The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1917-08-23
Our Los Angeles
| Letter
Louisiana Society Re-or-
8aniZed
Re-Or-

| reckon you will all be interes
. ted in hearing a bout the Louisian
e Society we launched, or rather re
a organized last night You knoy
I that Los Angeles bears the uniqu
distinction of fathering one hun
. dred and two societies, one bear
ing the name of each state, and th
rest being city or county organi
cations from the different states.
Iowa, tor instance, has over fif
ty thousand members can vol
! realize that? And some of the
counties or cities of that state, Ill.
inols, Maine, Etc, have individual
societies. One man told US that 81
; of his church members from bis
own church in Iowa were living
here, and of course they have q
society. Well, when we first came
| was interested in seeing such
signs as this, enormous one, two,
yards long, "This bank or store
is headquarters for the such and
such state" and of course l was
peeved because l never saw any,
thing about La, l know why, be-
cause, as wonderful as Cal. is,
Louisianians never have cause to
leave the Pelican state for it, but
some of US do, however short the
time, and it seemed too bad not to
know each other.
We finally found the big bank
which was headquarters tor the
state societies, and hunted out the
little man who was secretary Of
the W hole shebang, a dapper little
gentle ,man named Parsons, who is
too cute to be allowed to roam a.
round, he ought to be on somebo-
dy's watch chain for a fob, wee
goatee and CATERS and all. He told
US with fitting solemnity and no
trace of humor that the former
La. society president had died, and
left no address, and the secretary
had moved out to Tropico. a su-
burb, and the society had dlsinte.
grated, after winning the distinc-
tion of having the best frolics and
finest music of the whole 102.
We stopped in to see him and
poured over register until we de
clded to call meeting of all La,
and sent cards to every we found,
as well as put it in the paper
The soc ieties meet in the Times
Building, a magnificent structure,
you remem Der their original build
ing was dynamited by the ! Wont
Workers in 1911 l believe. One of
the upper floors has a number of
big assembly halls, and an average
of four societies meet there every
night. Besides the big we'll lighted
hall, with seats and piano and
presidents rosstrum etc. adjoining
the one we selected was an up-to-
date kitchen, all equipped, and at
tractiye tables for serving refresh
ments, as well as all dishes, etc.
We were little late and when
we arrived, a score of Pelicans
we're buzzing around getting ac-
luainted. Only two or three had
belonged to the original club,
which had dlsintea rated. One att
'active little lady, much like Aunt
Lucia seized nay hand, and said
while she was from Monroe. her
,appy days had been spent at the
Normal. She was Helen or Nellie
Wright and had graduated in '92
We Immediately sat down and
tarted in talking at the rate of a
nile a minute, she asked about so
many Natchitoches people and
aughed over her crowds jokes
nd Publications. She said remin- c
scently, I remember one time
Vhen the incest wldower was call
ng on me, bis name was McClung !,
nd he was druggist; Maud Bates q
ut a PACK of fire crackers under L
is chair and they went off and = L
nd she sighed as tho that account u
i for her being Mrs. Hartsoe in =
lead of Mrs. E. L. She moved y
ere from here from Colorado and :
as a boy of 20 and a younger
irl, and we struck up quite an &C. 7
laintance. One such attractive ?
Dung fashion plate with comp
'atively new husband, heard me P
ling Mrs. H. that Mrs. Donohoe G
as still neld in loving memory
le certainly paid her a tribute. A