The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-11-17
DoNALDsoNyIILE, LA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Il, 1906
THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Gulled From the
Louisiana Press.
sunday Law violators at New Iberia
Heavily Fined-Big Lumber Conn
pany in Financial straits-New
school Building Dedicated.

The new school building at Livonia,
Pointe Coupee parish, was formally
dedicated.
The police jury of Iberia parish
fixed the retail liquor license for the
year 1907 at $1,000.
Mrs. P. A. Gaze, of Plaquemine,
was seriously injured in an automobile
accident at Baton Rouge.
The proposition to license the sale
of whiskey in Morehouse parish was
defeated by vote of 800 to 152.
Several saloon keepers of New Iberia
pleaded guilty 10 violating the Sun
day law and were fined $3.50 each.
John A. McIlhenny, Of Louisiana, is
said to be slated for a position on the
United States civil service commission.
An independent telephone company
was organized at Roval, Winfield
parish, with capital stock of $4,000.
T. w. Scarlet, prominent citizen
of Lake Charles, committed suicide at
Houston, Tex, because of financial
troubles.
The trustees of the Keachie Female
College are considering the advisa-
bility of removing the Institution to
Shreveport.
The Monroe Lumber Company, one
of the largest concerns of it's kind in
the south, has been placed in the hands
of receiver.
Night Policemen NJ. G. Johnson and
William Stephens were dismissed from
the Crowley police force for gross
neglect Of duty.
DR.. Oscar Bowling, of Shreveport,
was appointed member of the state
board of health TO succeed DR.. Schum-
pert, who failed to qualify.
The common council of Estherwood
passed an ordinance prohibiting
gambling in any form within the corr
porate limits OF that town.
G. II. Elliott saw and planning mill
at Winnfeld was destroyed by fire,
with 10000 feet of rough lum-
Der, entailing loss of $4,000.
Two negro brakemen were killed in
a wreck on the Woodville branch of
he Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad near Bayou Sara.
Rev. 5. A. Smith. superintendent of
he anti-saloon league of Louisiana,
advocates high license as a remedy
or the evils caused by the traffic in
iquor.
A run away street car crashed into
he residence of J. NJ. Heyn, at the
corner of Hurst and Joseph streets,
New Orleans, causing damage es-
imated at s1l5O.
The fourth ward of Morehouse par
sl1 voted a fve-mill, ten-year tax in
lid of the projected railroad from
Pine Bluff, Ark, to Monroe, via Ham
burg and Bastrop.
W. c. Ecks, editor of a labor paper
II Shreveport, was arrested on the
:harge Of circulating a false report
the existence of smallpox in
he vieiniy, of that city. !,
An ordinance providing for the clos
ng of all saloons in Shreveport be-
2een the hours of midnight and i
i. m. was unanimously adopted by
he common council of that city.
Approximately $500 pounds Of de-
composed meat and 1000 cases OF
spoiled condensed milk were destroyed
by the officials of the New Orleans
BOARD of health during the month of
October.
Judge =. H. White, prominent
awyer of..Alexandria, has accepted the
position of dean of the department. of
;iviI law at Tulane University, New
and will assume his new
luties within the next few months.
While partially intoxicated, Craw
ord Jackson and Claude Williams,
employees Of a lumber company at
Iuanita, fell asleep on the Kansas
1itv Southern Railroad tracks near
0eQuincy and were struck by d pas
'enger train, each of the men losing a
land and receiving other injuries
Lbout the head and face.