The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-09-10
LOUISIANA
At A Glance
Good Roads" is the state slogan.

Inc naval station at New orleans
reports busy season ahead.
Entries for the Boys Corn club con
test in Louisiana will close October
%.
Improved business conditions in the
state are reflected by general activity
III lumber circles.
The Gulf and Ship Island shops al
GulfpOrt have commenced repairing
1900 disabIer cars.
Tulane university has the largest
enrolment ever recorded in the his
tory of the institution.
Mrs. Frederick Hernsheim, a pic
neer citizen, died at New Orleans al
the advanced age of SO.
Machinery for the new steam laun
dry at Hammond has been installed
and the plant is in operation.
The - year water works war was
settled at Baton Rouge by the city
and company making concessions.
Tax collections at New Orleans are
nearly million ahead of last year
with 100000 paid on the last day.
The New Orleans Polo club has re
sumed practice, and expects to play
important matches the coming season
Lafayette parish is to experiment
with oil roads on a large scale, and
the result will be watched with inter
est.
Louisiana had $1,O51, $3.50 on de
post with its fiscal agent banks at
the beginning of business on Septem
Der |.
Trash cans bearing the legend
Help Keep the City Clean" have
been distributed along the streets OF
Hammond.
Frank N. Mellon. indicted at Ray
mond for the killing of Charles Papa
doh, at Bolton June IA, surrendered
at Jackson.
The Baton Rouge board of trade
has charge of the program for the
entertainment of President Taft il
that city on October 20.
Inspector O'Connor of New Orleans
has decided upon military exercises
for the police, and appointed Clerl
James Dimitry as drill master.
Nine hundred and fifty Thousand
feet of lumber was shipped out O.
the Morgan City port by water in one
week, bound for the east on schoon
erS.
Nathan and William Stokes are
charged with attempting to kill 7
w. Brown and w. S. Martin, in the
Seventh ward of East Baton Rouge
parish.
A fire at New iberia destroyed the
Eureka hotel and contents, causing
$4,000 loss. Miss Virginia Carter
an actress, was carried from TIT
building unconscious.
J. G. Houston, the swindler, nov
held at the St. Tammany jail, ha'
been identified as T. H. Monteith O
Monroe, who passed a WORTHLESS!
check at New Orleans.
An important meeting of the trucl
growers of East Baton Rouge parish
was recently held for the purpose o
making plans to handle the truck Oh
of Baton Rouge in carload lots.
The Baton Rouge Water compan!
suggested that the presidents of thu
four banks of Baton Rouge be select
ed as a board of arbitration to settle
the price to be paid for fire hydrants
Following an address by Governo
Sanders, the Natchitoches police jur!
set aside mills of the assessed val
ues of the parish for 10 years TO
good roads purposes. The tax will
net $4,000.
Parties in from the Mamou oil fell
report more activity than there ha!
been in the field in some time This
Crowley Oil and Mineral company ha
brought in another good producer an(
is now getting about 1,400 barrel.
daily.
Cotton is moving very freely in Ba
ton Rouge now. The cotton gins il
the city are busy ginning the staple
brought in from the country by thu
farmers. The weather condition:
have been favorable. One gin is turn
ing out over 20 bales day.
The fifth Louisiana levee boart
filed mandamus suit at Baton Roug'
against Auditor Capdevielle, askins
thaf tho auditor he required to iSSu.