The Rayne Acadian-Tribune from Rayne, Louisiana • 1

Traffing CBtr TRIBUNE An Advertising Medium Covering ia. VMillloii Parish the three-parishes having a tradtn population of over 75,000 people. THE OLDEST3NEWSPAPER IN ACADIA FAKISH Rayne, Louisiana, Saturday, October 23, 1926. THE OLDEST INCOWPORATBD TOWN IN ACADIA ARISH Number 2. "1 BEGINS ON Rayne High Defeats Gueydan Organize for Slash NEW SOUTH SIDE in Lotton Aceragei Q( Ufn fll RID! FIT $5 BLUE ROSE IS SLOGAN UUIIUUL UUlfll LL1LU Monroe, Oct.

20. The first step! The Puiplebacks won their third game when they defeated Gueydan! Saturday at Southside Field by thej score of 14-13. The game was I Building Will After Foot be Opened to Public Ball Game Today. Farmers Backed by Business Men. Holding Firm for $5 Minimum.

Town of Duson Shelling Side Streets Our neighboring town. lHison is nutk ing use of surplus funds which have accrued in its treasury, to gravel and shell the main streets, leading from the O. S. T. As fast as additional, funds are made available new work is commenced, and at the present speed they are making it will Ik? but a short time, until the whole village will be able to boast of shelled and gravelled streets.

Louisiana statewide effort to1 make operative a program of acreasre: reduction of cotton and the withdrawal from the market of four million! Practically all the rice warehouses are full and the only rice being taken by them at the present time is from those farmers who have commenced hauling but have not completed threshing their crop. As one warehouseman expressed it: "I can't take any more, so I closed up. put a $5.00 Blue Rose sign on the door and went home to rest' The present condition of the market has leen brought about by the inability iUIS year crop, was taken at a meeting here today. The meeting was called by II. 1).

Wilson, state commissioner of agriculture, who was named as chairman at the recent Memphis meeting. Present were: Travis Oliver of Monroe, local banker; Commissioner Wilson, YV. R. Perkins, director of the Louisiana State university extension department Senator X. c.

Williamson, president of the Cotton Growers' Association of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation. H. Knapp, secretary-manager of the Louisiana Farm Cotton Bureau, also attended. Plans were formulated K. of C.

Benefit Nets Nice Sum W. Sonnier, Principal of the Itayne Schools announced that the new South Side School will be completed this week and classes will move in on Monday, Oct. 25. The new building which was expected to have leen completed sooner was started last March, Tudor and Roland of Alexandria leing con tractors, William Burke of New Orleans being architect. Saturday morning at 10 oVloek there will be a football game on the campus between the Cathedral High School of Lafayette and the local Purplebaeks.

In- a previous game the home team emerged the victors, and the Lafayette team is coming here in determined effort to wiie out the former defeat. A good game is promised, and it is hoped a large crowd will be in attendance. After the game the school building will be thrown oieii, and will remain so all day, giving parents and visitors an opportunity to visit and inspect the new buildilig, which is the latest and most modern in school construction. fought throughout and the result was in doubt till the very last whistle. Gueydan failed to cover the opening kick-off which rolled in the end zone where it was covered by Breaux of Rayne for a touchdown.

The extra point was made by Chappuis. Gneydan came back strong a little later and with straight football marched right down the field for their first touchdown. The try fori extra point was blocked. Gueydan later scored another touchdown on a recovered fumble. They scored the extra point on a drop kick.

LeBlanc for Rayne then broke loose for a run from a criss-cross for sixty yards. After advancing the ball to the five yard line Bourganx went over for the touchdown. In trying for the extra point Gueydan fouled which automat ically gave Rayne the extra point. For Rayne Bourgaux. Chappuis and LeBlanc were the most consistent ground gainers.

Dugas and Breaux did some pretty tackling and the whole team deserves praise for the manner in which they out played their heavier opponents. Much discussion and argument ensued when Coach Dugas claimed the touchdown on the opening kick-off, but he only did so from a standpoint of pa rishes lor me organization of all raising cotton in the state. Under the auspices of Itayne Uoum-ii Knights of Columbus, for the benefit of the Mexican Fund. '-Treasures of the Vatican," was shown at the Opera House Wednesday night to a iaekel house. The result was that ciuite a nice sum was realized to further the work being done by the order 'in Mexico.

Miss Louise Gossen of Roberts Cove, was the winner of the $5.00 gold phx-e given to the young lady selling the most tickets for the performance. UICOE WAREHOUSE 1 st uay Wholesale Grocery Co. to gUd large Warehouse Here. Southern Pacific rattle pen fas stood as a land mark for 2a number of years, has been tak--9wn aDd is to be moved west of former location to make room for Urge warehouse to be em-ted by gt" Landry Wholesale Croeery 1st feeler, the St. Landry firm open ap warehouse and distributing tjncn here several months ago, oc- efitoB narters on 1136 srouiMl floor Knights of Columbrs hall, cater, fjinlr to Dusiness houses.

The jB of their first few months of were bo gratifying, and real- the opportunities and possibili- jjuffered here, they entered into aootts with the Southern Pacific gany. and as a result they acquir- long time lease on the parcel of pni occupied, by the cattle pen. 'H J. Manouvrier, manager of the tgjtnf, who made his home among jgr a number of years, plans to petty Increase their business ont of Ope, nd will nse their warehouse jbk serve their many customers in founding towns, who hereto fore. atkMn served from Opelousas.

i 15e railroad will lay a new switch 'i, that will furnish unloading fa-Z3m for the cattle pens, as well as 2t grocery company, eliminating the ji1tT of their switching cars for BBloading on the passing track. Be aew switch for the automobile Cf trtetor industries has been eom-; fjsk and the railroad building gang, a finished with the above work, 3 tan down the present automobile fxm which is located on the south i the track near the Rayne Lnm-kr Tzrd and move it to its new locate. Then completed the new track partly increase the unloading and will relieve some of the rioa that results each Fall. In each of the fifty -two parishes of Louisiana where cotton is raised there will be held simultaneous mass meetings at all parish courthouses at 11 a. on November 2.

At these meetings to which not only farmers, but professional men. business of the mills to move their present stock of clean rice at a satisfactory price, and with the farmers, bankers and warehousemen, holding out for a satisfactory price, all eo-operating and working together, it will be but a short time, until the clean rice, buyers will realize that there really is a shortage of the crop, and that producers are 'determined to get a fair price for their product. The average yield is less than six bags to the acre or practically half, the usual yield. The local plant of the Louisiana State Rice Mill, the largest in the state outride of the newly erected mill in Lake Charles, has been forced to curtail its daily run to twelve hours, due to near exhaustion of their present sup ply of rough rice. It is conservately estimated that there is about 150,000 bags of rough rice stored here in the warehouses.

ALLEN CARVER ERECTING HOME Intracoastal Canal Delegates Appointed HERE ministers and community workers and citizens will Ik? invited, there is to be made effective a comprehensive pro- i gram for welding the parishes in a strong organization pledge to the new agricultural plan. At these meetings there will be elect-! ed a parish chairman and a secretary At the mass meetings, gatherings in each precinct of the parish, for small- er group meetings to be held Friday, November 5, will be arranged. Pledges I are to be circulated at both parish and Mr and Mrs Allen Carver and family of Hasting, who have been visit ing at the home of Mr and Mrs C. C. Carver, have decided to cast their lot with us, and are now erecting a home in east Rayne on the O.

S. T. Allen a former Raynite, has been in the Minnessota city for some fifteen years, and the steady progress and The following citizens were appointed from this parish by the Poli-e Jury as delegates to the Intracoastal Caual Association of Ixniisiana and Texas, which will Ik? held at Morgan City oh November 12 and 13: Rayne A. A. Chappuis.

Martin justice to himself and his team. Some of the Rayne fans, who should know football, sided with Gueydan and claimed that the touchdown should not be allowed. However, the following letter from the sports editor of the Times-Picayune should suffice to prove the justice of Coach Dugas's claim precinct meetings in which farmers are pledged to cultivate smaller acreages in the future. growth of our little city, the progress made agriculturally, during his absence and the potential possibilities offered at the present time, hastened his decision to remain in the sunny south. with approximately 20,000 bags being stored on the farms and yet to be hauled in.

tried over. The end zone is just af much the playing field as the rest of the field. Your case was similar to an on-side kick which enables the players of the kicking side to recover the ball provid ed it travels at least ten yards, and it seems that the kicking side took alert advantage of the ignorance of the receiving side. With best wishes, I am, Your very truly, (Signed) GENE Sports Editor. Petit jean.

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C. Wimberly, Leon Uhachero. Edward Mr. Bobbie Dugas, Coach, High School. Rayne, Dear Sir: The referee was correct in declaring a touchdown.

If the defending team had simply placed their, hand on the ball while it was in the end zone, it would have been a touchback, to be put in pfcliy em on their twenty yard line. If th4 ball had rolled out of bounds it would hare been broughtback to the forty yard line and the play Abbeville Town Council Plans to Sue Crowley Signal Abbeville, Oct. 16. Asserting that malice and ill-will toward the town of Abbeville prompted the publi- (Continued from page 4) and who could help but pick Rayne as the place. Bishop J.

B. Jeanniard ordered that a special collection be taken up last Sunday in all Catholic churt-hes in this Diocese for the benefit of the Florida Relief Fund. The congregation of St. Joseph's church here responded generously and a neat sum was added to the fund. stay friends of Mrs Aug.

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