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THE RICE BELT JOURNAL WELSH PTG. CO., LTD., Pubs. WELSH. LOUISIANA The lpider's favorite maxim ii, learn to labor and to wait. The summer girl is putting on her coat of tan and freckles. It's either a deluge or a drought to make the farmer unhappy. Why not sell it "aeroplane?" It would be easier to pronounce. Vacationers regret that the game of coming back was ever invented. Almost any small boy's ambition at this season is to be a pearl diver. in hot weather, put off all the things you don't have to do to another day. This Is good weather for a revival of the Greek costume of toga and san dals. Confiscation of their automobliles would deter reckless motorists from scorching. The summer season is trying to make good the deficit of heat piled up last winter. Yale has given up basket ball, thus heading off a challenge from the Wellesley girls. It takes as much time for a water melon as for a man to become thor oughly "cooled off." Strange as it may seem at first thought, no grape seed was ever found In a vermiform appendix. Father's pocketbook agrees with the textile men in the belief that there is ruin in the hobble skirt. Uneasy lies the head that has no hair, especially when there are flies in the Immediate vicinity. One advantage of being a pitcher for the Detroit team is that you don't have to pitch to Ty Cobb. The Philadelphia Inquirer calls the theft of an umbrella a "white steal." That feller has a guilty conscience. The millionaire who paid $48,000 for a pair of ancient andirons is plainly started in a way to have a hot old time. Now the warning has gone out against soap as a carrier of germs. This time the crusade makes a clean sweep. One of the obstacles in the way of the anti-kissing crusade is that most girls would rather be son-kissed than sun-kissed. The man who threatens to let his whiskers grow if his favorite candi date is not elected now has the center of the stage. If, as a fashion expert says, the skirts will be tighter next fall, there will be a great increase in the use of the shoe horn. According to a Boston doctor the IAmerican nation is becoming flat footed. And some are being caught red-handed, too. Superstitious persons who look upon thirteen as an unlucky number over look the fact that there were thirteen stars in the original flag. For every man killed in flying a don en die boating and swimming. It is in the number who survive that avias, tion makes a poor showing. The hay fever season is ushered in with the dog days, and both are abom Inable, each, however, in its own do. spicable way. Those misguided people who have been wishing for an old-fashioned sum mer will confer a favor on this com. munity by promptly unwishing it. Attendance at big league baseball parks is said to have fallen off since last year. Even baseball finds it hard to compete with a political circus. Doctor in Boston tells us that the American nation is becoming flat footed. Probably due to the vast amount of gum-shoe work in politics. A convention hall in Atlantic City was picked up and carried away by a recent cyclone. Usually, a convention hall is a magnet for all wandering air currents. We fain would rise in our righteous indignation and smite the feminine practice of wearing male hosiery, but we hesitate for fear of being called a tubber-neck. A hug and a kiss were the rewards given to the man who rescued a girl from drowning at New Rochelle. UF to date. Many a man who yearns to be a boy on the farm again would kice like a mule if he were asked to de the chores. A man cpnvlcted - of deceiving his wife about money has been sent ti 3l 1* Los Anales. This preoeent i aiglgh to send a saore throughout th ·;iJ 6~. ' ,'"- -,: ,. 3 . -' J -"i ( NE -S.OFAL ) LOUISIANA ) Bring Injunction Proceedings. Lake Charles.--.As a result of the meeting of the police jury of the new parish of Beauregard Friday, citizens of I)e Ridder will bring injunction pro ceedings to set aside an ordinance calling an election to choose the par ish seat on October 24 and fixing the conditions upon which a town may enter. At the first meeting of the police jury required a free site for the court house, 0t'i feet square and within 600 feet of the postoffice. At Friday's meeting this was modified to a site 300 feet square within 1,500 feet of the postoffice, or whatever location the police jury may decide upon. It is to the last clause that De Ridder people object. Separated in Years Only. New Orleans.-After having lived in New Orleans f'or seventeen years, the last year within a bhlock of each other, Mrs. Adele ('olumbus .\Auiau and Mrs. Maria Columbus .\lgero, sisters, met for the first time in thirty years. They were separated when childlren in Hlavana, and had remained in ig norance of the w~hereabouts of each other until a chance meeting at a fac tory where they had sought employ ment, one because she was a widow with a family to support, the other be cause her husband was out of employ ment. A similarity in appearance at tracted each to the other, and ques tions disclosed their identity. Two Arrests in Sheppard Case. Winnsboro.- John McLemore and his son Alson have been arrested and placed in jail pending outcome of the wounds inflicted by McLemore upon A. R. Sheppard. Sheppard has not gained consciousness and has been taken to the Natchez hospital for an operation. McLemore admitted hav ing struck the blows, but says that when he struck Sheppard the first blow Sheppard was in the act of cut ting his son, and that after the first blow Sheppard turned on him with the knife and he continued to fight in self-defense. The weapon used was the handle of a whip. New Orleans Rice. New Orleans.-Rice was in better demand Saturday, with good sales re ported. Receipts-Rough, 5,711 sacks; clean, none; millers, 1,901 sacks. Sales-Rough: Honduras, 8,337 bar rels at $3.95@4.45; Japan, none. Clean: Honduras, 5,211 pockets at 3V4c; Japan, 900 pockets at 3%@4%c. Quo tations-Rough: Honduras, $3.95@ 4.45; Japan, nominal. Clean: Hon duras, 4%@5%c; ,Japan, 4@41/2c. Young Girl Drowns. Shreveport.-Miss Mabel Benton, daughter of Rev. Bruce Benton of Colfax, La., while on a fishing ex cursion at Rives-Wilcox club house near Howards Point, Thursday was drowned. Her father is now on a vacation in North Carolina. The girl is a granddaughter of Representative A. M. Ames of De Soto parish. Two Seamen Lose Lives. Baton Rouge.-Two lives were lost and a large quantity of oil was de stroyed when the Standard Oil steam er C. M. Pate, together with three loaded barges, was burned on the Mis sissippi river at Gramercy, La. The two victims were members of the steamer's crew. Young Lady Wins Honors. Napoleonville.-At a regular meet ing of the police jury Miss May Dugas was declared the winner of the scholarship to the State normal school, having made the highest average in ,the competitive examination held last month. SProject Proves to Be Illegal. Thibodaux.-At a recent meeting the town council found that the ar rangement previously made for the ex tension of fire protection to the newly incorporated portion of the town could Snot be carried out because of the il legality of the proposed loan. Too Much Rains. SCampti.-Heavy rains have fallen Snearly every day for the past two weeks, causing the cotton plant to grow rank, thereby making the lower bolls rot. What promised to be a bumper crop has deteriorated. Added to the wet weather the caterpillar has I put in its appearance, and with the scarcity of paris green'considerable damage is expected. Mrs. Mamie Dusauls Dead. Patterson.-Mrs. Mamie Dusauls, wife of Robert J. Dusauls, and daugh ter of Mrs. N. Himel, died Friday. The interment took place in the Catholic cemetery. Red Men Hold Session. Hammond.-Tangipahoa tribe No. 77, I. O. R. M., met with a large at tendance to welcome Great Sachem Francis L. Knoblock of Thibodatux to the hunting grounds. The great sachem was paying this lodge an of ficial visit, and expressed himself as being well pleased. Drops Dead in Church. Diamond.-Mary Caywood, aged 97 p.Mars, dropped dead in her pew while attending service in the whand A.ka14 ,BePtla-iMcrnbPr Canning Factory Assured. Ponchatoula.-That Ponchatoula will have a canning factory in operation by October 1 this year is assured. The stockholders of the l'ouchatoula ice Company wlil add a canning fac tory to the plant. A committee of five, consistin.g of Rudolph Flasdick, E. U. Parker, F. P. Willis, Sr., 11. P. Mitchell and Bert lBranch was appoint ed to investigate and seccure the neces sary machinery and equilpment. The principal object will be the canning of syrup, a product successfully made here, but vegetables, strawberries and other fruits also will be canned. A cane grinding mill of seventy-five tons per day will be installed. Many farn ers owning small individual mills making excellent syrup will find a ready outlet for their goods. Their syrups will be purchased by the coomt pany. Man Voluntarily Gives Up. Lake Charles.-Wiley Green of De Ridder is the latest acquisition to the parish jail on a charge of murder growing out of the Grabow riot of July 7. Green came to jail on his own accord. The grand jury returned a bill at its sl)ecial session when the Gra bow case was inivestigatted, and Green. learning of his indictment, delivered himself, coming down on the train from l)e tid(lder. Philil) Flazeral, the Italian wounded in the Grabow fight, was placed in jail F'riday. lie had been confined at' St. l'atricks sanitarium for treatment ever since the trouble, and has now re covered sufficiently to take his place with others indicted for murder in this connection. Fazeral was shot in the head, and at the time it was not thought he could survive. Nominees Are Selected. Benton.-The democratic executive committee of Bossier parish has de clared as nominees for the parish school board the following, who have no opposition: First ward, W. E. Con nell; Second ward, J. W. Wallace; Third ward, N. W. Sentell; Sixth ward, L. C. Biggs. Messrs. Connell, Sentell and Biggs are members of the present board, Mr. Sentell having served twen. ty years, the last eight years as presi dent. Candidates entering the Sep. tember primary are: Fourth ward, G. G. Allen and G. W. Demoss: Fifth ward, Archie Hoffpauir and W. R Bounds. Warned to Quit Woods. Campti.-Saw mill men employed in getting out logs at the camp located at Creston, six miles northeast of Campti, found the following notice posted on their cabins and in the woods in conspicuous places: "Nigger, read and run, and if you can't read, run anyway." The negroes failed to vacate, and a few days later a party of men rode up to the negro cabins in the dead of n ight and fired a number of shots into them. No one was hurt, but the labor. ers are thoroughly demoralized and are afraid to go to work. New Orleans Sugar. New Orleans.-The local sugar mar. ket was again quiet Saturday. Sunp plies that were displayed on sample tables failed to show style, but all were quickly absorbed. Low grades of seconds sold down to 1%c, but all other grades were unchanged. Re ceipts were 1,093 barrels. Refined sugars were quiet and steady and un changed. New York reported a fair demand for refined sugars at quota, tions. Molasses was nominal. Re ceipts were 636 barrels and all were sold. J. R. Tolbert in Automobile Accident. Shreveport.-While being whirled out of the way of an approaching car on a new road between Shreveport and Mansfield, an automobile in which J. R. Tolbert and his cousin, Edgar Tolbert of Kechie, La., were traveling about fifteen miles an hour Friday plunged down a twenty-foot embankment. J. R. Tolbert was hurt internally, though probably not fatal ly. His cousin was not seriously in jured. Hungarian Fleet-Footed. Bogalusa.-Officer Lambright ar rested a Hungarian for running an open saloon without a license, but while Lambright had his back turned the prisoner made his escape. No trace of the prisoner has been found, and his name is unknown. One bar rel of wine, one cask of beer and a case of whisky were taken from the house in which the Hungarian was do ing business. School Tax Carried. Columbia.-The returns from the special school tax election held Tues day in school district No. 16 of this parish came in Saturday. The tax was carried by an overwhelming majority, only three votes being polled against it. This will mean a ten-mill tax for that district in addition to State and parish taxes, the ten mills being for. school purposes. The district will con-a solidate all of its schools and build a, modern new school house somewherei near the center of the district. Truckers Organize. Plaquemnine. -The - Gr os se Tete Truckers' Association was launched last week at Grosse Tete, with Dr. 8. L. Singletary as president, C. F. Klein peter, vice president, and Daniel D. Holliday, secretary and treasurer. The association has eighteen members. Special Tax Defeated. Church Point.-A special election defeated two and one-half mills spe cial tax. There were 148 ,votes cast and the proposition was downed four t9 3im ; NEWS OF LOUISIANA Secretary of State Is Confront. ed With Problem of Print ing Election Ballots. UNIVERSITY BOARD MEETING New Teachers for Coming Session Are Selected-New Buildings and Im provements Are Authorized. tWes-,'rn NewSpaper Union News service. liaton Houge.---Tio tickets for th,. New Orleans primary on Seto! b her are wanted by .1. ('. Henriqws, chair mnan of the Orleans parish I)emocraticj couImIittee, who called on Secretar' ' of State Herbert and discussed t1:' If twvo tickets are printed. if IthL state and parish tickets are separatll as proposed, for New Or'yans, thii rule will have to be followed over the state, in all the other parishes. and the cost to the state for its print ing bill will be greatly increased. It was the original intention of the secretary of state to print the state and parish tickets in one. The par ishes of the state have been printing their own ticket. In this way thi state and parochial tickets have al ways been separate. The new law, however, provides that the state print all of the tickets, and the first plah was to consolidate the two in one ticket. The matter may he referred to the attorney general for his cpin ion. UNIVERSITY BOARD MEETS Several New Teachers Are Selected and Improvements Allowed. Western Newrspaper-Union News Servle. Baton Rouge.--At a meeting of the executive committee of the board of supervisors of . the Louisiana State University several new professors and instructors were appointed and the president authorized to enlarge sev eral of the buildings. Leave was also granted Dr. C'. E. Coates, dean of the Audubon Sugar School, to attend the session of the International Congress of Applied Chemistry. The new professors named by the board are Prof. Ira S. Flory, profes sor of law, to succeed Prof. T. 'W. Hughes, who resigned to accept the deanship of the law school of the Uni versity of Florida; Dr. M. L. Bonham, associate professor of education, to serve during the absence of Dr. D.'T. Powers, who was granted a leave of absence of a year to study the school system in Germany; Miss Elizabeth Kelly, assistant in the department of agriculture extension, in charge of the domestic science work. The following instructors and those who will do post-graduate work at the university were named for the coming session: F. G. Fournot, in structor in physics; Miss Ruth Bates, history; F. H. Edmister, chemistry: C. S. Nadler, mechanical engineering; Felix Dabadle, economics and history and C. B. Turner, mathematics. The president was authorized to send a picked company of cadets to the Shreveport State Fair this fall, provided the funds are available. He was further authorized to enlarge the present power-house and to put in a boiler plant for the department of experimental engineering; to make an addition to 'the machinery shed, so as to double its capacity, and to ,erect a laboratory plant house for the department of botany. OPINION IS RENDERED Attorney General Rules on Powier of Levee Board Over Property. Western Newspaper Utnion News Serrlee. Baton Rouge.-That a levee board has the right to hold the property within its district adjudicated to the state on failure of the owner to pay taxes, and then adjudicated by the state to the levee board, despite act 55 of the past session of the legislature, which permits the property owner whose property has been sold for taxes to redeem the said property at any time as long as it is in the hands of the state, is the opinion rendered to Registrar Fred Grace by Attorney General Pleasant. The attorney gen eral holds that when the property is adjudicated to the levee board, which has the right to enter it after one year from the adjudication under pre vious statutes, it passes out of the hands of the state, and does not fall within the view of the act. SNew Postmasters Appointed. Washington. - Louisiana postmas ters were appointed as follows: Sam uel -T. Smart, Smart; ('harles F. Kuehn, Sondheimer: Charles Bird, Truxto. All of these are new post offices. Woman Gives Birth to Triplets. Mobroe.-Mrs, -Antonio Lombardino, Wife of an Italian fruit vender, gave birth to triplets, all girls. Three days later their. mother, with the three ba bies and three nurses, attended early mass at a local church, where the in fants .were christened. Crowley.-The first new rice was delivered from the Hunter Canal. The crop was grown by Cleo Broussard, the average yield being thirteen bags to the acre. f QUESTION RIGHT TO SERVE Officials Who Are Ex-Officio Mernbe^ of Boards May Be Barred. 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Ti',;"1 ! la -lll .s tia ..h t nI0 offili;7 -! t;" i . t( 'I (t i f of trust. or 'pr it. Negroes Warned to Leave. 1't 1:il)1i. Nikg,-'r, r;fi- it t,! ld I G If -.11 ' cal , 1i"i1l l1: :'. 'l'This 'ti re s 1te .)te of wtrt in11 I.1 ne, t rots ill t il(o IL'i.ii.Z Ct',c III a it I loll, si tiixlt- from here fol',d ,oV "-! Onl t o ti (lo ' ri ltheir' r' h.i t-. anri (Ollsplti t 'I Is lia ',s ill lit 1 (ooi . . night or Il, lit' r' the nte~tro'S O! i'a in; - la( .t'ei , a party of 1:,"In r ,! into the ,.ni and fired inti', (abiltjls, No o( e was hlrt, bilt i If lack mtniit wtv r(" thoro'gly dolrtti liti edl. T'ioh e n 'ge ro 1e(s It ;1 I, i:. (iuartered herle at night, with "t- holc , of lprventin:4 furher trouble. Names Must. Be on Ticket iattoni }touge.-Parish comlnitl rt! men whose names were not on th, ticket in the .January elo(tion min<t be printed on the ticket for the pr! mary on September a,d iSe-retarl I of State Herbert has issued a Ir-quest that all lists of parish (omnlmitt'eene be sent him for publication on th, ticket, o hich the state mnst print. Bogalusa Has Free Delivery. I3ogaslusa.-The statement of the postmistrees at this place for the f:s cal year ending June 31) shows that the total revenues collected were $1', 190.4::- amount received by the money order department, $83,000. This of fice has increased its revenues under the supervision of Miss M. G. Pea: sell. She was recently reappointe over four candidates of the male sex. The free delivery carrier system was installed here six months ago, and Bogalusa can boast of being the only unincorporated city in the United States having free mail delivery. Drowned While Fishing. Mansfield.-While fishing on Bayou Pierre river with her mother and sev eral friends, who left Mansfield for a few days' outing, Miss Mabel Ben ton, aged 13 years, daughter of Rev. Bruce Benton, of Colfax, was drown ed at a point two miles east of How ards Point. The party had camped at the Rives-Wilcox clubhouse. Fly Swatting Contest Eended. Shreveport.-The fly-swatting con test which was under way here for 15 days ended with a record of 7,011, 000 flies killed. Stanfield Vestal won the first prize, $75, with 2,388,600 kill ed; C. A. Bartsch, second, and Archie Norsworthy, third. In addilion to capital prizes, the committee paid out over $100 for dead flies at the rate, of 25 cents a quart. Jonesville.-The cotton caterpillar has made its appearance in most of the cotton fields of Black and Little Rivers. Many have ordered arsenates, hoping to save what is left. The visi tations of the grass and cut worms de stroyed all the corn, and in many in stances peas, and should it not be pos sible to save the cotton crop, tjis will prove most disastrous to the entire affected territory. ShreveporL.-Rumors are in cireula. tion here to the effect that an effort will be made to recall Mayor John H. Eastmai and Commissioner Rives and Fullilove. The state named in con nection with the movement includes Representative D. B. Samuels, for mayor; W. F. Thom.nn, for Fllilove's place, and George Poleman, for Rives' place. The proposed candidates are all ardent anti-prohibitionists. Experts Given Instruction. Ebenezer.--The short course in agri. culture, given to the farmers of Aca dia parish by Prof. P. L. Guibeau, as. sisted by Profs. Dodson, I)alrymaple, Tiebout and Staples , and Messrs. Wright and Quereaux, closed after a successful term. both in attendance and interest manifested. The canning demonstration way in charge of Miss Agnes Morris and Mr. Warrington. Fully 500 persons took part in this work. O-er 500 cars, consisting of beans, egg plants, potatoes, squash, peaches, tomatoes, corn, okra and pumpkins, were put up and distributed among the people as samples. Lumber Worker Arrested. Lake Charles.-Marlon Myers, a white man, was brought here and jail ed on a charge of intimidating labor. It is alleged that he was interfering with the timber workers at that place. Myers, whose case has no connection with recent labor troubles at (hrabow. is a member of the timber workers. .Morgan City.-Burglars are numer ous in this city. For the past few days numerous homes have been rob bed of small bowr S,~y BRIBIp MAr rtor Siyu ';al on 8amyd Darrow ',ngeles, C] e Chicago n' riot guilty ge . of having I 'cr in the if r4 .trial on It rc:ing to arm1 Attorney S'r the acquittal. '; .rrow Was appDr :ne statement Sas deluged j14 . :,rts of the cot r: .g in Within r r. .t had been Bd c ,ourt room the verdict, t he jury hadi :as had no 11 Jurors embro a;r,:.. nd with temm cheeks declar , - day of their ý including J,_ alf dozen bats a' tulations, aBt ' the trial ap11 strain, stood -. v '~ one hand in k, t 'c ther wringiag (r two hours j~ va practically an_ t h. ;rouping aboa, :ctr.:ant and his iii " :ae jurors, forge " ciks away from throughout to Ipte ipromptu receptio, g 1rep by pedestriM shake hands With , noariy half an hourh make his way two wiere he met a ti IWent to luncheon. 'The jury was ,ht whm.n it left the k'. TRogers said. "The say that only agm i taken, although it - t wo others cast am M r. Darrow's age incredulity when ia would be a trial aI i:ndictment. They. t he evidence lin't been submitted ia i The jury that aeC composed chieflyata of its members ki and a majority ~gi pendently wealthy. 143 Fishbrui San Sebastian, i turns show that alp men were drown~bl for two days lial coast. King Al" Queen Maria Chri public subsceripl ' raised to aid the ° tims. Boy LyeI9 Columbus, in the court hI __ forty menT alias T. Z. negro on trial, beyond the cdit was accused a . Land, a whits~ Ga., two moath5 First Sals Beaumont, emrn Rice Gro barrels of ric4 1 arade, ralsed Bay City, was Rice Milling $4.11 per barrak considerable 31 _ of the seasonl . Austin, Tel. the Texas m.I - $1,51,,000, wip June of $31o,o0 coal mined proximately 0 $58,000, and at 1,000,000 $750,o00. ,'ashingtoil day nominatd. follows: Oh iovn; Frederick W. c'hichester, Starke, HollaR4 ford!, Mount V Eart Albuquerqu - dispatch rec Ariz., 400 mil was severely quake. The until 2:10 P. i - far east as "Fighting J M, organton _ ?Tral Edward A., retired, "Fighting day. lie was Largest P Mount Verf growers have ments. The the largest in ty's peach shi cars were s weeks. Work e44 Brownlsvillei La iLouita A Missio, W rrigate about iounty land;...