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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-11-14
Wednesday, Nov. IA, 1906.
PERSONALS.
NJ THOSE w no
4 & COME and GO

We are glad to state that Mr..
J. E. Trahan, who has been SICK
for a number of weeks, is much
better.
We are not in the center OF
town, but that doesn't keep US
from keeping the best groceries
on the market, but it does help
Us to sell at very close figures.
Ring US up.-Broussard Bros.
Ramsey & Upton have a fresh
stock of corn, oats, al1alIa,
chonped corn. chicken feed and
other feed stuffs. Ring them up.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. L. Mcclure
of Gueydan. became the happy
parents of a fine boy Thursday.
Mrs. Mcclure is at the home OF
her mother, Mrs. J. j. Rev'llon'
in this city.
Ring up Ramsey & Upton for
feedstuffs, and your orders VII
be promptly delivered.
Seed Oats-a car load just re.
ceived at Paul Guidry & Co., near
Broussard Bros.
A sweet baby girl entered the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. GabrleI
Beadle Thursday, Nov. 6.
Don't wait until the last day
but buy your Thanksgiving tur
KEY from John Blunt. He has
some fine ones.
Paul Guidry & Co. near Brous
sard Bros, have just received
car load of seed oats.
Buy your winter suit iron
Schmulen because the style, tn
workmanship and the price ar
all right.
Miss Clara Harper visitet
friends in Milton Friday, return
ing Saturday.
It does mt cost a great deal t
insure your house and furnltur'
and it saves you lots OF none!
in case of fire. Let US insure you
-Parkerson and Mouton.
Jap a-Lac headquarters. Den
DO & Nicholson Co.. Ltd.
Miss Maxim Beraud spent sew
eral days with friends in Scot
during the week.
You may never be able to say
$1,000 to leave your family, but b,
taking out a policy for tina
amount with us you will insur
them $1,000 after your deatf
You can easily meet the cos'
Call and see us.-Parkerson (
MOutOn.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-11-14

Have your prescriptions filled
at the Lafayette Drug Store, they
will be filled with pure drugs and
filled right.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-11-14
POLICE JURY.
CONTINUED from rage Al

Continued from page Al
Simon BrOussard. painting
and scraping, Olidon Brous-
sard, bridge and two hooks.
general fund.-. .......... 90 %
Leodias Rouly, bridge work,
general fund. 3
SIXTH WARD.
Ernest BrOussard. road work,
special fund. ............. Is %
JOS. Stemmen. z. S. s. work,
special fund. ..... ......... . %
Ernest Broussard. bridge
work. general fund....... % W
H. f. Toll, lumber, general
fund. III III
EIGHTH WARD.
Gustave Trahan, committee
work, general fund $500. I'D W
Antonio BrOussard, repair
ing grader, general fund. OO
Courad Brant, lumber, gen.
eral fund ..............
Antonio BrOussard, road
work, special fund......... 32 ~
MISCELLANEOUS.
Jno. Landry. committee work,
general fund ......... 49,. = %
A. A. Mouchett, committee
work. general fund ....... 2 80
Moved to adjourn.
FELIX Fl. MOUTON, Secretary.
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chaux Shelby & MOuton lnsur-
ance Agents of New Orleans, La,
visited L. J. Guilbeau last Friday
and planted with him several
insurance companies.
When you go hunting or fish
ing take along with you a nice
lunch from John Bunt's.
See Patterson & MOutOn for
any kind of insurance. Eight
years experience.
The Falk Mercantile Co. are
prepared to take charge OF
funerals and attend to all grave
yard work. A fine rubber-tired
| hearse in stock.
Leon Lehman, of the Leon Leh-
mann Groceries Co., Ltd, of New
Dreams, paid US a pleasant visit
Monday. Mr.. Lehmann's firm,
as will be noted by their adver-
tisement in another column, has
decided to make an effort to win
trade from this town and parish.
When you buy groceries from
US, you get a square deal" every
time. Ring US up.-Broussard
Bros.
VinQl is guaranteed to contain
in a highly concentrated form all
the medical elements actually
taken from fresh Gods livers,
with organic iron and other body
building ingredients, in a deli
ciously palatable and easily d.
gested form. Sold only by the
Moss Pharmacy.
! $3.50 to $500 per day for s
hours work. Address Miss FL
len G.. Cain, DusOn La.
G. H. Wagner, of Ridge, was
an agreeable caller at our office
Wednesday.
A carload of seed oats just re-
ceived at Paul Guidry's & Co.'S.
near Broussard Bros.
Mr.. Fred Beadle. of Lake
Charles, visited relatives here
last week.
Jap-a-Lac headquarters, Den
DO & Nicholson Co.. Ltd.
If your house were to burn up,
you would be mighty glad if you
haditinsured. Better insureitand
be safe in case of fire. Let US
write you a policy. -Parkerson &
Mouton.
Miss Chrissie Dyer, of Lake
ARTHUR, is visiting Misses AIDE
line and Onesia Beadle.
, We offer inducements for you
, trade-fresh groceries, higf
grade groceries and the closes
market prices Besides w
. promptly deliver all ORDERS
Rornard e. MpauX.
:, H. P. Whitman, special agen
of the Phoenix Insurance Co.
i, was in Lafayette Friday.
Jap-a-Lac headquarters, Den
DO & Nicholson Co.. Ltd.
Miss Onesia Beadle, who afte.
a serious case of typhoid feve.
and malaria since the 18th o
August took a walk in the yart
t last week and Saturday took
ride to r. w. Beadle's store.
9 It's easy to keep in a goo'
Y humor when you are comfortable
t therefore buy your shoes from
Schmulen and be comfortable.
!. T. Nj. Biossat made a bus.
!, ness trip to New Orleans las
week, returning Friday.
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Our prices on groceries are as
low as the lowest; full weight
and quality considered.-Mor-
gan & DebaillOn.
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Estelle MOuton, Gertrude and
ROsalie Corona, Wilhel Schmu-
len, Adeline Toerner and Annie
Shannon.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-12-29

pllshing could get no notion from my
point of view. Fortunately, there were
few settlements in that part Of the
small hamlets at full speed, could see
the people running about trying to find
some place of safety.
Less than ten miles ahead of us was
a bridge over a river, after crossing
which the road turned abruptly south
ward. 1t was freak railway, any
how, and its zig-zags were intended to
pass through as many supposed centers
of future population as possible. The
only long stretch of it in a straight line
was just where we got caught by the
tornado. If we could get to the bend
ahead of the monster we might run out
of It's track.
1t was wild race for life. With the
great funnel cloud rushing on behind
us and steadily approaching, We tore
over the rails at a frantic rate of
speed. We on the engine were almost
crazed by the excitement, SO that 1t
almost oyercame my sense Of fear. l
remember distinctly that / pulled the
whistle cord and let the locomotive
scream with all her might, though 1t
could hardly be heard in the roaring
of the pursuing tornado.
Six miles passed as we'll as / could
estimate and the monster was only
about four miles behind. Three miles
more and 1t had lessened the distance
by mile at least. But we were near
the river. A minute later we were run
ming across the bridge. No time then
to heed the warning that trains must
run slowly over this stream" in ODE.
dience to the sign post.
We flew around the curve and dashed
southwark, just In time to see the
mighty air balloon pass by us with a
whirl and roar, as If all the demons
In the Internal regions were let loose.
We could not make out anything dis
tinctly, the sky being darkened and the
air filed with dust, but we knew that
we were safe. A few minutes later
the clouds rolled away and everything
was as quiet and peaceful as before
the storm. We ran back to the bridge,
but 1t wasn't there and such remains
of 1t as were left were scattered all
over the country. The road was so
badly torn up, the track for consider
able distances being twisted and broken
to pieces, that the expense Of repairing
1t nearly bankrupted the company.
Eleven people lost their lives by that
tornado, which afforded me an expert.
ence which would not repeat for all
the money in the world Chicago Daily
News.
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town, taking 1t rather easily, because
the track wasn't in condition to stand
fast running well. l was about an hour
out from my starting place, and had
gone sixteen miles perhaps, when
noticed some queer-looking clouds on
the western horizon.
The day was sultry, and there was
a curious sort of glare over the land
scape. There was something unnat
ural about the appearance of every
thing My fireman was boy who had
been brought up In that region, and he
said that 1t looked like a tornado COM
ing He ought to have been good
Judge of the symptoms, because the
whole of his family, together with all
their property and live stock, had been
wiped out by such "twister,1 as they
call 'em, when he was hardly old
enough to toddle
BY the time we had gone maybe
eight or nine miles farther, dense
bank of clouds had spread around to-
ward the southwest. 1t was black as
Ink, but beneath 1t was blank streak
of white. l had never seen anything
that looked quite like 1t before. As l
looked at 1t the bank rose higher, and
presently l saw something like sharp
point of cloud project itself downward
from the black mass. All this time there
was no thunder or lightning, but only
a look about the sky that was dreadful
to see, it was so unnatural. 1t was the
boy who called my attention to the
pointed cloud, and he said 1t was a tor
nado beginning.
I pretended not to be afraid, and said
that If 1t was "twister' 1t would not
be likely to hit us. But he was as pale
as a ghost. Says he:
Don't you see that 1t Is directly
southwest Of Us q
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You see. we We're running In an air
line over the prairie, directly northeast
and pursuing the path In which the
tornado was coming. Any other course,
with the steam l had ON, would have
carried us out of the way.
The boy shoveled on more coal. Rut
1t was no use. The engine was doing
Its best, and she wasn't capable of more
than about thirty-eight miles an hour
Its gaining on u.s." l said. How
fast does such thing as that travel?"
About 100 miles an hour" replied
the boy, white as a sheet
1t that had been true l would not
be here to tell the story. l have since
learned that eighty miles an hour is
supposed to be the best tornado can
do. My belief Is that this one was
going at about sixty miles. Anyway. 1t
wasn't more than six or seven miles
distant by this time and gaining on us
rapidly, If my reckoning was correct.
1t would catch us In little more than
twenty minutes. The way.I calculated
1t was that the great peg-top was NOV.
Ing at the rate of three miles to our
two.
1t was the most frightful spectacle
to look at that can possibly be imag.
ined. To me 1t seemed to be a mon.
strous giant, pursuing us with an inten-
ton to destroy. Now and then its
blackness would be transformed into a
dark green, and 1t was constantly light
ed up by flashes, as II 1t were an i'm.
mense balloon Illuminated from within.
1t appeared to whirl round with incon.
eeivable rapidly, and from it came a
sound across the prairie as of below
Ing. with a voice SO awful that the
rumbling Of the locomotive was lost
in It OF the destruction It was accom-
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bravery in the expedition to Fort Cum.
berland
In 1775 Mercer drilled the Virginia
militia, in 1776 the minutemen and in
1777 was appointed colonel of the Third
Virginia Regiment. At the request Of
Washington, Mercer was chosen brig
adler general by Congress in June, 1916,
with the command Of the flying camp.
Mercer accompanied Washington in
his retreat through New Jersey, led the
column of the attack at Princeton, and
advised the night march ON Princeton,
where he commanded the advance.
When his men, who were mostly mill!
tia, began to waver before the enemy,
he made an energetic attempt to rally
them. Just as he sprang to the front
he was felled to the ground by blow
from the end Of musket. Although
surrounded by the British, he refused
quarter, defended himself with his
sword, and after being repeatedly bay
oneted was left for dead. But 1t was
until several days of severe suffering
had passed that Mercer finally died for
the country that he had adopted.
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Observation-Disclosures
s GA WILD RIDE~@ s.
SaSSsaSyaaQS@as6@as@asuagSu@@uSsS s.
why, certainly" I replied. "Wh
of thatP"

why, certainly" replied. what
of that?'
They always travel northeast" he
said, land we are right in the track of
it,"
Then we'll run away from 1t, 1
guess" says l, pulling the throttle wide
open. The boy said nothing-only
watched the clouds in the distance.
BY this time the pointed cloud had
got much bigger, the lower end of it
nearly touching the ground. 1t grew
rapidly larger and larger and seemed
to be approaching at a great rate of
speed, while the rest of the view toward
the west and southwest became blurred
to the eye. SO that nothing could be
made out clearly. 1t was a tornado
that was coming, and no mistake, for
the strange cloud, which had the shape
of gigantic peg-top, was distinctly
outlined in its blackness against the
general blur. began to feel pretty
badly frightened myself. Now and
then, when | could take my eye off the
cloud, looked at the boy; but he only
sat silent in the cab, staring at the
great peg-top with starting eyeballs and
white lips. Finally l said:
DO you think we are going to es.
cape it?"
I'VE are right in Its track" he said,
without looking at me-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-12-29
FOLLY WRECKS MANY SHIPS.

British Navy Seriously Crippled by
Damage to It's War Vessels.
British naval circles are seriously
perturbed by the extent to which the
navy has recently been weakened
through accidents to important ships,
says the New York World. In addi-
ton to the Montagu, which went
ashore on Lundy island during maneu-
vers and Is now to be sold as old iron,
at least four other first-class battle
ships and one armored cruiser are out
of the effective list, and many minor
vessels have also been damaged, bring
ing the total of ineffective ships I'D to
8 per cent Of the whole, quite exclusive
Of those under repair for ordinary wear
and tear.
What adds to the seriousness Of this
condition Of affairs is the knowledge
that the accidents, In almost every case
was due to the neglect or incompetence
of the officers, though they are admit
tedly some Of the best men in the
British navy. AS showing this the
following story was told to The World
correspondent by high naval author
ity:
When the Montagu went aground a
firm of well-known Liverpool salvage
experts was engaged to get her off.
This they were fully confident of do
Ing in couple of days, but some time
after they had started operations a
highly placed officer of the channel fleet
arrived ON the scene, countermanded
the orders already given and took
charge of the operations himself,
though very little experienced In such
work. The result was that the posi-
ton Of the vessel became steadily
worse until she finally had to be aban-
doned altogether.
This, however, is not the only In
stance Of laundering connected with
the loss of the Montagu, for the battle
ship Duncan, which went to her as
sistance, also ran aground. The au-
thorities declared she merely touched,
but it now turns out that she also was
seriously injured and had to be dock
ed at Portsmouth for repairs.
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Don't send agents to your frlendA
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-12-29
The Halloween Joke.

Prof. George D. Heron, apropos of
Halloween, said:
"In Montezuma, in my childhood, a
crowd of youngsters made a jack O.
lantern to brighten a little city girl
with on Halloween.
"The little girl came from Indianapo-
lis and she had never seen a jack o.
lantern before. Yet, when on the lone
ly and black road, the big, round pump
kin, with Its illuminated and grinning
face, appeared before her suddenly, she
was not at all alarmed. She ran in
doors and said:
"'Hush! don't make a noise, for the
man In the moon has just come down.
and he is sitting out there in the lane.
He hasn't any body. He is nothing but
head, and he looks just like he does In
the pictures
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-12-29

The principal Of one of Washington's
high schools relates an incident in con-
nection with the last commencement
day of the institution mentioned. A
clever girl had taken one of the prin-
cipal prizes. At the close of the exer-
cises her friends crowded about her to
offer congratulations.
Weren't you awfully afraid you
wouldn't get 1t, Hattie" asked one,
when there were so many contest
ants
"Oh, nor cheerily exclaimed Hattie.
Because knew that when 1t came to
English composition had 'em all skin
ned alive."-Harper's Weekly.
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q EVERAL railroad men were gath
~ cred in the round house of one of
- tha hip ailrOo6S In roao,+

~ cred in the round house of one of
the big railroads in c. recent
ly, waiting for time" As usual when
men get together they were telling
stories of thrilling adventures and final
ly one old timer was asked for a story.
He thought a moment and then said
that he thought about the most thrill
Ing adventure he ever had was race
with tornado, and told the following
story:
1t was in 1878 or 1879, 1 forget
which. Anyway it was some time in
July. The weather had been pretty
hot and it was just the sort of day
for breeding tornado. 1 was work
Ing on one-horse railroad In southern
Kansas The superintendent wired me
to fetch my engine a distance of about
seventy miles to place called Peters
town. 1t was wanted to haul a lot of
perishable freight, mostly market prod
uce, which had got shunted off by some
accident to side track and was in
danger of spelling. A suit against
the company might have followed and
the business had to be attended to In a
hurry. There were only seven locomo-
tives on the road, barring two or three
that were disabled
got fuel and water aboard as ouick-
ly as possible. and started for Peters
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HANGED 80 AT ONCE.
remarkable Scene of Gruesome Ma
ture i'm the Northwest.

Remarkable Scene of Gruesome Nm.
ture i'm the Northwest.
One of the few survivors in this
country of the Indian scrimmages car.
ried on in Minnesota during the Civil
War is Carlton WHY'S Roberts, of Chi.
cago, who claims the distinction of hav.
Ing taken part in the biggest Indian
massacre recorded in this country, when
thirty nine Indians were hanged at one
time, and the medical colleges of the
Northwest got the largest number Of
bodies that they ever received.
When the Civil War broke out Rob-
erts was living in Minneapolis, and was
one of the first to volunteer In that
State for service. But 1t was not until
August, 1868, that he was ordered out,
not to fight Southerners, but the Iu-
dams, who had broken loose In the
northern part of Minnesota.
When he. with the regiment of which
he was member, arrived on the scene
Of the trouble, 400 red men had been
captured and were at Fort Ridgeley.
MINI. The authorities were preparing
to hang them all, when word came from
President Lincoln, according to Mr..
Roberts, that he would not countenance
any such wholesale massacre. After
some parley. the President consented
that some forty of the most desperate
of the gang should be hanged.
In describing this event, which was
a gala one in the town, Mr.. Roberts re-
called nearly every incident of the day.
"The Indians were to be executed
about noon," he said, land when the
time drew near we were ordered to take
our places near the gallows, which was
made of timbers In the form of q
square, suspended by ropes from the
four corners to a large pole In the CEN
ter Over the suspended platform,
which was raised from the ground eight
or ten feet, was another framework To
tie the ends of the ropes to.
Everything being In readiness, the
Indians were marched in single file
from the prison. They walked with a
firm, unfaltering step up to the plat
form, which they mounted with no ap,
parent dread. They stood ten on a side
and formed square, except there was
one vacant place where one of the con-
demned ones had died the preceding
night in the jail.
while the hangman was adjusting
the ropes, the Indians began to sing
their death songs, which an interpreter
said consisted in shouting, Great Splr-
it, am coming; see me, for l am COM
ing
There was great rivalry among the
men for the privilege Of cutting the
ropes which let the whole suspended
pluatform down at once. When the sig.
nal was given, which was the firing of
cannon, a man, whose wife and chill
dren had been butchered by the Indians,
stepped forward with an ak and cut the
rope which hanged thirty-nine Indians"
Although the soldiers that night made
thirty-nine graves on the shore of in
island near by, and buried the Indians,
In day or two there was not a grave
left, the bodies having been stolen TOR
medical colleges for dissection.
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a physician, and
was assistant sur.
geon in the army
of Prince Charles
Edward in 1745
He emigrated to
America in 1747,
served | n the
French and Indian
war of 1855, re-
ceiving from the
corporation o I
p h iladelphia a
gold medal for his
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-12-29
A PAIR OF OLD SOCKS.

There are holes in the heels that gaping and wide
And the toes have departed long since, it true,
While the knees a curious mixture of darns
OF every conceivable texture and hue.
As best they only pair of old socks,
Bearing the tatters of days that fed,
just pair of yarn stockings my grandmother knit,
Striped gaily with ribbands white and of red.
With her little white cap tied under her chin
And the snowy apron smoothed her lap,
She would sit all day by the chimney
And gossip and knit. and knit and nap,
And always her knitting would prove
pair of stockings, white red,
For no other color quite good,
And that's what grandmother always said
Years have passed and the wooden chair
Is vacant by the chimney place;
The shining needles dull with rust
Where times rude finger has left its trace
And even myself am changed
All that remains from childhoods flight
Are these little tattered wooden socks
With candy stripes red and white
And no rich gift that the years may yield
Ever will prove dear to me-
Linking to-day with the youthful past,
When life was careless and gay and free
When life mystery fair new
Ere darkness came, and hope lay dead
AS this pair of boyish WORKOUT socks
With candy-stripes white and red
Chicago Interior.
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How slowly BARRIERS work on SatuH
day! And how many men ahead of
you get their hair cut and whiskers
trimmed ON Saturday!
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-12-29

In every neighborhood, the people
complain Of some annoying family. Do
the neighbors complain Of YOU?
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A Little Lesson
In Patriotism

~00000o~o~

Hugh Mercer was born In Aberdeen,
Scotland, in 1720. He was educated
n the University of Aberdeen, became