The St. Mary banner., 1921-10-01
LOUISA A MA
HAPPENINGS
Neus of the Pelican State Arrang-
ed In CONDEMNED Form

Lake Chares.-The enrolment In
the city schools is 2129, while last
year at the end Of the first month the
enrolment was 21l6.
Frankin-Bayou Teche is com
pletely jammed from bank TO bank
from Shadyside Plantation up to New
Iberia with water hyacinths and small
boats are unable to navigate the
stream
Lake Charles-The Calcaeieu police
jury has postponed, until its October
meetings. the question Of buying part
Of the Richard property, adjoining the
courthouse, to be used as city and
county park.
Morgan Cfty-A movement is on
foot to reorganize the Boy Scouts in
Morgan City. c. p Lynch, Joe Far,
rar, r. D. Winchester Henry Loeb. NJ.
f. Norman and J. l.. Fisher have the
matter in hand.
Arcadia-The local American Le
gion post is planning TO make Armis'
tice Day 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 Ct 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 be-
gan some time ago 1t will cost $780,,
900.
Monroe. 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 1t 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
r,tn ta h1yt ho
Interstate Commerce Commission, just
received by the New Orleans Joint
Traffic Bureau, has resulted in reGuc-
tions in the freight rates on grain and
grain products, brick and hay with
more liberal descriptions provided foI
the shipment of junk.
I.afay"tte-A negro 'healer" end
preacher Of radical ideas, created so
much excitement among the negroes
here recently that Chief OF Ponce
Chargois made him leave town. When
ordered to go. he informed tie chief
that he had received no orders from
God to move on, but the chief per
suaded him to overlook this discrep-
ancy.
New Orleans Foaming fagcns OF
real beer countless stems and seidls
and pints were empt'ed into the
sewer here by federal prohibition
agents When the sorrowful task was
over the agents wrote into the record
that 900 cases and IS casks of beer,
or 81. SIG pints, had been diverted from
the channels for which it was IN
tended.
Lake Charles-While in an automo
bile, driven by Hardy Hart Of Calves.
ton, Miss Rena Materne and Miss
Gladys Rachal of Lake Charles mar.
rOwly escaped death in a wreck neaI
the Crowley road The trio were re-
turning from funeral at New iberia
when the car struck bump in Il
road and turned somersault. tt.
three, slightly injured, crawled from
under the machine.
New OrleanS-The complete aboli- |
ton of cotton planting throughout the
entire cotton belt. through legislative
action, for one year was advocated as
the only sure method of ridding the
south of the boil weevil, by Paul NJ |
Potts. planter Of Natitoches La, be- |
fore the Louisiana and Mississippi d. f!
visions of the American Cotton Asso-
citation meeting here in conjunction
with the Interstate Farm Congress.
Alexandria. = The parish has just I
received two tenton Holt tractors |
through the State Highway Depart /
ment and Bureau OF Public Roads. 7
These tractors were made during The