The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-09-24

Lake Charles-The enrolment n
the city schools is 2129, while las
year at the end of the first month the
enrolment was 2116.
Franklin.-Bayou Teche is com
pletely jammed from bank to banb
from Shadyside Plantation up to New
Iberia with water hyacinths and small
boats are unable to navigate the
stream.
Lake Charles.-The Calcasieu police
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 Scotft1 in
Morgan City. c. p. Lynch, Joe Far.
rar. F. d. Winchester, Henry Loeb, NJ.
Z. 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 of the Ma
sons. The program consisted of the
Masonic ritual, vocal and instrumental
music and number of addresses.
Work on the new Marion School be-
gan some time ago. 1t will cost $780,.
900.
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,
If 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 /,
few minutes later, was sentenced by
he district court to serve from two to
our years in the Louisiana peniten-
larry.
New Orleans.-A new decision in
he reopened Natchez rate case by the
Interstate Commerce Commission, just
'eceived by the New. Orleans Joint
Traffic Bureau, has resulted in reduc-
ions in the freight rates on grain and
rain products, brick and hay with
nore liberal descriptions provided for
he shipment of junk
Lafayette.-A negro healer" and a
reacher Of radical ideas, created so
iuch excitement among the negroes
ere recently that Chief OF Police
hargois made him leave town. When
rdered to go, he informed the chief
lat he had received no orders from
cd to move on, but the chief per. :
laded him to overlook this discrep-
ncy.
New Orleans.-Foaming flagons of
al beer-countlsss stems and seidls
i'd pints-were emptied into the 7
wer here by federal prohibition
,ents. When the sorrowful task was q
er the agents wrote into the record N
at 900 cases and IS casks Of beer,
31,S16 pints, had been diverted from
e channels for which 1t was in o
nded. q
Lake Charles.-While in an automo. G
e, driven by Hardy Hart of Calves
a, Miss Rena Materne and Miss o.
adys RACIAL Of Lake Charles mar. n
WY escaped death in a wreck near a
3 Crowley road. The trio were re. ri
ming from funeral at New Iberia n,
ZEN the car struck a bump in the di
ID and turned a somersault. The n,
zee. slightly injured, crawled from d,
der the machine.
Jew Orleans.-The complete aboli-
of cotton planting throughout the
Ire cotton belt, through legislative Hi
ion, for one year was advocated as iti
only sure method of Kidding the de
th of the boil weevil, by Paul M. Or
is, a planter of Natitoches, La. be- ON
the Louisiana and Mississippi d. frc
ons OF the American Cotton Asso-
Ion meeting here in conjunction 4.
the Interstate Farm Congress.
lexandria. - The parish has lust u.
eived two ten-ton Holt tractors -.
'ugh the State Highway Depart. sn. m
It and Bureau of Public Roads.
Sc tractors were made during the
for use by the Ordnance Depart.
Il, but were never used. They are
to be the best type of tractor
e. They-will be used in road con. OF
cuon and il is claimed for them Cot
one tractor will do the work of low
I've teams. nou
organ City.-The Community Club :,
aorgan City, composed of women n
MS city, formally turned over to and
Doys of Morgan City a splendid mo,
community club fitted up with sion
'tic features and games. for
,inte q !. ~ Kor
'inpe Ia Hache.-O. Aucar, a live
raiser on Grand Bayou. who has