The St. Mary banner., 1921-02-19

| down, due to the stagnant marhet'
| Warehouses are filled with rough rice
with little or no sales for clean.
Iota-Road grading and plowing OF
lands for the years crop have been
progressing rapidly during the past
! few days of dry weather.
Jacksonville Jackson Gravel Com
| pany has completed the trestle that
was damaged by the recent floods and
is again shipping gravel.
| Natchitoches.-The Parish Board of
Equalization has organized with V. G.
| Hyams as chairman, Arnold Sompay
rae vice chairman, and Robert J. Phil
lips secretary
Jacksonville Mccormick interests
their $4,000 acres Of supposed oil land
around here and will begin drilling
within so days for oil.
Natchitaches-The Inn Hotel was
badly damaged by fire which origi
mated in the attic. The water also did
much damage, especially to the second
floor The building is owned by DR..
J. S. Stephens.
Napoleonville.-Wit the favorable
weather of the past two weeks plant
ers have been busily engaged with
cane planting, and many Of them are
through Seed cane is pronounced
generally good and sound
veport.-According to mes
sage received by Mayor Ford Satur-
day, Mrs. Frances O. Allen has ar
ranged for four concerts to be given
at the Coliseum during March and
April
Natchitoches-Whil a number Of
students have been slightly indispossd
from having been vaccinated, small
pox seems to have died out with one
case which developed at the Normal
after the holidays.
Eunice.-The smokehouse of C. Ber-
trand, In West Eunics burned and so
pounds Of savory sausage went up in
smoke. Cured hams, fresh pork hams,
spareribs, homemade lard, and other
delicious porcupine products all were
sacrificed to the flames
Shibodeaux.-The special perform
ance given for the benefit of the starv
ing European children yielded s51.11.
No regular admission fee was charged,
In the public deposited such sums as
they felt inclined to give.
Natchitoches.-A notable transac-
tion in the clerks office was the con.
collation. Of a s4,0O0,000 mortgage The
mortgage was held by the Colonial
Trust Company against the Arkansas
Gas Company on property in Natchi-
toches parish and other places.
aquemine.-Crescent Agricultural
Club No. %. with the help of the par
ish agent, Mrs. Kirk, and H. Lesseps,
held meeting for the purpose Of out
lining their work for the coming year.
Marie Louise and Harold Miller were
elected as an executive committee.
Experimentation Pro Tenn Al
bert Calais has had force of labor
ers busy the past week cleaning gut |
ters and putting the town in first |
class shape. The streets are being |
graded with more gravel, and cement i
culverts are being installed under |
some Of the principal streets.
Pioneer-The first quarterly con-
ference Of the Oak Grove Circuit Of !
the Monroe District. Louisiana Con- |
ference of the Methodist Episcopal |
Church, South, was held in the new
brick church edifice just completed at |
Oak Grove, with Rev. w. L. Dodson,
the new presiding elder, in the chair.
Estherwood.-With the mercury
down to 3S, and frost on the ground.
early vegetables and buds that were
beginning to show signs OF growing |
were injured somewhat. There Is evil
dence that the farmers of this dis
trict are curtailing staple crops this
season.
Natchitoches.-All the Photographic
work for the Normal annual Pot
pourri" has been completed and the
art and literary end Of the work is
well under way. "Poutpourri" prom
ises to be the best ever issued by the
Normal and is the first issue for two
or three years, due to war times.