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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1931
Page
6
Dowsville social updates list travels and visits across El Dorado Monroe Ruston and Mineola. Verna Johnson Ruth Ballard Lolita Golden and others are mentioned as visiting relatives or hosting guests. An appendectomy patient is noted and local church Bible course begins with teachers listed.
Pleasant Hill residents hosted and visited friends and relatives over the week. Attendees included Miss Etna Beard and Cascille Pike with Myra Stephens, and Mr. and Mrs. Cullen Hinton welcoming a son James Allen born July 19. Numerous other guests from Wesley Chapel Ruston Winnfield Farmerville Simsboro and Shreveport joined weekly gatherings and visits.
A sequence of brief notes of visits and callers in Madden Creek and nearby communities. Leonard Waldron and Mary Willis among business visitors to Winnsboro. Rev Akin and Rev Spinks dinner guests of G B Willis. Cascle Pike and Etna Beard visiting Myra Stephens at Pleasant Hill. Visitors include Nettie Walker, Meiba Garrett, Bob Harris, Dan Howell, B S Russell, Lucille Jones, Lula Belle Jones, J L Sherard, R W Lee, Ernest Vining, Happy Dean, Earl Grigsby, Mrs Karl Gugsby, Melva Cirigsby, Cascille Pike visiting grandmother Sheave and meeting Center Point. Continuous rounds of visits, dinners, and weekend guests among Willis, Harris, Grigsby, Beard, Pike, Jones families and Shreveport and Ruston connections.
Mr and Mrs Tom Davis of Warren Ark hosted guests Saturday while Mrs George Shinpoch and sons visited the Rinehart family in Henderson Texas. J A Baker hosted Rev J L Cady and Willis plus Guy and Fletcher Bakers, with Fannie Wilson and Onie Holstead also noted as guests. Lena Calloway and Lucy Fletcher visited Hazel Wilson Saturday night as Mrs Nannie Wilson was summoned to Monroe. John Rinehart hosted the Junior Sunday School with a picnic and games.
Community notices list a cemetery workday at Vienne on August 4 with tools and lunch. Local social items include visits among Crawford, Colvin, DeFreese, Mitchell, Baggarly, Beard, Hughes, Gustafson, and Rabb families, plus peach sales and relatives visiting in Cooktown and Hodge.
Mr and Mrs C S Smith returned home from a visit with relatives at El Dorado Arkansas. Mr and Mrs Willie Green left for Port Arthur Texas. Mrs W D Calhoun and Mrs Vera Colvin with daughter Annie Mae visited relatives at Dubberly. They traveled with Mr and Mrs R M Leggett and daughter Nola Faye of D Arbonne. Mr and Mrs W L Farmer and sons Mathes and Roy of Downsville were guests of Mrs T P Farmer. Dalton Smith and Neil Shields also attended. Mrs Mary White is ill. Miss Vivian Smith and guest Eugenia Ball visited Miss Lorena Farmer.
Mr E E Green of Pettus Texas visits his mother Mrs J M Green and brothers J W and J L Green. Cleve Hammons and J L Smith of Downsville visit Mr and Mrs Linn White. Estelle Matthews of Ball s school community visits her grandparents Mr and Mrs J A White. John Cole from Oklahoma spends weekend with C L Smith and J W Sims. Elizabeth Shields of Simsboro visits grandparents Mr and Mrs W T Shields. Lula Truett spends days caring for Mrs Hen Farmer of Downsville.
Community members are urged to help tidy the Vienna cemetery on August fourth. Volunteers with relatives or friends buried there are asked to bring tools and lunch and participate in the cleanup all day.
Social notes record visits and weekend stays among Hennen Halstead Sanderson Copeland and related families in Monroe Hazelhurst Ruston Dubach Choudrant and Bernice. Guests include Mr and Mrs J O Templeton Mrs Ollie White Mrs V A Hennen and multiple Sanderson and Copeland relatives with summer plans and hospital calls.
Social notes list visits and guests among Hico residents and neighbors. Names include Madden McGee Murphy Bennett Deason Moncrief Groves Napper Fos ter Foster Owen Williams, with church events and a Baptist revival noted at Harmony Chapel.
Mrs Arnold Prett of Dubach spent Monday with Mrs R T Ferguson. Mrs J M Halstead of Choudrant was dinner guest of Mrs Allen Laranace. Mrs Luther Frazier and Mrs Chas P Frazier visited Mrs Bob Ferguson. Families from Winnfield and Cooktown shared weekends with local residents. several neighbors met at homes in Frazier and Perritt circles. A group of Harris family members toured Plain Dealing to visit Milton Kidd.
Mrs Dan Watts hosted a social with ice cream and cake for relatives and friends including the Walker Milams Gardner and Stewarts and the Richardson and Stewart families. Many visitors were listed from Simsboro Arcadia Monroe Ruston Shreveport and Marshall with several guests accompanying Miss LeRne Barham and Ernest Parkman family details.
Miss Wilma Wannie Sunday travels to Winnsboro for a new job. Mr. and Mrs. P B P Caliban and daughter Marvis visit Choudrant. Miss Maury Buswell of Coushatta visits Mrs. H H Best. The Aulton Henry family return to Shreveport after two weeks with J S Skinner's family. Givens of Shreveport visits aunt Mrs J H Murphy. Norma Sanders and WC Gleason of Centenary stay with Mrs S B Sanders. Mr and Mrs N B Plattley visit Jonesboro. Mrs A B Jackson from Baton Rouge visits her parents. Mr Jo McKinney recovering after major surgery in Shreveport. Zoulena Barnette returns from Alabama. Mrs George Harris and her daughter visit Bowler City.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McCarry attended the Methodist revival that closed Sunday night. The Rev. Thurman Spinks of Sibley assisted the Rev. Akin in the services.
Mrs T N Caldwell and family visit Arkansas relatives while Miss Mattye Edna Hinton stays with Miss Sarah Hammons in Monroe this week. Numerous locals attend dress judging at the Street Dress contest, with Vera Winfree taking third place. Frequent guests include Rev Huffpower and Rev Fulton, Clampitts of Haynesville, and visits by Winfree, Willhite, and Gilliland families.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ritchie spent the week end in Orange. Mrs. 8. B. Ritchie visits her brother at Camden. Geeil Clark and family from Rothelie visited Ruston and stayed with friends. Billy Burnett hosted Fred Fudickar of Monroe for the weekend. Mrs. George Lansing and the Gasavers sisters Marian Julia and Helen Saas-
A resident recalls a recent trip visiting relatives in Arkadelphia Hot Springs and Little Rock Arkansas. Evelyn Walker suffers a dislocated collarbone and friends express regret. Mrs John Andrews Marion spent the weekend with sister Mrs A W Odom and family and leaves today. Mr and Mrs John Davis with Mrs Flora Davis Cotton Valley motor to Ruston Sunday and enjoy time with Mr and Mrs Ledbetter.
Longstraw residents and relatives gathered for weekend visits across multiple towns. Local youth Winifred Youngblood returned with her brother, and the Longstraw boys defeated Indian Village 9 to 1 in a Saturday game. A revival begins August 2 at the quarterly conference in Wise community.
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