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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1930
Page
5
Sheriff A J Thigpen granted Mary Givens a temporary remission for good behavior after a nine month stay of a fourteen month sentence for selling intoxication liquor. She claimed circumstance influenced her conviction but was found selling liquor again with aid of a white man and was placed back on the road to finish her term.
In accord with the Articles of Association the regular annual election of Directors will be held at the bank on Tuesday January 13 1931 between 10 am and 12 noon. Treasurer or vice president Thompson is noted in the notice and signed as V P.
In accordance with article 6 of the charter of the Ruston State Bank Rus ton Louisiana a stockholders meeting will be held in the banking room on Tuesday January 6 1931 at noon for the purpose of electing a board of directors to serve for the ensuing year 1931 This December 16 1930 J P Graham Cashier 12-16-déew
In accord with the Charter and By Laws of the Citizens Bank and Trust Company of Ruston the regular meeting is scheduled for Tuesday January Ws 1931 between the hours of 104 In and 12 W S May cashier.
Ruston Fire Department members were given a box of homemade candy and fruit cake early Sunday morning. The gift was from Miss Lucille Bays, a Poplar student at Louisiana Tech, who firemen praise as a culinary champion.
Berkeley, Cal Dec 27 Miss Charlotte Guy an 18 year old ident nurse worked Christmas day when an automobile wreck brought a non patient to the hospital. As she bandaged the patient she realized it was her mother Marianetta Guy 48. An hour later the mother died from injuries suffered in the crash.
Fields Will Hold Hearing January 14 in Baton Rouge with the Public Service Commission. Harvey Crields leads the case requesting a special hearing for all North Louisiana parishes outside Shreveport and Caddo. Topics include allegations against agencies and actions by Texes-Loubiana Power Co affecting Arcadia Hinggold and nearby towns.
Citizens seek lower domestic and power rates tied to Arcadia electric plant owned by the defendant company. Several bus permit cases from West Carroll Parish routes will be heard. Missouri Pacific and L A railroads plan petitions to discontinue depots. Mr Fields requires strong evidence before granting any agency discontinuances.
New York's Christmas orchid bill climbed to one hundred thousand dollars. Florists sold twenty five thousand fragile blossoms and last minute prices reached twelve dollars per orchid in some shops.
New Orleans reports November total of 9,206,600 for building and engineering work across the New Orleans Territory including Louisiana Southwestern Arkansas and Southeast Mississippi. Louisiana start work for November reached 7,373,500 with New Orleans construction totaling 871,200.
J B Thigpen reports 2200 poll tax receipts issued this morning with about 650 more expected before midnight Wednesday. Voters must have two receipts to be eligible to vote in the next two years elections, urging timely payment of taxes.
A fire at Bernice consumed the igent s drug store and a two story building housing offices. Ruston firemen arrived too late to save the store, with about 3 4 thousand dollars in stock lost and 10 thousand dollar building loss partly insured. The building was owned by Senator BE B. Robinson.
New Orleans reports by December 29 show the Louisiana Highway Commission has placed 4.051 million dollars in road work under construction in three weeks. The scope includes 13 concrete paving jobs, six bridges, and surfacing and grading of 11 roads as Louisiana’s 75 million dollar road and bridge program begins. Chairman Q. K. Allen notes it is a nationwide attention moment with growing contractor interest and competitive bidding.
Hollywood veteran Willigin H. Taylor known as Billy the Scout, aged 103, dies. Born 1827 in Old Mexico, he served in the Confederate army, then the US Army, fought Indians on the prairies, and later scouted for General Custer before retiring to California 34 years ago.
Walter Baird, a Tyler area farmer four miles from town, sold $1,388.84 worth of milk in eleven months with 14 percent kept for home use. His net income reached $987.44, about $90 monthly, from ten cows excess calves could become beef. He markets all milk to Tyler milk products plant and plans higher profits with grain pasture and feed cost reductions.
New Orleans December 28 Governor Long will receive his first college degree in February when Loyola University of New Orleans confers the title Doctor of Laws at special exercises. The Loyola Board of Trustees cites two services: work on five text books and authorship of the Long volume Compilation of the Constitutions of the State of Louisiana. Governor Long previously completed a law course at Tulane in seven months and passed the bar exam without a college degree.
Edenton, N C Dec 27 This town of four thousand turned in a Christmas department record that other communities may envy It reads like this Arrests none Court cases none Calls to police headquarters none Calls on the county sheriff none
Lin Crees of Missouri reports a kitchen fire after an oven was lit while fortune notes and papers were left inside. The husband obtained duplicates of the notes, while friends who reacted declined to help, worsening the loss.
Chaos from a severe midwestern storm in early December battered the Mississippi valley from Cheyenne to Wisconsin. Extreme heat and cold waves caused widespread damage and fatalities while crops and livestock suffered heavy losses. Fires broke out, intensifying the disaster as cold fronts pushed southward toward Texas and Minnesota.
A severe cold wave chilled the nation with January temperatures plunging to 48 below in Hatfield Wisconsin and widespread readings of 36 to 40 below. Fifteen deaths from exposure were reported while southern Indiana and Illinois faced freak rains and Wabash floods. Dozens of families were left homeless as planes dropped food and clothing to marooned settlements. one man drowned as Army engineers estimated damage near seven million dollars.
Chicago police say Edward Szwed aged unknown did not believe in Santa Claus yet sought to play St Nicholas for his four sisters by stealing toys from a store with aid from his father who was hiding them. Judge Frederick Elliott placed the father on probation and freed the boy. The judge urged the boy to keep being considerate of his sisters but stop taking what does not belong to others.
December 1 1930 meeting notes Lincoln Parish Louisiana Police Jury includes salary for Tick Eradicator budget 2100 00 and 4500 00 for Tick Eradication with trustee Colvin O’Neal approved pauper lists and quarterly grants six dollars. Committee to devise relief work authorized. Budget totals 31650 00 with anticipated revenues 27000 00 whiskey fines 4500 00 and other items. Meeting adjourned to last Monday in January.
Sheriff A. J. Thigpen lauds Ruston and Lincoln parish for a peaceful Christmas season with no calls for misdemeanor complaints. He says Lincoln parish shows high law and order and no pranks in the area.
The sheriff praised Lincoln parish for its cultured refined and law abiding residents saying there is no other place in the world with a higher level of living and more joy in life.
Flame the four month old German police dog and mascot of Ruston firemen died Sunday morning from nervous distemper after a two week illness. Firefighters held burial services and transported the remains to Dan Watts farm four miles west on the Aimsboro road.
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