Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-08-05

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pess TO furnish his oops
the amount of tonnage racs
them from New Orleans N
and Eastern seaboard points
points on and east of the Ae
river in Central Freight Aesoel
territory SO that the smonnt 81
nageW hich may be handled 81 m
boats and barge lines may Is
mined Because rates wan Be
increased September 4. Che ast
ment Of boat and barge lines belu
Monroe and New Orleans would
many Thousand dollars annuaut
Monroe shippers.
Shreveport After drilling four b
deeper in the s. S. Hunter wen
Stephns, Ark. the BIT went pass
oil sand and into sand mixed W
shale, according to reports from
Authoritative source here. The we
was declared good for 100 barrels
It stood recently by a STANDARD 81
Company official, who said that
would be drilled a few feet deeper
levelop an anticipated better Drodaa
ton short distance below 21s2 fsa
where it stood then.
Houma. The second annual maat
ing Of the Houma.Te rrebenne Assocs
ton of Commerce w. ala witt
large attendance. a
held in the gymna
Terrebonne Hieh
fitted up especia
The report Of the sae.
large amount eli
during the past yea
bic under way and & All
to be done.
Plaucheville.-Two weeks ago fhis
section had the best cotton crop nros
pect in ten years and since then
most daily showers and heavy rain
have reduced the prospect about eoua
% last years crop. AS the presenl
weather is favorable to the boil wee
Wis they are multiplying ID sach
numbers that in week or two thecot
ton will cease to bloom entirely which
means a short crop as the cotton
fully two weeks late.
Monroe.-DespIte quarantinea ana
lnnoeulation anthrax is still raging ID
parishes adjoining ouaoita and
some extent in this parish. n bari
OF Caldwell parish the disease Is Tess
prevalent than a few weeks aao hn1
ia other parts conditions show No a..
provement. One Caldwell planter wnr
owned eleven has lost ten Of them
negro tenant who Ind just paid Tor
span Of mules lost them both and also
lost his COW by anthrax.
Hammond While DIVING N the
Tangipahoa river at his nome nasr
Breckwaldt. Monday. william AttIe
Wittie, the 2O-year-old son 81 Frani
Wittie, struck his head on a submerr
ed log, sustaining severe injuries. Hs
was taken to New Orleans On the
train the next day for hospital treat
ment, his condition, due to high fever
ard his being unconscious. being "a
garded as serious.
During a Thunderstorm
which occurred here recently. REM
Box and Allen Brady, white men en-
ployed by the Big Pine Lumber Com
pany, were struck by lightning. BOX
being killed and Brady being render.
ed unconscious for several hours. Box
is survived by his wife and four Chill
areA The men were standing Be.
meath a tree when the lightnine
Flashed.
Alexandria. -Dr. A. B. Dinwiddisl
president, and Dr. Isadore Dyer. dean
Of the medical department Of the Tu-
lane University delivered addresses 81
the weekly luncheon of the Kiwania
Club here in the interest Of the cam
paign now being waged for funds for
Tulane University.
Bunkie.-Congressman James B. Aa4
well, in his tour Of Avoyelles parish
spoke in Bunkie at the DeIite Theatev
Alexandra, Judge Al Hundley. o.
the Alexandria City Court, is desirous
Of having the traffic laws Of the city.
as well as other laws, revised to meet
existing conditions. Judge Hundley
asserts that many of the existing laws
were enacted when Alexandria was
village, and they are now obsolete.
Houma. While experimenting with
a wireless outfit erected on a platform
and anchored in a tall tree, four boys
fell, one being fatally injured. They
are Robert Calvert. IA years old; RUS
sci Daussat, IS; Allen Munson, Jr.
II Of this city. and Chester Van Pelt.
H. native Of New Orleans. they
fell approximately forty feet.
Monroe.-Though late, cotton that
was not abandoned on account Of wet
weather during the spring has been
showing up fne for the past few
weeks with good prospects for a large
yield