Lower coast gazette., 1909-02-13

kama, Tex, Tor $6,loO. IL ueal ID
an echo of the recent prohibition eic-
lion, at which the town went dry"
The light plant cost the city about
So, 900 and when it was purchased the :
whiskey revenue amounted to $4,000 [
per year, and it vas pledged to meet
the deferred payments on the light
plant. On Jan. /, 1908, the payments J
became due and the city was unable
to meet it's obligations, but arranged
with one of the local banks to carry
the paper In January last the town
was again unable to meet the pay
ments, and the sale followed as Il
necessary consequence.
Baton Rouge-A triple hanging may
be pulled off in West Baton Rouge.
Sheriff Parker now has three prison
ers in his care who have been SEN
fenced by Judge Claiborne to be hang
ed. Chas. Davis, Wallace Jones and
Ben Jones are the negroes under SEN
tence of death. Wallace and Ben
Jones were convicted for the murder
of Conductor Hall, of the Texas n
Pacific Railroad. Chas. Davis, a ne
gro, was convicted in September for
| the murder of one of the guards OF
| the State ~Penitentiary, but his death
| warrant has not been signed by Gov
I ernor Sanders. The Governor an
| sign all three of the death warrants
at once, and set the same date for the
execution of the three negroes. This
the officials of West Baton Rouge
would like for him to do.
Grand Cane. E. P. Cowdin, the
Governments special agent in the farm
ers' cooperative demonstrative work,
with headquarters at this place, be-
lieves a fine crop of cotton will be
raised despite the boil weevil. Mum
bers of demonstration farms in this
parish under Mr.. Cowdin's direction,
made almost a bale per acre last year,
and this year more cotton will be
planted than last. In addition to De
Soto, Mr.. Cowdin has been given
Caddo and Red River Parishes, and in
all three parishes large numbers OF
I demonstration farms have already
been established. Last season the hill
lands on this parish produced much
more cotton than river and bayou
+ land. This was due partly to the
overflow in June and July and partly
to the ravages of the boil weevil be
J ing felt more in low lands.
- Alexandria.-Floyd Williams, a farm
q er who resides near Simms, on tn
a Iron Mountain railroad, north of thi
II city, was here for the purpose of hay
II ing a model made. of an automatl
e switch closing device which he has II
Il vented, and for which he has obtaine
10 a patent. This invention is a simpl
device, and relates to automat1
switches, and has for its object to pr
= vide means operable by a passin
train for automatically closing tn
switch should the same be a
~cidentally or otherwise left ope
y A further object is to provide a trat
device, including a pivotal lever ha
ing one end thereof operatively co
nected with the switch in its opposi
end. A projection on the engil
strikes an upright lever, which throN
the switch, closing it If it is foul
open.
Through the courtesy Of DR.. l..
- Howard, chief Of the Federal Bure
,or. Of Entomology, the State Crop n
III. Commission has succeeded in sec
ia ing for the farmers on its mailing ]
about 10000 copies of recent pul
.c,. cations concerning the boil wee
During the past four years the &C
mission has itself published tn
sands of bulletins regarding the we
ORC IL. These have been eagerly sci
upon by the farmers, and they nj
NIL, clamored for more. The new ia
ers' bulletin is a treatise OF rs pas
IN. and copies of it will, within the n
no few days, be mailed direct from Wa
min. ington to all the planters On
crs Crop Pest Commissions mailing
,arv In addition to this bulletin the
ossi. reau Of entomology has also cons
Ioro. ed to furnish the Louisiana farm
and with a special circular upon "Wi
Measures Against the Boil Wee
tool Natalbany-Al employees OF the
the mill Of the N~atalbany Lumber !
met pany, located here, one Of the lar
alive saw mills in the State, went u
ainst strike against a 10 per cent redue
Idopt in wages, which went into enect
hods. i. This is the fourth time this I
! = pany has reduced wages since
panic Of a year ago. and the Sc
). = time since Dec. 1. In some insta
the men complain of having been
missed a certain scale OF wages,
no when pay day arrived yer
very much lower.
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