Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-12-13

| last year. Inc wage increases are ei-
fective from the beginning of the
school year, September 16, the teach
ers and employees receiving back pay
from that date.
Development of the entire area sit
uated between the Mississippi river
and Bayou Lafourche from Donald
sonville to the Gulf of Mexico, for
the purpose of providing homes for
returning soldiers of the American
Army and Navy. has been recommend
ed to the Federal Reclamation Ser
| vice engineers by George A. Hero,
president of the Jefferson-Plaque-
mines Drainage District.
Plans for the next state fair in 1918
to be known as the Victory Fair"
were outlined at meeting OF the
board of directors of the State Fair
Association. George Freeman, chair
man, presided. w. r. Hirsch, secre-
tary, read a statement which showed
that total expenditures for the past
season totaled slightly more THAI
$4,000.
Unless sufficient funds CO., be rails. /
ed to buy the Washington Artillery /
Hall, which is about 70 be sold for
debt, the men of the, I. ommand, which 1
is now somewhere IN France. will re-
turn to find thep home sold and will
be reduced to, me necessity Of provid-
ing thems1~ es with another.
DR.! f. P. Spackman, federal inspec
= Or charged with the tick eradication /
work in Rapides parish, reports that /
there were dipped in the parish dur
ing the past month 1929 head Of cat
tie, comprising total of 66,922 head.
There were only 335 head found to be
infected with ticks.
The Grant parish fair was held last
week. A good crowd was present.
and the exhibits were fully double as
many as they had last year. The en-
tire premium lists as announced
through the catalogue was awarded.
the premiums in all amounted to
about $500.
Rev. A. J. Coburn has resigned as
chairman OF the executive committee
of the East Feliciana Red Cross chap
ter. d. G. Lunsford, superintendent
of parish public schools, was elected
to succeed him.
James Harper has brought in good
oil well on the Miers fifteen-acre tract
in the southwest part of the Mamon
oil field, near here. Crude oil Is
bringing S2.4O a barrel and there Is
much activity in the field.
Undaunted by rain, mud and nip
of wintry weather, more than two
thousand racing fans welcomed the
Inauguration of the winter racing sea-
son at Jefferson Park. Considering
the unusually disagreeable weather, 1t
was a large crowd.
A twenty-pOund opossum was killed
in front Of the First National Bank at
Lake Charles by a man and dog. 1t
was the largest opossum ever seen
here.
Monroe Rotarians decided at their
luncheon to be Good Fellows" to
every child in Monroe who would 9TH
erwise be neglected during the holi-
day season.
The sweet potato crop in Natchi-
toches parish is a total failure. Pota-
toes which sell at fifty and seventy
five cents per bushel in normal times
are being sold for two dollars.
From two acres of cane. Giles
Granger, farmer near Lake Charles,
sold $1,000 worth of syrup.
Dedication ceremonies of the new
mosque of the local Jerusalem Tenn
pic, Mobiles of Mystic Shrine, Decem-
Der 81 to 20, will bring the greatest
gathering of Shriners to New Orleans
since the convention held here in
1910, Potentate Charles Weinberger
said Saturday.
Lightless nights in Louisiana were
abolished when John G. O'Kelley,
state fuel administrator, issued an or
der setting aside all restrictions IN
the use of electric lights.
Good roads and the automobile have
brought Delta Farm to within three
hours of New Orleans. With the con-
struction in 1919. of a hard road along
Bayou Lafourche from Raceland to
Delta Farms and Cutoff the distance
will be lessened by half an hour
The Eighteenth Judicial District
Court, Judge William Campbell OF
Lafayette presiding, was given over
to memorial services in the cour
room, in remembrance Of Allen Percy
Holt. deceased member Of the bar.