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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1930
Page
6
News from Greenville and surrounding areas notes Mrs. J M Green ill in Columbia visit of Bob Truett to Shreveport Fair, B Y P U Halloween events, and many visits between Ruston, Choudrant, and Monroe. Reports of harvest progress, travel to Monroe, and social gatherings at clubs and churches. Obituary of Mrs. W R Pratt and updates on local families, schools, and readers’ notes through Friday.
Dr and Mrs V F Carey and family attended the State Pair in Shreveport. Omer Williams and Miss Wyatt of Baton Rouge visiting in the Williams home. Maurice Donald of Louisiana Tech spent weekend with his parents. John Marvin Hester of Tech visited relatives. Lolita Golden returned from Alexandria where her mother is improving. D and Roach on sick list. Earl Farmer of Choudrant visited grandmother Mrs Ben Farmer. J B Hester and Miss Gladys Farmer among Sibley and Choudrant guests. Opossum hunting party reports one catch. Hunting trips to swamps near Delhi. game plentiful. Miss Cristine Jones attended Ever Ready Cabinet meeting in Ruston. Ira M Hester and family visited Ruston, met granddaughter at Mashaws. Mesdames W N Farmer and L M Woodburn motor to Arcadia. Armistice Day program planned by Methodist Sunday School for Nov 9. Public invited. Halloween observed by high school pupils with spooky scenes. Miss Olaf Williams of Monroe visited with parents.
Congratulations and best wishes go to Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Riser on their marriage. The item also notes visits and social rounds across Vernon, Clay, Vienna, Ruston, Greenwood, and Monroe as friends and relatives travel to see various households.
Mr and Mrs Noy Choudrant and family joined a group from Choudrant to Simsboro for an Eastern Star meeting. A near serious accident occurred when Mrs Hattie Futrell and her daughter Mrs Grady Allen were struck by a speeding car on the Dixie Overland highway. both were injured but resting easy by the latest reports.
Miss Robbie Alexander of Ruston visited guests Blanchard Alexander on Thursday. Sylvia Willis stayed with her parents at Simshoro last weekend. Mildred Saint spent the weekend with her parents at Hilly. Versie Russell and J C Rungell visited relatives at J L Russell's home. Lou Jettie Dring, Dubach teacher, visited her parents. State Fair attendees at Shreveport included J L Russell and family, Lamar Cargill, Blanchard Alexander. Jack McLaughlin returned to work in Texas after visiting his mother.
Attorneys Ronald Davis and J Nor man Coon of Monroe visited the court house in town on Tuesday. Hugh DeLoney visited his parents in Athens over the weekend. Susie Hedgepeth, a Athens high school teacher, returned home after weekend visits with Ruston relatives Pauline and Mavis Emmons of Louisiana Tech joined relatives in Winnfield. Teachers returning home included Alice Griffin of Chatham and Eliabelle Bennett, guest of Jennie Bennett. Minnie Lee and Josephine Gregory of El Dorado visited the area, and Frances Davis of El Dorado stayed with relatives Freya Brown in East Louisiana avenue. Ellen Yowers spent a pleasant week visiting Mass Silia in Null at Alto. Mrs J B Crosby left today for Shreveport to visit her son and daughter Joe Crosby and family. Mr and Mrs Henry Smith and daughters Pamela and Penelope of Rochelle were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs J C Smith.
A four year old boy Sure Fawr from a doutile west side home watches as Mr Me arrives with a new car. Edward greets his father on the porch while Mr Me explains the purchase, the scene captured in an Indianapolis News style vignette.
A fragment describes Glen Aherion south of Tipperary near the Galtee mountains with legends of a fairy king of Munster and a lover who sang melodiously to calm a magic mist blocking entry to a castle, causing tremors and lake movement.
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