The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-07-07

BATON Rouge. The senators and con-
gresham named were asked to Co-ope-
rate with the entire Louisiana dele
cation in urging the loan Of one OF
the prides of the navy.
This telegram was signed by Gov.
ernor Pleasant and Mayor Grouchy
and Captain Ogden and T. Sambola
Jones of the citizens committee.
Cannon have been obtained from
New Orleans and a complement OF
competent gunners will be sent here
TO man the guns.
DR.. Fred Writ, representing the
United States Bureau OF Biological
Survey, has been assigned by the
Louisiana State Live Stock Sanitary
Board to supervise the tick eradica-
ton campaign in Ascension parish, re-
placing DR.. L. E. Mcdonald, who was
recalled recently. Dr. Writ has charge
Of the eradication work in Assump-
ton also, and makes his headquar-
tiers at Napoleonville.
There are on display in the office Of
the Donaldsonville Chief, two giant
beets Of the Mangel Wurzel variety,
grown by George B. Reuss on his Ger
mania.Ellse plantation in upper AS
censior They measure IA IL inches
in length, and the larger Of the speci-
mems weighs Is pounds. The beets
are used as stock feed.
Having just closed a session at
which 81 opinions were rendered the
court of appeals for the second cir
cult will meet again in Shreveport
June 20, for the purpose of passing
on motions for rehearings filed in
those cases in which opinions we're
rendered. Fifteen of these opinions
were by Judge Porter, q by Judge
Thompson and Is by Judge Roberts,
The police jury of VIM parish met
and awarded the contract to the
Blodgett Construction Company Of
Kansas City for seven concrete
bridges along the pike across Dugde'
monia river. This is a great step for
ward the police jury has made in
building permanent bridges in the
parish.
Believed to have been locked in the
store at closing time, a thief broke
open the small safe in the store of o.
car B. Delord, 25O1 Claiborne street,
New Orleans, and stole SAB in cur
rency and box Of cigars. In making
his exit, the robber forced the front
door.
The Charles Pratt, Standard Oil tank
steamer, is tied up at the Standard OIL
Docks north of Baton Rouge and Is
the largest vessel that has come this
far up the Mississippi river in three
wears. The Charles Pratt brought no.
900 barrels of crude oil from Mexico.
West Monroe voted a $4,000 bond
issue for constructing altering plant.
doubling the capacity Of the water and
light plants, purchase of an auto tire
truck and for street improvement. In
property valuation the vote was: For,
Sos, $50; against, $4S,64O.
Judge John 3. Fisher, First City
Criminal Court of New Orleans, Is IN
the list of seventeen persons charged
in First Recorders Court for viola
tion Of the ordinance relative to not
having "dimmers" on their automobile
headlights.
The Shreveport Chautauqua Asso-
citation met in the Youree hotel, Tor
the election of officers and other bust.
ness. The membership is composed
Of persons who signed up for season
tickets for the chautauqua next year
F. Branch Fisher, proprietor OF a
general store at Taylortown, twenty
miles south Of Shreveport, in Bossier
parish, was killed in pistol duel with
DR. E. f Simpson in the formers
store as the result Of an old dispute
between the two, and an alteration
precipitated by question of 60 cents
change.
The building committee In charge o.
the erection Of the new Masonic tenn
ple at Monroe has sent out calls FOL
| bids from contractors