St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-12-09
SI,IDELL NEWS.
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petarson. HALEY, Bourgeois, Levy
md others were in evidence, and the
.nccess of the occasion is due to the
work of the arrangement committee.
ns up-town folks are now in line
With our south-town neighbors--we
$40 saw mill operated by the
no,,rqeois Bros, east of the Ice Com
pany plant.
K Of P, Tuesday night, the follow
inc officers were elected for the en-
anine year: Robert L. Smith, Z. G.;
will Rousseaux, V c.; w. .. Wild
or Prelate; w. E. Yates, NJ. of W.;
n Carpenter, X. of Il. and S.;
Ichn Peterson, NJ. of F.; F. F. Wig
~inton. NJ. of E.; Chas. Snider. NJ. Of
=. Chas. Richardson, l. G.: Harvey
Rnusseaux, o. c.; Representative to
Grand Lodge, Geo. A. Carpenter, Al
ternate Otis w. Wilder.
T,ha Farmer offers medium to the
,narohants of SMdell to reach Gus
+omers by the liner advertising way.
paodinp lines for this column will
ha accepted at the low rate OF five
cemts a line. Just mail the copy to
The Farmer at Covington office.
Fifteen new pupils entered the
sndeu high school last Monday. If
me attendance increases to much
,rreater extent, it will be in order to
build a greater building-say with
ton rooms and an auditorium to seat
one thousand people. The time is
coming when it will be necessary to
increase the school facilities.
The Fritz Salmen family and him.
eelf are now touring Baton Rougt
and Ponchatoula country, to return
by the way of Covington.
William Eddins, f. II. Weighing
ton and Louis Talley are the Garnd
Jury members from the Ninth Ward,
and there will be none better on 1T.
Genial Henry Schneider breezes In
to town every week in his Hudson
car. and leaves everybody in a happy
frame of mind by the contact with
himself.
Mayor Badon claims population
of 1--we thousand for Sliden now. 1t
a certain there has been a great in
crease Of people here lately. There
Is not a vacant dwelling in the town.
The Slidell Shipbuilding Cos.
plant is the scene of much activity,
and several hundred men are at
work there. One of the vessels, two
hundred and twenty seven feet long
many be launched this month. An
drew Canulette, a st. Tammany pro
duct. is foreman in charge OF this
work.
Mrs. JOS. BousQuet, who has been
quite Ill recently, is now on the road
to recovery.
The Salmen Brick Z Lumber Co
lie equipping their locomotives with
oil burners. This is with the ddea
az safety first" and will render NJ
danger to the COvingtOn buildings
when their locomotives pass through
that town.
The dwellings, OF Tom Arnold and
]. w. Decker were discovered on fire
recently in time to avoid much loss
Fire Marshal jain Elliott gets -four
bits for eporting each fire in tht
town, but his income from this
source will never make him rich
unless business improves in the flrt
line.
The town council has threatened
to she'll or otherwise improve the
streets, and it is hoped good results
will follow. The worst streets II
this section are inside the town linn
it's. A lesson could be learned from
Covington in the way of street i'm
provement, as it is pleasure to g
TO that town just to ride upon goo<
streets.
ALFRED Carr, the bank bookkeepe'
has just gotten out after a serious
spell of sickness. He was surel!
missed by the bank patrons.
r. A. Bourgeois is slated for tn,
deputy assessor of the Ninth Ward
and will have the distinction OF be
ing In the new workings .of the new
assessment law.
Every carpenter in town SEEM
busy, and new buildings going up il
oil parts OF the town is evidence
that something is doing. An at
tempt to count the new improve
ments Within the past twelve month
will be failure, so far as getting
( correct estimate of such work.