Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-11-02

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essential Building Committee of tbs
State Council of Defense in refusing
TO allow promiscuous building at this
time. This committee of the Stats
Council has been refusing TO approve
any permits for building unless Il
deemed them essential to the furthsr
ance of war work.
In order to maze up lost time dur
ing the quarantine the schools of Tang.
1pahoa parish, on resuming, viii re-
main in session on Saturdays and tia
only holidays to be observed will ba
| Thanksgiving and Christmas. Dis
missing on Christmas eve. studies
will be resumed the following Mun-
day. If necessary the regular term
will be extended TO make up the TINA
lost.
Loafng in Shreveport was dealt a
blow with the distribution of loyalty
| cards, resigned to keep a check Oh
| all workers. Cards have been distrib-
uted at all manufacturing plants and
to all employees of labor. ANY maa
not able to produce proof that he rs
working at least five and one-hs1f
days per week in some useful enter
prise will be prosecuted.
Ouachita parish has qualified for
| twenty-five miles of highway 10 be
constructed with state and federal
aid, and a project statement has gone
forward to the United States engineer
at Fort Worth for work in East Ba-
ton Rouge, Caldwell and AvoyeIieS
parishes. The last named is q sec
ton of the Jefferson highway
While the heavy rains of last week
had the effect of delaying the picking
Of cotton, farmers around Hammond
were busy gathering their beans, the
fall crop of which is better than it.
has been in many seasons. After q
few days of sunshine potatoes Will be
harvested.
The rice crop around Crowley yet
in the fields is in a precarious CON
dttion owing to the rain which has
been falling intermittentIy every day
since October 5. A great quantity iz
not cut and much greater quantity
is in the field, badly shocked
The Opelousas city board of health
has ordered all saloons TO discontinue
the sale of drinks, and liquor can be-
purchased only in original packages
The board has provided that funerals,
shall be private.
Rev. E. S. Taylor, pastor Of tfle-
Christian Church at Hammond, has
been appointed secretary and diress-
tor of the social welfare league being
organized by the Jahncke Company al
the jacksonville shipyard.
There is number of cases of Span
ish flu in Roseland and vicinity. bus
they appear to be of mild type anG
no deaths have occurred, except ons
negro, Ben Lewis, visitor there
There We're 10.S34 bales of cotton
ginner in Natchitoches parish fruai
the crop of 1918 as compared with
10.190 in 1917, prior to September z5-
both years.
The great shortage of labor threat
ems the Hammond winter wood snp-
ply, and the question of the winter
pile is becoming serious one,
The town council has ordered I80--
horsepower crude Gil engine for cleo
-ric service in the Napoleon power
house, to take the place of the old en-
zine which has been the cause OF the
own being deprived of electric light
or about a month
No allotment for the fourth Liberty
4oan was made for Calcasieu parish
N account of the storm OF August q
tut had there been one it would have
mounted to S1,40S, TOO The amount
y SUBSCRIPTIONS 10 date are $l,429, %
+ $11,7O0 over the Top.
The Alexandria police jury has ao-
epted bid of w. NJ. Cady of McNaryw
"a, for $4,000 for bonds OF Road rs
rict No. 10. The bid was par ~Itfn
ccrued interest The entire amount
the bond issue is s125,0oo.
With the fair weather now prevail
lg, the connecting links of gravel
bad going through Goosport will be
nished in week. Work on the
-ouston river bridge north of Saa-.
hur is progressing satisfactorily