The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-06-17

The twO-storyo warehouse of the
Gulf rice mill, 96X50 feet, is up and
two stories of the four-story mill are
up. Delay in the shipment of lumber
is retarding progress on the construc-
ton work in a measure, but it is
thought by the latter part Of the week
a full force will be employed.
Ollie. Simmons, the fourteen-year
old SOP of Leroy Simmons, an en-
pIoyee of the Stout mill at Goosport,s
a suburb of Lake Charles, was drown
ed Friday afternoon, about 4:l3
o'clock, in the river near the mill
The body was recovered about twenty
minutes later, but all efforts to resus-
citate the boy were futile.
Jules Perreii, colored, an employe
of the Illinois plant, was accidentally
shot through the left wrist Sunday
evening with q load OF No. s shot.
Perrell was standing the gun in a cor
ner when it fell and discharged, the
entire load entering the wrist. DR.,
Arceneaux dressed the wound,
NJ, Z. Morse, wife and little daugh-
ter, Myrl left Monday evening to
spend the summer at Sloan Springs,
Ark, Neosho, Mo, and other points
Mr.. Morse will. probably return in
September, but Mrs. Morse and daush
ter will in all likelihood remain we'll up
into the water.
A girl from New York, according to
a Missouri paper, who was visiting a
friend ia Kansas and stopping ON d
farm for the first time IN her life, star
tied the good old farmer one morning
by rushing into the house screaming
a. the top Of her voice: ''C0me quick,
the little pigs have got the big pig
down and are eating her up"
t Rev. T. NJ Finley is somewhat OF
an expert fisherman. He was exhibit
ing three good specimens Of catfish to
some of his friends Tuesday-~one OF
! them weighing 50 pounds. This will
give him ehance to indulge in some
thing else besides the usual supply Of
chicken something that ministers are
vegy fond of. Jennings TimessRe'
cord,
| C. f. Carr ard family, L, E, Rob
| inson AID family DR.. j. II. Cooper
0nd family, Mr. and Mrs. II. a. Da'
wilson, Mr.. and Mrs. Bell, r. f
Robinson, Sydney Hubener, H. +
lWesson and Miss Emma Gallup lief
| Monday for an outing of several days
on the Calcasieu river northwest O
! t'enton. They took with them plenty
OF rations and all the necessary ac
couterments for a weeks camp. Those
of us who could not 90 are envyin&
them of their trip.
Jean Troy. son of ]. W. Troy, for
merly near Welsh, and brother o
Hub Trey, south of town, was instant
~ killed at Canada, Texas, las
! Thursday. A dispatch under date o
the 9th reads; Jean Troy, a younE
man employed on the Gapado .Ric
and Canal Company, was killed earl,
this morning. He was working aronnt
the machinery and was struck on To
head by a fly wheel. He was mora
young man and an expert engineer
and his death is greatly deplored b,
everyone. - e.
E. Porter, a progressive farmer Q
the Iowa Station nejghborhood, Will
% in town Monday with a load of vege
tables was seen BY a Journal repre-
sentative relative to his truck garden
He stated that from the three acres b
had planted he expected to realize a
many hundred dollars, and had tn
season been more favorable his sale
would have been considerably in eX
cess of that amount. Others in tn
rice belt are doing equally as well
yet this is called a one-crop country
Kansas City Southern passenge
train No. l, southbound, struck
COW on a trestle three miles north c
De Ridder, this parish, at $3.50 Tues
day morning. The engine waS CON
pletely overturned, and the baggag
and mail cars followed it into th
ditch. The passenger coaches wer
} derailed but not overturned Fire
3 man Harold Gamble, of Shreveport
was instantly killed, and Enginee
Patterson, of Shreveport was proba
( bly, fatally scalded. No one else wa