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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-12-25

number of points and received the
medal as the best all-around athlete
While the refreshments consisting
Of mock chicken salad, hot chocolate
and cake were being served the
saint" made his appearance and dis
tributed the gifts. Amid the blowing
of horns and the shooting of fire.
works the party broke up.
The members of the Eleventh B
class are as follows: Misses Lexina
Bonin, Alberta Leblanc, Laurie
Freeman, Fern Hebert, Gladys Lal-
lande, Janice Scharff, Lillian Schex-
nayder, Elizabeth Shaw, Bertha Sui
livan, Elise Weeks, Inez Broussard,
Eunice Delcambre, Edmee Mestayer,
Francis Miller and Messrs. Carl
Theriot, Daniel Winters and L. F.
Lallande.
The class was assisted very ably
by Misses Neenah Webster, Louise
Arnandez and Adele Memstas who
served the refreshments, and by Mr..
George Dupuy, who managed the
track meet and acted as Santa Claus.
The New iberia High School and
likewise all the schools Of the parish
closed Thursday, December 23rd, at
noon for the Christmas holidays.
School work will be resumed on
January 3rd.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-12-25
MURDERERS WORK AS POLICE
HUNT.
New YOrk's Force of Eleven Thou
sand Men and Forty Eight Hum
dred Reserves Unable to Stem
Tide Of Crime Wave in That
~ City.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-The most
sweeping roundup of crooks and sus-
pieious characters in the history of
New York is in full swing today by
the city's police force Of 1900 men,
augmented by force of 1890 re-
serves in an effort to stem the tide of
the wave of crime that startled the
metropolis the past week.
Over Sunday, the lull in the crime
wave was shattered early Monday
morning when two armed men de-
scended upon the Seamen's Mission
in West street and committed another
murder and robbery and made their
escape. One man who attempted to
interfere with the robbery was shot
dead.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-12-25

| We print below extracts Of an art
icle written by Mr.. Courtenay ID
Kalb, in the current issue Of tn
Manufacturers Record.
1t will be remembered that Mr.
De Kalb was one of the party o
Chemical Engineers who were il
New iberia recently when on thei
industrial tour of this parish
Mr.. De Kalb says:
''The American Institute of Chemi
cal Engineers mas just finished its
thirteenth annual meeting, held in tn,
city of New Orleans, gathering
full Of significance for the develop
ment Of Southern industry. 1t is
interesting to note that on the same
day, and witnont collusion, DR.. Da
vid Wesson of the Southern Cottor
Oil Co., as president of the Ameri-
can Institute of Chemical Engineers
and Mr.. w. 3. Thompson at the
Memphis Cotton Convention made
the same criticism of the tendency
of Southern farmers to raise but one
crop. DR.. W-sson was speaking
with reference to the rice growers of
Louisiana, while Mr.. Thompson was
daying the cotton planters. 1t had
been shown to DR.. Wesson how the
rice growers had suffered this year
by the sudden slump in the rice
market. The present rice price is
only 8 cents per pound at the rail
road shipping point, which is less
than the cost of production. The
rice growers are begging for tariff
protection against the product of
coolie labor in China. While admit
ting that there was justification for
the demand that protection be ac-
corded them, DR.. Wesson said that
the duty of every farmer was to
raise at least sufficient variety of
products to ensure his subsistence a
part from the money producing crop.
A single crop necessarily falls into
the hands of centralized forces on its
way to market, because the grower
of big single crops is under the ne
cessity of calling on fnanciers for
cash to meets obligations incurred in
planting and harvesting as well as
for moving to market. Consequently,
the market price is closely controlled
by these same financial interests.
The remedy is to be Independent of
any need to realize Immediately, and
this can best be accomplished by a
diversity of crops that will render
the farmer self-sustaining aside
from his major crop.
'This idea was one of the salient
features of the meeting, and was
loosely linked to it's logical corollary,
which was that the South should pro-
iuce more crops that could locally be
into high grade, high
value, non -perishable forms. The
rapid development of rice-board man.
lfacturers was one example. Two
such paper mills, utilizing rice-straw,
are being erected at New iberia, the
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-12-25

verse. However. it has been many
Years since such Investigations have
been conducted, and some conditions
have changed in the meantime. How
rapidly things change is Illustrated
by the fact that some one suggested
: that the chlorine contemplated by
DR.. Olsen as a product from Louis
lana salt might be shipped West to
be used IN the extraction of gold.
The fact is that chlorine @las been
completely superseded by sodium cy-
anidc as a solvent for gold, but 9th
er new uses for chlorine have devcl-
oped
"On the other hand, whereas Lou
isana 20 years ago was on the outer
edge of a region with a relatively
small population and proportionate-
ly small consumption Of alkales,
with no demand in Latin America
that possessed any commercial i'm
portance, today the development of
the cotton-oi products has become
enormous, and makes a large market
in the South for these chemicals:
likewise, the petroleum development
in the last two decades has moved
steadily toward the Gulf, and the
growth Of oil production will appar-
emily exceed the records Of the past
along the Gulf Coast in the next 10
years. Also Mexican oil is being re-
fined in large quantities in Louisiana,
and other Southern reiineries are
being erected. Soda is needed at all
of these in large amounts for neutra-
lizing the last traces of sulphuric
acid in the final wash of the oil.
Here are two large uses that did not
exist to any appreciable extent 20
years ago
Meanwhile, the population Of the
South has greatly increased, owing
to the steady development Of indus
try, creating a proportionate market
for alkalies, and the industrial grow
tn in South America, according to no
less an authority than Henry Howard
of the Graselli Chemical Works,
Cleveland, O., has resulted in large
demand for caustic soda and soda
ash. 1t would appear, therefore, that
DIR. Olsen was right in declaring
that Louisiana should consider more
economic utilization of her salt re-
sources. These are unparalleled as
to size and purity.
"At Avery's Island the mine is
worked through shaft $40 feet
deep. There is only one level in the
mine, which is, in effect, great
chamber 60 feet high from floor to
roof, arched from the walls to a
double row of massive pillars. The
chamber is about 800 feet long, and
can be continued for a great dis
tance before reaching the sides Of
the "salt-dome." Many times as
much salt as has been removed since
the beginning Of development can be
mined from this same level. When
Continued on page -
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-12-25
IBERIA PARISH RECEIVES
WIDE MAGAZINE PUBLICITY.
Industrie and of and Parish


center of Louisiana rice culture
One Of these, which is nearly read,
for operation, is the Charles Bold
Paper Mills Co, under the able di
| rection of Albert c. Bernard, which
| will produce As tons of straw-boarC
daily from so tons of rice straw
The other concern, of which Mr.
Henry l.. Brack of Baltimore, Md.
is president, is The United Fibre 4
Products Co., is also erecting works
at New Iberia. These mills will use
the soda process, and they are ac-
cumulating stocks of baled rice-straw
for which they are paying%7 so pc,
ton f. o. b. ears at shipping points
at was also pointed out that the
production of figs, which grow lux
uriantly in Louisiana, should become
the basis Of canning industries far
beyond the small development of that
business today. The country is also
particularly adapted to the culture of
yams, returns of 500 to 1000 bushels
per acre being regularly obtainable,
and this should serve as the basis
for large starch factories.
"The Chemical Engineers visited
the famous old Avery salt mine at
Avery's Island, near New IBERIA, as
well as the works of the Union Sui
phur Co., at Lake Charles, La.
Following the keynote of local
manufacture, sounded by DR.. Wes-
son, lively discussion was aroused
by DR.. John G.. Olsen, secretary oil
the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers and professor of chemical
engineering in the Polytechnic In
stitute of Brooklyn, N. Y. In an ef-
fort to arouse the non-technical por-
tion of the audience to an apprecla-
tion of the opportunities presented
he made graphic picture OF the &C.
onomic error involved in shipping
salt from Avery's Island to the North
and selling it for few dollars per
ton when it might be converted on
the spot into caustic soda, worth $50
per ton. and into liquid chlorine,
worth S1OO per ton. The producer
of this salt. which is unrivalled for
purity by any other source of salt IN
the world, since the Louisiana pro-
duct averages 99.S per cent pure
NaCI, is to that extent wasting his
output. The man who takes and re-
fines his raw product by putting
power and labor into it is making
the large profit, while the miner re
ceives pittance.
'"This suggestion was attractive
and striking enough to awaken keen
interest. 1t resolves itself into the
question of economically producing
and distributing the output of al
great alkali factory in Louisiana. It'll
has been often debated and seriously
by established manufac-
turers of alkalies. That they took
no steps toward it's realization indi-
Gates that some one or more of the
factors in the problem seemed adj
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-12-25

Continued on page a.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20
MEXICAN WOMEN WAKING UP
Organized Movement May Bring Bet
ter Understanding With United
States.

Mexico City, Mex.-Mexican women
are preparing to take a hand in public
aRair& They intend first to attack
social and industrial evils and later
% make, q fight for political equality.
This is the program Of the Mexican
feminist council, q national organiza.
ton with headquarters In Mexico City.
The council does not believe that the
mass of Mexican women are at pres.
ept prepared for complete suffrage but
Aepes eventually to make them q vital
psaitical force. The present Mexican
government looks with favor upon
their efforts, according to Senorita
Elena Torres general secretary OF the
council.
The feminist council has organized
groups to teach Mexican women how
their conditions may be improved in
dustriaily and socially. The next step
said Senorita Torres, will be Organiza'
tion Of woman workers in industry,
The council intends to bring the move
ment In contact with similar organiZa'
lions in other countries and to work
with the women Of the world for peace
and disarmament. Senorita Torres
predicts that Mexican women will ere
ate a new era Of amicable relations
and a more complete understanding
between Mexico and the United States.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20
REWvE OLD SWlNDLE
Many Americans Said to Have
Fallen Victims.
Madrid Police on Trail Of Gang ThaA
/. Operates "Dyin9 Prtsones"
sTtt Scheme,

Aadrid.-The spanish swindle"
HAS shown its head again. America
has been inundated with letters from
= dying prisoner, prosecuted by pOlit-
Scal enemies, only able to cOmmuni-
cate with the outside world through
the Kindness Of a prison chaplain"
The writer OF the letter claims rela.
tiOnship with the person addressed
and explains that a valise containing
%valuables has been concealed outside
Of Spain, the contents to be left 10
an only daughter and the American
relative.
Should the American reply, he later
receives a letter from. "the chaplain"
stating that the prisoner Is dead and
that a certain sum is required to re-
lease the prisoners baggage, including
the mysterious valise. Fortunately
when the correspondent reaches this
point the american relative" usually
becomes curious and as a result the
embassy In Madrid and the c0nsulates
throughout Spain have q flood OF cor
re%spondence on the subject.
In other cases the victim takes the
bait without question and parts with
his money. or even worse still, goes to
the expense Of travelling to Spain to
pay the required sum to release the
valise and claim his share OF the con-
tents.
In the latter case the Swindler Is
generally brought to book, for the
Spanish police are on the lookout and
the presence Of a stranger looking for
lost relatives arouses their suspicious.
Recently an American arrived 10
Madrid with a certified check to claim
his share of a prisoners estate. The
Spanish police put him in prison until
he could be convinced that he had
been the victim of a clever swindler.
1t took all the elOquence of an AIneri'
can consul to do this and induce the
man TO return home.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20
Notice Of Trustees Sale.

Under the provisions of and by
virtue of the authority conferred
upon me in a Deed of Trust, exc
cuted by Jim Smith, ST., Patience
Smith, John Smith, Jim Smith, Hen
ry Smith, Polite Bennimon, to Gre
NADIA Building and Savings Associa-
ton in the 10th day of June, 1916,
to secure a certain indebtedness there
in mentioned, and which said Deed of
Trust is recorded in Book D. D.,
Page 379 of the Records of Grenada
County Deeds in the office of the
Chancery Clerk of Grenada County,
Mississippi, default having been made
in the payment of the Indebtedness
named in said Deed of Trust, l, F. T..
Gerard, the Trustee named in said in
strument, will, at the request of the
said beneficiary in said Deed of Trust
on the 8 day of March, 1920, offer
for sale, and will sell at Public Auc-
ton, for cash, to the highest and best
bidder, at the East door of the Court
House in the City of Grenada, Gre
NADIA County, Mississippi, during leg
al hours, the following described
property named and described there
in, to-wit:
That certain lot or parcel of land
so by 70 feet fronting on and being
on the West side of Plum St., and
being a part Of lot No. 80 in the
West Ward of the City of Grenada,
Being land bought of John Powell on
March 18th, 1888, and now occupied
by Patience Smith and Jim Smith as
a homestead.
Title to said property believed to
be good, but / will sell and convey
as Trustee only. Witness my sigma
ture this, the 4th day of Feby. 1920.
F. T. GERARD,
2-6-2O-5t Trustee.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20
OLD CONVICT IS Let OUT
tiary After Passing 50 vears for
wife Murder.

Harrisburg, Pa.-After serving thir.
ty-three years In the Western Penn
sylvania p~enitentiary on the charge Of
numbering his wife. William Josiah
IcMeen, who went to the institution
as q youth of twenty-four, was recent
ly released, a gray-haired, feeble man.
old before his time.
Convicted upon purely circumstan-
tial evidence, at the time when Grover
Cleveland was serving his first term as
president. McMeen has been q model
prisoner and the pardon board Of the
State has recommended that he be lib
crate.
BY Il trick Of fate John j. Patter-
son IT,, a boyhoOd chum Of McMeen's,
is district attorney Of Juniata County,
from which county the prisoner was
sent to the penal institution. Under
the law Patterson was compelled to
appear before the state prison board
and oppose his friends release, but 1t
was granted despite the objections.
McMeen has served longer In the peni-
tertiary than any man in the custody
Of the state today. ! A position 10
awaiting him In a coal yard in Juniata
County when he Is finally given his
freedom.
In 1885 McMeen purchased some
strychnine In Harrisburg and sent 1t
to his wife to kill rats, as he said. His
wife put the %strychnine In grape jelly,
which she was making. ate some Of
the jelly and died.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20
Girls PRAYER Answered.

Kenosha, Wis. - Gladys Roemer,
eight, cannot run and play as other
children do, because she is crippled.
When she goes long distances she uses
her Irish MAIL" n little handNr at
fair which she can operate herself, and
on that she went to st. Thomas church
with her mother. After the services
the little girl returned to the church
steps and the machine was gone. A
youngster. not aware Of the conse-
Quences of his act. had raced down the
street on It. and Gladys was forced to
stay from school. Officer John Breidt
discovered a boy riding on the cart.
The boy admitted he had taken 1t from
the church and hid 1t In a barn near
his home.
The Irish Mail" was returned to
the little girl. 1T came In answer to
my prayers" she said.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20

-
To His Excellency, Lee M. Russell,
Governor, and the Honorable Board
Of Pardons of the State of Missis-
sipii:
We, the undersigned citizens of
Grenada County, most respectfully
urge the pardon Of Elige Spears, con-
victed at the January, 1919, Term of
the Circuit Court in said County on
a charge of assault, with intent to
kill and murder, and sentenced for
four years in the State ~Penitentiary
and assign the following reasons
therefor:
The petitioner was an ignorant ne
gro boy, about twenty years old, at
the time of the difficulty; the diff
Guilty was the result of clandestine
relations between wife of petitioner
and the prosecuting witness; because
the petitioner has made a model pris-
oner and because of the peculiar cir
cumstances surrounding this case, we
believe petitioner has been thorough
ly and sufficiently punished.
Most respectfully submitted,
ELIGE SPEARS,
2-lS-2O-5t Petitioner.
w. H. CROWDER, ct al.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20
Rips Off Skirt, Saves Boy.

New York.-AmOng the crowd that
gathered when f~ive-year-old Leonard
Hopewell of sol West One Hundred
and Fo~rty-seventh street, was run over
by q trolley car at One Hundred and
F~orty-seventh street and Amsterdam
avenue. was a woman who tore off her
underskirt and fashioned a tourniquet,
which she bound around the boys right
ankle.
Surgeons at st. Lawrence hospital,
who amputated his mangled foot, said
the woman's action saved his life. She
slipped away without revealing her
identity.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20
Straved Mare Mule.

From my farm 10 miles west of
Carrollton on the R. w. Redditt place
last Monday, Feb. 9, n dark black
mare mule, about z years old and
about Is hands high, weighing about
1000 pounds, is in good condition and
of trim build. Was sheared about
IS days ago and has switch on end
of tail. Is fresh shod on front feet,
has trace marks on left hind leg and
harness marks on back. Is well broke
and gentle. Had on bell with a piece
of cord used to hold window weights.
Liberal reward for any information
leading to mules recovery. J. E.
Redditt, Carrollton, Miss, Route 8.
Feb. ~. 1920. 2-13-20-2t
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20
Bird In jail.

Bath. Me.-Cramped quarters were
furnished in the Bath jail recently for
the oldest prisoner ever harbored
there. The inmate had been arrested
in the neighbOring town Of Woolwich
and turned Over to the Bath police for
safe keeping. He was not q tippler.
but a crippled crane. and measured
from ten to twelve feet from tip to tip
Of the wings. After being on exhibit
ton for "A hours the bird was liber-
ated, all fines being RENTED on con-
ditiOn Of good behavior.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20

Notice is hereby given that the
Board will receive bids at its next
regular meeting, the first Monday in
March 1920, for maintaining all the
public roads in District -Four. The
Board ~reserving the right to take
from said contractor any part or all
of the Bond Issue Road which the
Board may hereafter determine to
hard surface. Board ~reServing the
right to reject any and all bids.
J. B. KEETON,
Chancery Clerk.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20

Counting it only in dollars and
cents, how much did that last cold
cost you? A man may not always
stop work when he has a cold, but
perhaps it would be better if he did.
It takes about ten days to get COM
pletely rid of a cold under the usual
treatment. That time can be much
shortened by taking C~hamberlain's
Cough Remedy and proper are of
yourself. in fact, a bottle Of this
remedy in the housed s a mighty good
investment during the winter and
spring months. Soldby Second Class
nrnO Store. limo
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20
Sight Fails As Artist
Paints Heroic Nurse

LondOn.-While engaged on a
large picture dealing with the
fate of Edith x. Cavell, Mr.. Van
Ruth, a veteran painter, dis
covered that his eyesight was
failing. Oculists predicted that
the painter, who is eighty years
of age. would lose his sight in
a few months. Nevertheless he
persevered and added the last
touches to his work on the an
niversary of the armiStice.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20

A bad taste in the mouth comes
from a d~isordered stomach and slug
gish state of the bowels. Herbine
corrects the trouble Immediately. 1t
purifies the bowels, helps digestion,
and sweetens the breath. Price, 6Oc.
Sold by Second Class Drug Store.
limo.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20
$4,000 Orphans Roam
Homeless in Armenia

Characteristics the massa-
cring of 100000 Armenians
during the war, this people is
being still further reduced by
demObilized Turkish troops, who
are killing them and rObbing
them of what is left of their
possessions, says DR.. Kunzler,
q Swiss pastor, who was in Ar
menia throughout the war.
He made this statement in an
address at Zurich. He said $780,
coo homeless orphans are wan
dering about the country.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20

Cases Of oak or ivy poisoning
should be treated with Billiards.
Snow Liniment. 1t is antiseptic and
healing and a splendid remedy for
such troubles. Three sizes, zoe, 60c
and $1.20 per bottle. Sold by Sec
ond Class Drug Store. limo
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20

Itching diseases can be controlled
and cause removed by applying Bal
lard's Snow Liniment. The relief is
prompt and permanent. Three sizes,
soc, 6Oc, and $1.2O perbottle. Sold
by Second Class Drug Store. limo
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20

We have several hundred bales Of
hay in Grenada stored in A. F. Bail
ey's barn, near compress. See A. F.
Bailey for prices. Martin & Martin.
2-I3-2O-3t
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20
For Sale.

White Leghorn eggs, from pure
bred hens. Bred to lay. Prize win
ners at the Grenada County fair.
$3.50 for a setting of IS.
MRS. MARY COOLEY,
2-20-2O-2t Grenada, Miss. Doute A
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20
Shin Bone for Her Spine.

WatertOwn, N. with a portion Of
her shinbOne replacing what had pre-
viously been a diseased section of her
spine, Miss Irene HOughes, eighteen
years old, Of Alexandria Bay. is on he
road to recovery in the Sisters hos
pital here.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20

LIVERADE will clean the system,
preventing fevers and dis
case. For sale by Fatherree Drug
Co. limo
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20

666 has proven it will cure Ma
laria, Chills and Fever, Bilious Few.
er. Colds and LaCrippe.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20

FOR SALE-One high grade Jer-
sey Cow with baby calf. T j. Hal
lam. 1-23-2O-tf
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-02-20

The Sentinel and The Progressive
Farmer for $2.15.