The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-20

dispose of the surplus cotton instead
of burning it.
According to the Philadelphia
Ledge, ere were fewer marriages in
PENNSYLVANIA in 1904 than usual. We
are interested in the query as to ". eth
err it was because the leap year girls
were shy or whether they are getting
wise.
According to reports this years
rice crop in Japan is the largest rails
ed in years, and will exceed 230, OOO,-
900 bushels, which is at least 20 per
cent above the average. If this is
true there will be little chance Of
American raised rice finding market
in the Orient, even if there has been
an over supply produced here.
&c. Maui left Monday Afternoon
for business trip of several days in
and around Oklahoma City, Okla.
While there Mr.. Maui will investigate
and ascertain whether the new town
of Falls, in which town number OF
Welsh citizens recently invested, is a
myth or a genuine boom town as rep
resented by on agent of the New Star
Townsite Company of Oklahoma City.
Guessing contests are now excluded
from the mails. The Attorney Gen
eral holds they are lotteries. These
new schemes will soon be relegated to
oblivion with other 'get rich" con.
Germs. 1t is a move that will no doubt
afford relief to legitimate business
enterprises that incorporated them in
good faith, and it certainly will cur
tail the gambling spirit to the same
extent.
This friday evening the members
and their friends of the local Chris
tian Endeavor society of the Congre
rational church will meet at the home
of Paul w. Daniels at 1880 O'Clock
and drive to the home of Geo. Law
son, south of Roanoke, where thu
. monthly social of that society will bt
= held. The trip will be in the form 0
a hay ride.
Following is a complete list of thu
petit Jurors drawn from this, ward =
, to appear at the court house MarcI
9th. and serve the balance Of tina
week: Philip Coverdale, p. j. Unkel
Chas. p. Martin, W. Z. Russell, +
/ H. Boiling, Paul W. Daniels, a. L
t Bell, Jake Cline, Adrain Lorain, SID
S ney Andrus, A. o. Fontenot, lSaa
n FOreman..,
q The current number of the Rice In
. dustry of Houston says: The rice pee
q pie of Welsh are willing for JapaneS
rice farmers to come and settle up tn
: country with the understanding tina
such settlement and cultivation OF re
$ shall in no way interfere with any c
It the material industries now IN pre-
p rress. The rice acreage around Wells
d will be curtailed to some extent tn
e year.
s. A. L. Sutherlin returned yesterda
1t morning from a fifteen days trip Il
n in southern Missouri and norther
1t Arkansas, disposing of carload
mules and horses. Monday he stoppe
- off at Sloan Springs, Ark, an
there called on L. Bertrand, who RI
y Gently left Welsh to engage in the ne
ton and racket store business. h
says Mr.. Bertrand is enjoying mic
- trade. The snow, he claimed, wa
about eight inches deep up there, an
as natural consequence was glad
get back to Calcasieu.
There are thousands of farmers
the northern states who would glad
exchange to milder climate if thu
could secure small holdings at reaso
able prices. A place to call HON
a place they could improve and ma
beautiful and when improved wou
be theirs. But to 60 onto anoth
mans land as renter, into rouI
box house out on the prairie. no fen
around it, no improvements, no not
ing but a roof, sides and floor,
hardly the iducement that will brl
~s the class of immigrants that is be
!, .calcDlatan to build up country.