The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-09

books, in padded leather, morocco,
cloth, white vellum and gold bindings
for both young and cid. On display
Saturday, December 10, at the Jour
nal Book Store.
Get your school shoes and school
dress goods of Martin Bros.
c. E. Bradbury, who we reported
last week as having been on the road
to recovery, after seige of typhoid
fever, has suffered a relapse and is in
critical condition. Although he
has had no fever for two weeks, he is
very weak and delirious all the time.
Top of the market paid for good
country butter at Paul W. Daniels.
Evangelist F. c. Laslette will give
a humorous and practical talk at the
Congregational church on Tuesday
evening at s O'Clock. A short must
cal program will be rendered. Ad.
mission free. The subject of the talk
will be Life and Its Ups and Downs. "
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Bertrand will leave
next week for Sloan Springs, Ark,
where they will engage in the racket
store and notion business. MIR. Der.
trand has been a valued attache of the
Morse hardware store for the pes,
several years and will be greatly
missed.
P. Wells, of Boone, Iowa, arriv.
ed Saturday for protracted visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. o. Fulton. From
Welsh Mr.. Wells will journey to
California to spend the remainder OF
the winter. He was a neighbor OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Fulton in Iowa and
married cousin of the former.
S. B. Culver, for the past several
months day engineer at the expert
mental plant of the Rio Bravo Oil
Company, west of town, has been
transferred to Saratoga, Texas, and
left Tuesday afternoon to take charge
of his new work. Mr.. Culver is q val
ued employee of the Rio Bravo or
Southern Pacific Company.
Last week Geo. Coleman disposed
of eighty acres of land southeast OF
Welsh to Chas. Kennedy, of Gueydan,
for consideration of $4,000. Mr..
Coleman then, purchased of Mr.. Ken
nedy eighty acres in Choves county,
New Mexico, paying therefor $1,000.
Mr.. Coleman, it is understood, will
mdve to New Mexico to reside, and
Mr.. Kennedy will become a resident
of Welsh.
Local fruit growers says q Lake
Charles dispatch, lave contracted for
$500 fig trees and will set them out
this fall, with the object of securing
enough trees to run canning factory.
The trees contracted for produce a
variety of fruit that will stand ship.
ment to the North. Among those
interested are DR.. Perkins, Thomas
Cline, E. E. Barnett, c. D. Otis, Leon
Chavanne, J. D. Cline.
P. P. Laughlin, of Decatur, ILL.,,
left for home on Thursday. AS is
generally known in Southwest Louisi.
ana, the initials of Mr.. Laughlin' s
name stands for perennial Pro.
moter," he being the man who has
been pushing Southwest Louisiana
day and night for a dozen years,
Perennial Promoter Laughlin, wher
he gets ready to retire, can move to
any spot in Southwest Louisiana and
find himself surrounded by scores Of
friends whom he has induced to settle
in the garden spot of the South.
Crowley Signal.
The New Star Townsite Company, o.
Oklahoma City, o. T., members of the
M, K. & T. Land Bureau and incor
porated for $50, 900, is selling lots ir
the new town OF Falls, in Lincoln
county, for $50 per lot in three insall
ments. Falls is located at the juno
ton Of the NJ, K. & T., NJ, K. & O
and Fort Smith & Western railroads
is surrounded by good agricultural
country, and having ample capita
back of it, is predestined to be one O
the fastest growing towns in Oklsho
ma. For particulars see Thos. P
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