St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-12-22

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while skating in Crowley.
The anti-gambling law Of the town
of Abbeville prohibits lotteries and
rafting, as well as card and dice
games.
Confederate organizations of New
Orleans have mapped out a program
| for the celebration of Gen. Lees
birthday on January l9.
Weather bureau records show that
for the first sixteen days of this
month the average temperature was
nine degrees above normal.
The st. Mary Banner urges the
necessity Of new water and electric
light plant, alleging that the present
one is on the verge of collapse.
The Abbeville Meridional announces
that Vermilion parish will shortly ex-
pertinent with the transportation of
school children to central schools.
The Rayne Tribune tells Of a farmer
near that town who planted an acre
of cane last spring, and has sold from
that one acre SITS worth Of syrup.
An election for the levying Of a
tax Of FIVE mills for period of five
years for the purpose OF building
public roads was carried in the ninth
ward Of Livingston parish.
Fire at Baton Rouge last Saturday
destroyed the plant Of the Standard
Box Company, causing $4,000 loss.
1t is announced that the factory will
be rebuilt on a larger scale.
Judge Somerville, of the Civil Dis
trict Court of New Orleans, has de-
cided that property owners must i'm
prove their holdings before protest
ing against city assessments.
Bids for the restoration of the
Senate Chamber, and other improve
ments on the Capitol building at Ba-
ton Rouge, have been advertised for,
to be received before noon on jan
uary 9th.
An old farmer by the name Of San
ders, aged 60 years, suicided in East
point, Red River parish, last Satur-
day, by blowing his brains out with a
double-barrel shotgun. It is presumed
that he was temporarily insane.
The primary election to fill the
vacancy in the sheriff office of Caddo
parish caused by the death of Sheriff
Ward, will be held on December 81.
There are three candidates.. P.
Flourney, Dan Nicholson and 7. Thur
mond.
The police jury Of Rapides parish
has adopted an amendment to the
game law, by which the killing Of deer
and quail for market, or to sell in any
manner, is prohibited for five years, in
all seasons. One has to be his own
hunter.
Rev. ]. r. Moore, late Presiding
Elder Of the Shreveport District, was
suspended for three months from the
Methodist ministry for taking a glass
of beer in a saloon in Shreveport, and
for having been seen to leave saloons
at other times.
Mrs. Mary Derouen-Feree, wife Of
Howard S. Feree, the Jennings ex-
postmaster who was convicted three
years ago of embezzling postoffice
money, and is now serving term in
the Federal penitentiary, is suing her
husband for absolute divorce.
c. M. Cunningham, editor of the
Natchitoches Times, is candidate
for District Judge Of Natchitoches
parish to fill the vacancy which will
be caused when Judge G. Y. Porter is
elected Circuit Judge, the latter hav-
ing received the nomination at a re-
cent primary election.
In a collision between belated
passenger train and a banana freight
train on the Texas & Pacific, near
Donaldsonville, Pleasnt D. Allen, the
mail clerk, and a negro tramp who