Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-12-13

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Louisiana Supreme Court The High
Courts refusal to grant this rehear-
ing wrote finis to the case, and
Scheuermann and Rousell will have
to so to the State Penitentiary at
Baton Rouge.
New Orleans.-If some one can not
be found to handle for the butchers
the government frozen meat shipped
here for sale, or if the butchers viii
not handle it themselves, the orders
will be cancelled and the people Will
not have a chance to take advantage
of the low prices afforded, according
TO Harry Armstrong, who stated that
he, acting for the city, would not
handle it for the butchers another
time.
New Orleans. - Prosecution Of
members of the Self-Preservation
Land Loyalty League and other citi-
zens of Bogalusa will be sought by
certain Of the New Orleans labor
unions, according to an announce
ment here, on the grounds that the
league is responsible for the death
of four union members in the out
break at BogaIusa on tn afternoon Of
November %.
New Orleans. - Joseph P. Rosa
mano and Anthony Baggese, who re-
Gently were convicted of grand lar
ceny in connection with the robbery
of the Algiers branch of the Whitney
Central Trust and Banking Company,
have been sentenced by Judge A.
Landry When the jury returned
verdict of guilty it recommended ex-
IRENE leniency be granted to the
young men by the court.
University Station, Baton Rouge
The problem of providing an ade-
quate supply of milk on the farm can
be solved through the efforts of the
home demonstration agents, said J.
II. Mccain, dairy specialist in the
United States Department Of Agricul-
ture, who lectured before the women
agents assembled at the Louisiana
State University.
Hammond, La. - J. T. DeRoss, an
itinerant smokestack rigger and
painted, was the victim of a fatal &C.
cident at the railroad depot as ho
was awaiting the arrival of a train.
The unfortunate man was sitting on
the edge of the platform and must
have fallen asleep, for he did not heed
the approach of Illinois Central
train No 1.
New Orleans, - The collision be-
tween the steamship Hadnot, coming
into port, and coal feet mcored be.
low Algiers point, had its legal Sc.
quel when the vessel was seized I'm.
der admiralty process issued out Of
the United States District Court at
the suit Of the owners Of the fleet
and its cargo.
Baton Rouge. Efforts are being
made by the State Department Of Ed
ucation to organize a party OF a hun
dred or more Louisiana boys to take
trip next summer through Iowa,
Wisconsin and Illinois to study agri-
cultural methods employed in those
prosperous sections.
st. Benedict. - While excavating
under an old river bed near here, r.
Placide discovered the remains of a
COW which, judging from the aged
tree that had grown above the skele-
ton, must have been buried for moro
fhau a x,oovS
Baton Rouge, La. - Extradition pa
pers for the return of E. L. Flanni-
gan, wanted at Reedy, w. Va, for the
theft Of $4,000 worth of Liberty
bonds and war savings stamps were
issued by the governor
Amite, La. The tabulated cotton
report from this parish shows the to-
tai number Of bales ginned up to No
vember IA to be 3,141.
Crowley. = Further evidence of
the great prosperity of Acadia par
ish, "the queen of the rice belt" was
the purchase of the six carloads OF
registered high-bred cattle and hogs
brought here for sale by the Louisi-
ana Sborthorn Breeders Association.
Coivngton = The Association of
Commerce will put forth efforts to
help to establish an automobile trans
port on the Southern Railway bridge
across Lake Pontchartrain 70 com.
| plete the highway link between New
Orleans and East Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi.
New Orleans. - Mrs. Leopoldo Cor.
doya, Jr., who lost her sight when she
was shot and her husband, former
Honduran consul here, was nyster-
iously murdered at GENTLY avenue
and Bowman road, Armis1ice night,
has regained her vision.