The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-06-10

| Legislature by the legal committee OF
the Prison Reform Association, &C
cording to Charles H. Patterson, Sec
rotary OF the association.
"A" committee late tonight by a vote
Of six to two voted for favorable re-
port on the Butler-Shattuck bill to
prohibit race track gambling. The bill
was amended to apply to licensed
racing meets.
Jeanerette, La.-Recently dt mid
night there appeared at tho home Of
the late John c. Bussey, six figures
robed in the regalia Of the Ku Klux
Khan. They entered the house silent
ly, placed a cross Of roses on the cas-
ket, knelt in silent prayer and depart
ed as silently and as mysteriously as
they came.
Rayne, La-James L. Craig, owner
and editor for the last eighteen years
of the Rayne Tribune and one Of the
best known newspaper men in the
state died suddenly in his Of
fee. He was engaged in newspaper
work for many years having begun
at the age Of 10 years at Paris, Tex
as.
Minden.-Sherriff Hutch" Phillips
is in receipt Of letter from Federal
Prohibition Commissioner R. A
Haynes commencing him for his eff
forts to enforce the prohibition law
in Webster parish. Two raids in the
Springhill section resulted in the cap
ture of a five-gallon still, and guam
tity Of liquor and an automobile.
Shreveport.-Dick Hammett, negro,
was fined $25 and cost in the district
court here for failing to dip cattle.
but the penalty was suspended after it
was explained that the negro had
dipped all his animals except two head
who broke from the herd en- route to
the dipping vat. Tick eradication is
showing splendid progress here as
part Of a cooperative plan between
Texas and Louisiana officials.
Monroe-J. E. Henderson, repre-
senting an English syndicate has been
here from Louisville, KY, for the
purpose Of the establishment OF
woodworking plant. The company
will employ $50 men. according to
Henderson, and will be established
south of Monore on the Missouri Pa
cific railway and the Ouachita river.
Cedar Grove.-The Ebon and the
Western carbon plants and the spoke
and rim factory, all Of which employ
about 100 men each, have shut down,
due, the managers claim, to rise in the
gas price, and are preparing to move
their plants, most Of them to the Mon
roe gas field The Ebon and Western
carbon plants will move to Swartz,
the large chimney plants to near Mon
roe, while the rim and spoke plant
has already moved to Fort Smith
Ark.
Shreveport.-Build operations
continued good in Shreveport, as
shown by the report Of the city in
spector, who during the week issued
seventy-seven permits, representing
total cost Of $88,414.
Monroe-A huge panther has been
reported at large in the country around
this city and recently invaded the mum
icipality itself. J. H. Young, 40S
Calypso street, declared he spied the
beast as it sped from his back yard.
New Orleans.-Funds obtained
through the New Orleans Red Cross
Chapters tag day brought the total
amount donated in New Orleans for
flood relief work to approximately
$4,000.
Monroe.-Plans are being made by
the Ouachita parish agricultural fore
es and the leaders of the Louisiana
experimental station at Calhoun for
a rally of women agricultural leaders
at Calhoun the last Wednesday in
June. Home demonstration agents
from ten North Louisiana parishes are
expected to attend.
New misunderstanding Of cot.
ton received locally at New Orleans
will be eliminated and an immense
saving effected in the handling charg-
es under a new system devised by q
special committee of nine members of
the Cotton Exchange headed by Presi-
dent Edward S. Butler. The recon-
mendations of the committee, which
has been studying the local cotton sit
uation for a year, were approved yes
terday by the board of directors of
the Cotton Exchange and the new
handling system will become effec-
tive August 1.
Ringgold.-The new high school
erected here at cost of approximate.
ly $4,000, a two-story brick structure
was dedicated with a barbecue and
doubleheader baseball series as special
attractions.
Monroe.-Lieutenant Colonel R. F.
Mcmillan, chief-of-staff of the Eighty
seventh Division, with headquarters
at New Orleans was In Monroe for the
purpose of arousing interest in the Cit
liens Military Training Camp at
Camp Mcmillan, Alabama, on July
~ to August 26.
Shreveport.-Miss Elser Wilson.