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Preparing for Parade. The Fire Board of the Bato SELL NEW YEAR'S CROP Rouge fire department has decide that for the parade to be held ther Truck Growers Contract Feb. 22 next, floats will be used, in With Chicago Firm. stead of fire apparatus, as has bee the custom heretofore. All the com GAME LAW IN PARISHES STRICT mittees charged with the details o the arrangements for this celebra Term at State Normal Closed. Tugtion have been appointed and prepar tions have begun. boat Sinks. Yellow Pine Lumber Advances in Price. Bouvy Consigned to Penitentiary. Killed in Mill. Fabian S. Bouvy was brought to Baton Rouge by Deputy Sheriff W. L Erwin of Iberville parish and com The police jury has promulgated mitted to the authorities of the the ordinance regulating the shipState Penitentiary to serve the nine ment of game birds from the paryears to which he was sentenced for ish of Vermilion to any and all points the killing of Prof. Fred Van Inwithin the State. It provides that gen on a Texas and Pacific train. it shall be unlawful for anyone to near Plaquemine. ship more than twenty-five game birds in any one calendar day; that Hardwood Mill Under Construction. it shall be unlawful for any comThe new hardwood mill and stave mon carrien to accept for shipment factory for College well under con beyond the confines of the parish struction. The company building-the more than twenty- game birds hardwood mill and stave factory is in any one day one of the strongest of that kind in of game the South. The company has already affidavit of owner made before purchased large tracts of hardwood a competent officer, showing the timber within a radius of fifteen species and number of birds, and miles of Colfax, and has timber men that in addition thereto there shall now making other purchases. be a certificate of inspection and approval issued by the game warden Store at Goodwill Station Robbed of Vermilion or his deputy. Any Burglars entered the store of Ed violation of this ordinance is declarGoodwill at Goodwill Station on the ed a misdemeanor. punishable by L. and A., road and carried away fine of not less than $5 nor more quite a quantity of goods. This is than $10. or imprisonment for not the second burglary that has taken less than five nor more than thirty place there in a very short time. days. Purchased 20,000 Bags Rice. Agricultural Pamphlets Distributed. More than 80,000 bags of rice have The office of the Superintendent been purchased recently in the Elton section northwest of Estherof Education mailed to the parish wood. superIntendents of education the pamphlets prepared by Principal V. Charged With Insanity. L. Roy, in charge of the agricultural Emare Broussard, a prosperous schools of this State. A letter from farmer residing near Erath. has the Superintendent of Education acbeen confined in the parish jail on a companies these pamphlets, wherein charge of being insane. the superintendents are requested to The suit of the Texas and Pacific distribute these pamphlets among Railroad against the Railroad Comthe teachers in their parishes either mission, in which the plaintiff seeks by mail or at the regular teachers' to prevent the carrying out of an institutes or meetings, so that infororder for an improved schedule on mation on the agricultural courses the Natchitoches branch, was tried ordered in the schools for the chilat Baton Rouge. dren of the rural districts may be properly disseminated. The Wilkins Company, rice planters near Jennings, will endeavor to Returns from Sanitarium. dispose of its output direct to conHorace Kelsoe, who was beaten up sumers marketing the cereal in by a negro at the Big Pine Lumber twenty-pound cartons. Company's plant at Baton Rouge several weeks ago, has been brought Judge O. C. Mouton was elected back from Shreveport Sanitarium. a member of the Lafayette City The negro who assaulted Kelsoe is in Council, receiving 99 votes. H. Jagou the Parish jail at Lake Charles for appointed by Governor Sanders, safe-keeping. He was caught in polled only 4. Orange, Tex. The sheriff did not deem it advisable to bring the negro Two of the four members of the here until the result of Kelsoe's intrain crew, held responsible for the juries were determined. Texas and Pacific wreck at Shreveport, which cost three lives, were reContract Irish Potato Crop. leased by order of the Grand Jury. At a meeting of the North LouisJudge Sorelle, in instructing the lana Truck Growers' Association it grand jury at Mansfield, ordered that was decided to accept the offer of a investigation be made of alleged irChicago firm to take the Irish poregularities practiced by the game tatoos produced by the truckers this warden of Sabine Parish. year. The agent of the firm stated that the price would be around sixtyMaurice Stern declined to serve on five cents. Mansfield, Coushatta, the committee that will investigate Lewis, Marthaville, Greenwood, and the award of contracts for textbooks other places were represented at the for use in Louisiana public schools. meeting. Tre State Reformatory at Monroe Tug Sinks, Crew Escapes. is expected to open in the spring The tugboat Seminole, owned by Rev. D. C. Barr, the superintendent, the Charles Clark Company of Galarrived and took charge. veston sank in Morgan City at 2 The Bank of Patterson and the o'clock in the morning. The crew First National Bank liquidated, rewas awaken by the night watchman sulting in the opening of the Union and all escaped. The accident came Bank of Patterson. so quickly that they cannot tell just what caused the boat to sink. The Sam Rundell, 15-year-old son of tug was to leave next morning for Parish Assessor S. S. Rundell, died at Galveston with two barges of crossFloyd from the effects of injuries reties. ceived in a horseback accident. Lumber Advances. Shreveport grand jury could find Lake Charles sales agents say no one to indict for recent lynching that prices generally on yellow pine but indicted Kansas City train crew lumber have increased at least $2 for Sunday night wreck. per 100 in the last thirty days. Orders have been received from secThe police juries of Vermillon and tions which had been out of the marCameron Parishes passed ordinances ket for six months All of the Lake limiting game shipm ents to twentyCharles mills have resumed operafive day. tions. None are running more than The Livingston Parish Police Jury four days per week. called on the assessor to reduce the New Graduates of the State Normal. assessment 25 percent on all property The first term of the 1909-10 sesfor the current year. sion of the State Normal School Theodore Saylor, 60 years old, closed last week. The record of the dropped dead in a church at Campti, term is highly gratifying and satiswhile conducting a Sunday school factory. The result of the examinaclass. tions for the term shows the earnest work of the student body. There State Superintendent Harris anwere remarkably few failures, 91.71 nounced that .he will soon make pubper cent passing the examinations. lic the cost of holding teachers' institutes. Negro Robber Caught. Willie Jones. who was one of the A "peeping Tom" caught in the gang of negroes who held up and act at Lafayette proved to be Jack robbed Will Huyuck, of Memphis, Hardy, a stranger, who was heavily Tenn., of about $100, was arrested fined and sentenced. in West Baton Rouge Parish, and placed in the Parish Jail. This makes W. A. Bennett, an attorney, pleadthree of the gang arrested. There is ed guilty at Homer to the charge still at liberty one negro woman who of embezzlement. was alleged to .have been in the robThe Police Jury of Cameron Parbery. ish called for the abolition of the Rena Pierce and Nat Senac eloped State Game Commission. from Crowley, and girl's father was The theatre at Eunice was burned. jailed to prevent tragedy. Palm Donated to School. D. of C. Deny Trouble. The Lake Charles High school was The members of the Baton Rouge donated a palm for the yard which chapter of the Daughters of the Conwill be planted Jan. 21, when Liberfederacy have issued a statement to the effect that while some of the tv Day will be observed by the city schools. officers have resigned. it is denied that trouble exists in the ranks of the Provide Lunches for Boys. organization The affairs of the chapThe South Side School Improveter are in good shape and its busiment League at Lake Charles apropamicably administered