Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-03-11
FORTY PARISH CORN CLUBS
Truck Growers Organize for
Better Railroad Facilities
RIVER DIVORCEMENT Is FAVORED
Glanders at NatchitOches. Boiling
Tar Sets Negro Girls Dress ON
Fire and Results in Severe
Burns. Trades Days.

A rice mill will be erected at VI
dalia.
Fire at Lake Charles caused ST.
900 loss in the business district.
Ladies at Lafayette organized a
civic league to beautify the town.
rhe recently appointed Tensas Ba-
siu Levee Board organized at Ray
vile.
The Donaldsonville Chief and
Donaldsonville Times were consoli-
dated.
Captain L. d. McLain, 90 years
old planter and capitalist, died at
Monroe.
The Pietro Corado murder case
was continued at Abbeville until
April 4.
Julian Waller, II years old, was
drowned in the Ouachita river, near
Monroe.
General A. A. Booth initiated a
class of 100 Woodmen at Donald
sonville.
The Louisiana Press Convention
will be held May 8, and 5 at
0pelousas.
The Louisiana Farm Land Con-
gress will be held April 20 and 81
at Alexandria.
The class of the Yale Forest
School will study cut-over pine lands
near Claris, La.
Lake Charles will have twenty
I'VE miles of cement sidewalks on
seventeen streets.
The public schools of Washington
parish held literary and athletic con-
tests at Bogalusa.
James Cook Davies, suspected safe
blower, dug his way out Of jail at
opslousas and escaped.
3. g. Dunbar, night clerk at Ho-
tel Bentley, Alexandria, 10 alleged to
have absoonded with 5000.
John German, q naval stores man
ufacturer, Of Fayetteville, N. O. was
found dead at Lake Charles.
Governor Sanders called upon the
people of Louisiana to observe April
~ as tuberculosis Sunday.
The will of the late Captain L.
D. McLain, filed at Monroe, leaves
100000 to Mrs. Clayton Crosley
Austin.
The wireless telegraph companies
In Louisiana will be assessed for
the first time this year by the State
Board Of Appraisers.
At mass meeting at Natchitoches
entered protest against the proposed
removal of the United States Land
Office from that place.
Following the wiping out Of COM
petition at Houma. the remaining
Ice plant increased prices from rs
cents to 60 cents per 100.
The first two cars of gravel from
the Colfax pit we're rejected by the
government expert building the mod
sl road at Baton Rouge.
p. r. Sandoz and r. Henry Pavy
will be the only candidates in the
primary March 10 to succeed the
late District Judge Perrault.
tween the grades. Fourteen hun
dred school children registered, and
Of these large number were enter
Cd In some OF the events.
John A. Perkins, former sheriff
and tax collector Of Calcasieu parish,
went to trial at Lake Charles on
the charge of embezzlement.
A Texas girl reached Baton
Rouge with q baby "a hours old, born
at Gloster, and made an unsuccessful
effort to And home for the waif.
Miss Sue Devall was killed and
Robert Mcclellan, B. Burton and
Misses Lizzie Devall and Carroll
Phillips injured in an automobile ac-
cident near Chamberlain.
Two policemen at Bogalusa were
shot and seriously wounded during a
pistol battle with four men who re-
sisted arrest for drunkenness. One
OF the attacking party was probably
fatally shot.
]. NJ. Gam. a merchant OF Var
uado, died at Bogalusa from wounds
Inflicted by Deputy Sheriff Bob Car
son during a pistol battle between
two officers and four men whom
they tried to arrest.
Miss Odelia Roussel, a Spanish
girl 20 years old. is thought to have
drowned herself in the Mississippi
River at Lutcher. Her bonnet and
one Of her shoes was found on the
bank.
T. B. Gilbert, Jr., was named
president; II. A. Mangham secre-
tary, and Carey Thompson, attor-
ney, at the organization meeting OF
the Tensas Basin Levee Board at
Rayville.
Roland Lee, white man at Baton
Rouge. while handling a feed cutter
had two OF his fingers severed from
his hand by the blades of the feed
cutter. He was given medical atten-
uon at the Baton Rouge Sanitarium.
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