The St. Mary banner., 1921-03-12

De Ridder.-The Phil Simon gents
furnishing store has been transferred
to the GreenWald Co, Inc Isadore
GreenwaId and his son Ellie will oper-
ate the business.
Lake Charles.-The newly organ
lied Housewives League OF Lake
Charles held its second meeting re-
Gently with membership increased
by eightythree persons.
: Natchitoches.- The first rain in
three weeks fell In this section re-
Gently. However, farm work is still
! greatly behind. A fair acreage has
been planted in Irish potatoes.
Houma,-The fact that Houma
banks are lending money to the
planters and farmers of the parish,
has its effect to instill confidence and
good cheer in business circles.
| Forest Hill.-A series of Methodist
| meetings began here recently and will
! continue several days. Several more
ministers are expected to help the
local minister with the meeting.
HOuma.-In the manufacture of
grdnulated sugar great strides have
| been made by the three refineries in
this parish which have been equipped
for making this high grade of sugar.
Houma.-Lee P. Lottinger has re-
Gently sold his entire interests in the
Pelican Lake and Oyster Company,
and in the store near Daigleville, to
| his associate in business, Theodore
Engeron of this city.
Houma.-On account of the long
spell of warm weather which has pre-
vailed in this section, the farmers
here are expressing uneasiness as to
the fruit and early truck crop this
year They fear the present cold
wave will have the effect of destroy
ing the crops.
De Ridder.-That De Ridder is
fourishing in business way is evi-
denced by the fact that new business
concerns and persons seeking business
investments are locating here and
either buying out established business
concerns or else looking for locations
to open new lines.
De Ridder.-The Coco Cola Bottling
Works has been transferred from
S. W. Holland to D. D. Stevenson and
partners, who have taken possession |
and will manage the plant. Mr.. Hol-
land has severed his business connec-
tions in De Ridder after many years of |
successful operations
Houma.-Good weather has enabled |
the planters to make satisfactory prog
ress with their planting operations
during the past week or two and plans
are being carried out, as far as the
financial situation permits to plant for
one of the largest sugar crops in the
history Of the industry.
Lake Charles.-The absence of In
fuenza and pneumonia from Lake
Charles this winter is most likely due
to the extreme mild weather of Janu-
airy to March %, 1920, 1890 cases of
were reported. This year there is q
notable absence Of these diseases.
Forest Hill-Crawford Willis, aged
IL, a pupil of the Forest Hill High
School, while returning home from
school recently picked up dynamite
cartridge in the road and applied the
match to it. When the smoke died
away and cleared up it was found that
two fingers Of his right hand were
gone.
Thibodaux.- Albert Bou-
dreaux, having found that closing the
postoffice after distributing the p. m.
mail was not satisfactory to many
patrons of the office, wrote to the
postal authorities for permission to
resume the former plan. He had
screens and wickets placed in the Of
fce as a safety measure. and the Of
fee remains open until $50.
Lake Charles = The lowest egg
prices in many years was established
here when retail stores hung out signs
of rs cents per dozen. In the smaller
towns in the eastern portion of the
parish the eggs are bringing only 20
cents a Dozen Hens are being main
tanned by farmers at small cost now,
as they are being fed crushed rice.
Thibodaux-O. Songe, of the lower
part of this parish, went to Morgan
-,i4.r and dismantlad the canning fac.