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THE RICE BELT JOURNAL WELSH PTG. CO., LTD., Pubs. WETH T lOl TTT AN A Better keep the straw hat in hidiun or a few days yet A baseball bat in the hands of the small boy strikes a blow for health. Sauerkraut is said to contain the Longevity germ. But who wants L to---? Est ----- - ice in It has been decided that the ugliest he RI phrase in the English language is Rice "Please remit." )ut. hat tl After all, what woman would want ame to wear a harem skirt if it did not ee, m attract a crowd? !or ce only 1 A fashionable young Boston woman sas learned to saw wood, but she has )l fit not learned to say nothing. ; wil Bank, At all events, anyone who lives ail i year in Reno in order to get a divorce al fi is entitled to some recompense. a A sculptor named Butensky is com Ing to the front You can't keep a the W man with that name in the rear. New York has a four-year-old boy ritor with a suicidal mania. possibly he has read the theory that the good die young. 01 . ---- rov What an awful thing it would be I1 Sati the son in whom your hopes are cen- ber tered were to grow up to be a college Johi professor. dref --- the The Oklahoma woman who has thir ers' teen sons. all under 5 years of age, test probably also has her hands full most it of the time. ric( A Los Angeles man drank carbolic the acid, cut his throat and jumped from the a skyscraper. If a thing is worth do. lat ingit's worth doing well. ret th( An Illinois youth has been barred from enlistment in the navy because he has large ears. Is beauty one of the requirements in our navy? be It cost 1,125 lives to dig Pennsyl vania coal last year. The inventors who are going to get us our heat dli rect from the sun should hurry up. 1l A dealer has been fined $500 for sell ing loaded dice. Loaded dice are useB less, anyway, as the industrious man can lose enough with the straight aind.. It develops that the Gotham police call the record of complaints from eltizens; the squeal took. Which is; facetious but hardly reassuring to the itizens. A protest is being made in England against the tone of British novels. This ought to be just the boost to bus. Iness that the publishers have been looking for. Statistics show that 1.578 persons A minute are carried on the Chicago traction lines They are not all on one car, though sometimes it seems as if they were A university professor of Chicago rays that detective stories are good sures for seasickness. This leaves something of a hiatus in uses for the higher literature. "Ten cents a day is enough for food," opines Prof. Henderson of Har vard, but we doubt whether the pro fessor is one of those who practice what they preach. ---.-.... One of New England's many preach- 1o0 era makes the announcement that Je American women have ceased to blush. )n Pout! Why should any woman ever ril blush at what a good preacher says to her? Emperor William is to have forty au- :1I tomobiles during the ensuing season, . but even as King of Prussia and Em. ) peror of Germany he will be unable wi to ride in more than one of his auto m mobiles at a time. " Gotham telephone authorities assert N that there is little profanity now or rude language used over the tele s phone. Possibly and paradoxically., the profanity and rude language are when the wire is busy. A practical Joker applied a lighted a matdh to a load of hay in East Lynn. 1 Ma.. and achieved the gigantic i. _ stroke of humor of burning up four bauldings. He made a bigger hit that most of his jocose tribe. A New York Judge has severely arittilsd Cornelius Vanderbilt be. cauw he crossed his legs in the court room. Mr. Vanderbilt should respect S fully content himself with the twid. dllng of his thumbs or the twisting of his mustache. A Now York woman has undertakes a crusade against the long hatpin. The pia is a real danger, and while wom en may resent the regulation of any part of their attire by law, their own S ood sense should convince them of the propriety of making this article ess of a menace to the public. Bug, are reported to have damaged this year's peach crop to the extent of ' .000.000. We' sometimes wonder whether the country -would be able to etagger along under the burden of its * crop it the peaches were to es/ ae behus damaged by fosts and Net LOUISIANA- NEWS :o S were ket e trem Happe9g19 port, day of [Itere t.. vane mar Last Carload of Japan Rice. of I Estherwood.-The last car of Japan tob •ice in this section has been sold by stOb :he Rice Association to the Planters' sta Rice Mill at Abbeville, and shipped forl )ut. The buyer and grader report ilin :hat this mill and one owned by the pr name company at Gueydan will buy pro ice, and see enough in sight to run the !or nearly seventy days, and are the hin )nly mills running in Vermilion par ish. Parties in from the Calcasieu At Ail fields at the Vinton section report 't L wildcat well started on the Frank thi Banker lands, some distance from the ail field gushers, with splendid indi rations for getting a good well, and jay that a good well has been brought m11 in near the town of Edgerly, La. A ro s new well has just been brought in in st the Mamou oil field, and now numbers cE )f people are coming in to the old ter- Cr ritory and business is improving. oi l Opelousas Rice Farmers. it Opelousas.-A meeting of the rice t( growers was held at the court house ti iI Saturday and was attended by a num- a n' ber of the farmers from near by. p g° John J. Reazer of Houston, Tex., ad- t dressed the meeting and explained 1 the advantages of organizing a farm- I Ir - ers' association. Those present mani Je, fested much interest in the subject. Ist it is proposed that those who have rice to sell will notify their local or ganization and these in turn will keep 1IC the head office posted so that pur om chasers may be secured at a stipu do lated price. The farmers, however, reserve their right to fix the price of red their rice. Citizens Complimented. lard. Houma.-The grand jury, which had the been holding sessions all the week, left closed its labors and.presented sev- one eral findings. The final report states mou that the public schools are in flour ishing condition and the roads were all right, with the exception of a piece of road between Doner and Bayou C Black. A revision and remodeling tio of the road laws is recommended. var The city council and citizens of pa Houma are congratulated on the many improvements made in the last few yea months, and especially on the fine at cement sidewalks already built and in being built. act Shreveport Rate Case. the New Orleans.-The Shreveport rate i :ase, in which the State railroad com nission, through the attorney gen P 3ral's office, is seeking relief at the p lands of the interstate commerce D. ;ommission from interstate rates th :hat are alleged to discriminate be is gainst Shreveport in favor of Texas El ;o oints, is to be so amended that the is tn rexas railroad commission will be ec IS nade a party to the suit. Assistant el !ttorney General R. G. Pleasant made M ennouncement to this effect Monday. st go od New Orleans Sugar Market. res New Orleans.-The local sugar mar :e cet was quiet Monday and trading p was confined to light receipts that ar- d -ived from plantations. Nothing came F for )ut of store. Prices were steady and a ar- Inchanged, compared with the close fro- if Saturday. Refined sugars were t ;Ice teady and unchanged. New York re 'ined sugars were quiet and un ,hanged. Molasses and syrups were Lch ,ominal. Raw sugar quotations: ,hat entrifugals, yellow, 3%@4%C; sec ish. )nds, 2%@313-16. Molasses-Cen ver rifugal, nominal; syrup, nominal. Program Announced. Plaquemine,-The annual conven au- :ion of the Knights of Columbus of son, E.ouisiana will be held May 7, 8 and Em. ). The initiation of a class of fifty able will take place on Sunday, Plaque Luto mine Council and the Baton Rouge council having agreed on a joint initiation. The New Orleans and sort Nashville teams will confer the de s or grees. The local council has made tel. extensive preparations for the enter ally, 'tainment of its guests. are Electrician Attempt Suicide. i Lake Charles.-J. L. Boutelle, an * electrician, originally from Bangor, Maine, whose home recently has been in New Orleans, poured a vial of laudanum into a glass of coca-cola at a local confectionery store Sunday, drank it and staggered to a nearby business place, where he lay down to die. Secretary Makes Visit. Alexandria.-Robert P. Cross, seo retary of the United States Land and Irrigation Exposition at Chicago, is in Alexandria this week conferring with Secretary Alexander of the Progres sIvP League relative to the Louisiana -exhibit at the exposition next fall Fire Destroys High School. Jena.-Fire destroyed the Jena high school building Saturday, causing a property loss of approximately $3,500. The fire is thought to be of an it I cendiary origin, as an unsuccessful at f tempt was made to burn the building r about a week ago. Gets Year for Embezzlement. ] Benton.--O. W. Nairn pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was sentenced o 'year in the etasountrar7 New Orleans Cotton Market. 4* New Orleans.--Cottou futures open ed steady Monuday at an advance of 2 points on the old-crop months and 2* down to 1 up on the new. Cables were unfavorable, holding the mar ket down on the first call, despite ex- : tremely unfavorable weather reports showing heavy rains in nearly all im portant sections of the belt over Sun day and aggravating conditions that were mainly responsible for the ad vance last week. After the call the k market strengthened and at the end of the first half hour the list was 4@7 points over Saturday's close. Oc tober showed the most strength, E standing 7 points up. The weather mna forecast was for much colder weather ste in the western half of the belt and in del Mississippi, while more rain was ma , promised in Alabama, Georgia and the the Carolinas. This' stimulated buy- to e ing again, and July was sent to a new TI high level for the season at. 15.33c. to At the highest the old crops were th , @8 points over Saturday's close and de k the new crops were 10@11 over. pr i- New Orleans Rice Market. cI id New Orleans.-The market opened ht Monday with a good demand for e A rough rice and grades that showed s In style met ready ocnsideration. Re rs ceipts from the country were light. er- Clean rice was quiet but steady and c only light volume of trading was do- p ing during the early session. It was impossible to judge samples, owing r ice to the unfavorable weather. Quota ise tions: Rough rice-Honduras, quiet im- at $1.50@2.70 per barrel of 162 by. pounds; Japan, quiet at $1.50@2.77 ad- per barrel of 162 pounds. Sales re ned ported, none. Receipts rough rice, rm- 1,572 sacks; millers' receipts, 489 ani- sacks. ect. ,ave Negro Tries to Kill Spouse. or- Shreveport.-An attempt to kill his keep wife with poison administered through pur- a small purchase of cheese was made ipu- by Wiltz Jones, a negro laborer, ac ver, cording to an affidavit filed against e of him by city detectives. The negress' life was saved by neighbors, who forced her torswallow a quantity of lard. Upon presenting his wife with had the cheese Jones, who immediately eek, left home, urged her to eat it all, but sev- one of the children got hold of e tates mouthful and barely escaped death. rimer. .. ..... .... . I rep Rice Experiments. citih Crowley.-The rice experiment st and tion has thus far planted about 200 the varieties of rice in its experimental to plats, and will plant about fifty more. It is hoped that at the end of this year the Federal and State officials at the station will be able to issue, in the form of a bulletin, a statement rec of some of the results they have achieved in type breeding, the elimi Co nation of red rice, fertilizing rice and th e the growing of diversified crops. r Texas Divine Opens Revival. sa Alexandria.-Rev. Luther Little, fr D. D., pastor of the Fort Worth Bap- hb tist Temple at Fort Worth, Tex., in began a two weeks' revival meeting in ar Emmanuel Baptist church Sunday. He is an evangelist of note, having work- in s ed under the home board of the South* t ern Baptist convention in Atlanta, e Memphis, Nashville, Baltimore, Kan, sas City and other cities. New Postal Bank. p r- Alexandria.-The postal savings de - g pository was opened at the Alexan- $ dria postoffice Monday with Monroe c ie Brashed, clerk, in charge. There were r Ld several depositors, the first of whom I e was Postmaster J. F. Charnley, who l re took account No. 1. Alexandria is the I l second city in Louisiana to have a n- postal savings depository, New Iberia re being the first. s: ________________ ' Louisianr Rains. Crowley.-General rains throughout Southwest Louisiana have broken the drouth, which had begun to be felt in en- planting operations, and farmers of now nearly through with rice plant nd ing. Practically the entire crop will fty be planted in Southwest Louisiana by ue- the middle of May, if average weather age conditions prevail. pint and An Acid ulicide. de- St Francisville.-The community ade was thrown into great excitement just ter- at the dinner hour Monday when it became known that M. C. Levy, a prominent merchant, had taken his life with carbolic acid in the second ' story of his store building.. Water System to Be Installed. t Homer.-The water works superin- 8 tendent Is now engaged at surveying t the town preparatory to laying the pipes and mais.: Homer will in a short time have a splendid system of water works. Gold Medal Contest. Kentwood.-C. C. Morris of Kent wood, a student in the State Baptist college of Jackson, Tenn., has been honored by being selected to repre sent his class in a gold medal contest early in May. Ships 800,000 Pounds Mohair. 1 Kerrville, Tex.--Captain Charles I Schreiner shipped 300,000 pounds of ý.mohair to Boston Saturday. This rep. resents the spring clip and there are 175,000 pounds more to 'ome in. The outlook for the goat industry in thin section was never better. Strike at Toledo. Toledo, Ohio.--One hundred plumb ' ers went on strike Monday when their dI employers refised to grantxan in 'erep Qe fA no cent in ware. Louisiana State News tHppegl9pg of .iteret for Our 1PrRY Rexýar SI Y *~~_YUL.L·~~:CYX YJ·Y' Will Charge for Serum. Baton Rouge.-So great is the de N mnand for hog cholera serum that the urdl State sanitary live stock board has poll determined that in the future it will off make a moderate charge for the serum exp that is supplied the farmers--enoulh goh to allow the purchase of new hogs. por The serum will be sold by the State wei to the farmers at less than cost, but exc the demand has been so heavy un- of der the present plan, and the appr o priation is so limited, that the board ing has found it necessary to make a 1oe charge in order to keep going, as a new lot of hogs has to be bought2 every few months under the present da plan, and this has proved expensive. pr Secretary Flower has returned from ge North Louisiana, where he found hog ar cholera has Droken out in several bt places. It seems to be almost epi- bi demic, and for this reason the de- w mand can not be supplied. Just as re soon as Secretary Flower figures out c( the exact cost of the production of tl the serum he will fix a price. In c practically all of the States this meth- 1 od is followed. h Stopover Privileges. r New Orleans--Following unquali fled charges of unjust discrimination a by the railroads against the South in the matter of stopover privileges, the s board of directors of the New Orleans ;h Progressive Union issued a call Sat- I le urday to Southern commercial and C civic bodies and railroad companies to st participate in a conference to be held s' in New Orleans in August this year e to be known as the Southern States ofI ransportation Conference. New Or th leans is the only Southern city which ly today enjoys the benefits of stopover ut privileges and for this reason the 8 resolutions declare she should take the initiative and tall together the representatives of Southern States, cities, commercial and civic bodies Ita. and transportation companies, "to 200 the end that travel may be diverted )tal to the Southern States and the entire re. South enjoy similar privileges." Shreveport Makes Complaint, the Baton Rouge.-A petition has been his received by the Louisiana railroad on commission from the Chamber of All Commerce of Shreveport asking that la the commission restore the minimum joJ rate of $17 to $25, carload lot rate, ris on refrigerator cars from New Or- sci leans to Shreveport. The petition dii says that the rate has-been raised DC from $17 and $25 to $42.50. The case of has been set for hearing at.the com- sc ing sessions. The roads summoned tb are the Southern Pacific, Texas and do Pacific, Louisiana railway and Louis- tr iana and Arkansas. New Orleans Rice Market. New Orleans.-Rice quotations Sat urday: Rough rice--Honduras quiet; a per barrel of 162 pounds, $1.50@2.75; sales reported, 487 sacks, $2.75@3.00. V " Japan quiet; per barrel of 162 pounds, L $1.50@2.75; sales reported, none. Re e ceipts rough rice, 3,080 sacks; millers' 'e receipts, 3,080 sacks. Rice products: n Polish, per ton, $21.00@23.00; bran, .0 per ton, $15.00@16.50. Sales reported: ie Honduras, 2,376 pockets at 1%G@3%c; a Japan, 754 pockets at 1%@3%c. Re Ia ceipts clean rice, 5,809 pockets. $20,000 Fire. Lake Charles.-Fire originating in ut the B. J. Banker building at Vinton he Friday destroyed three buildings, in in flicting losses estimated at $20,000. the town is without fire protection it- and only a change in the direction of rill the wind prevented the destruction of by the entire business section. The prin er cipal losses were: Ala B. Hall, gen eral merchandise, building and stock, $1,000; B. J. Banker, building, $8,000; J. L. Perry, building, $2,000. Firemen Elected Delegates. Hammond.-At the quarterly meet- a ing of the Hammond fire department a Chief D. W. Wolf and Assistant Chief tl F. B. Thomas were elected as dele- 1 gates to the convention of the Louis Lana State Firemen's Association,g which will meet in Covington the lat- * ter part of this month. A. O. Jones and E. E. June' were chosen as al ternatives. Several new men were elected to membership in the depart ment. New Orleans Sugar Market. New Orleans.-The local sugar mar ket was steady Saturday. Sales were confined to the light receipts from t plantations. Nothing came out of a store. Prices were unchanged. Re fined sugars were steady and un t changed. Rice Advertising Fund. Crowley.-Forty per cent of .the country mills of Louisiana and Texas oi have already agreed to contribute b P cents a bag for each bag of rtce hand e led next year for an advertising fund, 1e provided that 90 per cent of the 1911 dr crop i.so taxed. It is believed that 90 pei cent of the country mills will sign ti e agreement and that the city mills e ill also agree. The plan con b- tempi ti s the organization of a con. sir pany to exploit rice by demonstration iw- suppl em rated -by advbrtising, fljjjr New Orleans Cotton Maret. 1 New Orleans.--Cotton futures Sat- t urday opened steady, unchanged to 1 tl point up on the old crop months and 2lii off on the new. Cables were about as 1 expected. The weather map was very find good. Practically no rain was re ported in the belt, and temperatur's were but slightly below the normal, except in a few localities. Reports of foul fields and of ground too wet to work or plant checked short sell ing. After the call prices fell to a level 3@6 points uowfn, but at the end of the first half hour the list stood t 2 up to 2 down compared with Fri t day's close. The weather forecast, predicting fair weather for the belt a generally, held the market down g around the middle of the morning, Ll but later it strengthened on general i- buying. Orders came from outsiders, e- who appeared to be impressed with is reports from the belt that much more it cotton would have to be replanted if than had been expected, and that less n cotton was planted up to the time h- rains interferred with farm work than had been estimated by the majority of crop experts. The market had a rising tendency, when the old crops li- were 7@14 points over Friday's close on and the new 6@7 over. in he Louisiana Daughters of Confederacy. us Shreveport.-The convention of the at- Louisiana Division of the Daughters nd of the Confederacy closed, following to the election of officers, including the eld re-election of Mrs. Edward Gottschalk ear of New Orleans as president and Miss tes Mattye McGrath of Baton Rouge as Or- recording secretary. The daughters ich decided hereafter to hold their meet ver ings at the same time and place as the the veterans. The United Daughters of ake the Confederacy scholarship loan fund the ,vas established, with Mrs. Peter ,tes, Youree of Shreveport as chairman, dies From this fund loans will be made to "to Sons and Daughters of Veterans for rted educational purposes. Bad Lighted School. Castor.-Dr. Dowling, president of the Louisiana board of health, with his co-workers, visited the flag station one mile south or Castor. This town, Alberta, has a number of saw mill laborers, all of whom seemed to en joy the exhibit very much. Miss Mor ris made a plea for a more progressive school system, showing that new con ditions demand new methods. Dr. Dowling followed with his doctrine F of better health. He criticised the v, school building on the ground that D the light was improperly directed, doubtless causing students to suffer f Sfrom headache. Potato-Growing Contest. Crowley.-Fourteen farmers of this ! vicinity have engaged in a contest for p a cash prize for the best peck of Irish potatoes of the Irish Cobbler ' variety grown here this spring. A - committee consisting of L. A. Wil liams, secretary of the Board of trade; S. D. Wilder and R. W. Hay den awarded the prize to O. T. Mc Bride. The potatoes were said by ex I: ports to be of unusually good quality and size. It is expected that a car load of Irish potatoes will be shipped next week by the Acadia Parish Truck Growers' Association. Ten Per Cent Dividend. Crowley.-The Crowley Oil and Min en eral Company is mailing out to stock holders checks aggregating $20,000, 0. being the fortieth 10 per cent dividend OD on the capital stock of $200,000. This of makes $800,000 paid out in cash divi of lends to the stockholders, or 400 per in- 3ent of the sum represented by the en.- apital stock, in a period of less than c seven years since the first dividend 00; was declared in 1904. Tax Question of Oil Wells. New Orleans.-The question as to C whether the State has any right to G assess the output of oil wells except G the supply that is visible on January 1 is being investigated by Attorney General Walter Guion. Under the present system, that of assessing only such part of the output as may be found January 1, the State loses taxes on all the oil that is shipped out dux > ing the year. Rice Streams Are Full. Crowley.-Heavy rains during the past week have retarded rice plant ing in this section, but the streams have been filled and there is no a langer this season of salt water in I the streams used for irrigation pur - poses. The corn and potato acreage has been heavily increased in this parish. Another Factory Soon. e Shreveport.-Shreveport was given B promise of its second window glass 6 actory with. the arrival this week of fR. R. Faulkner of Indiana, who has 1 3rganized a company that will invest it $100,000 in a plant in the Cedar Grove 1, ~actory addition, where August Boe ty lenger of Brooklyn, Pa., is actively n. .rranging to establish the Shreveport , .o-operative Window Glass Com pany's plant. A C la ssic N ote , r t let l,. ath, shouting, 'IO. k: 1 Y* SOON "0r: ,, James," the teaeh -" ii i the mFraning of 'E I '}:, ; i ":: . :r ; rs '1 hI ve found it'. ' ' r " \ \'hat had Archimedes funriut. :ai s- S a momentu tHe v'e ttle' 1 , '.lyV: to 1 "ThI :' . 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