The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-06-21

A move to induce employees Of the
Union Sulphur Company Of Sulphur,
La, to take employment on the sugar
plantations and farms of Louisiana
where there is labor shortage, was
started recently by the farm labor
committee Of the New Orleans Asso-
citation Of Commerce Agricultural
Bureau.
Alleged failure to provide the nee
essary number of river barges to
move the sugar cane crop grown on
Stanton plantation, in Iberville par
ish, last season, resulted in the fill
ing of a S22,6S7.S2 damage suit in
the Civil District Court against tho
Plaquemine Sugar Company, Inc, Of
New Orleans.
First steps in the program of reli
gious education in New Orleans by
the Baptist Church will be taken
when a complete religious census OF
the city, compiled by local Baptist
Mission Board of the church at All
lanta, Ga.
Rev. r. J. Perkey, pastor of the
First Baptist Church at Monroe. has
been appointed zone chairman Of the
twelve northeastern parishes OF
Louisiana and will direct the cam
paign during the Boy Scout Appre-
citation Week.
The Alexandria Rotary Club has
endorsed the own Your Home"
movement, and also the proposed i'm
provement bond issue of $525,00O,
which will be voted on by the taxpay-
ers of the city on June II.
Heleven Graves, four years old, CT
New Orleans, while playing in the
street, almost in front Of her home,
was knocked down and killed by an
automobile truck.
Steps toward the amendment %
the city charter to give the city OF
Baton Rouge power to regulate pub
lie utilities was decided upon by the
Baton Rouge City Council.
Double daily passenger train SER
vice on the New Orleans and North
western branch of the Missouri Pa
cific between Monroe and Natchez,
Miss. has been inaugurated.
Hill & Smith of West Monroe have
been awarded the contract for the
erection of an improved cotton COM
press bv the Ouachita Compress and
Warehouse Company at Monroe.
Residents of the Third, Fifth, Sew
enth and Ninth wards Of LiVings,o's
parish are clamoring for good roads
in favor of which they are circulat-
ing petition.
One hundred and eighty thousand
Of New Orleans population OF 40O,0OO
are without religion, according to a
recent Baptist census.
Mayor Mouton, of Lafayette, re-.
GENTLY seated. has issued a warning
to the public that every ordinanc
will BE enforced to the letter.
Cheaper lard, cheaper soap and a
new variety of fertilizer is the prom
lie that William H. Hawkins of New
Orleans holds out to the public. He
has invented a process by means Of
which these products are derived
from dried cocoanuts.
tai of s17,5O0 and representing the
sixth dividend to be declared by TIE
institution, are now being distribut'
ed to the depositors by James P.
Armitage, liquidator of the Peoples
Bank of Donaldsonville.
Following the decision of the State
Supreme Court, unfolding the legal
ity of road bond issues. the po!,ce
Jury of Ouachita parish Is expected
to call an election to vote bonds foi
constructing roads in the wards west
of the river.
The dancing conditions at l. S. O
were attacked strongly by T. H. Har
ris, state superintendent Of educa
ton, in a letter written to and pub
lished by the Reveille, the Official
student body publication