The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-06-13

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e. H. Boiling spent Sunday in Jennings
Bell & Co. have cool goods for warn
weather. Their prices are low.
Sir Ross Flock, of London, England
and @. S. Morse, of Jennings, registere,
at the Signal hotel Tuesday.
Prof. @. E. and Lionel Hooper left Sat
urday for Gildsburg, Miss, to spend tn
summer with home folks.
| Everyone purchasing buggy from
the Davidson Wesson Implement Co. viii
be given large umbrella.
Robert and Rena, the little son ane
daughter of F. A. Arceneaux, are ill will
| malarial fever.
Don't forget that the Davidson Wesso1
Implement Co., Ltd, have all kinds o.
buggies.
Mrs. w. Fl. McManus came over from
Lake Charles Tuesday to spend few
days visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
w. B. Craig, in this city.
Charles Craig came over from Jennings
last week and will be here the remainder
OF this week assisting in the rice mill OF
the Calcasieu company.
Stamped linen corticello embroidery
hoss sofa pillow, Gibson pictures, pillow
cords, in all colors at
PAUL w. DANIELS.
HI. E. Lewis, of Crowley, came over
from Jennings Saturday and remained
over until the midnight train with his
father, F. L. Lewis.
to his bed with malarial fever for the
past ten days, is able to be up and about
again.
Saturdays Lake Charles American said
that Rev. DR.. w. E. Harrison, of Welsh,
who is visiting with Rev. G.. B. Hines,
is ILL.,
DR.. N. S. Craig, of Jennings, was here
Monday and Tuesday attending to bust
ness and visiting his daughter, Mrs. Paul
w. Daniels.
The pumping plant owned by H l.
Shultz, of near Jennings, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire Saturday.
The heated smokestack set fire to the
boiler room. causing the confagration.
Nathaniel Prentice and wife, r. P. VIII
lard and Mrs. N. L. Kelley left Sunday
afternoon for Portland, Oregon, to spend
the summer visiting friends and rela-
tives. They will visit other points of
interest in the West before returning
home.
Oil is substituting coal throughout
the South and the economy in using oil
for fuel is becoming known abroad. It
is said that the saving to the Southern
Pacific company on the thirty nine en-
gines using oil during the month of May
was nearly $4,000.
Eugene Smith and family left last
week for Beaumont, Texas, where they
were Joined by the formers brother on
a trip to Denver and other health resorts
in Colorado. Mr.. Smith hopes the trip
will improve his health They expect to
be gone month or six weeks
Rev. Self, of Lake Charles, preached to
the Baptist congregation in the hall over
Martin Bros. store Sunday. A committee
has been appointed for the purpose of
soliciting funds and selecting a site with
a view to building new Baptist church,
and favorable report is expected soon.
According to the Times, Paul w. Dan
iels, of this city, is preparing to erect
a two-story building in Jennings lOOx13s
feet, the lower portion to be used as q
storeroom and the upper story an opera
house. 1t will be a modern building and
the opera house will have a large seat
ing capacity.
G. Smith, who owns a large tract of
land adjoining the woods farm, on which
oil has been discovered, tells us that with
in sixty days he expects to have four
well drilling apparatus in operation on
his place. Mr.. Smith is confident that
within a year the Welsh oil fields will
be second to none in the South, and many
others are of the same opinion.
A million dollar oil company, known as
the Haywood Bros. Oil Corporation, was
formed at Jennings Friday This is by
far the largest company of the kind tho
has been formed in the state ofLouisiana.
The purpose of the company is for the
purchase and marketing of the product
that now gushes so abundantly near Jen-
nings and the development of the new
fields.
Captain B. T. Walshe, of New Orleans,