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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

We were pleased on Tuesday
last to receive visit from Mr.. j.
". Etheridge,. of Montgomery,
who is one of our sturdy citizens,
the kind that succeed in life and
make their own opportunities un-
der adverse circumstances. He
runs a public gin, and while he
acts as general manager and SUPER
visor his daughter Miss Lula, an
amiable, sprightly and intelligent
young lady, runs the engine for
him. This is no play business
with Miss Lula, for she is a practi-
cal engineer, understands the busi-
ness, and has run her fathers
engine for several years. She is
as neat and tidy as any lady in the
land, and the intellectual superior
of most of them, and while she
runs the engine she always has her
books handy. At present she is
taking a course in elocution, in
which she excells, and goes to
Montgomery every few days to re-
cite. A few years ago Catherine
Cole gave Miss Lula compliment
tary notice in the Picayune for her
industrious independence, and ever
since she has kept on at her novel
vocation. We take great pride in
this model daughter of Grant.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09
COlfax- High School.
COi.FAx, La. Feb. 9Th. 1898.

The trustees Of Colfax High
School met persuant to request OF
Prof. Paul, principal of said school.
Present, DR.. j. F. Kelly, president,
81. G. Goodwin, VIM. Knotzsch
and L. M. Townsend, also Prof.
Paul and Mr.. j. A. Williams, par
ish superintendent, were present
by invitation.
Mr.. Goodwin stated that the OBJ
ject of the meeting was to authorize
the parish superintendent and
president of the school board to
warrant in favor of Prof. Paul for
SIS per month, according to said
Paul's contract for himself and
wife, the difficulty being that the
school board had fixed the salary
for first grade teachers at $40 per
month.
Mr.. Williams stated that he had
no right to go beyond $40. Some
further remarks and suggestions
were made and there being q diff
erence of opinion as to the contract
with Mr.. Paul, the minutes of the
last meeting were read.
On motion of Mr.. Goodwin the
parish superintendent was author
lied and requested to pay Prof.
Paul, principal of the Colfax High
School and his wife $75 per month,
as per contract of the trustees of
the local board with Prof. Paul as
principal.
This being satisfactory to the
parish superintendent and presi-
dent of the school board, was
adopted.
There was some desultory talk
among the members in favor of the
compliance Of the committee ap-
pointed at the last meeting, and
the secretary. in performing the
duties entailed upon them as shown
by the reading of the minutes of
said meeting.
There being no further business
the board then adjourned.
j. F. KELLY,
w. Il. RICHARDSON, President.
Secretary.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

The coolest and hardest weather
OF this winter came down on US
last Wednesday night. The wind
blew steadily and strong from the
north all night, and by daylight
Thursday the ground was frozen
stiff. All day long the wind con-
tinued to blow and intense cold
prevailed. Fortunately there was
neither snow nor sleet, the moon
shining brightly at night and the
sun by day, and the dry cold did
not cause as much suffering to man
and beast as there would have been
it it had been rainy and wet.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

SHERIFF SALE.
First Jnstics Court, Parish of Grant. Lou.
isiana, No. ~.
W. A. Jones ". Jasper B,air AMI ". N.
Futrrll.
BY virtuc Of writ or g.. fl. issn. d ont
Of the First Justic. cont Of Grant parish
AMI 10 me directed in the above entitl
suits, have seized and will offer FIR sale
at the trout door Of tho c. urt house ia Col
fax La, ON
SATURDAY, February IS. 1895.
tho following described property. sliced
as the property of the defendant vix:
Sc ofN Z lsec 81. r Z, North, lsansy
W. containing 40 pcrss VI land more Or
less.
Terms or Snse-TweIve months. purcha-
ser to pay all registered costs and give
bond with COOL aud solvent secnrity resid-
ing ia the parish. G. d. KEMP,
Sheriff Of Grant Parrish.
ColfaS, La. Jan, 81, 1894.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

Whew, what a blizzardi We inn
agine it is pretty cold here with the
thermometer 10 degrees above ze-
70; what do you think of such
weather as they he'd in the north
along the great lakes, where it was
30 and 40 degrees below zero? Re
ports from all quarters indicate it
to be the coolest spell for years.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09
License Notice.

CoLFAx, La. Jan. q, 1895.
On the first day of March the law re-
quires list of all persons and corpora
tions who have not paid their license to
be placed iu the hands of the attorney
appointed by the governor to collect de-
!inquent licenses. 1t will be his duty to
Immediately rule all who have not paid
TO show cause within five days why they
should not be closed up aud Judgment
rendered against them Tor the amount OF
the license. with penalty costs and ten
per cent attorneys fee added. All retail
liquor dealers who have not paid license
are subject to indictment.
A word to the wise is sufficient
Q. ID. KEMP, Tax collector,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

Attorney-st-Law and Parish Su-
perintendent of Public Education
John A. Williams, Esquire, is hav-
ing his Office fixed up in style. with
different tinted wall paper in his
three rooms, all elegantly bordered,
and finished of with a vanished
wainscoating of alternating walnut
and cherrie colors~ When it comes
to style the "Major" is in it.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

To four gallons of water add one
pound of sugar, two ounces of salt
petre, six pounds of salt; put in a
kettle and let it boil; skim it we'll.
Let the liquor cool. Put in bar
rel or Tub and put in your meat,
being careful to have it covered
With the liquor. If you wish to
keep it a long time, boil the liquor
once a month. adding more salt,
sugar and saltpetrss It will keep
thus for . year.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

The American Furniture Agency
retails all kinds of furniture at Is
to 90 per cent, less than regular re-
tail prices, and ships it direct to its
customers from the worlds largest
furniture factoryin Chicago. Large
illustrated catalogue for the asking.
Address American Furniture Agen-
cy, Galena, Kansas.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09
Mr.. E. A. Mathis, formerly G

Mr.. E. A. Mathis, formerly con-
nected with the VIM Parish Com
rade, was in Colfax on Wednesday,
making arrangements to run anoth-
er newspaper in this place. He in
formed US that he has rented the
LsSage hall for an Office, and ex-
poets to purchase an entirely new
outfit with which to run the paper,
which will begin about the first of
March. We did not learn the
name of the paper, but suppose it
is to be run on Populistic lines.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09
He is Not Joking.
Mouth Of Cane River. Feb. {

Mouth Of Cane Rives. Feb. Q. 1895.
Editor Colfax Chronicle:
l have rendered my services to
the President of Mexico, in the
event of war with Guatemala, and
intend to raise a company of caval-
ry from this district for service in
the field. l will bring back. (if I
survive) a Catholic priest for the
Acmevi!le church. I am going
more for glory than for gain.
This is no joke, l really hove Offer
ed my services as stated.
Yours, ETC.. T. M. WELLS.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09
Bids to Paint Court,House.

Notice is hereby given that will, at
IL "a. on Saturday, February q, 1895, let
out to the lowest competent bidder the
painting OF the court house, in the town
OF Collar. La, said painting to consist of
two coats Of paint to the entire building,
inside and outside, except the floors and
root The judges stand, tables and rail
ing are to be included in the painting.
81. g. GOODWIN,
President Of Police Jury.
Colfax, La, Jan. ~. 1895.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09
Notice to Teachers.

Notice is hereby given that an exami-
nation OF applicants to teach in the pub
lie schools Of Grant parish will be held
in Colfax, on Saturday, March 2, 1895.
Teachers holding certificates granted
in 1894 may have them renewed by pre-
senting them to the superintendent and
paying one dollar for the benefit of the
Institute fund. j. A. VILLAINS,
feb. D, 1880. SUPERINTENDENT
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

If you contemplate purchasing
any Household Furniture, send for
catalogue of American Furniture
Agency, Galena, Kansas. They re-
present the the most extensive fur
niture manufacturers on earth, and
sell to anybody at lowest factory
prices.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09
Evangelist at Pollock.

POLLOCK, La.s rep. Z. l6So.
Editor Collar Chronicle;
Will you please publish the ap-
pointment the Rev. Mr.. Morphis
has here? He is an Evangelist
from Texas, and will hold series
of meeting here beginning the 9th
instant, and continuing about one
week. Hoping you will comply
with this request.
Yours truly, D. B. JOHNSTON.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09
MARRIED.

POWELL FARMER At the resi-
dence OF Mr.. VIM. Chi'ders, in Grant
parish, La, on Thursday, January "a,
1885, Mr.. Thomas w. Powell and Miss
Elizabeth Farmer were united in the holy
bonds OF matrimony, the Rev G. H. Bar
rett officiating at the wedding.
Long life and happiness to them.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

The following is the only I'M
claimed letter remaining in the
Colfax post Office Feb. LIST, 1895,
viz: Mr.. A. ]. Brannon. If this
letter is not called for by March
list, 1895, it will be sent to the
Dead letter Office at Washington.
d. G. When you call for this let
ter say advertised letter."
r r. JIrER, p. N.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

DR.. M. A. Dunn, of Montgomery,
has located at Pineville for the
practice of medicine. In this re-
moval Grant parish is greatly the
loser. while Rapides gains a valu-
able citizen.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

Joe Jones, who runs the Boyce ferry,
WAS 10 Colfax yesterday, and informs US
that the high winds Of Thursday sank all
of his boats.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

Our young people have organic
ed the Colfax Literary Club, which
proposes to hold weekly meetings
every Friday night, and a great
deal of interest is being manifested
in the organization
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09
Editor Watterson Right at Last

Editor WattersOn Right at Last.
tLouisviile CourierJournal,l
For ten years, honestly, inces-
sanity, we sought to do what might
be done by Legislation for the re-
Mobilization of silver. Silver went
steadily down. Mistaken as we
were from first to last. our purpose
was for the best; and we have no
reason to regret the earnest effort
we made. But we have reached q
point where, in our Judgment. to 60
further is to invite ruin,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

I hereby announce that buy Lint
Cotton from one pound mp to = bale,
buy Seed Cotton from wheobarrow
load up to q wagon load. / buy Pei
tries Of all kinds, beeswsx. and all kinds
Of Country Produce.
]. w. JOHNSTON,
Sept. q, 1884 Baedad, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

We are sorry to learn that the Office OF
the Boyce Enterprise wac burned Thurs
day night, and that Editor Watts lost
his entire outfit.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

For sale at ]. b. NcNeely's.
Fresh homemade meal at 75c per bush.
Fresh molasses, $50 gal.
Fresh bacon, 10c per b.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

Desiring to closeout my mercan-
tile business at Colfax, am now Of
fering my large stock Of goods at
cost, for cash. j. III. McNEELY.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

Mr.. VIM. II. Latham, formerly
connected with the Montgomery
Mail and La. Populist, is now at
work for the st Mary Banner.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

owing to the time gwen.
Our eourse in the Literary Department
offers any thing 1cading up to IN A. b. de-
gree in any Of Our Colleges or Universities,
besides We can give exceptional sdvants-
ges In both Music and Elocution.
Board can I've had with ~ at from S %
to % 90 per month. Any onc wishing to
move to Montgomery with his family can
secure . suitable house at ANAL cost.
We respectfully solicit an investigation
Of our school aud ita. advantage
For further Information applyto
w. A. MAJORS, A. b., Principal.
or to Fl. v MCCAIN.
Pr)eideut Board ut Trustees.
ja26 Montgomery, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09
LOCAL DO Il S /.
Mr.. A. A. Goodwin, of thinner
man. was in CoIfax on Wednesday.
BoHN.-To Mrs. H. B. Faraldo,
on the morning of Sunday, Feb. 3,
1895, fine l01 pound boy.

Prof. Paul reports 81 pupils en-
rolled in the Colfax High School,
with an average attendance of 66.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-02-09

We take pleasure in saying Ia those hav-
ing children to educate, that onr. school
opened under the present management
Ian. 9TH, 1885, with every prospect Of
successful session. Any ono wishing to
patronize wide-swake, progressive home
school can not do better than to place
their children with no. Our tuition 10 low
cred to meet &he agricultural conditions
of the couutrv.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31
THE AGE OF CONSENT.

All progress is not necessarily right.
nor even always commendable. Safe
progression and in the right direction
should only be desired or urged. The
Woman Who Did" and 1.-The British
Barbarian" are not going to accomplish
any definite good. The harm of these
progressive works will not cease with
the present generation of readers. The
Arena is another instance. 1t is loaded
down with stuff nearly every mouth,
yclept progressive thought and ''re-
form" which are neither, in fact. Its
vast lot of truck on the '.age of con-
sent is largely rot. Women and girls
should be protected, but their greatest
and Surest protection is in, and must
be, of themselves. Even the child's
greatest protection is parental rather
than legal-love rather than law. The
pictures of the heroes and heroines
published by the Arena, who have Sc
cured fame by laboring to raise the age
of consent up to IS years, may prove
at it why didn't they make it forty.
Like all other legal enactments for the
encompasSing of strictly moral reforms
the age of consent law not only fails of
its purpose but is made the instrument
of great wrong. He who wrote back
from California that his objection to re-
turning to Kansas was based on the
fact that the state had, in five years,
raised nothing. save the age of consent,
was not necessarily a libertine or vo-
luptuary. The chances are he is level
headed. The Globe recounts a ridicu-
lous incident Transporting under this
law at Atchison the other day. A
woman appeared at the county at
tOrney'S office and wanted her hus-
band arrested for violating the age of
consent. The woman claimed she was
under IS. 1t seems that since her
marriage she had had trouble with
her husband. and he has left her. If
her case holds good then the Kansas
law should be amended making il a
penitentiary offense for any man to
marry any woman under the age of
consent. At least such law would
prove more acceptable to the men at
large in the state. and probably TO the
women also, than 60 resort TO universal
pilcheriSm
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31
GO SLOW. GENTLEMEN.

The Eagle would kindly suggest to
its goldbug contemporaries in Kansas
the propriety of easing off n little on the
riSidity of their inf1exible standard
In the month past their criticisms of
the Eagles financial liberality may
have been safe for these esteemed,
and satisfactory 10 the banks that have
been carrying their notes. But the
sentiment Of the people must be re-
sponded 10 in the end and the end Is
near. The narrowness of selfish inter
estS may prosper for a night but honest
daylight is sure 10 succeed. In face of
the fact that the United States senate
today is for bimetlliSm renders all gold
bug slurS at ''silver-iatistS" and Of "a
fifty-cent dollar" and the like. but dia-
phonous bugabooS. The Is TO l silver
papers are not repudiating. nor vet
single standard silyeriteS. but himetal-
lists. They have stood for good money.
but for more Of II. The present price
of all other property is just IS greatly
a deprecated one. The present finan-
cial situation is not a natural but an
enforced one. Prices and values have
not been left TO regulate themselves by
the universal law of supply and de
mand. but have been regulated 10y sell
fish and narrow but powerful inter
eSts. Did we think otherwise than in
the interest Of civilization we would
favor the making of every single gold
dollar two dollars. To these esteemed
eotemporaries. especially % the Law
renee Journal and Topeka Capital. the
Eagle would say: watch the United
States senate" The day for leaping.
bounding and bouncing by goldhus or
gans is passed. Better 90 little
slower and more cautiously. or other
wise the chaSm which will soon be sep
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

with $162 W0. 900 added to the bonded
debt, not counting interest. He could
have also shown them that the average
monthly deficit under the present law
is S4,699, 6O3, as against the average
monthly surplus of 81, 129, S21 under the
Mckinley law.
Although war with Great Britain is
improbable, it is possible, and il is
therefore the imperative duty Of con-
gress to provide for the strengthening
of the revenue and the maintenance OF
the national credit. That the revenue
is inadequate even for current expenses
is shown by Secretary Carlisle's report,
and could be read between the lines Of
President Cleveland's disingenuous
message at the opening of congress
That the tariff, in addition to being
non-productive of sufficient revenue,
is also lacking in protective features in
a degree ruinous TO important Ameri-
can interests, has already been pain
fully demonstrated. The tariff should
at once be amended so as TO increase the
revenue and to afford additional pro-
lection TO American industries now
languishjng and TO American labor de
prived Of accustomed earnings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31
A TOUCH OF WAR.

Captain General Martinez de Cam
pos bowls and all Spain groans over
the outrageous guerrilla warfare Of
Gomez and Maceo, whom the Spanish
general claims is leaving destruction
in their path. Martinez de Campos is
a court warrior. He probably has yet
TO learn that war means destruction.
Plantations are destroyed, railroads
torn up, telegraph lines torn down,
and it seems TO his silk-stocking imper-
ialism perfectly awful. No doubt.
Martinez de Campos would do well to
read Sherman'S march to the sea. War
is war and the Cuban patriots seem TO
be ON to that fact Gomez and Maceo
are in the very interior of Cuba and
they are making things lively. Cam
pos had better do little more field
fighting and less letter writing.
While Campos rolls about upon his
tongue stories of the retreat and de-
feat of the Cubans in each encounter
and pictures wildly the fleeing pa
triots the logical conclusion of tOday's
relative positions seems TO be that the
Cuban flight has been almost inter-
ruptedly in the direction Of the Spanish
forces.
Whether Gomez will seek to push his
way I'D 10 the capital is a question.
There would be little profit In doing so
at present in view of the Spanish naval
force and the exposure to lombard
ment If. however, he can force the
soldiers of Campos back from Nation
zas, il is likely that he will at no distant
day see CampoS and fis army confined
10 the country within Il few hours
march of Havana In that event Spain
will be forced 10 terms, in the absence
Of active assistance from some other
power. to which the United States
would not consent. The outlook to-
day for Cuban independence is brighter
than il has been a atmnyit Eiunah
than it has been at any time since mid
summer.
Captain General Campos is facing his
Waterloo if he but knew it, and all
America smiles. will smile so long and
loud that the whole world will hear
them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

bona City convention a lot Of people viii
be surprised
The Shawnee Quill thinks that Dennis
Flynn and Charley Curtis OF Kansas. are
the two hsriest working members Of
congress. They work together.
The Arapahoe Bee cant see The sense
in Rowling and kicking about a tax being
unjust and oppressive. and then sbpp&ng
around the last day and paying H.
Governor Renfrow doesn't believe tha.
all the Oklahoma legislators would con
sent 20 serve without pay. The gove--
nors head Is IN good running order on
that score
CITY Marshal H1dxpeth Of p Re0o
was fined = las; week for arrestinE a
colcrod boy without a warrant Arrests
cannot be made without SSrrz-s where
the amount stolen il les than ~
II some o. he Democrats 81 Okiahoma
fau 20 gei single statehood f0r Oklahoma
AID the Indian TERRITORY. they can ssssly
move down mo the fn<sian country and
get a Unste.i States sen2torNEip later.
Anarchy broke out IN the email toz- q
Omega. near KinE1sher. recently. roE
in a gsneraI sore Tessks1 ~ Whrh a
county ol8ce-. a voz4zn. a preacher and
TIE g,cs;mSsieT were al badly hurt Two
men ars under arrest fo~ Starting she
trosb.e.