New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-07-28
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Sheriff Landry made a flyin!
trip to Baton Rouge this weel
where he took two prisoners tt
be confined in the penitentiary
One Of the persons taken ovel
was G. 2. Stewart who was sent
enced to serve one year for forg
cry. The other was the negro
Van Thompson convicted of muir
der who must serve life term.
Among our citizens who re
turned from foreign shores, after
long absence was Mr.. Edgar G.
Landry. Mr.. Landry was EN-.
ployed on a large estate known
as Porvenier Sugar Co. at San
Domingo and remained over there
for eleven months. He says they
manufactured 10000 bags of
sugar during the grinding sea-
son. 1t is not Mr.. Landry's in
tention to return to the Island
very soon.
SO arpents of high land for sale
with large barn and silo. Loca-
ton one mile from Court House
See M. W. Fisher.
Among the real estate trans
actions this week was the sale
of the commodious residence of
Mr.. R. S. Mcmahon, situated on
East Main Street. The property
was taken over by Mr.. S. R.
Caulking of this City. Mr..
Caulking intends to make use of
it as his future home.
Through the energy of our
fellow-citizen Mr.. j. S. Suttle,
oil development will soon take
place on the land of John
Granger about one mile from
Spanish Lake. The interested
parties are now having the ma
chinery set up and before long
the drilling will be begun in earn
est. From what we are informed
this particular tract of land shows
large quantities Of parafin and
high hopes are entertained the
liquid will be found. Mr.. Suite,
deserves much credit for his in
terest in the matter and it is
hoped other capitalists viii be in
terested in developing field in
that neighborhood.
No. 666 will cure Chills and
Fever. Ut is the most speedy rem
edy we know.
Work has now begun in
earnest on the sewerage system
in our City under the direction
of the Hamilton Bros. Construc-
ton Company who were awarded
the contract by the Sewerage
Board Of New liberia. The first
work to be commenced was the
erection Of the automatic Booster
pumps and the erection Of the
Disposal Plant on the property
in the Southern portion of the
City recently purchased from |
Pateut brothers. From what we
earn it is the intention Of the
Deal Board who have this re-
ponsible civic work in charge to
permit no excavation on our
streets until the pipes are on hand
md ready to 'be placed under the
ground. In this way traffic will
lot be interfered within the least
nd in this way no business will
uffer while the work is in prog-l
ess. On Thursday the Board
ad another special meeting with
heir engineer Mr.. Kramer and
verything that can be done to
ush the entire work to an early
ompletion will be done by the
Of the Board who have
cen elected to superintend the
lstallation of our sewerage.
No. 666 will cure Malaria or
ilious Fever. 1t kills the germs.
Time and again we have 5
allied the attention of the public !
the speeding done by automo-
lie drivers not only on the thor G
1ghfares of this City, but also :
1 the country roads which will 2
IT result in some one or more T
sople being seriously injured.
any users Of cars disregard the I
ghts of others when on our pub i,
highways, and several timesI
Gently automobiles have been Q
rocked completely, fortunately e
lthout any one being seriously