Social calendar highlights and local notices
A packed social week includes teas at Riverside and Edgewater clubs honoring Mrs Gordon Cummings and Mrs Henry Parker Blanks, various YWCA events, a July 4 breakfast dance with Ted Weems, and multiple bridge and dance gatherings. Attendees include Miss Dorothy Apgar, Miss Lena White, and Mrs W E Reardon, with guests from Jackson Tennessee and Camden Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Clarke
Pauline
Elizabeth Clarke
Riverside Country Club
Gordon Cummings
Henry Parker Blanks
The
Methodist Missionary Society
W. F. Thurman
Dorothy Apgar
Edgewater Country Club
Wilma Pace
Young People’s Missionary
Elety
Lena White
Arkansas
Lion’s Club
Ted Weems
Pleasures of Camp Life Anticipated in Monroe
A 1920s Monroe column notes boys and girls aged 8 to 16 eagerly plan summer camp adventures across Tennessee Texas and nearby locales. It highlights Camp Nakawana Camp Wabon Camp Ki Ro Li Camp Lookout Camp Windywood and Camp Lal ranch itineraries with swimming canoeing horseback riding and tutoring. Social events around the scene include gatherings at the Palmer Hardie and Roy Hale homes and Methodist Missionary Society activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Platt
Adelia Sandel
India Stubbs
Nakawana
Tennessee
Martha Jane Hill
Charles Stubbs
Gilbert Faulk
William D. King
George Weaks
John Barr Foster
Michigan
Camp Lala
Ki-Ro-Li
Camp
Bunny Kennedy
Camp Lookout
Frederick Millsaps, Jr
Percy Sander! Jr
Barry Stubbs
John Sherrouse
Turk” Touchstone
John Bennett Fudickar
Noel Larned
Bobby Oliver
Camp Windywood
Alexandria
Palmer Hardies
Fairfield
Ann Hardie
Ann Laura Smith
St. Francisville
Blakewell Winston
New Orleans
Nagao campaigns for 25 year liquor ban in Tokyo bill
Hampei Nagao a deputy campaigns for a bill he introduced forbidding sale of liquor to persons under 25 years of age. The current law allows sales to those 20 and older.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Tokyo
Hampei Nagao
Lovely Lotus Club social in Monroe draws fashionables
A Monroe social at the Lotus club hosted by Mrs. Morris DeLarot showcases summer florals and elegant outfits. Guests include a long list of matrons in chiffon with floral corsages while crystal gifts and ornate desserts mark the refined gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Hale
Glenmar
Clifford Johnson
Sterling Castle, Jr
Mmes
Jack Sterling Castle, Jr
Clif
Monroe
Lotus Club
Morris DeLarot
Leo Vandegaer
Joseph P. Brown
William Bendel
Gordon Surgaine
L. O. Thibodeaux
Fred Fudickar
W. D. King
Sidney Moore
Newton Knowles
F. V. Allison
Baxter Braswell
Grammont Breard
B. Beasley
Leonard Schlenker
Tom Easterling
FE. T. Lamkin
Wilton Hancock
O. A. Easterling
Albert Horuff
A. B. Hopson
Joe Washburn
C. B. Wise
C. White
J. B. Vaughn
George Wright
C. L. Melebeck
A. Melvin
Thibodeaux
F. C. Holden
Guy
Dobyns Bar Action Sought By Arkansas Democrats
A. K. Dobyns, candidate for state representative from Pulaski County, faces a committee review over not backing the Democratic ticket in 1928. Charges allege party irregularity and seek to bar him from the party ticket. Mexico begins its first complete census of population industry and agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
A. EK. Dobyns
Pulaski County
Democratic Party
Democratic Central Committee
Dobyn
Dobyns
Mexico
Billy builds a wooden sofa at six during supper
Six year old Billy, at his work bench, nails a sofa from wooden boxes. He finishes it before supper and sits to eat with dirty hands but a beaming smile. His mother considers the value of hands washed versus the pride of creative achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Judson Peale
Billy
Former County Judge J M Gates Dies in Lonoke Ark
Lonoke Ark June 19 Funeral arrangements were to be completed for J M Gates 51 prominent merchant and former county judge who died suddenly last night He was stricken in his store and had chaired the county democratic central committee and long been active in politics
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lonoke
Ark
J. M. Gates
Gates
Democratic Central Committee
Murdered Fort Smith man sparks cross state manhunt
Officers from two states extended a tense search for Daniel G. Gotha an insurance agent from Fort Smith whose body was found Monday near Cameron Oklahoma. Robbery was ruled out as a motive while police pursued other possibilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Smith, Ark
Daniel G. Gotha
Fort Smith
Cameron
Oklo
Gotha
Arkansas Builders Meet Opens in Hot Springs
The 15th annual convention of the Arkansas league of Building and Loan associations opens in Hot Springs with over 200 expected attendees. Officers include Roy J. Bilheimer of Little Rock as president and W. F. Matthews of El Dorado as vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
Ark
Arkansas League of Building and Loan Associations
Roy J. Bilheimer
Little Rock
W- F. Matthews
el Dorado
Acquitted Verdicts Issued In New Orleans
In New Orleans on June 19 acquittal verdicts were instructed in multiple cases. Prosecutors and defense attorneys attended as juries returned not guilty findings on several charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New Orleans
A Nice Girl Comes to Town In London Dilemma
Mary Low a country girl arrives in London and seeks a new life. She faces love triangle as Brynmor Whittamore courts Clarice Day while Tony Titherington a wealthy aviator pursues her and plans a record flight around the world. Aunt Ethelberta blocks funding over moral concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bynovuesis Ann
Ary Low
Leslie
London
Brynmor Whittamore
Clarice Day
Mary Low
Tony Titherington
Tony
Ethelberta
Aunt Ethelberta and the visit that tests Mary Lou
The narrator recalls taking Mary Lou to meet his aunt to swing Aunt Ethelberta toward approving a serious courtship. He recounts a prior visit with Gwendolyn, whose habit of smoking and defying Aunt Ethelberta’s rules nearly exhausted him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ony
Mary Lou
Aunt Ethelberta
Gwendolyn
Studio party and tangled ties in a city social swirl
Tony plans a costly flight and a future with Mary Lou while Aunt Ethelberta pushes him to marry. At Lorna Grey's party Brynmor stalks for Clarice as Mary Lou gains confidence and Brynmor confronts a past link to the Emerald Dragon raid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou
Tony
Ethelberta
Lorna Grey’s
Brynmor
Clarice
Lorna Gray
Fony
Lorna
Mary Lou Leslie
Jay
Vivacione Br.net
Mayste Greig
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S. E. Huey
Jack Rogers
Virginia
A. D. Tisdale
South Grand
Y. W. C. A. Glee Club
Robert Irvin
St. Matthew's P.T. A
St. Matthews School
W. E. Reardon
T. L. McMillan
Y. W. C. A. Dramatic Club
Telemaque Street
W. M. Harper
Louise H. Graves
Marcel Cornett
Ouachita Avenue
Mariel Jasper
Mary Elizabeth Adams
Sarah Guy
Kathleen McWilliams
Mary Corneil
Fern McMurtrey
Gladys Cassano
Nettie Mae Baddock
Annette Cassano
Eleanor Drew
Doris Gomez
Charles Reid
Reid
James Reid
Rayburn
Jackson, Tenn
Jackson
Virginia Hotel
Joann Guerriero
Laura Patton
Theda Lewis
Mary Lee Connelly
Ann Miller
Evelyn Jane Smith
Betty Jean Hardeman
Satchie Sholars
Benny Handy
E. R. Higinson
M. MacCammon
McCammon Inn
Arkansas City
Arkansas Hotel Association
McCammon
B. B. Handy
Alice and
Eleanor Lide
Camden, Ark
Margaret Gangstad
University of Wiines
J. S. Gangstad
Clyde Ramsey
Drew
L. E. Burnell
St. Francis Sanitarium
Missouri Pacific Hospital
Bradford Co
Atlanta, Ga
R. F. Dd
Fanny Darrell
Orient
Egypt
Japan
Cupid
Lake Michigan
Niagara Falls
Ike Pearson
J. J. Beatus
Yvette and
Rosalie
Memphis, Tenn
Marie Sabel
Evansville
Ind
Ford Johnson
D. A. Bradford
Bridget Thornhill
James Monroe Townes
Jason Johnson
Eva Bradford
Mr. Bell Wiggins
Charles Wiggins
Andalusa, Ala
E. T. Burnell
Methodist Woman's Missionary Society
Circle Six
Holloway
Warner
Korea
Mildred Trene Rodgers
Cudd
Missionary Society
Southern Methodist
Anderson
Wesley House
Houma
Louisiana
Ella Hooper
Sholars
Woodlawn
Jackson St
H DE
Hoover Man
United Press
Aya
Lonoke, Ark
Arkansan
ARK. Builers
American Commercial Alcohol Company
Gretna
International Congress of Building and Public Works Contractors
Y Mays
Lorna Grey
States
Ethelbert
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