Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-06-14

OFFICIAL ,
LUCY PARISH
In the recent Victory Loan cam
paign tho women of Tangipshoa par
ish raised a total of S144,S25. The
parish chairman, Mrs. G. NJ. Scarle,
gives the figures of the respective
towns as follows: Hammond and
Natalbany, S41.100; Amite, $4O,s5O:
Kentwood, $4,000; Ponchatoula, $18,.
900; Independence, $4,000; Loranger,
$500; Scanlon, $4,000; Tangipahoa,
SLIPS; Roseland, $3.50.
Anti-saloon forces OF the United
States, apparently having won tne1r
fight for prohibition in this country,
now announce campaign to make
the whole world dry, according to dis
patches reaching New Orleans. The
keynote will be sounded June 8 at
Washington by Williams Jennings
Bryan, who then will tour the South
for the cause, winding up in New Or
leans July 1.
Plans for improving the roads Of
East Feliciana parish were advanced
at mass meeting in the courthouse
at Clinton. w. A. West of Norwood
was chairman and every ward in the
parish was represented The parish
wide good roads bond issue was urg-
ed, the east and west sides of the
parish having been somewhat divided
in the matter of the proposed IN
debtedness.
The value Of having an engineer to
handle all details of road work has
been proven in Lafayette parish. W.
P. Robert was recently appointed to
this position and under his supervi-
sion grading work in the SecoAd
Word is being done at cost of S400
a mile, as against contract price
of S725 which was bid.
At a get together" meeting and
banquet held by the Alexandria
wholesale men. jobbers and their trav-
cling men, W. D. Coleman, traffi@
manager OF the Alexandria Chamber
Of Commerce, made an address in
which he explained the new tariff
rates. He said they were very favor
able to Alexandria
A resolution protesting against the
Smith -Towner bill in Congress, de-
signed to place schools, public. pri-
vate and paroachial, under Federal
control, and resolution asking that
the claims of Ireland for freedom be
recognized by the Peace Conference.
were adopted by the sixteenth annual
convention of the Louisiana Fedora
tion Of Catholic Societies at its final
session at New Orleans.
The Methodists of the AbbevilIe
community are very much elated over
the fact that while Louisiana was the
first state to exceed its quota in the
centenary drive for a fund of $35, ,000,-
600. Abbeville has won the honor OF
being the first town in the Lafayette
District to raise its allotment, and
that district was the first in the
state.
Mexicans to the number of several
thousands probably can be trans
ferred from various points in the
United States to Louisiana points for
agricultural service This was re-
vealed when Senator Gay laid before
nthony Caminetti, commissioner gen.
eral of immigration at washington
the situation which confronts agricul.
tural activities in Louisiana.
Two more dipping vats have been
destroyed in Ward of Ouachita par
ish, where similar offenses have oc-
Cured before. Opposition to dipping
cattle is very strong in parts Of the
parish and at the last term of court
more than thirty persons were con-
vieted for falling to dip cattle and
given suspended sentences.
The Hammond branch of st. Jo-
seph's Society. of which " Gianno-
bile is president, celebrated the end
OF the war and the prosperous season
the members have experienced this
spring.
j. H. Corbett and R. E Carnahan of
Colfax went to Black Creek and
caught fine string of trout, the to-
tai weight of which was forty pounds.
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