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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1911
Page
8
Mr. R Monk returned Friday from Hot Springs benefiting from his stay. Fire dept responded to a burning flue at 411 South Fourth Street with no damage. A caboose accident knocked a man unconscious near Monroe. The long drought gave way to rain easing tensions. Social and business items include White House Pantry notes and Phoenix Drug Store reminders.
Three boys escaped from the State Training School near the city last night and were captured by Sheriff Parker at Calhoun this morning and returned to the school. The youths had just recently been placed in the institution. Whit Haden and Allen Elsley from Shreveport and Jimmy Byrd from Bunkie were the escapees.
Notice to water consumers: water will be shut off Tuesday on Jackson from Layton to Calypso and on Calypso from St. John to Grend from 1 to 4 o'clock. 19 11. F. L. MEYER, Supt.
The Ouachita Valley Bottling Works will relocate to a model plant at Washington and Eighth streets once construction finishes. The new building is large and light with a concrete floor and heavy timber framework, moving from Olive and Walnut streets.
The machinery will be attached and the building is being erected to be sanitary in every respect. The company owns a large plot with rear stables and storehouses. A switch track connection with the V. S. P. will let the company handle its heavy business directly.
The colored residents of the city and nearby towns celebrate Emancipation Day at Forsythe Park. An A L G railroad excursion from Hamburg and Crossett brought about 250 people. A Hamburg versus Crossett baseball game precedes Monroe facing the winner, followed by a late-night dance and refreshments on grounds.
The Louisiana delegation and 83 travelers in the Nineteen-fourteen New Orleans Special reached San Antonio after departing New Orleans Wednesday night for the thirteenth International Sunday School Convention in San Francisco. The train, one of the era’s finest, carried a baggage car diner coach sleeper four standard Pullmans and an observation car with Louisiana leaders joined by Florida and Mississippi delegates along the route. A Lafayette Pullman added at Lafayette brought in delegates from Monroe Ruston Lecompte Tioga and Meeker.
In Chicago on June 19 Judge Carpenter refused the motion by J Ogden Armour and nine other packers to rehear their bid to quash indictments under the Sherman anti trust law. A October trial likely follows. The motion leaned on Supreme Court rulings in Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust. No written reasons were issued.
J A McDougal appointed supervisor of the Arkansas division to succeed J F Murphy as general superintendent of the Eastern district. The terminals office is replaced by a trainmaster of terminals with C F Brown named to that post. Changes take effect Monday June 19 as Murphy moves to oversee the Eastern district from St Louis.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen claims a membership of about 200,000 for its affiliated workers across the United States and Canada. The organization emphasizes union solidarity and collective bargaining power among train conductors brakemen and other railroad staff.
A Friday night theft on June 16 took twenty five fryers from a single lot, mainly Plymouth Rock birds with two small Rhode Island Red roosters. A reward is offered for return or info leading to recovery. Contact Edward Johnston at home phone 127. 19-11
In Shreveport on June 19, Joe Dickson, a Jordan street carpenter, was shot once by Arthur W. Riley at Stewman’s stables after a dispute over Bertha Dickson, 18. Riley says self defense, Dickson and his brother-in-law pursued him with a stick. Bertha provides a guarded account. Riley was jailed pending the outcome. Dickson near fatally wounded and to undergo possible surgery at Schumpert Memorial Sanitarium.
Advertisement touts Bond's Pills as mild and effective with no sickness or constipation. It claims quick cure of headache biliousness and torpid liver and urges purchases from Druggists for 25 cents or free samples from Bond's Pharmacy Co in Little Rock Arkansas.
The report recounts a crash scene where Le martin s biplane plunged into trees injuring him fatally after a steering fault. Captain Princeton died in a separate crash as his aircraft ignited and exploded upon impact, while other competitors failed to leave the field amid gusty winds and mechanical quirks.
In Macon Georgia on June 19 twenty young women and twenty young men attended a pool party at W. W. Billingslea residence. They were locked in after thieves stole their clothing and remained trapped until morning. Billingslea offered a large reward for information.
McKeever advocates formal college instruction in child rearing to decrease parental guesswork. Four bulletins published with a fifth forthcoming aim to turn parenting into a science, funded by benevolent business leaders and sociology students across the country to foster better citizenship.
A brief notice from Ouachita Valley reports Sweet Cream operations at the boiling works with a quantity of 20 tf.
Liverpool trade bulletin notes 8 17 clearance with sales 6000 bales. Prices quoted for season A W B I O G in easco period October November .790 7 13 and December January .6 94 7 07. Indicates steady demand and varied forward prices across seasons.
Weather and market notes from Monroe Louisiana dated June 19 1911 report a Sunday rain belt across Texas to the Atlantic coast causing a drop in contract values. Cooler temperatures in the Southwest and favorable moisture boost cotton prospects while corn may be slightly delayed. Early reports from the South Atlantic states indicate strong yield potential for the new crop with widespread moisture aiding growth.
The Fort Worth Record notes June 17 rainfall across west Texas, quoting figures from towns like Clarendon Corsicana Dallas Fort Worth Henrietta Lampasas Sherman Temple Valley Junction Waxahachie and Weatherford while noting lack of weather bureau confirmation. Forecasters expect unsettled conditions in parts of the region with occasional showers elsewhere.
Weekly price list offers Snow Drop Flour at 85c per 24-lb sack and Snow Ball Flour at 75c, other high patent at 70c, coffee, tea, juices, puffed cereals, oats and sugars with multiple sizes and brands. Sale valid until Monday noon June 26. Remember our prices appear weekly and public.
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