Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-11-09

rne Lock Moore Lumber Company
plant of Lake Charles which was de-
! stroyed by fire during the storm OF
| August will be rebuilt at a cost OF
| $150,OOO, the company having its ap-
plication for building permit approx
ed by the nonessentiaI committee Of
! the State Council of Defense. The
| company will manufacture lumber for
| the government in various depart
ments.
Barring airplane accidents, thera
has been only five deaths at Gerstner
Field since the camp was established,
about one year ago, which is believed
to be record for all camps and cam
| tonments of the nation One man was
killed by lightning, two men died from
drinking bay rum, one man died OF
pneumonia and one of heart trouble
There has not been death since the
influenza epidemic started.
The rice situation around Crowley
has not improved. On the contrary,
the continued rains for the past twen-
ty-three days have kept the rice
shocks wet and at least 25 per cent
of the rice is damaged. Great uuan-
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 81. 10
per gallon.
X. D. Forbes, representative of the
United States Reclamation Service,
has been in Alexandria in the inter
est OF the plan which has in view the
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
Orange growers at Pointe a la
Hache are packing and shipping their
fruit as fast as labor can be obtained
for gathering them, which is very
scarce, and are offered as high as SO
per box for the choicest grades as,
compared with $3.50 this time. last
season.
At meeting of the East Feliciana
Parish Council of Defense a resolu-
ton was adopted to require every cit
izen from Is to 55 years of age to,
work or fight Committees were nam
ed from each ward to see that the
law is enforced throughout the parish
Training as radio or wireless cleo
tricians and operators at Camp Martin
will be offered Immediately to five
hundred men of draft age, having two
years of high school or at least a
grammar school education.
Rice growers around EstherwooE
are making frantic efforts to save the
uncut and shocked rice from rotting
Rice mills are much in need of rough
rice to keep them busy.
The governor named Oswald Og-
den, of New Orleans, as coal gauger
to fill the vacancy created recently by
the death. of John F. Bauman of that
city
The total amount of Liberty bonds
in St. Bernard was
S174, 200, represented by 739 subscriD-
ers. The parish's quota was $4,000.
The Natchitoches Red Cross chap
ter shipped seven boxes during last
week, containing z,21S absorbent pads,
200 comfort bags, 210 girls dresses
(refugees), rs paJamas.
The shipment of clothing from
Hammond for the relief of the Bel,
gians, collected through the branch ug-
the Red Cross amounted to thou
sand pounds.
The Grant parish fair, which was 20
be held at Verda October 24-25. has
been postponed and the later date of
November 1928 has been set, subject
to the approval of the health officials.
The health report is that 80 cases
of influenza have prevailed among tbs
whites of Colfax within the past two
weeks, and 100 cases among the ne
yroes.
Not single case of influenza has
,een reported so far at st. Benedict,
hough the epidemic has made its ap-
earance in all the surrounding conn
ry.