Lower coast gazette., 1909-06-19
GENERAL NEWS.

DonalhsonviIe will organize a Progressive Union
sbreven,rt expects to secure a pork packery this sum
Tho Nav exports from New Orleans broke the records
for a dozen years.
InIv I'D is the time set for the Annual Baptist En-
campmcnt at Vaudeville.
The Mississippi automobile owners VIII nave a coh'eh-
ton in jackson, June II.
Archbishop Blenck Of New Orleans was received by the
Pope in an audience June II.
The United Confederate Veterans concluded their annual
Reunion in Memphis last week.
June II was the date set for the Texas q faclllc 10 en-
ter the Illinois Central Union Station.
The Southern Amateur Rowing Association opened us
annual regatta Wednesday afternoon, the 18th.
The oat crop OF Louisiana this year reaches "2'ooo
acres, an increase Of eight per cent over last year.
The checking of the accounts of every sheriff in the
state has been completed by Travelling Auditor smith
=. Miss Sophia Wrights Home Institute closed Its 1919
session on Tuesday as did also the st. Simeon School.
TIE United Warehouse Co. has purchased the Schwartz
Fomdr block in New Orleans and will erect a large build
ing thereon.
The L. S. Battieships Florida, Utah, Delaware and
North Dakota will be equipped with autanatlc electro ee-
yators for the use OF the officers.
The White CITY, which has been having %troublous times
recently in financial matters, has had matters adjusted anu
resumed operations last Saturday.
1t has been recommended by the Louisiana Conservation
Commission that the state order the owners OF inc WIN gas
wells in the state to close the same.
The years increase in property values in St. Bernard
narish reaches over a million dollars. PlaquemIles parish
had better be looking to her laurals.
WjImon D. Newell, entomolOgist of the Louisiana TX
perjment Station, has been rendered the position OF ento
moloeist by the Texas Experiment Station.
President Taft is endeavoring to secure a constitutions
amendment that will give Congress the power to TAX
incomes and the net earnings of corporations.
Superintendent A gnew has resigned as Probation Office
of tbe Juvenile Court. but will continue his relations wit
the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty t.
Children.
Two hundred and seventeen girls and boys graduate
from the New Orleans Public High Schools on Tuesday
June Is. Gov. }. Y. Sanders making tie annual address t
the graduates.
The Baotjst Or.hanage at Lake Charles will be thorough
ly investi lated by its boArt OF trustees. his ih'esusav'o
WA brought about BY the severe seatment OF one Of tn
inmates recently.
Hon. L. L. Bentley of New Orleans and secretary c
the louisiana Press Association, was last week reelecte
S.urem. Dictator Of the knights OF Honor, then in biennr
session at Niagra Fails. 81
the rlans for two new Battleships, the Arkansas an
Wyoming, were considered and approved by the Oener
Board OF the Navy. Those Vessels will be OF 10000 tons
more and OF the Delaware type.
The Manafev hotel at Jennings, which was built in l9
and cost $40, 600, was sold to +. B. Williams OF patterson
the holder o. the mortgage, for Sl8,3l5, which price II
cluded the building and furniture.
The State Supreme Court has decreed that W. 5. Ii