The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-07-23
KILLING ENDS FIGHT
OVER A DRAIN ditch
Texas Ouarantines Against
Louisiana Live Stock
THE MOSQUITO PLAGUE CONTINUES
Fine Peaches Raised on Cut-Oyer
Pine Lands. Prizes for Fairs An
nounced. 12-aiilc Model Road
is Assured.

Elton, La, TWO years old, has Its
: second bank.
Fire at Torras destroyed the Og-
den Hotel and contents.
North / Ia1iisiana Inhhers, AZ
ISOLATION met at Alexandria.
A negro attempted criminal as.
sault on two young ladies near Le-
compt.
Citizens at Morse raised a fund
to provide smoke against the mos
quito scour9c.
Floating docks for the Standard
Oil Company at Baton Rouge will
cost 100000.
Natural gas from a salt water well
at Monroe was utilized to illuminate
Forsythe Park.
Congressman Joseph E. Ransdell
has opened his campaign headquar-
ters at Ruston.
John a. Wogan, OF New Orleans,
Is promoting a proposed sugar re-
flnory a Alexandria.
Louis MohaIt, 10 years old, con-
fessGi 10 roDhing a postoffice sub
station at Lake Charles.
The seagull feather industry in
st. Mary Parish is apparently dead
until millinery fashions change.
Tie Caddo Parish Police Jury has
ordered a quarantine against Bos-
sier, where charbon is said to ex-
ist.
The fig crop which has been un-
usually large this year, has suffer
ell greatly from the recent constant
rains.
Stock men place the loss from
charbon IN Louisiana this season at
from 500 to 500 head Of stock al
ready
Baton Rouge offered dock facili-
ties to the Illinois Central Railroad
in case New Orleans rejects the fran
chise
The Tcnth District Farmers I'm
ION, while in session at Baton
Rouge, approved the sale of the con-
Wet farms.
Immigrants from Kansas, Ohio
and Wisconsin will settle in Rapides
and other parishes along the Rock
Island lines.
Governor ]. Y. Sanders attended
a meeting Of the Board of Admins
traitors of the Louisiana Hospital for
the Insane at Plneville
The annual retreat Of the secular
priests OF the archdiocese of New Or
leans is being held at ST. Joseph's
Abbey, near Ramsay, La.
Impeachment proceedings are
against the st. Tamma-
ny Schol Board for alleged discrim-
ination in the case Of Miss NJ. G.
Lake Charles.-Trucking Success
fui.-For the first time in the histo-
ry of the city the Lake Charles mar
kets are supplied with homegrown
products Of all kinds. 1t has been
only a few years since Lake Charles
imported from other points every
thing in the way of vegetables and
fruits that it consumed. The success
Of a little band Of Italian gardeners
who were the pioneer truck growers,
the work of the experiment farms IN
various parts of the parish and the
organization of the Calcasieu Truck
Growers Association, which has
found a market abroad for all sur
plus products, have so simulated
production of vegetables and fruit
that the development Of great
truck growing industry is now as
sured
Lake Charles.-PeacheS From Cut
Over Pine Lands.-Elberta peaches
Are coming into Lake Charles from
The big Long-Bell experiment farm
at Bon Ami. This is the first year
Of bearing for the trees and Superin-
tendent Cranberry says the crop Is
10 Unexpectedly large that he Is hav-
ng some difficulty in handling 1t.
Peaches from the Strange farm at
'inger are also on the local market.
The fruit from these two farms Is
he finest ever seen in Lake Charles,
ot excepting the California product,
nd demonstrates without question
hat the cutover pine lands OF the ,
arish can be transformed into the -.
nest fruit lands. =.
Shreveport. rt.-College Assured {
rof. George l.. Harrell, who resign t
d as president Of Mansfield Female e
ollege, reports that the Woman s t
ollege of Shreveport Is assured. r
rof. Harrell is president Of the new I
lstitution, which is undenomination- r
|. 1t will be opened in the fall. The i
ew institution will be similar to v
elhaven College at Jackson, Miss. q
Shreveport.-Buys Fair GROUNDS.
The State Fair Grounds property a
as brought by the city OF Shreve-
ort, for $4,000, to be used as
ark and playground. The state
llr will be held on these grounds
ach year.
Tallulah.-Bonds Granted. - Dr. =
. w. Loper and Mrs. Pearl Dunn I
larged with a plot to poison g. h. 4
unn, husband OF the woman, were I
eld to the grand jury at Tallulah
nder $1,000 bond each. lr