The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-06-20

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G. j. Huskey was over from Jennings
Sunday.
Calcasieu Implement Company, Ltd.
headquarters for lubricating oils.
The elegant new residence of A. z. Bell
has been completed and he expects to
move into it some time this week.
Don't forget that the Davidson-w esson
Implement Co., Ltd, have all kinds OF
buggiss.
w. s. Case went to Port Arthur, Texas,
last week to spend several days attend
ing to business matters.
Calcasieu Implement Company, Ltd.
headquarters for nice buggies and har-
ness.
l have just unloaded car of doors
and windows from st. Louis, and can
sell them at low prices. F. L. LEWIS.
Rev. Turner, of Lake Arthur preached
over Martin Bros. store Sunday evening
to the NJ. E. Church, South, congrega
ton
Daniel Jacobs went to Gauada, Texas.
several days looking after his business
affairs
When you get your house ready for
papering, don't forget that A. E. Bell
& Co. have splendid line of wall paper
and their prices are right, too.
Mrs. A. E. Bell left for Centerville,
Miss, Tuesday noon to be at the bed
side of her mother who, according to a
telegram, is dangerously i'll.
w. W. Welsh came over from Lake
Charles Sunday and will assist in the
bank here for two or three weeks, or
until a cashier has been selected
Virgil Holeombe, local manager of the
Cumberland Telephone company at Jen-
nings, was in Welsh Friday looking af-
ter the interests of the company.
Don't forget that Robinson & Day are
agents for the celebrated Champion Rice
Binder Call at their warehouse and
see it.
Ed Theodore, colored, was arrested
Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Fontenot and
taken to Lake Charles and lodged in Jail,
charged with carrying concealed weapons.
Mrs. w. w. Welsh and baby, of Lake
Charles, came over Tuesday afternoon to
visit relatives and to be with her hus-
band, who is assisting in the bank here.
The names OF L. w. Archer, Abel, Ia;
+. M. Sherry, Houston, Texas; j. G. Sher-
fly, J. r. Smith and P. Miller, Welsh, were
added to our subscription list Satur-
day
Three carloads of piping and casing ar
to be used in the oil well now being
put down by the Jones Development COM
pany.
T. D. Calkins, of the banking firm of
Spalding & company, which was
last week merged into the Welsh Nat
ional Bank, has located and organized a
bank in Canada, Texas, to be known as
Calkins, Silliman & Co., bankers.
Frederick G. Hubell, capitalist of Des
Moines, Iowa, was here last Friday and
purchased thirty ceres of land adjacent
to the Welsh bid 1ield He also went to
Jennings and bought $4,000 worth Of
stock in the Southern Oil Co. at $1lU
Mr. Hubbell thinks this section is the
Golconda of America.
The Southern Pacific has completed a
switch on the south side of the main
line, extending from near the depot to
the trestle east of town, and is about a
mile in length. 1t is the opinion of
many that the passenger depot, long
since promised, will be built soon now
that the south side switch is in. A new
depot is almost a necessity for the safety
of the travelling public.
The tenth annual Christian Endeavor
of the State of Louisiana was held in Jen-
nings Saturday and Sunday and was re-
ported to have been the most successful
one ever held. There were many dele