The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-09-03

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her body that he had little hope OF
! saving her life.
Pointe a la Hache.-Orders have
been received from the War Depart
ment for the dismantlement OF guns
and abandonment of Fort st. Philip
within the next month but 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 CharIes.-At the Lake Charles
Rotary Club luncheon the club unani.
mously endorsed the one-mill tax for
three years to build the Vinton- 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. @:
Chalkley would pay the expenses Of
the entire troop OF the Louisiana baD-
fist Orphanage located here.
Lake Charles.-The Calcasieu par.
ish police jury, as committee OF the
whole, at 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-
ton of a port and deep water project
for southwest Louisiana. On the same
date there has been called an cleo
ton 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, Ga, informing him Baton
Rouge had been named as 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'
ton.
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. M. 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 Hi.
nois State Fair at Springfield August
10 to q. Two days later it will be
given a prominent place at the Wis
consin State Fair at Milwaukee, Au-
gust 80 to September 3. 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.-1mprovem in the
corn crop Of Louisiana and slight fall
ing off in the rice and sugar cane
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-
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,
two-ffths less rice and one-third more
sugar There will be the largest crop
of sweet potatoes in history, and a
big increase in hay, oats and peanuts.
Monroe-Plans are going forward
in several Northeastern Louisiana
parishes to transform cotton gins into
factories for manufacturing mixed
feed, or to establish entirely new
plants of this kind, following the in
itial movement Of this kind which was
recently inaugurated in Ouachita par
ish. In Richmond, Morehouse, Lin
coin and Jackson parishes movements
Of this kind have been launched. The
plan is to utilize cotton ginning ma
chinery, with perhaps the addition Of
some new machinery.
Monroe-The Bastrop Pulp and Pa.
per Company has awarded con-
tracts for wood to be used by the
company's mill at Bastrop to scores
of timber owners in this part Of the
state, and it is announced that the
contracts call for 5000 carloads of
wood during the coming winter.
Shreveport.-W wading in an
old pool at Oil City, La, William Al
len, 9-year-old son of W. A. Allen, an
oil field worker, employed in the Ell
Dorado field, got beyond his depth |
and was drowned.
Houma-At a meeting of Little |
Gallon citizens held recently, resolu- |
tons were adopted asking the police |
jury to call an election in the ward |
that the taxpayers may vote upon levy
ing a fiye-mill ten years special road |