hotel Virginia with a board at 7 30 p m and regular at 8 p m. Presbyterian and Methodist circle meetings list numerous hosts and times across multiple addresses, along with two dance and piano pupil recitals at Neville and Ouachita Parish High School. Mr. and Mrs. L P Landry travel to New Orleans due to illness. Mrs C O Hinrichs visits from New Orleans.
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Business and Professional Women's Club
Virginia
The
Presbyterian Church
Fred Mitchell
Louisville
A. V. Miller
Roselawn
Lee Hodges
Hawthorne
R. B. Garrison
Riverfront
W. D. Ross
Spurgeon
D. A. Breard
K Street
Arseneaux
Grayling
Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
M. A. Crews
Lee Avenue
C. D. Smith
South Grand
R. N. Dozier
South Third
H. A. Scott
Morris Avenue
Mattie Myatt
St. John
W. C. Lanier
Louise Anne Avenue
M. V. Clark
North Eighth
Gilbert van Tuyl
Washington
J. F. Stone
Glenmar
W. T. Davis
North Second
J. B. Weathersby
Harrison
Helen Fairchild
DeSiard Road
W. B. Mangham
Smith Avenue
P. O. Bedgood
Gordon
St. Ann's Circle
M. Haushers
Red Cross Surgical Dressing
Clarice
Golda Roan
Neville Auditorium
Lila Scogin
Ouachita Parish
Mrs. L. P. Landry
New Orleans
Mr. Landry
Fred
War fund plans for USO drive and local society notes
The community will contact readers about the upcoming war fund for the USO drive. Mrs. F. R. Sartor is named district parliamentarian and Mrs. D. R. Sartor chairs safety. Plans to raise money for the nurses scholarship fund are discussed along with a wartime slogan “A War Service Program With a Future.” New member Mrs. B. E. Roberts is welcomed. Members and relatives visit from Baton Rouge, San Antonio, Harrisburg, and Cambridge, as family members travel or study abroad.
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USO
F. R. Sartor
D. R. Sartor
Safety
Nurses
B. E. Roberts
Superintendent to live on campus again at Louisiana Training Institute
The Louisiana Training Institute will restore the superintendent's residence on campus once arrangements are finalized. The former office building will return to its original use as the superintendent's home, while physicians from E A Conway Memorial hospital relocate from the second floor dormitory to another campus building. The Vengeance, a two seat plane with a 1600 hp engine, carries a 2000 pound load.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana Training Institute
Paul J. Armstrong
E. A. Conway Memorial Hospital
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Miss Neel
Colony Home Demonstration Club
J. M. Morace
England
Jewel McQuiller
Sarah Jones
L. J. Bower, Jr
L. W. Coon
J. C. Monk
Roy Welch
Lynn Corbin
Parker Humble
Frank Arrant
William H. Craighead
Army Air Corps
Army Air Forces Bombardier School
Midland
Texas
Craighead
Prevost Craighead
Ouachita Parish High School
Mrs. Wilson Ewing
Robert and
Esther
Fannie Livaudais
Léonard
Fitzgerald
Catherine Livaudais
Bishop Pipes
Calhoun
Margaret Waller
Margaret
Mardee Hoff
Bell Telephone
National
the National Cash Register Company Cash Registers
South Grand St. Monroe
Louisiana
Milam St
Bouregard St
Alexandria
United States
Canada
Pplies
Armandine Renaud
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Stone Avenue Methodist Church
Lon Ingram
L. J. Hunnicutt
Gordon Avenue Methodist Church
Dallas Cain
Floyd Ferrington
First Methodist Church
C. P. Jarrell
Emerson Street
John Sholars
Rochelle Avenue
W. E. Sandel
Hudson Lane
W. C. Campbell
Rose Lawn
B. B. Handy
Riverside
R. G. Johnson
Calypso Street
E. R. Ludlum
Peach Street
J. E. Ball
Richwood Road
C. N. Jones
DeSiard Drive
C. O. Hinrichs
Joseph P. Brown
Dr. Brown
Louise Hawkins
Lee Hawkins
Louisiana State Normal
Natchitoches
Oliver Bouanchaud
Sadie Averette
Lieutenant
Mrs. Oliver Heard
San Antonio
Lieutenant Heard
Mrs. W. S. Heard
Charles E. Slade, Jr
Stephen
Harrisburg
Penn
C. E. Slade
R B. Henry
Jack Thatcher
Harvard University
Fred Thatcher
Cambridge
Mass
L. T
Furst
PUREX
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Eitace
Vital
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
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