The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-07-19

, Increased appropriation for Ii
Soldiers Home will be worked !,
curing the summer bv LouTs-ar
members of the United Daughters ,
The Confederacv, Mrs. Charles Gran.
er' president of the state organic;
ton. The members hope to obtar
al least 500 from each police juy
ana the project will be urged throug
representatives in the State ,,egisl:
ture.
John y. navilla, grand secretary q
the Grand Lodge of Louisiana Ere
and Accepted Masons. and Ira Weir
grun, Worshipful Master of Louisian
relief Lodge, No. l, have been elect
ed delegates to represent the relic
lodges of Louisiana at the biennia
convention of the Masonic Relief As
soclation of the United States an,
Canada to be held in Minneapolis
MIMI. August 1929.
The most remarkable state in th,
Union, paradise for naturalists. the
leader of them all in conservation
work. and model for the nation tc
cupy in all matters concerning game
protection and conservation legisla
ton is the manner in which Lou;s
lana is described by ]. d. Ffggins
naturalist. explorer, biologist. and stu
dent, visiting New Orleans.
w. M. 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
touge 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 strai,
or the long trip over the bad roads.
Governor Pleasant has continued tn.
trip with Duncan Buie, state highway
in his effort to reach
Winnipeg.
Meeting representative citizens
from the southern 20 the northern
end OF the parish, Prof G. l.. Tiebout
norticulturist of the Louisiana State
University, explained in detail the
henehts to be derived from a frurt
and trucking experiment station IN
be established in the Florida parishes
and maintained by the state and fed.
eral governments.
sPresident q T. c. Wheadon or the
hapides Parish Police Jury is in re-
celpt of letter from w. T. Cooper
ONCE engineer of the State Highway
Department, stating he is sending
fourteen small automobiles to Rs.
pides parish for storage and for d,s.
trlbution to parish engineers throusi,
The state for road building opera
tions.
Louisiana and Arkansas were sec.
end among the states in the number
Oh iynchings during the first six
months OF the present year. accord
ng TO the department of records and
research of Tuskegee Institute.
AT their morthly meeting the Wo-
mems Improvement League took up =
lumber OF matters of nlunicipal I'm.
'rovement in the matter of cleaning
ip and converting Hammond into tho
city beautiful"
A war romance involving telephone
Vlres, motor cars and khaki, with 4
ierman village as the setting. was
'rought to a climax when Miss
josephine Davis, the only New or.
cans telephone operator abroad. was
1arried to Lieutenant S. w. Gray of
Indianapolis June II, in Germany.
1he welcome home celebration CIV
n at Abbeville the Fourth to the ra-
rned soldiers was great success
nj attracted the largest crowd OF
eople ever gathered in AbbevilIe. n
as estimated fully 10000 persons
ere In attendance.
The use of a pistol to quiet fretfuJ
aby was the means employed bv a
egro woman at Holly Ridge, accord
z TO John Gaines. husband of th,.
oman. Games brought the child to
on.oe in search of medical atten.
On. but the child died on the way I
Capitalists have purchased a larga
act OF city realty in Northeast
'owley. where a large number OF
will be erected to supply
e ever increasing demand for home.
While New Orleans reyelIed in the
of enjoyment the Fourth
July, twenty-five extra patrolmen
d agents of the Department of JUS.
e stood guard over public buildings
the city to protect them from anv