Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-30

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chairman of the committee.
BY vote of Is to 16 the Senate
adopted the A. M. Smith House reso
luton, inviting the other states Ia
join Louisiana in a call for a conven.
ton to ask an amendment to the Con.
stitution of the United States to re.
quire that all amendments to the Fed
eral Constitution shall be submitted to
the voters of the several states.
The Senate also adopted the ]. .,
Stewart House resolution memorable
ing Congress to reject the Susan B.
Anthony woman suffrage amendment.
Mayor Apgar and City Attorney o.
M. Grisham of Monroe have gone to
Washington to get, IL possible. per-
mission to sell $150,00O worth Of
bonds, the proceeds to be used to
build modern water filtration plant
and for street improvement.
Cotton picking is beginning through
out Natchitoches parish Anticipat.
ing bumper cotton crop several new
gins were built earlier in the season.
The farmers will not operate their
gins since the crop is so short.
The two Franklinton cotton gins
have notified their customers that
they will not operate their gins on
oroouut ~ tho cvoon Ac,,~oe - On
cents per hundred set by the govern
ment for ginning cotton.
The Monroe city council adopted
an ordinance making 1t unlawful to
drive load of five tons or more in
GLIDING weight of the vehicle over
the Ouachita avenue traffic bridge.
The three volunteer fire companies
of Plaquemines have been merged in
to one. reorganized as the Plaquemine
Fire Department. and placed under
the control Of the municipality.
Congressman ]. T. Watkins made
an address at the weekly meeting Of
the Lions Club at Shreveport In
which he urged the citizens of Shreve-
port to 60 after war industries.
Government Geologist Shaw, who
was sent to Shreveport to make a &C.
illogical survey of the Caddo gas
field, is now surveying conditions in
the Monroe field.
The Myrtle Grove central factory
and the Stella Syrup factory at Eng
lish Turn are both being thoroughly
repaired for the grinding season.
Announcement was made that eff.
fective October the Alexandria city
council will increase the rates for
electric light and water service.
The Federal Employment Bureau
has opened an office at Lake Charles
and announces that carpenters from
all sections are arriving on every
train. They will find employment
through the bureau.
Representative farmers at Monroe
organized the North Louisiana Farm
ers' Association and voted one dollar
hundred pounds as a fair price to
pay for cotton picking.
A movement is being made in the
western part of Vermiuion parish to
build a traffic bridge across Lake
Arthur from Laurent's Point to the
town of Lake Arthur.
A movement has been launched at
Shreveport to invite President Wilson
to visit Shreveport during his tour OF
the South in the fall in behalf Of the
Fourth Liberty Loan.
who shoot non-game birds are likely
to be arrested, according to Inspector
d. Diebold, of the State Department
of Conservation.
Sweaters, called for by headquart-
ers, are pouring into Red Cross work
room and Hammond once more will
go over the top in production.
Cerstner Aviation Field was COM
pletely wrecked during the recent
wind storm, and so were the towns
of Sulphur and Vinton.
A call for one hundred negro select
men from Iberville has been made.
The men will leave about August 24th
for Camp Beauregard.
A complete four-year high school
goes into operation at the next |
session at St. Charles College at |
Grand Cateau.
The cattle tick Is losing out in
Ouachita. or cattle dipped during |
July, less than three per cent were
found ticky.
Monday, September 8. has been ret