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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1896
Page
8
Aurora Lodge No. 64 and Chautauqua Rebekah Degree mark the seven year anniversary celebrations of Odd Fellowship in America with a local gathering in Ruston. The event honors fraternal roots and community service achievements across the order.
Ruston Aurora Lodge No. 64 flourishes with active members including town leaders and a thriving Rebekah Degree auxiliary. The Monday program celebrating Odd Fellowship in America featured music, recitations, and an address by Hon. Cal D. Hicks, drawing a large crowd and praise for the lodge’s community impact and the nearby Industrial School run by Prof. Prescott.
Local supplier advertises a surprise Linen Goods sale for households. Door to door pricing highlights table damask and household textiles with emphasis on value and assortment.
The biggest real estate deal in Shreveport in years closed last Tuesday when Howard Cole brokered a quarter block on Market and Crockett streets. Mossie W. F. Scott of Little Rock and D. B. Lyons of Des Moines bought from D. W. Lundy for about 20500. The property, partly used by the express company, will gain a brick business house and stables, with Scott and Lyons planning further improvements. They departed Wednesday night pleased and intend to begin work soon.
Walter Hill, a native of this city described as a thief and crook, was sent to Houston last Sunday by the Harris County Sheriff to answer four indictments for burglary. The note ends with a local editor’s jab about leaving job work at the office.
Obituary notes the death of Mia Kamon Herndon in Caddo Parish at age about fifty, detailing his long service as a police jury member from the Seventh Ward, church membership, and fraternal ties. It mentions his Kentucky birth, Texas upbringing, a large bereaved family, and interment on Sunday afternoon. Also reports lumber business visits by H Goint, Kenoit planning a yard, and Nathan Goldstein’s finger injury from a bicycle wheel chain. Remnant Lumber Co of Chenier La offers delivered prices and stock lots.
Buck Bradley advertises bicycles for sale or rent in Market Street Quek of Dreyfuss area. Describes a swift wheel at two bits and offers repairs with guns, pistols, and locks mentioned. Brick is suggested as first contact at 413 Market Street.
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