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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1921
Page
2
Social and Personal Items notice lists a Monday meeting of the Dramatic Club in the Council Chamber City Hall at 8 o clock with full attendance urged. Tuesday sees a Business and Professional Women's Unit gathering in the same chamber at 8 o'clock inviting all members to attend promptly.
Doris Austin and Irene Simms co hosted at Mrs L A Austins home with daisies pine boughs and bamboo decor. Carl White and L Mercer won boys prizes and Fannie Mae George and Pendleton the girls prizes. A confectionery course followed. the event was one of the largest West Side B Y P U parties.
Monroe resident and city policeman C. M. Lanier testifies to relief from backache and kidney distress after using Doan's Kidney Pills. The ad urges readers to try the Dean's Kidney Pills priced 60 cents at dealers, manufactured by Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y.
Miss Fannie Mae George returns from Oklahoma City where she was guest of her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Lloyd Boardman. Mr Leon Hammonds spent yesterday in Bastrop on business.
The Senior Epworth League of West Monroe held a party at Mrs. A. F E. Mitchell's home. Miss Emma Rogers won a box of chocolates in a lawn games contest. Guests enjoyed fruit punch and daisy crepe myrtle decor with music by Miss Sutcliff and Mr. Macken roth and Mr. Baldwin.
Mr and Mrs Strong celebrated twenty five years of marriage with a silver anniversary party on the screened porch. Miss Lily Dixon presided at the punch table as guests enjoyed angel food cake, flowers, music, readings, and a two course luncheon. Out of town guests included Mrs Strong’s mother and sisters from Ft Worth and J S Dixon of Little Rock.
The West Monroe Senior Epworth League will not meet on Sunday. A program will be rendered at the First Methodist church in Monroe with leaguers urged to attend. Local notes include visits and travel by Mr. Dave Thompson from Guantanamo Cuba, Mr. Harry Weil from New York, and Mr. C R Russel heading to Elkhart Indiana to see his mother.
Mr. Sidney Schmalinski came back to his Alexandria home after visiting his son in law and daughter Mr. and Mrs Abie Marks. He was accompanied by his daughter Mrs Marx who will stay several days with her parents.
Walter B. Erion of Little Rock says Tanlae cured his wife after seven years of stomach trouble and nervous illness. She recovered fully, gained forty pounds, and enjoys a strong appetite and steady health for two years. He calls it the best medicine ever made.
Miss Nettie Bernstein of Winnfield visits her sister and brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Kaliski. Cadet Briscoe A Trousdale Jr. spends a three month furlough with his parents. he is a West Point student. Monarch Marx returns to New York after days in town mixing business and pleasure.
Miss Mattie Reid returns from Alexandria after visiting Mrs. James Keller and Miss Mathilde Close. Mr. J. M. Keller and son James come home from Alexandria after several days as guests of John and Anthony Keller. Ava and Iva Gates return from Calhoun after visiting Mrs. J. L. Avant. A Monday special Eastern Star meeting at the Masonic Temple at 8 o clock includes initiation.
The Multipliers class of the Baptist Sunday School in West Monroe, led by Mrs. Jack Morrison, picnicked yesterday at Tupan. Attendees included Pearl Haynes, Louise Joiner, Lorraine Williams, Hazel Lipsey, Altarene Barlow, Lallage and Gertrude Feazel, Alice and DeWitt McKeller, Woodrow Coates, Robert Coates, Aliie Marie Coates, and several teachers and chaperones.
The Saturday Afternoon Bridge Club party is postponed because Judge Theus is ill in Chicago. Mrs. M A Bright of Dunn visits Mrs. W E Coates on the West Side as a guest.
England bids farewell to Mrs James William Lowther known as the Woman of Tact after sixteen years managing social duties for the Speaker. She hosted members, curated the gallery, and kept politics nonpartisan while husband James Lowther served in Parliament.
Advertisement offering McMillan's Aqua Vitae water of life at 35 cents per gallon delivered. Includes contact phone 117 and date code 24-5t.
The Picture Garden Saturday presents It Isn't Being Done This Season a sensational adventure romance set in New York and Smyrna. Miss Griffith shows strong powers of expression in tense scenes and displays her famed wardrobe including gowns designed by herself and other world famous modistes.
Ambition WcMillans Acua Vitae promises youth through its water of life available from The City Grocery run by James T. Folmer. A bottle costs 35 cents for 5 gallons with delivery. contact 1115 2 a 24-5t for orders.
An old advertisement page touts McMillen’s Aqua Vitae Water of Life at five cents for logations delivery and Owl Grocery contact. Separately a fragment notes Thomas Gray’s life and works, describing him as author of a sublime English verse with a mostly uneventful life spent in London Cambridge and travels.
Fragmentary text notes a connection from Gray and Stoke-Pogis to a Pennsylvania proprietor who lived with William Penn, the founder of the colony. The item hints at historic ties between early colonial figures and landholders.
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