New Teachers Added to Parish High Staff
Due to heavy enrollment the parish high school adds two teachers Miss Lucy Moore English and Miss Willie Mae Porter history. Total registration 950 this fall with 560 in the high school, 100 above 1924 high school enrollment. Construction plans for a new high school unit postponed until January 1. frame kindergarten building to be moved to Grand and Bry Streets lot, after dispute over the site last spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Moore
Willie Mae Porter
T. O. Brown
Brown
Talamaque Street
Grand and
Bry Streets
Parish School Board
Fire Prevention Pamphlets To Be Widely Circulated
National Fire Protective Association literature arrives in Monroe from Boston and will be distributed widely. Fire prevention week runs October 4 to 10 with meetings, literature, and a planned hotel banquet. Pamphlets cover structural defects and the economic waste from carelessness in fire safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
National Fire Protective Association of
Boston
Lone Star Board to Meet Highway Head Monday
A special Monroe meeting at Baton Rouge will be held Monday at 11 a m in State Highway Commissioner Will Atkinson’s office to discuss proper Lone Star Highway marking to meet federal requirements. President Henry E Harditner of the Lone Star Highway Association leads the session with potential Monroe representation by D F Walker or J M Breard.
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Baton Rouge
Will Atkinson
Lone Star Highway
Henry E. Harditner
Lone Star Highway Association
Monroe
D. F. Walker
Chamber of Commerce
J. M. Breard
Lone Star
Little Rock
Ruston Youths Spread Across Southland Colleges
Ruston youths study at L P I and about thirty others attend colleges and universities in the Southland including Zoe Heard L S A Dallas Miss Bess Vaughn and Helen Davis L M U Dallas Margaret Davis Kidd Key Sherman Dorothy Davis Randolph Macon Mary Olive Davis at Washington D C Lavery Lewii King Smith Studio Ardis Lewis Georgia Tech William and Floyd James University of Tenn and more. Mr and Mrs W L Hodge of Simsboro celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary Sept 21 1865 Perry county Alabama. He taught school till age 60 and now 86 she 76. First shipment of the improved model Fords reached Ruston.
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Star
Ruston
Southland
Zoe Heard
Bess Vaughn
Helen Davis
Dallas
Tex
Margaret Davis
Kidd-Key
Sherman
Dorothy
Mary Olive Davis
Randolph Macon
Lavery Lewii
King-Smith Studio
Washington, D. C
Ralph Talbot
Manning Fletcher
Wm. Klienschmidt
J. B. Harris
Tulane
Thomas White
Jack Ritchie
Vanderbilt
Ardis Lewis
Georgia Tech
William and
Floyd James
University of Tenn
W. L. Hodge
Simsboro
Perry County
Alabama
Louisiana
Hodge
Arkansas
Local Car Show Draws Attention at Feazer Motor Co
Visitors attend the Feazer Motor Company showroom display week long. Mrs Glen Laskey of Wichita Falls Texas returned home after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs A M Davis in Ruston. She was joined by Mrs Graves formerly Miss Mary McNair of Monroe. Lena Mae Ross of Jonesboro Louisiana and friends toured Ruston en route to Collinston where Miss Ross will teach high school.
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Feazer Motor Company
Glen Laskey
Wichata Fal'l
Tex
A. M. Davis
Shreveport
Graves
Mary McNair
Monroe
Lena Mae Ross
Jonesboro
Ruston
Collinston
Crime wave slows as arrests stall in Monroe
City residents wary after a spree of murders with no arrests since last Wednesday. Only one arrest occurred that day, a black man involved in a fight. Recent city court activity focused on traffic offenses with few cases heard.
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Monroe
Stovall Barge Heads to New Orleans With Heavy Freight
A Stovall Transportation barge leaves for New Orleans carrying cotton lint ers ink drums from Fairbanks and carbon black from the Southern Carbon Company and other local concerns. Lint er bales total forty to fifty, ink drums one hundred twenty, carbon black eight hundred cases. Rivers have risen after heavy rains in Oklahoma improving Red River navigation. Captain L V Cooley's George Prince boat, loaded with passengers and freight, is due in Monroe late today or tomorrow after passing Harrisonburg where minor navigational trouble occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stovall Transportation Company
New Orleans
Crescent City
Fairbanks
Southern Carbon Company
Monroe
Red River
Oklahoma
L. V. Cooley
George Prince
Harrisonburg
Delayed Cooley boat arrival alters schedule
Unspecified fixes were reportedly completed this morning. Unforeseen delays cause the Cooley boat to arrive slightly later than its usual schedule.
New Store Building for Walker Brothers
A contract will be awarded in the near future for the construction of a new store building for the Walker Brothers. The project signals expansion for the local retail business and involves city approvals and contractor bidding processes.
Walker Brothers to Build New Corner Store on Third and Olive
A brick building 40 by 100 feet with concrete floors and a glass front will be erected at the corner of Third and Olive streets for the Walker Brothers Grocery Company. The store will be ready by about January first, after which the Walker Brothers will move from Dea Siard street to the new premises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third and
Olive Streets
Walker Brothers Grocery Company
Walsker Brothers
Dea Siard Street
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Parish High
Board
Grand Street
Cobb
J. G. Cobb
West Monroe
Lone Star Board
Purina
Quality Feed & Commission Co
DeSiard St
Munholland
Danwitz Furniture Co
DeSiard
Monroe, la
Stovall
Walker Brothers
Endicott-Johnson
Hunt & Whitaker
Lieber & Company
Enney Vo
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