The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-30

ShflSCinaS with kindred and friends.
Mr.. Barry returned Monday morning,
but Mrs. Barry and baby remained
over few days.
Clarence Watts, who had been in
the employ of the Louisiana Machine
and Well Works Company, at Jen-
nlngs, the past two months, passed
through Welsh Monday afternoon on
his way to Gatesville, Texas.
Fancy skirt and waist goods for fall
and winter wear just in at Martin
Bros.
{. E. Smith, of Port Arthur, is
spending the week here looking after
the we'll now being drilled on the
Romero farm. The ten-inch casing
was set Tuesday and the drillers are
nowgoing down with the six-inch hole.
5. Locke Breaux, one of the leading
brokers on the New Orleans stock ex-
change, stopped off here Wednesday
morning on his return from business
trip to Lake Charles and remained
until the noon train the guest of Paul
w. Daniels.
An instrument was filed in Lake
Charles last week whereby the May
will Canal Company mortgaged to
Geo. A. Courtney, of Jennings, 5,4OO
acres Of land located in township 10,
range 8, and township II, range 5,
$50, 900.
Blount's True Blue plows, full as.
sortment of sizes at Davidson Wesson
Implement Company.
Louis Gerson, of Philadelphia, Pa,
arrived Tuesday evening and will be-
come associated with his brother, J.
5. Gerson in the clothing business. A
cleaning and repairing de-
partment will be added in connection
with the clothing store.
DR.. and Mrs. Jacob 10y, of Cedar
Rapids. Iowa, who had been visiting
the family of their son, w. H. 10y,
for the past five weeks, left Monday
night for New Orleans. They will
probably stay in the Crescent city the
remainder of the winter.
All legal papers carefully executed.
CHAS. +. MARTIN, Notary Public.
Office Welsh National Bank.
Jno. T. Boiling returned Monday
morning from q months stay at San
Antonio, Texas, recuperating his
health. John thinks the trip proved
beneficial to him, and he says the
Alamo city is one of the most pro-
gressiye in the Lone Star State.
A Miss nustad OF near Sioux City,
Ia, husked 81 bushels of corn one
day last week, cared for her own team
and hauled 1t in and unloaded it her.
self. She thinks she could husk 100
bushels a day. This may not be an
accomplishment but she will make
some old boy helpmeet of which he
may we'll feel proud.
Blue Blunt pillow, the best made.
Any size. Davidson-W esson Imple-
ment Company.
The attorney general of the United
States has decided that newspaper
and magazine guessing contests are
lotteries in the meaning of the postal
regulations. His decision was given
at the request of Postmaster General
Wynne, who will in the future exclude
all advertising matter of any such
scheme from the mail.
Amovementi is ontoot to celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of the closing
of our internecine strug-
gle, the fftieth anniversary will occur
in 1915. The place chosen is Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. Near there are some
of the fields where the tiercest battles
we're fought during that memorable
period from 1861 to 1865.
According to a Lake Charles dis
patch s. P. Tate was arrested Wednes-
lay on a charge of perjury, preferred
by L. V. Touchy, stewart of the parish
convict farm. Tate, some days ago,
vas caught, after having served but a
month of a four-months sentence, at
The convict farm, and made affidavit
hat he had paid Touchy $50 to let
him escape.
Fancy box stationery from &c to S..
would make a more hand
some Christmas gift for either a gen.