The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-02-21
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CHANCES IN MILES ESTATE.
Field and Factory Forces at Burn
side Disbanded-Sone OF Former
Employees to Remain and Guilt
vate Land on Own Account.

The Chief is indebted - Hon.
Henry c. Braud for the following re
port of the movements and present
wherea bouts Of many OF the former
white employees Of tie Miles rant
ing and Manufacturing Company, Ioi-
lowing the cessation of operations
by that concern:
Elmer Hunt, manager of Conway,
resigned Dec. | and returned to MS
old home at Humboldt, Tenn.
E. S. Morgan, assistant on River
ton, moved to his farm in East Baton
Rouge.
Ed. Truxillo, also assistant on
Riverton, is now engaged as watch
man of the Houmas Central factory.
J. F. Saxon, manager Of Clark and
RivertOn, remains on Clark as a cane
tenant, and is associated with Joseph
LeBoeuf and J. w. Stephenson in
the cultivation Of 500 acres Of rice
in the rear of the Clark and Don
aldson places.
G. S. Mcfarland, general manager
If the fields and factory, has moved
to New Orleans.
E. B. Stafford, chief engineer, has
returned to his home in New Crle-
ans.
left for East Baton Rouge parish to
live with his father, Dan Morgan.
Sam. J. Boote, manager OF MoarOe,
is now on Conway as a cane grower.
He will cultivate 800 acres.
w. T. Young, assistant on Con-
way, has rented 100 acres of the
Monroe tract and is cultivating cane.
| J. w. Stephenson is cultivating
/ $50 acres of cane and 120 acres OF
corn on Orange Grove. His as
sistant, Felicien Gauthreaux, has
moved to New Orleans to engage IN
| the work Of street car conductor.
James L. Dodd, assistant on Mon
roe, moved his family, furniture and
himself back to the "olG homestead
near Philadelphia Point, in upper
| Ascension.
Joseph Belle and sons, for more
than twenty years on the Brusly
place, have moved to Orange Grove
and are associated with J. w. Ste
phenson in growing cane.
Sam. Boudreaux, manager OF the
branch store, moved to the PeytaVin
residence in st. James. The branch
store residence is now occupied by
w. T. Young. The store has been
closed.
John L. Ikerd, who rented the
Jim Barman" place in the rear of
Conway, pulled up stakes for Friar's
Point, Miss, quitting free sugar.
culture to tackle free boil weevil'
Cotton raising). He took along
with him white and colored laborers,
among the former being Robert H.
Cox.
D. l.. Bourman, one Of the Brad
ford tenants, is with Mr.. Saxon on
Clark.
H. Arthur Morgan will remove to
St. Elmo to engage in the cattle and
poultry business
Omer Robert & Bro. have leased
the Riyerton and Marchand places
and will have 700 acres in rice this
year.
| w. B. Stuart will continue On Rear
/ wood as lessee.
81, Among those VINO nave moved IN
! from elsewhere are John and Ernest
Hotard, formerly Of Thibodaux, who
have rented 200 acres on Monroe, to
/ be worked in cane and corn. John
Martinez, of barrow, has rented 100
acres on Donaldson.
| The colored laborers have scatter
ed to the four quarters Of the map,
(figuratively speaking), going as far
south as Laplace ana to the north
25 miles above Shreveport and 70
miles below Memphis, and all along
the Y. and M. V. Railroad and its
| branch lines.
AS previously stated in The Chief,
Hon. Henry G. Braud, manager of
the Houmas Central store, will re-
main at Burnside ana continue to
conduct the store on his own account
for the present year at least.