The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-07-04
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nounces the dates and location of parish
fairs as follows: Calhoun, Sept. 16 to
Is; Ruston, Sept. % to 20; Arcadia,
Sept. 20 to Oct. 3; Gibsland, Oct. to 9;
Homer, Oct. Is to Is; Plain Dealing,
Oct. %; Leesyille, Oct. 6 to 8; Minden,
Oct. 20 to %; Opelousas, Oct. IL to l6;
Msrksville, Oct. 20 to "a; Natchitoches,
Oct. I to Nov. 3; Jesnerette, Sept. s to
Is; Abbeville, Sept. Is to 10; Breaux
Bridge, Oct. 20 to 80; Crowley, Oct. q
to 30; Clinton, Oct. % to "a; Hammond,
Oct. IA to II; Covington, Oct. Z to 10;
Shreveport, Nov. to 7. Fair officers
for the parishes of Calcasieu and La
fayette have not yet organized and no
dates have been fixed.
The first annual reunion of the ex.
students of the louisiana State Institu-
ton for the Deaf and Dumb was held
at Baton Rouge, with eighty ex-stu-
dents in attendance. There were In
attendance persons seventy years of
age, who were in the institution over
fifty years ago, and the renewal Of &C.
quaintances by these afflicted persons,
who in their neighborhoods are not
thrown in contact with mutes, and In
many instances meet their schoolmates
for the first time in many years, is
pathetic.
;ol {xxo mil I,o Cd In
labor circles by the announcement TO
present a measure to the legislature for
the appointment of q commissioner Of
labor and Industries, who shall main
tain general supervision over the ma
terial, social, educational and sanitary
condition of laboring people. AS the
expense involved is only $500 a year
81, 500 for salary and 81 900 for ex-
penses-the bill will undoubtedly find
many supporters, though whether suf-
ficient to put it through is still an open
question.
Two bills to regulate liquor trafiic
have been introduced in the Louisiana
legislature. In the senate statewide
prohibition bill was introduced by Sem
ator Boggs. In the house high II
cense bill was introduced by Repre-
sentative Shattuck. The license bill is
modelled after Gov. Sanders recon-
mendations, and prohibits women from
serving drinks, and whites and negroes
drinking in the same building. Tho
licenses are to be proportioned to the
saloonkeeper's gross annual receipts,
with IS 900 as the maximum license.
Following visit to the Southwestern
Louisiana Industrial Institute at Lafay-
cite special committee of the legisla-
ture reported as follows: "We fully
concur in the report of the president,
DR.. E. L. Stephens, and recommend
that normal school be established at
Lafayette, in connection with the indus
trial school, destined to become one Of
the great constructive forces Of the de-.
partment of education"
Swindlers have sent many laborers
from Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
and Texas to New Orleans for Panama
canal jobs. The victims of the false
labor agents have not only given 81 to
SIS apiece to the agents, but have paid
their fares to New Orleans, in the ex-
pectation of finding transportation to
the isthmus awaiting them there.
Fully approved, it is stated, by the
voters Of Calcasieu parish, bill has
been prepared providing for the crea-
ton of three new parishes-Pine, Sam
ders and Rice-out of territory now
embraced in the parish of Calcasieu.
During the months of January, Feb
ruary, March, April and May IL state
convicts died, Ii escaped and IL were
recaptured. The average number Of
prisoners in the keeping of the state at
this time Is 1850.
Gov. Sanders appointed and the SEN
ate confirmed Ex-Gov. Heard as presi-
dent Of the board of control Of the
state penitentiary.
A sale was made of 945 acrts Of rice
land lying between Iota and Egan, in
Acadia parish, for cash confederation
of s23,625, or s25 per acre.
Col. G. Harrison Parker, president
of the board of control Of the stats
penitentiary, sent his -esig nation "a
Gov. Sanders.
Several hundred women md children
were in the Schubert theaser at New
Orleans when fire broke out in q FIVE.
story building separated from the thea
ter by an arcade passage way. The
theater exits were quietly opened and
the announcer requested the audience
to leave, saying there was fire few