The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-02-12

Try the RICE BELT JOURNAL for one
year.
The choicest and freshest stock of
groceries in Welsh may be found at
G. BENoIT & Son.
Miss Ona Spurgeon, of Mermentau,
came oyer the latter part of last week
and was the guest of her cousin, Miss
Minnie Spurgeon, for several days.
j. G. Beard, of Crowley, is here
this week doing some civil engineering
work below town. Mr.. Beard con-
templates moving to Welsh to reside.
H. B. Hughes and J. G. Bussey, of
Jeanerette, and FL. E. Lewis, OF Crow
lev, arrived here Thursday evening
and Friday morning attended a di-
rectors' meeting of the Lewis Lumber
Co., Ltd, of which they are stock
holders.
E. j. Leben, superintendent of the
Episcopal Sunday school at jennings,
assisted in the special song service at
the Baptist church Sunday night. His
selection was SIN the Palace Of the
King and by request he sang 1.-The
Holy City,"
Miss Violet England went to Lake
Charles Monday afternoon to take a
private teachers examination under
Superintendent McNeese. Miss Eng
land has been employed to teach on
the Daniels plant if she is successful
in passing the examination.
, Weber g. Van Ness were awarded
the contract this week of putting dowr
two deep irrigating wells on the farm
of Capt. B. T. Walshe near the OF
field. The captain is making some ex
tensive improvements and the rice
/ raising qualities of that immedlat
section will be thoroughly tested thi
season.
!; Harry Madden, the young man VIII
/, had his left arm badly shattered
the elbow as result of the fly whe'
o of the engine at the Mac Faddin we
going to pieces last week and a mi
sile striking him, is much better an
s is doing nicely. 1t is thought 1t WI
be only short while until he will
able to resume work.
J. A. and G. r. Burress, of Green
burg, KY, arrived here Friday afte
noon on prospecting trip and are
well pa~ased with Louisiana's china
that they WIZ in all probability resi-
~ here permanently. They left KentucI
the middle of last week with the the
'r mometer registering eighteen belo
n zero.
Welsh is one of the best towns @
s earth. A good place to live in, goo
T. place to educate your children, goo
place to sell what you have to Sc
J. and to buy what you have to buy
Come to Welsh to do your trading
and if you can possibly do so, NOV
here to live. We have many of tn
- conyeniences of the larger towns an
: none of the vices.
We like to have our paper wei
filed with local news. There ar
: many items of interest that we fail t,
get every week. We never expect t,
get all the news, but we want to get a
,, near all as possible. If you know OIL
item of interest regarding yourself O
some of your friends, tell us of it O
write it down and hand to us.
Stock raising in the rice belt is on
Of the best paying bushes that can b.
engaged in. and especially is it tru
in hog raising. Nothing will max
pigs grow more rapidly than rice pol
ish when properly fed. 1t is a yer,
common occurrence to find hog
weighing from 300 to 500 pounds il
pens on the rice farms in the Gueydal
section. -Gueydan News.
N. L. Kelly, wife and son, Claude
left on the early train Monday far Ea
gle Grove, Iowa, where Mr.. Kelly ex
poets to engage in the real estate bus
mess. Mr.. Kelly and family hav,
been residents of Welsh and vicinit,
for the past fifteen years, and it i:
with regret that we lose them as citi
Zens of our town. Ralph Prentice
who had been here the past several
months. left for the north with them
Lake Charles correspondence tc
Rice Journal: Considerable work is
in progress at the plant of the Mis-.
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