The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1902-03-01

THIS week while unloading car with
lumber.
A party of Iowa and illinois capi.
taiists have secured a ninety day
option on a tract Of swamp land in
PlaquemIne Parish that amounts to
100000 acres in round figures.
Lonls White member of Richard
and Pripgle's negro minstrel which
bas been recently touring the state
was taken out and Iynched at New
Madrid, Mo-, last Sunday night.
The people of Jennings have voted
to issue bonds for municipal improve.
merts 10 the amount of $4,000
divided as follows: $4,000 for
water works, $4,000 for sewerage
and $4,000 for city hall.
Ihe property and effects of the
Caf1rey Central Sugar Refinery and
X. X. 70. Limited will be sold at Auc
ton some time this month by order
OF Judge Pardee of the Federal Court
at New Orisans.
Major Leon Jastremski, of the
United confederate Veterans, Louis.
lana Division, has appointed Miss
Catherine Stafford of Alexandria
sponsor for the La. Division at the
Dallas reunion, April % to 25. Miss
Stafford is daughter of Sheriff
David I. Stafford of Rapides parish,
and a grand daughter of Gen. LeRoy
Stafford who was killed at the battle
of Wilderness.
A rice mill is to be built in Jean.
erette, La. in time to handle the next
crop. The charter has been drawn
and $4,000 subscribed. Although
thus is right in the heart of the sugar
district of iberia parish, considerable
rice OF good yield and quality was
grown in that vicinity last year. The
soil and water facilities are we'll adap.
ted 10 the culture of the cereal and
the stockholders, who are mainly citi.
zens OF the town of Jeanerette will
doubtless reap due reward for their
progressiveDess. 1t is safe to say
that the central sugar factories of
that neighbOrhood will note decreased
tonnage receipts of purchased cane.
for number of small Planters will
go into the culture of rice and tenn,
porarily decreased their plant tings of
cane. The stockholders are DR.. e.
A McGowcn, H. l.. Braccy, Jno. f.
Bourg, G. A. Poirson, Geo. j. Laban, |
DR.. P. N. Cyr, H. B. Hewes, Walter
and Porteus Burke.-Sugar Planters
Journal.
Corn shucks are selling in Frank.
lin at $1.OO per cart load, and sin.
gle.horse cart at that. We have
heard Of several places where they
we're being carted around and cried
IS any other commodity. One man
claims to have paid 25 cents per oat.
'ack full this week, which we would
'oughIy judge to be about $4.OO a
DAD.
Nothing of this sort was ever seen
'efore. The feed market is not only
ligh on the outside. but there was a
'reat scarcity in the local harvest this
ear, which multiplies the misfor
une.
Corn shucks have been, up to this :
ear. as much in the way of corn
onsumers as bagasse was in the
Dom of the sugar planter before the 8
,ventiOn and introduction of the ,
agasse burner.
This fact should impress our people
orcibly, with the necessity of raising
lore feed.n Pea vines are worth now q
bout $500 load, and an acre of
md will produce three loads under
'voraue circumstances, besides 20
arrels of corn, both of which are
lanted upon the same ground in this
'ction almost invariably. And with v
'rn at $3.50 per berrel, 20 barrels of
'rn and three loads of pea hay will y
mount to $51.00 per acre. In addi.
on to this, the pea crop adds vastly d
ore strength to the land than the 3
'rn takes away, with the result that r,
couple Of crops of peas and corn r
ID invigorate any piece OF land cap n
lie OF renewed lIfc.-Vindicat0r G
,ws. n