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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-10-12
COUNCIL PROCEEpINGS.

Council chamber, October 2, 1911.
Council met in regular session
with all members present except
VIM. Northup.
Minutes read and approved.
The monthly report OF r. C. Spen-
GER, mayor, of fines collected and
paid into the Town Treasury since
last report, was read and filed. Total
collections $1100.
The monthly reports of Chas. L.
Johnson, treasurer and w. j. Laub-
ender, clerk, were read and fled
BY unanimous vote of council the
contract for drilling deep well for
the town of Audubon is awarded to
Mr.. ]. f. Mccarthy of Minneapolis,
Minnesota. He to furnish a written
contract for drilling deep well, the
same to be submitted to and APP
proved by council. Said contract to
embody the terms on which said we'll
shall be constructed.
The following claims were allowed
and ordered paid
General Fund.
B. r. CASTOR, nights night
Waterman ........-....................$1O 90
c. III. Reynolds, one-half month
sprinkling streets...--.....-..-.. SO rs
Geo. Cleveland. rs hours labor
on eets....-.......................... 0 20
Prick Drug Co., telephone
calls ....-.............-............ i 20
Thos. Ocheltree, $3.50 lbs. hay 10 35
Geo. Cleveland, 10 hours labor
on street......--......-..........-.... 30
b. l.. Darnold, salary Septem-
Der 91l...-....,-.....-.-...-...-.--..-. 10 90
Ray Bamsey, salary Septem-
B. r. CASTOR, salary for month
of September and / day. 81 90
l.. B. Jennings, labor cutting
weeds ..--.....--...........-.....-...... %
Crane Co., l IL foo: inch
water pipe..-..-.---...............A Il
John Weighton, lumber. lime,
cement and sand................. 81 80
b. r. Wonsmos. merchandise
and repairing..--....-...-.-..--- 80,
Burnside & Leake, oats and
corn .................................. 10 80
Water Fund.
| Standard Oil Co., SO gallons
gasoline ..............-..........-...... SO
Standard Oil Co.. 60 gallons
gasoline ....-...................-......-. o 80
Standard Oil Co., so gallons
gasoline ......---......-......-........- b 20
Standard Oil Co., 60 gallons
| BdSOllHe --.----.-----.--.-.....-...-.--. on
| Thos. Williamson, 80 hours
labor at pumping station. 90
r. M. Johnson, repairing water
main and sprinkler............ 8 80
National Refining Co., one-half
barrel oll.....................,..-...... VI
Johnson & Buck, gas engine.
merchandise and labor295 40
Electric Light Fund.
e. j. Freeman, supt., 127 street
lights for month of Sep
TENDER ..-.....--..-.--.....-...-...-..--.lZ W
No further business council adj
journed.
r. c. Spencer, Mayor.
w Jouhapdar CIarE
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-10-12
Very Low Fares
to California and
Pacific Northwest

THROUGH Tourist Sleeping
Cars on fast Rock Island trains
with dining cars, from Chicago,
St. Louis, Kansas City,
St. Paul. Minneapolis and
many other points, to the Pacific Coase
without change, provide roomy, COM
Portable berths with conveniences Of .
standard Pullman at half the cost
Choice of Routes
Southern -via FL Paso, the low altitude
way, or Scenic the heart Of The
Colombo Rockies and Salt Lake City.
September Is to October Is, 1911
Rock Island Lines will sell one way colonies
tickets TO California at the following ratss,
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SOS E.: Ips,.a'sH. R.sL s'..i
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s32ss ic.- i..sa. g. L..k ~
s33" E'- ciisas'
Corresponding low rates from other pei.aH
Similar low fares to Pacific Northwsse.
Much Comfort-Little Cost
y you take "Rock Island Linss' hon
nearest point.
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the trim
w. W. SMITH. Agent Audubon.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
Teach without Certificate

Lafayette, Feb. Z. The Parish
School Board held an interesting
meeting Saturday and trans
acted important business. The
board sustained Superintendent
Wright in the matter Of COM
plant by j. W. Basset in the
case of Miss Lila Basset. Upon
high recommendation Superin-
tendent Wright appointed Miss
Basset to a position in the High
School at Lafayette and the lady
taught several months. How
ever, as she held no state certi-
fcate and refused to stand the
regular examinations, she re-
signed and hence the complaint
filed. Mr.. Basset argued it was
not fair to influence the lady to
several hundred miles and
impose new conditions as to
tenure of position.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11

The announcement made yester-
day of the sale of a plantation
just below the city to be cut up
into small truck farms and set
tied by farmers from Iowa., Hi
nois, Nebraska and other west
ern states, marks an important
economic change and illustrates
the new agricultural condition
arising in Louisiana.
Louisiana is one of the last Of
the southern states to cling to
the old antebellum plantation
idea. The fact that the sugar
industry calls for large capital,
for expensive machinery, for a
heavy acreage, is probably re-
sponsible for the survival of the
plantation system in Louisiana
after it has disappeared so
generally elsewhere in the South.
While there has been some
thing of the kind done latterly in
Louisiana, it is only in the last
five years that the movement
looking to utilizing the rich sugar
lands of the state for farm
colonies has gained any Roadway.
The greatest progress has been
in the Teche country. The pur-
chase of the Magnolia Planta-
ton is largely the result of a
similar experiment in st. Mary
within the last twelve months,
under which some seven thou
sand acres of fertile land were
thrown open to settlement and
cultivation by small white farm
ers. This influx of western
farmers into the western portion
of st. Mary and the eastern por-
ton of Iberia, which has been
going on for nearly a year, prom
Uses to bring about an economic
change in that section of great
and permanent benefit, especially
to the towns, by the substitution
Of intelligent and thrifty farm
ers for the gang labor so largely
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
Motion by Mr.. Theo. Doucet.

Motion by Mr.. Thee. Doucet-
Duly seconded and carried, the fol.
lowing license ordinance was adopted
for the year 1911, as follows, to-wit:
LICENSE ORDINANCE.
Section l. Be it ordained by the
Police Jury Of the Parish of st. Lam
dry in regular session convened, that
the license laws of the State of Lou
isiana now in force in so far as ap-
plicable, shall be the license laws of
the Parish Of st. Landry for the year
1911; provided, that the question as
to whether or not the sale Of intoxi-
eating liquors shall be licensed or
not shall remain in allegiance until
after the result Of the election which
has been called to be held on the
3lst inst. on the subject, shall have
been ascertained; and provide d
further, that the licenses for ped
dlers in one and two horse vehicles
shall be fifteen and twenty dollars re-
s~pectiYely.
Section 2. Be it further ordained,
ETC., That this ordinance shall take
effect on and after January 1st, 1911.
Adopted Dec. 18th, 1910.
w. F. CLOPTON, President.
Attest: j. j. HEALEY, Clerk.
The following ordinance was Of
fered by Mr.. Daley, seconded by
Mr.. Singleton, and upon being duly
read, was adopted unanimously, to-
wit:
ANNUAL TAX ORDINANCE.
Whereas, by resolution adopted on
November 9th, 1910, this Body
framed a budget of n~inety-nine thou
sand dollars ($99,OOO.00, as an es-
innate exhibiting the various items
Of expenditures that the parish Of
st. Landry would require for the
1911, and
Whereas, said budget has been pub
lished in the st. Landry Clarion, the
official newspaper of this parish, for
the full term of thirty (3O days as
thelaw directs, and
Whereas, an ad valorem tax of
nine 90 mills on the dollar on all tine
taxable property of this parish will
be required in addition to the reve-
to be derived under the license
ordinance adopted to meet 5 a i d
budget;
Now, therefore, be it ordained BY
the Police Jury Of the Parish Of St.
Landry chat a tax of nine co. mills on
the dollar be levied on all taxable
property situated within this parish,
which the State levies a tax. to
meet said budget of expenditures for
the year 1911.
Adopted Dec. - 1910.
W. F. CLoPT0N, President.
Attest: ]. J.. HEALEY, Clerk.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11

What will happen when the
fight is pulled off? Why, that is
a question not easily answered.
Who will be the candidates rep
resenting each side?
That is not SO hard to answer
as respecting the regulars, any
way.
John 7. Michel, one of the
cleanest men in Louisiana poll
tics, is an avowed candidate, and
will make the race, and his
friends believe he will win.
There are other men, however.
mentioned for candidates on the
regular ticket-all able and
strong men. Among them is w.
B. Thompson, who has hereto
fore been on the other side. /"
The fight made by Governor San
ders and Mayor Behrman
for the Exposition won him
over. We are told that he
now believes that the best in
terests of the State and city lie
in the organized Democracy.
On the Democratic Good Gov
eminent League side, Lieutenant
Governor Paul Lambremont is a
prominent candidate-in fact he
seems to loom up stronger than
any of the other probables. Bob
Broussard was once a factor, but
his defeat when a candidate for
Senator, and his recent turn
down. by the Democrats in Con-
gress has gone far towards re
firing him from the field.
T h e Lieutenant Governorship
is sought after by T. c. Barrett,
of Caddo, Robert Roberts Of Lin
coin, Representative Claiborne
of Pointe Coupee, and others.
Barrett is an administration
man, although the brother-in-law
of Governor Blanchard.
Robert Roberts is inclined to
the Good Government side; so is
Claiborne.
For Senator, there is no ques-
ton but that Governor Sanders
will be a candidate. Senator
Foster has not said his mind"
yet. Broussard announced when
he got walloped at Baton Rouge
that he would be a candidate; SO
did Mr.. Pujo of this district;
Congressman Ransdell is also
supposedly a candidate.
What alignment will be formed,
IF course, is not yet known.
The atmosphere will clear up
within the next few months.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
MORE FARMS IN LOUISIANA.
(TIMES-D

used on the big plantations. A
country of small farms, it's need
less to point out, is necessarily a
country of homes and schools to
say nothing of the natural wealth
it insures.
The movement Of western
farmers south is handicapped by
the difficulty of getting lands in
large bodies for such settlers;
for it will be recognized by all
that a colony is possible only
where several thousand acres are
purchased in a body. We have
been bidding for the western inn
migrants for years, knowing
their value; but we have secured
very few. They will not work
as laborers on a big plantation
alongside of negroes, and they do
not care to isettle in the midst of
a country overwhelmingly negro.
AS a consequence a quarter OF a
million white farmers driven
from the Central West each year
by the scarcity Of land or it's ex-
cessive price, have Settled in the
bleak, blizzard stricken prairies
of the northwest Canadian terri
tory or on the arid plains border
ing the Rocky Mountains, de-
pending for agriculture upon the
uncertain and expensive system
of irrigation, whereas in the
South, and especially in Louis
lana, are lands, fertile beyond
any in the world, providing an
abundant rainfall and fewer agri-
cultural disasters than threaten
any other section, The difficulty
has been, as we stated, to get
large acres of lands adapted to
such colonization schemes. This
is now being done by the drain
age Of lands heretofore unculti-
waited because of exceeding food
ing and by the settling up Of the
big plantations into small hold
ings.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11

intentions, as I am concious all
ready that the university in
vironment has proved particu
larry valuable to me in evry way
My INTELLECTUAL equippement ha
advanced harmonously; by imme
tation of the best sholars my vo
cabular has been strengthened
suberstitions almost as bad a
those Of the heather have BEEF
analised and proved incorrect t
me; my inaetiative has b e e i
aroused and intencified; social,
I am well acquiped and incident
lily the rough eyes / used to show
have been elemintaed: again, thu
discipline I have received from
the practice work in the labra
tories of physics and chemistery
where persistence, courtsy, cour.
agiousness and similar qualities
definately emphazed, and the
knowledge I have received from
the lectures and discussions OF
my professors in botnay, rhitoric,
m~athmatics, physiology, ect. should
be a sourse of inestimatible benz
fit to me from whatever angel ii
is regarded. In fact, aunty, I'M
til you have been here, you
would never suspicion how de-
sirable and influential a college
education is even to a person who
has been given by heridity a
meerly adverage amount of mural
p~lacticity and a comparatively
poor mental calaber. In the
light of my pratical experience,
I can testify that a
college education is alright.
It is to bad that the epidemic
diptheria and scarlet tina and
the confusion and fuss of fumu-
cation should have fundamentally
kept you from coming to the ex-
ersices. You inquire about my
helth: during my course, as you
remember, / have been
i'll but seldom, an attack of
measeles with some nauseau and
unpleasant SYMPTOMS dur
the Christmas holidays, and
one spell of trachoma, due, I
think, to my a~stigmation, are
the only diseases that have
had, as this is a very intelegen,
and hygenic city, notible for it's
clenliness. One of my friendst
however, an enginiere, has not
had the happeist lot; he lived in
a room oppisete mine, with a
very low ceiling, where transons
were the only devises for venta-
lating, and even these were or
neglected, as they were
of no earthly use. Hense he was
unable to brake up an attack of
typhoid, and was compelled to
loose quite a bit of his scholI
They could not trace the
sourse of the disease ITSELF,
but put him under quarantine, as
they said he might be a neucleus
or focas for the Development of
cases.
I have to go out now to walk
sor a peace with my chum, so
Your obedient nephew,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
Some College Bred Spoilers

A few months ago The Inlant
Printer criticized a statement O
the Omaha World Herald tina
There will be an advantage t,
employing printers in having
college graduates, who can spell
to do their composition work
In concluding our criticism we
said:
with the Omaha editor, we
welcome the college graduate
entry into the printing-office
His general education will be an
asset of value both to himself
and the trade. And when he
comes, we will teach him how to
spell and punctuate and divide
words, adding to his education
that which he failed to acquire
at the college" says the Inland
Printer.
Strong evidence that we were
not far away in our assumption
that the college graduate would
need a course in spelling after
his entry into the printing-office
was given recently by a distin-
guished university professor
Montrose Whipple, Phi. D., Of
Cornell in the Journal of Edu-
cational Psychology. Perhaps
/ am becoming hypercritical,"
says Professor Whipple, but I
have the conviction that present
day college students spell far less
accurately than did those of a
decade ago, and I infer that the
teaching of spelling in the
schools must either be deprived
of its proper allotment Of time
or be conducted by inadequate,
if not incorrect, methods"
The professor then illustrates
his contention with the use of a
list of 100 misspellings culled
from ffty-eight examinations.
epistle from one of the grad
yates is prepared, in which it is
assumed that this graduate is
guilty of all the errors found in
the fifty-eight examinations, and
the result is almost terrifying.
If a printers devil" in his first
year had penned such a letter, it
is only reasonable to expect that
in his third year he would indig-
nantly refuse to acknowledge its
authorship. Here is the letter:
Dear Aunt, Today | received
my diploma, and now, thank
forum, / am educated. / have
not yet intireIy determined my
carere. Wheather / shall finally
earn my livelihood by going into
the soliciting business as my
lncle's pardoner will dipind on
MS preferences. Al any rate,
and humuliating manuel
pursuits are furtherest from my
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
Social Function At Bellevue

~
Bellevue, Jan. s. Yrs. T. S.
Smith gave in honor of Mr.. Jim
Montgomery a six-course dinner,
Sunday evening, February 9Th,
which was enjoyed to the fullest
extent by the young people pres
ent. They were Misses Emma
and Anna Boring, Beatrice Smith;
Messrs. Jim Montgomery of La
fayette, Leo Guilbeau and Walter
Smith of Grand Coteau. And the
jolly Miss Anna made her dinner
on pickles, and you know what
that means. OF course the others
are passed that stage.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
OF ADMINISTRATION
ESTATE OF RHEA HARVEY.

No. -. Probate Docket 18th judicial Dis.
trict Court, Parish OF st. Landry La.
Whereas. j. L. Boykin, of Saint
Landry parish. has applied by his petition
to be appointed administrator of the above
numbered and entitled estate,
Now, therefore, notice Is hereby given to
aIlparttes interested to show cause, If any
arst publication hereof, why the prayer of
the said petitioner should not be granted
BY order Of said Court.
Opelousas, La, Feb. -, 1911.
YVES ANDREPON1,
feb4- ut Clerk of Court.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
NOTICE or ADMINISTRATIONS
ESTATE OF DAVID L TODD.

No. 64SS. Probare Docket. 18th Judicial Dist
rict Court Parish of st. Landry, La.
Whereas. hos. O. Todd and Louis MAYER
OF st. Landry parIsn. have applied by
their petition TO be appointed tesla.
mentary executors of the above en-
titled ana umbere estate.
NOW, therefore, notice is hereby given
to all parties interested I b show cause. If
any they can or have. within fen days from
fhe arst publication hereof, why the PRAYER
of the said petitioner shoula not be granted.
BY order of said gonr1.
Opelousas, La. Jan = 1911,
YVES ANDREPONT.
Jen2S-2t Clerk OF Court.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
SALE.
-
VINCENT w. BoAGNI
versus
IT,. k. FRANK.

No. 1878, Sixteenth JUDICIAL District
Court, 81. landry Parish, La.
BY virtue of q writ of nerf facia.
issued u OF the Hon. the 18th Judicia
District Court Of the State of Louisiana, IN
n for the Parish of st. Landry. in tbs
numbered and entitled suit, and &c
me directed, I a seized and will Offer
for sale, for cash, at public auction to the
last and highest bidder, at the front door
OF the Cou House of st. Landry Parish, at
0pelousas. La On
Saturday, Feb. Is, 1911,
at II O'Clock q. M, the following described
property to-wIt:
Two cows and calves, one one year old
heifer, n brand iron, two. cows in woods,
black mare and colt, one bay colt, one
wagon. about ten sacks Of rough rice, and
q sugar mill and pan.
T~ern1s-Cash.
feb4-3t M. L.ssW0RDS, Sheriff.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11

No. 1888, Sixteenth Judicial District Court
Parish of st. Landry, La.
BY virtue of a writ of iert facias. issued
out OF the D Sixteenth Judicial District
Court, in and for the parish of st. Landry,
in the o entitled and numbered SUIT,
and 10 me directed, | have seized and will
offer for sale, for cash, at public auction, to
door Of the Court House of st. Landry, Par
ishs at opelousas. La, on
Saturday, February 18th, 19II.
at II O'Clock a m, the following described
property, to-Wit:
One horse named "Ba1l," one bay mare
named ttDaisy, - one horse named ssDex-
ter, z sixteen head of cattle, viz: four COWS
and calves. two cows, l two year old hejfer,
2 two year old bulls and three one year old
bulls.
~Terrns-Cash.
feb4-St M. L. SWORDS. Sheriff.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11

No. 64s9, Probate Docket District Court,
Parish of st. Landry, La.
whereas. Isaac Roos. of Saint
Landry Parish. has appned by his petition
TO be appointed administrator of the above
named estate.
Now, therefore. notice is hereby given tc
all parties interested to make opposition tc
said appointment, 10 file same in writing liz
my ONCE in Opelousas within ten days from
the date OF this notice.
YVES ANDREPONT,
feb4-2t Clerk OF Court,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
Dissolution notice.

Notice is hereby given that the firm OF
Dardeau n Ventre, doing a general gro
Gerry business In Opelousas, has been dis
solved by mutual consent; and instead the
Arm of Dardeau 8 Fields formed, which
will 10 business at the old stand.
h firm of Dardeau & Fields assumes all
liabilities n collects all debts.
OSCAR DARDEAU,
MA. FIELDS.
Opelousas, [ a Jan. Z, 1910.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
MarshaI's Sale.
a. Il. LAFLEUR
VS..
sIMIEE. ct al.


No. 24s. city Judges Court, opelousas, Par
ish of st Landry, La.
BY virtue of a writ of iert facias Issued by
Hon. 4. s. Kerr, City Judge, City OF Opel
ousas, In and for the first ward of the par.
fsh OF st. Landry, in theabove entitled suit
and to me directed / have seized and / vii
proceed 10 sell at the front door of the City
Judges Court, In o~pelousas, on
Saturday, February Ia, 1911,
at Iii O'Clock a. m, being the said property
heretnfore Professionally seized in this case,
tp-Mit
tresees, four tl teatier pillows three 80
rockers. seven N chairs, two t24 armofrs
tR0a3l round tables. one ~ w~asilstand,
one (l dresser with mirror n one "a sew
ing machine.
TerIns-Cash
I.R GUIDRY,
fef4.8t Marshal City Court, Opelonsas.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
Eyangeline's First Settlement.

Baton Rouge dispatches say
that Sheriff P. L. Fontenot Mon
day last settled with the State
Auditor Office, turning in $3.50.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
Sale of Public Roads.

First Police Jury Ward.
Notice is hereby given that the public
roads in the First Police Jury Ward of
the Parish of st. Landry will be sold to
the last and lowest bidder, at the court
house, in 0pelousas, on
Saturday, Feb. I6, 1911,
The undersigned reserving the right
TO reject any and all bids.
J.T. ST. CYR,
DIOMEL DURIO,
fah4-3t. Police Jurors, LIST Ward.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
SHERIFF'S SALE.
EDWARD M. BoAGNI
VS..
III. w. BRIGGS.

No. 1879, sixteenth Judicial District Court
Parish of st. Landry, La.
BY virtue of a writ of seizure and sale is
sued out of the Hon. 10th Judicial District
y in and for the Parish of st. Landry,
In the above entitled and numbered suit,
and to me directed, / lave seized and will
ofer for sale, for cash, at public auc-
ton, to h last and highest bidder, at the
front door of the Court House of st. Landry
Parish at 0pelousas, La, on
Saturday, Feb. 18, 1911,
at Il o'clock /. m. the property described
as follows, to-wft
One grey horse about two years old, one
grey mare u her five month old colt,
another grey mare. n blue wagon, n
ing about 225 bushels in shucks; one lot Of
hay.
Terms-Cash.
feb4-3t III. /. SWORDS, Sheriff.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
WHO WILL Be CANDI-
DATES FOR GOVERNOR?
Believed That Campaign VIII SsOR epsn, Win
Two Distinct Factions In tho FIGId.
BROUSSARD IS ELIMINATED
Believe Hany Of the Knowing 0Rss..W. ,,
Thompson Mentioned for the Place on
The Regular Ticket.

Things politically will
begin picking up" right
shortly now.
Both the regular Demo
Gratis and the Good Govern
ment League Democrats are
forming their battle array
for the fray. Both factions
are composed of good Demo-
Gratis.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
sHERIFF,s SALE.

WILLIE ARDoIN, transfers. of g..
Boagni
VS..
THOS. e. F0NTEN0T.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11
saturday, Feb. 1e. leII,
A DEMONSTRATION NOTICE

ESTATE OF BETTY EARLEs, wife of James
Bowling.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11

No. 1878, Sixteenth JUDICIAL District
Court, 81. landry Parish, La.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-02-11

No. 1888, Sixteenth Judicial District Court,
Parish of st. Landry, La.