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The Yale expositor., 1897-01-15
BROCKWAY.
Items Sent in by Our Regular
Correspondent.

sleighing prospects are very poor in
| this section.
Next review, Peninsular Tent, X. o.
T. NJ, Jan. Is.
Revival services are now in progress
at the M. +. church in this place.
FIG. ellis, Of Bay City, Mich, is al
present calling on old friends in this
locality.
Patrick Cottar lost child on Satur.
day with diphtheria. Three more OF
the children are now sick.
ID. j. Davidson spent Saturday and
Sunday with his family, returning
Monday morning to Port Huron.
On account of the illness of Father
Laughran, Rev. FIR. Kilroy, formerly of
Detroit, but now of Croswell, attended
this mission last Sunday.
The sporting fraternity of this place
have a set of boxing gloves and hold
nightly revel at the fort of Windy
Ave. in the Sheldon building which
they have fitted up into comfortable
and commodious quarters.
Married Wednesday afternoon, al
| the home of the brides parents in this
place, LeOlulHd, uduSnleT Oh JOnI
Lambkin, to Melvin, eldest son of
Nathan and Elizabeth Russell. Rev
Rowe, of Yale, tied the knot in the
presence of 100 invited guests. Many
presents were received which were use.
| full as we'll rs ornamental.
At present petition is in circulation
praying the Rt. Rev. Bishop, of De
| troity to make st. Joseph's at thi.
place parish church, and that resi-
II is nnderstood hat verv II few ne 1,
are attaching their names to the same
| As it is patent to all that the handful
of Catholics in this section could never
support a parish church.
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FRAUDULENT PROOFS.
c. M. Bentley Obtained $4,000 on
the Alleged Death of n. S. Bal
lentine, of Port Huron.


Sunday Herald, Port Huron.)
Strange as it may seem, Henry s.
Ballentine has been dead several
weeks and did not know it. For a
walking corpse Henry is about as
robust as you make them. But all
the same he has been dead, the local
lodge of Royal Arcanums certified to
it and so did reputable physicians.
1t was all simple enough and came
about in this way. Chas. Nj. Bentley,
secretary of the Royal Arcanum,
prepared the proofs of death of A. n.
Taylor and had DIR. Stewart, as at
tending physician attach his certifi-
cate. He had the doctor sign a
duplicate. as he (the doctOr) sup
posed, but it was really certificate Of
death of Henry 5. Ballentine. Mr..
Bentley had Joseph Walsh notary
them and they were sent in. In due
time the check for Ballentine's in
surance, $4,000, was received, and as it
was made payable TO the secretary
of the local lodge, Mr.. Bentley had no
trouble in cashing it.
When the last number of the Crown
the official organ, was received by the
Port Huron members, they were sur
prised to find the name of Henry =.
Ballentine among the dead, but Mr..
Bentley explained that it was Henry
5. Ballentine, who formerly lived in
the Fifth ward and who moved to Bay
City where he died. This didn't sat
isfy all the members and an inveStiga-
ton was made which showed that the
Order had been imposed upon
Yesterday the supreme secretary
from Boston arrived in the city and
found Mr.. Bentley at his residence
last night. lie demanded the $4,000
back and Bentley paid over to him
s. 800 which he had in the bank, and
gave him real estate security for the
balance.
The affair got out this forenoon and
created a sensation in the city. Mr..
Bentley is the secretary of a number
OF fraternal societies and is well
known. lie has enjoyed an excellent
reputation and his friends, who are
numerous, are terribly surprised. Mr..
Bentley admits the facts and says he
must have been out Of his mind.
Henry :. Ballentine undoubtedly
feels better, although for corpse he
has been pretty lively all the time.
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Mems Suits.

Mems Suits, Sc values; Removal
Sale Price ................... 3 So
All wool Cashmere Suits, $3.50
values; Removal sale price,. So
Heavy wool suits. SO values; re-
moval sale price .............. 3 So
All wool suits. single or double
breasted, Sl2 values; removal
sale ...'...................... 735
Fine all wool suits, single or
double breasted. in Worsted.
Cheviot or Home-spun, SO
values; removal sale price. -. 8 So
Fine imported worsted. vicuna
or cashmere dress suits; $500
values; removal sale price. -. IL So
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Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of the Michigan
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany, for the purpose of election of
officers and such other business as may
come before the meeting will be held
in the Village Hall, Yale, January
9th, 1897, at one O'Clock p. m.
Jas. +. Lutz, Sec'y.
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Mems 0YercOatS.

All wool kersey overcOats (plain
Italian or Clay worsted lined)
$500 value; removal sale
price. ........... 81 IS
Fine kersey overcoats, blue or
black, all wool, $l5 values re-
moval sale price ............ 80
Good all wool kersey or melton
overcoats. SIP values, removal
sale price 30
Beaver overcoat, in blue, black
or brown, $40 values, removal
sale prlce %
Beaver overcoats, $3.50 values;
removal sale price. ............ 80
Beaver overcoats, in blue or
black, So values; removal sale
price. ................. 90
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Mems Pants.

Fine all wool worsted pants, So
values, removal sale price. ....$3 IS
Fine pants. regular S. values, re-
moval sale price ........... IS
Heavy all wool pants, "a values;
removal sale price ............ 85
Good all wool pants, $3.50 val
ues, removal sale price. ....... 2 80
Heavy all wool kersey pants.
$3.50 values; removal srle pIice l 35
Good working pants, $3.50 values
removal sale price ............ 95
Cotton pants, 81 values; removal
sale price .......... gu
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Boys Suits.

Boys suits, all wool, So values;
removal sale price ............ So 30
Boys suits. black, blue or mixed
colors, $50 values, removal
sale price ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. So
Boys suits, all wool, any color,
single or double breasted, so
values. removal sale price,. . 50
Boys suits, fine black worsted or
home-spun, Sl2 values; removal
sale price NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Z 80
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Children'S Suits.

Suits, blue, black and brown,
from to IA years, worth Sl.50
removal sale price ............S %
Child's suit, double breasted, any
color, from 4 to II years, worth
$3.50, removal sale price ...... 30
Child's suits, handsome and wool
goods, A to 10 yrs, worth $3.50,
removal sale price. ............ 2 80
Nobby all wool suits, in any size,
worth 81, removal sale price,. 2 So
Boys suits in all the latest de-
signs, up to IL years, worth SO,
removal sale price. ............ 3 80
Boys fine dress suits in blue and
black, removal sale price. -. 3 50
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Mems Hats.

Stiff Hats in all the latest blocks,
SO values; removal sale price. 8 | %
Stiff and soft hats. regular $3.50
values; removal sale price. 80. | Go
All the newest shapes in fedoras
in black, brown or fancy shades
50 values: removal sale price. l 30
Good Fedoras and Stiff Hats,
worth Sl.60; removal sale price 80
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Mems Gloves and Mitten,

Mems knit mittens. 35c values, re-
moval sale price ..............
Gloves and Mittens, worth 75c,
removal sale price ............
Kid gloves and mittens, S1.00,. re-
moval sale prices .............
Fine kid gloves and mittens,
Sl.0O Values removal sale price
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Mems Underwear.

Underwear, 40c values, removal
sale price. Observation-Disclosures 90
Fleece Lined Underwear, 75c val
ues; removal sale price. ..... As
All wool camel hair Underwear
81 values, removal sale price,. 70
Fine all wool camel hair Under
wear, $l.5C values, removal
sale price 95
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Soothing and not irritating, strength
ening, and not weakening, small, but
etfective-such are the qualities of
DeWitts Little Early Risers, the fa-
nous little pills. Grant Holden.
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Fancy Shirts.

Mems fancy shirts. cylered bosom
and cuffs, worth 81 so; removal
sale price observation-disclosures 90
Mems cOlored shirts, collars at
tached, worth 81, removal sale
price. ................. 90
Mems fancy shirts, 75c values,
removal sale price ............ 80
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NeCkWear.

Neckties, all shades, SOC values;
removal sale price ............ 21c
Four-in-hand and tecks, 75c val
ues; removal sale price. SOC
Imperials, puffs. four-in-hands
and Flowing End Scarfs, Sl.00
values; removal sale price,. ACC
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Mems Socks.

Mems zoe Wool Socks, removal
sale price ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Mems Wooden Socks. 35c values,
removal sale prices. ..........
Mems fine wool socks. SOC values
removal sale price ......
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Mems and Boys CAPS.

Caps, worth Doc. removal sale price 19c
Caps, worth 40c, removal sale price 23c
Caps in Golf and Brighton shapes
Toe values; removal sale price 45c
Mems heavy blue Yacht Cloth
Golf Caps, 81 values; removal
sale price. Observation-Disclosures. Csc
Mems Brighton Caps. heavy blue
cloth, 81 30 values; removal sale 95c
The Yale expositor., 1897-01-15
ChildS Knee Pants

Knee Pants, 40c values, removal
sale price .....................
Knee pants, 75c values, removed
sale prices ........... 1890.
Knee pants. heavy weights, 81
values, removal sale price. -.
Fine all wool Knee Pants, 81. so
values, removal sale price 80.
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Boys Pants.

Boys pants. $3.50 values, remov-
al sale price ...................
Boys wool pants, $500 values,
removal sale price ............
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Great Removal Sale E!

But still have too many goods to We have extra
cuts on prices in every in order them
January Clearing and Inventory Sales away in the
shade when compared with the wonderful values we are
Offering
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Bows listers.

listers, heavy goods, $5c values,
removal sale price ............
listers black Cheviots, $3.50
values, removal sale price.
Fine listers, $40 values, removal
sale prices ..................
Boys extra fine black Cheyiot
listers SIP values, removal
sale price .............
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Bows OVercOdtS

Overcoats, black Kersey, So val
ues, removal sale price. .......S 3 SO
Overcoats. good fitting and well
trimmed, So values, removal
sale price Observation-Disclosures. So
Fine overcoats, in blue and black.
$40 values, removal sale price. 8 SO
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Mems listers.

Heavy listers, $3.50 values; re-
moval sale price .............. 81 80
listers, black, extra long, $1,000
values, removal sale price. -. 80
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Mems Shirts

Shirts, 35c values, removal sale
price. ................
Shirts, fast colors. 75c values re-
moval sale price ..............
Fine wool shirts, 81 values, re-
moval sale price ..............
Fine flannel shirts, $3.50 values.
removal sale price ............
Elmo all wool shirts. So values.
removal sale price. ............
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Died of DIphtheria.

Miss Anna PETE died at her home
four miles northwest of Capac on sun
day, Jan. 3D., 1897, at the age of %
years. Cause, uiphtheria. Her re-
mains were buried in the cemetery
north of Capac. Deceased was II sister
of Mrs. VIM. Jurden and was also a
member of Alhambra Hive, l.. O. I. NJ,
Brockway, carrying 81 600 insurance
policy. The funeral sermon will be
preached one mile north of Capac at
10 o'clock Sunday morning, Jan. 18th.
Resolutions on the death of Anna
Petz:-
Whereas, death has for the first time
entered the borders of our fraternal
circle and snatched from our midst a
dear sister in the bloom of youth.
Resolved, that while we bow in hum
BILE submission to the will of the Su-
preme Commander, we commend the
relatives and friends of our loved sister
to Him who doeth all things well.
Resolved, that we send copy Of
these resolutions to our home papers
for publication, and that we place a
copy on file in our Hive, and that we
drape our charter in mourning for
thirty days. Julia Vanorman, X. X.
Margaret Davey, F. X.
Ella Haskell, l.. Com.
Alhambra Hive, Brockway.
have several SO-acre pieces of land
and improved farms in Sanilac county
that | would trade for houses and lots
in Yale. 81 b. X. NOBLE.
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Child'S OVercoatS.

OVercoatS. $3.50 values, removal
sale prices ....................
Overcoats, with cape, 81 values
removal sale price ...........
Cape overcoats, in any color, So
values, removal sale price. -.
Fine Overcoats, So values, re-
moval sale price ..
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listers in black Cheviot and
Rough Shetlands, SIP values,
removal sale price. ........... Z 80
All wool listers. SO values; re-
moval sale price. .......... 0 50
Fine black Cheyiot listers, SIS
values; removal sale price SO. IL So
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Boys and Childrens Reef

Refers, blue Chinchilla, SO val
ues, removal sale price. -.
Refers, sizes 4 to IA years, So
values, removal sale price. 80.
Fine Chinchilla REFERS, $3.50
values; removal sale price. 80.
Extra fine Chinchilla REFERS with
fine braid trimming, $3.50 val
ues, removal sale price $500.
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So astonishing the reductions Great Removal
Sale that hardly trusts his eyes on seeing the
figures the price tickets We than eyer de-
termed not to carry any present our new
store. In anxiety to get rid Of present stock
Profits Have Been Showed Under. Prices Have Been
Lost Sight Of It's Like Will Never Come Again
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Mems and BOYS SuSpelderS.

25c values; removal sale price go. -
4Oc values: removal sale price. 80. %
75c values; removal sale price,. 40
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XXOEk FOR MEN AND WOMEN. We
w pay IS TO 10 per week for easy home
work Child can do II. No SCHEME, Books
OR PEDDLING. This is bona ilde. send stamp
for work and particulars at once THE SEY-
MOUR SUPPLY CO, Masonic Temple, Cam
den, u. 5O-lyr
The Yale expositor., 1897-01-15
Pine Root COUGH SYRUP CURES

All Throat, Lung and Bronchial troubles of long
or short duration Hundreds cured after given
MP To die. Large bottles, JOc Guaranteed. Sold
by Graut Holden, Yale, and w. j. Mckinney,
BrOckWay.
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WANTED-AN IDEA y Ws sSS can s mini

thing to patiently Protect your ideas they may
bring you wealth. Write JOHN WEDDER
BURN q CO, Patent Attorneys, Washington
-. c., for their 81 800 prize offer.
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Fine Kersey Overcoats, nobby
Dress Coats, Sl2 value, removal
sale price
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20

Assessment in Caddo.

The Shreveport Times thinks it
will be news to some OF its readers,
as it was to the editor, to learn that
on the assessment rolls of Caddo
parish for the past year not a dol
lar in cash or credits appear for
taxation. The only property which
appears on the rolls is that which
could not escape the assessor.
The Times accounts for ''this re-
markable state of affairs" by the
explanation that those who loan
money have a plan of covering up
the transactions by notes and mort
cages of a peculiar form that en-
able them to successfully evade
taxation, and continues as follows:
"a money lender may have one
hundred thousand dollars loaned
out, drawing interest, and well Sc
cured by mortgages, and yet he
does not pay one single dollar into
the parish and State treasury; and
yet this money lender is the first
one to call in the aid of the law and
the officers to protect his property
from spoilation. Contributes moth
ing to pay officers and support gov
ernment, and yet calls loudsst for
government aid. A case in point
occurs to us. The McWilliams es-
tate upon being inventoried showed
Sl30,000 Most of it was in cash
and credits. 1t was assessed at
Sc, 500, which was real estate that
could not get away from the asses
sor. The estate was paying only
on about Z per cent of it's real val
ne. And there are others just like
this. Comment is unnecessary.
Now comes the pertinent inquiry:
What are you going to do about
itY'
The question of assessment has
been an nnsolved problem from the
day taxation was devised. 1t seems
impossible to frame any law on the
subjet that cannot be easily evaded
and that it will be, goes without
saying. We presume the old plea
was urged in Caddo that if loaned
money were taxed in Louisiana the
owner would send it elsewhere, and
thus needed capital would be driv-
en- out of the State, to the preju-
dice of the spirit of enterprise.
But if the assessor refused to listen
to this siren song the money-lender
could get the best of him by send
ing the mortgage notes out of the
State, or swear that he had done SO,
for there are very few people, in
deed, who regard false oath where
taxation is concerned as contra
bonos mole Daily States.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20
A Noted Minstrel.

M. T. Skill, formerly business manager
for w. j. Scanlan, the Irish Comedian,
suffered with Rheumatism for years
without relief until he bought bottle
of Drummond's Lightning Remedy. Two
are thousand remedies for Rheuma-
tism, but none have received the unso-
licited testimonials from prominent peo-
pie as shown by Drummond's Lightning
Remedy. When cure is wanted send
IS to the Drummond Medicine Co., New
York, and they will ship to your express
address two large bottles of the remedy
enough for one months treatment.
Agents wanted.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20
Cheap Corn.

Mr.. L. B. Price has been kept
quite busy nearly all the week de-
livering about two thousand BUSH
els of cheap corn, obtained through
Chairman Millsapps, of the State
relief committee. This corn costs
the people on the west side of
Grant parish in the neighborhood
of 30 cents delivered, owing to the
fact that we have to pay the boats
an extra freight to bring it from
Alexandria to points on the river.
Still there is a great saving, as it
costs from IL to Is cents less per
bushel than if the corn was pur-
chased in New Orleans.
We learn that the report is cur
rent that this corn was bought for
purposes of speculation. This is
not true. To our certain knowledge
at least nine-tenths of it was
bought in the name and for the
use of individual consumers, whose
names were furnished before the
order was sent on.
There are great many wild and
unfounded statements afoat about
the corn purchased through the
State committee, and, in answer to
the Daily Item and one or two
other papers, who busy themselves
in fomenting harsh criticisms about
it, the committee has issued a state
ment, to the effect that not one dol
lar of the State money is being
used in the purchase of the corn,
and that only very small portion
of it is being used to pay part of
the freight.
The great bulk Of the people
who get the benefit of this cheap
corn are entitled to the small con-
cession in their favor, and there is
every reason in the world for the
committee to continue the purchase
of corn under the rules already es-
tablished.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20
Cure for the Grip.

In view of the fact that the grip
has become epidemic in several
towns in this State, and that a
large number of cases are reported
in this city, the following dispatch
from Galveston may be of interest
and benefit to the SO afflicted read
err:
Mayor Fly has published a letter
from st. Ignace, Mich, suggesting
a vigorous rubbing Of all parts of
the body with warm turpentine as
a cure for the grip. The gentle
man saw a special dispatch in the
Globe-Democrat telling that the
grip was epidemic here, and he i'm
mediately wrote to the Mayor.
The Michiganders say that 1t will
cure in twenty-four hours, and that
no medicine should be taken. Half
dozen persons who tried the rem
edy are apparently as well as ever,
aud tonight there are hundreds
who are being treated to turpentine
massage. When the Globe-Demo-
crat correspondent, one week ago,
sent out the dispatch which the
St Ignanee saw, there were only
1000 persons suffering from the
grip. The News to-day says the
doctors report 1000 patients with
the disease. AS the population of
the city is $4,000, it can readily be
appreciated what strides the mala-
dy has made in seven days.-Ex.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20
Garden Seed From Ogden.
Washington, d. c., Feb. Is, 1897.

Washington, d. c., Feb. Is, 1897.
R. r. Jeter, P. NJ. Colfax, La.
Dear sir--I have tried to reach
every family in Grant parish with
seed, but having no means of learn
ing the exact number of patrons of
each of the offices / will order 500
packages sent in bulk to your Of
fee to meet the demands of such
post masters in your parish as will
write to you that they have not
enough to supply the patrons of
their Office. Please see Mr.. Good
wyn and get him to note the fact
in his paper, requesting postmas-
tiers not to mail their requests until
after March LIST, as it is thought the
entire shipment to your parish will
arrive by that time, and the post
masters of the various offices can
then determine what deficiency, If
any, there will be.
Yours truly, HI. w. OGDEN.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20
vick's Floral Guide, 1897.

For nearly half a century this catalogue
of flower and vegetable seeds, plants,
bulbs, roses, grains. potatoes, etc., has
come as regularly as spring time. Here
it is again to remind us that it's time to
think about our gardens. This Issue
contains half dozen full page half-tone
illustrations of roses, asters, gold flowers,
carnations and tomatoes.
1t seems full of the necessary informa-
ton for either amateur or professional.
Send Is cents to James Vick's Sons,
Rochester, N. Y, for packet OF either
Vicks' Branching Aster, New japan
Morning Glory or extra choice pansy and
a copy Of Vick's Floral Guide. IL you
state where you saw this notice you will
receive package OF flower seeds free
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20
Quarterly Conference at CoIfax

Quarterly Conference at Colfax.
At the first quarterly conference
for the year 1897, Colfax and Ada
charge, held in Colfax, Feb. 18th,
roll call showed the following pres
ent: V. ID. Skipper, presiding ell
der, in the chair; A. G. Flowers.
preacher in charge; W. l.. Rich
ardson, H. G. Goodwin, J. FL. Nc
Nicely, w. B. Richardson, and S.
7. Parish. III. G. Goodwin was
elected secretary.
The preacher in charge handed
in reports relative to the Epworth
League, the number and state of
the Sunday schools, pastoral in
struction Of children, and the gen.
eral state of the church, which
were necessarily brief, owing to
the pastor faving been on the
work only two weeks.
The stewards estimated $3.50 as
necessary for the support of the
preacher for the present year.
The presiding elder reported
that the board of district stewards
had assessed the Colfax and Ada
work $3.50, as follows: For presid-
ing elder, $63; for bishops, IS; for
widows and orphans, SIG; for for
eign missions, $37; for domestic
missions, SIT; for church extension
IS; for conference board of educa-
ton, S.; for general board of edu-
cation. 81 so; for printing minutes,
80; for delegates to general con-
ference, So; for Payne and Lane
Institutes, 81 50. !.
The various appointments were
then assessed for the present year,
for all purposes, as follows:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-02-20

Vacancies in the boards of trus-
tees were filled by the election of
w. b. Richardson, nj. e. STAFFORD,
J. M. Nugent, and G. HI. Nc
Knight. The other trustees are
W. L. Richardson, j. FL. McNeely,
and H. G. Goodwin.
w. B. Richardson, J. W. Bald
ridge, J. NJ. Nugent, VIM. Nugent,
w. F. Logan, and S. A. Neal were
then elected stewards, with the un-
derstanding that stewards for the
other churches would be elected at
the next quarterly conference.
G. III. Mcknight was elected re-
cording steward, and Nugent was
decided upon as the next place to
hold quarterly conference.
The minutes were read and ap-
proved and conference adjourned.
V. ID. SKIPPER, p. +.
HI. G. GOODWIN, Secretary.