The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-08-25

her body that ne nad HUE hope VI
saving her life.
Pointe 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 a 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. AT the Lake Charles
Rotary Club luncheon the club unani-
endorsed the 0ne-mill tax for
three years to build the Vinton-Sabine
section of the Old Spanish Trail.
Members individually pledged the ex'
penses of twenty-five Boy Scouts to
the summer encampment at Prien
Lake. 1t was announced that E. N.
G. A. Courtney and H. G..
would pay the expenses OF
the entire troop of the Louisiana Bap'
fist OrDhanage located here.
Lake Charles.-The Calcasieu par.
ish police jury, as committee of the
whole, at a meeting with the port and
waterways committee Of the Lake
Charles Association of Commerce,
agreed to call an election on NOyem'
Der 5 to vote bonds for the construc'
ton Of a port and deep water project
for southwest Louisiana. On the same
date there has been called an cleo
ton to vote taxes for the completion
of the Vinton.Sabine link of the Old
Spanish trail.
Baton Rouge. - Mayor GrOuChy is
in receipt Of a letter from II. B. Cla'
gett, major of the air service, Fort
Mcpherson, Ca, informing him Baton
Rouge had been named as a 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
ton.
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 a 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
10 to q. Two days later it will be
given prominent place at the Wis
consin State Fair at Milwaukee, ,Au
gust 20 to September 8. 1t will ther
do duty at the Kansas fairs at Tope
ka and Hutchinson, and will be rear
ranged and enlarged for the lnterna
tional Live Stock Show at Chicago.
New ans.-lmprovement IN thu
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 Marke
and Crop Estimates. Despite the de
cine in the condition of the rice ant
sugar for the one month, the former
still is reported to be in good condi
ton and the latter in the best condi
ton Of any sugar crop on a 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 crol
Of sweet potatoes In history, and
big increase in hay, oats and peanuts
Monroe.-Plans are going forward
in several Northeastern Louisian;
parishes to transform cotton gins int.
factories for manufacturing mixet
feed, or to establish entirely new
plants Of this kind, following the in
itial movement Of this kind which wa,
recently inaugurated in Ouachita par
,ish. In Richmond, Morehouse, Lin
coin and Jackson parishes movement
Of this kind have been launched. TIL,
plan is to utilize cotton ginning ma
chinery, with perhaps the addition O
some new machinery.
Monroe THE Bastrop Pulp and Pa
per Company has awarded con
tracts for wood to be used by tn,
company's mill at Bastrop to score
Of timber owners in this part of tn,
state, and it is announced that tn,
contracts call for 1000 carloads O
wood during the coming winter.
Shreveport.-While wading in al
old pool at Oil City, La, William Al
len, 9-year-old son Of W. A. Allen, al
oil field worker, employed in the E
Dorado field, got beyond his dept
and was drowned.