Lower coast gazette., 1910-03-19
STATE NEWS.

turned down the proposition for a vote
to establish saloons in that town.
The Louisiana State Board of Health
and the New Orleans City Board of
Health held a conference last week at
which it was decided to ask the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to r~eestablish
the sanitary inspection of passengers
arriving from Central American Ports
during the summer months. This in
spection has been in force by the U. S.
Marine Hospital Corps, but was aban~
doned in November last year for the
winter months and under orders from
Surgeon General Wyman, will not be
resumed this summer.
The water service of the town Of
Lafayette is to be extended.
April l and 2 will be celebrated by
the Parish Of Rapides as rally days, at
which time literary and athletic contests
will be had at Alexandria.
A stock company has been organized
in Morgan City to operate a steamboat
line between New Orleans, Morgan
City and Teche points.
The Shreveport Board of Trade and
Progressive Union have been absorbed
by a new organization, to be known as
the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce.
The New Orleans exchanges will con-
tribute s 5 1000 to furthering the plans of
the Rivers and Harbors Congress and
the Lakes-to-Gulf eep-Waterways
plans.
Ex-Governor David r. Francis of
Missouri, director general of the st.
Louis Worlds fair in 1904, has been in
vited 70 New Orleans by the Progress
sive Union to talk Panama Exposition
and New Orleans as its location to the
people OF New Orleans.
The price of ice in New Orleans is
scheduled to rise on April LIST.
A ninety-nine year franchise has been
granted for the building of a motor
railroadS along Bayou Laforche from
Donaldsonville to Lockport. !
Tho raoaptlv iparoaoaJ p,,on of .oo -,
Houma. La, jumping from twenty
cents a hundred up to sixty cents, has 6
driven the board of aldermen of that !.
town to pass resolutions appealing to !,
the state lawmakers to pass such laws r
as will enable the people to remedy the {
evil :
The Louisiana antituberculosis League !.
will ask the coming legislature for an !,
appropriation to fight consumption in :
Louisiana. :,
The New Iberia Truck Association a
this season shipped within two weeks
twenty nine carloads of sweet potatoes, Y
shipping to the North and East. Four r
hundred carloads OF corn were shipped ,,
from New iberia last season, princi-
pally to Texas.
The Rice Experiment Station at o,
Crowley will plant three hundred vari- cc
cites of rice this year, secured from all
parts of the world. nj
The Davis printing Co. has been or in
gained in Lake Charles, La, for the III
purpose of printing a weekly newspaper.
Miss Ellen M. Stone, the missionary, 81
whose capture by brigands in Turkey 81
some eight years ago caused such astir W
in the civilized world, was in New Or
leans for several days this week on a m
leeturing tour. U
The Gulf, Delta and Northwestern !,
Railroad has filed a charter in New Or =,
The road is to build from cot
tonport in the parish of Avoyelles, and
connect with the Colorado Southern ~
Railroad. :,
The New Orleans School Board has
$4,000 for the Summer Nor NJ,
nal to be held in New Orleans for six !,
weeks this summer DC
A new parish prison to cost Sl2, 600, in,
las been recommended by the commit
ZEE appointed by the Police Jury of the tn,
of st. Bernard. in
Mrs. 7. G. Richardson of New Or Ing
cans, known for hernumerous charities III
md through whose kindness the Tulane
Medical College has been. able to ex- ay
'and as it has, was stricken with apo at
on March IL. I'M
1t is reported that the F~rost-Johnson ae'
lumber Co. of st. Lonis has purchased sec
900, 900. 900 feet of stumpage in the Int
of Catahoula, Winn and Lin tns
oln. pa
ma
DR.. Hamilton P. Jones, state pure !,
God commissioner, is now proposing
he organization Of a Milk Commission
nat will insure the city of New Orleans al.
supply of pure milk. Fo'
leg
Gen. j. B. Levert has offered to fur of
ish $4,000 towards a new brick school me
t st. MartinVille, provided the people ed
I st. Martin will tax themselves for r
lie rest of the money necessary. NH
The Panama Exposition Committee org