The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-01-17
Lake Charles.-R. c. PorKJn ana

ness men at the Association Of Com
mercc in the interest of establishing
a factory in Lake Charles for the
manufacture of brick, pressed brlck'
tile and tile roofing The Builders
Products Company owns the state
rights on a patent which can manu-
factlre the building products from
waste saw mill materials.
Shreveport "A reduction CT nearly
200 per cent in the rate OF refined oil
from Louisiana producing points to
stations on the Rock island in Arkan-
sas is now in effect, according TO Az
nouncement of L. F. Daspt;, traf1ic
manager Of the Chamber of Com
merce. The new rate Is % II cents
per hundl ed, whereas the old rate was
sc 1-2 cents. The deduction Is pub
iished in Supplement to Southwest
ern Lines Tarif1 35-L.
Lake Charles.-The consumption OF
Jamaica ginger has assumed large
proportions in Lake Charles. 1t Is
reported hundreds Of bottles were pur-
chased locally during the present
week and consumed as substitute
for whiskey and wines. The product
is labeled as 80 per cent alcohol.
There are a number OF persons dan
gercusly i'll in this city as the result
of drinking the fluid.
Lake Charles-While a Missouri
Pacific engine was en- route from the
shops to the Missouri Pacific station
it derailed and turned on one side.
Curlcy Kyies, negro section man, was
pinned under the engine, but was
rescued after an hours work on the
BART of the wrecking crew, and hs
was taken to St Patrick's sanitarlum,
where examination showed ne was in
no way injured.
Monroe.-The order of the Inter
state Commerce Commission in the
Memphis Southwestern freight rata
investigation, made public, is the
greatest commercial victory that has
been won for Monroe in some time,
according to H. j. Fernandez, traffic
manager of the Monroe Chamber OF
Commerce, who handled The COM
plant of Monroe jobbing interests So
fore the commission.
Monroe Reconstruction work on the
new light and power plant garbage
incinerator and other Improvements
in the city, bonds for which werA
voted in November, will be started BY
March If present plans materialiae, &C
cording to Mayor Bernstein. While
the bond issue provided funds for the
rebuilding of practically all the public
utilities, work on the power plant will
be given precedence.
Shreveport -Arrangements for the
crganiza ion Of tie McGregor Oil Co.,
to be chartered under the laws al
Delaware with $15,000,0o0 capital
have been completed in New York
according to j. w. Mastin, who has
returned from that city. The com
pany's holdings, it is stated, consist
Of approximately 10000 acres in Louis
lana, Texas, Mexico and Oklahoma.
Coushatta-Sheriff E. F. Preslal
and a squad of deputies made raid
on a "wild cat" still in the northern
part of the parish and arrested Mack
Upton, white. Buster Moore and An
derson Lovelace, negroes. The trio
were busily engaged in making moon
shine whiskey, the officers say.
Houma.-O of the Per
shing Way Association in South Lou
.siaIia was undertaken at meeting
held in Houma. Herbert F. McDoug
all. secretary manager of the new
Winnipeg tc New Orleans highw:1
project was in Houma for the meet
ing.
New Orleans.-A fight between ar
automobile chauffeur and soldier
from Jackson barracks Saturda.
night resulted in a near-riot In thu
vicinity Of the Terminal Station
Canal and Basin street.
Alexandria, banquet was giveI
at Hotel Bentley by the members O.
the Rapides Bar Association, IL
honor Of Judge w. F. Blackman, whit
has Just retired from the bench o
the Thirteenth judicial district
after forty-thrce years Of continuou,
service, and Judge John A. Williams
of Colfax, his successor.
Franklinton.-The vote for Wash
ington parish in the January prlmar,
will probably be around $500. TIT
roll tax payments for this year viii
20 to 5000 but many of the paysr'
do not hold the 1918 receipts and are
DISQUALIFIED for various reasons.
Baton Rouge. = National Thrift
Week will be observed in Baton Rouge
January II to "a with an intensive
educational campaign initiated b.
business men of the city to encour
age all possible means of saving.
Hammond.--The city commissioner:
have decided on the sale of the $4,000
hook and ladder fire truck, which wal
purchaseh for the fire department
four years ago. It has been uset
twice.
Shreverort-A shipment of 15l