Lake Charles American Press Newspaper Article, Cannon Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, LA ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Submitted by Evelyn Corbett Cunningham, 9457 E. Montego Lane, Shreveport, LA 71118 E-mail evelyneva@aol.com Lake Charles American Press September 1, 1992 Cannon leaving lawn >From the American Press of Sept. 1, 1942 TBE GERMAN trophy cannon, a familiar sight on the courthouse lawn since it was presented to the parish in 1919, may be returned to Germany or sent to Japan with explosive force behind it, or it may become part of some machinery of war. The Police Jury this morning donated it to the Army Emergency Scrap Drive after a brief request for the big gun had been presented by Charles A. Richardson, commander of W.B. Williamson Post, American Legion. The Police Jury also authorized the donation of discarded light fixtures now stored in the courthouse basement and all other discarded metal on the parish premises, after B.H. Britain, chairman of the drive now in progress, addressed the group. Also included is a case of German rifles stored in the courthouse. Parish trucks will be used to assist collection of scrap iron, with police jurors of the different wards to be contacted for them. Also at the meeting, a petition requesting a road and ferry from the Big Lake Road to a point convenient to the Cities Service Refinery site was presented with what was said to be more than 1,000 names of signers from Ward 3 attached. Baptists of Southwest Louisiana will recall pioneer days when missionaries visited their charges by riding horseback as they assemble for the 50th anniversary of the Carey Baptist Association at the First Baptist Church Thursday, Sept. 3. The Carey Association was organized at the First Baptist Church in 1892 in the pretty little white frame church that was on the corner of Ryan and Iris streets. Of the ministers who were present at the meeting Rev. T.G. Alfred, former pastor of the First Baptist Church, but for the last several years in Shreveport, is the only remaining preacher. The Calcasieu Baptist Association, organized in 1867, has offered Baptists of Southwest Louisiana a medium through which the several churches could join at intervals and report on the progress of their work. But with the coming of the Southern Pacific Railroad many things were changed. Nfissionaries no longer needed to ride horseback, spending days and weeks to reach their charges, so it was decided that a new association to serve the towns along the railroad was needed and from that need came the Carey Baptist Association. At the organization of the association, named for one of the first nfissionaries, William Vincent of Vincent Settlement served as moderator and Z.L. Everett of Lake Charles, clerk. J.W. Bryan was the first treasurer. During the days when the old Calcasieu Association served the people it was quite a hardship for ministers to make long trips to hold services, revival meetings, baptize converts and perform the offices of the church. In those days it required about two weeks to go from Johnson's Bayou to Sugartown, and many a weary mile through all kinds of weather was traveled by those devout and consecrated pioneer churchmen. Trails led through piney woods, prairies and marshes, and fording steams, swimming the horses, even when streams were high from heavy rains, all came within the day's work of the missionary.