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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1931
Page
3
A dense, garbled food column mentions sandwiches and fillings with peppers, potato dishes, and casual references to daily meals. It includes scattered, unreadable phrases about sandwich shops, retailers, and generic food notes. The text is largely incoherent with many garbled fragments and does not present a clear news item or event.
Improvements to Louisiana Tech football field begin during Christmas holidays under athletic director George M. Lohler. The renovation reshapes the field into a turtle-back contour, raises the middle section by twenty four inches, and adds pre-sodding and new walkways. The project aims to reduce water puddling and provide better conditions for home games, with observers noting the work on drainage and surrounding facilities ahead of the next season.
The lesson covers Luke's depiction of societal decay and the call to repentance through John the Baptist. It outlines John's ministry, message of repentance, judgment, and the path to Jesus, including how different groups should respond and John’s eventual imprisonment.
A fragmentary religious reflection compares a ship’s rudder to faith. The speaker asserts that while God guides the rudder, it is the wind that moves the ship, and faith sustains calm amid delays as divine peace."
The Leader notes two candidates for City Judge in the upcoming first primary. It stresses the importance of Ruston voters casting ballots, and expects more official announcements soon. It urges citizens to participate regardless of candidate choice.
J. and Cox assistant state high school supervisor arrived Wednesday with Superintendent H. L. Campbell to tour Lincoln parish high schools. They visited Ruston, Choudrant, Hire and Dubach high schools and will visit Simsboro Friday praising local teachers and work quality. The piece also notesTech student earnings and job types across campus.
Sixty Louisiana Tech students will receive a total of 5865 dollars for performing various campus jobs during the winter quarter, announced by W. L. Mitchell Dean of Men. For the three quarters of the school year, the total earnings for the students will amount to.
Mrs BD A Dunlap of Toronto with D M Dunlap will donate a world famed astronomical observatory in memory of David A Dunlap who died six years ago. The telescope now under construction to England will be a 74 inch reflecting type second in size only to Mount Wilson California. The observatory will be in charge of the department of astronomy at the University of Furouty.
Louisiana state engineer Harry Jacobs told a sub committee of the House flood control panel a revised Boeuf floodway plan would be used if the war department engineers reject the reservoir idea. He outlined a controlled spillway through the Boeuf basin feeding the Atchafalaya basin with guide levees and land protection to halve flood risk while preserving land for agriculture. The plan aims to reduce inundated acreage from 1,500,000 to about 753,000 acres and includes a four mile head spillway gap and a Sicily Gorge modification to sustain water velocity. Continuous protection would require a compatible Atchafalaya floodway update, with costs offset by land savings. Jacobs stressed Louisiana’s need for flood protection and land preservation, noting potential land losses depend on federal purchase of flowage rights.
Wendell Jan 9 The right to vote is worth $20,000 to Andrew Baker who sues for that amount claiming his name was omitted from the voter list at the last election through error.
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