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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1929
Page
3
The article promotes the annual Red Cross Roll Call starting Monday November 11. It extols the organization’s wartime and peacetime aid, urges Ruston citizens to join, notes Red Cross activity in disasters and fires, and calls for a one hundred percent local chapter membership.
Dairying in Louisiana makes substantial headway with more creameries and dairy products than ever. Farms gain regular income as demand for milk and cream rises, but tick infestation hampers potential gains. Cremeries spread outlets. training and credit help farmers, yet widespread ticks threaten milk yields and the passage of a tick bill could accelerate progress.
The article argues for restoring fundamentals in crime treatment and warns that harsher penalties may not deter crime. It notes prior calls for stringent gun laws but dismisses disarming the public as ineffective, suggesting criminals ignore laws and focus on broader causes.
The passage questions pursuing formalities over genuine citizen protection. It argues for returning to basics, sharply separating the good citizen from criminals, and trimming red tape and burdensome laws that hinder justice and favor law-breakers.
Agricultural authorities urge farmers to rely on home production and land upkeep to achieve relief. They outline three core rules: produce most family needs on the farm, maintain and improve soil, and keep livestock with multiple cash crops. Emphasis on proper marketing and professional guidance from parish agricultural agents.
The federal tick eradication program began in 1906 with a Louisiana sponsored law and a quarantine covering 985 counties across 15 states. Now 198 counties remain under quarantine in six states, and the annual release will show many counties cleaned up in five states except Louisiana which did nothing in 1929, hurting dairy and beef industries. The program releases about 25 000 square miles yearly, totaling over 500 000 square miles since inception.
This season marks the results of a year’s work by boys and girls club members. Their records are creditable and often surpass adult farmers. Many boys raise more cotton or corn and produce better calves and pigs than the average farmer. Girls excel in various projects. clubs total 715,000 members. The youth are the main hope for future farming success and deserve encouragement toward more efficient farming and improved home life.
A four to one return on fertilizer investment is highlighted as the pathway to higher farm profits. The piece urges farmers to adopt soil fertility practices and fertilizer use, noting Louisiana reports a 4.08 to 1 return per dollar and record fertilizer sales as evidence of the trend.
The text argues that farmer prosperity relies on broad wealth distribution. It cites surveys showing high earners spend a smaller share on farmer products, while middle and lower incomes drive larger farmer demand. It contends that widespread incomes fuel a healthier market for farm goods.
A. H. Henderson of Ruston La had the top economical producer in the annual three day dairy cattle butter fat contest at the Louisiana State Fair announced by E W Neasham. Eleven cows from jersey and holstein breeds competed with Chapman Farms Lee Summit Mo winning aged cow class top 4.1 pounds. Second place 7.4 pounds from Chapman Farms. Third place jersey from Falfurias Farms Falfurias Texas 5.8 pounds. In under three years class Henderson Jersey first. King Farms Kansas City Mo holstein second. Henderson jersey third. Top young cow 3.71 pounds, second 3.69 pounds, third 3.27 pounds.
At the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport the United States Army Recruiting Tent hosts a display of past war relics and a collection of current weapons. Sergeant Jason F. Fugate of the Shreveport Recruiting Office oversees the exhibit and its arrangements.
New Orleans, Nov. 7 There was a rise in October 1929 arrivals at the Port of New Orleans with 261 steamships totaling 1,055,070 gross register tons, up 17 ships and 68,155 tons from the prior October. Inland watercraft increased by 47 vessels 27,217 tons and barges and steamboats over 25 tons reached 315 vessels 134,082 tons. Inner Harbor Navigation Canal traffic included 745 vessels totaling 344,010 tons.
New Orleans reports Canal and Baronne streets undergoing repaving and resurfacing as Royal street known as Rue Royale undergoes repairs. Narrow sections require temporary closures to traffic near Canal street while renovation aims to modernize aging paving, signaling a century shift in appearance.
Washington reports the army will lend trucks to the postoffice department during the Christmas mail rush. Secretary Good instructed corps area commanders to place all available motor trucks at the disposal of postal services for the holiday season.
Third District Court Louisiana Parish of Lincoln orders sale by public outcry at the deceased’s last residence near Dubach on December 1, 1929. Real estate includes multiple described tracts totaling about 235 acres in sections 23 24 25 26 within Township 20 N Range 3 W Brushy Branch area. Terms cash or not less than two thirds of the appraisement. Adrinipiratrix Georgia Detherine Green.
Dixie Gulf Gas company and affiliate Dixie Gas and Fuel announce a new 137 mile Monroe Richland field line to Waskom via Kansas Louisiana Pipe Line. The 20 inch pipe crosses the Ouachita and Red rivers and Lafourche swamp with a 120 million cubic feet daily capacity. A 12 000 horsepower compressor station in Monroe will power deliveries to Gulf Gas through a 3 million cf daily limit Yet initial deliveries start at 36 million cf daily. Dixie Gas distributes in 29 east and south Texas towns while Dixie Gulf serves Port Arthur and Houston Ship Channel industries. New meters placed in service last week as Dixie Gas and Fuel reports rising business.
Indianapolis November 6 Florida and Minnesota departments of The American Legion challenge any state to a membership contest. Michigan accepts Wisconsin challenge. American Legion Week November 11 to 18 urges renewals for 1930. Florida and Minnesota draft wagers on state products or prizes, as officers report rapid progress toward the year’s program.
A stray rattlesnake wandered into a downtown New York subway platform at Canal and Centre streets frightening dozens before Patrolman John S. Kennedy killed it with a nightstick. The reptile, described as having eight rattlers, drew a crowd as officers and a frightened bystander described the scene.
New Orleans Nov reveals Oliver Ta Farge, famed explorer and archeologist with the Midwest expeditions of Tufts University, has his first fiction accepted by the Dial. The novella Laughing Bry follows the Nevajos tribe from his Harvard era field work, and the Novem ber sale marks a Literary Guild selection for the work.
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