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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1918
Page
6
Classified ad promotes The New Star Meat Market offering beef pork sausage chickens butter eggs and ham with quick delivery. Includes contact phone 973 and states cash sales and low prices. Also notes C A Boyd general contractor offering screening and repairing with short notice estimates and phone 1313.
A mixed local notice set mentions malaria germ destruction in broods via the Malaria Mosquito, prices like 60e for a product from Ouachita Tire and Rubber Co, and a note that I J Newton will be absent for eight to ten days with doctors Adams and Graves responding to client demands Biot. Third Liberty Loan bonds are ready for delivery with Central Savings Bank and Trust Co. Also listed are 35 cent haircuts for all ages including Buster Brown styles and a promotion for war savings stamps Lv-121.
Baton Rouge lawmakers focus on taxation labor and woman suffrage as the week opens. The Ways and Means Committee will take up administration income tax and other measures. opposition against the income tax remains likely. The 54 hour bill with new minimum wage provisions faces the committee tonight.
Mrs. A A Gunby received a card announcing the safe arrival of her son Thomas S Gunby somewhere in France. He is in the field artillery and went into the army last month from Camp Travis Texas where he finished with high honors. He has been recommended for a commission and is a graduate of the Parish School and L. Soa.
Mr and Mrs J W Turner Jr of Riverton La were in the city today. Turner formerly captain of the 224th field artillery at Canyon Pike has been honorably discharged and returns to Sinope plantation to take up planting duties.
Leonard Parr of the Fosdick commission visited Monroe from Camp Beauregard to assess free municipal salt water natatorium access for troops passing through. He plans a Washington report with recommendations while praising the city’s offer and noting the broader aim of organizing war camp community service in Monroe.
Dr. Lee Scarborough of the Baptist Theological Seminary Fort Worth Texas will preach at First Baptist Church tomorrow night in support of the Baptist College at Pineville.
Charles Trousdale has taken a position as night clerk at Hotel Monroe, boosting the night desk staff. He joins the Monroe team after prior hospitality roles and aims to improve late shift operations.
Ms shi ppi n g ID nd Parish Demonstration Agent B Jackson announces Fridays as shipping days for those who want to ship potatoes. Potatoes are loaded at Walnut Street spur near Monroe Grocer Co. Prospective shippers must notify Mr Jackson two days in advance.
A mixed page of classifieds includes FOR RENT listings at 217 North Seventh Street and other lodging offers. WANTED ads for cashier bookkeeper or saleslady and several factory positions. FOR SALE property and a second hand separator. LOST bathing suits. NOTICE of a pardon petition by Eddie Jackson. TAKEN UP two mules with identifying marks. FOR SALE cows with calves. Local contacts include Mrs Stella Ross West Monroe J L Kalinski and Webb Planting Co North Monroe La.
A nationwide conspiracy to solicit government war orders with illicit agent commissions was revealed by the department of justice. Raids hit hundreds of manufacturers’ offices as four Boston men were indicted for acting as contingent fee agents while officials probe army officer links and Presidential attention remains fixed on the case. O. B. Morton was confined to his home.
Miss Marie Nothofer and Sister Hienrietta of St. Francis sanitarium have gone to Maronette university Milwaukee Wisconsin to complete a course in bacteriology and X ray work.
Police Inspector Hieap reports two enemy alien women had applied to register at city hall up to this morning. They were sent for photographs and instructed to return.
Milwaukee witnesses the annual meeting of the National Assembly of Civil Service Commissioners as they review wartime adjustments. Hundreds of members from U S state and local commissions and Canadian provinces attend the session through the week.
A major English veterinary hospital is now operated entirely by women. The article highlights a trend of women assuming leadership roles in diverse sectors historically dominated by men, including warehousing, law, and municipal services, with examples across cities and states.
Chicago grain and oat prices show July corn at 1.46 in early trades with mixed ranges 1-2 and 1-4, August corn at 1.48 and 1-4 and 1-2. Oats prices list values around 71 midweek with multiple small bids and yields.
Miss Lillian Meyer announces a meeting in the council chamber to form an auxiliary health board working with the City Board of Health. Plans include employing nurse Miss Josephine McNally and focusing on child welfare anti tuberculosis and general health work with representation from West Monroe Mon roe City Councils Police Jury and others.
By order of the Sixth Judicial District Court of Louisiana for Ouachita Parish, sale of Lot 96 Guinea Addition Monroe fronting 100 feet on Old DeSiard road and 377 feet deep, with improvements, in the Succession of George and Rosa Chinn. Monroe Louisiana on the front door of the courthouse between the end of June, cash bid of at least two thirds of appraisement. Mary Gadsen Administratrix represented by Co. W. Easterling, Atty.
Sam Ferrand Jr of Ruston remains in critical but slightly stronger condition at St Francis Sanitarium after a Friday auto accident that fractured his skull. He is listed as improving but still in danger.
The Gulf Division Bulletin notes a wounded German soldier cap sent home as a war relic through the Red Cross. Dr A H Gladden Jr of Monroe Louisiana took the cap from a wounded German in France and sent it to his wife, a Junior Auxiliary staffer with the Gulf Division. He is known in New Orleans as a Tulane graduate and Charity Hospital attaché.
Women attendees of a wartime carnival have become stranded in the city and appealed to the Associated Charities for funds to return home. The charity has received such pleas this week as the carnival organization resumes operations amid local opposition to the street fair atmosphere.
Read the News-Star classified notice seeking to match renters with available rooms. Includes contact details and terms for leasing, descriptions of rooms, and any required deposits or timing.
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