Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-10-25

the danger is passed.
The Monroe school board decided |
to pay the salaries of the teachers
during the time the schools are clos
ed or account of influenza, with the
understanding they will teach six
days a week until time lost is
made up.
The Opelousas Council Of Defense
has promulgated an order requiring
ali persons before engaging in the
construction of any building, side
walk or anything else requiring labor
and material to obtain a permit.
Shreveport passed the $2,000.OO0
mark in subscriptions to the Fourth
Liberty Loan. Aviators from Carrutli-
ers Field, Texas. bombed the city
with loan literature and Captain Al
bala, of the Serbian army, was q
speaker.
The Monroe city council authorized
the mayor to sell the merchantatle
pine timber on the cfty's land west VI
the river for $500. The council was
asked for a donation of $3.50 by the
Ouachita Fair Association.
! A better babies contest was feat
ure of the South Louisiana fair 1T
Donaldsonville. School day attracted
a great crowd, and Saturday will be
Jefferson-St James-St Charles day,
| with an address being delivered by
! John M. Parker.
, Natchitoches soldiers, including
F, Lieutenant John L. Kelly. member Of
the Louisiana Legislature. received
promotions, Mr.. Kelly being made
major in the Medical Corps overseas.
Captain Stephen Henry also was pro-
noted to major.
Recent developments in the OIL
fields near Homer have led to prop
osition to make Homer an oil station.
A number Of oil men and capitalists
are rapidly getting the. necessary
stock for q station and refineries.
| ]. H. Warner, president Of the As
sociation of Commerce at Covington.
announces q meeting to plan the epe.
ration of a motor line from Mande.
vile to jacksonville by way Of Gov
ington.
The Franklinton police jury has M
"a the assessment for taxes for THU
year at fifty per cent Of property val
uation. The actual valuation Of prop
erty by the assessor aggregates about
$17.0O0.000.
Planters around Napoleonville an
busy with fall cane planting and fal
blowing. Some of the rice planter.
have not finished gathering tina
crop.
Big preparations are being made
by both men and women citizens o
Covington for the annual parish fai
to be held October 24-27.
: Two negro men at Alexandra were
fined 1925 each and given six month";
Jail terms for violating the dry zont
law.
Ia. rohr rao Uroowo ~ rol1oa
Tex, was the principal speaker at 4
Liberty Loan meeting at Mansfield
! He was accompanied by Sergean
Tannehill, q marine, who was wound
ed in the fighting at Chateau Thierry
4 A committee Of truckers has beer
appointed to 60 before the Parish
ouncil of Defense at Hammond ana
axis for a modification Of the recen
|, rule declaring strawberries . non-es
, sential crop.
A quarantine continued at l. s. U
at Baton Rouge. where about sixt,
cases of sickness have developed
Many of them are influenza in ligh'
form. None of the cases are serious
C. d. Kemper, Of Franklin. has
been appointed by Governor Pleasant
a member of the advisory committed
of the United War Work Campaign.
The call for 365 men for vocationa
! training at the State University Al
Baton Rouge has been cancelled BY
Provost Marshal General Crowder.
The Pointe a la Hache exemption
J board has finished sending out its
1000 missionaries and has CLASH
fed over three hundred registrants.
John Ellis White, a Lake Charles
negro, is the holder Of number 322 tn
first drawn from the bowl by Presi
dent Wilson.
, Major Luckie, ranking medical ON
Ger at Gerstner Field, reports there
J are no cases of Spanish influenza d
the field.
u Circus day at Opelousas was taken
advantage of by members of the Local
! Red Cross to celebrate tag day fol
the Red Cross canteen fund and
$2S3.04 was realized.