Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-07-19

| SOl0lerS Home Will be worked for
| during the summer by Louisiana
members of the United Daughters CT
the Confederacv, Mrs. Charles Grang
| er, president Of the state organiza
ton. The members hope to obtain
at least 500 from each police jury
| and the project will be urged through
representatives in the State Legisla-
ture.
John A. Davilla, grand secretary of
the Grand Lodge of Louisiana Free
and Accepted Masons, and Ira Vein
grun, Worshipful Master of Louisiana
Relief Lodge, No. 1, have been elect
ed delegates to represent the relief
lodges Of Louisiana at the biennial
convention of the Masonic Relief AS
sociation of the United States and
Canada to be held in Minneapolis,
Mimi, August 27-29.
The most remarkable state in the
Union, a paradise for naturalists, the
leader of them all in conservation
work, and model for the nation 10
cupy in all matters concerning game
protection and conservation legisla-
tiOn is the manner in which Louis
lana is described by J. D. Higgins,
naturalist, explorer, biologist, and stu
dent, visiting New Orleans.
W. NJ. Barrow, assistant attorney
general, made trip to Washington,
where re will hold a conference with
Edward Chambers, director of traffic,
and Max Thelan, director Of public
service of the Railroad Administra-
ton, relative to the rates on gravel,
sand, crushed stone, shells and other
commodities used in building public
roads and streets in Louisiana.
Mrs. Pleasant returned to Baton
Rouge from Shreveport where she
left Governor Pleasant and the other
members of the Jefferson Highway
party. Mrs. Pleasant said she was
physically unable to stand the strain
Of the long trip over the bad roads.
Governor Pleasant has continued the
trip with Duncan Buie state highway
commissioner, in his effort to reach
Winnipeg.
Meeting representative citizens
from the southern 70 the northern
end of the parish, Prof. G. L. Tiebout
hOrticulturist of the Louisiana State
University, explained in detail the
benefits to be derived from a fruit
and trucking experiment station to
be established in the Florida parishes
and maintained by the state and fed
eral governments.
President T. c. Wheadon Of the
Rapides Parish Police Jury is in re-
ceipt Of letter from w. T. Cooper,
office engineer of the State Highway
Department, stating he is sending
fourteen small automobiles to Ra-
pfdes parish for storage and for Dis
tribution to parish engineers through
the state for road building opera
tions
Louisiana and Arkansas were Sec
end among the states in the number
of lynchings during the first six
months of the present year, accord
ing to the department of records and
research Of Tuskegee Institute.
AT their monthly meeting the Wo-
mems Improvement League took I'D a
of matters of municipal@ i'm
in the matter of cleaning
up and converting Hammond into the
city beautiful"
A war romance involving telephone
wires, motor cars. and khaki, with a
German village as the setting. was
brought to a climax when Miss A. |
Josephine Davis, the only New Or
leans telephone operator abroad, was
to Lieutenant s. W. GRAY OF |
Indianapolis. June II, in Germany.
en at Abbeville the Fourth to the re-
turned soldiers was a great success
and attracted the largest crowd OF |
people ever gathered in AbbeviIle. II
vas estimated fully 1900 persons
we're in attendance.
The use of pistol to quiet fretful |
,aby was the means employed by a
1egro woman at Holly Ridge, accord
ng to John Gaines, husband of the
woman. Gaines brought the child to
Monroe in search of medical atten-
ion, but the child died on the way.
Capitalists have purchased large
ract of city realty in Northeast
where a large number of
esidences will be erected to supply
he ever increasing demand for home. !
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