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THE STAR-PROGRESS
VOLUME
XI—NO. 4
OPELOUSAS, LA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1919
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triers of St. Landry's Great
erf Newspaper Shower Ed
itor With Much Praise
mEATEST EDITION EVER
published IN PARISH
November 8 Issue of this Paper
proclaimed Finest Regular
Edition in City's History
I n e Star-Progress has received so
-pny letters of commendation from
% readers all over the country that
,re constrained to say a few words
0 our November 8 issue.
Business men were loud in their
paises
of the splendid edition issued
yi Saturday and highly compliment
ai the Star-Progress force for having
iteomplished a feat thought almost
Iqgasible. There is not an adver
ser vbo did not personally speak
of the 34-page paper gotten
and printed in one week, as prac
every line of type, both reading
and advertisements, was set
fcring the week of publication, and
Si» is not taking into consideration
£e immense amount of press work,
fhile the press work might have been
iteomplished on the big Cottrell cyl
inder, still the labor was much ligh
ted by the splendid work of the
Babcock "Optimus," especially
ie color work. However, so far as
composition was concerned, the
ion would have been almost im
pwible in that short space of time if
it had not been for the help of the
lodel 14 linotype which in itself is
veritable type foundry.
Summed up in brief, the edition
ined approximately one hundred
eighty-one columns of advertis
and fifty-one columns of reading
ir, counting the proceedings of
police jury both as advertising
reading matter. This immense
it of type composition was set
Eng the working week, though we
do some extra work at night. In
iion to what we printed as news
ir, there were several columns
over that could not be used be
there was not space enough in
edition to accommodate it.
Men in every walk of life, in St.
dry and other parishes, upon re
Continued on Page Six)
F
to
L CHARLES PLAYS
LAFAYETTE TODAY
esting Game of Football
to be Staged This Afternoon
Between Opposing Teams
One of the most interesting foot
laU games of the season will be stag
ed at Lafayette this afternoon when
St Charles College and Lafayette In
Awtrial Institute elevens meet in a
I P«skin contest for their annual
game.
#
The supporters of both elevens feel
tonfident of victory. St. Charles
»ill bring its entire student body to
kelp Coach Phagan's men on to vic
tory. The two teams are about even
1> matched and a real close game is
*stched for.
Weather conditions permitting, a
'large crowd of football enthusiasts
bom various sections of Southwest
Louisiana will be there on the Indus
trial campus this evening to root for
toeir favorite team.
BALLAS BACK
FROM GREECE
[Well Known Local Greek yis
its Fatherland After Fif
teen Year»' Absence
I Charles Balias, one of the proprie
|h > of the Candy Kitchen, returned
( tost Friday from a seven motnhs' trip
France, Italy and Greece. Mr.
had gone to Greece to see his
W mother and other relatives. He
k*8 been in America fifteen years
I during that time had not seen his
Natives until his recent trip. His
hther and two brothers have died
| *hce he came to America years ago.
Mr. Balias, who is a naturalized
||toerican, and who served for a short
tn the army, says that he never
r apreciated his American citizenship
much as he did on his trip. "Eu
is all right, if you wish," he
|iii; "but the United States is much
r. I will never go back to Greece
Kve. America is good enough for
—Henry D. Larcade, Jr., returned
ay of last week from New Or
and other points.
SMITH SELLING
ON THE ROAD
F ormer Assistant Cashier of
Planters Bank Salesman for
Wholesale Concern
Clement Smith, who is Well remem- j
bered as the accommodating and ef- j
ficient assistant cashier of the Plan- !
ters Bank and Trust Company, and j
during the Swords administration as
sheriff, chief deputy tax-collector,
has now developed into a real first
class traveling salesman. He is the
official road representative of the
St. Landry Wholesale Grocery Com
pany and reports from surrounding
towns indicate that "Teeloon" is mak- i
ing a whirl of a success at his new ;
venture.
Mr. Smith's failing health forced
him to resign a lucrative and impor- !
tant position with the Planters Bank, j
He finds outdoor work more agree- |
able, hence his new job is bringing
back his old pep and energy and he
now feels like himself once more.
The St. Landry Wholesale Grocery
Company is fortunate in securing the
services of such a competent, consci
entious and popular employee as Mr.
Smith, who is already demonstrating
to the entire satisfaction of his em
ployers that he is "some hustler."
POLITICIANS TO MEET
AT MALLET RALLY
THIS AFTERNOON
First Big
Candidi
Cor
Where All
Speak
roday
LARGE CROWD IS
EXPECTED FOR MEET
Interest in Parochial Fight Ex
pected to be Manifested
Following Gathering
Parochial political interest centers
on the Mallet meeting this afternoon,
as all candidates have been invited
and are expected to addreoo the big
schpol rally. Many of the candidates
have been "trimming up" to make
their first addresses of the campaign
this afternoon, and as the bars will be
let down and a free-for-all political
scrimmage staged, it is expected that
many "sweet" things will fall from
the lips of opposing candidates.
Preparations for the big meeting
have been under way for some time,
and according to reports from Mallet,
the biggest thing of its kind ever
pulled off in that section of the sixth
ward will be staged this (Saturday)
evening. None of the candidates
have declined to attend and practi
cally all have stated that they would
be prepared to address the rally.
Opelousas, of course, will be ex
ceptionally well represented at the j
Mallet fair. Some fifteen or twenty
cars from here will journey over to
give their candidates a rousing recep
tion. According to the program, op
posing candidates will follow one an
other according to the prominence of
the office they seek. The two can
didates for sheriff will be the first
to speak, and they will be followed
by the candidates for clerk of court,
assessor, coroner and representative.
The Mallet meeting will be the real
opening of the campaign, according
to political dopesters, and as the
speech-making end of the contest will
have been inaugurated, it is expected
that politics will begin to be the chief
topic of conversation, and that much
interest in the approaching election
will hereafter be manifested.
HIDALGOS BUY
EATING PLACE
Sons of Prominent St. Landry
Farmer,Now Operating a
Popular Restaurant
a
John and Sebastien Hidalgo, sons
of Joseph Hidalgo, well known and
prosperous farmer of near Opelousas,
recently bought the Elks Restaurant,
for years operated by "Didee' Las
trapes, and now have been busy at
tending to the hungry wants of their
many customers.
The Hidalgo boys are well known
r\ this city and enjoy a large circle
f friends in the country districts
near here. Their friends predict for
them great success.
MORNHINVEG * SON HAVE
CHANGE IN THEIR AD TODAY
The progressive and always up-to
date jewelry firm of R. Momhinveg
£ Son have an important change in
their advertisement in today's issue
of the Star-Progress. They are of
fering a real "snap" this week and if
you are wise you will turn to it and
see if you can not take advantage of
their offer.
'
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GERMAN PRISONERS CAPTURED BY AMERICANS AND ENCAMPED AT IS-SUR-TILLE
Clearing house for prisoners to be returned to be repatriated, amusing themselves with a kite the frame of which
is fashioned after a likeness of President Wilson, with a tail of fourteen sections, one for each of the famous
fourteen points. _
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FARMERS MEET
AT BELLEVUE
Initiation Several Candidates
to be Held This Afternoon
at Important Session
Hon. R. Lee Mills, president of the
St. Landry Farmers' Union, was in
this city on Tuesday afternoon at
tending to business, and while here
announced that there would be a
meeting of the West Bellevue local
at the West Bellevue schoolhouse this
afternoon. Several candidates are
to be initiated 1 and an important
meeting is scheduled. Among the
fellows who will ride the farmers'
goat will be A. A. Mendoza, popular
St. Landry federal farm demonstrator
who is working in co-operation with
the progressive farmers of this par
ish.
Mr. Mills is satisfied at the growth
of the Union in this parish and pre
dicts that within a short while the
business men of St. Landry will be
enrolled as members so as to effect
a better working co-operation among
the business men and farmers of this
parish. A number of prominent far
mers of the Bellevue section will be
initiated this afternoon at 2 o'clock,
and a large gathering of the Union
members is expected.
EUNICE CELEBRATED
ARMISTICE DAY
FITTINGLY
Western St. Landry Soldiers
Honored at Big Demonstra
tion There Last Tuesday
MANY FROM OPELOUSAS
WERE IN ATTENDANCE
Parker Supporters Play "Yan
kee Trick" on Opponents
by Speaking Early in Day
Eunice staged one of the biggest
and most successful patriotic demon
strations of the year on last Tues
day when several hundred sturdy cit
izens of western St. Landry, Acadia,
Evangeline and Allen parishes as
sembled in that town to do homage
to the brave soldiers of St. Landry
who had participated in the world
Nearly one hundred soldiers of
Eunice and surrounding country par
ticipated in the demonstration.
A free barbecue was tendered the
soldiers and their friends as a fitting
celebration of the Armistice Day and
Eunice was a veritable holiday town,
crowded with a set of happy, jovial
and contented people.
E. P. Gueymard and J. J. Lewis
were the orators of the day and both
delivered magnificent addresses. Mr.
Gueymard was sent to Eunice to rep
resent John M. Parker, candidate for
governor, and it is said that as soon
as the Stubbs suporters were aware
of the fact that the meeting would
be converted into a Parker meeting,
they immediately got busy on the
wires and communicated with Ope
lousas Stubbs suporters and Judge B.
H. Pavy, District Attorney R. Lee
Garland and J. R. Pavy were rushed
on the next train for Eunice. But,
alas! the train was late and the
Stubbs speakers got there when ev
erything was over and the crowd was
disbanding.
Qaite a number of Opelouseans
went over for the celebration, but of
the many parochial candidates Ariel
Fontenot was the only one who ar
rived in time for the meeting, and the
reports indicate "he had everything
his way" when &e others arrived.
MODERN SANITARIUM
TO BE BUILT HERE
BY DR. DALY
.
Work Remodeling Old School
Building into Up-to-Date
Hospital is Planned
THIRTY-SIX ROOMS
TO BE AVAILABLE
Owner of Valuable Piece City
Property to Make Vast Im
provements Shortly
Among the many improvements
planned for this city within the com
ing year is a modem, up:to-date san
ii. •____ i___
itarium to take care of the growing
needs of the St. Landry Sanitarium,
owned and operated by Dr. O. P.
Daly, Jr.
According to a statement of Dr.
Daly, the property recently purchas
ed from the school board, where the
high school formerly stood, will be
improved to such an extent as to give
Opelousas one of the very best and
most up-to-date sanitarium buildings
in Southwest Louisiana.
A large section of the'former high
school building is still standing and
it is the intention of the new owner
to remodel it, inside and outside, as
well as to add a completely new and
more appropriate front. Sufficient
floor space will be available to con
vert the place into a fifty-room sani
tarium, but for the present, it is un
derstood, only thirty-six rooms will
be included.
A modern and thoroughly sanitary
operating room will be at the disposal
of the surgeons, every convenience
imaginable will be installed for the
accommodation and benefit of the
patients, nurses and physicians.
The Opelousas sanitarium has won
enviable reputation for the splendid
treatment of patients and for the
many successful operations of diffi
cult character performed by Dr. Daly
and those surgeons who assisted him.
It is receiving the patronage of the
people of this city and the surround
ing country—so much so, in fact,
that it is getting noticeable hov; few
cases of operations are taken to New
Orleans.
The new home of the St. fcandry
Sanitarium should be ready during
I the
was
; cials
the
of
as
I
I
1 pie
! ing,
i city.
day.
and
ber
had
and
on
the
of
to
the early part of the comins year, a,
r ! "ZJL „legier Kra
the contract will shortly be awarded
for the repairs and remodelling
CITY SWAMPS
EUNICE TEAM
Basketball Game Results in 22
to 10 Victory for Local
High School Five
In a snappy game on the court of
the home team last Saturday, the Op-,
elousas boys defeated the Eunice high
school team in basketball by a score
of 22 to 10. Short, quick, criss-cross
passing and accurate goal shooting
featured throughout the game for the
Opelousas team, while the splendid
guarding of Bryan and "Bootson"
broke the enemy's morale. Opelou
sas won the game in the first three
minutes of the play in the second half
when the ball followed itself thretogh
Opelousas' goal three times in suc
cession. From that time on to the
end of the game the home team play
ed like a young machine.
The basketball season proper opens
December 1, and the Opelousas coach/
sees championship in his snappy,
scrapping squad. By means of a
few practice games with the differ
it
city to get
C
Officials Notify President East
. ham of Commerce Body
That Car Will be Shipped
Hon. E. K. East'.iam, president of
the Opelousas Chamber of Commerce,
was notified by New Orleans offi
cials of the government stores that
the carload of foodstuffs recently
ordered for this city by the Chamber
of Commerce, would be shipped out
as soon as possible.
Much publicity will be given the
arrival of the car of cheap food and
every opportunity given country peo
pie to take advantage of the big sav
ing, as well as the citizens of this
city.
It is believed that the car of food-
stuffs will not last more than one
day. Therefore, it is imperative that
those wishing to take advantage of
laying in a provision of bacon, pork
and beans and many other useful ar-
ticles of food should be at the Cham-
ber of Commerce building at the ap-
pointed time. Ample force will be
had to give prompt, efficient service
and hundreds of people will be waited
on in one day.
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St.
TAXPAYERS TO GET
MONEY BACK FROM
DRAIN BOARD
New Election Crflled in Mallet*
Plaquemine District and
Money to be Returned
NEARLY $6,000 TO GO
BACK TO TAXPAYERS
First Time in History of St.Lan*
dry That Such a Thing
Takes Place
This is a story, the like of which
you have probably jiever heard.
Think of it, taxpayers to be. given
back some money! No, the end of
the world is not at hand. The board
of commissioners of the Bayou Millet
and Plaquemine Drainage District re
cently decided to return tax money
to the property owners of the district.
Two years ago a drainage bond is
sue was voted in the district, but on
in
on
if
of
St.
is
of
of
is
<*
ties it was recently decided by the
a
board of commissioners to annul that
bond issue and vote another one. So
it is that the commissioners have or
dered an election on a $95,000 bond
issue for December 22, and at the
same time decided to reimburse the
taxpayers to the tune of nearly $6,
000 for money paid in the district's
treasury in the past two years.
J. Franklin Schell has been em-
ployed by the board to straighten out
the "kinks" and to supervise the work
of the dredging and engineering. He
reports that there will be no opposi-
tion to the measure by the voting tax-
payers of the district, which consti-
tutes one of the richest agricultural
sections of the parish and state,
---o
—Mrs. Ferris left Friday for
Houston, Texas, after a several days'
visit to her parents in this city, Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Budd.
—Dr. and Mrs. Chas. F. Boagni
were visitors to New Orleans for sev
eral days this week.
ent teams of the parish, the boys are
now confident that for the first time
in years Opelousas will bring out a
championship team. The manager
is now scheduling games for the
championship series of the season.
parish MEETING
SATURDAY, 6TH
Quarterly Session of Farmers'
Union to Convene at Prairie
Ronde Early Next Month
The regular quarterly meeting of
the St. Landry Farmers' Union will
be held at the Prairie Ronde school
house on Saturday, December 6. Im
portant matters affecting the inter
est of the organization will be taken
up, as well as the election of dele
gates to the state convention to be
held in Sabine parish on December
12. President R. Lee Mills of the St.
Landry Union is anxious to have a
large gathering of members at the
Prairie Ronde meeting and therefore
urgently tequests all members who
can to be present.
An old-faririon basket picnic will
be held in conjunciton with the meet
ing. Everybody is invited to attend
this excellent feature of the meeting,
and as many non-members have al
ready signified their intention of be
ing present, it is believed that the
Prairie Ronde meeting will be one
of the largest in the history of the
St. Landry Union.
PARKERITES TO MEET
HERE TOMORROW
AFTERNOON
Walter Burke and Donelson
Caffery to Speak in Interest
Gubernatorial Candidate
MONSTER CROWD IS
EXPECTED TO BE HERE
St.
St. Landry Parker Supporters
Confident of Victory in Jan-
uary and Working Hard
The first Parker meeting to be held
in this city during the present cam
paign is scheduled to be pulled off
on the court house square tomorrow
(Sunday) afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock, j
when Walter Burke of New Iberia
and Donelson Caffery of New Or
leans will address a monster Parker |
crowd.
Local Parkerites feel confident
that tomorrow afternoon's meeting
if weather conditions are favorable,
will be the biggest gathering of its
kind held here this year. Hundreds
of voters, representing every one of
St. Landry's twenty-five precincts,
are expected to be on hand.
Confidence in victory at the polh
is freely expressed by the Parker
supporters. They say no power, no
matter how formidable ,can convert
this parish from Parker to Stubbs
and that the farmer-candidate will
receive the biggest vote in the history
of turbulent St. Landry.
The Sunday meeting will be a test
of the relative strength of the guber
natorial candidates, although John M.
Packer himself will not be here. It
is freely expressed that a larger
crowd will be on hand to hear the
Parker orators than that present at
the Stubbs meeting last week. When
Parker comes here, it is said, the num
ber of voters will not be numbered by
the hundreds but by the thousands.
Every precinct in the parish, it is
stated, will send a strong Parker dele
gation here tomorrow and a.very in
teresting meeting is expected.
and
St.
Lee
the
first
will
ested
city
at
be
it
ten
for
to
or
to
ed
ent
and
ing
WASHINGTONWANTS
TO KEEP MENDOZA
at
Farm Demonstrator Helping
When Principal McKnight of the
Washington high school recently re
signed his position and Superintend- j
ent W. B. Prescott was unable to ob
tain the services of a competent pro
fessor, A. A. Mendoza, popular fed
eral farm demonstrator, was pressed .
into service pending the time a prin- j
cipal could be secured.
are
a
the
Out Town in High School
Crisis and Makes Big Hit
Mr. Mendoza has had considerable
experience as a teacher and readily
consented to help Washington during
the crisis. After being in Washing
ton for a few weeks, he has demon
strated his ability and competency to
such a great satisfaction that the
most prominent people of Washing
ton, the teachers and pupils are be
seiging Mr. Mendoza to remain in
Washington as principaL They even
threaten to appear before the school
board and demand that the popular
young man be appointed the head of
the Washington high school. Mr.
Mendoza is doing
st he can to
satisfy the W* »historians, but be-j
ing under contract w.v'a the govern
ment and receiving a greater salary
FARMERS WILL MEET
T0 ORGANIZE THE
D A DSCII C A [D
1 /llllijH I/lil\
Meeting Will be Held Here on
November 29 to Effect a
Permanent Organization
WORK ON CATALOG
TO BEGIN AT ONCE
St. Landry Plans Biggest Par-
ish Fair in Louisiana for
1920;WiIl Raise Funds
j
|
A meeting of St. Landry farmers
and business' men will be called for
Saturday afternoon, November 29, to
effect permanent organization' of the
St. Landry Parish Fair. Hon. R.
Lee Mills, who has been selected by
the Chamber of Commerce to be the
first president of the organization,
will shortly issue' a call to all inter
ested farmers and business men to
attend this meeting.
The police jury recently budgeted
$2,500 for the 1920 parish fair; the
city of Opelousas, in lieu of the lot
promised, will be asked to contribute
at least $1,000; the school board will
be asked for a like sum, while the
business people of Opelousas are
pledgd to raise at least $2,500, and
it is expected that the farmers of the
parish will contribute upwards of that
amount. In all it is thought some
ten thousand dollars will be raised
for the big fair planned for next
year, and if suitable buildings can be «
secured, St. Landry will stage the
biggest individual parish fair in the
Entire state of Louisiana.
Work on the catalog will begin im
mediately after the permanent or
ganization of the fair. It is the in
tention of the promoters of the fair
to hav$ the catalog in circulation on
or about the first of February, so as
to give St. Landry farmers ample
time in which to prepare for the va
rious prizes offered.
The fair association will be manag
ed by the farmers of the parish. Pres
ent plans include a member of the
board of directors from every ward,
and if possible from nearly every
community in St. Landry. A compe
tent, efficient secretary will be em
ployed durig the rush months to at
tend to the fair association, and noth
ing will be left undbne to make the
1920 St. Landry fair the most elab
orate and most successful ever un
dertaken in this s&te.
MAIN MOTOR WILL
ADD GLASS FRONT
Enterprising Proprietor of Con
cern Next Door to Star
Progress Continues Work
Osie Bordelon, the popular and en
terprising proprietor of the Main
Motor Company, the big Studebaker
and Oldsmobile agency, next door to
the Star-Progress, is determined to
have one of the best and most up-to
date salesrooms in this çity, and con
sequently has a crew of men working
at the beautifying of the front of his
building.
An artistic and pretty glass front is
being installed. This added improve-
ment will contribute much to the
beauty of the place and will give Mr.
Bordelon a modem and up to the
minute show room, in which he ex
pects to exhibit to advantage the
pretty lines of automobiles he is now
handling.
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DE JEAN HAS
j -;—
Ben Dejean, proprietor of the e
jean meat market, the new Mam
street enterprise to open its doors,
. h*d a very successful opening on last
j Wednesday. En pa mant, a r epresen
BIG OPENING
Main Street Meat Market Has
Splendid Day for Starting
Last Wednesday
to
be
in
of
Mr.
tative of the Star-Progress dropped
into the new market Tuesday night
and was surprised to see the many
orders Mr. Dejean had received for
the next day's business.
The proprietor of the Main street
market, situated next to Coreil's
store, is well known in this city, hav
ing been connected with the Boagni
market off and on for nearly twenty
years. He is being given the patron
age of a large number of his friends,
promising in return prompt, efficient
service.
than he could expect from the school
to , board, finds himself in a pickle, as he
be-j would like to please the people of
: Washington, but can not see his way
[clear towards so uu_.g.