Crepe Myrtle Time Enjoyed In Monroe
The article describes Monroe's spring atmosphere with crepe myrtle blooms and tropical showers. It notes a Wednesday garden wedding at the R. H. Carpenter home on Hudson Lane with Miss Mary Wigley and Mr. Sidney Gill as principals. A pre nuptial courtesy honored Miss Mabel Sharpe Davenport, and a Junior Music club program with Beethoven pieces was held at Mangham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Xepy
Tropics
R. H. Carpenter
Hudson Lane
Mabel Sharpe Davenport
Monroe
C. 3. Flinn
T. G. Gallagher
Met Rouge
Bridge
Jack McIlwaine
E. M. White
Davenport
Dorothy Calvert
Charles Goodwin
G. T. Madison
Leon Davenport
Cecil Armstrong
Donald Bacon
C. C. Davenport
Jack McIwaine
Emmett White
Joseph Davenport
Hugo Davenport
J. Shaw
G. T. Goodwin
F. Garnier
M. Swan
Stanley Maxwell
Beethoven
Mangham
Carl Underwood
Mayrene Baxter
Lee Baxter
Roger Baxter
Willie Dell Chapman
Pauline Chapman
Julia Dot Gates
Frances Eppinette
Minnie Kathryn Pardue
J. C. Tillman
Mary Carl Underwood
Bettye Jo Windham
Wade Strickland
Katherine Curry
Bill Strickland
Doris Beverly
Mary Wigley
Sidney Gill
Mrs. R. H. Carpenter
Community Calendar And Local Society Notes
Tuesday program meetings include Presbyterian auxiliary on home missions led by Mrs Newney at 3 p m and Methodist Missionary Society at the church at 2 30 p m The Woman s Council circles meet at 2 30 p m Circle No 1 Mrs R E Fuqua Circle No 2 Mrs E R Dawson Circle No 4 Mrs L B McCarthy DeSiard Reed St Ann s circle meets with Mrs W R Hubner at 2 30 p m A benefit party hosted by Mrs M Veazey at 3112 Lee avenue supports the W F W Auxiliary hospital fund Also wedding announcements and party invitations reflect a busy week with five upcoming weddings and numerous social gatherings including a birthday party and dance for Travis Hudson and a motor trip by several local residents to California.
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Presbyterian Auxiliary
Home Missions
Newney
Methodist Missionary Society
Woman's Council of the First Christian Church
R. E. Fuqua
Forsythe
E. R. Dawson
Hawes
J. R. Cullipher
Monroe Social News Highlights and Arrivals
Mrs. Fagan Cox heads to Hendersonville with niece Martha Jane Hill to serve as junior counsellor at Camp Carlyle. Monroe attendees include Betty Sue Shotwell Shirley Kaplan Martha Kilpatrick and Carolyn Rose Strauss. Obse rvations at Dixie chapter 179 O E S Friendship Night featured The Temple of Friendship and gold Dixie keys. A long guest list, tea, and poems accompanied the event. Alfred Jr. returns from California while Mrs Redmond Robson visits Monroe with son Alfred Jr. The Carter family welcomes a daughter June 14 at St Francis Sanitarium. Delta Beta Sigma members attend a Hot Springs convention. Various visits and travels noted among local residents and relatives.
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Dixie Chapter
Temple of Friendship
Dixie
Local social notes recount visits and funeral observance
Grayson Mrs T L Sorrelis returned from Baton Rouge with her daughter. Visitors included Mr and Mrs R F Meredith of Downsville and Mr Houston Meredith of Geese Creek with niece Mrs W C Valentin and nephew J C Hines. Several guests from Alexandria Shreveport Tioga Jena and Forest share gatherings and a funeral in Pineville for Mrs O C Miller. The Methodist Missionary society held an all day quilt making event at Mrs Sorrelis home.
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T. L. Sorrelis
Baton Rouge
Mildred Osterberger
R. F. Meredith
Downsville
Houston Meredith
Geese Creek
Tex
W. C. Valentine
J. C. Hines
T. M. Gordy
O. C. Miller
Houston
Pineville Cemetery
Miller
Clarks
The
Methodist Missionary Society
The Army Post Murders by Virginia Hanson
A social evening on a midwestern army post ends in tragedy as Elizabeth leaves the dance and a murder unfolds. The narrator, Adam, and other post residents navigate jealousy, loyalty, and hidden tensions amid balloons and tapping, leading to a grim, unresolved incident.
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Army Post
Virginia Hanson
Adam
Barney
Elizabeth
Anne
Doc Moore
Watsons and relatives visit. Beverly Stucky heads east
Marion and Mrs Max P Watson of Monroe spend the weekend with relatives here. Elmer Murphey of New Orleans stays with his parents and relatives. Mrs R E Pace of Farmerville visits. Miss Beverly Stucky leaves for Malone New York motoring to Buffalo where she will meet her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs C W Badwas for plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Newman
Atlantic City
Max P. Watson
Monroe
Elmer Murphey
New Orleans
Beverly Stucky
Malone
N. Y
Buffalo
Visitor to Canada Plans Summer Trip and World’s Fair Week
The subject will spend the summer visiting in Canada and, before returning, will spend a week at the World’s Fair.
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Canada
Visiting kin and friends across the South
Sicily Island resident Mr. E. D. Chisum Jr. of Fayetteville Ark visits his parents. Mrs. Ted Morehead of Shreveport guests her parents. Little Miss Ellen Denham of Baton Rouge visits the Denham family.
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E. D. Chisum, Jr
Fayetteville, Ark
Mrs
E. D. Chisum
Ted Morehead
Shreveport
T. L. Hardin
Ellen Denham
Tech teacher to have trip abroad
John M. Kavenaugh son of Mrs J M Kavanaugh of Clay will spend the summer in Europe sailing from New Orleans June 3 aboard the Edam. He will visit Havana London Ireland Scotland and possibly Italy and Germany before returning aboard the Leerdam arriving in September to resume duties as English instructor at Louisiana Tech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Guerriero
George Green
New Orleans
Dr. Guerriero
L. A. A. Medical Center
Charity Hospital
Ruston
John M. Kavenaugh
J. M. Kavanaugh
Clay
Europe
Edam
Holland- American Steamship Company
Havana
Cuba
London
England
Ireland
Scotland
Italy
Germany
Barbara Hutton Returns to England from the United States
Barbara Hutton formerly of the United States and her three year old son Lance arrived in England aboard the Normandie. She told reporters she felt safe in England and expressed relief at not fearing kidnapping of her son while abroad.
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Elizabeth
Mrs. Orpington
Mother
Charlie
Adam
Ma Wheeler
Adams
Plymouth
England
Horseshoeing Declines Yet Holds At Navy Yard
Charleston on June 19 reports that horseshoeing is less common but not dead. An ad for blacksmiths at the Charleston navy yard drew 15 applications.
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Charleston
S. C
Charleston Navy Yard
New Japanese Destroyer Isokaze Launched at Sasebo
The Japanese navy launched the destroyer Isokaze at Sasebo on June 19. Specifications of the vessel were not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sasebo
Japan
Isokaze
DeLee Doing Well After Saturday Appendectomy
Seah DeLee of Monroe was reported doing well in Vaughan Wright Bender clinic Monday after an appendectomy Saturday. Leah is the son of Mr and Mrs S B De Lee of 1020 North Seventh Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delee
Seah DeLee
Monroe
Vaughan-Wright- Bender
Leah
S. B. DeLee
North Seventh Street
Requests marriage license cash back in Elberton
In Elberton Georgia a shy man visits the marriage license office asking for a refund on a license bought the previous day. The clerk jokes that if he changes his mind he can change the name on the license and the man leaves with the license intact.
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Elberton
Shrimp Biography Document Issued by Fisheries Bureau
The Bureau of Fisheries released a 73 page work titled The Early Life Histories of Some American Penaecidae Chiefly the Commercial Shrimp detailing the development and background of shrimp species in American waters.
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Washington
Bureau of Fisheries
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Peggy Rasbury
Crystal Springs
Miss
Edith McLendon
Evelyn
John
Katherine Fluitt
James Clayton Richardson
Julia Reed
H. R. Ray, Jr
McKinley Avenue
Rodney J. Hobbs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
DeSiard Street
First Baptist Church
B. M. Hudson
Travis Hudson
Lurline Scott
Enos Thompson
Mavis Coleson
Gibson
Hoot” Fowler
Mildred Miller
Vernon Scott
Louise Minyard
Harry Farmer
Gloria Fowler
Lucien Reneau
Christene Glass
Sidney O'Neal
Nell Coleson
Charlie Reneau
Ruth Thompson
J. C. White
Grace McClusky
Donald Berry
Harvey White
Ernest Thompson
Aubrey Mason
Stanley Dyer
Junior Mears
Paul Quinn
J. C. Coats
Travis Coleson
Jesse Mauser
Bobby Kilpatrick
J. D. Maxwell
Rogers Taylor
Allen Coats
Benjamin Brodnax
Robert White
Jack Farmer
H. A. Parks
A. E. Hawkins
Marshall Mann
N. V. Parks
John Warren Platt
Ann Warburton
Francis Cameron Payne
Grace Episcopal Church
Louisiana
Lela King
C. E
Mrs. Fagan Cox
Eleanor Woods
Castle
Virginia Newman
Henry Ray
Emma Rosenbaum
Floy Ham
Ariah Culver
Mildred Schrader
Mattie Hirsch
Mae Gardner
Margaret Barker
Geneva Castle
Nita Golson
Eddie Carkuff
Catherine Strong
Myrtle Evans
Bertha Causey
Willie Pumphrey
Sophia Smith
Blanche Ray
Hammond
West Monroe
Lillian Keller
Mamie Kersh
Bessie Wood
Welsh
Ruth Brazil
Katie McGee
Hazel de- Wees
Lorena Fuqua
Eveleen Sackett
Russie Watts
Anna Cooks
Margaret Hartman
Willie Passman
Birdie Mae Mulhearn
Turner
Louise L. McGuire
Redmond Robson
Alfred, Jr
California
Page Military Academy
Delma Carter
St. Francis Sanitarium
Delta Beta Sigma Sorority
Hot Springs
Juanita Lippman
Betty Middleton
Ann Atkins
Douglas Pettis
J. N. Knowles
Keary Ham
Wilson, la
F. C. Reynolds
A. P. Callahan
Hammond, la
FE. K. Hunt
Howard F. Hunt
United States Navy
Mare Island
Calif
U. S. S. Clark
John Green
Bill Corser
Birmingham
Mobile
Ala
Elsie Henry
Paducah, Ky
Mrs. H. T. Smith
Chicago
Cox
Parent-Teacher Association
Lafayette
Myrtle Rodgers
State Association
Miss Rodgers
Grayson
Allison Warner
Lucille Wooldridge
Alexandria
Virginia Thomas
Joyce McCarty
Tioga
Owen Watson of
Jena
W. S. Howell
W. T. Robinson
Forest
Katherine Cornish
Charlie Spencer
Adam Drew
Tubby Shaw
Kay
Kathy
Tubby
W. R. Yearwood
R. C. Denham
EB. W Chisum, Jr
Natchez
Lily Mae Seal
Hattie Harris
Martin Enright
Edward Trichel
H.C. Peck
L. S. Us
Ralph Matthews
University of Arkansas
Marion
R. E. Pace of
Farmerville
Sicily Island
Helena Rubinstein
New York
Barbara Hutton
C. B. Thornton
A Arail
S. Arcrid
American Institute of Laundering
WPA
Aerate
St. John St
Yhureday
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