The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-09-19
LOCAL AND Personal.

Miss Clara Avery, of Amboy, ILL.,,
is in this city the guest of friends.
Miss, Minnie Griffith has accepted
the position as cashier in Paul w.
Daniels store.
The Welsh Chapter of the knights
Tsunp1ars had their regular meeting
= at the Masonic hall Monday evening.
q. Attend the Commercial Club meet
: Ing next Thursday night and discuss
Inc electric light, waterworks and ice
Eactory question.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Prentice returned
y yesterday from protracted visit to
Callforn1a, Oregon, Washington and
Iowa. They report most enjoyable
4 trip and were greatly benefited in
health.
Are you interested in the town of
Welsh? Do you want electric lights,
waterworks and an ice factory? Ii so,
come out to the Commercial Club
meeting next Thursday night and dis
cuSS the matter with the representa-
tives of these enterprises.
The Jennings Commercial League
has been successful in getting the five
hundred excursionists from the north
to stop over in that town for a day
They will be driven about the country
and 1T has also been arranged that the
gushers in the oil field be turned
. loose a short time expressly for their
benefit. An effort should be made to
get these homeseekers to spend day
4 sightseeing the country around Welsh.
While as yet we have no oil gushers,
we have some as fine rice land as may
s-be found in the south
Here's a puzzle that puzzles every
ply: Take the number of your liv-
ing brothers, double the amount, add
to lit three, multiply the result by five,
add to it the number of living sisters,
multiply the result by ten, add the
number of deaths of brothers and sis
tiers, subtract 100 from the result. The
right hand figure will be the number
of deaths, the middle figure will be the
number of living sisters and the left
will show the number of living broth
erS.
Table linen at PAUL w. DANIELS.
The railing and other fixtures of the
First National Bank arrived Wednes-
day and wOrkmen are now engaged in
putting them in. The vault and pri-
vate office have been completed and
the interior of the building presents a
very bank-like appearance. The ex-
terror is also UNDERGOING a complete
overhauling and when the work is
finished twill be handsome building.
The officers of the new bank hope to
be ready for business not later than
October l.
r. L. Lewis has just finished un-
loading TWENTY-FIVE cars OF lumber
A telephone message was received |
by L. e. Robinson Tuesday afternoon
conveying the sad intelligence of the
death of Charles, the 8-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Braden, of
Lake Charles, which occurred Monday !
evening. Mr.. and Mrs. Braden were
former residents of Welsh and their
son was known to have been a bright
and popular lad, and their friends
here sympathize with the parents in
their loss. Death came after an ILL
ness of three weeks with typhoid-ma-
larial fever.
j. L. Irving, of Dallas, Texas, rep
resenting the Moline Implement Co.
in Texas and Louisiana, was here
day or two this week and in company
with Philip Coverdale made this Office
a visit. Mr.. Irving, who is interested
in land in this locality, was very
much pleased with the growth and
he first stopped in Welsh, four years
ago, the town was small and business
dull. Since that time it has had a
wonderful growth and is considered
the best business point, size consider
ed, on the s. 2. road.
A man named Riley, who is en-
ployed on the Illinois plant several
miles south of Welsh, was the victim
of painful accident late last Thurs
day evening. He was driving across
a bridge with a load of rice and in
some way the sack on which he was
sitting slipped, precipitating him to
the ground and the wagon with twenty
two sacks on it passed directly across
his back, causing separation of the
shoulder blades and injuring him in
ternally. While the injuries are
dangerous it is not thought
they will result fatally.
His Welsh friends note with interest
that at meeting of the directors
Saturday night of the Walker Gro
Gerry Company, Limited, of Jennings,
E. F. Walker was unanimously elect
ed manager of the business, after the
acceptance of Mr.. Hubbard's resig-
nation. Mr.. Walker is a successful
business man, thoroughly familiar
with the trade in all its phases and
the directors exercised wisdom in
securing his services to manage the (
interests. He will divide :
his time between his dry goods bazaa ar I
and the grocery store. /
j. Prentiss, of Bangor, Maine, t
who owns 10000 acres of land in Cal
,asieu parish and who was in these {
parts last week looking after his in 1
crest. said in an interview in New c
orleans paper that it was only mat v
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