The St. Mary banner., 1920-08-14


cality report that while the daily rains
are doing some damage, the corn crop
was never better and that the yleio
viii be heavy, sugar can and sweet po-
tatoes are doing nicely, and what III
tie cotton that has been planted Will
no doubt be a total loss as the Doll
weevil is worse than ever encounter
ed here. There Is great complaint or
lack of labor and many farmers report
that there is barely enough obtalnable
to carry on the simplest operations
The wages paid are high and the
workers only want to put in eight
hours.
SlidelI.-The Slidell High School
faculty for the session OF 192o-2l, as
announced by the St. Tammany Par
ish School Board is as follows: T. H.
McAfee, principal; Miss l.. Magnolia
Thorn, Miss Emma NJ. Booth, Miss M.
Eleanor Thorn, Mrs. Adelia Miller,
Miss Emma NJ. Robb. Miss Bessie Nc
knight. Mrs Ed Kennedy, Miss Alma
Frederick, Miss Viola Keller, Miss
May Connell, Miss Ruth William, Miss
Ethel Peterson, Miss Helena Durham.
Miss Leah Comfort, Miss Mary Loud
erbough. Miss Nina Hardesty, Miss
Eva Matthews.
Alexandria-Sur w. H. Bald
win has assumed charge of the Unit
ed States Public Health Station at
Camp Stafford succeeding Surgeon
w. c. Billings. who is leaving for 9th
er fields OF endeavor. Major Baldwin
states that the institution, under the
excellent management of Major Bill
lings, has been buflt up to the point
where it ranks among the best in the
service, Major and Mrs Billings have
been here for the past year, and will
go from here to Washington.
Slidell-The Birmingham Graphite
Company has awarded the contract for
the erection of two of the buildings OF
its new plant in Slidell, and has the
plans and specifications ready for a
cuted by Charles Jenkins. architect,
of Covington, and the contract has
been awarded to Paul Mendow, OF
| Covington The work will be rushed
and the third building will be con-
tracted for shortly.
Estherwood.-A noted case here
! oh hot Of Mrc E0ntanOt
against Mayo Broussaid. to prove
! rights of ownership Of a cow eight
years old which strayed on the farm
| of Joe Broussard Of Midland. was
! heard recently by a local magistrate,
ss,sr.' -c.sion being rendered in favor of
Mrs Fontenot. Mr.. Broussard made
bond and took an appeal to the Dis
trict Court.
Alexandria. - A case involving a
complaint of Alexandria shippers rel
ative to express service in and out OF
Alexandria was called for hearing be-
fore the state railroad commission in
Baton Rouge recently. Traffic Mana
ger c. n Nesom Of the Alexandria
Chamber of Commerce will appear be-
fore the commission in the interest OF
the local shippers.
Morgan City-The Oyster Shells
Products Corporation, with Arthur
Ackerman, president of New York, E.
F. Clark, vice president, and Alfred
Mead. secretary-treasurer, both OF
Alexandria, La, have decided to 10
cate their plant in Berwick, opposite
Morgan City.
Pointe a la Hatche.-Maurice Co
lomb, who is cultivating the Braith-
waite Plantation in rice, was arraign-
ed in the District Court on an infor-
nation for flooding the she'll road In
District No. l, while irrigating his
rice field. He pleaded guilty through
his lawyer and was fined 500.
Baton Rouge.-Some time this week
has been spent in trying to organize
each ward into fair district. reports
A. F. Houston. agent in Richland par
ish. 1t is the purpose to use these
fair organizations as permanent Com
munity clubs. Quite bit of interest
has been shown.
Baton Rouge-Poisoning demon
strations on boil weevil control, to-
gether with spacing demonstrations in
both cotton and corn, havebeen ar
| ranped for in each ward Of the Darish
reports B. NJ Jackson, agent In