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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
2
Thursday Mrs Harry Prophit will entertain the Afternoon Bridge Club at the Riverside Club at 3 o clock. Saturday Mrs Ben K R Dowling will be hostess to the Saturday Afternoon Bridge Club at her home on River Front at 9 46 a m.
Don Stroud and Sibyl Miller married last night at the Methodist parsonage at 9 by Rev E K Means. The couple planned a ceremony for tonight but slipped away for a double ring wedding. Attendants included Zula Kirby and James Brown as best man. An informal reception followed at Mrs Don Stroud Jr.’s home with a confectionery course.
Miss Estelle Adams hosted a polite dinner for guest Miss Josephine Brideaupt of Memphis Tennessee. The table featured pink rosebuds and shasta daisies as a centerpiece and a delicious course dinner was served.
Miss Bessie Reynolds won the ladies prize and Mr Tom Adame claimed the gentlemen’s prize at a five hundred card session. Logtown Sewing Circle enjoyed a luncheon after a guessing contest on Irish city names. Various guests attended gatherings hosted by Mrs H Huffman and others, with notices of travel and a hospital update for Mrs H M Allen.
The wedding of Mr. Lewis Langford and Miss Eloise Larche took place yesterday afternoon at 4 15 at the Presbyterian Church. The ceremony drew notable interest due to the couple’s prominence and was followed by customary congratulations and reception details.
A large wedding crowd gathered at the church for the Larche nuptials. The altar and aisles sparkled with ferns, daisies, and phlox while a pre nuptial concert preceded Rev Wallace Clift’s ceremony. The bride Mary Alice Larche wore white taffeta with lace and carried rose and lily bouquet. groom Beverly Handy stood as best man. Afterward the couple departed for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Out of town guests included Mrs Lou Flournoy and Langford family from Rayville and Lafayette connections chalked up in the social pages.
Levi P. Morton died at 96 after a long life of business leadership and public service. Born in 1824 in Vermont, he directed millions, ran a model farm on the Hudson, and supervised all work there. His career spanned a era of rapid transport and communication advances.
In the autumn of his life he looks back on a quarter century of development in which he played a useful part. Mr Morton, at eighty, is younger than many businessmen at fifty and believes in keeping the mind primary and the appetite secondary.
Portsmouth June 23 Jo Paul Jones seven years old begins a thousand mile journey home to siney California insured for 25000 unaccompanied and tagged to his destination. He is insured for three days against injury death or loss.
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