The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-04-26
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
The Chief is not responsible for the
views expressed by correspondents.

The Chief is not responsible for the
views expressed by correspondents.
The Way They Feel About It.
Editor Chief:
In every town or city, no matter
what may be its size or location,
| you will always find some man or
set Of men who are as far in adj
vance of the ordinary citizen as the
caboose Of a T. and P. freight is
behind the engine.
i STbesee men are the ones who are
eternally planning for something to
advance the interest Of the local
| ity in which they live, and, when
possible, putting their plans into OPP
Grafton.
From start to finish they have
been met with the most strenuous
and furious opposition by the enc
mics Of progress, and whatever they
have succeeded in doing was by
continuous work and the spirit in
herent in them to do or die, no
matter what opposes. Just why such
characters are forever opposing and
kicking is a mystery which leave
to students of psychology, who are
popularly supposed to be Versed in
the mysteries of the human heart
and sou1a
These thoughts are suggested by
the work OF improvement and progress
that has been effected by three men
in what is known as the Lemann Ad-
dition.
Three years ago an unsettled piece
of land il the eastern portion of
DonaldsonYille, a plantation owned
Eby the Lemann Company, was any
thing but a residence suburb to the
city. These men began the arduous
task Of Transforming it, and today
it is the most beautiful, and will
be the exclusive, residence portion
of our little city.
From start to now they were fought
and knocked" by every opposer
Of progress, but they simply sawed
wood, graded streets, planted trees,
built sidewalks and bridges, and kept
on. believing in their work. The re-
suit is, Lemannville, SO called, L
day has more Improvements than any
ether section of the community and
constitutes the best residence por-
ton OF the town.
While GROWERS and beliyachers
We're sitting around corners smok-
ing cigarettes and nursing their envy,
these men were digging bitches, level
ing their grounds and identifying
tsaeir premises.
That's how they won out, and
how any man can win out who de-
Ponds on energy and hard work, who
does not listen to hot air and Jaw
bone gossips.
The writer delights in praising hui
man energy and progressive ideas,
and hence this writing. It Donald
sonVille= had about sig dozen more
such men, you would see the town
scattered al over with progressive
ideas, where YOU now see dilapidated
rent houses that have not been
painted since BienVenue was COVER
nor Of aol-5a ma.
An LOCKER
ouag Farmers Doing Good Work.
The TO lowing Interesting report OF
the progress Of the agricultural work
at the Oak Grove school is made by
Agriculturist NJ !. L. Wilson in the
Country Review of April IS:
The club members of this parish
seem to be doing pretty well. Sew
eral give good reports already, and
the prospects are they will do ex-
ceptionally well. One boy reports a.
gain Of over one pound a day for his
pig. Tie tomato club girls are in
terested and some of them are so
anxious to learn canning they would
can their tomato plants if I were to
suggest it. In spite OF the fact that
the cabbage planted on the farm at
Oak Grove are late, some little cash
will be realized from them. They
are bringing ten cents each for
those sold on the local market and
eight cents for those the merchants
BUY. The two rows have about two
hundred heads on them, and you can
figure for yourself the profit if we
get rid ofsthem all.
My Saturday for extension work
was glFenHto my stoek-judging team
| made the trip to Baton Rouge with
them and dive took in all the dairy
cattle, the dairy and the beef cat
tie, the station barns, the silo, hog
cholera serum plant, the stations
hog and chickens The boys We're
interested so much they preferred
staying at the farm and judging cat
tie to going back for dinner. It hap
pened that we were at the dairy
when they were testing the dairy
herd for tuberculosis and there the
boys Were enabled to see some
theory taught them put into practice.
Ihey have already suggested that
We make another trip to the station
farm at a near date
Sinks in NarroWs.
The toWboat H. C. Whiteman, with
barge containing several hundred
ash logs. met with quite serious
accident while passing through the