The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-22
AROUND THE STATE
Items of interest Gulled Frem the
Louisiana Press.
City HalIto be Erected at nIonroe-Hard.
wood Mill to be Erected at Rayyiile.
High school Building to be
Erected at AbbeYille.

Erected at Abbeville,
Charbon isreported prev alent among
the cattle in Calcasieu parish.
A magnificent new city hall will be
erected at Monroe at a cost of 800, 600.
E. S. Elan was injured in rail
road motor cycle accident near Baton
Rouge.
The Richmond Lumber Company
will erect a $500, 600 hardwood mill at
Rayville.
The police jury of Tangipahoa par
ish has set aside two-mill tax for
school purposes.
The Buckley Lumber Company, with
a capital of s100, 600, was organized at
Elizabeth, Calcasieu parish.
DR.. w. A. Poche, his wife and a
guest were painfully injured in al au.
tomobile accident near Kaplan.
The Nigh Rutledge sawmill al Ope
lousas was sold at a receivers sale to
DR.. j. A. Haas for the sum OF $50, 900.
B. w EDDY, OF Lake Charles. has
been detailed to take the Louisiana rifle
team to the national match at Camp
Perry, Ohio.
Construction work has been started
on the foundation for the 81, 900, ,000 re
fnery of the Standard Oil Company at
Baton Rouge.
A fifty Thousand dollar high school
building will be erected at Abbeyille,
the money to be raised by two and
a half per cent special tax.
New Orleans Elks are making extern
siye preparations to attend the annual
convention OF the order at Los An
geles during the middle Of July.
Frank Boudousquie was seriously
Injured by the explosion of hand
chemical apparatus while fighting a
FIRE inthe Southern Hotel at tCovington.
Four thousand acres of oil and gas
land near Vivian were transferred BY
lease to the Union Oil Company, and
immediate development will be under
taken.
The city council OF Baton Rouge
has adopted an ordinance making it q
mtsdemeanor for person under
twenty ,one years of age to enter q
saloon.
One thousand acres of land on which
timber was recently cut and removed
near Houltonville has been set aside
for colonization by immigrants from
Holland
The new public school building al
Jennings was dedicated this week, and
Prof. J B. Aswell and Congressman
A. P. Pujo delivered addresses at the
cerem@ny.
Out of SIX prisoners tried for murder
at Franklin at the last term of court,
five were convicted and sent to
the penitentiary, while the case of the
sixth resulted in q mistrial.
The citizens of Bruslg Landing have
petitio1ed the Louisiana, Railroad
Commission to compel the Texas and
Pacific Railroad Company to build a
passenger depot at that place.
The Shreveport Bridge Sand Ter
minal Company fled suit against the
state board Of appraisers, asking thai
the asses sment on the Shreveport
bridge be reduced from S160, 900.
The case of f. F. Bouvy, charged
with the murder of F. S. Van Iagen,
was continued at Plaquemine until the
November term of court because of the
illness. of the defendants leading
counsel.
DR.. W. H. Dalrymple, of the Louis.
lana State University and Experiment
Stations, has been chosen a member
of the advisory board of the United
States Agricultural and Industria
Exposition.
L. A. Delacroix, proprietor of ths
Iberville Sentinel and Daily Cham
! pion, of Plsquemine, was arrested or
charge of criminal libel sworn on
by Charles q. Schwing, editor OF tht
Ihervil1e South, also published il
that city.
In order to secure a credit Of ffteer
per cent on the examination certificate
af one year the Louisiana Board o
Education has made it necessary tha
all teachers desiring the said credi
shall attend one of the Summer Nor
NAL Schools the full term Of nln'
weeks.
/ Three men we're killed aud a dozsl
fni1red hy an exniosian Of danalIif.