The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-27

coffee on an open fire place, her cloth
ing catching fire and being complete
| ly burned from her body. A physi'
/ clan was called Immediately, but the
! burns were so severe on all parts OF
her body that he had little hope of
saving her life.
Ponte a la Hache.-Orders have
been received from the War Depart
ment for the dismantlemcnt Of guns
and abandonment of Fort st. Philip
within the next month, but a few SOL
diers are now stationed there and the
| equipment not transferred to other
forts will be sent to the army supply
! base in New Orleans. One sergeant
and ten soldiers only will be kept in
the fort to care for the property.
Lake Charles.-At the Lake Charles
Rotary Club luncheon the club unani-
mously endorsed the one-mill tax for
three years to build the Sabine
section of the Old Spanish Trail.
Members individually pledged the ex-
penses of twenty-five Boy Scouts to
the summer -encampment at Prien
Lake. 1t was announced that E n.
Hazard, G. A. Courtney and H. G..
Chalkley would pay the expenses Of
the entire troop of the Louisiana Bap-
tist Orphanage located here.
Lake Charles.-The Calcasieu par
ish police jury, as committee of the
whole, at a meeting with the port and
waterways committee of the Lake
Charles Association of Commerce.
agreed to call an election on Novem-
Der to vote bonds for the construc-
tion of port and deep water project
for southwest Louisiana. On the same
date there has been called an elec-
tion to vote taxes for the completion
of the Vinton-Sabine link of the Old
Spanish trail.
Baton Rouge. - Mayor Grouchy is
in receipt of a letter from H. B., Cla-
gett, major of the air service, Fort
Mcpherson, Ca, informing him Baton
Rouge had been named as a main
station of the chartered airway line
between Lake and Gulf. The city is
asked to provide suitable and safe
landing field for airplanes, convenient
to water, electricity and transporta-
tion.
Monroe.-Many large sweet potato
curing and storage houses will have
to be built this year or hundreds of
thousands of sweet potatoes will go to
waste, according to B. NJ. Jackson,
Ouachita agricultural agent. Reports
received here from a number of par
ishes are TO the effect that the crop
of sweet potatoes will be in excess Of
the facilities for storing and curing
the output.
New Orleans.-A comprehensive ex-
hibit of the products and resources
of Louisiana will be made at the Illi-
nois State Fair at Springfield August
10 to 27. Two days later II will be
given a prominent place at the Wis
consin State Fair at Milwaukee, Au-
gust 29 to September 8. 1t will then
do duty at the Kansas fairs at Tope-
ka and Hutchinson, and will be rear
ranged and enlarged for the Interna-
tional Live Stock Show at Chicago.
New Orleans.-Improvem in the
corn crop of Louisiana and slight fall
crops during July, was reported by
the New Orleans Bureau of Market
and Crop Estimates. Despite the de-
cline in the condition of the rice and
sugar for the one month, the former
still is reported to be in good condi.
ton and the latter in the best condi.
ton of any sugar crop on CORE
spending date in the last ten years,
except in 1916. In brief, the bureau
forecasts about one-third more corn
than last year, one-third less cotton,
.wo-fifths less rice and one-third more
sugar. There will be the largest crop
,f sweet potatoes in history, and a
big increase in hay, oats and peanuts |
Monroe.-Plans are going forward
n several Northeastern Louisiana |
to transform cotton gins into |
for manufacturing mixed |
eed, or to establish entirely new
)lants Of this kind followino the in. |
tial movement of this kind which was
ecently inaugurated in Ouachita par
sh. In Richmond, Morehouse, Lin
,oln and Jackson parishes movements
u this kind have been launched. The
'lan is to utilize cotton ginning ma
'hinery, with perhaps the addition OF
ome new machinery.
Monroe.-The Bastrop Pulp and Pa.
'er Company has awarded con-
racts for wood to be used by the
'ompany's mill at Bastrop to scores
# timber owners in this part of the
tate, and it is announced that the
contracts call for 1000 carloads Of
vood during the coming winter.
Shreveport.-While wading in an
Id pool at Oil City, La, William AL
EN-, 9year-old son of w. A. Allen, an
III field worker, employed in the Ell
Dorado field, got. beyond his depth
nd was drowned.