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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1917
Page
2
Weis Wednesday story hour at Curt Square hosted by the Monroe Public Library. Various social items follow including card parties, embroidery entertainments, travels of Mr and Mrs Barringer and others, illness updates, and a request for a cauliflower canning recipe amid Red Cross fund results showing $850 raised from the street fair.
The sanitarium lawn party raised $200 toward a total of $1 050 for the fund. Dr J L Adams, now in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins, reports the hospital as possibly the greatest he has visited and plans to return by early July. A garden contest by the Chamber of Commerce ends with many entries, while story hour for children is set for Court Square tomorrow afternoon. The McGee family thanks friends for sympathy after Mrs. R A McGee’s death and acknowledges Rev ER Means and Devs Gray and Taylor.
The post reports eight more men have joined the regular army station, bringing total acceptances to 130 with 228 still due. The president has issued a final call for volunteers, and after volunteers are filled, the draft will supply the remaining personnel. Volunteers may choose a branch, but draftees will be assigned where most needed.
An auxiliary of the Monroe Red Cross chapter will be formed among the colored community Thursday night at 8 o'clock at the First Baptist Church. Mrs. Abe Arent, Mrs. J. R. Wooten, and Mr. J. B. Hay will organize with a committee of local colored residents who recently requested help at the street fair. The effort aims to involve the colored community in every department of Red Cross work.
The column notes Maxine Eliott returning from England to pursue California film work after a 1910 11 stage season. It also quotes Mrs. Raymond Robins on flappers and women entering wartime labor, plus Miss Alfreda Mosher's Cosmopolitan Club aiding foreign women. It ends with Norwich University outlining a two week and longer military training camp for civilians and officers during the war.
Mrs. O. D. Oliver of Alexandria is visiting her mother Mrs. M. D. Gore and will be joined Saturday by Mr. Oliver for another week’s visit.
Reports from country districts indicate scattered stains and sections with relief, while others suffer six weeks of drought. Corn growth varies with bed preparation and shallow cultivation. old methods harm stands. Government aid and conditions show limited improvement, with uneven crop prospects.
Syracuse June 25. Grant G. Martin of 105 S Granger Street, deaf and dumb, attended a Marine recruiting rally where Sergeant Gallagher urged enlistment. Martin declined, handing the sergeant a note stating he cannot help due to his deafness, then walked away as several hundred others listened.
The National Council of Congregational Churches, scheduled to meet in Los Angeles, is postponed due to the war. A meeting is moved to October in a central city, with the executive committee stating wartime obligations, missionary plan changes, the centenary celebration, and a hoped revival of religion will guide the council then.
Hundreds of Society of Christian Endeavor members from across Ohio gather in Hamilton on June 26 for the annual convention. An appealing program of business and entertainment, plus appearances by officials from the national society, promise a notable state event.
Summer effort and money in home canning yields large winter returns. Establish a firm “Pather, Mother and Co” with emphasis on rubber rings and hot jars. Prepare jars and processing outfits ready for fruit ripening. use grass containers and crocks for vegetables. Judge Charles Schulze visiting Selma. L A Trenedale presiding City Court during absence.
Gien Baldwin, a former U S Army officer, completed 25 years of active service and served through the Civil War era, followed by assignments in repairs against the war efforts in Denver Colorado dated June 26. The fragment notes veteran status and long service in federal duty.
Brigadier General Frank D. Baldwin U S retired marks more than five decades of service from Civil War to World War I era. He now works eight to ten hours daily as adjutant general of Colorado and was born in Manchester Michigan on June 26 1842. He earned two Medal of Honor citations for actions in Georgia Texas and Montana and commanded forces that defeated Moros at Nyalan on Lake Lanao.
At the Lyceum tomorrow Sessue Hayakawa stars in The Jaguar's Claws a tale of a Mexican bandit who rules with fear capturing girls including an oil field manager's sister and forcing a perilous choice on a young American. Three showings 8 00 9 15 and 10 00.
A letter from Joe Rensick to his parents describes his training at a Fort Worth Texas school. He reports he enjoys the work and plans to seek promotion as the week ends. He signs with optimism about his service and duties ahead.
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