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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1927
Page
7
The junior board committee met to amend by laws and plan next year’s program, to be approved at the next junior board meeting. Tonight at 7 p.m. the Chamber program committee meets with auditors Rainey Atkins Faulk Davis Ethridge and Cox Rainey Davison to review the audit rendered gratis for two years.
All city schools are redecorated repainted and repaired for the summer. The Georgia Tucker school adds an emergency room for first aid adjacent to the medical office. Faulk school has extensive work and several rooms painted. Lida Benton school on Lee avenue nears completion and will be prepared for fall term opening.
Eight boats departed Baton Rouge shortly after 5 a.m. for New Orleans in the Lakes-to-the-Gulf race last leg. They expect to arrive by noon or 1 p.m. Arthur Davie aboard Miss New Orleans won the loving cup from the Baton Rouge chamber of commerce for the Natchez to Baton Rouge fastest run and received the award at a chamber dinner. The Natchez start was 9:20 yesterday with a finish at Baton Rouge at 8:42 p.m. The Natchez to Baton Rouge leg is about 130 miles, similar to Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
Li Shih Hao a former minister of finance received official protest letters over dancing by young Chinese men and women in his restaurant. Students returning from Western countries wives and daughters of other officials and Chinese newspapers defend the dances.
The American head of an ancient church, Archbishop Alexander of New York, presides as metropolitan head of the Greek Orthodox Church during a ceremony in Los Angeles. The photo in International Illustrated News captures him in regalia before a large number of communicants.
New York June 80 The article argues commercial aviation must advance to replace the old freight car, noting that daily it moves goods at about ten tons per mile per inhabitant of the United States.
Many girls and women doing housework or working long hours in stores use St. Joseph's G F P to help. The product contains Blessed Thistle Blue Cohosh Root Squaw Vine Life Root Helonias Root Star Grass Cramp Bark and other herbs known to strengthen women. Mrs Ethel Allen of Dallas Texas reports improved energy and capability after starting the remedy.
In Monroe three local veterinarians run 5 to 7 pm dog vaccination office hours at the old power plant as part of a city ordinance requiring rabies shots. With about 1 500 dogs to treat, extra days are granted. July 11 will see dog catchers, with two teams, to humanely destroy unvaccinated dogs under Dr. E. C. Edwards’s Ouachita parish health unit.
A humorous verse laments a wife's dinner decisions as she contemplates an omelet chop or savory fricassee while reflecting on Nature's plan that assigns women the task of feeding hungry men.
Red Cross will end its Monroe flood relief base at city hall after two months. C J Smith will stay in Monroe as relief lead for Ouachita Morehouse Caldwell West Carroll Madison Richland and Franklin Parishes with a Baton Rouge assistant to aid casework. Over 100000 has been spent from Monroe on flood relief and an itemized report will be released soon.
The local civil service board announces US examinations for clerk carrier. Men only may apply with a deadline of August 10. Applications on prescribed forms require attention to instructions. Mr. David Carter at the local post office can provide further details.
Revival meetings in Minden lead Rev Frank Tripp to cancel his talk at Barkdull Faulk School. Dr B M McKels will speak on the event's program, with preparations for a large audience at the Rivers sanitarium school commencement night.
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