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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1957
Page
8
A social event at the home of Mrs George last Saturday honored Mrs Alexander from Sime i hospital. Attendees described the gathering as a religious related con with several days of activities and a shower for the guest.
Local families from Shreveport Lake Charles Baton Rouge and New Orleans joined in weekend visits and a wedding near Transylvania with Rev Av B Odom and Mrs Berry singing with friends and relatives in attendance.
A damaged OCR reading notes Wealdy Chapel Community sponsors a Halloween carnival held Monday night in Shreveport. The fragment mentions a World War One pinata and a ball game at the fair with J. C. Nelson present with family. The text is garbled but identifies a local church event and family attendees.
Rev Loyd Brown will move next week to Brookwood Baptist Church in Shreveport after two years at First Baptist. Members regret his departure for the pastorate and praise his many efforts in the community.
Notices show Jan Hib informs of a quilts project started last week at Eli House with T Williamson and others invited to assist on Thursday. Charles Johnson dies during vacation with sister Mrs Ernest Johnson and family. Ernestine Johnson visits Henderson Meadows Draughon Business College in Shreveport. Rain Monday night affects turnip batches. Mrs Mary Legg visits neighbors. Copper ear tags and a copper craft project discussed at county meeting with Anderson of Shreveport visiting.
Ray traveled to Sharpamp on Lake Providente and visited her brother in Engustt. Griffin and Belton families shared Friday visits, with several relatives in attendance. Mr. Charles Doh motored to Shreveport on business, while Mrs. Walter Oxford visited their son Wayne in F. E. Hospital. Sunday gatherings included the Blackwelder and Richardson families, and Melvin Burgess family spent the weekend in Homer with Coy Beavers. The A Rt Kirbow family has been sick for a week.
The Quarterly Conference met with representation from Met, FAL, dlinton, Ciny, Ansley, Chapel and Longstraw churches. Preaching by Rev Douglas, with W. L. Weatbrook as pastor. Numerous weekend visitors joined relatives in Griffithville, Farmerville, Plain Dealing, Shreveport, Cuiliman, Ruston, Tyler and West Monroe, including the Neavilles, Kendall, Clinton, Sizemore, Massey, Sizemore family, Wills, Beatty, Newman, and others.
In appreciation of the love and kindness shown during illness and death of our beloved wife and mother, Si P Leggett and family express heartfelt thanks and remembrance.
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