The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-05-01
ALL OVER LOUISIANA.

State Teachers Association meeting In
Baton Rouge, and Lake Charles was
named for the next convention.
After shooting the baggage master
and binding the express messenger,
masked bandit dynamited the safe In
the combined baggage and express car
Of the fast L. & N. train, and escaped
as the train slowed up upon reaching
New Orleans. A man named Harry
Lester was arrested, and identified by
the baggage master.
The Diocesan Council of Louisiana
concluded its business and adjourned.
Because of New Orleans city ordi-
nances, a shipment of 100000 pounds
Of dynamite for Mexico was stopped at
Gulfport, and will be exported from
there.
The United States gunboat Castine
arrived for duty on the New Orleans
station Towing the submarine GIL,
the vessel had tempestuous six days
voyage from Norfolk to Charleston.
Speakers from the Louisiana Suffrage
Party addressed crowds on the streets
of Baton Rouge, Saturday, advocating
equal rights.
General Thomas J. Shaffer, COM
mander of the Louisiana Division, u.
C. ", died in Franklin, La
In a letter to The Times Picayune,
Dr. Louis ]. Stumpf, Good Government
League leader, declared Gretna corpo-
rations were depressing their anti
Marrero employees.
Plans to standardize music teaching
in Louisiana were suggested at the
convention of the Louisiana Music
Teachers Association.
The Fairview plantation, twelve miles
above New Orleans, was sold for $45, 900,
the name of the buyer being kept
secret.
E. e. Wilson, a western Kansas stock
man, has purchased 427 head of Cam
eron cattle, and shipped them to his
ranch In northern Oklahoma, to be fat
tened for the market. The price paid
for the lot was close to $4,000.
Governor Hall has made the follow
ing appointments: Lewis Mcknight,
constable, ward five, East Feliciana,
vice W. ]. Nettles, resigned; o. e.
Townsend, justice Of the peace, ward
five, East Feliciana, vice j. e. Irwin,
deceased.
The supreme court remanded the In
terdiction case Of aged and wealthy
Mrs. Pons to the lower court for evi-
dence as to her condition before the
suit was instituted.
Iberville road bonds sell at pre-
MUM
st. James parish will make Sc miles
of gravel road-highways on both sides
of the river.
The Governor will issue call to-day
for extra session of the legislature.
Mrs. w. s. Parkerson, as administra-
! trix, filed answer to the suit for an &C
counting brought by client OF her late
husband, showing that only about $4,000
instead of $4,000 were due the claim
ant.
P. Seton Schneidau, chairman Of the
immigration land committee of the
New Orleans Real Estate Board, in an.
nouncing the cooperation of his COM
mittee with the movement to bring
Danish immigrants into Louisiana, said
Tuesday: "The Danes are the greatest
intensive farmers of the world. II they
are brought into Louisiana, the state
will benefit from their wonder work
with the SOIL"
R. N. Sims takes charge as state
bank examiner. Will make headquar-
tiers in New Orleans.
New Orleans will require an indem-
Unity bond of $4,000 for each jitney
operated. Each street car operated In
New Orleans must also give an In
demnity bond Of $4,000 Jitney owners
declare they will be injured by the
faction.
The test suit against the Bayou
lBoeuf levee board bond issue of $780,
1000 was decided for the plaintiff in
alexandria. The case will be carried
to the supreme court.
The Natchitoches police Jury will
build new steel bridge across Cane
river nine miles below Natchitoches.
Over a thousand teachers attended
the state association meeting at Baton
Rouge last week.
| The State Homestead Association
met In Monroe, Friday and Saturday,
with good attendance. Alexandria will
be the next meeting place.
The new NJ E. Church South al
DeRidder, will cost $4,000.
Mrs. John T. Meehan of New Orleans
was elected state chairman Of the
Woman Suffrage Party at Baton Rouge