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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
10
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Camp Fire groups announce financing and advance sales for the 15th Ki Ro Li summer camp at Fidel cities. The event runs July 28 with Mrs. Charles M. Mitchell as general director and Bob Burns as management chairman. Activities include swimming, singing, nature lore, blue printing, and grand council fire with ranks and honors. Reservations urged with Miss Hazel Fairchild at 707 St. John Street.
Judge W M Harper attends Rotary International in Cleveland as delegate of Monroe Rotary club. In his absence local attorney B D Allbritton presides as judge of the city court. Also report from Shreveport Louisiana: Harry J Brenner a 51 year old Alexandria lumberman dies after long illness at a local sanitarium. He was president and general manager of Ford Brenner Lumber Co. Funeral set for Alexandria with body sent there. Surviving are a widow and two children.
Miss Cleo Underwood daughter of Mr and Mrs W E Underwood was married June 13 to Rufus Wright of Corpus Christi Texas an oil businessman. The couple will reside in Corpus Christi.
D P Grant of 3308 Lee Avenue after twelve years in a government post plans to move with his family to Bonifay Florida. He will enter the stock and tung oil business and they will sell all local property as they establish Florida as their permanent home. Dolores, their daughter, accompanies them.
Isi dore Levy aged 9 percent says cigars aid longevity and could outlive his father who died at 105. Levy, father of five, claims his health rule is smoking 10 cigars daily. He recalls only illness in 1858 from yellow fever when he was 15 and not yet smoking.
The local Odd Fellows lodge will meet Friday night to confer the first degree on a new class. Plans will be made for attendance at a district meeting in Lake Charles the following Saturday night. All members are urged to attend.
A large attendance gathered at the LaSalle Catahoula singing convention in the Searcy Baptist church LaSalle parish on Sunday. Several well known quartets performed and the public was invited to the next event set for Harrisonburg High School auditorium on the second Sunday in September.
Captain Howard E. Rideout arrived to assume duties as southern inspector succeeding Captain Charles F. Howell who becomes northern inspector. The note adds that canneries employed an estimated 350000 workers at some time during 1938.
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