Lovely Affairs Honor Brides To Be At Garden Parties
Social notices describe Mrs. Effie Allen hosting a barbecue for Miss Betty Lou Seamon at the William Whitfield plantation with pink decorations and gifts of silver. A separate event honors Miss Margaret Ann Harper with a bridge party and prizes, including an electric clock, while Miss Harper receives a toaster. Mrs. Luther Branch hosts a reception for Mr. and Mrs. Robert Robinson with gifts, flowers, and a punch reception, as guests list numerous attendees and presentations of wedding cakes and prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Whitfield
Effie Allen
Betty Lou Seamon
Miss Seamon
la Casa
W. E. Smith
Miss Seam
Faye Todd
Miss Harper
Luther Branch
Robert Robinson
Jena
Camp Happy Land
Margaret Ann Harper
M. C. White
Dennis Chappell
K. D. Hayes
Margaret Mason
Trenton Street
West Monrose
Betty Lou Seamor
Fred Pell Johnson, Jr
D. Curtis Seamon
Funeral Service Set for Saturday at Family Residence
Funeral service scheduled for 2 30 PM Saturday at the family residence 204 Stubbs Avenue. Relatives and friends invited to attend as announcement lists the address for the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stubbs Avenue
Books Bring Adventure Series Teases Young Readers
The Junior Charity League program at Station KNOE in Monroe features Gregor Felson’s Struggle is Our Brother an heroic tale of Russian guerrillas against the Germans. Prizes for fan letters join drawings with entries due May 24 as part of the Books Bring Adventure contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregor Felson
Amsov
KNOE
Ann Flinn
C. B. Flinn
T. G. Gallagher
Ford Levi Stationery Company
Ford Levi's
Nelwyn Rogers
Glenn Carey
Central Grammar School
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
c/o
Monroe
Old Time Melodrama by Little Theatre at Rainbow Inn
Kay Crandall directs two performances of The Drunkard at Rainbow Inn on June 2 and 3 cabaret style with Smitty's menu. Readings for casting held May 3 at Neville High School and 190112 North Third Street. Tickets cost 1.20 dollars and minors are barred by state law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Theatre
Rainbow Inn
Kay Crandall
Monroe
Little Theatre Workshop
Neville High School
Miss Crandall
North Third Street
Smitty
Poppy Day Poppy Making Aids Veterans At Hospital
Disabled veterans in Alexandria hurry 3000 hand made poppies for Poppy Day May 3 to honor war dead and aid recovery through occupational therapy and earnings. Veterans from World Wars I and II work side by side at the hospital under Louisiana auxiliary leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Monroe
Jase Johnson
L. B. Faulk
American Legion Auxiliary
Louisiana Department of the Auxiliary
Ferriday Events Include Senior Play Visit and Weddings
Ferriday Louisiana notices announce the high school senior class play Heart Trouble to be staged at the auditorium Tuesday night. Also listed are an official visit by District Grand Matron Polly Alwood to Vidalia Chapter OES, the Ferriday high school commencement set for May 16, and engagements for Lois Margie to Donald Claude Bergeron with the wedding on May 3. Added items include Dennis Savage serving aboard the USS General Mann since February 4 1946 and the resignation of James M. Doyle as Concordia Parish service officer effective May 1. The Ferriday Garden Club meets April 30 at 3 pm, hosted by Mrs S Howard Henderson with Mrs Frederick Larson. Veterans of Foreign Wars officers C T Jones commander and Woody listed for the Earl Heckler Post 3786.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferriday
Ferriday High School
James M. Doyle
Concordia Parish
State Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Baton Rouge
Ferriday Garden Club
S. Howard Henderson
Frederick Larson
Earl Heckler
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
C. T. Jones
Woody
Northeast Junior College elects junior class president
James Otto Lancaster Jr of Ferriday is chosen president of the Northeast Junior College junior class at Monroe. The article lists new officers Davis first vice commander Bob Warren quartermaster Johnny Vollmer adjutant and Reverend Howard Foran chaplain with installation planned at the next meeting on May 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Otto Lancaster, Jr
Ferriday
Northeast Junior College
Monroe
Local social notes recount visits and guests in Springhill
Marion Miss Claire Jarmon visited Mr and Mrs Doyle Durrett in Baton Rouge over the weekend. Numerous guests called or stayed with relatives including Verna Coburn Ponchatoula Lizzie Smith Monroe Nina Carmichael Bernice and others from Rusk Houston Downsville Alexandria Monroe Springhill Urania Shreveport and Louisiana Tech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claire Jarmon
Mrs. Doyle Durrett
Baton Rouge
Plan Fellowship Supper for Youth Rally at West Monroe Church
A Youth for Christ rally will be held at the First Methodist church in West Monroe led by Rev. C. H. Scott evangelist from Tylertown Mississippi. He conducts revival services and the rally will be held at 30 on Saturday evening with old time songs and choruses and music by a special group of instrumentalists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youth For Christ
First Methodist
West Monroe
C. H. Scott
Tylertown
Mississippi
Youth Fellowship Supper Led by Scott at First Methodist
Scott delivers hour long message Sunday at 6 pm for the First Methodist youth group. Special guests include the Claiborne church Methodist Youth Fellowship. He leads in song and Christian thinking followed by the film Faith Triumphant about St. Paul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
First Methodist Church
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Claiborne Church
Rec
St. Paul
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W.H. Campbell
L. A. Hearne
C. C. Robinson
Starjorie Ewing
Robinson
L. C. Stevens
B. H. Nordan
J. S. Simpkins
Carrie M. Standifer
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Datht
Wineshoro, la
Rayville la
David
JH. Carroll
Leila Baker
Grace Bell
Deenna Bradford
Bobby Branch
Virginia Cummins
Mary Catherine Edge
Margie Ewing
T Helen Garrett
James Gilmer
Mary Francis Griffin
Mary Ethel Hall
Mary Ella Hearne
Jimmie Dee Johnson
Harold C. Kennedy
Harold EF
Kennedy
Lake Oxford
Mignon Oxford
Sarah Rachow
Annette Ragland
James Roberts
Hollis Weir
Ouida Welch
R. C. Willbanks
Billie Jo Alexander
J. H. Carroll
Atheneum Club
Phi Wappa Fraternity
Gilbert Marx
Willa Jean Rogers
Dorothy Powell
Margaret Anne Harper
Marguerite Brooks
Literary Guild
la Casa Tea Room
J. P. Brown
Miro Book Club
A. S. Tidwell
Louise L. McGuire
All Eastern Star
New Orleans
Fagan Cox
South Grand
League of Women Voters
Tisdale
W. M.S
Parkview Baptist Church
Catholic Ladies Altar Society
L. A. Breard
Riverside
Woman's Society of
Christian Service
Stone Avenue Methodist Church
M. B. Hearne
H. F. Boyd
Temple Sisterhood
Women's Society of Christian Service
Girl Scout Leaders Association
First Baptist Church
J. E. Whitfield
Henry Whitfield
Victor Mahr
Twentieth Century Book Club
E. A. Porter
North Second Street
Blanche Wilson
A. S. Tidwell, Sr
Vernon LaCour
A. S. Tidwell, Jr
Music Guild
B. B. Martin
C. T. Coates
Vance Vaile
Pete Brooks
Harold Black
China Boy
Neville
Fay Brawn
Allyn Bell
Harper-Tidwell
First Presbyterian Church
Crystal Ballroom
Virginia
Alma Ruth Simmons
Mary Lee Frost
S. C. Nettles
Coats
Silverstein
Louisiana
J. B. Pickens
Temple B'Nai Israel Sisterhood
C. W. Wallace
A. B. Colmer
Florida
Wallace
Mrs. Colmer
Miami
Palm Beach
Polly Alwood
Vidalia
Hugh A. Bateman
Lloyd Moncrief
Visalia
Lois Margie
Donald Claude Bergeron
Dennis Savage
Isaiah Savage
Wildsville
Savage
the Baptist Church
Delhi, Louisiana
Holloway & Thompson
Marion
Verna Coburn
Ponchatoula
Bessie Smith
Lizzie Smith
Nina Carmichael
Bernice
E. J. Gulley
R. L. Edwards
Rusk, Tex
Bert Dean
Coast Guard
Leon Brooks
Houston, Tex
K. S. Thompson
Mrs. Lizzie Bryan
Downsville
Mrs. S. L. Reeves
A. B. Taylor
Mrs. Clyde Edwards
Doe Edwards
Johnson Smith
Springhill
Larkin Edwards
Urania
Marvin McCarty
Shreveport
Mary Grace Thompson
Howard Gibson
Louisiana Tech
James McVicker
Winnfield
McVicker
Denier
Holloway eThompson
Holloway Thompson
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