The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-04-03
CHAPTER TX.

me BlUIl 49,
: asv and the reply it drew from
hammer the next morning caused
Y I. y Nav to be awaited with undis'
.1..d aagerness on the second after
~ This was heightened on the
Il The men in the syndicate in
.,os m the franchise by the peril
:. AZ. onestions put to them in the
.,,nv nv News reporters. David
- wss called on the telephone half
y, a,,sn times by his lieutenants, and
.,.goments were made to have a
u open to Esmeralda Springs at
s,setbirty, the hour when the News
"a issued.
Although they were prepared to dis
.@,t some of the story because of
4. auestlons asked them, yet nore OF
IS riDg men was prepared for a reve-
.ssan Of the scheme such as the News
"a. BLACK headlines ran across
IS, columns and the story also took
4 mist Of the second page. There
r,s map of the proposed interurban
,outp and pictures of pretty homes on
lgne Avenue. But from one end Of
~ story to the other there was nc
hsntiou Of David Kerr or of the loca
ls,Eing being given the bill before
he council. 1t was expressly statec
hat The incorporators of the new com
nly we're merely dummies and tha
hey we're acting in the interest Of TIT
soskyardS company.
AMOS Gilbert in an interview denied
an knowledge Of the transaction. say
III that his connection with the stock
Yards company was merely nomlna
I'd that he did not even know If tn
eBpany was interested in the lin
nepOsed. He did not see how, as
anpany, It could be.
Gilbert sat in his Office as soon as h
acared a paper and read the stor
Trd for word over the telephone t
Eer The latter promptly announce
hat he would be home the next da!
aid ordered that Gloria be taken frol
4 Belmont on any pretext whatever fc
. few days until the fight had bee
aoEed to die down The next da
vas Sunday, on which Wright pu
+ shed no paper, and Kerr would
bone before another issued appeare
ae agreed with Gilbert that the Ba
tef ought to ridicule the alleged e
ms
Sunday night, much to her surpriI
aat not much against her will, Glor
sshl to st. Louis with Mrs. Gilbert
gek out furniture for Locust Law
Sae DID not know that her father HI
aiurned from Esmeralda Springs tn
@Tnlng and had been ClOSeted all a
moon with Gilbert and John Ke
a5 who had hurried to Belmont
@pOnse to a telegram. The girl h
~ seen Wright all day, nor had s
yen him Saturday, but there cal
ION him a box of roses at noe
dIlie witch that she was, she mea
arprise him by sending him a nc
thanks from ST. Louis. She kn'
I would join her and Mrs. Gilb'
asle On her hint that they would
llad 70 see him.
wright received her note and p
sieed the slightly yelled invitati,
ne was too busy even to answ
ekas week that contained more
aenent than Belmont had seen sin
Rntier village, it had strugg
~ The question of whether the st
Old secede or remain in the URi
ahd Kerr found himself confron
formidable line of battle. 7
oanef kept pounding away at
but the afternoon paper v
~ @ be diverted from It's purpc
citizens on Maple Avenue form
y Maple League, and wore butt
Which we're a maple leaf and
ld Help US save our home
ear line was to run through
snta and eighth wards, and
tnen in those wards were
With letters, post cards,
s'le calls and personal visits.