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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1934
Page
6
A Bradford editor dedicates a reflective piece on Christian duty. The author emphasizes that life is not owned but entrusted by God and Christ Jesus. The goal is to cultivate purity and virtue to influence others through precepts and example, an endless study toward perfection.
A long list of social events includes a bridal shower for Mrs Curtis Tucker at Wisner hosted by S E Pool and others, engagements and wedding plans for Miss Aimee de Graffenred and Mr Allen Kimball, Loyola graduation in New Orleans, a Peters family reunion at Tannehill near Winnfield, with attendees from Monroe Minden Flat Creek and Shreveport. The piece notes Miss Eileen MacKinnon’s graduation and violin solo at the New Orleans Symphony concert.
A luncheon in the Dawkins home honors Miss Aimee de Graffenreidh, a June bride. Pink tapers and delphiniums set a pink theme while guests in formal attire enjoy a generous buffet featuring hors d oeuvres and chicken a la king.
A long list details Peters relatives and in laws visiting from multiple Louisiana towns including Natchitoches Monroe Dodson Sikes and Winnfield along with extended families from Hodge Columbia Summerfield and Zion Hill showing the breadth of kinship in attendance for a gathering. The roster mentions numerous individuals with spouses and children across many communities.
A flood of names marks the social page with PTA, bridge clubs, and condo moves. Guests include the Bakers, Kidds, Moffetts, Pays, and Meadows with visits from Grisham and Lewis in Baton Rouge. Also noted are home purchases, anniversaries, and a bridal luncheon. The column lists social events, music pupils recitals, barbecues, and the St Francis sanitarium birth and clinic hospital updates.
Women improve their style with a charming frock pattern featuring shoulder caps and a slender front panel. Pattern 1845 offers sizes 14 through 44, requires 3 yards and 5-8 yard contrast for size 16, and includes illustrated sewing instructions. Send 15 cents for pattern, 25 cents for book and pattern, to Monroe News-Star Pattern Department.
Siana State University alumna has returned to spend summer with her parents Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Powell of Marion Louisiana. Friends of Mrs. Martin Miazza of Jackson Mississippi will be pleased to know she will be weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Fields and will be accompanied to Monroe by Miss Sydney Mc Laurin of Vicksburg.
Bastrop social calendar highlights a dinner at Mr. and Mrs. H A L Swan for Bishop Daniel Desmond of Alexandria with Rev Vandegaer and others. Engagements announced for Cecile Williams and Ellen Neese Gladden. A grand garden party at Mrs. Charles Snyder marked a year of foreign country study with a polished receiving line and club officers in attendance.
Sunday picnic hosted by Y M H A at Mayor Bernstein's country home followed by Monday benefit card party at the Y M H A. Circles of Methodist Missionary Society meet Tuesday in various homes at 3 pm with many listed addresses. Church groups Trinity Lutheran Presbyterians and Averett sisters hold activities midweek including a bridge party at 3 30 pm.
The farm population in the United States was estimated at 32,509,000 as of January 1 this year, reflecting the size of the rural labor and household farming community nationwide.
Seventeen pupils across Ouachita Parish elementary schools achieved perfect scores in a 20 week Reading Fun program. They answered all 100 questions correctly from 20 stories and five questions each, per reports to Mrs. Chrissie Williams, assistant superintendent.
About 100 physicians from parishes across the Fifth District gathered in Monroe for the biannual meeting of the Fifth District Medical Society. The event hosted at Hotel Virginia featured a 3 pm scientific program in the Cameo room led by Dr. Hilliard Miller Dr Ambrose Storch of Tulane and Dr H G Edwards of Shreveport, followed by a roof garden fellowship and an ensuing banquet.
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