Good Cheer Club Fund Raised in Ruston Drive
Mayor Charles C. Gayne announced the annual Good Cheer Fund drive to aid the needy. A nucleus fund of 40.64 dollars was started from the Thanksgiving service offerings at Trinity Methodist Church. Citizens are urged to donate early, with acknowledgments published in the Daily Leader. A special committee will oversee collections and help ensure aid reaches those in need during the Christmas season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles C. Gayne
Trinity Methodist Church
Gayne
Daily Leader
Ruston
McGregor Named to Succeed Odom for Court of Appeals
T H McGregor formerly practiced law in Shreveport says Gov Huey P Long signaled he would be appointed to the court of appeals to replace Judge Fred M Odom elected to the supreme court The appointment would give McGregor a two year term with potential election in 1932 if he desires a full term Judge Odom plans to remain in Shreveport until his children finish the school year.
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Shrevefort
T. H. McGregor
Shreveport
Rayville
Huey P. Long
Court of Appeals
Fred M. Odom
Supreme Court
McGregor
Long
Court of Appeal
Court of Appeal Judge Both To Mrs. McGregor and Himself As Well As To Judge Odom
Odom
Supreme Bench
New Orleans
Sanders Baskin to report on convention at Legion meeting
At the McFarland No. 2 American Legion post meeting on Tuesday at 7:30 PM at the Legion Hall, Sanders Baskin will present a report on the State convention held in Alexandria. Delegates included post officers, with attendees Ralph O Nea l addressing the delegation at the Rapides Court House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McFarland No. 2
American Legion
Legion Hall
Sanders Baskin
Alexandria
Mr. Baskin
John Staples
Perry Cole
L. J. Fox
W. 8
Rutledge
Clarence Warner
Bentley Hotel
Rapides Court House
Ralph O'Neal
Legionnaires
Lake Charles
Bentley
Hosiital
Legionnnaires
District Court Opens December Term With Guilty Pleas
The Lovak District Court convened for December term this morning with several cases heard. Some defendants pled guilty and were deferred for sentence until Tuesday. others set for trial. Charges included assault with a dangerous weapon, selling liquor, and disturbing the peace.
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Lovak
Heavy Rain Halts Road Building In Lincoln Parish
A two and a half inch downpour Saturday damaged rural Lincoln parish roads especially new ones. Roy Rinehart, Police Jury secretary, says new construction stops for winter while equipment and crews shift to maintenance to keep all forty school buses running.
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Lincoln Parish
Roy Rinehart
Police Jury
Tech Extension Forms Three New Evening Classes
The Louisiana Tech extension division announces three new classes guided by D G Armstrong and department heads. A United States history course runs Saturdays at Jena high school. Monroe hosts mental hygiene and English composition classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at St Francis sanitarium. Nurses at St Francis benefit, but others may enroll. The program already runs nine classes across Roston Monroe Jena Columbia Junction City Arcadia.
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Louisiana Tech Extension Division
D. G. Armstrong
BR. L. Biesele
Tech
Jena
United States
Great Britain
Jena High School
Gustaf Freden
Tech Education Department
Monroe
St. Francis Sanitarium
Freden
H. J. Sachs
Tech English Department
Tech Extension Division
Ruston
Columbia
Junction City
Arcadia
Carcass fragment of ice preserved lizard-like creature found
Cordova Alaska November 29 part of the ice preserved carcass of a lizard like prehistoric creature found near Glacier Island on November 10. W J McDonald superintendent of Chugach national forest described a 24 feet 1 inch long skeleton with a pelican like snout elephant head three blade vertebrae five fingered flippers no teeth and an estimated 1000 pounds. Measurements of the snout head and vertebrae given with photos sent to the United States for examination.
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Cordova
Alaska
Glacier Island
Here
W. J. McDonald
Chugach National Forest
McDonald
United States
New York's Average Idle Has Wife, Two Children
New York November 28 A statistical study of 11 000 cases from the emergency work bureau shows New York's average unemployed man is 40, with a wife and two dependents. He was a clerk posing as a laborer, earning 37 1/2 dollars weekly before losing his job in November 1928. He spent his savings of 1143 two months ago and has not bought new clothes for 14 months. During the summer he moved his family from a commodious apartment to two furnished rooms.
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New York
Het Work
Former Tech musical head builds New York City career
A Ruston raised musician and former head of Louisiana Tech Music, Rev Holloway, now bassteat taetor at a Madison Avenue church, oversees a $3,000,000 sky scraper extension at Park Avenue and Sixtieth Street. The plan aims to host an 800 seat auditorium, a chapel, parish hall, game room, gym, and more under architect Ralph Adams Cram. The church may drop Methodist Episcopal in favor of Christ Church and become interdenominational while remaining affiliated with Methodism.
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New York City
Ralphs Adams Cram
Riverside Church
York City
Holloway
Ruston
Methodist Episcopal
Christ Church
Ralph W. Sockman
Tech
John R. Conniff
Riou
Hendrix College
Conway
Arkansas
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Columbia University
Young Holloway
Rialto Theater
Hoboken
First Methodist Church
North Little Rock
William Holloway
Hodge
Louisiana State University
Louisiana Tech
Ex-Sen. Reed Visits New Orleans for Legal Case
Former Missouri senator James A. Reed arrived in New Orleans from Kansas City with wife Laura for a Monday court appearance before the U S circuit court of appeals. Reed, known as the White Crested Warrior, said he came as an attorney and would not discuss public matters. Governor Long arranged a private, off the record meeting with Reed at the Roosevelt hotel.
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New Orleans
James A. Reed
U. S
Missouri
Kansas City
Roosevelt Hotel
Laura M. Reed
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Senate
Vieux Carre
Canal Street
Governor Long
Reed
Franklin Moore
Earthquake Devastates Peninsula Killing 250 in Japan
Tokyo reports 250 known deaths and 1,000 plus injured after a powerful quake that rocked the day peninsula. About 5,600 houses destroyed. 30,000 evacuees camped for shelter as army and Red Cross aid arrived. War Department allocates 651,000 to repair the Deer Park Bend levee in Concordia Parish.
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Tokyo
Army
Red Cross
Cies
Japan
War Department
Deer Park Bend
Concordia Parish
Sheriff Warns Public About Highway Parking
Sheriff A. J. Thigpen announced a warning against parking on public highways and paved roads. He said deputies will enforce the law as cars parked along the highway have caused serious accidents and drivers must pull to the roadside as required by state law.
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A. J. Thigpen
Boy Swallows Frying Pan Operated On
A three year old boy in New Orleans, Clifford Myers of 902 Delachaise street, was operated on at Charity Hospital by Dr. Arthur Vidrine to remove a toy frying pan swallowed during play. X rays showed the pan in the stomach and a test meal failed to dislodge it. the operation Saturday was successful and the boy is recovering.
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New Orleans
Arthur Vidrine
Charity Hospital
Clifford Myers
Delachaise Street
Wiam J. Myers
Vidrine
Miss Stone Demonstrations Planned Across Parishes This Week
Lincoln parish home demonstration agent Miss Sophia Stone announced demonstrations in Tanecelay parish and nearby communities through the week. Locations include Longshaw, Greenville, Douglas and New Hope. Residents are urged to attend.
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Sophia Stone
Lincoln Parish
Tanecelay Parish
Ruston Delegates to Louisiana Methodist Conference
Four Ruston district representatives depart Tuesday for Alexandria to attend the Louisiana Methodist conference meeting. Judges E L Walker and T L James plus Rev H M Johnson and Rev Robert B Brown will be present with more than 150 delegates expected. The Ruston district covers Lincoln Jackson Union Bienville and Claiborne parishes.
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Ruston
Alexandria
Louisiana Methodist Conference
E. L. Walker
T. L. James
Trinity Methodist Church
H. M Johnson
Robert B. Brown
Robt. W. Vaughan
Walker
Board of Lay Activities
T. W. Holloman
Hoyt. M. Dobbs
Shreveport
Theatete
Johnson
Brown
Lincoln, Jackson, Union
Bienville
Claiborne Parishes
Funeral Held For Mrs Staples In Trinity Church
Funeral services for Mrs C F Staples former Ruston resident and wife of the late Reverend C F Staples were conducted at Trinity Methodist church Sunday at three o clock. A large crowd attended. Mrs Staples is survived by three children Charles Staples of Dothan AL Ruth Staples of Birmingham and Isabell Staples of Atlanta. Interment followed at Greenwood Cemetery beside her husband.
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C. F. Staples
Ruston
Trinity Methodist Church
Chinese Bandits Kidnap U. S. Missionary Women
In Peiping China two Western women Mrs Ef8 Haywood and British nurse Miss Gomersal, both connected to the Chingeland Mission, were abducted by bandits while traveling from Lanchow. They were stripped robbed and held captive near the railhead 20 miles from Pao Touchen and face harsh cold as Haywood requires surgery.
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Peiping
China
Haywood
Miss Gomersal
Gomeral
Lanchow
Kans
Pao ‘Touchen
Promise suit against aged man is dropped
Texarkana Arkansas November 87 A suit for 5000 dollars filed by Miss Mattie Hickey 30 against J W McFaddin 70 in Miller County circuit court was dismissed without prejudice Wednesday Miss Hickey consented to marry McFaddin aged younger man to her date but the match ended when he wed a young widow of Oden Arkansas after a courtship of four days McFaddin's answer says she mistook friendship for love and was deceived by her own imagination
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Texarkana
Ark
Mattie Hickey
J. W. Mcraddin
Miller County
Miss Hickey
Aslent Mcraddin
Oden, Ark
McFaddin
Three Sunday School Groups Near Goal At Meeting
A parish union event at First Presbyterian featured Prof B S Jenkins discussing The Man Who Climbed Tree. Special choir music accompanied the program, and many visitors planned to join a local Bible class. Trinity Methodist hosted the union service with strong church representation, continuing the fifth Sunday meeting tradition.
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Monkay
First Presbyterian Chea
Profissor
B. S. Jenkins
Louisiana
Leck
Jenkins
Union
Trinity Methodist Church
H. M. Johnson
Will Discuss Dairying At Local Meet In Ruston
The Ruston Chamber of Commerce board will hear a plan to develop modern dairy farms in the Ruston area tonight at 7. T. J. Neal of Shreveport and J. Ed Howe, recently moved from Ruston to Shreveport, will introduce the proposal to encourage dairying with northern farmers. B. H. Rainwater, president of the chamber, will chair the meeting.
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Ruston
Ruston Jhhamber of Commerce
H. L. McKnight
T. 3. Neal
Shreveport
J. Ed Howe
Chamber of Commerce
B. H. Rainwater
Holland Entertainers to perform at Louisiana Tech
The Holland Entertainers, a six member Dutch family group from Wilhelmina land, will perform at the Louisiana Tech auditorium next Wednesday at seven. They will present native music from six instruments including Swiss Hand Bells and Cymbal Harp, with folk songs and dances in native dress. Admission is free and all residents are urged to attend Tech for rare entertainment.
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Wilhelmina
Ruston
Louisiana Tech
Tech
Netherlands
eoChanelg Liktisht
U S Accepts Site For Baton Rouge Building
Washington reports the Treasury accepted a site offered by the city of Baton Rouge Louisiana for a new federal building. The chosen site is at the northeast corner of Florida and St. Patrick streets, with the government exchanging its current federal building site in return.
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Waolingtun
Bala Routtee
The
Treasury
Florida and
St. Apthwig Streets
Federal
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Hon. F.M. Odom
District Court
Pred Holloway
Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Bronght
Colemnitf
Tavine
Ituston
Pikronigze Ue
Gfutm
Louisville Times
England
America
Miss Stone
Methodist Conference
Pour Ruston
U. 8
Holland
U.S
Baton Rouge
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