Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-11-15

ty-tnree Gays nave kept the rice
shocks wet and at least rs per cent
of the rice is damaged. Great guam
titles of rice now in the fields are in
this condition and several Of the mills
are short Of rice.
The 1918 parish crop of sugar cane
is commencing TO be put on the local
market, and, while not yet at its best.
Duncan Robertson. a successful farm
Ell living east of Hammond. is exhibit
ing some fine stalks. The first sor-
ghum syrup of the season was offered
during the week and retailed at $1.l0
per gallon.
r. d. Forbes, representative Of the
United States Reclamation Service.
: est of the plan which has In view tho
object Of procuring large quantity
of cutover pine lands as well as low
lands for the use of soldiers when they
return, after the war.
Hache are packing and shipping their
fruit as fast as labor can be obtained
for gathering them. which IL very
scarce. and are offered as high a. $40.
per box for the choicest grades ~
compared with $3.50 this time last
season.
At a meeting Of the East FelicianA
Parish Council of Defense resolu-
ton was adopted to require every cit
lien from IS to IS years Of age to
work or fight. Committees were nam
ed from each ward to see that tho
law IL enforced throughout the parish.
Training a. radio or wireless cleo
tricians and operators At Camp Martin
will be offered Immediately to I'VE
hundred men Of drart age. having two
years of high school or ut least =
grammar school education.
Rice growers around Estherwood
are making frantic efforts to save tho
uncut and shocked rice from rotting.
Rice mills are much in need Of rough
rice to keep them busy.
The governor named Oswald o.
den, of New Orleans. as coal gauger
to all the vacancy created recently By
the death OF John F. Bauman Of that
city.
= The total amount Of Liberty bonds
subscriptions in st. Bernard was
$174,200, represented by 73s subscrii-
ers. The parish's quota was $4,000.
The Natchitoches Red Cross chap
ter shipped seven boxes during last
week, containing 2.21S absorbent pads.
200 comfort bags, 80 girls dresses
(refugees), Is pajamas.
The shipment of clothing from
Hammond for the relief of the Bel
gians, collected through the branch Ut
, the Red Cross amounted to . thou
sand pounds.
The Grant parish fair. which was to
. be held at verda October 242b, has
, been postponed and the later date IT
. November 1928 has been set, subject
to the approval Of the health onicials.
The health report il that 100 cases
! Of influenza have prevailed among the
! whites Of Colfax within the past two
weeks, and 100 cases among the No
groes.
=, Not q single case of influenza has
been reported 80 far at st. Benedict,
though the epidemic has made its-ao'
! rfearance in all the surrounding coun-
Try.
Sugar planters around Thibodaux
4 are sorely pressed for labor to carry
4 ON grinding operations. Some Of the
: mills cannot begin 1t all and others
y are working with incomplete forces
+ II a heavy freeze were to come IN
immense loss would ensue.
81 The fne Red Jersey hog weighing
; 375 pounds, which was donated to thu
, Red Cross by w. N. SchilIing. presi
, dent of the Amite Hardware Com
o pany, was auetioned and brought
$40.
81 The growing Of rice win be attempt
3 ed at st. Benedict next year by w
/, Wanner. . local farmer. The watel
required win be pumped from thu
Bogue Falaya
T. There has been approximately ESQ
a cases Of influenza, one hundred case
at pneumonia and fifteen deaths .
Monroe.
<. Acadia parish has cversubscribe
" its quots Of the fourth Liberty boa