The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1906-12-01
NEWS notes
From the Southwestern
Louisiana Industrial
Institute.

merry i'll tHe tHi!'pt vi 'It I H'tVt
States government in the service
of the Crop Pest ";nmissioE,
which had IN unualIy fine exhibit
al the fair. and it vas partly to
keep in touch With the new move
ments agriculture that Mr.. Mar
Tin took advantage of this opp"r-
tunity. The State experiment
stations and the Crop Pest Com
mission paid especial attention
this year to the tick which causes
Texas fever among cattle, and
every hour Prof. Dodson, Director
of the experiment stations, deliver
ed a lecture Oh how TO free the
State from the Texas fever tick,
using d moving picture machine to
furnish the illuStrat Ons. On Fri
day. Mr. Martin states, there was
meeting of all officials of parish
fairs, together with Col Schule',
Commissioners of Agriculture and
Immigration, and Cot. Barrow,
Secretary of that Department.
All sections of the State seat in
glowing reports Of the advance
ment in agriculture since the Or
ganizatiOn of a parish fair in thu ir
midst, and plans were laid for the
organization of a mum Der of others
The railroads of the State, through
representatives at The fair, pro
missed to give very low rates to
passengers, and to freight which
might be shipped FROM one fair to
another. Dates for future parIsl,
fairs will be arranged by the Com
missioner of Agriculture, so that
none will conflict, and it is expect.
ed that the more important exhi-
bits from each fair will he seen at
fevery other one.
Miss Amy f. Young. who was
graduated from the stenography
department ~ 1906, is now occu-
plying the position of stenographer
tor Mr.. A. I. Moursand, resident
engineer of the Southern Pacific
sy stem at Lafayette.
On Thursday afternoon, Nov.
%, Occarred that first basket ball
game of the season between the
Beverly Randolph" and the "Do
rothy Davis" teams, and the occa
sion was noteworthy not only
because of the fine game the girls
played. but because of the exam
pie in school spirit when they ex
hiblted to the entire student body
Streamers of red or of blue mark
ed the adherents of the opposing
sides all day long, and just before
the game the basket ball court
rang with team yells and songs
| The game was close thru hOtl,
halves, but just before the time
was called the 'Dorothy Davis
team, captained by Miss Lillian
Guilbeau. threw basket from
the field which won the dav fol
the blue.
The Vermilion, the hi. weekly
paper published by the students
of the Institute, made a somewhat
belated appearance this year, but
the excellence of The early nu L.
bers speaks we'll for its prospect
thruout the year Nichols Brad
ford, OF Rayne, La, is Editor in
Chief, and is assisted by two other
members Of the Senior Glass
Each class has a representative on
the staff of the paper. as have !Le
literary societies and the athletic
association. At present the staff
are planning a mystery story,
each member to write a chapter
IN turn after the appear ance of
the one Immediately proceeding.
The determination of the CORPS
OF cadets at the Institute to give
up the tobacco habit was formula :
ed by 'hem into the following re-
solution:
eve, the undersigned officers
and cadets of the corps of cadets
OF the South~ estern Louisiana
Institute, do hereby resolve that
we Will give up, entirely, the use
OF tobacco in aIy form; that each
of US will report any officer or Ca
Diet OF the corps whom we find
with tobacco Or sec smoking: and
| that If rpDNrtad IN M .,,a ~ ~