Mutilated Body Found at Hillside in Florence
The mutilated body of Myrtle Williams Seay, twenty, was found by a search party on a lonely hillside. Her husband F. W. Seay, a department store clerk and former Hot Springs resident, is reported missing. The body showed head trauma and attempted incineration, with the corpse nude and a pyre of clothing and dry sticks. Police note the case is connected to the husband.
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Hot Springs
Associated Press
Florence
Ala
Myrtle Williams Seay
F. W. Seay
Seay
Caldwell Dipping Vats Go Up Amid Dynamite Attacks
In Caldwell parish police jury raises pressure to resume cattle dipping with inspector Dunn named and local ward inspectors to order dipping next Tuesday. A ward's vats were dynamited Saturday night prompting a rigid investigation. horses and mules now required to dip under threat of prosecution.
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Caldwell
Monroe News-Star
Columbia
David Dunn
Caldwell Parish
Lake Charles Bunch Arrives In City To Play Ball
Fourteen members of the Lake Charles baseball club arrived in Monroe for a three game series with the Monroe team. The club has played seventeen games this season and won fourteen, with past victories over New Orleans Houston Patterson Welsh and Alexandria. They come from Alexandria after three straight wins tallying seventeen runs. They will play Ruston Thursday then Baton Rouge Friday Saturday Sunday back in Lake Charles. The party includes manager W B Reynolds secretary treasurer B M Rachal and umpire L H Johnson. The roster lists Strain at third Weisg g en t shortstop Berger catcher Broussard and Hymel pitchers Pindarvis first base Herriara second base Querry right field Duncan center field Livingston left field and the mascot One Lamp.
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Lake Charles
Monroe
New Orleans
Houston
Patterson
Welsh
Alexandria
Ruston
Baton Rouge
W. B. Reynolds
B. M. Rachal
L. H. Johnson
Johnson
United States
Charles Strain
Charles Wéigent
John Berger
Broussard
Hymel
Pindarvis
Herriara
Jack Que
High Oil Lease Activity Near Mangham Well
Leases near the Mangham well in Richland parish are selling for up to 50 per acre as buyers anticipate tests later in the week. Delays caused by missing liner and material held up operations, with shipments from Shreveport expected to arrive by week’s end. Oil men from El Dorado and other areas have visited the site and invested in royalties amid the idle period.
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Mangham
Richland Parish
Shreveport
Richland
Franklin Parishes
el Dorado
Methodist Church in Monroe Celebrates 75th Anniversary
The First Methodist Church in Monroe marks its seventy fifth anniversary with services led by Rev E K Means. A restored silver vase lost fifty years ago during a snowstorm is returned to the church archives as a relic. Rev Albert Lutz will visit Tuesday for the Methodist campaign. Dayton Mrs Helen Cox Mahoney, daughter of ex Governor Cox, dies suddenly at her suburban home.
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Monroe
E. K. Means
Albert Lutz
The
Methodist Church
Dayton
Helen Cox Mahoney
Cox
Heavy Fines To Punish Speeders
Five speeders were fined $25 and costs before Judge Charles Schulze. The court aims to curb reckless driving and speed mania and deter violators. Pedestrians will be protected as violators are charged with speeding.
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Charles Schulze
Cattle Dipping Efforts Push in Parishes Across Region
In Ouachita Caldwell and Richland parishes officers advance cattle dipping enforcement. The seventh district attorney at Rayville is directed to file information against violators and bring them to court. Dipping orders resume in Caldwell and Ouachita. a dipping vat was smashed but Dr Pellette expects wider success. Local aggregation shuts out Shreveport yesterday 3 to 0.
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Ouachita
Caldwell
Richland Parishes
Rayville
Richland Parish
Ouachita Parish
Monroe Baseball Teams Split Four-Game Weekend, Ready for Lake Charles
Monroe defeated Hirsh and Leman's Shreveport aggregation 4 to 1 in a hard fought opener at Forsythe Park, then shut out Shreveport 3 to 0 aided by Tom Staples pitching. Monroe now faces Lake Charles in a three game series at Forsythe Park with the first game this afternoon.
Dillingham Secures $19,000 Yearly Rent for El Dorado House
W. W. Dillingham, formerly desk sergeant at Monroe, telegrams Monroe News Star that he has leased his brick El Dorado building for three years for 19000 dollars annually. The structure was recently built and news prompts satisfaction among his friends.
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W. W. Dillingham
Monroe
Monroe News-Star
el Dorado
Kentucky militia presses operations in Pikeville region
Williamson May 16 Kentucky militiamen arrived in the fighting zone and strafed the mountain sections. They have arrested five men and brought them to Pikeville, according to a report to the sheriff's office.
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Williamson
Kentucky
Pikesville
Masked Bandits Rob Grocery at City Limits Shootup
Three masked robbers tried to hold up Spatafora's grocery on DeSiard road Saturday night. Spatafora grabbed a shotgun after retreating to his sleeping room and fired, wounding his butcher by mistake as the suspects escaped with about $14 to $15. An armed clash followed as the grocer and his worker exchanged shots. Officers Pettit and Ham investigated. one man was detained as a suspect but not linked to the robbery.
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John Spatafora
DeSiard Road
Spatafora
Butcher
Frank Pettit
F. K. Ham
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