The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-27

and 1913 did not change the organic
law III this respect.
Announcement was made by w. G.
Hudson, chairman of the Rapides Cot
ton Club that III. G. Swami of Che
neyvifle had been awarded the fifty
dollar cash prize offered for the best
acre OF corn raised in the parish last
season. The acre of ground from
which this corn was raised was also
planted in Irish potatoes. The pota-
toes were planted on February 16 ami
dug on May 27. The corn was plant.
ed on May 2. The net profits Mr..
Swami received from the acre of
ground were, from the corn $33.71, and
from potatoes, 1920, making a total
Of $65.91, less $500 for rent, or a net
total for the acre of $5991.
A delegation from Lafayette parish
spent two days at the capital viewing
the model road which runs from Ba-,
ton Rouge to Hope Villa The party
was headed by H. Billeaud, president
Of the Lafayette Parish Police Jury
and was composed of P. H. Landry,
OF Lafayette; DR.. c. r. de Laureal,
Broussard and M. Billiard, Jr, of
Broussard.
Prof. Thos. H. Harris, State Su-
perintendent of public schools, and
Prof C.. S. Trudeau, rural state in
spector for this state, spoke to a rep
resentative gathering OF citizens at
the court house at Franklinton advo-
eating the levying of a special school
tax all over the parish for the main
tenance of the public schools of the
parish.
A meeting of the board OF commits
sioners of the New River Drainage
District was held at Gonzales, the
domicilo OF the organization, for the
purpose OF receiving bids for digging
a drainage canal approximately twen-
ty-seven miles long and with a width
of IS feet, requiring the excavation of
about 100000 cubic yards of earth.
Arrangements were made with DR..
Gordon Morgan, president of Mer-
chants and Farmers Bank of Melville,
La, to liquidate the affairs of the Port
Barre State Bank, paying depositors
in full. 1t was generally known for
several days that the bank was con-
templating closing, but the confidence
Mr.. LaSalle, the cashier, inspired, pre-
vented a rush.
When H. B. Parer Of Monroe start
ed to his work as car inspector on the
| Iron Mountain Railway he discovered
a small bundle on his doorstep and
thinking it was clothing, called his
wife's attention to it. The package
contained baby girl, only a few
hours old. The child's mother is un.
known.
The three weeks old infant of Mr..
and Mrs. Norman Short of Monroe
was smothered to death as the baby
lay in bed beside its mother at the
Johnson House. Coroner C. p. Gray
gave a certificate of death. The par.
| ents are from Mississippi.
| The trucking season is now In full
swing and the packing houses at La
Place are doing a rushing business.
Large quantities of cabbages, sweet
potatoes, turnips, spinach, shallots,
etc, are being shipped daily to North.
ern and Eastern markets.
Frank M. Miller, United States Mar.
shal for the Eastern District of Lou.
isiana, announced that he had appoint.
ed William Griffin of Westego, La, to
the position of deputy marshal in his
Office. The appointee succeeds Thorn
as l. Galbreath, a negro, and is ex-
4 pected to assume his duties before the
end of the current month.
The Smith Well Company Of Alex
andria has been drilling a deep well
for the town of Bunkie, and struck
water with a pressure OF forty feet
to the square inch at depth of $40
feet.
|
An agreeable surprise was accord
ed Breaux Bridge in the advent OF a
| naw bi-weekly. THE Louisiana Ad
vance" edited by 4. L. Simmons, witr
four-page issued of "All Home
Print" devoted to eulogistic praise ol
Louisiana and Breaux Bridge