The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-07-19

ton. The members hope to obtain
| at least 500 from each police jury
and the project will be urged through
| ture.
John A. Davlla, grand secretary OF
| the Grand Lodge of Louisiana Free
| and Accepted Masons, and Ira Vein
| grun, Worshipful Master of Louisiana
Relief Lodge, No. /. have been elect
| ed delegates to represent the relief
| lodges Of Louisiana at the biennial
| convention of the Masonic Relief AS
ISOLATION of the United States and
Canada to be held in Minneapolis,
| Mimi, August 27-29.
The most remarkable state In the
Union, paradise for naturalists, the
| leader of them all in conservation
work, and a model for the nation 20
| cupy in all matters concerning game
| protection and conservation legisla-
| ton is the manner in which Louis
lana is described by j. D. Higgins.
naturalist, explorer, biologist, and stu
dent, visiting New Orleans.
W. NJ. Barrow, assistant attorney
general, made trip to Washington,
where he will hold a conference with
Edward Chambers, director of traffic,
and Max Thelan, director Of public
service of the Railroad Administra-
ton, relative to the rates on gravel,
sand, crushed stone, shells and other
commodities used in building public
roads and streets in Louisiana.
Mrs. Pleasant returned to Baton
Rouge from Shreveport where she
left Governor Pleasant and the other
members Of the Jefferson Highway
party Mrs. Pleasant said she was
physically unable to stand the strain
Of the long trip over the bad roads
Governor Pleasant has continued the
trip with Duncan Buie, state highway
commissioner, in his effort to reach
Winnipeg.
Meeting representative citizens
from the southern &c the northern
end of the parish, Prof G. L. Tiebout.
hOrticulturist Of the Louisiana State
University, explained in detail the
benefits to be derived from a fruit
and trucking experiment station to
be established in the Florida parishes
and maintained by the state and fed
eral governments.
President T. c.. Wheadon Of the
Rapides Parish Police Jury Is in re-
ceipt of letter from w. T. Cooper.
office engineer Of the State Highway
Department, stating he is sending
fourteen small automobiles to Ra-
pides parish for storage and for dis
tribution to parish engineers through
the state for road building opera
lions.
Louisiana and Arkansas were sec.
end among the states in the number
of lynchings during the first six
months of the present year, accord
ing to the department of records and
research of TuskAsee Institute.
At their monthly meeting the Wo-
mems Improvement League took up a
number Of matters Of municipal I'm
provement in the matter of cleaning
up and converting Hammond into the
"city beautiful
A war romance involving telephone !
wires, motor cars and khaki, with 4
German village as the setting. was |
brought to a climax when Miss A. |
Josephine Davis, the only New Or |
leans telephone operator abroad, was |
married to Lieutenant S. w. Gray Of |
Indianapolis. June II, in Germany.
The welcome home celebration CIV |
en- at Abbeville the Fourth to the re-
turned soldiers was a great success |
and attracted the largest crowd of |
people ever gathered in Abbeville. It |
was estimated fully 10000 persons
were in attendance.
The use OF pistol to quiet fretful |
baby was the means employed by
negro woman at Holly Ridge, accord. |
ing to John Gaines, husband of the |
woman. Gaines brought the child to |
Monroe in search of medical atten-
ton. but the child died on the way.
Capitalists have purchased a large |
tract of city realty in Northeast |
Crowley, where a large number OF |