Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-06-19

Crawford. as his chief office deputy.
and NJ NJ Wood, his chief outside
deputy Other deputies Will be ap-
pointed later for the various wards.
The out going sheriff, w. A. Martin,
who has been sheriff for the past sew
en- years since BeaureKard was Great
ed out of the old Calcasieu. will de
vote his attention 10 his farm and
his logging interests.
Franklin - The millinery estab-
lishment Of Miss Carma J. I.anCles on
Main street was destroyed by fire and
the building next to it, which was 90
Cupied by w. T. Peterman and Chas.
Mccarthy. was badly damaged by fire
and water. Mr.. Mccarthy occupied
the upstairs portion of this building
as a sleeping apartment and only had
time to escape from the burning build
ing in his night clothes. The lower
floor was occupied by Peterman &
LoustRlot, 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 Schulz
er, Hilda Gabb, May Kornegay, Doris
Marionneaux, Louise Dubois, Maud
Boutet. Gertrude Schexnaildre, Janice
Deblieux, Nora Cafrarel, Muriel Du.
pont, Henrietta Briehm. Thelma
Kleinpeter and Ben DeblieuI.
Donaldsonville. - The brick work
on the new theater building Of the
Community Company, Fnc 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. II is expected
the theater will be completed and
ready to begin operations by An
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
fifty-six plums and the other forty
seven, growing in clusters Ike grapes.
Mrs. Roberts says the plums are of
the everbearing variety. and ripen
during the entire summer months.
from June to October.
Kentwood.-C. f. B. Davis, for a
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 WI
begin the construction Of five 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
that she has been made past chief
and appointed as deputy grand chief
n 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 f. c. Davis, bee spe-
cialist of the State Department Of Az
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.. Nfckerson OF
Shreveport with Guy Empey and his
staff OF movie photographers were In
town recently in the interest of the
$500, 600 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 been appoint
ed: DIR. P. X. Rand. Clyde Pearce,
w. E. Holloman, DR.. R. P. Evans,
Sam Began, ben Neal. A, M. Pyburn,
Pierson Fitzpatrick. DR.. M. Cappel,
Cleveland Dear, Sol Pressburg, c. G.
Clark, r. r. 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 s2.510,73, and all other
routine business and then adjourned.
Natchitoches.-Enro at state
normal school exceeds all expectations
as 81 students have been enrolled.
This Is 200 students more than the
dormitories can accommodate and an
other hundred students are expected.
jacksonville. Fire destroyed the
building occupied by Joseph Leblanc
as a grocery store. The entire stock
was burned. No insurance was car
ried