The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-05-10

A meeting at Colfax Of the Grant
Parish Jefferson Highway Club, at
tended by about fifty prominent resi-
dents of the parish, adopted resolu-
tions calling upon Governor Pleasant
and the State Board Of Highways En-
gineers to proceed with the work Oh
building the stretch of this highway
in Grant.
The farmers in the lower section OF
Livingston parish have recently sold
their sweet potato crop at the hlgnest
prices ever received for this crop IN
the history of the present growers.
Buyers came to the shipping polnts
on the Amite river and paid as hlgn
as S. and Sc a barrel for the pota-
toes.
Splendid growing weather for all
crops is prevailing along the Lower
Coast. Cucumbers, beans and ne"
potatoes are moving to market by
train with good prices being obtain
ed. Early rice is showing two leaves
and with a perfect stand obtained.
The Chamber Of Commerce OF Gov
ington has instituted Investigations
as to the past and probable rice pro-
duction of st. Tammany parish. 1t
is confidently believed that the in
formation gathered will Immediately
Justify the location of a good mill.
A. M. Hopper, in charge OF the
department of manual training at the
Normal School for the last elght
years, will resign at the end OF TINS
term to become assistant superlh-
tendent of education for the parish OF
Natchitoches.
w. H. Sylvester, civil engineer, has
inst returned to Alexandria from
Longleaf, where he has been engaged
in relocating the Pelican Highway
through that village He said there
were many unnecessary crooks anc
turns in the highway.
In the recent session Of the District
Court in Livingston parish three per
: sons indicted for not dipping cattle IN
1918 were tried before Judge RoWand
: and all found guilty and fined.
I A meeting of the farmers and plan
+ers of the First Ward of lberville
narish met at White Castle recently
d to organize a good road district rol
the First Ward.
/ Two children were bitten by AGA
J. at Patterson. An examination sho"
u ed the cat to be afflicted with rabies
a Pasteur treatment was ADMINS
tered.
a. Knights Templars, Blue Lodge Ma
r. sons and Shriners gathered in MOI
a. roes several hundred strong, for tn
d annual conclave of the Grand Con
Is mandery, Knights Templars, tn
at dedication of the Monroe Masoni
In Temple by the grand lodge of tn
state and the ceremonial Of the orde
of the Mystic Shriners.
d. The Southwest Louisiana Bapti'
I'll Sunday School Association and b.
n P. u. convened in annual session
IS the Lake Charles Baptist ChuF
9r- with large number of delegate
from Southwest Louisiana present.
w Miss Wilma Bullock, daughter
Us Mrs. Frank WhaItt on of Aleandri
zee who has been i'll for the past thr
or months with a disease similar
20 sleeping sickness, is reported to
very much improved.
on Monroe must use the Ouachita r
on err for freight shipments if it won
he continue as jobbing point, accol
gin ing to consensus of opinion at me-
is ing held at the Chamber Of Co
merCe.
the The Southern Methodist Chur
red will conduct an eight-day campai
ca in May for S35,00O,0OO to be expend
eir within the next five years in missi'
al airy work at home and in forei
art fields.
in
Hundreds of men are now at VIZ
in Louisiana building foundations
,ar- future roads.
lax -
to ]. B. Ferguson was elected fl
ars president Of the Kiwanis Club of
ton Rouge.
the The New Orleans Presbytery,
of business and supervisory body of
rict Presbyterian churches in the n
Or Orleans district, held its session "
the Kentwood church.
ION Governor Pleasant appointed R.
den Faux as a member of the police j
Irs. of Ouachita parish, succeeding j.
Littlepage, resigned.
AMI The body of an unidentified n
visi- apparently Manila man, was TO
floating in the river at City Price