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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1918
Page
6
Local ad for New Star Meat Market promoting cash sales of beef pork sausage chickens butter and other grocery items with delivery quick service and a contact phone. Mattresses renovated by L W Gresham at 116 Hall Street offering same day inspection of machinery and methods.
Mr and Mrs J T Pooser and Leon H Pooser with I J Goodwin are listed as next at Kern's blacksmith shop at the corner of Jackson and Grammont streets, with an appointment time indicated as 9 tf.
Mayor Apgar says he will not travel to Baton Rouge to testify on street car bills Sehetf and Trown. he notes the two men per crew requirement and winter heating proposals, and believes the measure would not affect cities under 25 000 population.
Ouachita Parish Police Jury schedules a regular monthly meeting tomorrow to conduct official business and hear reports from committees and departments. Members will review agenda items and decide on local ordinances and budget matters.
Editor Hi A Mangham of the Richland Reaecon News traveled from Rayville to the city for an unlisted visit.
Millsaps and Co Ltd offers extra select Mexican June corn and seeded ribbon cane seeds. Phone 270. h dth.
G T Cross secretary of the Monroe Chamber of Commerce returned from Charlotte where he attended the Southern Commercial Secretaries Association convention and was elected vice president for Louisiana. The 1918 meeting will be in Atlanta.
Licenses to wed have been issued to Hammond and Miss Jessie James of Monroe and Caldwell parish. Stephen G. Allen and Miss Lillie Th. Busby of Mt. Pleasant. Robt N Caldwell and Miss Eunice A Brown of Mt. Pleasant. W R Brady and Miss Lillian Davis of Ros.
Cossetta Johnson, identified as a black woman, is found guilty of keeping a room for immoral purposes and receives ten days in jail plus a $12.50 fine. J F Rasberry, a white man, is fined $12.50 for using a room for immoral purposes. Other recorded cases include I N Florsheim fined $12.50 for improper streetcar conduct, Myrle Pennett alias Carrie Jones or Carrie James charged with dangerous behavior, J F Morris fined $12.50 for drunk and disorderly, Lewis Caver fined for drunk and disorderly, and Gob Taylor fined for dean and disorderly conduct.
Deputy Sheriff Brothers returned from Fordyce Arkansas with Ida Nicholas a colored woman arrested on a charge of stealing forty dollars from her husband George Nicholas. The incident occurred while she lived in Ward 5.
Officials announce a new tariff increasing one-way coach fares by 16.3 percent for standard sleeping car accommodations and 0.5 percent for tourist sleeping cars. Excess baggage rises 16.3125 percent with a 25 percent minimum, and scrip books lose value after June 9 with redemption rules detailed for unused portions.
Miss Lottie Powell asks all school war garden clubs to meet at the City School line Friday at 4 pm for garden judging. Norma Overby will act as final judge June 20, records must be kept and turned in to the Chamber of Commerce by the 15th.
Subscriptions to aid a paralytic boy of ten lagged today though some donors are listed. The total to date is recorded as 65.00 with several small contributions noted including ACKS and others, bringing the running sum to 66.00.
C A Boyd, a general contractor and builder, advertises screening and repair work with quick estimates on short notice. Contact phone 1313.
U L Smith reports steady undertone for new crop deliveries in New Orleans with improving crop prospects and slack demand. Low new crop prices discourage short selling, keeping offerings light amid better weather. Liverpool’s limited stock keeps prices firm, while July shorts in New York begin to cover as buying revival grows. Government action reportedly ends Boston as one of 11 spot.
Markets weigh value differences in grade on average settlements for New York contracts. Rain lessened in the eastern belt with showers in Texas, forecast favorable interior conditions. May cotton consumption seen near 582000 bales, linters excluded, vs 615000 last year. Census to report May consumption and May end stocks. mill stocks rose to 3082000 from 2007000 last year. France battles near Paris prompt caution in over trading.
Lost child s silver card case containing a dime return to Mrs Graves 220 N 3rd St for reward. For sale circular folding machine large safe with 42 filing cabinet drawers and vault inside one Household scale one Burroughs Adding Machine one Lico Safth Typewriter No 5 Rotary table for filling bottles whiskey cartons also labels bargain sale Godfrey Liquor Co 105 Grand Street.
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