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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1935
Page
3
The Monroe Recreation department begins its sixth year operating local playgrounds this Saturday with 9 am registration at the nearest site. Each playground will have a capable leader guiding a program of directed games, crafts, dramatics, singing, puppet shows, circuses, parades, swimming lessons and a baseball league.
A vintage advertisement promotes S.S.S. Tonic as a cure for bodily weakness linked to low red blood cell count. It asserts the tonic improves appetite digestion and energy, touts 108 years of success, and urges purchase at drug stores with a two week larger size for economy.
Local board members emphasize playgrounds as character builders and note rising activities despite tighter municipal budgets. Monroe was chosen to host the district recreation conference, attracting leading workers and boosting the recreation department. Officials say the outlook is excellent for summer and fall programs.
Miss Frances Cole of Pargoud plantation and J R Peterson traveling salesman collide at North Fifth street and Bres avenue intersection shortly after noon Wednesday. Cole drove north on North Fifth. Peterson moved from Bres avenue and struck her car. No injuries. Both vehicles slightly damaged.
J A Perry of Perryville has returned home after a serious operation about two months ago. He is improving rapidly, according to his son in law C E McKenzie.
Ad touts 35 cent Gold Medal Haartem Ot Capsules as a harmless diuretic to flush waste from kidneys and reduce night awakenings. It claims relief from weak kidney symptoms such as backache puffiness and burning urine and urges buying only the GOLD MEDAL version from Haartem in Holland.
Y's Men club observed Railroad Week with speaker H F Madison Jr describing western railroads payrolls and a decade of wages totaling 8.7 billion dollars. He noted 47 million dollars in Louisiana taxes over ten years. S A Moss and Graham Waring of Missouri Pacific attended. Stanley Reid joined as a new member.
Special John A. Schuchs of St. Joseph has been named to the board of aldermen of St. Joseph. He is a Vidalia High School and Max Morris School of Pharmacy graduate from Macon Georgia. Other board members include B F Young J C McPherson Dr J C Earnest German Baker as mayor and Josiah P Scott as clerk.
Flood conditions ease as the Red river recedes from Colfax and surrounding Grant parish areas. A. V. Miller, superintendent of Southern Gas Line Inc, returning from Alexandria, reports the river returning to normal levels after threatening miles of countryside.
A 35 minute motion picture by Schenley Corp shows how Fine whiskeys are produced from wheat to consumer. Shown in Monroe liquor-dealer windows for a few days with 3 minute intermissions. Available for lecture use via F. Strauss and Son, Schenley distributors.
Governors from Louisiana Indiana Georgia Mississippi gathered for talks on NRA revival with states rights as a theme. O K Allen, Huey Long ally, defended states rights while Johnston backed state led revival. McNutt chaired sessions and Talmadge prepared to speak on wage scales in a round table program.
One of the largest crowds in Corinth Baptist church near Hico Louisiana gathered for homecoming services on Sunday June 10. Rev Joe Hinkie preached on Homecoming and Homegoing. Dave Gresham recounted the church history dating to 1887. J H Stevenson the only attendee from the founding era gave the welcoming address.
Camp Lassa in Forbing Louisiana begins its 14th annual session on July 1 and runs to July 27 under director Van Carter. Four separate camps for boys and girls, two age groups each, emphasize character building, leadership and Christian ideals with dedicated staff including Susie M. Juden and Fannie E. Norman.
Rev. Mary Perdue of Atlanta Texas preached at a Stone Avenue Methodist Protestant revival. She cited Psalms 139 and Genesis 6 urging reverence for the Spirit of God and warning that salvation comes only through God's way, not money or worldly trifle.
Funeral services for Lauren Robinson 45 were held at his home with Rev. M. W. Burns officiating. Burial followed at Shiloh Cemetery in Lincoln Parish. He is survived by his widow a daughter Rhagon Robinson a brother Bishop Robinson and two uncles E B Robinson and W W Robinson all of Bernice Louisiana.
Funeral services for 83 year old Robert H Read were held at Concord cemetery west of Marion after his death at his daughter’s home in Farmerville. Read born in Ouachita parish lived 60 years in Marion and was a Baptist and charter member of Marion Masonic lodge 283. He leaves seven sons, three daughters, 29 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He married Sallie Bennett in 1875 and she died in 1935. Burial was with Masonic honors. services by Rev G C Dennis and Rev Treadwell.
Allen Lee Choudrant of Choudrant Louisiana dies at 76 after brief illness. Funeral Wednesday at Beulah Church with Rev. Fulton officiating and interment in the church cemetery. he leaves several children. A second funeral for Mrs D C Curry 29, who died in a Monroe hospital, was held in Clarks at Old Bethel Church with burial in the church cemetery. Surviving husband longtime Brown Paper mill employee two daughters Irene and Betty Curry and mother Mrs Mattie Ott of Baton Rouge.
The Vacation Bible School of the First Methodist church opens at 9 am Monday with two courses for primary and junior levels. About 75 children aged six to 12 are expected to attend. The primary theme is Learning About Our Church, while the juniors pursue a related program.
A son named Bobby Colvin St. John was born June 9 to Mr. and Mrs. B. L. St. John Jr. They reside in El Dorado Arkansas but are currently staying with Mr and Mrs. B. L. St. John Sr. in Bernice.
H. L. Brown president of the Brown Paper mill leaves Monroe after several days on business. He travels to San Antonio Texas for a business visit then plans to reach Lake Placid New York to spend time with his family.
Flag Day will be Friday and color holders are urged to display flags properly. No special programs or observances have been announced this year, and the Elks lodge will not mark the day as it has in the past.
Inland Container president H. C. Krannert visited Monroe this week as a business guest of W. J. Meyer H. L. Brown and M. C. McDonald at a dinner aboard the Brown Kraft houseboat, a Brown Paper mill vessel.
A mass meeting for all organized and unorganized labor is set for tonight at 8 o clock at Central Grammar School. The Monroe Centre Trades and Labor Council organizes the event with E H Williams of Shreveport, president of the state federation of labor, as chief speaker.
For two weeks daily from 9 to 1130 a.m. the theme The Land Where Jesus Lived guides courses. Miss Elizabeth Langford leads the primary department with Mrs J W Worthington the junior supervisor. Bonnie Burden plays piano and Lois Bushnall leads songs. A large picnic closes school June 22 at the Berstein place on Bayon DeSiard.
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