Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-12-27

hSAS 0AAu water WORKS plant or thaS
town, the result vas 10 votes aRainst
representing an assessment OF 92s..
S0A. and 43 votes for. representing nm
assessment Of $131.s
Judge 4. Emmett Hingle. for twelve
years juGge of the Twenty-Rinth .Tu.
diclal District, lost his life in Oak riT.
ee. deep bayou about twelve miles
back OF Pointe a Ia Hache' when he
10 believed to have lost his balance
and to have fallen overheard from
the gasoline launch.
New Orleans. - Joseph Rosamaro.
The youthful bank teller, is to serve
SIX months in the parish prison, and
his brother-in-law, Anthony ]. Bag
gasse, must serve one year in jail. for
the theft Of $4,000 from The Algiers
branch of the Whitrey-Central Bank
and Trust Company.
Morgan City. = Succumbing TO an
attack OF appendicitis Mrs Philip
Hebert OF Rayne. La, died On board
a Southern Pacific train. Mrs. Her
bert was accompanied by her hus-
Land and was en- route to the hospital
at New Orleans for treatment.
Patterson-Misses CoaIe and Mines.
public health nurses OF ST Mary's
parish, are examining the children In
the primary grades of the Patterson
High School for defects of eyes, ears,
nose, throat, etc. Those who need
treatment are sent to d physician.
Lake Charles.-Rice marshes and
bayRus in the vicinity of Obertin are
rising from water from the Calcasieu,
which is flooding the lower streets of
the town. Many homes in The lower
levels are completely surrounded
with water.
New Orleans. = Fire originating, it
is said, from lighted cigarette drop
ped by q negro passing through the
building, damaged the building, stock
and furniture of the store Of Victor
Valentinien to the extent of approx
mately $4,000.
Alexandria--The police jury of Ra-
pides parish. ut a regular meeting
sold the bonds issued by four road
districts previous to the issuance OF
S2,O40,000 worth OF parishwide road
bonds, to, Joseph A Bentley.
PlaQuemine.-The grinding season
is nearing the end in this section. The
first factory to sound taps was the
Granada OF G. c. Barton, Jr., on the
East Bank which has finished. having
ground 1000 tons of cane into syrup.
New Orleans. Fourteen hundred
gallons OF alcohol, stored at the Sew.
enth Street wharf and awaiting ship.
ment to Trfest, Italy. have been
drained through holes drilled in the
bottom of the barrels by thieves.
Monroe. trains On the Mis-
sour Pacific Railway have been equip
ped with passenger coaches and will
carry passengers between Monroe and
Alexandria and between Monroe and
Vidalia and ColiiDston
New Orleans.-Tne historic French
Opera House, scene Of the debut In
the United States of AdeIina Patti
and whose audiences have heard the
voices OF Jean de Reske and Jenny
Lind has burned to the ground.
ST. Rose Charged with having
shot George Marsala, young son of
Mike Marseia. in the back several
weeks ago, Joe Caronia OF this place
has just been released under bond
Shreyeport-Goods valued at
thousands OF dollars we're stolen bv
burglars from the Buckalew Hard
ware Company and from the Heaorne
Dry Goods Company store.
Monroe-A complete system of
good roads. which includes every
main thoreughfare in the parish. a |
bond issue of 81, GOO. 600 was voted II
. parish-wide election.
Now Orleans. Two white boys |
entered the dry goods store owned by |
Harry Sherman, while Mrs. Sherman |
was marketing and stole i've bolts Of |
gingham worth S45. The young |
thieves were seen leaving with the
pIunder by girl.
Baton Rouge. Leander II. Perez
has been commissioned Judge or the
Twenty ninth Judicial District Court /
1t Plaquemine TO succeed the late
Judge Emmett Hingle.
Shreveport Martin, . mer-
,hant Of Hosston. was slain In a pis-
oil battle between posse from Hoss-
on and two men sought for highway
robbery who resisted arrest at Mira.
Denham Springs The Brown fio-
el, owned BY F. ". Stafford, was de-
troyed BY ere of unaacsFtained ori-
in, the occupants barely succeeding
Il getting out In time.