The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-04-19

- the chalrmen of the various parisbe.
committees met with w. d. Hume O
Dallas assistant director Of sales ir
:. the Eleventh Reserve District anc
;. and John n. Gambrell. Jr.. an a,
!. tache OF the Treasury Department al
II Washington.
Much talk was heard at Natcbf
toches when some of those most vio
.lently opposed TO cattle dipping re-
: celved little announcement. Reso-
lutlons were adopted at mass mee-.
4 ing calling on the police Jury TO nav
damages for injury to live stock IN
dipping last year and putting the
meeting on record as "suspendingr
the dipping law until this demand is
met.
Inc third annual convention OF the
Louisiana State Sunday School Asso-
cation convened in Minden for q
four days session. Between two
hundred and fifty and three hundred
delegates were in attendance from
every section of the state. DIR. John
l.. Scales OF Shreveport was presi-
dent Of the association and presided
at the convention.
IL NAV be two months before Y
VIII be possible to bring the Wash
lngton Artillery to this country +
was stated at the office of the chief
or staff at Washington. While the
/ organization is under assignment for
early convoy, the shipping situation
is such that the prompt movement of
/ all troops assigned to convoy cannon |
be carried out.
New Orleans will do her mart in
taking disabled soldiers into sbons
where they can be taught trades ana
get practical experience enabling
them to get back into industrial life
rms assurance was given by men,
bers OF the merchants and manufac-
turers' bureau and the Industrial bu-
reau OF the Association of Com
merce.
Steps toward the organization ~
the Louisiana Branch of the War
Veterans Association are TO be TAX.
en- in New Orleans. following a telp-
gram from Theodore Roosevelt. tenn
porary national chairman. TO William
Allen Cook. temporary state chair.
man.
Spray IN the spring for the cur
culio insects" says p. Szymoniak. as I
sociate horticulturist. extension divi- I
sion. Louisiana State University. The
is small-snout bettle which
'unctures the young fruit early in =,
he spring and causes the fruit TO be n
lnotty, deformed and wormy. G.
One OF Louisiana's biggest good S,
Dads projects was started on the
iay TO actual accomplishment al Bat
n Rouge, when the state bond issue
( 100000 for construction of the n.
Jew Orleans-Hammond and New Or NJ
Menteur roads was cold bv y,
le state board or Liquidation. nT
The heads of the stra wberry-grow-
x industry of the parish and tho A
anv brokers at Hammond to handle
e crop are a unit in their praises sb
the Bureau of Markets established IN
The United States Department Of Go
yriculture. IN.
sig
The Louisiana Presidential Assc-
ton of first and second class post
lsters and the State League of third
d fourth classes will meet in Joint l.n
Ssion az Franklin. Monday and the
esday, May 26 and -. 1919. soc
org
The School Board of FrankllntOn
I ordered an election 10 vote S1I.-
bends 10 be used for building an \
lex 10 the High School building Gle
a principals home on the school trar
perty was
Geo
reports from the various ward conf
tees on the cotton acreage reduc-
shows that in 1915 there were p.
'33 acres of land in Natchitoches ship
ish planted in cotton. while in leav
= farmers expect to plant 1928, beca
a reduction Of 81 per cent. not
LOAD
ne residents of Natchitoches pa-- offici
paid homage 10 the returning sol
: IN the town OF Natchitoches.
commemorating the second an Pa
rsary or the declaration of war proc
Germany by the United States. OF 81
say.