The Donaldsonville chief., 1917-09-22

| DR.. A. w. Martin spent Wednesda,
at st. Amant with his parents, depart
ing from there on the evening L. R
4 N. train for New Orleans to joir
Mrs. Martin who had gone down =
the Crescent city Wednesday morning
They returned home Thursday after.
noon.
Anthony Lobello, an Italian la
borer on the Riverside plantation, was
arrested and placed in Jail Friday
evening, charged with cutting and
stabbing a young negro by the name
OF Morgan Carter. Some three weeks
ago, Lobello's step-mother was shot
and killed on the Riverside plantation
by colored woman.
The British parliament has invited
the American congress to send a del
egatlon OF as many members as are
willing to make the trip to visit Great
Britain and the battle front in France
and Belgium as the guests of the
British people, and there is consider
able sentiment in congress favorable
to the acceptance of the invitation.
DIR. and Mrs. w. P. Miles and two
bright children, William Porcher, Jr.,
and Henry Waters, returned to their
magnificent ''Houmas Home" at Burn
af la
journ Of three weeks at Henderson
willie, N. C.. The doctor and family
are very fond of their home and are
always delighted to return to it.
Burnside is good enough for them.
A musical concert was given at
True Friends Hall last Sunday night
for the benefit of Acme Lodge No. 32,
K. of Fl. of A, fraternal organiza-
tion composed of leading colored peo-
pie, and the affair proved a most
gratifying financial success The con-
cert was under the management Of
George Thompson, the local mail car
rier, who deserves much credit for the
success of the entertainment.
The following members of Com
pany II, First Louisiana Infantry,
stationed at Camp Stafford, near
Alexandria, arrived in Donaldsonville
last Saturday evening and returned to
their camp Sunday night: Sidney
Acosta, Paul Thibodaux, Jr., John
Ayraud, Corporal Kittridge Sims, Jr.,
and Paul Bouchereau. Sergeant l..
Dies, Of st. James, also accompanied
the boys on the trip.
]. Ward Poche, formerly of this
city, but who has been located near
Havana, Cuba, for the past two years,
and who had been certified to the
district board as having failed to ap-
pear for examination, arrived here
Saturday last and Immediately report
ed to the local board for examination.
He passed successful physical ex-
animation, claimed no exemption and
was accepted by the local board.
A number of the leading colored
citizens of this city have organized
for the purpose of making necessary
arrangements to give suitable re-
ception to the colored men from this
parish drafted into the United States
army on the occasion of their de-
parture for the training camp on Oct.
3. A committee composed of j. +.
Duffel, DR.. J.H. LoWery, w. E. Sulli-
van, Claiborne Williams and others
will have charge of the affair.
Sebastian Oliver, Jr., a prominent
wheat and corn grower Of Chester,
ILL.,, spent few days in Donaldson
Vile this week on business connected
with the succession of the late Rev.
Michael Ruby, Of which he is the ad-
ministrator. MFR. Oliver reports that
the wheat and corn crops OF his sec
tion are the finest grown there IN
years and give promise OF an un-
usually large harvest.
Jasmin Tobias, the progressive pro-
prietor of the New Orleans Bargain
store. has informed the Chief that his
big 1O-cent sale which has been going
on at his store for the past two
weeks has attracted large crowds to
his establishment daily and that he IS
more than pleased with the results
On Monday next, Mr.. Tobias will Of
fer for sale tuile du nord ginghams
at Is cents a yard. This sale Will De
from s to y O'Clock a. m. only.
The Chief Joins the many friends
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Dale IN con.
doing with them in their great
affliction over the death OF their
young SON, Edward Joseph, aged TWO
wears and two months, who departed
this life at the family residence IN
New Orleans on the 10th inst. Mts'
Dale was formerly Miss Stella Mon
tecino, daughtr Of Mr.. and Mrs. iony
Montecino, erstwhile residents OF TINS
city.
Robert Bruce and Miss Theresa
Babin and William Allen DeArmand
and Miss Kate Cannon, well-knoW1n
and popular residents of the seventh
ward Of the parish, motored to Don
aldsonville Wednesday and were mar
ried in the clerk of courts once IN
the courthouse. The ceremony was
performed by Judge Edmund Maurla r,
in the presence Of number OF 'ae
relatives and friends OF the contract-
inp. nartieS.