Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-09-27


one, and it is anticipated that there
will be keen competition in all de-
partments.
The Colfax police jury which was
in session last week passed resolu-
ton asking the government to include
the farmers in the hill regions OF
Grant parish among those who are 10
share in the distribution of planting
seed, fertilizer, etc, for which the
government has made general and eS-
tensive provision.
The Clinton police jury authorized
the president of that body to borrow
$4,000 from the Bank of Slaughter.
the fiscal agent bank. Bills to the
amount of s4.191.2O were ordered
paid. The assessment of the parish
will be about $5,OOO.OOO this year, and
taxes will amount to so per cent more
than last year.
A movement is on foot to have
public service flag dedicated to the
honor of the large number of young
men from Hammond who have already
Joined the service. While some or the
churches have inividual service flags
for the boys affiliated with their con-
gregations, there is no general flag.
With the taking of men so rapidly
the labor situation around Denhain
Springs is becoming increasingly se-
riOus. This is entirely an agricultur-
al parish Negro women who havo
worked all their lives have proudly
quit work now because Uncle Sam is
sending them enough money to live
on in idleness.
Gerstner Field will will be turned
into a bombing camp. it is officially
announced. Buildings which were
wrecked in the recent storm are being
rapidly reconstructed, it being expect
ed that bombing operations can be
under way within two weeks.
The Plaquemins Parish Council Of
defense met at Pointea-la-Hache re-
Gently and business of much import
ance pertaining to the war situation
on the lower coast was discussed and
especially the labor problem for tho
moving of the sugar crops.
Two detachments of men left Cow
ington last week for war service.
men there, in whose honor q farewell
reception was held at the Southern
Hotel the night before their depart
uer.
A large barn, some old machinery
and aquantity of oats and wheat straw
were burned at the Louisiana Train
ing Institution for Boys at Monroe.
Backfire from the gasoline engine
used in baling straw caused the blaze.
The loss is about $1,000.
s. T. Woodring. manager OF the
Long-Bell Mill, is authority for the
statement that not more than 5 per
cent of the virgin timber in Calcasieu.
Allen and Beauregard parishes was
destroyed in the storm of August 6.
The st. Thomas AQuinas Academy
at Hammond conducted by the Do
minican Sisters of Hammond, has an
enrolment of seventy-five pupils for
the 1888 session.
Misses Annette Gibson and Mauds
Baillio Of Washington. Misses Mary
Octavia Littell and Edna Gertrude
Stage Of Opelousas offered their ser.
vices to the students nurse reservesI
Registration of all Catholics now
in the army has been started at Ope-
lousas, under the auspices of Rev.
Father Wagemans of st. Landry Cath
Ole Chu. III.
The young women Of Patterson are
industriously tagging the population
for the benefit of the wounded SOL
diers in France.
Parish and city officials of Natch.
toches are forcing all idle negroes to
work, and they readily find employ.
ment in the cotton fields. oil and
lumber mills.
Secours Louisiana a la France Tag
Day was in charge of the ladies NJ
Opelousas and a good sum was real
lied.
The Natchitoches Cotton OIL Mill
and the Planters Oil Mill have begun
operations.
John Dudwick of Pointe>a-la-H ache,
the largest sea terrapin grower in the
South, has confined in his pens $4,000
terrapin, most of which are ready for
shipment to market this season.
The Brittany Red Cross Auxiliary
held their second cotton picking lasr
week at the farm Of Jos. ID. Acy, of
Acy, La.
The Hammond bakers announce
tho< In, f,,turo fhov will not ha1