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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1925
Page
3
Eva Bradford’s column lists upcoming meetings at the Eastern Star Masonic hall and Methodist Missionary Society, plus social visits in Ya Gibsland and Atlanta. It covers Rotary entertainment by Antony Blanks, college students visiting New York and Boston, and multiple local gatherings and hostess events.
Mr and Mrs William Gladney settle in at Fairview and host friends. Eleanor Faulk, Marie Anders, Sue and Louise Graves depart for Mayland Tennessee for a Camp Nakawana summer with Shreveport and Texas groups and their counsellor Miss Gates. In Chattanooga they join Georgia and Mississippi guests to visit Mt Lookout before boarding a coach to the camp, one of the nation’s best organized, hosting 250 girls with a waiting list for admission.
A New York thunderstorm knocked the arm from the cross atop St Patrick's Cathedral's spire and toppled a five ton granite ball from the American Museum of Natural History. No injuries were reported as fragments showered rooftops and streets.
A powerful storm in Union City New Jersey blew out an electric cable at the hospital filling the lobby with smoke. Fifty patients panicked while a four foot hole was torn into the church tower. Five people died in accidents across New Jersey during the night rush hour.
A one man trolley careened down a hill in Jersey City crashing into a crowded car. Three people died and 41 were injured. Two killed in Hammonton auto crash. Two injured and eight hurt in Brooklyn trolley wreck.
Artesian Well Dater sourced drinks at the soda fountain served by Jarrell Drug Co which operates through the night.
Milner Motor Company launches a sixty day sales contest among ten salesmen. Each ten day period the lowest average wears a brown derby on Monroe streets until surpassing rivals. At period end the top scorer wins an as yet undecided prize. Participants include J W Caldwell J D Pritchard Gordon Cummings H E Slaughter Jim Slaughter Dewey Simmons J H Thompses W O Kelly Gibson Thibault.
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