The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1917-01-26

came school advantages, and our
Creole friends have not been slow to
take advantage of the opportunities
thus afforded, and today the Creole |
children are proving the equal of any
in educational work. Instead of be-
ing forced to grow up without educa-
ton as many of their parents, were,
they are, and will continue to take |
their place in the world of letters
with the best.
When the highway system now in
course of construction shall have been
completed every town and village Of
our parish will be connected by road
that can be travelled at any time, and
all conditions of the seasons. Of the
III miles or thereabouts that will
comprise this system, more than one
half will have a rural mail delivery
and ninety per cent will be traversed
| by rural telephone lines. The time is
fast approaching when there will be
no need for the farmer to be without
the modern conveniences of the towns.
With good roads for the use Of au-
tomobiles, telephone in the house,
through which he may communicate
with the world, mail delivered at his
loor daily, and an electric light plant
Of his own, the farmer should be the
most contented man on earth. This is
N brief the history of Jefferson DAv-
is parish. While the development has
been great, we expect the next few
years to be fruitful Of still greater.
In fact, it seems to me that we are
just now getting in position to grow,
and l confidentally look forward to a.
greater development in the next Is
years than we have in the last.
Referring to the erection of the Jail
and court house for jefferson Davis
parish, Dr. Cooper said: "The police
Jury bonded the excess revenues of
= the parish for ten years. beginning
' with the year 1915 and erected a Jail,
still not knowing just where the
money was coming from to build a
court house.. But in closing up the
business of the parish for 1913-14-1l
: and taking into consideration the ex'
ira expense of organization the par
> ssh and paying our share of the DEBT
: of old Calcasieu, that we would still
y have a surplus after paying al of th'
q obligations incident to building TIL
II Jail and this excess was again bonde,
Is to secure the funds with which Il
L erect this building. The police jury
- after due consideration elected Col
y w. F. Stevens as architect, who i'm
mediately began the preparation o
70 plans. The police jury, or some o
6 hem, had visited several publ
~ buildings, some of them with the al
n chitect, and had pretty we'll define
y IDEAS as to what they wanted; tn
s serious question being to keep tn
We cost of the building within our mean
as and when it finally came to openin
Nv the bids It was found that we wei
ne something like $1,000 short of ha'
cd ing enough money. Mr.. Caldwell
as who was considered to have made tn
ry best bid was called in and the plar
en- and estimates gone over in detail. /
eliminating some things that mlgl
lily have added to the convenience Of Il
az building, and by putting IN cheap
no furniture, we succeeded in reducir
sst The cost to a figure that we cou
nts meet. without cheapening the co
my struction or materially changing {
to building. The contract was let
ITS. Caldwell Brothers and the work
mes gun on the third day of June, ~
adj the corner stone was laid with il
has posing ceremonies sby the Ora
Up Lodge Of Masons Of Louisiana. I
on work progressed without seric
pic hitch until the building was complet
nth and turned over to the parish on ia
Inc uary 4th, 1917.
and We now occupy a court mouse ID
. while not so expensive as ma
! A others, is sufficient for all our neee
Nj and a building the proportions .
!, appointments of which the par
need not apologize, and one that
police jury under whose adminlst
ton it was begun, and the police j
under whose administration it
th. been finished, justly feel proud
pecially so, as they have been able
build thus, without adding a pc
!" to the burden of taxation Of the
pie Of this parish.
Parties who are interested in
SE,' develonment or drilling for oil, shC