The St. Mary banner., 1919-10-04

ana. based on the present values OF
PRODUCTS 0btainable by the oil mills
and the starting Of an investigation
to find out why there is such a wide
difference between the prices of re.
fined oil and the prices the oil mills
are able tC obtain for crude oil were
the chief subjects considered bv tie
control comnuttee of the cotton seed
industry at its meeting here.
Winnfield.-A sensational report
was filed by the Vim parish grand
jury which has just adjourned in
which the parish coroner and clerk Of
court are censured for acts of con-
mission and omission. The report says
the clerk of the court has not record
&C an Indictment returned BY grand
| juries for the last seventeen years nor
kept a record Of inquests held by tho
parish coroner in that time
POinte Il Ia Hache. = In the back
levee district from here up to Harlem
| Plantation. eight miles above where
| the back levoe was not rebuilt after
| the hurricane of 1915. all of the truck
crops We're killed completely by the
! Gulf salt water coming in the fields
! four feet deep. Eighty per cent of
the rice crop, the entire sweet pota-
to crop of over 1000 barrels and
the grass we're ruined
hammond La. Through the cf-
forts Of Joseph Graziano. president
of the Hammond Farmers Associa-
ton. new school building will be
erected three miles east of Hammond
for the benefit of the Italian COLONY
AleXandria.-A carload of govern
ment provisions arrived here and was
sold 10 citizens calling at the car. The
car contained bacon. corn. tomatoes
and string beans
New Orleans. The Young PeopIcs'
Societies Of Christian Endeavor heId
convention rally to formulate plans
for the biennial All South Christian
EndeavOr convention to be held in
this city next July. Il is expccte
1000 delegates Will attend the 1929
convention, which was obtained for
this city during tic organization :
conclave in Memphis in 1918
New Orleans. - Father, YOU have
shot me-" This was the cry that came
to the ears of John Russell, 1912 FL
sian Fields avenue. early Sunday
after he lad fired one shot at a sup
posed burglar in his yard His son,
John Russell Jr. died a few minuro;
later III his fathers arms, irving to
explain his presence in the yard at
that hour
Washington, D. C-New Orleans
supplanted Philadelphia as the sec
ond most important port of the couu-
try in the handling of foreign com.
merce, while New York easily main
tanned first place and increased her
proportion OF the countys total. dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 30, |
according TO statistics of the Depart
ment Of Commerce just published.
Baton Rouge. = Legislation In IA
vor of the travelling man was dis
cnssed by State Senator Simmons of
St Martin parish AT a get together
meeting of the Louisiana Travellers
Association at Baton Rouge recently
George L. Richards, secretary, report
ed large number of new members
Natchitoches. = The publicity con-
mlttee OF the Chamber of Commerce,
composed of Sheriff ]. w. Payne. J.
j. Nixon, farm demonstration agent.
end c. M Cunningham has under
taken the work of having Natchitoches
Parish represented in the parish fair
port
Monroe.-Mayor Arnold Bernstein
called upon the people of Monroe to
contribute to a fund for the relief of
The people in the storm stricken
towns along the Texas coasts and
named committee of four to canvass
he funds
Shreveport-Completion by the G.
". Strange Oil and Refining Conl-
oany of its Nelson No 3 in S-l2-I0.
Red River parish. was announced. The
we'll came in flowing at a rate OF
800 barrels
Natchitoches. D. J. Hymans
lerk OF court in the Eleventh District
or the past ten years has announced
hat he will not be a candidate for
e-electiOn but will take LIN tho nrao