The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1922-08-11


bureaus and committee of nationa
headquarters will be located there, il
was announced
The officials in expressing their
delight over the progress made by
the New Orleans legionaires said that
the convention plans here are further
along than were plans in Kansas City
this time last year They sad az
least 100000 men are expected here
in October and that legiOnaires ali
over the country are looking to New
Orleans in anticipation of a grand
good time"
New Orleans, lathe United
States civil service commission an
nounced a number of examinations
| for government positions. Applicants
were not secured in sufficinet num-
| Der at recent examination for jun
ior engineer, junior physicist and jun
ior technologist of the bureau Of stand
ards and the examination will be held
again August %.
New Orleans, La.-Work on the
construction of the New Orleans
branch plant of the Ford Motor Com
pany has been started by John Riess
and H. N. Moody, contractors, who
have put $50 men to work preparing
the foundations. Excavations have
been made and concrete for the
foundations is being poured.
Estherwood, Lathe corn crop Of
Acadia parish is the best in fifteen
years and most Of it mature
Shreveport, LA G. Surtis. senior
vice-president of the Southwestern
Gas and Electric Company, has an
nounced that the Bethany Oil and Gas
Company, an affiliated concern, plans
an extensive addition to it's gas supply
for the city of Shreveport from Pa
ola county, Texas wells. This addi-
tional supply, he stated. will necessi-
tate a further expenditure covering
wells, trunk lines and connecting lat
erals aggregating approximately $780,
900.
Monroe, La-Mayor Arnold Bern
stein has received a request from the
Louisiana highway commission that
the toll at the Ouachita river bridge
between Monroe and West Monroe be
suspended, Mayor Bernstein said Mon
roe has for some time considered the
ad stability of abolishing the ton. but
that no action has been taken because
the state highway commission has not
yet made it clear when it proposes to
replace the present structure, which
is maintained by the city.
Lake Charles, LATHE Calcasieu
parish police jury, at it's regular meet
ing, gave permission to the Southern
Pacific railroad to install bell warn
ing signal at the crossing Of the OLD
Spanish Trail and the S. P. railroad
at West Lake, and this permission
was given to all railroads to do like
wise at any crossing in the parish
where it was thought necessary for
the signal.
Baton Rouge, LAZY a unanimous
vote the board of administrators Of the
Louisiana state university and greater
agricultural college has selected
Theodore c. Link Of St. Louis as the
architect to supervise the construc-
ton of the new buildings to be erected
on the university site south of Baton
Rouge.
Opelousas. lathe good roads
committee Of Opelousas trade extern
sion bureau will take up the matter of
building Route Of the state high |
way from Bogalusa through Coving- |
ton, Hammond. Denham Springs, b.
ton Rouge, Opelousas, Eunice, Basile, |
Elton, Kinder, Reeves on to DeQuin- |
cy.
New Iberia.-The ball was started |
to rolling for the 1922 Iberia parish
fair. when about a dozen local farm. ,
ers and business men here formed |
permanent organization.
New Orleans.-Dr. Charles Cassidy |
Bass, whose research work in malaria
WOA HluI ulSIlAClIOH, oil
nus and for more than ten years. an
instructor at Tulane, has betn elected
dean of the Tulane school of medi-
cine, it is announced.
DonaldsonNille.- The management
Of the South Louisiana Fair Associa-
ton of Donaldsonville announces that
It has completed the program for its
tenth annual show and exposition Oc-
tober Z to Is. Nearly $4,000 are Of
tered in cash premiums
Slidell, LA movement started
several weeks ago by the Sl:dell Sun.
a local newspaper, to establish
creamery and cheese factory in Slidell
was given impetus at a mass meeting
Of the citizens Of the town when o.
3. Price, parish demonstration agent.
addressed the meeting in favor of the
project.
Monroe-Four warehouses Of the
Jnited Oil and Gas Products Corpora.
ion of Monroe, in addition to num-
Yer of other buildings and ou4bouooc