The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-04-17

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ives VI tu9
State Board of Education at Baton
Rouge, pays tn young lady graduates
from last years session OF the Ham
mond High School compliment in a
report issued from his office in which
he states that six Of the graduates,
yoh took the public school eXamina-
ton for first grade teachers license,
received the highest average mark
among the list Of high school grad
yates.
MonTos.-Beoause of the recent re-
sumption of active opposition to the
enforcement of the cattle dipping law
in Wards Seven and Eight of Ouachita
parish, DR.. J. H. Yoder, federal agent
in charge Of the work, declared that
he was authorized by the president of
the police jury to announce that body
will pay a reward of $1,000 for the ar
rest and conviction of the parties dy-
namiting dipping watts.
LeesVille. - School children at
Stables are dramatizing Mrs. Wigs
of the Cabbage Patch" supplying
spoken words for the descriptive parts
and working out the roles hey expect
to take. They will costume the per-
formers and dress the stage. They eX-
pect to produce the play in the com
munity theater at Stables as demon
stration of what can be done by chill
dren.
Lake Charles. - The heirs of Rob-
ert H. Mason, Mrs. Ida Jackson and
George NJ. Mason of Chesaning Mich,
have sold the Mason Villa property to
Samuel Levy for $4,000. The proper
ty sold includes all of the Mason Vii
la property to Samuel Levy for $780,
000 The property sold includes all of
the Mason Villa block with the exceD-
ton of two residences.
independence. - The first carload
OF strawberries shipped out Of Tan
gipahoa Parish for the present season
was loaded at Independence under the
supervision Of the Agricultural Sup
ply Company. The car was bought by
Jerry Paxton, a strawberry buyer ana
broker for the sum of $4,000, and con.
signed by him to Pittsburg.
Monroe. - Cold, windy weather
here did not interfere seriously with
the Easter parade and religious cere-
monies. Special services were held at
the Methodist Church, attended in a
body by Knights Templar Subscrip-
tions for the Ruston orphanage were
taken at the Monroe and West Monroe
Methodist churches.
Tallulah. - The unprecedented fail
of 6.07 inches of rain in a period Of
twenty-four hours ended with a fall
in temperature which has remained
unbroken. The heavy fall of water,
followed by sun and wind, has put the
roads in better shape than they have
been in for several months.
Hammond. - Thomas L. highland,
who purchased the Loranger commun-
ity model farm last fall for dairying
purposes, is making good. His herd of
forty Holsteins is producing ITO gal
Ions of milk daily, two of them Civ.
ing as high as ten gallons each.
Marksville. - The mercantile bust
ness Of the late L. j. Coco OF this place
passed from the Coco estate to Jof-
ftion and Barham recently. The deal
involved PROPERTY valued approximate
ly at 100000, and was a cash transac-
ton.
Monroe. - Frank L. Rain, of Fair
bury, Neb., grand exalted ruler, B. P.
o. E., his wife, private secretary and
the latter's wife, arrived in Monroe
and will be guests at an elaborate ban
quet given by Monroe Elks.
Donaldsonville. - Ground has been
broken for the erection of the new
theater and store building on Missis-
sippi street, to be completed within
ninety days
Baton Rouge. - The state superin-
tendent Of education, T. H. Harrish,
left recently for Merryville to dedi-
cate the high school building recent
ly completed.
Monroe.-A light frost was visible
in exposed places, but not sufficient
to damage vegetation, excepting gar.
dens and truck farms there is very lit
tie vegetation to be hurt as heavy
rains at frequent intervals during the
past sixty days have greatly retarded
form operations.
Thibodaux. - The Thibodeaux park
pavilion was thrown open to the pub
lie for jitney dancing throughout the
summer. Despite the cold wave, a
large crowd assembled at the pavilion
for the dancing.
Hammond. - While the cool unsev-
tied weather is keeping the strawber
ries back, the local market is we'll sup
piled with the fruit which retails az
% cents per pint
Lake Charles. There are at the
present time ten cmpanies operating
in the Vinton-Ged field with daily
net production Of approximately 1850
barrels of OIL