The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-09-22

Lake CharIes.-The enrolment il
the city schools is 2l29, while las
year at the end Of the first month tn
enrolment was PIG.
Franklin Bayou Teche is com
pleteIy damned from bank to banl
from ShadySide Plantation up to New
Iberia with water hyacinths and small
boats are unable to navigate tht
! stream.
Lake Charles. The Calcasieu pol &C
jury has postponed until its October
meetings, the question Of buying part
Of the Richard property, adjoining the
courthouse. to be used as a city and
county park.
Morgan City.-A movement is on
foot to reorganize the Boy Scouts in
Morgan City. G. P. Lynch, Joe Far,
rar, F, D. Winchester, Henry Loeb, NJ.
E. Norman and J. l.. Fisher have the
matter in hand.
lathe local American lie.
sion post is planning TO make ARMS.
tice Day a large event. A number
of features will be added to the pro.
gram and arrangements for a nam.
moth crowd will be made
MOnrOe.-The corner stone of the
Marion High School building was laid
with exercises in charge of the Ma.
sons. Tie program consisted of the
Masonic ritual, vocal and instrumental
music and a number of addresses.
Work on the new Marion School te
gan some time ago. 1t will cost $780,.
600.
Monroe.-Cotton gins in Northeast
ern Louisiana are working overtime in
turning out bales of cotton. This fact,
together with the rising price of cot.
ton, is causing optimism to prevail
throughout this region as to better
business conditions.
Shreveport.-V. B. Pimenta, aged 20,
of Boston, who several days ago held
up the Exchange National Bank here
and robbed it of $1,000, which was
recovered when Pimenta was arrested
a few minutes later, was sentenced by
the district court to serve from two to
four years in the Louisiana peniten-
tiary.
New Orleans.-A new decision in
the reopened Natchez rate case by the
Interstate Commerce Commission Just
received by the New Orleans Joint
Traffic Bureau, has resulted in reduc.
lions in the freight rates on grain and
grain products, brick and hay with
more liberal descriptions provided for
the shipment of junk.
Lafayette.-A negro healer" and a
preacher Of radical ideas, created so
much excitement among the negroes
here recently that Chief OF Police
Chargois made him leave town. When
to go, he informed the chief
that he had received no orders from
God to move on, but the chief per.
suaded him to overlook this discrep.
ancy.
New DEMONSTRATING fagons Of
real beer-countless stems and seidls
and pints emptied into the
sewer here by federal prohibition
agents. When the sorrowful task was
over the agents wrote into the record
hat 900 cases and 78 casks of beer,
'r 31,S16 pints, had been diverted from
he channels for which it was in.
ended.
Lake Charles.-WhiIe in an automo
ollie, driven by Hardy Hart of Calves.
on, Miss Rena Materne and Miss
iladys Racial Of Lake Charles mar.
'owly escaped death in a wreck near
he Crowley road. The trio were re.
urning from a funeral at New Iberia
When the car struck bump in the
Dad and turned a somersault The
hree, slightly injured, crawled from
lnder the machine.
New Orleans.-The compete aboli.
ion OF cotton planting throughout the
ntire cotton belt, through legislative
ctlon, for one year was advocated as
ne only sure method Of Kidding the
outh OF the boil weevil, by Paul NJ.
otis, a planter Of Natitoches, La, be-
IRE the Louisiana and Mississippi di.
lsions OF the American Cotton Asso.
|ation meeting here in conjunction
18th the Interstate Farm Congress.
Alexandria. - The parish has Just
ecelved two ten.ton Holt tractors {
trough the State Highway Depart
lent and Bureau Of Public Roads. {
hese tractors We're made during the
'ar for use by the Ordnance Depart. ,
lent, but were never used. They are
aid to be the best type of tractor ,
lade. They will be used. in road con. 9
lruction and it is claimed for them g
lat one tractor will do the work Of
gelve teams. 7
Morgan City.-The Community Club
Morgan City, composed Of women
this city, formally turned over to
le boys Of Morgan City o splendid Il
'ys' community club fitted up with
hletic features and games. ?
Pointe a la Hache.-O. Aucar, a live p
ock raiser on Grand Bayou, who has
large drove Of goats on his prairie