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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-10
In The Arms of the Negroes.
Daily Picayune.

Daily Picayune.
The President has appointed
the negro, DR.. Crum. to be Collec-
tor of Customs at Charleston, s.
C. This probably is, next to the
Collectorship at New Orleans, the
most important Office in the Fede-
raj Civil Service in the Southern
States. and confirms the belief
that has recently been growing up
in the country that President has
discarded the Lilly White Repub-
lican organization in the South
and has thrown himself into the
arms of the negro party.
This was necessary in order to
secure the support of the South
ern State delegations in the Ma
tional Convention in 1904. The
Southern Republican delegations
in the National Republican Con-
ventions have a great deal to do
with nominating a candidate, but
nothing whatever to do with cleo
ting him. Of course, the vital
point to Mr.. Roosevelt is to secure
the nomination. If the conven-
ton, as has been threatened,
should cut down the Southern re-
presentation in that body to the
basis of the voting population, it
might completely knock out the
Presidents calculations.
However. he is an unwise poll
tician. He is too extreme and
headstrong, and lacks absolutely
the smoothness and policy of Mr..
Mckinley. He is almost . mad
man in the radical character Of
his schemes, and in the violence
with which he pushes them, and
because it is impossible to judge
from any one act of his what the
next will be, he destroys conf.
dence and inspires anxiety and ap-
prehension in all matters where
prudence and conservatism are re-
Quired.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-10
AT WORK.

Thursday evening the Board OF
managers of the water works and
electric light plant held their first
meeting at the Bank of st: Mar
tiuville, to organize and form the
committees to go to work at once.
The meeting was presided over
by Mayor H. P. Fournet, and the
following members were present:
L. j. Gardemal, Frank T. Gull
beau, Robert Martin, B. i. Four
net, 7. j.. Liable, james Simon,
Scott Kelso, E. E. Soulier, Albert
Bienvenu, L. G. Duchsmp.
A finance committee composed
Of Robert Martin, T. j. Liable,
James Simon, was appointed to
look after the floating of the bonds.
The executive committee, who
will have the burden of work Oh
their shoulders, and upon whom
will devolve the work Of compile
ting all the details of this great
work, is composed Of L. ]. Garde-
NAL, Frank T. Guilbeau, 3. L.
Fournet, Scott 'Kelso and L. C.
Duchamp.
The members Of the board and
of the committees are anxious
willing and determined to push
this work as rapidly as possible
and will 20 to work in earnest
completing all the details that are
required to put in motion this
great enterprise, which we all ex.
pect to see in operation in a few
months.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-10

Our phone number is 47-2 if,
you have any news item Of any
kind please call Us and we will be
glad to get the news. If you have
any guests at your house We will
be pleased to have you call us,
give us their names. where they
are from etc. Do not be afraid
of bothering M, We have put the
phone in the Office Just for this
purpose. SO give 40 the call.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-10
Woodmen Of the World.

At a regular meeting of Cotton
Wood Camp 134 Of 81. Martin
VILE, the election of officers was
held and the following officers
were elected:
F. 2. Power, Past counsel CON-
mander,
Geo. Eastin, Adv. lieutenant,
Frank Robin, Clerk,
Adolphe Franz, Escort,
Frank DeBlanc, Watchmsn,
Robert Guirard, Sentry
Managers.
Michel Fournet,
Henry Fournet,
A. G. Bugg,
Maurice Pollingue was elected
delegate to the Shreveport, Roll
ing Log Convention.
The sovereigns we're warned Ia
take notice that on the Fourth
Thursday Of this month, the new
ly elected officers will be install
ed.
After the ceremony of installing
the officers, there will be a fine
supper for the members, and they
are expected to turn up in full
force.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-10

-Ptister's Cabinet, pure RYE
WHISKY. We do not make a
cent on it. but it sdvertises our
business and brings us lots Of GUS
toners Tor other liquors. You
can't buy its equal from any one
else for less than s1,D qt., our
price $l.O0. Robins Grocery.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-10
LOCAL NEWS.
~ ~ ~ X

FRESH IsiCo Dtdu 1,1O per SACK
at M. Bienvenu & Son.
Mr.. l.. j. Cardinal made a trip
to New Orleans this week 20 buy
q stock of goods.
The Bachelor Maids we're enter
tanned THURSDAY evening by Miss
Pauline Fouruet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Guirard
went to franklin this week to pay
visit to their daughter, Mrs. j.
Walker. o
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Gueri.
Mere went to Lafayette this week
to visit their daughter, Mrs. +. O..
Cotney.
Mr.. l.. G. Vautier returned
home last Sunday after having
spent week in New Orleans, WIS.,
iting relatives.
Mr.. james j. Martin returned
to New Orleans last Sunday to re-
sumo his studies of law at the Tu-
lane. University.
There will be service at the
Episcopal church tomorrow evs-
ming. at four o'clock, and the pub
lie are invited to attend.
The Knights Of Phythias had
their annual dinner at the Flem-
ing hotel last Tuesday, and the
boys had most pleasant time.
Those in need of notes with
homestead clause and mortgage
notes can get them at the Airssen-
ger Office ct so cents per huiidred.
Mise Mercedes Bieuveua re-
:nrnei hone Tuesday after aaying
passed three weeks on Bath plan
tstion,. the guest of the Misses
6erard.
Misses Bessie and katherine
Oman returned Monday from their
trip to Nashville, Tenn, where
they had gone to spen1 the holi-
days with relatives.
ALI our young people who had
come home to spend the holidays
with their parents, have returned
to their respective schools, after
having had a pleasant time at the
home freside.
Miss Cecile DeLaureal, who lie
taking a course in Stenography
and type writing in New Orleans,
had come home to spend the holt
days; she returned to New Orleans
this week to resume her studies.
The school authorities have had
the high school building here
painted inside, and have added one
hundred single desks for the pu
pills, and also teachers desks, and
more slate black boards, which are
great improvements in that school,
DIR. and Mrs. W. j. Rhymes
returned last week from their Wis.
it to relatives in Richland parish
They were accompanied home by
Miss Emma Rhymes, sister of the
Doctor, VINO will spend some time
with them.
The District Court is in session
here since Monday, crimina
term. A new grand jury was for
med with Carlos Greig as fore
man. We understand that there
are several minor Cases to he III
vestigated BY the grand jury, bu
none of any serious nature.
There will be special election
in the first school district, of thu
Third ward of this parish to-day
T.. aooo;ol tov for tho be0e
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-10
GET YOUR
Public School Books
and Stationery
At l.. G. DUCHAi1P.
Bank Notice.

The stock holders of the Bank Of S..
Martinville are hereby notified hat the
annual meeting of stockholders will be
held at the Bank building January 18th
1908, for the purpose Of electing board
Of directors.
st. Martinvills. La. January 3rd. 1903.
ALBERT BIENvENU, Ca shier
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-10

For bad taste 10 the mouth take q
few doses of Chamberlaiu's Stomach and
Liver Tablets. Price % cents. Warran-
ted to cure. For sale by T. j. Liable.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-10
You Have Heard a Great
Deal About Shoes ]! !!

We have just received the
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1903-01-10
new HAMILTON BROWN SHOES.

They are much better finished,
They have better leather in them,
They are more, stylish than we expected,
Let US convince you by FACT, mot words
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04
A NATION OF SMOKERS.
The People of Spain Puff Tobacco rm-
cessantIy and In All Sorts
of Places.

Although one often hears that the
tobacco habit prevails universally in
Spain it is impossible to know how
general that habit is until one visits
there, says London paper People
smoke necessarily, under all condi-
tions, at all hours and in all places
excepting the church. Men smoke in
the railway carriages; they smoke in
all the tram cars; they smoke in all
the minor theaters; they smoke in all
the restaurants, in the hotel dining
rooms, and, of course, in the cafes.
In the business office the merchant
and his clerks smoke. In shops the
shopman, while trying to sell goods
to lady, will stop to roll cigar
cite, which, when lighted, he will
puff in her face. You see conductors
and drivers of tram cars smoking.
All the hackney cabmen smoke all
the time, while even coachmen and
footmen of private carriages some
times smoke on the box. Beggars ap-
proach you cigarettes in mouth to
whine for aims. If you ask for tick
cts at railway Office the clerk lays
down his cigarette as he hands you
the dingy bits of pasteboard. The
innumerable peddlers all smoke ciga-
rettes all the time. The lower-class
women, including the gypsy women,
smoke freely on the streets.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04
AUTOMATIC DOCTOR IN PARIS.
Drugs for Twelve Different Ailments
Furnished by Penny-in-SIOt
Machines.

1t is probable that the climax OF
the automatic supply craze has been
reached by the company which is
about to install penny-in-the-slot ma
chimes, called ''everybody's DOCTOR"
on the boulevards and principal thor
oughfares, says the Brooklyn Eagle.
Each machine is to have IL slots,
which means that not only the RENE
dies, but also the prescriptions for II
different ailments, such as toothache,
Indigestion, cold in the head and
nerves." viii be forthcoming for the
ubiquitous penny.
The faculty of medicine has grant
ed the system certificate, and there
is CONSERVATION among Partisan doc
tors. One doctor said:
1T will lead to all sorts of COM
plications. People who are suffering
pain have not always their wits at
command, and it is quite conceivable
that many people will take the OPP
posite drugs to those they require
/ can see a man who is half blind
with biliousness putting his penny
in the wrong slot and swallowing a
cure for influenza. That is certainly
what will happen, and then those ma
chimes will be rallied at just as many
a doctor is when he happens to make
a mistake"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04
WANTS SMOOT EXPELLED.
Presbyterian Assembly Adopts ResO-
luton Against the Senator
from Utah.

Los Angeles, May 30.-The Presby-
terrain general assembly unanimously
adopted resolutions calling upon the
people of the United States to use
their utmost endeavors to secure the
expulsion of Apostle Reed Smoot
from the national senate. The pre-
amble declares that the Mormon
church PERSISTS in the active en-
enlargement and practice" of polyg-
amy, and that Smoot is Gin cordial
sympathy with it as Divine institu-
ton"
The one hundred and fifteenth gen
eral assembly of the Presbyterian
church dissolved Friday afternoon at
4:45 o'clock. all business before it
having been completed.
The one hundred and fifteenth gen
eral assembly has been one of the most
important in the history of the Pres
byterian church in that it has disposed
of many subjects of denominational in
terest and, as commissioner ex-
pressed it, cleared away al points of
disagreement and put the church in the
van of a great forward movement"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04
TRADE REVIEW.
Industrial Disturbances Are the Most
UnquietinE Factor In Bust
ness Circles.

New York, May 30.-R. G. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review of Trade says:
weather conditions have improved,
particularly as regards the great sta
pie lines, although considerable losses
have occurred in garden truck and
other minor farm products at the east
owing to drought. Labor controver-
sizes are still the most disturbing fac
tors in the situation, and it is diff
of merchandise will be affected. Struc-
tural material of all kinds is moving
slowly. because of strikes in the build
ing trades, which are now exercising
more widespread influence than other
disagreements. At the east the trade
situation is satisfactory, as a rule.
Railway earnings thus far reported
for May were 1913 per cent. larger than
last year, and surpassed those of 1901
by 25.6 per cent.
Failures this week numbered 206
in the United States, against 1914 last
year, and in Canada, compared with
20 year ago."
bIdQSLISGU w
awaits crop, labor and price develop
ments. Too much rain is reported for
western crops, but particularly for
corn, the planting of which is still de-
layed. The outlook as othe country'S
export trade is by no means depress-
ing. Exports of manufactured goods
for the month of April were onlytwice
exceeded in the country's history"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Nearly E.ynPhed

William L. lockwood. known as
"Jack, the Hugger," narrowly escaped
being killed by an angry mob of men
in the northwestern part of Racine.
Rockwell, by giving girl II years of
age candy and fruit, coaxed her into
dark shed. Her screams aroused
people living in the vicinity. The shed
was surrounded and lockwood was
captured and roughly handled, his
lips being cut, nose bruised and face
cut. The police were called, took him
from the crowd, who were calling for
a rope to hang him, and he was taken
to Jail. lockwood was only recently
released from the county Jail, where
he served 60 days on the charge of
hugging women on the street.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04
A NEW CREED.
Prcsbyterians by Unanimous Vote
Make Change in Confess
sion of Faith.
moved.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 20. - The
Presbyterian church of the United
States, in general assembly Thursday,
finally disposed of the question of re-
vision of creed that has been before
the last three general assemblies, and
which has agitated Presby terrain cir
cles for the past Is years. The assem-
bly,, by unanimous vote, adopted the
revision of the confession of faith as
prepared by the committee appointed
by the general assembly in 1901.
From this time henceforth the Pres
byterian confession Of faith will teach
that Gods decree binders no man
from accepting the offer of salvation,
made through Jesus Christ, and that
no man is condemned except by his
sins. This does away with the old
doctrine of the select" A second inn
portant change in the confession of
faith abandons the doctrine of Infant
damnation.'' The creed henceforth
will declare that all dying in infancy
are saved.
In addition to changing the creed Of
the church, the general assembly
adopted the report on divorce and re-
marriage. which prohibits clergymcn
of the Presbyterian church from per-
forming the marriage service for di-
vorced persons, unless the divorce has
been granted on Scriptural grounds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04
RUSSIA PREPARING.
WarIike Activities I'm Mnnchuria Are
Progressing and Cause Dis
quiet in London.

London, May 30.-According to dis
patch to the Times the situation in
Manchuria is unchanged and all ac-
counts agree that Russia is preparing
for contingencies. A we'll qualified
military officer on the spot reports that
Russia is making extensive prepare
tions, including the placing of orders
for $4,000 tons of coal, which betray a
warlike attitude. Steamers, says the
correspondent, are constantly unload
ing coal and breadstuffs at Port Ar
thur. M. Lessar, the Russian minister,
is expected soon to arrive in Picking.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04

Two important acts stand out to
mark the labors of the Forty-sixth
Wisconsin legislature. One is the
law providing for the adj valorem tax
alton of railroad property and the
other is the act which will enable the
people of the state to decide for
themselves at the general election
in November, 1904, whether there
shall be revolution in the system OF
nominating candidates for Office
whether the system of party conven-
lions that has prevailed since terri
torial days shall be superseded by
primary elections.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04
HIS LAST RACE.
Harry Ell<s. Famous Bicyc1ist, Meets
Death on the Track at Cam
bridge, Mass.

Cambridge, Mass, June Harry
ID. Elles, of Glens Falls, n. Y. the
premier motor pace follower of the
United States, was killed, and Will
Stinson, almost as we'll known among
bicyclists as Elkes, and +. A. Gately.
a motor steersman, were seriously
injured in an accident at the initial
bicycle meeting on the New Charles
river park track Saturday afternoon.
The accident occurred in the first
lap of the sixteenth mile of a motor
paced race, and was due to the burst
ing of the rear tire on Fixes wheel
at a point where the track bank is
at an angle of about 33 degrees. Fixes
tried to stop his machine, and in do
ing so was thrown over the handle
bars, turning a complete somersault,
and, with is wheel, rolled down the
steep embanllment directly in front
of Stinson's motor, which was
manned by Gately. The heavy mo-
tor struck Fixes, throwing Gately
and the machine completely over him,
while Stinson, who was following,
crashed into the wreck. At the time
of the accident Ell<es was we'll in the
lead, having made new worlds
records for the five, ten and Is miles.
The injured men were picked up and
sent to the hospital, EllIes dying on
the way.
Elles had been the most promi-
nent bicyclelist in this country for
years. He had raced both in Amer
lca and abroad. He returned from
Europe only a few weeks ago, and
was entered in the circuit races, rep
resenting the track at Philadelphia.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04

Chapter 242-Giving county boards
authority to raise tax of one-fourth
of mill for a good roads fund.
Chapter 249-Proyiding for the tax
alton of gifts, inheritances, or sue
cession.
Chapter 276-Providing for reas-
sessment of void special assessments.
Chapter 1872 Exempting pianos and
organs from taxation, when their
value, together with the household
furniture, does not exceed 5000.
Chapter 315-Proyiding for the ad
yalorem system of taxing railroads.
instead of the license system.
Chapter 333-Providing that coun-
ties shall raise not to exceed one
fifth of mill on the dollar for the
support of old soldiers.
Chapter 354-Providing for a re-
covery of damages arising from a
failure to properly assess benefits
and damages.
Chapter 361-Providing for the col
lection of taxes on mineral rights and
reservations.
Chapter 37S-Relating to the taxa
ton of mortgages and providing that
they may either be assessed as an in
terest in the real estate, or separate
ly, but that the combined assess
ment shall not exceed the value of
the premises involved.
Chapter 38O-Adding an action
| for debt to the other methods of col
| Letting taxes.
The amendments on school laws
are as follows:
Chapter providing that copies of
bills introduced in the legislature
shall be sent to the normal schools.
! Chapter 5-Relating to second
grade certificates, and amending the
law so that county superintendent
may remove the limit.
Chapter 37-Fixing the salary of
the state superintendent at $4,000 a
year.
Chapter Officiating to certifica-
ton of teachers of manual training
and domestic science.
Chapter 69-Prescribing legal quail
ifcations of kindergarten teachers.
Chapter S6-Providing for the in
struction of deaf mutes in villages or
cities.
Chapter 95-Authorizing the at
torney general to begin suit to set
| tie title to school lands on Indian res
ervations.
Chapter 123-Providing that the
electors in town free high school dis
tricts shall have power to levy a
| tax for erecting and equipping a
school building.
Chapter 135-Proyiding for an an
nual levy of $23O,OO0 for the support
of normal schools.
Chapter 143-Proyiding for the es-
tablishment of county schools of ag-
riculture and further providing that
the annual appropriation for any
county shall not exceed $4,000.
Chapter 1S9-Providing that chill
dren shall in cities attend school not
| less than eight months each calendar
| year.
Chapter 3o7-Providing for the BIZ
ennial election of superintendent of
schools, beginning in April, 1905.
Chapter 313-Providing a school
tax of seven-tenths of one mill on
the dollar, together with 5000 900
added from the general fund. This
is the old one mill tax as amended.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04

Machen obtained with his contracts,
it being charged that he had protited
by them for several years prior to
the date Of the first contract mem
toned in the warrant. Other ar
rests are to follow. Immediately
after Mr.. Machen was taken into
custody the postmaster general is
sued an order removing him from
Office. He had been practically under
suspension for fortnight pending
investigation into his bureau.
Washington, May 2s.-Edwin W.
Lawrence, of Rutland, VT, has been
appointed assistant attorney in the.
Office of the assistant attorney gener-
al for the post Office department, to
succeed Daniel V. Miller, recently re-
moved
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04
work of a Cyclone.

Welsh, Ia, June AT six o'clock
Sunday night cyclone started about
three miles south of here and swept
everything before it for distance
of two miles. The two-story house
of S. f. Carroll, wealthy farmer,
with all the outbuildings and barns,
was completely wrecked. Ed Burgess,
a hired man, who came from Crystal
River, Fla, was killed and Carroll and
bis wife seriously injured. Their
daughter was slightly injured. 1t is
reported that two white men and a
negro were killed by lightning west
of this place.