Foreign Wars delegates named for state encampment
James A. Noe state senator W D H Rodriguez commissioner of public utilities and finance C A Hunt past department commander and E H Tiller post commander were elected delegates to the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment at the Rodney J Hobbs post meeting. The group plans a trip to Lake Charles July 1 leaving from the post hall aboard two buses one supplied by Walter B Mangham. Reservations advised with Floyd Farrington J W Keene or C A Hunt. Bernard D Beckham Spanish American War veteran inducted into the post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Noe
W. D. H. Rodriguez
Public Utilities and Finance
C. A. Hunt
E. H.tiller
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Rodney J. Hobbs
Drum and Bugle Corps
Lake Charles
Walter B. Mangham
Municipal Street Railway
Floyd Farrington
J. W. Keene
Bernard D. Beckham
Windham Arrested After Disturbance in Cheniere
Briceland Windham, 21, of Cheniere, was arrested by the sheriff's department and jailed in Ouachita Parish. No charges filed yet as investigators examine witnesses. Windham allegedly caused a disturbance at his home Thursday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Briceland Windham
Cheniere
Sheriff's Department
Ouachita Parish
Windham
LSU Speech Department Leader Earns PhD From Wisconsin
C. L. Shaver, longtime LSU speech department member since 1928, on leave for graduate work during 1936 37, has completed studies and received the Ph D in speech from the University of Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
C. L. Shaver
Louisiana State University Department of Speech
University of Wisconsin
First Tri-Parish Library Begins Operation Saturday
The nation s first tri parish library funded and directed by a state agency opens in Jackson parish Saturday with branches in Winn Grant and Jackson parishes. Readied headquarters in Winnfield Colfax and plans include a book mobile and 6000 books shipped.
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Tri-Parish
Baton Rouge
Jackson Unit
Winn
Grant
Jackson Parishes
Essae M. Culver
Louisiana Library Commission
Winn and
Grant Parishes
Jackson Parish
Miss Culver
Winnfield
Culver
J. C. Shows
Hodge
C. E. Head
Clay
W. M. McBride
F. H. Riggs Chatham
W. H. McLauren
S. D. McBride
Jonesboro
Winn Board
Kenneth Watts
D. E. Sikes
H. R. Sylvest
Dodson
George Walker
Calvin
W. EF. LaCroix
Jesse Temple
Parish
S. C. Shaw
Colfax
Grant Board
Ruth Harper
Rochelle
Mollie Stewart
Pollock
L. Don Wardlow
Dry Prong
J. G. Irwin
Sikes
Gaats Mill
Winn Parish
Montgomery
Georgetown
Grant Parish
Jackson
Vaughan
Tillie Abramson
Rosilia Callaghan
American Legion
Leche
Library Commission
State Department of Education
Claiborne Home Demonstration Club Meeting Notes
Members heard reports by Mrs. A. S. Albright and Mrs. E. C. Gaskin on vegetables to plant this season and care of early flowering shrubs. The group will meet next at Pine Top with Mrs. Joe Hendricks as hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claiborne Home Demonstration Club
Myrtle Hattaway
A. S. Albright
E. C. Gaskin
Pine Top
Joe Hendricks
Hawkins Endorsed for Legion National Executive Committeeman
Ernest Hawkins of Shreveport, state commander of the American Legion, was endorsed by Lowe-McFarlane post for national executive committeeman from Louisiana. The 50 delegates to the state convention at Monroe in July were ordered to vote as a unit for Hawkins.
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Shreveport
Ernest Hawkins
American Legion
Legion From
Louisiana
Lowe-McFarlane
Monroe
Hawkins
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Pelican Grocery
South Second St
Catalpa St
W. S. Brown
H. J. Waller
Kugler
California
Lge
Libby
RITZ
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McCormick
Sgessina
DeSiard St
Cleo
Dixie
Bacon
Fureka Grocery
Commerce St
West Monroe
I A
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Trenton
Heard’s Market
Slater Mylls
Evator
Breen
Jasc
Lipton’s
Brookfield
Rie
Ciares
Maxwell House
Happy Vale
St. Pearl
Bartlett
Veal
Courthouse
Richard W. Leche
J. O. Modisette
Jennings
Lorris Wimberly
House of Representatives
Mary Harris
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