Great Increase Assured for the Catholic School
Registration day at St. Matthew is expected to top 800 pupils, surpassing last year’s 250. An additional classroom and a new teacher will raise the faculty to nine this fall. A new large modern school is planned on Jackson and Grammont streets, but construction has been delayed and is hoped to begin within a year under Rev. N. F. Vandegear’s guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Matthew's Parochial School
Jackson and
Grammont Street
N. F. i Vandegear
Bastrop Social Notes Mention Club Event and Local Visits
Miss Justine Dorman hosted the Girl's Sewing Club gathering in Bastrop on Wednesday evening with many attendees listed by name. The piece notes a Bayou Bartholomew picnic with numerous young women and several men, plus a dinner party hosted by Mr. George Goodwin and visits by Mrs. Erling Riis and Mrs. G. W. Hiatt with family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Star
Bastrop
Justine Dorman
Thostesa
Katt
Gertrude
Beryl Madison
Dorothy Taylor
Marie Brower
Eunice Eldridge
Deryl Buford
Helen Sype
Roberta Todd
Mildred Shell
Winifred Montgomery
Myrtle Caldwell
Ruth Staples
Ruth Spier
Ola Mizelle
Ione Brodnax
Ruth Baker
Alta McBride
Mesdames J. I. Garrett
Jas. Reily
F. B. Winberry
A. H. Dumares
Hugo Spier
B. L. Kelley
J. R. Ludlum
G. H. Dorman
Hies Ella Pipes
Collinston
Bayou Bartholomew
Ada White Myrtle Caldwell
Duncan Buford
Brigham Todd
J. Murray Semmes
George Goodwin
Mesars
Charlie Lemon Young
Roy Watson Morris
John Madison
James Shell
Bert Wall
Lewellen Bentley
Hadley Leavell
Billy Loftin
Bobby Bacon
Charlie Goodwin
Erling Riis
Dorothy
Green Bay
C E Spence Heads to Big Meet for J C Penney
Manager C E Spence of the J C Penney Company at 316 DeSard Street left Thursday for Atlanta where on Friday and Saturday he will attend a major industry meet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Spence
J.C. Penny Store
J. C. Penney Company
DeSardetrest
Atlanta
Henry Busse Divorce Suit Hints at Alimony Claim
Broadway figure Henry Busse faces a divorce suit seeking fifty thousand dollars in alimony as he searches for the source of the remark the woman pays. The tale centers on a disputed financial claim amid a domestic case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
Henry Busse
Busse
Managers Convene in Atlanta to Plan Merchandise Moves
The institution's managers from Alabama through West Virginia gather for a two day convention at Hotel Henry Grady in Atlanta. Speakers include E. C. Sams J. M. McDonald R. L. Whitman W. M. Bushnell and George T. Mitchell. Afterward they remain eight days to buy holiday and spring merchandise from forty New York buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Grady
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
North
South Carolina
Texas
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
E. C. Sams
J. M. McDonald
R. L. Whitman
W. M. Bushnell
George T. Mitchell
Atlanta
New York
Second Crew Initiates 45 Mile Bayou Survey
The state conservation department started the second five man crew at Bayou DeSiard this morning to continue the south shore survey. The work extends from the bayou’s extreme west end to the Louisiana Baptist Orphanage, covering about forty miles encircling the bayou. The local office promises the project will be hastened to conclusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bayou DeSiard
State Department of Conservation
Louisiana Baptist Orphanage
The
Conservation Department
Awards in Scholarship Contest by Naami Lodge No 19 K of P
Public notice lists winners of the Naami Lodge No 19 K of P scholarship contest closed Sept 8, 1925. First prize Lulla Estell Crannon $105, second Haywood Jackson $75, third Mary Duncans $60, plus church prizes and other awards totaling $306 raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naami Lodge No. 19
K. of P
Lulla Estell Crannon
Columbia
Haywood Jackson
Monroe
Mary Duncans
St. James M. E. Church
Zion Traveler Baptist Church
Zion Hill
Baptist Church
Wilton Young
Morris Bartlett, Jr
Shernan
Sactnan
Ve. le
TS. Donald
A. H. Henderson
Iowa
Autos Sought for Orphanage Kids to Circus
Tomorrow afternoon the Teflis Grotto circus will perform for Louisiana Training Institute boys and Louisiana Baptist orphanage children. L N Collier asks for car owners to help transport about 125 orphanage children to and from the circus with contact at phone 14038. The show starts at 2:30 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Morton
S. Teflis Grotto
Louisiana Training Institute
Louisiana Baptist Orphanage
Training Institute
L. N. Collier
Neva-Star
Hard-surfacing Planned for Baton Rouge Roads
The Jefferson Highway will be paved with a hard surfaced composition from Baton Rouge to Hope Villa about 14 miles, and the Hammond Baton Rouge highway will get a hard surface from its junction to the Amite river bridge. Funding may come from a nearby bond issue, with concrete base and black top, 24 feet wide to the junction and 18 feet wide onward, widening to 60 feet at start. completion aimed before 1926 ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
A. P
East Baton Rouge Parish
Hope Villa
Hammond-Baton Rouge
Amite River
Amond Highway
Strange tree frog carries eggs on its back in South America
A South American tree frog species is noted for a striking habit where the parent bears the large eggs on its back until they hatch and the young remain attached for a period after. A new occupational disease called Radium necrosis affects workers painting watch dials with radium.
Henderson Buys Ruston Block as Poultry Plans Emerge
In Ruston on September 11 A H Henderson bought half a city block on Alabama avenue between Trenton and Vienna for 26000 dollars. He has no definite development plans. Colfax banker C R Bennett and T L James plan a poultry farm at Oak Grove near Ruston ready by October 1 stocking White Leghorns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Star
Ruston
A. H. Henderson
Mattie Finlay
Alabama Avenue
Trenton
Vienna Street
Henderson
C. R. Bennett
Colfax
T. L. James
Oak Grove
Lincoln
Presbyterian Sunday School Missionary Visit and Shreveport Attorney Guests
Miss Alys Bond of Arcadia visits Miss Maudie May Thur man as Presbyterian Sunday School missionary work is noted. Attorney Howard Warren of Shreveport arrived in Ruston yesterday to stay with his mother Mrs. E. F. Warren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Sunday School
Alys Bond of
Arcadia
Maudie May Thurman
Howard Warren
Shreveport
Ruston
E. F. Warren
Shell Waste From New England Canneries
In coastal New England, vast mounds of clam and oyster shells pile up outside canneries reaching fifteen to twenty feet. Farmers haul away some shells to grind for chicken feed, while the rest remain as coastal waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Sea Food Canneries
New England
X rays in treatment of whooping cough and infant diseases
A historic note reports the use of X-ray technology in treating whooping cough and infant diseases such as rickets. It mentions a tame elephant consuming over one thousand pounds of green fodder and twenty five pounds of unhusked rice daily.
Oil Drilling Resumes Near Monroe In Union Parish
Oil operations reemerge as summer ends with the Jones-Walker well in Union parish near the Ouachita line, in Section 6-19-2. Drilling depth reached 2568 feet before a 185 foot setback, water supply remains a hurdle, and a 0.75 mile water pipeline is in place. A second test by Rush Culver in Coco Bend Ouachita river region Section 28-18-82 shows surface casing at 309 feet and optimistic early signs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Jones-Walker
Union Parish
Ouachite, Parish
Mr. Jones
East Union Parish
Ouachita Parish
Rush Culver Et al
Coco Bend
Ouachita
Cane Hill
Also Mentioned on This Page
Henry Bussey
Bayou
Shard
Munholland-Danwitz
DeSiard
Monroe, la
Camp Devens
Mass
Deal
Ruston Compress
Supt. Reed
Union Parish Public Schools
Farmerville
R. W. Elain
Union
DeStard Street
Penney Jr
Lisle
Jacquard
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