The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1919-10-04
Determination Of

| Alexandria Determination OF
the values Of cotton seed for Louisi-
ana, based on the present values of
products obtainable by the oil mills
and the starting of an investigation
to find out why there is such wide
difference between the prices of re
fined oil and the prices the oil mills
are able tC obtain for crude oil were
the chief subjects considered by the
control committee of the cotton seed
| industry at its meeting here
Winnfield.-A sensational report
was filed by the VIM parish grand
! jury which has just adjourned in
which the parish coroner and clerk OF
| court are censured for acts of con-
mission and omission. The report says
the clerk of the court, has not record
&c an indictment returned by grand
| juries for the last seventeen years nor
kept a record of inquests held by the
| parish coroner in that time.
Pointe la Hache In the back
| levee district from here up to Harlem
! Plantation, eight miles above where
| the back levee was not rebuilt after
the hurricane of 1915, all of the truck
| crops were killed completely by the
| Gulf salt water coming in the fields
four feet deep. Eighty per cent Of
the rice crop, the entire sweet pota-
to crop of over 1000 barrels and
the grass were ruined.
Hammond La. Through the eff
forts of Joseph Graziano, president
of the Hammond Farmers Associa-
ton, new school building will be
| erected three miles east of Hammond
for the benefit of the Italian colony.
AleXandria.-A carload of govern
ment provisions arrived here and was
sold to citizens calling at the car The
car contained bacon, corn. tomatoes
and string beans.
New Orleans. The Young Peoples
Societies of Christian Endeavor hell,
convention rally to formulate plans
for the biennial All South Christian
Endeavor convention to be held in
this city next July 1t is expected
1000 delegates will attend the 1929
convention, which was obtained for
this city during the organization IS
conclave in Memphis in 1918,
New Orleans. = Father, you have
shot mel" This was the cry that came
To the ears of John RUSSELL 1912 FL
sian Fields avenue, early Sunday,
after he lad fired one shot at a sup
posed burglar in his yard His son, |
John Russell, Jr, died a few minutes
later in his fathers arms, trying to
explain his presence In the yard at
that hour.
Washington, D. C.-New Orleans |
sunplanted Philadelphia as the Sec
ond most important port of the coun-
try in the handling of foreign com.
merce, while New York easily main
tanned first place and increased her |
proportion of the county's total, dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 30, I
according to statistics of the Depart
ment Of Commerce just published.
Baton Rouge. Legislation In Ia
vor of the travelling man was dis
cussed by State Senator Simmons Of
st. Martin parish at a get together
meeting of the Louisiana Travellers
Association at Baton Rouge recently
George l.. Richards, secretary, report
ed a large number of new members
enrolled.
Natchitoches. - The publicity CON-
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce,
composed of Sheriff ]. W. Payne, J.
J. Nixon, farm demonstration agent
and c. M. Cunningham has under
taken the work of having Natchitoches
Parish represented in the parish fair
exhibits at the State far In Shreve-
port.
Monroe.-Mayor Arnold Bernstein
called upon the people of Monroe to
contribute to a fund for the relief of
the people in the storm-stricken
named committee of four to canvass
the funds
eport.-Completion by the G.
W. Strange Oil and Refining Com
pany of it's Nelson No. 3 in S-12-10,
Red River parish, was announced. The
we'll came in flowing at rate of
$500 barrels.
Natchitoches. D. j. HUMANS.
clerk OF court in the Eleventh District
for the past ten years has announced
that he will not be a candidate for
reelection but will take up the prac.
tice of law.
Pointe la Hache.-Packing houses
are being put in condition for the
opening of the season that begins in
few days for the early variety of
oranges.
Denham Springs.-PeopIe of Wari
TWO are enthusiastic over the erec-
ton of big sawmill five miles north
OF Denham Springs by the firm OF
Houghland & Hurst.
Apoip-('ottnn piel ;r,ey oo,;