St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-11-10

city that the bonds had been sold and
that the money for all building pur-
poses was Immediately available; that
building material would be arriving
within the next sixty or ninety days.
The present project Of the company
will involve an expenditure of about
fs75o,0o0.
The Louisiana Baptist Association
held their annual meeting in Alexan-
dria last week. The next meeting
will be held. in Calvary Church, at
Bayou Chieot, st. Landay parish,
which holds the distinction of being
the first Baptist Chcrch established
in the State west of the Mississippi
river.
Gus. Scranton, son of DR.. G. w.
Scranton, a prominent physician of
Lafayette, committed suicide in the
town of Lafayette on October 30, by
cutting his throat with a razor.
The young man was respondent by
long illness, and it is supposed that
the rash act was committed in mo-
ment of mental alteration.
seyenty-eight Porto Ricans landed
in New Orleans last week, who came
here to work on the Louisiana sugar
plantations This is the second con-
tingent of the same people who have
come in the past three months. They
have had experience in their own
country in sugar plantation work, and
have proven entirely satisfactory to
our planters.
It is announced that graduates Of
the Audubon Sugar School Of the
Louisiana State University are doing
exceptionally well. They are scat
tered all over the sugar countries of
the world. One in Austria is draw
ing $4,000 a year; several are in
Cuba and Porto Rico drawing salaries
of $1,000 and $4,000 a year, and
others are in Mexico and throughout
Louisiana.
Reports from the sugar parishes
are to the effect that all the sugar
mills are under way and the season
well on. The grinding season was
delayed this year on account of the
condition of the cane, which was
below the standard for this time of
the year, but it is understood that
the yield is proving as satisfactory as
could be expected under the circum-
stances. The sugar mills under the
supervision Of the Board Of Control
of the State Penitentiary began their
grinding this week.
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Jerry Jefferson, an old family
servant and trusted negro in the en-
ploy of w. O. Day, of Baton Rouge,
met death while saving the child of
his employer The wagon in which
the child and the negro were in lock-
ed wheels with another wagon, and
the mules began kicking. The old
negro caught the boy in his arms and
jumped out, but became entangled in
the reins and both he and the child
fell under the wagon. His efforts
being directed in saving the child, he
had no time to save himself, having
barely time to push the child from
under the wagon, which passed over
him, and the mule kicked his brains
out.
Miss Barnes, a student at the State
Normal School at Natchitoches, de-
veloped a case of small pox last Mon
day. The announcement created a
stampede in the school, and twenty
nine of the students left for their
respective homes. If another case
develops, it is proposed to disband
the school. The patient is from
Blanchard, Caddo parish. 1t is sup
posed that Miss Barnes, who nursed
her brother and sister about year
ago, caught the Infection from some
clothes that she had stored away in
a trunk, which she wore a few days
before she fell sick. Miss Jennie
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