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The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
UNIQUE SUPPER FOR
THE LOCAL ELKS
WILD DUCKS AND REAL ELK
MEAT WILL BE ON THE MENU
AT BLOWOUT DEC. 20

The local lodge of Elks, at their last
regular meeting appointed commit
tee from the crack shots of their or
ganization to go "get 'em"-that is, the
ducks. The Elk meat will be shipped
from Colorado arrangements having
already been made to assure the ship
ment.
The supper will be followed by a
dance and a rare treat is in store for
the Elks, visiting brothers wives, sis
ters and sweethearts of Elks. The
event will probably be on or about De-
cembers 20.
Starting off the holiday season with
the supper and dance, the Bills" con-
template other entertainments to build
up their order, which is rapidly reach
ing the three hundred mark. Inciden-
tally the restaurant now being conduct
ed at their home is getting to be very
popular. A table reserved for ladies
and their escorts will be installed in
the parlor where they can be served
with oysters, coffee and other refresh
ments ,and will be a convenience for
the ladies while out shopping and after
the movies" at night.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
BIG SYRUP MILL TO
FINISH THIS WEEK
PLANT OF CROCKETT & WE'LL
PRODUCTION THIS SEASON is
ABOUT 10000. GALLONS

The big syrup mill of Crockett &
WE'LL, located few miles southwest
of Opelousas, will in all probability
wind up it's seasons run this week and
close down, all cane on hand when the
machinery finally stops to be shipped
to the company's other mill at Jeaner-
cite, Iberia parish.
approximately one hundred and fifty
thousand gallons syrup has been pro-
duced and most of the production is in
the storage warehouse at the mill, to
be marketed later The mill bought
cane from the farmers throughout this
section OF the state, paying from seven
to seven-fifty dollars per ten for It,
while the big sugar refineries we're on
ly paying about three dollars cash and
promising to pay additionally when the
sugar was marketed. This marketing
condition naturally favored the local
mill and as a consequence Messrs.
Crockett & WE'LL bought cane virtual
ly without competition, for they paid
on a better basis than the other peo-
pie. The mill has furnished employ
ment to large number of people for
some time and as such has been a real
benefit to the laboring class of this
section of the parish.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
A REAL THEATRICAL TREAT
BILLED FOR oPELoUsAS

Starting next Monday night, the
Hila Morgan company will start one
weeks engageme 1t in opelousas under
their tent theatre beautiful.
This excellent company while never
having appeared in Opelousas, yet it
is quite well known to some of our cit
liens, they having seen it in some OF
the surrounding towns.
We are publishing a letter in our 10
cal columns from brother editor that
says much for this attraction.
The Hila Morgan company consists
of twenty-five people They do not car.
ry band and use no band actors but
have an excellent orchestra and intro,
duce excellent singing and dancing
vaudeville between the acts.
Their Nst of plays include some won.
deful offerings such as The Brat, seen
here in pictures by Nazimova and
Daddy Longlegs and Rebecca Of Sun
nybrook Farm, seen here in the movies
by Mary Pickford, and Which One
Shall Marry, a companion play to Elk.
perience, or Everywoman. A real fea.
ture of this show is their prices-chil-
dren, 10 cents; adults, 25 cents, which
prices include the war tax.
They also have numbered reserved
chairs same as in a theatre, at 10
cents for children and rs cents for
adults. These reserved seats will be
on sale at some popular drugstore af
ter 9 a. m. Monday.
Ladies are admitted absolutely free
on Monday night to the general admis
sion seats upon payment Of three cents
war tax.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
HOG BITE PROVES
FATAL TO NEGRO
ED. HAMMOND, SOUTHERN PAcIF-
Ic PORTER, SuccUM5s TO
MANY INJURIES

Edward D. Hammond, cofored, for
many years station porter at the South
ern Pacific depot in this city, died on
Sunday afternoon from the effects of
injuries inflicted Oh him several weeks
ago by vicious hog. 1t is stated that
Hammond was so severely bitten that
the attending physician had to make
over sixty stitches in the wounds from
the hogs teeth. Complications set in
and blood poisoning followed and the
man died Sunday The deceased was
faithful employe of the railroad com
pany and was held in high esteem by
his employers and members of his own
race. The funeral was held DIN Mon
day afternoon, the colored lodge Of
Pythians, Of which he was member,
performing the funeral rites of the
order.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
new BANK TO OPEN
ON DECEMBER 9Th
PRESIDENT MIsTRlc AND CASH
TER ANDRUs ANNOUNCE FOR
NAL OPENING THAT DATE

Due to delayed arrival of office fix
lures, the opening of the Parish Bank
& Trust company was delayed longer
than at first expected However, this
equipment has arrived and has been in
stalled and Oscar ]. Mistric, president,
and A. L. Andns, cashier, announced
Tuesday that the bank would formally
open for busines on Monday, December
6, next:
The location Of the new bank is in
the Christman building, on Landry
tstreet, right in the center Of the bus.
mess section. The equipment is mod
Ten and up to date in every respect
and the new financial institution is to
start out with every assurance of meet
ing with success. 1t has long list OF
stockholders, many of them being well
known citizens of Opelousas and St,
Landry parish, and its officers are ac,
knowledged to be competent and pains
taking and fully able to handle every
branch of banking.
With the opening Of thsi new bank
Opelousas will once again boast of hav
ing four such institutions.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
sibIIIe.Estorae

Mr.. Frank Sibille of Sunset and Miss
Henry Ethel Estorge. daughter OF Mr..
ard Mrs. u. F. Eatorge of this city,
we're quietly married at the Catholic
presbytery Thursday, at 1880 a. m,
Very Rev. A. B. Colliard officiating.
After the marriage ceremony, the
vedded couple took diner at the home
of the brides parents. They boarded
the Frisco train for New Orleans on
the same afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sibille are both mem
bers Of prominent families of this par
ish. They will reside in Sunset where
the groom is employed with the Hop
kins Brothers lumber company. Mrs.
Sibille will still hold her same position
as teacher in the Sunset high school.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01

placed more money in circuIatlUn anu
stores seemed to be doing much more
lively business. Merchants are look
ing on the situation with less pessi-
mism than they did some time ago,
and with the constant cutting of prices
for merchandise they expect to do a
real brisk business during the Christ
mas holidays now nearly at hand.
There is still a large amount of cot
ton yet in the hands of the farmers and
many are not at all disposed to sell at
prevailing prices, preferring to wait
bit until conditions in the market ap-
pear to be improving. Many farmers
think that about March or April, after
the "scarry" fellows have sold their
holdings and retired from the waiting
list there win be a strong upward
move in the market, and on this basis
they say they will hold until then, or
even longer. if future conditions JUS
tify them in so doing.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01

strange negro for temporary use.
Wyble's negro farm hand is also
equally emphatic in denying that he
knew the still was located on the
place, or that he had anything to do
with its operation of the outfit.
Charlie Bags Another
The following day Thursday Sher-
iff Thibodeaux and his deputy, Mr..
Stagg, went to the big woods between
Bayou Curtableau and the Atehafalaya
river. leaving their automobile at the
end of the road they proceeded on foot
for four miles through the wilderness
and in a lumberman's shack seized
and destroyed a small still and small
quantity of liquor and mash. Two men
Hammond and Charlie Jennings, pres
ent in the house, were arrested on the
charge of operating the stilh They
were brought to town aud placed in
Jail and the following day furnished
bond and were released. They deny
ownership or operation Of the still and
give a very plausible story, stating
that they had just moved into the cab
in and were cutting timber in the
neighborhood. The still, they said, was
in the cabin when they entered and
they did not disturb it. The sheriff is
Of the opinion that two others are i'm
plicated, and other arrests may follow
soon.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
MEAT PRICES ARE
FALLING in CITIES
BUT NOT WITH Us
Packing Houses Drop Val
ues as Hogs, Cattle
Go Down
FEDERAL QUARANTINE
STOPS ALL SHIPMENT
Said That Butchers are Pay
ing Less and Charging
Same Price

Reports in the daily newspapers
from the big meat packing centers
show that prices for practically all
grades of dressed beef and pork are
dropping rapidly, and with the drop
the prices paid for cattle and hogs
are also going down. Recently hogs
scored the lowest mark for the. past
several years, when they were quoted
at little better than eleven cents in
the buying centers, and a report in a
New Orleans newspaper this week said
the price there was an even eleven
cents and that the price Of choice cuts
Of pork had dropped accordingly.
H. C. l. Gets Black Eye
This is very interesting news to the
consumer in cities where the new
rates have gone into effect, for the
old bugbear, High Cost of Living, I"
gets black eye with every drop in the
price of meat and other necessities Of
life. However, the meat consumer in
Opelousas sits mournfully by and sees
his more fortunate brothers in other
places revelling in the lower costs of
meat and he still pays the same old
figue-30 and 35 cents per pound for
choice cuts of beef and pork, respect
lively, though a few dealers are selling
slightly under these maximum figures.
Quarantine Stops Shipping
An article in these columns a week
or two ago showed the inequality of
price paid for cattle and the price the
dressed meat brings. Owing to the
fact that the federal quarantine on cat
tie shipments not being lifted on st.
Landry parish growers of cattle find
themselves in a tight place in regard
to the marketing of their stock. 1t is
impossible to ship to distant and bet
ter markets, hence they are confined
to selling to local buyers and as the
supply is undoubtedly larger than the
demand the price has dropped consid-
erably, until, according to information
at hand, not over five cents per pound
gross is paid for the best grade of cat
tie, and considerably less for the poor
er grades. Buying stock at these low
figures justifies radical reduction in
the price of beef to the csonsumer, but
the drop has not come, nor are there
any indications that it will come soon.
Livestock Cheap, Meat High
The price of pork, for the best cuts,
is thirty-five cents though, it is stated
the buyers are only paying five or six
cents for live hogs. While both cattle
and hogs show marked reduction in
price as compared with figures paid
in months past, the price of the dress
ed meat remains just as it was during
the highwater era during the war. Well
informed people state that there is no
just reason for this condition, and ex-
press the opinion that the consumer is
entitled to lower figures for his pork
and beef. A few dealers have made
slight reduction but there is little diff
ference in their prices and the prices
charged by those who retail at the old
wartime figures. If, said one con-
sumer, they made money when they
paid high figures for cattle and hogs,
what are they making now when they
are paying less and still charging the
same for dressed meat?
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01

Mr.. F. ]. Mccarthy of Philadelphia,
Pa, was in Opelousas few days this
week transacting business and visit
ing friends and incidentally he gave
the newspaper office an appreciated
call on Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Irene Bertinot and Miss Edith
Baker took the teachers examination
last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Miss Ruby Goslin teacher at Law
tell graded school, visited friends in
Opelousas on Tuesday afternoon.
Rev and Mrs. C. B. Tombs and baby
girl, after spending several days here
as guests Of Mrs Tombs' parents, Mr..
and Mrs John E. Wilson, returned to
their home in Birmingham, Ala, where
Mr.. Tombs is the pastor of the First
Presbyterian church in Ensley "a sub
urb of the city.
Frank Fontenot, prominent planter
and merchant of Grand Prairie, was a
visitor to Opelousas last Sunday.
Judge Williamson Of Evansville, In
dinia, is on a visit to- his daughter,
Mrs E. K. Eastman.
Our big friend, "Izzy" Isaac made a
business trip to the Crescent City Sat
urday.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01

Miss Margaret Voorhies Of Lafayette
spent Thursday Of last week in Ope'
lousas with friends and relatives.
Mrs. l. ]. Bauhard returned from In
diana this week, after delightful stay
of three months visiting relatives.
Mrs. Tip Dearman and children and
Mrs. Henry Dearman are spending a
while in Alexandria with relatives.
John F. Green, roadmaster of the
Gulf Coast Lines, made business trip
to Dequincey Monday.
VIII P. Ewell, connected with the
dispatcher's office of the Gulf Coast
Lines at Dequincey, is in the city on 9
brief vacation.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
PROGRAM
PROGRAM
For All-Day Meeting at First Baptist
Church, Sunday, December 5, 1920

9:45 A. NJ, Sunday School, Superin-
dent ]. B. Brock in charge.
11;OO A. NJ, Sermon-Dr. E. o. Ware
Of Alexandria.
GUMBO-DINNER
Free to All
2:3O P NJ, Song Fest led by R. L.
Mercer, singing evangelist of Mon
roe, La. Many of the old-time gos-
pei songs will be sung, and some
new ones too.
$3.50 P. NJ, Address by President L. y.
Comalander OF Acadia Academy.
Other addresses will be given by visit
ing ministers.
100 P. NJ, Sermon.
Special Music at All Services
Spend the Entire Day With Us
D. r. PEVOTO, Pastor.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01

Mrs. R. L. Wyble is spending few
days with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Guilbeau, near Carencro.
A. Meyer, travelling salesman Of New
Orleans, paid a business visit to Ope-
lousas the first of the week.
Mrs. John M. Ware of Plaisance at
tended church here Sunday morning.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
SPECIAL MASS FOR SOUL
OF LATE FATHER ENG5ERiNN

Saturday last special mass for the
repose of the soul of the late Father
John Engberink was said by Rev.
Father Hyland of the colored Catholic
church. The colored congregation of
Opelougas, for whom Father Engberink
labored so strenuously during so many
years, thus attested their gratitude for
his work among them and their vene-
ration for his memory by attending de-
spite the inclement weather.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
GETTING POWER
PLANT In WORK
SHAPE RAPIDLY
Shaft for Second Small En-
gine Reached Here
Saturday
TWO IN COMMISSION
THIRD ONE VERY SOON
Rules Temporarily Fixed Re-
garding Daily Use of
Current

The municipal power plant is grad
ually being whipped into shape by
Mr.. Jordan and his crew of helpers
For some time the motive part Of the
plant consisted of but one engine-the
big three cylinder affair. 1t is huge
piece of machinery, but not at all
equal to the entire load Oh generating
Juice" and pumping the immense
amount of water required for daily
use in 0pelousas.
Might Have Been Risky
Under the stressing circumstances,
it was impossible to operate the light,
circuits ON full time and at the sane
time furnish all water required by pa
irons. To make any such attempt
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01

Oscar Bienvenu and Nathan Roos
and John E. Boagni spent Thanksgiv-
ing with their parents here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank S. Roberts and
children d Crowley spent Thanksgiv-
ing with relatives in opelcasas.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01

Miss Lucy Johnson, who is teaching
at Clinton, La, spent Saturday and
Sunday here as the guest Of her rela-
tives Mrs. Will T. Stewart and Mrs.
Ed. Durio.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01

Tom Childress of New Orleans, trav-
cling representative of the Oldsmobile
factory, was here Several days this
week on a business mission.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
VAMPEOPLESEE
RIG WILDCAT STILL
GRABBED DBYSHERIFF
Mysterious Machine That
Places the ''Kick" in
White Mule
coU,s AND TANKS
SIMPLE AFFAIRS
Effective Apparatus for Dis
Dli filing Mountain Dew
From Grain

rbs sheriff made a record capture
.,.anssday OF last week when he grab
h;g wildcat liquor still on the
....rss Mace about two miles east
I opelousas No one was "at home"
IA I Mr.. Thibodeaux made his ap-
lance after having been tipped off
n, ! stiil was located in a deserted
s, on the farm. The front door
iocred hut after gaining entry the
,s0srstus gave every sign of having
~ n recent use, the stills and
sovss being yet warm from heat. The
.a,.sr said everything was fixed up in
.slsuc manner and bore every indi-
.,,ioD that the proprietors had laid
n MANS for a long and successful
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
Complete Outfit

n plans tor lohs anu 0u00o''A" -
m
Complete Outfit
Two copper stills with copper coils
,,,s the real heart Of the unique
,l,,t Two oil stoves furnished the
~ by which the latent alcohol that
,.tprs placed in the grain would be
lnsloped and furnished with the de-
.btim kicks that drouth-stricken
s5kind seems to do much desire, One
7, aum Of oil was the concentrated
81 used, and the mash" in process
ermentation filled ten large mol
,.,ss barrels of not less than fifty
nllous capacity each. This mash had
assntly been artistically prepared,
q that. too, at considerable expense.
h.lead of using raw molasses or Karo
np the sinners used granulated su-
instead. How much white mule"
five hundred gallons of mash
"a have produced no one seems to
sE-that 1t, those who do know
w no oplcions to express, hence
norant public remains uninform
to the output of this big outfit
ne mash on hand. 1t is conjec-
however that at least a full
mird gallons Of the desired fluid
td have come mysteriously from
copper coils as a result Of the dis
Ton process, and this hundred gal
would have brought considerable
aHcial returns to the sinners and a
altitude Of all kinds of drunks to the
tAAsers Perhaps If the sheriff had
made his early call Christmas in
ousas and surrounding country
not have been so awfully
lhy as It now seems it will be.
smstaered eroans, Maybe
vas quite a Boston tea party"
assembled at the still house when
lAsTIif came down on it like toa
isa Nothing Of coul Sc was sa.~
ndoubtedly many unuttered
we're smothered when the
slilfs confiscation was made.
llg barrels Of mash were con
to The demnition bow-wows, and
\ last report the mules and
and cows and hogs ranging the
we're having the real time Of
ives eating the fermented mash,
Nthg hilariously drunk, as four
ANIMALS as well as the two
species, seem to like the hidden
ot the cup that cheers.
Arrested, Placid in Jail"
salls, the stoves, drum of oil.
gallons Of finished mule"
" loaded into a wagon and
. town and placed in the par
Y A large crowd witnessed the
as and viewed with unconceal-
Sly the splendid and no doubt
A0e outfit that had been made
'sstaled In defiance of law. One
y the uniformed said the out
aot a still but a real manu-
Plant for the production of
aa still few others looked
ana sorry at the short-lived
~ might have furnished them
II Tor time to come had
psrlod OF usefulness so sud
terminated by the sheriffs
Three Men Charged
4se1lOn with the operation of
afee men were arrested.
Wyble, manager of the
the still was located; One.
q OpelOusas, both white;
y enployed as farm hand
sele An three were brought
states Commissioner w.
3On who fixed their bonds.
sno the negro very prompt.
surety on their bonds and
SO while Landry up to
y. ~, not furnished his surety
~ IN jail under the charge
as he still. ' . :
protests his innocence in
,'ating he knew nothing of
,oeation in the cabin and
'n- recently vacated by a
been rented to some
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01

would ha
not disas
So only I
furnished
out altog
week of
engine th
cheerful
got busy.
shaft to
gine. TT
line and
in order
bearings
ming the
ming und
about re-
the load
the plant
ing basil
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01

The 81
engine,
week fr'
been ser
cess of
gone thr
engine b
help out
ing. Th
on a nor
nd FUZZY
heretofoi
In G
The ad
to the d
plant ttl
ments. T
doubt 81
cerned,
full nursl
til the |
installed
unent wfI
ing bettd
they eVd
ating an
be a thl
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-12-01
BUSH
AS
FARMER
TO M
GU

DespitI
the cott
tendency
farmers [
weekbeE
COLIOH y
same co
south, a
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-13
DEMONSTRATE MACHINE.

The New Home sewing machine will be demonstrated all this week at the Simpson and Webb furniture store, with J. s. Hurlbut, factory man who arrived in Pine Bluff yesterday in charge. MT. Hurlbut states that on account of the large stock on hand special price will be made this week on these machines, especially on the floor samplebox. This machine has been handled for several years by the Simpson and Webb company and MT. Hurlbut desires that all those interested in sewing machines call and see the demonstration of this propular brand machine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-13

beating to the death the three year cid son of Mrs. Ida May Bullock his housekeeper.
 Botkins is charged by the author ities to have stripped the clothing from the child, held it by the ankles and beaten it so severely with a tug that death followed soon after. In jail at Defiance, the farmer de nicd having intended to kill the child
 The housckccpor, according to dis patches from Defiance. remains loyal to Botkjns and has pleaded that he be released from jail so he can re tuln to her.
 Betkins has been formally charged with first degree murder.
 Botkins is said to be well-to do and came to the Defiance district from Missouri. He is alleged to have repeatedly beaten the child and the woman's two other children.