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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1930
Page
7
From Wednesday to Monday the Ruston Daily traces local visitors, travel, illnesses, and social calls. Names include Z T Gayne, C H Tait, Bagan Crawford, Alice Dann, Laura Meeks, Helen James, Frances Davidson, and many families. mentions autos accidents, hospital stays, trips to Monroe and Shreveport, and plans for Florida and Lake Charles excursions.
Local growers reveal varied ambitions from old fashioned seeds to verbena yards and painted foliage. Bright displays include cactus banks and coleus spots as summer nears. Nationally the wild rose is chosen as the United States flower, winning 492,811 votes out of 1,067,676, with columbine second at about 200,000.
Lake Charles dispatches detail the 20th annual meeting of the Louisiana conference M. E. church south with national president Mrs. F. F. Stevens of Columbia, Missouri addressing the council. State president Mrs. Virgil H. Spinks and Mrs. E. L. Walker of Lake Charles join sessions with Walker slated for an address on Children's Work. Louisiana Magazine from the State Chamber of Commerce editor Miss Pauline C. Griggs features Louisiana Polytechnic Institute with vivid illustrations and articles on state topics. Former Tech student Bill Graham and wife visit Ruston after years, staying with Frank Bogard before continuing to New Orleans and the Gulf coast. Graham, a Louisiana Tech graduate of 1914, is with the York Heating and Ventilating Corporation in Philadelphia, now based in Chicago.
The Woman's Missionary Society of Temple Baptist met Monday afternoon with twenty seven members. Officers were elected and plans made to organize after lessons from How and Why. Officers named: J G Davis president D R Russ first vice President D M Cruce second vice president Bryan Thigpen third vice president and Young People's Director W D Risinger corresponding secretary Dora Brittain recording secretary and C P Digby treasurer. The group will form the organization before April Royal Service. They voted to adopt an orphan and planned a fifth Monday social for 3 to oclock in the Young People room. Reporter.
Miss Thelma Chrisholm of Seattle and Miss Effie Moncure of Shreveport visited the city last weekend to promote Lambda Theta’s bid to the national sorority. They arrived Friday and were guests at a formal dinner hosted by Mrs. R. W. Davis with Tech sorority members present. Saturday afternoon Mrs. G. H. Henderson hosted a formal tea for the distinguished visitors.
A string of social events is recounted, including a luncheon hosted by Mrs Floyd James, a house dinner for Miss J J Hollands guests, and teas at Iron Rock farm. Lambda Theta Sorority welcomed a large new class, with Baton Rouge visitor Mrs Fred Smith present. Carolyn Cupp hosted a birthday party with games, a geography quiz, a “Traveling Abroad” relay, and a log fire gathering. Guests listed include Mildred Lomax, Genevieve Cole, Billy Lewis, Lynwood Williams, and many others.
Albert Strain of Simsboro pleaded guilty in district court on disturbing the peace. He was fined 10 dollars plus costs with a 30 day jail default.
Motorists on the Dixie Overland highway west of Ruston face a Thursday closure with a detour via Cooktown road to Trussell's store and a gravel cutback road. A new paved link between Simsboro and Arcadia will open Monday, shortening trips, with an anticipated Minden to Shreveport route around April 10 improving Arcadia to Athens to Minden travel.
Mrs. Elsie Mills of Detroit reported she was kidnapped near her home, then forced into her car bound with adhesive tape a dog collar and rope to the driver’s position. She said two of three men in another car jumped in and drove her to a station south of Bad Axe, claiming threats over a civil suit by a former landlord.
The Oakland Motor Car Company reports heavier sales at the 1930 New York and Chicago automobile shows than in 1929. A census question aims to measure how many regions or redigs exist in the United States, while the piece playfully asks about the number of smigny saxophones.
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