Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-11-08

WORKING at iedSt i've anu Ouc-udii
days per week in some useful enter
prise will be prosecuted.
Ouachita parish has qualified for
twenty-five miles of highway to be
constructed with state and federal
aid, and a project statement has gone
forward to the United States engineer
at Fort Worth for work in East Ba-
ton Rouge, Caldwell and Avoyelles
parishes. The last named is a SEQ
ton of the Jefferson highway.
While the heavy rains of last week
had the effect of delaying the picking
of cotton, farmers around Hammond
were busy gathering their beans, the
fall crop of which is better than it
has been in many seasons. After a
few days of sunshine potatoes will be
harvested.
The rice crop around Crowley yet
in the fields is in q precarious con-
dition owing to the rain which has
been falling intermittently every day
since October 5. A great quantity is
not cut and a much greater quantity
is in the field, badly shocked.
The Opelousas city board of health
has ordered all saloons to discontinue
the sale of drinks. and liquor can be
purchased only in original packages.
The board has provided that funerals
shall be private.
Rev. e. 8. Taylor, pastor Of the
Christian Church at Hammond. has
been appointed secretary and direc-
tor of the social welfare league being
organized by the Jahncke Company at
the jacksonville shipyard.
There IL q number Of cases of Span
ish "flu" in Roseland and vicinity, but
they appear to be of a mild type and
no deaths have occurred, except ono
negro, Ben Lewis, q visitor there.
! There were 1884 bales Of cotton
ginner in Natchitoches parish from
the crop of 1918 as compared with
1880 in 1917, prior to September Is.
both years.
! The great shortage of labor threat
ems the Hammond winter wood sup
ply, and the question Of the winter
pile is becoming serious one.
The town council has ordered 100
! horsepower crude oil engine for cleo
trio service in the Napoleon power
house, to take the place Of the old en-
CINE which has been the cause of the
town being deprived of electric light
! for about a month.
No allotment for the fourth Liberty
Loan was made for Calcasieu parish
on account of the storm of August .,
but had there been one it would have
amounted to $1,4OS,700. The amount
of subscriptions TO date are $1,42O,00
or $11,7OO over the top.
The Alexandria police jury has &C
cepted bid of w. M. Cady of McNary,
La, for $4,000 for bonds of Road Dis
trict No. Is. The bid was par with
accrued interest The entire amount
of the bond issue is $125,000.
/ With the fair weather now prevail
ing. the connecting links of gravel
road going through Goosport will be
finished in a week Work on the
Houston river bridge north of Sui
phur is progressing satisfactorily.
The high tides caused by the gala
last week destroyed the rice crop
planted on the river fats near the
mouth of the river near Pointe Ia
Hache rice shocked in fields Ii
sprouted badly and will cause heavy
loss.
Wild ducks of all species are very
plentiful and over in the. West Point
la Hache hunters are slaughterins
the game and even sailing largt
quantity for use this winter, it is re
ported.
Arrangements are being made FOL
dividing Monroe into zones to enable
physicians better to care for sufferer!
from influenza, which shows NJ
abatement there.
! A total of 1881. 900 was subscribed
by Monroe and Ouachita parish to thu
fourth Liberty Loan. exceeding tn,
uota of $3.50 by $1S5.000. =
Il The deaeh roll for the city Of Grow
/. / lev from the ''flu'' during the past ten
! DAYS has reached twenty.