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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1932
Page
4
James 1 19 echoes through a devotional text urging restraint and kindness in speech. The piece extols words as honey and sunshine yet warns they can wound like a two edged knife. It urges letting true and kind words pass while bitter ones are kept behind bars.
The Gottschalk Music Club met at Mrs. J. M. Kirkland’s home Monday evening for a varied program. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Kirkland, Miss Wallie Nelson, Mr. Harvey Nelson, and Mr. Kaulke of Monroe. Beethoven’s Sobata Impassionata was featured, with a first movement by Mrs. Harvey Nelson. Refreshments followed. several attendees listed. An illness note for Bryan Thigpen and Nellie Newton’s visit were mentioned. a correction was issued regarding Miss Lille Belle Rhodes and Mrs. Eva Mae Cathay’s Dallas trip and Gus Thompson’s nonattendance.
James Foster Digby, ten, son of Mr and Mrs 8 L Digby of Monroe, won Monroe’s city try-out and will travel to Natchitoches to represent his department in the State Oratorical Contest next Saturday. His mother Miss Maude McLees, a Ruston girl, is remembered in Ruston.
Presbyterian Circle No One held its March meeting at Mrs. H P Hughes home on South Vienna Street with Mrs Amos Ford as welcome guest. Mrs W C Simonton presided in absence of the chairman. Devotional from Psalms 116 and a program on The Land of All Nations featured Italian missions and a call for Christians to aid foreigners. A salad buffet followed, decorations honored St Patrick’s Day, and Circle One joined Circle Two for a planning session for the church year beginning April 1. Visitors Mr and Mrs Gene Walker of Winnfield and Mr and Mrs Robert Giles of Benton also attended.
A local ad lists facials hot oil treatments and options including marceling eyelash and brow tinting with arch, henna pack with shampoo and set. Arch services priced at one dollar.
Rehearsals are in full swing for the upcoming high school senior class play to be staged in the auditorium Friday night March 25. The three act comedy features Drusilla and a cast of town characters in a story set at Christine Elliott’s refreshment stand on the State Road with events spanning May morning to an evening the same day. Attendees from out of town include Mrs Charles Fisher Miss Mary Washburn of Bastrop and others from Arcadia Simsboro Santa Rosa and Durant Oklahoma.
Rev. Walter L. Moore of Ruston, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Moore, has been called to pastor Waynesboro Baptist Church in Sylvania, Georgia. A Sylvania Tribune report notes a mid week sermon drew a large crowd and local resolutions expressed love and confidence in the young pastor, praising his abilities and promising continued progress.
MELLO GLO is a new French process face powder used by beautiful women for youthful complexions. It stays on longer and banishes shiny noses. It blends naturally with any skin tone, gives a fresh bloom, and prevents large pores without irritation. Buy MELLO GLO today at Ruston Pharmacy.
Mrs. H Price of Woodside states she weighed 190 pounds a year ago and now weighs 126 after taking Kruschen daily. She says she looks younger than her age and recommends the product, noting a four week supply is affordable and safe. The ad also notes a Rhode Island bill repealing prohibition enforcement and legalizing 3.76 percent beer signed by Gov Norman Case.
The article lists upcoming titles including The Master of Chaos by Irving Bacheller and The Mud Lark by Arthur Stringer, with brief notes on plots. Also mentioned are First Fiddle by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and White Panta Wille by Limon Davis, plus other new novels and several books adapted into films like The Bishop's Nephew and The House Next Door.
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