An interesting meeting of the join)
school committee of the police jury,
town council and parish school board
was held at the courthouse Monday
afternoon with 'Hon. G. B. Reuss,
president of the police jury, occupy
ing the cbair. The committee author
ized the construction of a stage in the
assembly hall of the new high school
building and the placing of an ap
propriate ornament on the front of the
imposing structure.
Sandy Truxillo, the hustling junior
member of the popular livery firm of
Rodriguez & Truxillo, has returned
from St. Louis, where he purchased
as fine a lot of horses and mules as has
ever been brought to Donaldsonville.
The animals arrived this week and are
now on exhibition at the Dexter
stables in Railroad avenue, where
they can be inspected by all lovers of
good horse and mule flesh, whether
prospective purchasers or not.
Charles Holcombe, a prominent
young attorney of Baton Rouge, has
accepted the invitation of Major Vic
tor Maurin Camp, U. C. V., and Capt.
Victor St. Martin Camp, U. S. C. V.,
of Donaldsonville, to deliver an ad
dress at the exercises to be held under
the joint auspices of the two organi
zations on Saturday, Jan. 19, the
centennial anniversary of the birth of
Gen. Robert E. Lee, which will be'
generally observed throughout the
state.
Cured His Mother of Rheumatism.
