Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-06-21

A move to induce employees of tire
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 NEG
essary number of river barges to
move the sugar cane crop grown on
Stanton plantation, in Iberville par
ish. last season, resulted in the fl
ing of a $22,687.82 damage suit in
the Civil District Court against tho
Plaquemine Sugar Company, Inc, of
New Orleans.
First steps in the program of rell.
gious education in New Orleans by
the Baptist Church will be taken
when complete religious census OF
the city, compiled by local Baptist
pastors, is presented to the Home
Mission Board of the church at At
lanta, Ga.
Rev. R. ]. Perkey, pastor Of the
First Baptist Church at Monroe, has
been appointed zone chairman Of the
twelve northeastern parishes of
Louisiana and win 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 Inn
provement bond issue of $525,0OO,
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
ciic 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 by the Ouachita Compress and
Warehouse Company at Monroe.
Residents Of the Third, Fifth, Sew
enth and Ninth wards of LivingsIor
parish are clamoring for good roads
in favor of which they are circulat-
ing a petition.
One hundred and eighty thousand
Of New Orleans population of 100000
are without religion, according to a
recent Baptist census.
Mayor Mouton, of Lafayette, 70.
Gently seated, has issued a warning
to the public that every ordinance
will be enforced to the letter.
Cheaper lard, cheaper soap and
new variety of fertilizer is the prom
Use 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.
Dividend checks aggregating IT,
tai Of $17,50O and representing the
sixth dividend to be declared by tire
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, upholding the legal
ity of road bond issues, the police
jury OF Ouachita parish is expected
to call an election to vote bonds for
constructing roads in the wards west
of the river.
The dancing conditions at L. S. D..
were attacked strongly by 4. H. Har
ris, state superintendent Of educa
ton. in letter written to and pub
lished by the Rexeille, the official
student body publication
A steam pumping plant to cost $50
coo is being installed on the Sweet
Lake canal in Cameron parish and
win begin operation by the middle OF
June.
The large sawmill OF the Powell
I .unaber Comnany At Rarhaps hrs1t