The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-08-12


least 100000 men are expected here
in October and that legionaires all
over the country are looking to New
Orleans In anticipation of grand
good time"
New Orleans, lathe United
States civil service commission an
nounced number Of examinations
for government positions. Applicants
were not secured in sufficinet num-
Der at a recent examination for jun
Tor engineer, junior physicist and jun
for technologist OF the bureau Of stand
ards and the examination will be held
again August %
New Orleans, La-Work on the
construction of the Now Orleans
branch plant OF the Ford Motor Com
pany has been started by John Riess
and II. n Moody cont actors, 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 &. 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 its gas supply
for the city Of Shreveport. from Pa
ola county, Texas wells This addi-
tonal supply, he stated, will necessi-
tate a further expenditure covering
wells, trunk lines and connecting lat
erals aggregating approximately $780,
600.
Monroe, La.-Mayor Arnold Bern
stein has received 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 toll. 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 a bell warn
Of
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, Dsnham Springs, Ba-
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
| control won him distinction. an alum
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
nonaldsonville- The management
| of the South Louisiana Fair Associa-
| ton OF Donaldsonville announces that
II has completed the program for its
tenth annual show and exposition Oc-
tober Z to 15 Nearly $4,000 are Of
| fered in cash premiums.
| Slidell. LA movement started
several weeks ago by the Slidell Sun.
local newspaper, to establish .
creamery and cheese factory in Slidell
! was given impetus at q mass meeting
Y OF the citizens of the town when o.
| G.. Price, parish demonstration agent,
addressed the meeting in favor of the
| project.
Monroe.-Four warehouses of the
United Oil and Gas Products Corpora
| ton OF Monroe, Ia addition TO a num-
| Der of other buildings and outhouses
/ were destroyed at Swartz by storm.
Shreveport. lathe obligations to
! be a model prisoner, to read portion
| of the Bible daily. to pray twice daily
| and TO live a better life while in pris-
on and out. has been taken by twenty
five white men confined in the Caddo
| parish ia,
Piaquemine, La-George Landry,
son OF DIR. A. A. Landry. and Barker
Landry OF Port Allen were hurt badly
In an automobile accident when the
car in which they were riding turned
over while going at high speed. at