The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-10-31
LOCAL AND Personal.

In houston, IeHdS, TWO VI uhIee uetJ .
this week.
Mrs. p w. Daniels came over from
Welsh Thursday on short visit to
her mother, Mrs. N. S. Craig.-Jen-
nings Record.
Messrs. c.. J. Huskey and E. G.
Coverdale have started a collection
agency in room over the Citizens
Bank. They propose to collect bills
and notes of all kinds.-Times.
The fourmonths-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarphy Pitre died last
night, after brief illness. Its re-
mains will be buried in the Catholic
cemetery tomorrow.
"There isn't any such thing as hon
est Legislation in this country com
planned the pessimist. sob, L don't
know" replied the legislator. 81 was
promised $500 if l helped pass a GER
tain bill, and did it, and got all that
was promised me. - Philadelphia
Press.
DR.. Hunter was called to P. Nc
CURE s, north of Welsh, Monday, to
amputate his sons foot. The young
man was feeding the threshing machine
when some way his foot got caught
and was so badly mangled that it had
to be putated.-Record.
Another oil company, backed by
strong capital. has entered the Calca-
sieu field, and announced it's presence
not by advertising stock for sale but
by letting a contract for the sinking
of an oil we'll. 1t may take a little
time but the Calcasieu field is going
to be developed. Lake Charles Amer
lean.
Jules Laurent and Miss Catherine
Woolsey both of keystone plantation,
were quietly married last night by
Judge Hampstead in his Office in the
Citizens Bank. Only a few relatives
were present and the young couple re-
turned home Immediately after the
ceremony was performed. Jennings
Times.
Last week week a new brick-maling
machine was installed at the yard of
the Welsh Brick Works and force
is employed both day and night. Fri
day night the shed enclosing the kiln
and machinery caught fire and before
it was discovered had gained such
Roadway that it was beyond control.
The damage was slight.
There will be a Hallow'ee enter
tainment and novelty sale held at
Martins hall, Friday evening, Octo-
Der 81, by the Marys and Marthas
society. Refreshments will be served
and games and amuSements suited to
the occasion will be provided. Come
and have good time.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Austin, Mr.. and
Mrs. Rev Chambers and Mrs. M. M.
Watkins, all of Bremen county, Iowa,
arrived here yesterday evening to
spend a month visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
G. A. Austin. Mr.. and Mrs. Austin
are parents of our postmaster, Mrs.
Chambers is a sister and Mrs. Wat
kins is a stepmother of Mrs. Austin.
The meeting at the Methodist church
closed Thursday night. The attend
ance was fairly good. The crowd on
Sunday night was about all the church
could accommodate. There were four
teen or fifteen professions of reclama-
ton and sanctification. Great good
has been done the church. Rev. Hop
per gees from here to his home in
Mississippi where he begins another
meeting.
Deputy Sheriff Isaac Fontenot, of
Welsh, arrested yesterday on the Lac
asine a negro named Jack Taylor,
| accused of robbing another man of
the same color. MIR. Fontenot is
something of hypnotist apparently
as all he had to do was to point his
pistol at Taylor and the negro imme-
diately produced. He was tried today
and found guilty. The negro is in
jail. G. Press.
Rough rice is coming in rapidly
this week, the dry, cold weather being
very favorable to threshing and haul
ing and hauling. The general opin-
ion among mill men is that if the
present weather continues the crop
will all be delivered within the next
two weeks. Prices still continue good
and a little on the advance. Good
rough is selling at So to $3.50, while
some sales of clean have been made
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