The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-03-16
Items OF Interest CuIled From the
Louisiana Press.
Municipal Electric Light Plant to be Estab-
Iished at Houma-shreveport Drug
gist Charged with Selling Liq-
uor Without License.

contracted for the erection of a plar
to cost $50, 900.
The fifth annual convention of th
Southern Brewers Association wa
held at New Orleans.
| The new Catholic church at Ne
Roads was formally dedicated b
Archbishop j. II. Blenk.
The work of repairing the leVees i
ST. Bernard parish will begin as 500
as the river falls sufficiently.
A new courthouse and jail for Tan
gipahoa parish will be erected a
Amite City at a cost of $50, 200.
1t is proposed to hold special cleo
ton in Franklin parish for the pur
pose of voting a tax for drainage pur
poses.
W. G. Whitney, of Beaumont, Texas
was awarded the contract for con
structing two brick school buildingl
at,Lafayette.
The school board of Orleans parish
adopted resolution prohibiting schoo
teachers from pled2ing their salaries
after July /, 1907.
DR.. J. II. Scott, president of the
Shreveport Drug Company, was ar.
rested on the charge of selling liquor
without license.
A number of prominent business
men of Thibodaux are planning the
establishment of wagon and cart
factory at that place.
A canning and packing company
was organized at Kenner and will
build a factory covering an area OF
nearly 5000 square feet.
Dorsin Broussard, farmer living
in the vicinity of Estherwood, killed a
tWo-year-old Poland China hog weigh
ing more than 900 pounds.
The corners stone of the handsome
new Odd Fellows Home presently in
course of construction at Crowley was
laid with imposing ceremonies.
Gov. Blanchard appointed Gen. T.
W. Castleman state tax collector for
the seventh district of New Orleans
vice 0. A. Trezevant, deceased.
The Mobile and Ohio and the Queen
and Crescent Railroads will shortly
establish a fast live stock freight
service between New Orleans and ST.
Louis.
The Ruddock. Orleans Cypress Com
pany's new mill at Ruddock, which
will cut $4,000, 900 feet of lumber an
nually,. is expected to begin operations
July l.
The steamship Momus arrived at
New Orleans from Havana, Cuba,
with the largest number of passengers
ever brought to that port by single
vessel.
Several buildings in the business
section of Delhi were destroyed by fire,
other structures being blown up with
dynamite in order to check the spread
of the flames.
Following a sermon by Presiding
Elder John T. Sawyer, the congrega-
tion of the Methodist church at Chem
eyville raised 1886 with which to
liquidat ate debt.
The Bayou Paul plantation in Iber-
vile parish, comprising 218 acres, was
sold by Joseph Byrne to Haydel g.
Ory, well-known planters of St. John
parish, for the price of s13, 500.
Ell. T. Davis and Fred DeIvey, con-
victed of enticing ten-year-old white
girl into a house of ill-fame at Shreve-
port, were sentenced to six months in
jail. The case will not be appealed ],
The town council of Houma adopted
an ordinance providing for the erec-
tion of municipal electric light plant
and the extension of the waterworks
system. Bonds to the amount OF $780,
900 will be issued for this purpose.
The Lyons Cypress Company, of
Garyyille, Withdrew from the Cypress
Selling Company, which markets the
output of 9 large number of cypress
mills in this section OF the country,
and it is expected that cut in prices
will result.
Mrs. Losiney Boudreaux, aged fifty
six years, a native OF Thibodaux, was
run over by q street car in New Orleans
and instantly killed, the accident oc-
curing within short distance of Mrs.
Boudreaux's home at the corner Of
Magazine and Thalia streets.
Joseph H. Jackson, OF Fort Jessup,
Sabine parish, q student at the Louis
lana State University, was awarded
the Cecil Rhodes beneficiary scholar
ship in the University Of Oxford, and
will leave for England during the lat
ter part OF September.
viii Josey. a one legged negro
about tWenty-eight years Of age, at
tempted TO assault the twelye-year-old
daughter OF ". NJ. Hargrove, a prom
inent farmer of Merryyi1le. Calcasieu
parish, and narrowly escaped lynch
ing 81 the hands Of q mob Of infuri.
ased citizens.