Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-07-12
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mating spirit OF Washington CeleDFd-
ton of Independence Day Friday. Pa
geantry, in which the calls of indus
try and other civilian occupations to
returning soldiers and sailors were
displayed and a parade in which all
of the nations arrayed against Ger
many and Austria were represented,
were the features of the observance.
The French losses in killed and
missing on land and sea, as officially
established up to Nov: II, 1918,
amounted to 1,366,236.
The shortage of farm labor in Texas
and other states bordering on Mexico
would be relieved under Joint reso-
luton Tuesday presented by Senator
Sheppard suspending for one year
from Oct l a provision of the immi-
grafton law which would admit Mexi-
cans to engage in agricultural pur-
suits. =
Reports of two additional robberies
in the Tampico oil fields were receiV-
ed this week at the state department.
They said that on June % the pay
master of the Gulf Refining Company
was robbed of $4,000 gold which he
was taking to pay off employees, and
that on June % the camp of the Ma
tional Oil Company was raided by
men in the uniforms of Mexican fed
eral troops and all the employees
robbed
The department of justice will take
no action pending decision in present
litigation against persons manufacture
ing or selling beer or wines containing
"a per cent or less alcoholic con-
tent. This announcement was made
Monday by Attorney General Palmer.
AS wartime prohibition tooh effect
Monday the department of justice an
nounced that its agents throughout
the country would not attempt to stop
the sale of "a per cent beer.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Jack Dempsey in three bloody
rounds, during which the issue was
never in doubt, attained the worlds
premier fistic honors by defeating
! Jess Willard at Toledo, Ohio, Friday.
In the first round Dempsey sent home
! body blow from which the big fellow
never recovered. The gong alone saw
! ed him from defeat in this round, for
with swollen cheeks, right eye closed,
| h fhrpu,
| him helpless against the ropes seven
times Dempsey thought he had won
when the gong sounded and had to be
| brought back to the ring. Willard,
who lowered above his antagonist like
a lighthouse over a tug, acted like Q
sick man. He was beaten in the
third round.
The State Veterinary Medical Asso-
| citation, at it's ninth annual convention
Friday at Fort Worth, Texas, elected
Dr. w c. Gregory of Fort Worth as
president; DR.. A. C. Burns, Cleburne,
| first vice president; DR.. NJ. A. Peck,
Fort Worth, second vice president,
and DR.. T. T. Christian, Waco, secre-
| tary-treasurer.
After lull of a few weeks in new
| oil production of consequence the
Goose Creek, Texas, field sprang into
the spotlight Friday when the Humble
| Oil and Refining COmpany's No. 5
! Stateland, in Tabb's Bay, came in
| flowing at the rate of $500 barrels of
pure pipe line oil at a depth of $500
| feet.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary
president of the American Woman
| Suffrage Association, died at her
| home in Moylan, Pa, Wednesday. She
was II years old.
Francisco Villa ordered all Ameri
| cans hanged when captured, following
| the crossing of the American expedi-
ton, according to a foreign resident
of Northern Mexico who reached the
| Texas border Wednesday.
The Iowa legislature Wednesday rat
| flied the Susan B. Anthony federal /
suffrage amendment.
+ Formation of a gigantic S400, 100000
corporation for the marketing of do
nestle cotton, for it's financing and to
provide ample means for holding and
storage of at least one-third of a
normal cotton crop OF the South, was
| the biggest single proposition that
claimed the attention of the directors
of the American Cotton Association
at their meeting in New Orleans, La.
| Wednesday.