The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1918-09-13

| damage TO the open cotton around
Grayson has been heavy, The aver
age condition of the cotton crop Al
this date is 40 per cent. Farmers vii
have to buy thousands of barrels Oh
corn to make the next crop.
The Crandall and Brown Lumber
Company of Pearl River has begun
| laying the foundation for their rev
logging railroad up through Honey
Island. This road will open a vas!
virgin forest of hardwood.
A new Catholic church at thand
Isle is nearing completion at a cost
Of $4,000, and being used by the Cath.
olics of this island and lower La
fourche. and will be in charge of Faith
er hammered, Of Gretna.
For the past ten days Lafayette
streets have been the scene of almost
, constant marching by khaki-clad boys
who stopped there for marching exe!-
else while en- route to Atlantic ports
to ship for France. -
Fourteen teachers. seven whites
and seven negroes, have thrown out
Of employment by the destruction 0:
of schoolhouses at Lake Charles. F.
forts are being made to place them
with other parishes.
Professor J. T. McKinnon of Sloan
Springs, Ark, the new principal -fGr
the Colfax High School, has been in
town this week arranging to begin
the September term, which is to be-
gin September Is.
Mrs. C. E. P. Calhoun Of Colfax
has handed in her check for 500 to
the president of the Grant parishchap-
ter of the Red Cross. She was absent
on a visit to Mobile, Ala, when the
drive was made. =. 49,.
The United States life.saying sta
ILOits a iaISCr obuoldhtidl DIuAuh9s5
being built of steel and concrete and
thoroughly storm-proof, is nearing
completion at Grand Isle at cost Of
100000. 80.
Turpentine and lumber camps !. are
favorite resorts for siackers, govern
ment officials say. They rounded up
more than fifty in Beauregard parish
within the past ten days, nearly all
negroes.
The work of crawling the principal
strets of Abbeville, which is now
being undertaken at cost of about
$4,000, is progressing slowly on ac-
count of the difficulty in procuring
gravel.
A substantial boom has struck
Grand Isle and more than 100000 is
being expended on improvements. Is
proposed to regain its name as one
of the finest summer resorts in the
South.
Miss Evelyn Renaud, Monroe's first
Red Cross nurse to see service in
France, has been returned to the Unit
ed State on account of ill health and
is in Columbia War College recuper-
ating.
The cotton crop has deteriorated
so that only about one-third Of crop
is expected around Estherwood. The
corn crop respects are good, especial
~ in the Mermentau section.
Many large industrial plants at
Lake Charles which were put out Of
commission by the storm August G,
have resumed operations and others
are rapidly rebuilding.
Since cotton has reached the new
high level of thirty-fve cents pound
all the farmers around Colfax are IN
a rush to gin out all the. cotton tEey
have picked.
Fish and shrimp catches arou;1d
Grand Isle are large and the sales
best in years. The receipts of the |
fishermen average $4,000 weekly on
The island
The South Louisiana Fair this fall
will conduct better babies contest.
It win consist of examining and
awarding prizes to children of
years or under on the same basic; prin-
ciples that are applied to the judging
of live stock.
Citizens of Natchitoches viii de-
vote one minute at the noon Hour
every day to prayer for victory and |
ne safe return OF American soldiers |
from overseas, following = proclamr
inn ixsued nv Mayor q W. Eile...s