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maue, they apparently have become weary of spending their time and money. It was decided that the attention of the probe commission be called also to the penitentiary management, as it was asserted that that institution is a tremendous expense to the state. The probe commission already has a subcommittee investigating that subject. It was decided to have the secretary notify the police juries and the district judges of the condition of the parish jails, which, in many instances, is bad. The judges will be asked to call the attention of grand juries to the necessity of investigating the jails. In many states, especially in Alabama, according to a report by the secretary, the states have taken control of the parish (county) jails. Agitation for an investigation of the courts, particularly the Supreme Court and the Civil District Court of New Orleans, was brought to a head when State Senator George Wesley Smith introduced in the State Probe Commission a resolution calling for such an inquiry. After brief discussion, the resolution was adopted without a dissenting vote. a Supt. W. S. Lafargue and H. J. Daa vid, government farm demonstrator, a visited the Paul Scott school of Thibo3 daux and gave interesting talks 03 o education land the benefits to be de rived from the pig, corn and tomato 8 clubs. It is the intention of the speak0 ers to visit other schools and get the parents, teachers and pupils to co-operate in the work of forming clubs. A delegation from Lafayette parish spent two days at the capital viewing I the model road which runs from Baton Rouge to Hope Villa. The party Il was headed by H. Billeaud, president ai of the Lafayette Parish Police Jury S and was composed of P. H. Landry, U of Lafayette; Dr. C. R. de Laureal, Broussard and M. Billiard, Jr., of Broussard. 7 in a Prof. Thos. H. Harris, State Superintendent of public schools, and Prof. C. S. Trudeau, rural state inS spector for this state, spoke to a repu resentative gathering of citizens at = the court house at Franklinton advoa cating the levying of a special school tax all over the parish for the maintenance of the public schools of the parish. :J II A meeting of the board of commissioners of the New River Drainage District was held at Gonzales, the domicilo of the organization, for the I purpose of receiving bids for digging a drainage canal approximately twen0 ty-seven miles long and with a width 11 a of 65 feet, requiring the excavation of about 2,000,000 cubic yards of earth. a Arrangements were made with Dr. Gordon Morgan, president of Mer 11 chants and Farmers Bank of Melville, La., to liquidate the affairs of the Port Barre State Bank, paying depositors 2 in full. It was generally known for several days that the bank was conis templating closing, but the confidence 0 Mr. LaSalle, the cashier, inspired, preS) vented a rush. -is When H. B. Parer of Monroe start. a ed to his work as car inspector on the Iron Mountain Railway he discovered a small bundle on his doorstep and & thinking it was clothing, called his wife's attention to It. The package is contained a baby girl, only a few in hours old. The child's mother is unas known.
