The weekly Iberian., 1921-09-24

thTee months.
Lake Charles-The enrolment IL
the city schools is 2129, while last
year at the end OF the first month the
enrolment was 2116.
Franklin Bayou Teche is com
pletely jammed from bank to bank
from Shadyside Plantation up TO New
Iberia with water hyacinths and smau
boats are unable to navigate the
stream
Lake Charles.-The Calcasieu police
Jury has postponed. until It's October
meetings. the question OF buying part
OF the Richard property, adjoining the
courthouse, to be used as 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, r. D. Winchester, Henry Loeb, M.
Il. Norman and ]. l.. Fisher have the
matter in hand.
Arcadia-The local American Le
gion post is planning TO make Armis-
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 q number Of addresses
Work on the new Marion School be
gan some time ago. 1t will cost 500,
O0O
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 1t Of $1,000, which was
recovered when Pimenta was arrested
few minutes later was sentenced by
the district court to serve from two to
four years in the Louisiana peniten-
tiary.
New Oreans.-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-
tions 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
preacher Of radical ideas, created 80
much excitement among the negroes
here recently that Chief OF Police
Chargois made him leave town. When
ordered to 60, 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 Orleans.-Foaming flagons Of
real beer-countless stems and seidls
and pints-were emptied into the
sewer here by federal prohibition
agents. When the sorrowful task was
over the agents wrote into the record
that 900 cases and rs casks of beer,
or 31,S16 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
ten, Miss Rena Materne and Miss
Gladys Racial Of Lake Charles mar
rowly escaped death in wreck near
tie Crowley road The trio were re-
tu' ing ON a funeral at New lie
wh,a tile car struck a bump in
road and turned somersault.
three, slightly injured, crawled fir
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 AZ
the only sure method OF ridding the
south Of the, boil weevil, by Paul M.
Potts, a planter Of Natitoches, La, be-
fore the Louisiana and Mississippi d.
visions Of the American Cotton Asso-
citation meeting here in conjunction
with the Interstate Farm Congress.
Alexandria. - The parish has just
received two ten-ton Holt tractors
through the State Highway Depart
ment and Bureau OF Public Roads.
These tractors were made during the
war for use by the Ordnance Depart.
ment, but were never used They are
said to be the best type Of tractor
made. They will be used in road con-
and II Is claimed for them
that one tractor will do the work Of
twelve teams.
Morgan City.-The Community Club
Of Morgan City, composed Of women
Of this city, formally turned over to
the boys of Morgan City a splendid
boys community club fitted up with
athletic features and games.
Pointe la Hache-O. Aucar, live
stock raiser on Grand Bayou, who has
a large dove of goats on his prairie
lands. reports that wild buck deer
has propagated with the female goats