The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1919-04-25

Big Lake, eighteen miles south OF
Lake Charles and near the Cameron
parish line, have been sold. Twenty
Eve acres of land bordering the lake
win be purchased and used for the
annual summer encampments of the
Louisiana Baptist Young Peoples
Union.
AT meeting of Iberville parish
police jury a motion was submitted
for special election in the Seconc,
Sixth and Eighth wards of the parish
for the purpose of voting road tax
for the maintenance of the existing
gravel roads and the construction OF
other sections badly needed.
Expressions of high satisfaction
over the terms of the Victory Liberty
Loan by New Orleans bankers and
loan committeeman and the an
nouncement that series Of decora-
dive pylons. blazoned with the names
OF New Orleans war dead would b,
erected along Canal street is the re-
port from New Orleans.
Bids have been asked for improve
ment of levees near the Louisiana
line as follows: Doggy Bayou to Luc-
ca landing. lincluding Opossum Fork
Dike), Desha county, Arkansas; river
side enlargement; approximate con.
tents. 100000 cubic yards: deposit
required $500; bonds required. equal
to estimated cost.
Education as q military safeguard
was one OF the arguments for the pas
sage of the Smith-Towner appropria,
ton bill advanced by Philander p
Claxton, Emitted States commissioner
of education. in an address before
the Public School Alliance at New
Orleans.
Bids were. opened in the Office Of
the State Highway Department fol
construction of the New Orleans-Chei
Menteur highway. Action was de
ferred because the lower bid was
above the estimate made by the state
and federal engineers.
! The Ave East Florida parishes :
Tangipahoa, st. Helena. Livingston
ST. Tammany and Washington, which
have organized a woods IRE contro
association, are just launching a biz
membership campaign, adopting tn
watchword Riches, not Ashes.
Dennis Moore. chief clerk in thu
district clerks office at Oberlin sinc'
| the creation OF the parish, has resign
! ed and entered the race against hi
brother. 2. e. Moore, for clerk Of tn
court.
Congressman Riley J. Wilson o
the Fifth District. In Monroe on ;
short vacation, sharply raped "poli
tics, Ia the Senate, ID discussing ma
tional affairs.
The Louisiana, Arkansas and Texa
rice crop viii be sold IN about fort,
days, q. A. Eignus predicted upol
HIS return from two weeks in Wash
ington and New York. He Is chair
man OF the Louisiana rice committc
OF the Food Administration.
/ One OF the most enthusiast
crowds assembled In Minden in year
crowded every foot OF availabl
space In the First Methodist Churc
Y To listen to Congressman ]. Y. Sanc
ers speak on national prohibition an
the League Of Nations,
The retail merchants, bureau Of tn
| Chamber OF Commerce have arranl
ed to hold 4 big trades day at Ale,
andria on May s. The secretary wa
/ instructed~to notify all merchants an
request their cooperation In maxim
| the plan success.
| First details of the plan for proyif
| fng medical treatment for discharge
soldiers and sailors at public healt
hospitals were given ont for the mrs
| time recently. One Of the army hol
pitfalls. which has been taken over.
Senator Josepn RansdelI and con
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