The first shipment of coal ever made
from this city by river was recorded last
Wednesday, when 300 tons of Tradewater
coal were loaded on to a deck barge
towed by the United States steamer Hya
cinth at the deep water loading station
and coal tipple of the West Kentucky Coal
Company a short distance above Donald
sonville. The Hyacinth and barge, in
c)mmand of Capt. Kenny, arrived here
Tuesday night and the process of trans
ferring the coal from a loaded barge of the
West Kentucky Company to the deck of
the Hyacinth's barge occupied the entire
day Wednesday. The coal will be used
at the Keystone locks in the Teche region,
for which point the Hyacinth and barge
departed at 5 o'clock Thursiay uorniiing
Pythian Grand Lodge.
The Louisiana Grand Lodge, Knights of
Pythias, held its thirty-first annual con
vention at Baton Rouge on Monday and
Tuesday last, with an unusually large at
tendance; and the business requiring con
sideration was disposed of in a most sat
isfactory manner. The entertainment
program conducted by the two local Py
thian lodges was very attractive, com
prising welcome addresses, music, a
smoker for the men at the Istrouma
Hotel, a reception for the ladies at the
Elks Club, an excursion to the great re
fining plant of the Standard Oil Company,
visits to the public institutions, and dress
parades of the cadet corps of the Louis
iana State University and Uniform Rank,
K. of P., all of which were greatly enjoyed.
