Modern Cinderella Shines as Summer Spirit Transforms Town
In a sunlit idle season story, the outdoors lure brings golf crowds to Monroe’s miniature links and crowds flock to camps near national parks. The piece highlights the Shenandoah Forest Service allowing Girl Scouts to use a site, and notes social events, travels, and cultural programs, including a Eugene Pryor band feature and reminiscences of notable local guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Girl Scouts
Shenandoah National Forest
Virginia
Miss May and Mr Guthrie United in Marriage Today
Miss Frances May and Grayson Guthrie were married at the First Methodist Church in a ceremony witnessed by family. Rev. W. W. Drake officiated as the couple planned a Blue Ridge mountains honeymoon and future apartment home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss May
Mr. Guthrie
First Methodist Church
Frances May
Frank May
Grayson Guthrie
Crescent Bend Plantation
Fannie Livandais
Hadley Leavell
Jack May
W. H. Marshall
Dallas
Texas
Aqua Marine
Guthrie
Allen Guthrie
Jack
Thomas May
W. W. Drake
Blue Ridge Mountains
Community Events and Concert Notes July Highlights
Local groups list schedules for July including C E school events and An nie Bennett chapter meetings. Y W C A glee club, bridge benefit, church picnics, and Methodist Missionary Society meetings are planned with multiple venues and times.
Monroe Club Sees Library Grow With Book Donation
Members of the Business and Professional Women's club hosted a book shower tea to fill the empty shelves of their clubhouse library. Balzac sets Shakespeare volumes Bible commentaries fiction and history were donated by locals including Mildred Richardson Helen Roseboom and R. E. Allen with entertainment from an in-house orchestra and song by Lydia Oakland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Missionary Society
Pine Street
Methodist Missionary Society
Parlor City Grove
Woodman Circle
All Groves
Circle
Y. W. C. A. Dramatic Club
Telemaque Street
W. M. Harper
Sue Graves
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Presbyterian Auxiliary
Circle Eight
Business Women of
Presbyterian Church
Bill Matthews
Monroe
Alladin
Business
Mae Johnson
Ruth Touchstone
Emblem
C. C. Bell
Katie Odom
Mildred Richardson
Helen Roseboom
R. E. Allen
Moonlight Picnic Honors Clarks Chief Electrician Busch
Clarks moonlight picnic on LaFourche bayou honored A. Busch chief electrician. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. A Busch, Mr. and Mrs. A Scribner, Mr. Otis Hixon of Standard, several Misses from Standard and Columbia, with others named among the guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Star
Clarks
LaFourche Bayou
A. Busch
A. Scribner
Otis Hixon
Standard
Mildred Wieble
Bell Cotton
Audry Smith
Bonnie Pearl Ledbetter
Columbia
Esther Richman
Connie Mae Knight
Council Members Learn Veritsen Not Averse to Bribery Plot
In Sag Harbor the Graders family plots to thwart Philip Veritzen who seeks an interview with Noel. Miss Graders enlists Parnell the bellboy and a switchboard ruse to foil potential bribery while Katherine and Noel stay hidden from Veritzen's reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Veritsen
Dicky
Philip Veritzen
Noel
Central
Sag Harbor
Katherine
Parnell
Mrss Graders
Graham
Local notables listed from Clarks Monroe and Standard
Dottie Dows of Clarks Wiley Cotton of Monroe Herbert Winkler of Standard Messrs Clayton and Dick Fenton Harry and Robert Busch David Bolton and Lester Scribner of Clarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dottie Dows
Clarks
Wiley Cotton
Monroe
Herbert Winkler
Standard
Messrs
Clayton
Dick Fenton
Harry
Robert Busch
David Bolton
Lester Scribner
Elopers Determined Detroit Case Involving Teen
Fifteen year old Marvin Jackson elopes with Mrs Ellen Klotschsak twenty six, the mother of a local family. The event triggers a pursuit and legal questions as authorities investigate the impropriety and seek custody considerations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elopers
Detroit
Marvin Jackson
Ellen Klotschsak
Richmond coroner Whitfield opposes clipping service fees
Richmond coroner Dr. James M. Whitfield says he would like to see his name in hometown papers without paying clipping fees, signaling skepticism about commercial clipping services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
James M. Whitfield
Nice Girl Comes to Town Engagement in London Plot
A week of courtship ends as Mary Lou Leslie agrees to a make believe engagement with aviator Ton Titherington to win backing from his aunt. Ton refuses marriage but seeks funds, while Mary Lou enjoys the chance for a fun stay in London aided by cousin Jay Jerome arranging a job in a gown shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou Leslie
Ton Titherington
Ony
Mary Lou
Tony
Mary Louw
Jay Jerome
London
Mary Lou faces departure as Tony prepares to fly
Mary Lou's joy with Tony tightens around fear as his imminent flight nears. A farewell party at Jay's studio ends with a torn moment of honesty and Mary Lou's hidden dread. Tony reassures, but she fears the edge of what comes next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou
Tony
Mary Lou Leslie
Titherington
Jerry
Jay
Berkeley
Mayele Greig
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Bridge
W. D. King
Fairview
Ned Leigh
Leigh
George Trousdale
Morris de Larot
T. J. Sandridge
Gordon Surgaine
Gordon Wright
Morris DeLarot
W. A. Walker
W. E. Hatchell
J. E. Godfrey
R. B. Sadler
Alexandria
H. EF. Stevens
Milling Bernstein
J. B. Thornhill
Harold Monk
L. P. Abernathy
B. W. Leigh
Morriis Emmich of
Vicksburg
Miss
Evelyn Reims
Edgewater Country Club
Lions Club
J. D. Williams
Mabel McLeod
Jackson
W. B. Moore
la Plata
E. F. Fenlon
Fenlon
Patty Moore
Prentice Gray
Tulane University
Carl Stroud
Canada
S. J. Newton
California
S. J. Meek
Meek
Shelby Meek
Mary Elizabeth
Shreveport
Franz von Suppe
WEAF
Arthur Pryor
Suppe
Cremona
Spalato
Dalmatia
The
Reillery
Monroe City High School
State Normal
Monroe Pan Hellenic
Delta Sigma Epsilon Sorority
Ouachita Parish
Louisiana Tech
Central Savings Bank and Trust Company
W. A. Vernon
St. Francis Sanitarium
Carl and
Mary Helen Weaver
Charles Weaver
Dixie Street
Missouri Pacific
Pine Bluff
Sheridan
G. D. Weaver
Secant County
Grant County
Wilna Pace
Four Horsemen
Emma Louise Beidenharn
First Church
Christ Scientist
Miss Beidenharn
England
Beldenham
Albert Vietcher
Elizabeth Johnston
Sophie Newcomb College
Department of Music
Margaret Bovall
New Orleans
Tchaikovsky
WJZ
Turkey
Siberia
Anthony Gibbon
Riverside Sanitarium
C. D. Kirby
Lafayette
Charles Delman, Jr
Business Club
G. C. Cornett
Cornett
Wayne Walmsley, Sr
Wayne Walmsley, Jr
Chas. Varnell
B. M. McKain
Warren Garrett
B. Mulhearn
Horace Terrell
Lydia Oakland
Adele Garrison
Icky
Purnell
Underwoods
Mary
Harry Underwood
Lillian
Phil Vertinen
Veritzen
Weatere Berrien
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