The Rice belt journal., 1920-10-16

LAFAYETTE. - Notwithstanding that
home building has been steadlly
booming the past year, the housing
problem never was so acutely VeXlns
9s now Houses are at premium
and thsi fact has encouraged greater
home building efforts as citizens anu
II IS impossible to rent homes or
apartments. The city has not kept
pace in this regard with its STEADY
growth and it presents the most Sc
rious handicap the city must over
come in It's development. Building
operations are going ahead at an un-
usual Clip, both mercantile and resi-
dental, but homes and business loca-
! tiOns are exceedingly difficult to nnd
now.
Monroe Trade Day" to
/ be inaugurated the third week IN Oc-
| tOber and a c0mmunit yfair OF TWO
days a week later, West Monroe, the
municipality opposite Monroe. is
launching into the most important
campaign of civic enterprise ever un-
| dertaken by west side citizens. The
two movements have the backing OF
the Commercial League OF West NON
roe. The officers Of the Ouachlta
Parish Fair Association at meeting
recently decided to back the COmmun-
it yfair asthere will be no parish talr
this year
Hammond. Another farmers as
sociation has been formed with Thorn
as Gessener at its head Mr.. Gessen-
er in the past has been connected
with the largest of the associations.
The new association will be the New
Strawberry Growers Association OF
Hammond The association will have
as its object the cooperative selling
and marketing Of strawberries, and
this will give Hammond three large
and fourishing associations devoted
to the strawberry industry.
Franklin.-ThIs community was
awakened by a loud explosion which
turned out to be that of dinky boiler
at the plant Of the Albert Hanson
Lumber Company, Garden City, La,
three miles from this town The
boiler was used to supply steam for
the fire pumps at that place. The
night watchman lost both of his arms
in the accident, but will recover Very
little other damage was done by the
explosion.
Monroe.-The Arkansas & Louisi-
ana Missouri Railroad Company began
operating between Monroe and Hut
tig recently,and it is expected that the
company will be enabled to operate
between this city and Crossett, Ark,
by January 1. The railroad between
Monroe and Bastrop has been practi- (
cally rebuilt and trains are operating
between the two points. Reconstruc- /.
tion wor kis now going forward on the
Bastrop- -Crossett end of the line
Lake Charles-United States Dis
trict Court for the Western District
of Louisiana has convened in Lake .
Charles. Jury Commissioners A. M. /
Mayo, Dick Wakefield and C. C. (
met and drew petit Jurors
for the October term of court. During
the October term arguments will be
heard in the $19,OO00O0 assessment
suit of the Union Sulphur Company
vs.. the parish of Calcasieu and the
state Of Louisiana.
Lafayette. More than 200 farm
ers from throughout the parish parti-
cipated in the organization OF the La
fayette Parish Farmers Association
and voted unanimously for a eoopera-
tive marketing system to become ef-
fectiVe at once. E. c. st. Julien of
Broussard, president of the Lafayette
Cane Growers Association was elect
ed president.
Lafayette.-The Bank of Maurice
was formally opened recently, the
event being the occasion for some.
hin of celebration by the farmers
and business men of that portion of
The parish. The bank is backed by
he business men and farmers almost
exclusively in that territory, and
nearly every stockholder was on hand
or the event.
Lafayette.-Plans for the organiza.
ion of a parish-wide commercial and
agricultural body to take the place Of
he defunct Chamber of Commerce
low include a mass meeting of all
he business men and planters and +
i've stock men of the parish at the
Forest Hill.--H. o. Ponder. former
postmaster here, has sold his resi-.
Ience to Leonard Johnson, to Clear
Water for $1,000 and will remove TO
ilenmora. The new postmaster, Rev
:, w. Bertschinger, has purchased !
ottage here and leased his farm re,
moving his family to this place.
Natchltoches. = The Natchitocbes
'hamber of Commerce has taken nm
'atchltoches High School. The va.
ne matter of new building for the
lous committees, site, bond, finance
etc, have been appointed
nd will push the matter.
Natltoches.- Miss Mary Reilv hon,o