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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25
THE PLAQUEMINE LOCKS,

We clip the following from the
Iberville South, which will interes
the residents of the Teche district
"Bayou Plaquemine is fast be-
coming the Erie canal Of the south.
You would be surprised to see the
oil boats, the fish boats, the tugs,
the government boats and all
kinds of crafts that ply this stream
And this is not marker to what
will be the case as soon as the lock
is opened.
"Work never was completely
abandoned during the yellow
fever, and will be completely re-
sumed shortly. The Otis Elevator
people and the Penn Bridge Co.,
suspended operations during the
fever fright on account of the
Quaker tenderfoots spinning out
CT the state when fever was an
nounced, but all other work has
been carried on continuously. Mr..
Burton has been digging the chan
mel all the time and the MCGEE
contract for filling in on the upper
side has been finished during the
quarantine tie-up. So, then come
t. think about it, we have not
been faring SO badly. There has
been 'somethin' doin'' all the
time and if our good friends from
the Attakapas section will do US
the honor of visit they will rec
ognize this. The building of the
lock is a much bigger piece of
work than great many people
realize. 1t is huge piece of gov
ernment work, and although there
1as been seemingly unwarranted
telays in the past, such is not the
,ase now and the work is going
IN just as rapidly as it could be
under such circumstances
ar. J. [. Conklin, the U. S. engi-
'eer here, has informed us that
he Penn Bridge Company people
lave been ordered to resume oper-
lions and that the Otis Elevator
'eople are enroute, the delay. of
curse, is unfortunate and we
eally believe that if our friends
! the Attakapas can remain
quiet for about two years longer
ley will have the glorious oppor-
unity of celebrating the Opening
the Lock-the making of the
reat Erie Canal of the South.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25
ORDINANCE No. 11S.

/ To levy, collect and enforce the pay.
| payment of an annual license ia,
upon all persons, associations o.
/ persons, business firms anC
corporations, carrying on the
business of retail liquor dealer
within the corporate limits of the
town of Franklin, for the year
1906, and all years subsequent
thereto, and to provide for the
payment of interest and attorneys
fees in default thereof.
SECTION |. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Council of the town of
Franklin, that there is hereby levied
an annual license tax for the year
1906, and all subsequent years, upon
each person, association of persons.
business firm or corporation. carry
ing on the business of retail dealer in
distilled. alcoholic or malt liquors,
within the corporate limits of the town
of Franklin, which license tax shall
be Five Hundred (S50O.OO) Dollars for
each such person, association, firm or
carrying on each bust
ness.
SECTION ?. Be it further ordained.
etc. That the said license tax shall
become due and collectable on the first
day of January of each year; and shall
become delinquent on the fifteenth day
of January of each year.
SECTION 3. Be it further ordained |
etc. That after the first day of Jan
lary of each year, the said license
AK shall bear interest at the rate of /
Two 2per cent. per month, until paid.
And if not paid by the fifteenth day of
January of each year, the same shall |
De placed in the hands of the City
Attorney for collection, in which event
he said delinquent shall be chargeable
With Ten (lO per cent? additional, as
attorneys fees, upon the aggregate
mount thereof.
SECTION I. Be it further ordained,
tc. That this ordinance shall take
fleet from and after the first day of
anuary, 1906; and all ordinances or
'arts of ordinances in conflict with the
PROVISIONS of this ordinance shall
tand repealed from and after the said
rst day of January, 1906.
November IA, 1905.
j. C.LEWls, Mayor,
G. LAUvE, Sect'y.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

The United States contains rep
.esentatlves of more races and
IoIowers OF more religions than
any other country in the world.
yet - Is freer than any other from
race and religious outbreaks. One
OF the main reasons lies in the
absolute separation of the church
ana state, and the consequent lib
erty OF conscience and of action
which results,
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

The Chicago Police stopped a
stranger who was trying to throw
away $1,000 the other day. 1t is
against an unwritten law in Chi
cago to throw money away with
out giving the police the first
whack at it.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

a carload of ewing gum ought
70 keep the young ladies of the
north west supplied with the lux
ury for'some little time; and such
2 car has arrived in St. Paul, rep
resenting q cash order of $4,000
sent east by a wholesale house Of
the Minnesota capital. The car
ioad aggregated half a million
packages, $500, 900 sticks. Yum,
yum!
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

The steamship Korea, which
arrived at San Francisco from the
Orient recently, brought the most
valuable consignment of raw silk
ever landed in this country. 1t
was worth $500, 900. 1t was dis
patched East in haste the same
night, $500 bales of it.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25
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We Study Therefore Are
Just received, our new May Manton

Just received, our new May Manton
Patterns.
A bargain sale in Kid Gloves, part
ly damaged, S1.25 glove for soc. to be
sold as they are next week.
A special sale Of 10 Blankets,
real value Sl.25, to be sold ior 75c,
gray and white. Also a new lot of
California Blankets, prices from So. so
to $1,000.
We cordially invite all Ladies' to
call and inspect our new 1.-The of win
ter goods before purchasing elsewhere.
We feel sure that you will find good
bargains.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

Under the new government law
regarding the handling of patent
medicines, every firm in the
country handling patent medi-
cines must take out a government
license after Dec. 1.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

The late Baron Alphonse Roths-
child used to say long ago that
the days of the millionaire in Eu-
rope We're about over, but he left
2 fortune Of about $3.50, 900, 900.
half OF which becomes the abso-
lutte property of his widow. The
other half goes. to his son and
daughter in equal shares.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

The next time a Jerome asks to
be nominated by one of the polit-
ical parties in New York, they
will fall all over each other to get
into the harness with him.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

A change in 600, 900 votes in one
year indicates pretty strongly that
the grown-up citizens of Pennsyl-
vania have all the qualifications
necessary for doing their own
thinking.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

A new bank has been establish
ed in the town of Jeanerette-First
National Bank. The officers are
II. p. Paltout, president; Geo. j.
Labau and ST. Paul Bourgeois,
vice-presidents: A. Cousin, Jr.,
cashier.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

And now Maryland will have a
negro to contend with in politics
again. Better have done like
North Carolina, settle the question
for good.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

An Iowa woman wants divorce
from her husband because he has
not taken a bath for twenty-five
years. Most people will think she
would have been justified in ap-
plying year or so earlier.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25
BUDGET.
State of Louisiana.
Parish of ST. Mary.

FRANKLIN. La. Nov. It'll. 1905.
The Finance Committee appointed
by the Police Jury OF the Parish OF
st. Mary. having reported the amount
necessary for the expenses of the Par
ish for the year 1906. it is hereby re-
solved that the following budget oil
expenses for the Parish of st. Mary.
for the year 1906 is hereby adopted.
made and approved, viz:
Puhlic Schonls
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

Joseph H. Choate tells us that
we are working too hard and too
fast and doing too much. Pos
sibly, but we ''need the money
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

A Washington paper asks Elihu
Root to kindly stano up and tell
the country what he thinks about
railroad-rate legislation. That
so ''Elihu" hasn't recited yet.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

A new lot of Silk and Mercerized
ShawlO received.
Ladies Knitted UndeashirtS from
75c to S125
We have just received our new line
Of Baby Caps at the popular pricra
soc to 81. 90.
Our New Sateens and GinghamS
have just arrived in the latest shades
and fancy designs.
A new lot of.Children and Infants
Underwear received.
Ask to see our newsIine of Ladiess
Kid Gloves, Just received, every pair
is guaranteed, price only sl.0O
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

The insurance business is not
being hurt. 1t is the CRATER bust
ness that is catching it's deserts.
Insurance is fundamental prin-
ciple.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

Italian prisons got so full thi
year that the government had t
resort to the royal clemency tc
some OF the occupants, in order tC
make room for delinquents
crowded out. A decree was is.
sued last August, and since then
1886 prisoners have been pardon
ed and 3O72 have had their SEN
fences reduced.
DIR. NJ. j. Burstein, of New York,
has issued an appeal to all the
Jews OF the world, asking them to
give ten per cent of all their earthly
possessions to buy land to colon
ize the members of the race who
are suffering cruelty in Southern
Russia. This appeal for contribu-
tons is printed in circular form
and is being sent to every city in
america.
President Harvie Jordan, Of the
Southern Cotton A ssociation. has
issued proclamation and form of
agreement with the object OF
securing to the farmer the highest
practical price for the remainder
OF this years small cotton crop.
He suggests that the farmers Of
each locality discuss the matter
among themselves, and sign up
the agreement for the holding of
as much cotton as they can afford
TO take off the market.
Some one who has been inves-
igating the question of supersti-
ion among thieves gives the con-
'luslon that the burglars will not |
inter any house where the domes-
ic squints. If one of the craft |
zee three different horses fall
Town in one day he takes it as a
'ad omen. One English burglar
onfessed that his profession
lever "burgles" houses numbered
z, 50, III and 444.
We have seen several letters
:om commission men which read
bout as follows: "There is abso-
ltely no sale for cultivated GIN
eng loot. Do not send US any
lore. The Chinese refuse to buy
lis cultivated ginseng, and there
no use for it outside Of the
hinese trade" This is the end .
the great boom in ginseng. ;
comes earlier than we expected
ct we understand people are still {
vesting their hard learned money {
seeds and roots.-Rural New i.
orker. I
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25
SATURDAY, THE 10TH DAY o
DECEMBER A. D.. 1908.

between the hours of II O'Clock a. m.
and o'clock p. M. the following de
scribed. property. tO-wit:
lst. That certain lot of grGand, ~
ing and being situated in the Town OF
Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, Louis.
lana. and bounded North by a lane.
East by First street, South by lands
OF Franklin Charpiat. and West by
Second street, together with all the
buildings and improvements thereon
situated.
md. The undivided one-half inter
est in and to lots, Two, Four. Seven
and Nine, in square Fifty seven in the
Town of Berwick. La.
STERLING J. GATES,
Administrator.
Franklin. La, this 18th day Of Novem-
Der. 1905.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

The grain exports for the nine
months this year amounted to
o,219,6S3 bushels, as compared
with 1913, 700 for the same months
last year.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

DR.. Tabor raised the Texas
quarantine against Louisiana on
Monday. The only towns that re-
NAMED under the ban were Patter-
son, Bon Ami, Deridder and Lud-
dinytOn
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

A call has been issued by Com
missioner Lee for an immigration
convention to be held in New Or
leans on December 4th.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

There is a movement to have
Oklahoma and Indian Territory
as one State, and named "Min-
erva." Why not "Maude''?
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

The interest or the japanese
war debt is 5,OO0,O year or
nearly twice the revenue of the
country ten years ago.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25
THE BARGAIN STORE:
LOUIS LEWIS
Main Street Next to Telephone Office

1t is said that ITO wives were
deserted by their husbands in
New York last year.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25

The statisticians have discov-
cred that every five minutes a baby
is born in New York. Two hum
dred barrels Of beer are drunk
every five minutes in Chicago,
and a divorce is granted every
tive minutes in Sioux Falls.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
23rd Judicial District Court-Par-
ish OF st. Mary.
Succession Of Mrs. E. NJ. Johnson
Deceased, No. 3017.

BY virtue of an order issued out OF
the Hon. BIRD Judicial District Court
in the above numbered and entitled
estate. dated Nov. 2nd. 1908. | will Of
fer for sale, at public auction. for cash
tothe last and highest bidder. at the
Court House in the town of Franklin,
in the Parish of ST. Mary. La. on
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-25
FOR SALE.

House and Lot on Ander-
son Street. For particulars,
apply to
DIR. J. B. HARVEY,
Franklin, La.
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1905-11-04
Tocsin editorlally says:

Tocsin editor1ally says:
senator Moneys utterauce
while in Memphis the other that
he hoped RooseAelt would not
visit Mississippi on his Southern
tour, was entirely uncalled for,
indiscreet and a slam against
Southern chivalry that ha,
always extended q welcome
to the stranger within her gates.
We people of Indianola have no
particular desire to.see the Pres.
dent as he can have no particular
desire to visit the town, but how
ever much he has wr0nged us and
naligned us In the past he would
be given a hearty welcome and
would be just az safe as in the
White House should he honor us
with a visit. Such utterances az
Senator Money S tends to form an
idea in the minds of the people ct
a distance that We have lost the
generous spirit that characterized
this section In the early days of
the country"
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1905-11-04

John Battle, chivaIrous bur.
glar of New Jersey, most con-
spicuously displayed his art while
burglarizing in the house of the
postmaster at Cornwall, when
he considerably paused in his
work to administer glass or Va.
ter to the postmaster's wife,
whom he had awakened and
scared into > faint. Carefully
also he gathered up the lady's
now bonnet as he was rumaging
about and put it in q box for
safe keeping for her, since it was
no value to him; and as he worked
he kept up s cheerful and refined
talk with the lady and her young
daughter, gently insisting that
they keep their beds and give no
alarm. This chivalrous thief,
haying been caught and tried,
has now received life sentence,
as if he were one Of the vulgar
bulglarous herd, his courtes
availing him naught.
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1905-11-04
STATE CONVENTION


The State Convention of the
Christian Church will -.aeet with
the Water Valley Church, Mon
day, November 9Th, and continue
in session for four days.
This is the largest representa-
tive meeting of the Christian de-
nomination held in Mississippi,
and about one hundred delegates
arc expected 10 be In attendance.
The members of the Church
in this city and vicinity have made
extensive prearations for the com
ing OF the Christian host and the
delegates will be entertained in
the homes of our people.
Water Valley has well earned
the envisble reputation of being
the most hospitable and the best
convocation city in the State. and
the Progress is sure its fair fame
will be augmented by the warm
welcome extended to our chris
tisn brethren during their visit
next wet (.
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1905-11-04
lamar and Taft.

The "Green Bag" of Boston, an
sble magazine, contains the fol-
lowing, which will interest Mis-
sissipplans:
.Secretary Taft has always
been an enthusiastic admirer OF
- ustice Lamar of Missis-
sippi. Mr.. Taft was Assistant
Attorney General when Justice
Lamar was on the United States
Supreme Bench. The first time
the big Ohio man appeared be-
fore that august tribunal. he
stumbled through small duty
just as the judges were about to
retire. He was much embaras s.
ed and felt that he had not ap
peared at all to advantage. AS
he was about to hurry away JUS
tice Lamar came oyer, threw his
arm over his shoulder and said
in kindly tones: tits all right,
my boy. Don't you be afraid OF
those fellows on the bench. They
won't bite you. Even if they
wantad f0- th0ir teeth are too old
and worn to do much damage. Il
you but knew it, you are twice as
sharp"
The Secretary, telling of this
incident, says: "From that day
| to this l have meyer ceased to
thank the lovable Mississippian
for making me have faith in my
SELF"
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1905-11-04

women set themselves undaunt-
edly to the great task before
them. For twenty years the
struggle was hard and at times
doubtful. Then the splendid quail
tiles of your manhood and wo-
manhood told, as they were bound
to tell, and the wealth of your
natural extrac rdinary resources
began to show.
Snow the teeming riches of
mine and field and factory attest
the prosperity of those who are
all the stronger because of the
trials and struggles through which
this prosperity has come. You
stand loyalty to your traditions
and memories; you also stand
loyalty for our great common
country of today, and for our
common fag, which symbolizes
all that is brightest and most
hopeful for the future Of mankind;
you face the new age in the spirit
Of the age. Alike in your mate
rial and in your spiritual and in
tellectual development, you stand
abreast of the foremost in the
worlds progress"
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1905-11-04
NOn-Residenf Notice.

State of Mississippi:
To Dora johnson, adult; Clifton
johnson and David johnson,
minors:
You are commanded to appear
before the Chancery Court Of the
Second District uf Yalobusa ooun-
.ty. Mississippi, at Water Valley,
in said State, on the first Monday
of December, 1905, 60 show cause,
if any you can, Why the final &C.
count of James e Bell, admins.
traitor of the estate of w. Fl. John.
son, deceased, now on 1ile in said
Court, shall not bo allowed and
said administrator he fully dis
charged, wherein YOU are the de-
fendants.
This October 9th. 1905.
j. LELAND rRUsTY,
Ohaneery Clerk.
McGowen & Harris, sol.
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1905-11-04
Notice 10 Contractors.

Notice is hereby given that up
till 2 o'clock p. N. November o,
1905, the Board Of Supervisors Of
Yalobusha County will receive
sealed bids for the erection OF q
bridge on slough in Schoona bot.
tom at Torrance Crossing. Plans
and specifications on file at Clerks
office at O0ffeeville. The right
ro reject any and all bids is re-
served. THIS Oct. s, 1905.
J.. LELAN TRUsTY,
Chaa. .ary Clerk.
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1905-11-04
IniIanola Editor Defends Roosevelt.

Senator Moneys interview sta
ting that President Roosevelt
would not be accorded q welcome
in Mississippi has called forth
some very caustic criticism from
the State press, and the utteran-
ces from the senior Senator is be-
ing condemned by some Of his
most loyal supporters.
A significant criticism of this
character appears in the current
issue of the Sunfower Tocsin,
published ct Indian0la, the town
where President Roosevelt ab0l.
ished . postoffice because the cit,
ixens would not permit Minnie
Cox to serve as postmistress
The editor of the Tecsin, Joe
Richardson, was q member of the
delegation sent to Washington for
tho purpose of fling q protest. It
would. therefore, be logical to in
fer that the people of TndiaDola
Q more bitter feeling to-
ward the President than any other
town in the State, to which the
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1905-11-04
Roosevelt and the South.

4uO AVAAVWtuB OAsA oSs AS V0nOA
from President Roosevelt's re.
cent speech ct Richmond, Va:
aThe wounds left nv the great,
civil war have long healed, but its
memories remain. Think Of it, oh,
my countrymen, think ofthe good
fortune that is ours! That where's
a. every other war; of modern
times has left feelings Of rancor
and bitterness to hep asunder
the combatants. our great war
hae left to sons and daughters Of
the men Who fought, the same
right to feel the keenest pride in.
the great deeds alike of the men
who fought on one side and of the
men who fought on the othee.
"Great though the need OF
praise il which is due the South
for the soldierly valor her sons
displayed during the four years
Of war, I think that even greater
praise 10 due to her for what her
people have accomplished in the
forty years Of peace which follow
Cd. For forty years the South
has made not merely q c0urag-
eous, bat at times q desperate
struggle, % she has strlven for
moral and material well-being.
"Her success has been extra0r-
dinarY, and oil citizens Of our
common cosntry should feel joy
and pride in it, for any great deed
done, or any fine qualities shown,
by enc group Of Americans OF
necessity reflects upon all Amer
icane, Only : heroic people could
have battled successfully against
the conditions with which the
people Of the South found them
selves face to face ct The end Of
the civil war.
"There had been utter destruc-
tion and disaster, and wholly new
business and SOCIAL problems had
10 be faced with the scantiest
means. The economic and polit-
ical fabric had to be re-adjusted
N the midst of dire want, ofgrind-
ing poverty. The future of the
broken, war>swspt South seemed
beyond hope, and If her sons and
daughters had been Of weaker f.
ber there would in every truth
have been no hope.
.But the men and the SCI IS of
The men who had faced with un-
fsltering front every alienation
of good and evil fortune from
Msnases to Appomatox, and the
women, their wives and mothers,
whose courage and endurance
had reached an even higher he-
% ievsl--.aess msn AID these
Water Valley progress. (Water Valley, Miss.) 1882-1918, 1905-11-04
Chancery SUMMONS.
The State Of Mississippi.

To B. p. Scott, whose postofice
address is unknown:
You are commanded to appear
before the Ohancery Court of the
Second District of the County Of
Yalobusha, in said State, on the
first Monday OF December, A. D.
1905, to defend the suit iD said
Court of Mrs. Vannie &. Scott,
wherein you are defendant.
This the 9th day Of October,
1905.
J. LELAND TRUSTY,
Ohancery Clerk.
McGowen & Harris, sol.