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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1930
Page
7
Tuesday officials and civic figures were noted in Homer and Ruston with updates on influenza convalescence, Kiwanis activities, and parish residents. Local marriages, travel to New Orleans and Jackson, and a string of visitors from Arcadia to Bastrop mark the social scene.
Local items report Mrs Patterson returning to El Dorado after a Buston visit. Mrs Caldwell visited Ruston from Aradia. Surveyors begin Pershing highway work south of Bernice. Kilpatrick recovering from operation, moving home on Park Avenue. Lelah Tomlinson appointed assistant state supervisor of home economics in Baton Rouge. Multiple Ruston visitors and residents noted, including Beauchamps, Wright, Haltom, and Moss families. Ann Stewart Moss may require appendicitis surgery. Raymond Duncan in Texarkana hospital improving. Mrs Glasgow fractured arm from ice fall but improving. Mrs Cheatwood's health improves after long illness. Drs Bond and Green praised for care.
Susan Prince daughter of Coach and Mrs. Percy S. Prince, a Ruston native, rose from early choice of nursing to graduate with high honors at a college of nursing. Now twenty two, she leads the operating rooms at Delaware Hospital in Wilmington, regarded as invaluable by the medical staff.
Mrs. Neilson entertained at Nestlewood in honor of Miss Helen James who graduated with high honors from Ruston High School and plans to enter Kidd-Key College in Sherman Texas. Guests enjoyed a Heart game and a three course dinner with a fruit cocktail grape fruit baskets chicken salad cheese straws pastry rogeties and Cranberry ice.
Guests at Helen James's gathering enjoyed clever Galnty suitcases for messages of goodwill. Margaret Gupp and Mary James served a dainty repast in quaint costumes, with lighting low and corn over embers, as lively conversation and merriment filled the evening featuring Miss Helen James with guests including Pred Miles Billy Meys Johnnie Moffatt Mary Beth Holland Alva Robison Virginia Holland Norman Crawford Louise Latimer Bob Brooks Agnes Robison and George Grafton.
Buddy Glasgow of the Vogue haberdashery travels to Dallas Texas for a five day training course offered by the Tom Leslie School of Display of Chicago. The program covers clothing hats and haberdashery display with focus on fashion color harmony and window decoration techniques.
The Louis Moreau Gottschalk Music Club met Monday evening at Mrs. Lula Warren's home on North Trenton Street. Eight year old Mary Alice Williams, recently returned from New York studies, delighted members with Chopin and other pieces. The program featured aria and operatic selections with club members and guests performing, and Mrs. R E B Heidt sang charming numbers. Thirty one officers were elected for 1930, followed by refreshments and a social hour.
Mrs Rosalie Ives Coe wife of WH Coe lived on South Farmerville street Ruston died in Birmingham on December 29 after two years illness Her sister is Mrs John Cottle whose death was reported in Orange Texas She is also sister of Prof Co E Ives Birmingham and Prof Clarence Ives Baton Rouge Burial was at Forest Hill cemetery Birmingham December 30
A Tuesday afternoon tea at Mrs. D. M. Atkins’s North Vienna street colonial home honored Mrs. Fred Smith of Detroit. Mrs. Leland Brown hosted with guests in afternoon gowns, pink roses, and a pink green table setting showcasing Italian cutwork and pink carnations.
The scene features low silver candlesticks and pink tapers, crystal and silver tableware, baskets of bonbons, and long bouquets. Mrs. C. F E. Hodge pours tea with helpers Mrs. A. M. Ponder and others assisting. Music includes a standout soprano by Mrs. Heidt, with Miss Billy Mays and Miss Helen James performing.
At a call meeting of the Business and Professional Women's Club last night at the Chamber of Commerce rooms, Mrs. John Jones was unanimously elected president. Miss Blanche Heard resigned as former president to teach in Plain Dealing high school. The club discussed a clubhouse site and appointed a committee to negotiate for purchase. Members also planned paper drives to fund a prospective club home, aiming to sell bundles to Bas Trop mill. About three thousand pounds of paper exists. volunteers urged donations from friends. Members listed: Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Margaret Smith, Mrs. Fred Adams, Mrs. Fannie Anderson, Miss Louella Warren, Miss Bula Kidd, Miss Bennie Kendall, Miss Mattie Wills, Miss Robbie Alxander, Miss Margaret Clinghan.
Society notes reveal the engagement of William Pattison Givens known as Pat of Ruston to Cecile Pace of Athens Louisiana. Formal announcement came after a bridge party hosted by Cecile Pace at her mother Mrs A F Pace’s home.
Jacqueline Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Turner, formerly of Ruston now in Shreveport, remains in critical condition at North Louisiana sanatorium after being run over by an autumn wind and injured. She attended Byrd High School when an umbrella mishap obscured her view of an oncoming car, leaving her between life and death for days. Her father reports a slight improvement, though she remains perilously ill. The Turners previously lived in Boston and have deep ties there.
The Court of Honor committee of Ruston District met at the James building with frontmasters, Ruston commissioners, and committee members. Merit badge counselors for 1090 were chosen, about sixty Ruston men to serve. A public Court of Honor is planned for February 13 at the high school auditorium with investiture by Scouts led by S. E. McFadden and a short play by troops headed by H. B. Miles and H. T. Hubbard. Plans for anniversary week are being prepared.
New Orleans plans for the new Municipal Auditorium include Carnival balls and Mardi Gras finale with Rex midnight reception. Oberon the Attlanteans Krewe of Mystery and Comus are scheduled, with Sir Harry Lauder the first outside artist, Jan 17 opening pageant by school children, then AL Jolson and the Minnesota band. The Miracle runs 18 days.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the First National Bank Tuesday evening the following directors were elected for the coming year E Hodge J B Hunt S J Heard D James T L James N McDonald Add Thompson The board of directors met Wednesday night and elected officers for the year O E Hodge president Add Thompson vice president A E Stinson cashier Roy Frasier bookkeeper T B Alexander bookkeeper
At a stockholders and directors meeting in Ruston this week, the bank elected directors BD Brown J P Graham W S Harrell A H Henderson J D Halland L Kidd W J Lewis F E Morgan D Pearce FP Price F H Tarver to serve next year. Officers named H Tarver president I L Kidd vice president J P Graham cashier Basking assistant cashier EB Monroe assistant cashier H A Smith assistant cashier.
The address of King George opening the five-power naval conferences in London on January 22 will be broadcast across the United States and Canada by Columbia and National Broadcasting systems. The program starts at 4 a.m. EST.
Cynthia Staton of Moscow Ohio describes months of poor health with nerves and back pain. She read about Cardul in a Ladies Birthday Almanac, began taking it, and within weeks felt marked improvement. She used Cardul periodically for decades, praising it to her daughters and others.
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