The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-05-14
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! ELTON NEWS NOTES. ;
Elton, Louisiana, May Ii, 1915.

Elton, Louisiana, May Ii, 1915.
Mr.. W. H. Bradford has sold his auto
mobile to Mr.. Brady.
Mr.. 0. L. Sutherlin was in the village
on business last Saturday.
Mr.. Ed Ryther, our telephone line.
man, was on the sick list last week.
Mr.. Brady took Sam Pilgrim and
Henry Upper to Jennings last Sunday.
Coroner T. S. Smith was called to
Jennings last Thursday on official bus.
mess.
There will be revival services at the
M. E. Church from May 10 to 30 all are
invited.
The Putnam.Tupper Lumber Co. re.
celved car load of shingles one day
last week.
Mr.. Myers, of the EunCe Hardware
& Implement Co. left for his home in
Eunlce last Thursday.
Sheriff FuSelier went to Baton
Rouge last Monday to take a colored
man to the penjtentiary.
The Directors of the Peoples Bank
held their regular monthly meeting at
the bank last Friday a. m.
Mr.. C. E, HolComb of the Raymond
neighborhood was transactIng business
in our village last Saturday.
Mr.. George W. Aylesworth and
family ate Sunday dinner with Mr.. G.
N AyleSWorth and family last Sunday.
Miss Pearl Best has gone to live
with her aunt and uncle, Mrs. and Mr..
Percy OakSmlth, near the Raymond
Church.
Mr.. X. X. Thomas and wife drove
over to Jennings in their auto Sunday
afternoon to take their son, Ray back
to his school.
Mrs. Marchant ha renewed the
floor of the porch in front of one of her
houses on Main street, Fred Whitney
did the work.
Prof. Bond and all nonresident
teachers of our public schools of last
year left for their respective homes
last Thursday.
Lightning last Thursday burned out
the fuze OF many Of the telephones
about Elton, but no one was hurt so
far as we have learned.
Mrs, Walters of Jennings came I'D
last week for two or three weeks visit
with her children. Mr. and Mrs, Abel
Walters and Mrs. Dave BerdeW.
Miss Maud Anderson began a one
month term of school last Thursday
morning, so we will have a nine months
school and pay the price of ten
month term.
A good rain fell here last Tuesday
afternoon and that night and again
Thursday a big rain fell just after noon
giving us all the rain we need tor
couple OF weeks.
Mr.. Joseph j. Abraham, of the firm
of Abraham and MuSey, left for Baton
Rouge, New Orleans and intermediate
points last Friday and expects to re.
turn in four or five days.
Mrs. Armada Gooch came over from
her employment on the dredge boat
near Finder last Saturday and packed
up and stored her household goods and
returned to her employment Sunday
taking her daughter, Miss Hazel with
her.
We have heretofore spoken of what
we think mistake in the law reuuir.
ing all legal papers being retained in
the office of the Clerk of Court when
sent for record. Will not the editor or
some other reader or writer give us
some good reason, if there is any, why
this is so?
Mr.. 7. S. Plunket has just about com.
pleted his gasoline launch which is a.
bout forty feet long and wide in pro.
portion. We expect he will soon take
his boat to the BAYOU Nespique and 90
on pleasure trip down the bayou and
Mermentau river to the lower lakes of |
the Mermentau and Calcasieu rivers.
We think much could and ought to
be said about the coming extra session
ii t he legislature, especially |
about h constitutional con.
ventlon. The editorial in the Rice Belt |
Journal of last week, has the right |
ring to it and much more along the
same line ought to be said and we
might have something to say along
this line, but we fear the editor might |
say "brevity" forbids.