Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-02-16

Rev. Clauc L Jones, former pastor
Of the Central Christian Church OF
| Shreveport and the Louisiana Anti-Sar
loon Leagues right hand man in
Louisiana since prohibition first reach
ed the state, arrived from Dallas to
begin statewide stump speaking
tour in support of the league cam
paign for ratification Of the national
prohibition amendment at the next
session of the Legislature.
The students of the Opelousas High
School made showing in selling
thrift stamps during the month of
January. The high school children
turned in over $500 and meane to can
Vass and recanvass the town so that
people may have an opportunity to fill
their books.
The Vermillion Parish Cane Grow
ers' Association is agitating the ques-
ton of q refund of 80 cents per ton
on cane sold to the three Abbeville
sugar factories and has filed protests
with John NJ. Parker food admins
traitor and with Herbert Hoover in
Washington.
The Amite River Baptist Associa-
tion has launched a campaign in that
parish for the purpose of obtaining
funds to assist in the erection of an
annex to the Baptist Sanitarium in
Alexandria. This campaign viii ex-
tend through February and March.
The Boy Scouts of Oak Grove are
preparing to build a club house, with
a bungalow roof. on the johnson lot
back of the Methodist parsonage.
Lumber is on the ground and work
has started. They lack about s35 to
complete the building.
Every business firm in the city of
opelousas, including saloons, barber
shops and. grocery stores, have pIedg-
ed themselves to close every Monday
up to and including March 25 in help
ing to save fuel for the government.
The Monroe city council has accept
ed the bid of C. ". Hughes, Chicago
landscape architect, to prepare plans
and specifications for improving and
beautifying twenty-five acres bought
by the city and for a new cemetery.
The 1ibsars of tie sliden High.
fscheoI has lust received valuable
addition of a twenty-four volume set
Of the International Encyclopedia. a
full set of the text books for the his
tory courses have also been added.
In one months time the pupils In
the high school department OF the
Bonneville High School sold to the
people in and around that section
thrift and war savings stamps to the
aggregate amount of $2,40150.
The town council has ordered ad-
vertisements placed, asking for indi-
yiduals, corporations or companies to
take an electric light franchise from
the village of Oak Grove, subject to
the approval of the board.
The Edgard High School took the
lead in the war savings stamps cann-
paign in st. Johns parish. The pu-
pills sold $4,000 worth of stamps dur
ing the month of January and they
are still selling them fast.
Work of building gravel roads
throughout st. John parish will soon
begin and it will not be long before
New Orleans will be connected by a
hard surface highway to Baton Rouge
and intermediate towns
As result of the organization Of
Patriotic League at Natchitoches in
school with membership of five hun
dred, the students of the boarding
club have voted unanimously to OBJ
serve the Tess" days.
The good road contractors have ar
rived at La Place, where they will
pitch their tents and start work i'm
mediately on the ST. John parish link
of the Jefferson Highway.
Tuesday, April 9, has been set by
Governor Pleasant as the date on
which to hold elections for successors
to the following members of the
House of Representatives who have
]. T. Shell of Bastrop, rep
resenting Morehouse parish; w. t.
Hodges of Jena, representing La
Sale parish, and William r. Martin
Of Gretna, representing Jefferson
parish.