The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-24
SUGAR sQU|Bs.
openins of Grinding Campaign in AS
censicn and EIsewhere-Iters Of
interest from Field and Factory.

A number Of factories 4ereabou'
VIII begin grinding next Monday O.
Tuesday, and the sugar-making cam
paign will be general in this section
by the end Of the coming week.
The Old Hickory mill in lower Ib
erville is scheduled to get away Mon
day, and Evan Hall and PaIo Alto are
among the other houses that will in
augurate the seasons work on that
day or the next.
Tcny Rodriguez, Of Brusley Nc
Call, will have charge of the sugar
making department of the Old Hick
CRY plant, and will be assisted by his
sons, Frank and Sidney Rodriguez
Albert Lopez will serve as head su
gar dryer, and Thomas Dugas viii
.ook after the double-effects.
At Evan Hall, K A. Aucoin will
again officiate as chief proof-stick
manipulation, a position he filled with
notable efficiency and success last
season. While he is thus engaged
Mr.. Aucoin, who is the hustling pro
prietor OF the Donaldsonyilie Garage
will be replaced by his nephew. Al
eide Aucoin, of Plattenville, as the
man at the wheel of the REQ and
Ford cars operated in the Aucoin
livery service.
The Godchaux Company's big Re
serve factory in st. John parish will
begin grinding tomorrow, and will
turn out fine grades of clarified and
graduated sugars to supply the de
mand created by the company's offer
to sell direct to consumers. Leo
Melancon, of barrow, for many Years
one Of the capable sugar-boilers of
the big establishment, has been
promoted to the position of night SUI
perintendent, and will be succeeded
at the pans by Joseph Lanoux, of
Smoke Bend. Octave ("Cackle')
Melaneon, of Donaldsonville, will
have charge of the triple effects,
and Robert Marchand, of Darrow,
viii be one of the cane-Weighers.
Camille Esneault left Thursday
morning for Burch & Champagne S
Glendale factory in st. John parish.
where he will hold down the job of
water tender during the rolling sea-
son.
Emile Rodriguez, who has been To-
Gated at Birmingham, Ala, for the
past several months, returned to DON
aldsonyille. Tuesday, and will put in
the grinding season as Water-tender
at, the Supple Company's Catherine
factory in Iberville parish. Opera
tons will be commenced at this we'll
equipped plant Monday morning, and
the efficient mechanical crew will
again be headed by Odressi Crochet
and AchiIle Blanchard, of barrow, as
chief and assistant sugar boiler, re-
spectiyely. Joseph Smith, of Donald
sonville, will be employed as water
tender.
Charles Wives, one Of the crack SUI
gar-makers of this section, will as
sist in taking off the crop Of the
Lagarde Company's Leighton planta-
ton in Lafourche parish, and will
leave Monday to assume his post.
The fine Belle Alliance factory in
upper Assumption started grinding
Thursday, and is pegging away with
a degree of .smoothness that is char
acteristic of this we1l-equipped and
ably-manned plant.
There has been the usual exodus
from DonaIdsonville and vicinity Of
the trained employees who viii fill
positions ID various factories through
out the sugar belt during the grind
ing campaign. Negro labor from Mis-
sissippi and east Louisiana points
has been passing through here in
large numbers for the past several
days, and the supply of field hands is
entirely adequate ON all the planta-
lions in this locality.