The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-05

One or the latest plans 10 help re-
turning soldiers get their old iohs
hack Is through mediation corr
mittee, according to Levering Moore
or New Orleans, chairman of the e,-
ecutive committee of the board OF
management of the Association or
Commerce Bureau for the Empiov-
ment Of Returning Soldiers and
Sailors.
Governor Pleasant, T. L. Sims,
state bank examiner, and l.. r.
Thomas. chairman of the Board of
State Affairs, will be among the
speakers at the twenty-eighth annual
meeting Of the Louisiana League Of
Homesteads and Building and Loan
Associations, which will take place at
Bogalusa, April % and &c.
A resolution to take steps imme-
diately toward having the city COM
mission council obtain municipal
gas and electric plant for Bator
Rouge was passed by TIE Citizens
Protective Association at a stormy
mass meeting. The meeting was held
as protest against the recent raise
IN gas and electric rates ythe Ba-
ton Rouge Electric Company.
Declining all invitations for social
entertainment. the Southern Whole
sale Grocers' Association. which will
hold its annual convention in Now
Orleans May 7, s and 3. will devote
its entire time to the serious consid-
Grafton Of the problems food distriD-
utors will have to contend with dur
ing the period of reconstruction fol-
lowing the war.
Albert Breaux. 16 years old, of Ba-
ton Rouge awoke from what physi-
clans described as sleeping SICK
ness" after being in a state o. coma
three weeks. Breaux. who was nour-
ished with liquid food through
tube. said he "felt fine" Physicians
say the youth has not lost in weight,
and that his general physical conGi-
tion is improved"
That the plan to reduce cotton &C.
ful in Louisiana is indicated by re-
cont reports of farm demonstration
agents in the cotton growing par
ishes. The agents are in close touch
with the situation and are devoting 4
large part of their time to the cam
paign.
Success OF the Victory Liberty
Loan campaign to be inaugurated
April 81. so far as Louisiana is con-
cerned, is assured. according to l..
J.. Squires, field representative for
the Liberty Loan organization in the
thirty-cight parishes of the state enc
braced in the Atlanta district.
Bids recently made for the mate
rial and buildings at Camp Beaure-
gard have all been rejected and al
certified checks sent along with the
bids will be returned to their owners.
The camp buildings and material will
later he advertised from Washington.
in order that bids NAV be received
from all over the United States.
Mayor II. ID. Apgar instructed the
police to kill all dogs running AZ
large unless muZzled with wire bas-
ket muzzles. Several children have
been bitten by dogs with rabies IN
Monroe and West Monroe in the past
few days.
BY far the vast majority or the
people Of six large cities which he
visited on a ten-day trip are in favor
overwhelmingly of the League of Ma
tions, according to DR.. George S. Sex
ton, who returned 10 Shreveport re.
Gently.
The campaign for subscriptions 10
the Victory Liberty Loan within the
city of New Orleans will be conduct
ed by the War Finance Brigade I'M
der the direction of Crawford II.
Ellis.
The Citizens National Bank Of
Monroe has employed a director OF
development of this section.
f. NJ. Ivy was appointed parish sur
veyor for Morehouse.
Several Monroe boys. who have re-
ceived their discharge from the mill
tary service, have received the 500
bonus paid by the War Department
to former soldiers. Several such
checks reached here recently.
The grand jury of West Carroll
at its recent sitting found thirty-nine
true bills, mostly for minor offenses.
The dates for this years Tangipa-
hoa Parish Fair, to be held in Ham
mond, will be October :, 10 and II