The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-19

Do Ridder.-Dr John D. Frazer
qualified as sheriff Of Beauregard par"
ish recently. He has appointed for
mer deputy clerk of court, N. &.
Crawford, as his chief Office deputy,
and M. NJ Wood, his chief outside
deputy. Other deputies will pc APP
pointed later for the various wards.
The outgoing sheriff, w. A. Martin.
who has been sheriff for the past sew
en- years since Beauregard was Great
ed out of the old Calcasieu, will de-
vote his attention to his farm and
his logging interests.
Franklin. - The millinery estab-
lishment Of Miss Carma j. Lancles on
Main street was destroyed by fire and
the building next to it, which was oc-
cupied by W. T. Peterman and Chas.
Mccarthy, was badly damaged by frs
and water. Mr.. Mccarthy occupied
the upstairs portion of this building
as sleeping apartment and only had
time to escape from the burning build
ing in his night clothes. The lower
floor was occupied by Peterman &
Loustalot, general contractors.
PlaQuemine. - Closing exercises Of
the Plaquemien High School took
place at the auditorium. One Of the
largest classes in the history Of the
school was graduated as follows: Mar
garet WILDER, Bessie Long, Bessie
Saurez, Helen Holloway Irene Schul.
er, Hilda Gabb, May Kornegay, Doris
Marionneaux, Louise Dubois, Maud
Boutet, Gertrude Schexnaildre, Janice
DeblieuI, Nora Caffarel, Muriel Du.
pont, Henrietta Briehm, ThelmA
Kleinpeter and Ben Deblieux.
Donaldsonville. - The brick work
on the new theater building Of the
Community Company, Inc, in course
Of construction In Mississippi street,
will be completed soon and the build
ing Of the roof, paving of the floor
and cementing the walls will then be-
gin and be pushed forward as expedi-
tiously as possible. It is expected
the theater will be completed and
ready to begin operations BY Al
gust 10.
Kentwood.-Mrs. J. c. Roberts, hv-
ing four miles west OF Kentwood,
brought to town recently two
branches cut from plum trees in an
orchard on her place, one containing
ffty-six plums and the other forty
seven, growing In clusters like grapes.
Mrs. Roberts says the plums are Of
the everbearing variety, and ripen
during the entire summer months,
from June to October.
Kentwood.-C. E. B. Davis, for q
number of years an employee Of the r.
L. Taylor Company here, has resign
ed his position with that firm and en-
tered business for himself as a con-
tractor and builder. Mr.. Davis WV
begin the construction Of Ave school
buildings In st. Helena parish at the
instance Of the board Of education Of
that parish.
Kentwood-Mrs. L. E. Simmons Of
Kentwood has received an official
communication from the grand chief
Of the Pythian Sisters. informing her
that she has been made past chief
and appointed as deputy grand chief
Of Pythian Sisters. This appointment
places upon her the work of organic
ing and instituting lodges throughout
the state.
Franklin. v. Rabb, parish dem
onstration agent, will have with him
for several days E. G. Davis, bee spe-
cialist of the State Department OF Ag-
riculture, for the purpose Of giving de-
monstrations In driving bees from the
old style hives to patent hives. Mr..
Davis was in the parish about three
weeks ago and assisted in the organ
ization of Bee Keepers Association.
Ruston. George L. Nickerson Of
Shreveport with Guy Empey and his
staff OF movie photographers were in
town recently in the interest Of the
100000 campaign for the orphanage
located here. Pictures were taken Of
the orphanage, and the business parts
Of town, to be presented throughout
the state.
Alexandria. - The following COM
mittees to conduct the membership
campaign for the local post of the
American Legion have bsen appoinS-
ed: DR.. P. K. Rand, Clyde Pearce,
W. e. Holloman, Dr.. r. P. Evans,
Sam Began, Ben Neal. A, M. Pyburn,
Pierson Fitzpatrick, DR.. NJ. Cappel,
Cleveland Dear, Sol Pressburg, G. G.
Clark, R F. White George ]. Gins
burg.
Clinton, La. - The old board Of po-
lice Jurors met, G. L. Gazden from the
Third Ward, absent. They approval
all bills due for the month of May,
amounting to $2,51O.73, and ali other
routine business and then adjourned.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at state
normal school exceeds all expectations
as "a students have been enrolled