Lower coast gazette., 1909-09-11

The anti women SutteraSlSts IN III
,ois propose conducting an active cam m
2aign this year in the middle West to r"
combat the growing idea of woman ne
!"
Some Shreveport business men have
bought a steamboat with a capacity TO
carry 1900 bales Of cotton and propose
to revive the Red River traffic with
New Orleans the idea being for the
boat to operate between New Orleans
and Garland City, Texas, and to make &C
the trip every two weeks. &C
The police jury of Terrebonne parish, c
at its meeting on September ], raised
the parish tax from 8 mills to 10 mills
the two extra mills to be utilized IN
building roads.
The leO9-l91O session of the Indus
trial Institute at Ruston, La, opened
September !.
Two white men were killed by light
ming IN the French plantation in La !
fourche parish last week.
Frost was reported on September 2,
from Chicago and other points in ILL.,
, nois, Michigan and Wisconsin. This is
the first time since 1885 that frost has
come as early as Sept. 2, in Chicago.
Considerable damage is reported done
To the corn, buckwheat, tobacco and
potato crops Of the states affected by
the frost.
Other Mexican towns besides Monte
rev are reported as having suffered
from the recent floods, among winch
are Camargo, Rayones and Galena.
The Cunard Liner Lusitana has
broken the record for crossing the
ocean, reducing the time to under tive
DAYS, making the trip from Queens
, town to New York in 4 days, II hours
and AZ minutes, reducing the time by
three hours and eighteen minutes over
any previous trip.
v President Taft expects to visit
9 Alaska next year, with a trip to Ha-
n wall probably thrown in as l%agniappe.
His present trip through the United
y States will cover II, 759 miles.
The Danish government is preparing
d to give DR.. Cook, the American dis
coyerer of the North Pole a big recep-
ton on his return. Practically all
/ scientists accept the statement OF
s. Cooks discovery of the pole, although
g a few dissenting voices are to be heard.
~ The winning of the Gordon Bennett
=. cup by Glenn H. Curtiss the American
:. aviator at Rheims, means that the neX'
p international meeting of aviators vii
be held in America. Washington, D.
il G.. is already ~endeavoring to be selected
as the meeting place.
The Alabama Health Department l.
o I going to make a complete mvestiga
ton of the new disease pellagra.
no The Louisiana State Board of Healt
OF will organize a Pure Food Burea'
a which it is claimed, will be second
ch none in the country, The Bureau WI
as he under the control of DR.. Hamilto
ad P. Jones, recently appointed Pure Foo
Commissioner.
It is stated that Secretary OF tt
in Navy Meyer proposed closing the Phil'
Of delphia, Charleston, Port Royal ar
M New Orleans Navy Yards.
rec DR.. Frederic A. Cook, the Arctic e
,oss plorer, reached Copenhagen, Denmar
for the morning of September 4th and W
greeted with honors by the Danish n
-, ton. the crown prince OF Denma
wy meeting him at the vessel.
Or.
age Clyde Fitch, the American pla
wright, died in France on September
I'D of appendicitis.
be- The Evangeline Sugar Co. has be
chartered at Breaux Bridge, La, vi
a capital of 500, 900 and will put up
VIC large sugar mill in that section.
day
he Three were killed and eleven inJu1
by a recent wreck on the Baltim'
Cow and Ohio Railroad, the wreck haV'
-ood been caused by unknown persons p
ing spikes out of the rails at ChoWt
resulting in the train being ditch
rom Two suspects are under arrest.
Il :" Monday, September 9Th was La
> .ne Day,
.oose A gasoline launch sunk in the Nc
+.o,r river New York, drowning two Wol
on. and q lar
The rice millers and farmers
r.;,- planning to establish bonded w
Of J. houses
The raising of diamond back te
J. ;s pins is proposed for Louisiana by
al de- ota'e "a.ne To "s.a.
to oil eApef' 'ooN"'s INV VI"
books J. B. Aswell, president Of the M
both toches Normal School is being sp'
mat of as possible ~gubernatorial timber
linary the state press, as is also Cong
reg man Estopinal.