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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1925
Page
1
Forty physicians attended a monthly gathering at the local hospital where Shreveport doctors Crain, W. Kerlin, T. Lloyd, and L. Meroid shared papers. The meeting drew attendees from Shreveport and visiting physicians from Bastrop and other delegations.
Albert C. Perkins, aged 78, died at his niece Mrs. B O Perkins 106 Mire Street yesterday. He was single and spent his few times on a local farm before moving to the city to live with Mrs. Perkins. The funeral is set for this afternoon at 4:00 with burial in Riverview Cemetery.
Big Labor Day Good Roads program includes a free dance for union men at Forsythe park pavilion Monday night at 9 with Phil Bernhardt's Gloom Chasers providing nine musicians. A letter from Miss Sue Whitehead notes Monroe visitors expect dancing and a complete event.
McGuire Bros. of this city return from El Dorado reporting completion of yard grading for the Missouri Pacific railroad roundhouses. The line is investing heavily in yards and terminals, and the new El Dorado passenger station, costing $100,000, has just been completed and occupied.
Deputies Roper and Mitchell found a complete 50 gallon still and about 100 gallons of mash in LaFourche swamp roughly 18 miles southwest of Monroe. No arrests were made as no person was present and the owner was unknown. The still and mash were destroyed.
F T Mc Pherson chief mechanic at Louisiana Power Sterlington escaped with slight injuries after falling 26 feet from an air duct to timber while working under a generator. He was taken to St Francis Sanitarium last Tuesday.
The Ruston District Scout Committee hired Robert Du Bose of Monroe as assistant to Scout Executive Keith. Du Bose will base in the Chamber of Commerce Building and work on fall and winter plans, after completing the Scout Executive's school at Peabody College with high marks.
The parish will award a booby prize to the poorest penmen and a best in penmanship banner to the top grade each month through the seventh grade. Paper pens and ink will be used to standardize monthly tests, aiming to spur better writing and rivalries among rooms.
Mrs. D. Shumaker widow of Rev. D. A. Shumaker who was murdered at Swartz last summer will start a midsummer revival at Hearold school house one mile south of Mangham next Sunday at 7 80 oclock. She notes the church building was bought by a member of her faith The Church of God to avoid disturbances and invites the public to attend.
Local listing promotes dinner at Gem Cafe located at 222 South Grand with a regular price of 50 cents. The note is terse and dated with a simple three item cue 1 3 5.
A correction confirms Miss Barbara Louise Herron of West Monroe as the September baby prize winner. Earlier report misstated Miss Betty Claire Bawcom as winner and gave the wrong birth time. Herron was born at 2 10 a m on September first, two hours after the Bawcom child.
In Baton Rouge on September 3, Troy E. Himmelman of Mankato and Glen Dixson of Minneapolis bought the Hotel Alvis and its lease from Roy Heidelberg and A. H. Alvis. The deal covers note equipment and lease with unspecified price. Himmelman is a major Minnesota hotel investor, holding key stock in the Nicolet in Minneapolis. Heidelberg plans to return to Jackson for an enlargement program at the Heidelberg hotel there.
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