Good Cheer Club reports 1929 charity efforts and thanks
The Good Cheer Club finished Santa Claus work for 1929 and supported by Red Cross aid, provided food clothing medical help and transport to charity hospital. Thirty white families received warm clothing fruit candy and toys. seniors and twenty five cases aided. Merchants and Model School contributed. thanks extended to donors and purchasing and packing committees. The Ruston Leader urges more subscriptions in 1930.
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Good Cheer Club
Santa Claus
Red Cross Avk
Charity Hospital
J. G. Davis
W. ©. Simonton
W. T. Iadley
J. D. Holland
Ile
T. E. Raley
Thieves Strike Dubach Store Again In Robbery
Late Monday the Dubach merchant R. T. Henry reported thieves rifled his store safe, taking 300 to 400 dollars in cash while leaving 200 dollar checks and 4000 dollar notes. Entrance was via an office window. State fingerprint experts and local sheriffs investigated but no arrests by Tuesday afternoon. Two nearby establishments were robbed the prior week as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. T. Henry Merntire
Dubach
R. T. Henry
Henry
State Bureau of Identification
Shreveport
Thigpen
Clyde Frasier
Local Compress Reports Record Cotton Bales This Year
J T Gullatt superintendent of Ruston Compress announces a rise in bales handled this year compared with last. Factors include more acreage fertilizer use and better gin facilities. current season total 53 794 bales with about 7 900 possibly added. Also notes 1903 Vancouver tourists. 17 percent visited tourist camps.
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J. T. Gullatt
Ruston
Gullatt
Arkansas
Vancouver
B. C
Miss Elsie Sutton to Enter Home Demonstration Work
Miss Elsie Sutton a Louisiana Tech Home Economics graduate and former Jeff Davis Consolidated High School teacher will begin home demonstration work in Mississippi on January 6. She taught in Berwick Louisiana for two years and completed Tech in winter 1924. Daughter of Mr and Mrs E B Sutton of Monroe Street, she may be stationed in Grenada or Lafayette county after January 6.
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Elsie Sutton
Home Economic Department
Louisiana Tech
Jeff Davis Consolidated High School
Water Valley
Mississippi
Miss Sutton
Berwick
Louisiana
Tech
E B. Sutton
Monroe Street
Miss
Former Ruston Student Found Dead On Road
Two youths, Glen Grafton and George Lindsay, were found in a stalled Buick north of Homer. Grafton died. Lindsay recovered. Poison liquor believed, coroner ordering analysis. Grafton, from Bernice, previously attended Louisiana Tech and Baylor. Funeral plans pending.
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Glen Grafton
W.W. F. Grafton
Bernice
Homer
J. F. Kinder
Claiborne Parish
George Lindsay
E. B. Middleton
Kinder
Shreveport
Lindsey
Grafton
Lindsay
Haynesville
Louisiana Tech
Baylor University
Waco
Texas
Aeechee
Melba Grafton
George Grafton
Progressive Signal Traffic Plan for Canal Street New Orleans
New Orleans traffic lights will be placed eight feet above sidewalks on Canal Street edge of neutral grounds after the new year. The progressive system will show go signals along the street for steady driving, then be expanded to other streets as feasible.
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New Orleans
Canal Street
Quiet Christmas Day in Ruston Brings Peaceful Celebrations
Old citizens called it one of the quietest Christmas holidays. Sheriff Thigpen and Marshal Ritt singer reported no misdemeanors, and no accidents occurred. City officials added traffic police to manage congestion, while residents spent the day in family time, church worship, and traditional observances.
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Ruston
Thigpen
Marshal Rittsinger
Christ
Gayne
Governor Plans State Offices In Shreveport
Governor Huey P. Long announced plans to establish district highway offices along with local offices for the state bank examiner the department of public accounts the conservation department minerals division and the governor for Shreveport. He said the facilities would be on one floor for public convenience with 3 to 5 million dollars projected to be spent in Caddo parish in coming years. Currently offices are in Bossier City and the Caddo parish courthouse. The highway district office would supervise road work across the fourth district.
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Shreveport
State Highway Department
Huey P. Long
Highway Department
State Bank Examiner
Department of Public Accounts
Conservation Department
Thch
Caddo Parish
Bossier City
Fourth Congressional District
Tulane Plans Largest Medical School Expansion Yet
Tulane University announces a new medical school building adjacent to the Hutchinson Memorial in New Orleans costing over 1.25 million dollars. This expansion brings total medical expansion spend to over 2.5 million dollars, with classes for first and second year students to be directed there while upperclassmen move to the current building. The downtown Richardson Memorial will then house other university departments as space tightens.
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New Orleans
Tulane University
Richardson Mermorial
Guilford's Grand Old Man Retires After Long Service
Alderman F F Stankpiece of Guilford England ends 64 years in public service at age 86. He followed his father as town clerk from 1874 and later became a leading figure in local governance, marking a storied career of public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. F. Stankpiece
Guilford
England
IsRe
Aloruey
Grandson Of W. K. Duncan Injured In Holiday Accident
Raymond Duncan ten year old son of Mr and Mrs Ben Duncan of Texarkana Arkansas and grandson of Mr and Mrs W K Duncan of this city was seriously injured early Wednesday when a miniature bomb he made with fireworks exploded under a tin bucket sending fragments into his face and blowing one eye out. He was taken to a Texarkana hospital in critical condition. Mrs W K Duncan left Ruston for Texarkana yesterday.
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Raymond Duncan
Ben Duncan
Texarkana
Arkansas
W. K. Duncan
Ruston
Second Annual Homecoming Day At Hico Friday
Citizens of Hico twelve miles northwest of Ruston voted to make Homecoming an annual event held December 27 each year. The second Homecoming drew about three hundred attendees including Mrs. W. T. Owens of Alexandria and Mrs. Coco of Marksville who recalled early life in Hico. Speakers praised local educators and the late Prof. T. R. Hardin, with a picnic and planned basketball games hindered by rain.
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Hico
Ruston
W. T. Owens
Alexandria
Coco
Marksville
Owens
Myrtle Matthews
Birdie Henry
R. W. Henry
Banker
Dubach
Holy Land
Willie Britt
Evelyn Owens
W.T. Owens
E. L. Walker
Walton E McBride
T. R. Hardin
Hardin
Remarkable 20 year gain in Charity Hospital value
New Orleans report shows Charity Hospital property and equipment rising from just over 1.5 million dollars in 1910 to about 6.25 million. Real estate valued at 2,385,545.55 with buildings supplies and equipment nearing 3.2 million. Radium valued at 17,400. A future audit will cover Tulane University hospital alongside Charity.
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New Orleans
Charity Hospital
Tulane University School of Medicine
State Department Of Agriculture To Old Short Course
Announcement was made this morning by County Agent A J Shealy that the State Department for farmers will hold a short course at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute on January 30 and 31. Lectures will cover digging? no, dig h y ing, poultry raising, cotton culture and fertilization with demonstrations on stock judging and farm terracing. Courses led by state department experts. A large enrollment is expected from Lincoln Parish and other parts of North Louisiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Shealy
State Department For Farmers
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
Train Crew Finds Body Of Man Near Tracks Yesterday
The body of a man found near the U S tracks four miles east of town is identified by his widow as W M Osborn of Monroe. He is believed to have fallen from a moving freight train Tuesday night, and death is attributed to exposure after the fall. The body was sent to Shreveport for burial.
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Illinois Central
W. 8. Rutledge
Clyde Frasier
W. M. Osborn
Louisiana Avenue
R. S. Osborn
Fannin Avenue
Shreveport
Ward
Ruttledge
McLure Company
Rutledge
Norvell
Monroe
Elgin
North Third
Ruston
Osborn
R. &. Osborn
Fannin Street
Jack Kennedy
Lves
Madeline Johnson
B. F. McLure Undertaking Company
Prohibition Agents to Enforce Hip Flask Ban in Crescent City
New Orleans on December 24 O D Jackson tenth district prohibition administrator ordered agents to enforce prohibition tonight and Christmas Day as any other day. Arrests will be made for hip pocket flasks a minor offense under the holiday routine, with dry agents duty bound to enforce the law.
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New Orleans
O. D. Jackson
Tenth District
Jackson
Sheriff A. J. Thigpen Faces Murder or Manslaughter Charge
A Louisiana sheriff near Lincoln Parish faced possible murder or manslaughter charges after the fatal shooting of 23 year old Phillip Harris at Harris home two miles north of the parish seat. Harris family considering legal action as district attorney and coroner investigate the incident and Sheriff Thigpen offers to be examined. Harris is survived by his parents two brothers and four sisters.
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A. J. Thigpen
Lincoln Parish
Phillip Harris
Here
P. Harris
KE. W. Myers
Texas
Spencer Love
Doi Sherrard
Ruston
Ima Meadows
Eaters Barnett
Homer
Lincoln Parish Sheriff Thigpen Held After Arrest Warrant
Dr W S Rutledge Lincoln Parish Coroner served an arrest warrant early today for Sheriff A V Thigpen charged with murder in the shooting of Phill Up Harris during a search at Harris home north of here on Tuesday night Deputies Clyde Frasier and Clay Braswell were present Harris a farmer and alleged bootlegger resisted the search Thrilling but regrettable incident left Harris dead and Rutledge automatically became sheriff of Lincoln parish upon serving the papers.
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Priday
W. S. Rutledge
Lincoln Parish
A. dv. Thigpen
Phill Up Harris
Here
Harris
Young Harris
Hin
Shorti
Whiggei
Clyde Frasier
Clay Braswell
W. 8. Rutledge
Wingpen
New Conveyors To Unload Copra At New Orleans Dock
Construction announced for two pneumatic conveyors at Chalmetie docks of the New Orleans Terminal Company to unload copra directly from ship holds to freight cars. Two units cost about 60000 and will boost annual copra movement at New Orleans. Copra is the dried meat of the coca and is imported for processing in northern factories.
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New Orleans
Chalmetie
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Bernice I
Comrade
Orleans
West Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Edin
Florida
Gree Eer
State Department of Agriculture
Crescent City
Sheriff Thigpen
Dr. W. 8S. Rutledge
Lincoln
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