The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-10-21

NJ. L. Prentice, F. G. Hart, w. H.
Bridges, r. J. Barry, John and
Claude Singleton, Roy Davis, C. w.
Pridgen, Chas White, Hugh Craig,
Jesse Buckingham, Theron Plumb
and George Bower were in Lake Char
les Sunday night to witness the per-
formance of McFaddin's Row of Flats.
The show was comical throughout, the
boys say.
a greater quantity of rice is coming
in now than at any period this season
and the dry weether has made rice in
good condition for milling Monday
the Gulf rice mill began running fifteen
hours day and Tuesday the Jen-
nings mill commenced fifteen hour
run. Both mills are taxed to their
utmost capacities and will be for some
time to come.
a Jenning dispatch Tuesday says;
A new rice concern has been formed
in Jennings by some of it's enterpris-
ing young men. 1t is termed the Pro-
ducers Rice Co., and has for its
slogan, "From the rice field to the
consumer The company is but a
few days old but is already doing
business. A car of rice was shipped
that morning.
Mrs. Cora Robinson left Saturday
night for her former home at Los An
geles, California. Mrs. W. H. Pat
terson, south of town, accompanied
her and will remain some time in the
Golden Gate state visiting her father,
whom she had not seen for twenty
years. Mr.. Patterson will join his
wife during the latter part of Noyem-
Der and will accompany her home
during the early part of the year.
City Engineer c. M. Boren, of Lake
Charles, was suspended Saturday
afternoon by Mayor Winterhalter,
pending an investigation of charges
alleging that the work of City Engi-
poar Roman in oo,,pootio ,, with tbn la "
ing of the Ryan street shells has not
proven entirely satisfactory, and out
of this has grown charge of incom-
potency in office.
The week of prayer at the Methodist
church began Monday night and will
continue during the week. Next Mon
day will begin a revival to continue
two or three weeks. The pastor, Rev.
Corwin Taylor, will be assisted by
Rev. J. w. LaGrone, of Crowley;
Rev o. E. Ryan, of Jennings, and
Rev. r. L. Weldon, of Meadow
Prairie. A large attendance is hoped
for and successful meeting an
ticipated.
DR.. L. G. Lewis, who left the first of
the month to install a fifty-horse pow
err gasoline engine in a cotton gin at
Trent, Texas, arrived home Yesterday
Doc. says the water in that
immediate section of Texas is such
that steam cannot be made from it,
and as consequence gasoline engines
are very much in demand and will be
used almost exclusively in that por-
ton of the cotton belt.
The New Orleans Board of Trade
will send a committee of seven rep
resetative business men to Panama
to investigate conditions there and
look into the matter of business con-
nections, with view to building up
the trade between Panama and that
city. The action was decided upon at
q meeting of the Panama Canal Trade
Committee of the Board of Trade,
and steps have been taken to enlist
the interest of railroad and steamship
lines throughout the country.
A southwestern preacher the other
dsy delivered brief but very beauti.
full funeral sermon. Here it 10: "A
word to tell you all. Post-mortem
p1 Eases and love are in the sir.
People kiss the dead when they never
stop to kiss the living; they hover
over the cssket in hysterical sobs, but
fail to throw their arms around the
loved ones who are fighting the stern
battle Of life. A word of cheer to the
soul in life is worth more
han all the roses In christsndom
piled high in the casket covers. The
dead cannot smell the flowers, but the
living can. Scatter them broadcast
ia their pathway therefore pluck ont
he 5lOaas, before 1t is 100 i&.e.