St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-11-10
NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE STATE.
Big Baptist Meeting for Chicot Small
Pox at State Normal Brady
to Hang on Dec. 7th.

Donaldsonville has opend It's new
theatre.
Baton Rouge will have a plain
clothe man on it's police force.
Abel Hebert, white, while intox-
icated, fell in a gutter at Thibodauy
and broke his neck.
Four Jennings saloon keepers were
fined $3.50 and 80 days in Jail for
violating the Sunday Law.
The Merchants and Planters Gin,
at Plaucheville, was destroyed by
fire. Loss 5,700; insurance $500.
Contract has been let for the
erection of new theatre in Lake
Charles, to be known as the Glenn
Theatre.
The Louisiana State University at
Baton Rouge reached the record
breaking mark of five hundred pupils
enrolled.
More than half of the amount
needed ($15,000) for the erection of
monument to Gen. Beauregard has
been raised.
Automobile rides are now being
enjoyed by the people of New Or
leans over swamp lands recently re-
claimed by drainage.
Grain shipments from the post Of
New Orleans the past month were
far ahead of last year, and exceeded
those Of the Galveston post.
The Southern Bitulithic Company
has about completed it's contracts in
Baton Rouge, having laid some 100,-
900 square yards Of street paving.
The Albert Rousseau Lodge, F. &
A. M, of st. Martinville, has bought
building, and will convert it into a
meeting place and store building.
It is said that at no time within
the past three years has there been
so much activity displayed in the
development of the Welsh oil field as
at present.
The railroads. proposing to cross
the Mississippi river at Baton Rouge,
are talking of bridge. and it is be-
lieved that one will be built in the
near future.
As the result of an explosion in
the sugar house Of Shell Hill Planta-
tion, at Vacherie, La, five persons
were killed by escaping steam and
scalding water.
It has been decided that a parish
superintendent Of public education
does not necessarily have to be an
elector in order to hold the position
in Louisiana.
Dan Patch and Creceus, champions
of the race tracks of the world, will
not appear at the Shreveport Fair, as
expected. They have been called to
winter quarters.
Will Lawson was convicted of driV-
ing a horse to death in Tangipahoa
parish, and sentenced to pay the
owner S100 damages and fine Of
$25 and costs.
Thomas Brady, the white man con-
victed of the fendish outrage on Miss
Loula Warren, at Lecompte, will hang
on December 7th. The Governor set
the date Monday.
New iberia, which has heretofore
had loose lid on the Sunday Law.
is now strictly dry on the Sabbath.
The sheriff has served notice that he
would prosecute violators.
Avoyelles parish is operating two
school transfers one in the Au
Large districts, conveying the pupils
to Mansura, and one on Bayou des
CLASSES from Edgar Coco's conveying
the pupils to Moreauville.
Nine. Nordica, the great dramatic
soprano, will sing in New Orleans in
January. She is now under contract
with the San Carlo Opera Co., at
$4,000 a night, and that company has
agreed to bring her to New Orleans.
The promoter of the New iberia
trolley line, Mr.. Conway, has returned
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