As previously announced in the
Chief, the regular annual parish
teachers' institute will convene in the
local high school building on
Monday next, the 21st inst., at 10
o'clock a. m. Hon E. N. Pugh,
Mayor Charles Maurin and other
speakers will be present and deliver
addresses, and an interesting program
will be carried out. The public is in
vited to attend the opening exercises,
as well as all the sessions of the insti
tute.
On Monday night from 8 to 10
o'clock an informal reception will be
tendered the visiting teachers and
their friends at the high school build
ing. Supt. Showalter has appointed
the local teachers a reception commit
tee, with Prof. J. L. Rusca as chair
man. As no formal invitations will
be issued the public is hereby cor
dially invited to attend.
Some night later in the week State
Superintendent J. B. Aswell will be
present and address the institute, and
visits are expected during the week
from State Institute Conductor L. J.
Alleman and other prominent educa
tors. The institute will remain in
session until noon Friday.
A young white man named John
Ryan was arrested in Livingston par
ish last week on the charge of having
set fire to and destroyed the store
building of Mrs. L. Landry at Prairie
ville, in the seventh ward of this par
ish, which was burned to the ground
early in the morning of Tuesday, Oct.
1. Deputy Sheriffs E. C. Hanson and
William Acy, Jr., left this morning
for Centerville to take charge of the
prisoner and are expected to return
with him next Monday. It is said that
the evidence against Ryan, while cir
cumstantial, is of a very positive and
convincing nature.
