Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-10-04


a conference with city officials. ply
sicians and others at Monroe, COM
pleted arrangements for the estab-
lishn,ent of a free outdoor clinic and
to be opened at st. Frances
Sanitarium.
The Council of Defense for Pla-
quemine parish has ordered the CEN
sus taken of all ablebodied males and
females between the ages of IS and
As years and so acute has the labor
situation become in the fields for the
approaching sugar season that the
parish o--cials will strictly enforce
the work or fight law.
District Court for the Sixth District
convened at Monroe and after empan-
cling a grand jury the court and grand
jury adjourned to October IA, due to
the fact that practically all members
of the local bar are engaged in as
sisting recent registrants In Milling
out Questionnaires.
The Liberty Loan campaign, which
really opens September %. is being
planned for actively in advance. and
the big drive to be headed by Craw-
ford H. Ellis Of New Orleans il being
organized and will start with q full
force and program to push it through
to q successful finish.
Ten new wells were completed in
the Caddo oil field during the week
ending September II. The approx
mate total new daily production IT the
wells Is $500 barrels. One million fest
gas well was brought in BY the Ark
ansas Natural Gas Company in Caddo
parish.
The navel oranges in the groves at
Pointea-larHache are fast turning
yellow and getting ready for market.
The growers will begin packing and
shipping to market next week.
Migratory ducks have made their
appearance in large numbers here
and at the famous feeding grounds at
the Jump" near the mouth Of the
river. ~
Rev. Alonzo Early. director Of the
w. 8. S. drive in the Amite district,
reported that Amite has raised it,
quota in the drive which ended last
Monday.
The number Of men between the
ages Of Is and Is who registered in
st. Mary parish September IL was g.
ESQ. 49,.
Engineer Kirkpatrick has finished
the preliminary plans Of the propos-
ed filtration plant for the city OF Nom
roe.
Caddo and Bossier parishes viii
work shoulder to shoulder In the
forthcoming fourth Liberty Loan
drive.
The boiler room of the Major Stave
Company at Monroe was destroyed by
fire recently. for the third time witnin
year.
Monroe's new cemetery is now be-
ing used, the first burial in the new
reservation taking place last Satur.
Gay.
Monroe's new bank, the. Citizens
National Bank Of Monroe, has opened
for business.
The large taulinower crop at Grand
Isle is the most promising in years.
Forces are being organized for the
fourth Liberty Loan drive at Shreve-
port.
The pecan crop on the lower coast
IL ripening and the nuts are being
threshed from the trees and shipped
to market. The grade is Of the. best
and the prices better than in years.
Complete figures of the registration
of September 1: show 3.517 in Ouach-
ita parish registered for military SER
vice.
The oysters Of Grand Lake ara In
fine condition and growers are ship
ping to New Orleans in sacks daily.
Ideal weather at Estherwood con-
tinues to facilitate the saving OF the
rice crop, and farmers are realizing
from $50 to 800 an acre for their har-
vest.
Rubber day in Monroe resulted In
great piles Of old tires and other cast
on rubber goods being contributed TO
the Red Cross. ~
Tag day held at Patterson for Les
sectones Louisianias proved . success
more than s3se bsins collected.