The Natchitoches enterprise., 1917-01-04
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Natchitoches, La,
Ian 1 1917

Jan. !, 1917
Natchitoches Enterprise,
1t appears to me that there are many
things for which we should be grateful
in the past year, and to my thinking
the following are worthy of thought:-
The unusual team work we find going
on among the people Of the parish in
every line of public enterprise and bet
terment.
The completion of the new Cane
River Lake, giving us 80 miles of a
beautiful, navigable waterway. This
has been taken over by the Police Jury
and made pnblic highway for the
transportation of freight and passen-
gers. It has also been made fish and
game preserve by the Police Jury, as
thu .4aa j right to do, under the law re-
Gently passed and applicable to the Par
ish Of Natchitoches alone. The spawn
ing season being established, the fishing
can only begin June 1917. The Lake is
well stocked with fish.
The fine record Of our splendid State
State Normal School, which is grow
ing in interest as the years go on.
The progress made in the general
public, educational work, evidenced by
better houses, better schools, and bet
ter attendance. The colored people of
the parish are to be congratulated on
the fact that they are soon to have an
agricultural school, to be located on
the west bank of Cane River Lake,
ten acres of land for its use having
been donated by Matthew, Carroll,
Louis E., and Matthew H. Jones and
Robert Martin, enterprising citizens OF
the Parish.
The continued progress Of the city,
shown in the appearance of its stores,
and in the benefits flowing from the
successful seasons Of the Natchitoches
Cotton Oil Company, the Planters Cot
ton Oil Company, the Mill and Eleva-
tor Co., and the Hughes and Aaron
Brick Co., the four manufacturing en-
terprlses Of the town.
The recent acquisition of the family
and BUSINESS interests of MIR. w. +.
Johnsei who has taken over the
O'Qui illiams Lumber Co., which he
is enlafgIng and rebuilding, and whose
actions indicate that his coming among
US will mean much to the community.
The wonderful progress made in our
good roads construction all over the
parish. The business Police Jury
which we now have. have provided an
outfit for the construction
of roads, the use of which will save
US thousands of dollars and give us
many miles of good roads.
The town with its cleaner streets.
with its seventy per cent of paved
with its sixty-fve per cent of
sidewalks, with the cows vo-
ted out and the fences taken down,
with it's houses and yards being beau
,ifed, shows we are looking forward |
Tot backwards, looking out, not in,
ooking up, not down, and that ever
md above all we are moving forward
10 a united people.
D. c. SCARBOROUGH.
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Natchitoches, La.
Jan. Ind 1917
Since 1918, the enrolment in the
public Schools in this Parish, has in
reased fifteen percent, the number of
eachers six percent and transfers
bout one hundred percent, fifty of our
eachers are Normal graduates, forty
light are either College graduates, or
lold first grade certificates, and we
ave twenty six transfers. III
The gross revenues of the Parish
bows decrease of about six percent.
'ampti School shows the greatest c
rowth, increasing nearly $50 percent, {
'rovencal is second with about 100 per- +
emit Robeline about So percent. the r
rowth in efficiency in the school has
cen wonderful. in number of other t