Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-03-22

ing QuaTroTmaSIer at Camp Beaure
gard, announces that an order has
been received from the secretary ot
war for the abandonment and sal
vaging Of Camp Beauregard and that
proposals which will tend to relieve
the government from all responsible.
ity will be given consideration.
Although peanuts make the best
feed for hogs in that there is greater
gain to the acre, the meat produced
from hogs fed on them is bringing
less by 2 cents pound than that
from corn-fed hogs" says Dean w.
R Dodson Of Louisiana State Uni
yersity. who has returned from the
Association of Southern Agricultural
Workers in Birmingham.
For the first time In the history Of
Southern Methodism, it is said, a
Jewish rabbi preached in a Methodist
church at Monroe. Rabbi David
Fichman, pastor of the Jewish Tenn
pie here, occupied the pulpit at the
First Methodist Church by invitation
Of the leaders of the Methodist
Church.
Prohibition legislation Il at will be
introduced into the Louisiana Legis-
lature at the next regular session to
enforce the "dry" amendment to the
national Constitution will follow the
lines of laws passed by Congress on
that subject, according to a state
ment at Shreveport Rev. 4. W.
lana Anti-Saloon League.
Advocates of establishing a colony
and state training school for the fee
ble-minded, utilizing grounds and
buildings at the army base hospital
at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, have
renewed their suggestions following
the announcement that the base hos
pita1 soon will be abandoned.
Representatives from every town
in the parish attended a meeting of
the st. Mary parish police jury at
Franklin and it was decided to put
the proposition before the taxpayers
OF the parish to build seventy-six
miles OF good roads to cost $3.50, 900, |
at an election to be held shortly.
Lieutenant Shaw has received or
ders to discontinue the public health
service at Lake Charles. In his re-
port to the Commission Council he
stated that the cost to date is about
$500 and urged that the work of
control be continued under
local direction.
In the past three years Hammond
has been honored by three appoint
ments to the government military and
Raval academies. The latest nomf-
nee is John T. Fourmy, mechanical
engineering student at the Louisiana
State University.
Representatives of every ward in
and many farmers re-
iding near that place gathered in a
mass meeting and pledged to cut the
.919 cotton crop by one-third OF last
Fear's planting scale
Tom and Henry Premett. white
men who were sent to the peniten-
iary from Grant parish for shooting
nto an occupied automobile, have
een pardoned BY the governor :
From North Louisiana comes . !.
tory that friends Of Governor Pleas
Mt are planning to run him for Con !,
ress IN the Fourth District against !
congressman J. T. Watkins next !
ear. :
The city Of Alexandra is preparing t
} carry out an extensive plan for \
1blic improvements as soon as the i
stimates can be completed and the S
onds authorized By the taxpayers. n
The canvass of the returns Of 4
oecial election held in the Fifth :,
Yard shows every taxpayer favored i
special tax and issuing bonds to =
instruct the Evangeline Highway. T.
te
The eleventh annual conference OF O
. Louisiana chapters, Daughters OF d
e American Revolution, met here Il
Ith Mrs. r. B Graham os Shreye- Il
r. state regent. presiding.