The St. Mary banner., 1921-09-03

Wlle OF FARMER ADOul tHioe AaiiSe
from here on Bayou Lafourche, met
With a serious accident while making
coffee on an open fire. place, her cloth
ing catching fire and being complete
ly burned from her body A physl-
clan was called Immediately. but the
burns were so severe on all parts OF
her body that he had little hope OF
saving her life.
Pointe a la Hache.-Orders have
been received from the War Depart
ment for the dismantlemcnt OF guns
and abandonment Of Fort St Philip
within the next month, but few sol.
diers are now stationed there and the
equipment not transferred to other
forts will be sent to the army supply
base In New Orleans. One sergeant
and ten soldiers only will be kept In
the fort to care for the property.
Lake Charles-A the Lake Charles
Rotary Club luncheon the club unani-
mously endorsed the one-mill tax Tor
tHTte years W Dullu TIC
section OF the Old Spanish Trail.
Members individually pledged the sx-
penses OF twenty-five Boy Scouts TO
the summer encampment at Pr1en
Lake 1t was announced that +. n.
Hazard, G.. A. Courtney and n. q.
Chalkley would pay the expenses OF
the entire troop OF the Louisiana Bap.
tist Orphanage located here.
Lake Charles.-The Calcasieu par
ish police jury, as a committee OF the
whole, at meeting with the port and
waterways committee Of the Lake
Charles Association of Commerce.
agreed to call an election on Noven-
Der to vote bonds for the constrac-
tion of port and deep water project
for southwest Louisiana. On the same
date there has been called an cleo
tion to vote taxes for the completion
of the Vinton-S Sabine link Of the Old
Spanish trail.
Baton Rouge - Mayor Grouchy is
in receipt OF letter from II. 3. Cla-
gett. major Of the air service, Fort
Mcpherson. Ca, informing him Baton
Rouge had been named as main
station of the chartered airway line
between Lake and Gulf. The city is
asked to provide suitable and safe
landing field for airplanes, convenient
TO water. electricity and transporta-
| tion.
Monroe Many large sweet potato
curing and storage houses will have
| to be built this year or hundreds OF
| thousands OF sweet potatoes will go to
waste, according to B. M. Jackson,
| Ouachita agricultural agent. Reports
| received here from number Of par.
ishes are to the effect that the crop
! Of sweet potatoes will be In excess OF
the facilities for storing and curing
the output.
New Orleans-A comprehensive ex.
hibit of the products and resources
! Of Louisiana will be made at the Hi
nois State Fair at Springfield August
49, to 27 Two days later 1t will be
given a prominent place at the Wis
consin State Fair at Milwaukee. Au.
gust 20 to September 3. 1t will then
do duty at the Kansas fairs at Tope
ka and Hutchinson. and will be rear.
ranged and enlarged for the Interna
tional Live Stock Show at Chicago.
New Orleans s-Improvement in the
corn crop of Louisiana and slight fall
ing off in the rice and sugar cane
crops during July. was reported by
the New Orleans Bureau of Market
and Crop Estimates. Despite the de
cline in the condition Of the rice and
sugar for the one month, the former
still is reported to be in good condi
ton and the latter in the best condi
tion Of any sugar crop on CORE
spending date in the last ten years
except in 1916. In brief. the bureau
forecasts about one third more corr
than last year. one-third less cotton
two-fifths less rice and one-third more
sugar. There will be the largest croI
OF sweet potatoes in history, and 9
big increase in hay, oats and peanuts
Monroe.-Plans are going forward
in several Northeastern Louisiana
parishes to transform cotton gins into
factories for manufacturing mixeC
feed, or to establish entirely new
plants of this kind, following the In
itial movement Of this kind which was
recently inaugurated in Ouachita par
ich In Rich mani Anrahnuea In