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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1930
Page
3
Community news from Blue Ridge reports numerous visits and social gatherings. Residents mention moves, illness lists, auxiliary attendance, and a Bible church program at New Hope B Y P U with local families and friends noted throughout the piece.
Local notes describe Mr Nolin sugaring, Miss Louella Simmons visiting kin, Mrs Simmons visiting her father, and several friends at Mr DePreese and Mr Larance’s homes. Rev Campbell and wife plan to relocate to Simisboro Bathirday, with many neighbors hosting and visiting through the week.
Nov 17 notes show families visiting relatives from Coleman Texas to Ruston Antioch and Vienna. Local youths and guests mingle as Mr Howard and family, Miss Mira Larance, Miss Mary Dring, Miss Armour Harrison, Miss Jessie Mae Skinner, and others spend weekends with kin and friends.
Nov. 17 recap shows Mrs. Pannie Spencer visiting sister Mrs. Ro W. Wright in Longstraw and many local families hosting dinners and shopping trips. Names include Loyce Murphy Arcadia Ruston Monroe Sherrard Nugent Tucker Mall Wilks Hinton and others with updates on recoveries and visits among area residents.
A wave of hysteria sweeps Arkansas banking, with 34 A B Banks units using a five day suspension of payments under state law and three smaller banks ordered shut by the banking department, totaling 37 closures. Senator Robinson blames fear of Caldwell and company issues in Nashville, noting banks are solvent and will reopen once panic subsides.
The Shreveport Journal reports Tech football boosters in Shreveport visited Centenary campus to vandalize with slogans. A Tech boy named Martin was caught painting and had his hair shaved, head painted red, and a cross marked fore and aft before being sent home.
Sheriff A J Thigpen arrived in Ruston at 11 30 p m with LeRoy Hayes 40 of Hominy Oklahoma and Rex Hollis 24 of Bernice in custody for a two week old attempted robbery of S W Hamilton’s store at Dubach. Willis Hellis brother of Rex earlier confessed to the crimes including the Sunday night gun store raid and the twelve guns taken. The trio had traveled in an USO and a stolen car, wrecked near Alexandria, before officers arrested them in Shawnee. They face federal charges for transporting a stolen car and state charges for robbery and related offenses.
Two Centenary College students spoke at chapel urging a friendly spirit between Centenary of Shreveport and Louisiana Tech of Ruston for the annual football clash. The game, returning to Ruston’s field for the first time in over a decade, is Homecoming Day for Tech alumni with a large visiting Shreveport delegation expected. The plea emphasized fair play and loyalty over sideline contention, and Tech students appeared receptive to the Centenary message.
Louisiana moves to borrow 744000 to cover penitentiary debts with ballots sent to the general assembly. Gov Huey P Long urges the loan to pay creditors after prior appropriations and various prison improvements, noting past deficits and ongoing efforts to stabilize the system.
New Orleans police hold a dead chicken as evidence after Julius Faccia reported two women, Anna Dell and Edna Jenkins, threw it at him in front of his St Claude Avenue home, striking him on the head and causing injury. Police said they would arrest the suspects.
A reminiscence recalls John Parker entertaining President Roosevelt with a bear hunt in Louisiana swamps years ago. Now Frank Reid of Ui chois and friends are planned for a bear hunt at Bayou des Glaises, with supporters from his district traveling in. Details of arrangements on Sheriff Maarin's private preserve are unclear. Congress-
The Item notes Senator Reid plans to arm his party with 25 shells each and target 13 bears and 12 deer as a symbolic gesture of thanks to Louisianians for flood control efforts. It applauds Reid as a leader who advanced flood control and suggests rewarding his energy through this hunt.
Sheriff Pat Murphy had Jack Hammons and Enoch Webb arrested in Farmerville at the request of Lincoln parish Sheriff A J Thigpen on warrants for issuing bad checks. Deputies Clyde Frasier and Guy Braswell returned the pair to the parish jail where they remain held awaiting trial. The sheriff said they sought release by paying but the influx of bad checks now complicates enforcement.
Mr BE W Hilburn announces that after tomorrow Wednesday he will run the Ruston Gin only two days per week. The first running day after tomorrow will be Tuesday November 25 and the next will be Saturday November 29.
42 inch potato nicknamed J.P Buckfive, manager of the Clarence Saunders store in that city, boasts a sweet potato raised by a Lincoln parish turner and measured forty ten inches long.
An incident in London on November 10 involved elephants stampeding through a crowd as Chinese fireworks and explosions disrupted proceedings. Authorities reported injuries and chaos as observers fled the area.
A four-elephant show in Jord city led to a stampede injuring about twenty people, mostly women and children, as the crowd scattered. No one was trampled by the elephants. Meanwhile in Melbourne Tom Howell, a Portland porter, won 25 000 dollars from a one dollar Melbourne Cup ticket. An Irish emigrant in Belfast sends 60 cents as conscience money for a pond fish taken 25 years ago. A Ruston Leader advertisement notes a Baptist church sale in Roansville with organ and chairs.
Young men at the Baptist church discuss expanding class offerings and Bible study. Pruett Lo Scarborough, trustee, outlines plans for future meetings. Steering committee named to organize the class program and events.
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