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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1906-09-15

Mr.. and Mrs. George Eastin
will leave Monday on a trip west,
which will be extended to some of
the most intererting places in the
Republic of Mexico.
Mr.. rnd Mrs. Edgar Andre and
daughter, Miss. Roma, of New Or
leans, arrived here last Saturday
to spend few days with the fam
lily of Mr.. Henry Beslin. -..-
The oil making department of
the St. Martins Oil Works was
put in operation this week. This
large mill is running day aud
night, employing large force of
men, and turning out large guam
tity of manufactured product.
Just received l car Alfalfa Hay,
l car Oats, l car Corn, l car Vic
tor Feed, -Duchamp Feed Store.
The marriage of Mr.. P. A. Bien-
venu, a prominent young man of
this town to Miss Laurence Sou
lier, the charming daughter of
Mr.. f. E. Soulier, is announced to
take place at nine o'clock in the
morning on Thursday. the 26th
inst.
.--Evangeline Oak pictures 8x5
inches for sale by l.. Bienvenu at
rs cents.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1906-09-15
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Miss Katinka Ryan of Lake
Charles is visiting here.
Miss Fannie Kelso of Jeanerette
is here visiting relatives.
The price of cotton in the need
was $27 here during the week.
Mr.. Edward Guidry of Crowley
spent several days here this week.
Mr.. and Mas. Laizaire Bienvenu
made trip to Jeanerette last Sun
day.
Mrs. E. N. Resweber is visiting
relatives in st. John the Baptist
parish.
The LadiesSoci a Club was en-
tertained Tuesday by Mrs. A. Po-
leynsrd.
The young people gave a dance
at the City Hall Wednesday but
We heard the attendance was very
small.
Miss Mauzella Gardemal OF New
Orleans arrived here last Saturday
to spend a few weeks visiting
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie Knight OF
Houston, Texas are spending few
DAYS in town with the family OF
Mr.. Auguste Clement.
AT Duchamp Feed Store you
will lind gasoline wholesale and
retail.
MI. w. F. Black, representing
the New Orleans Picayune was
here this week in the interest OF
that paper.
Misses Ina and Ella French
returned home last Saturday after
having spent several weeks with
relatives in Natchez, Miss.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucien Ducrest
and Messrs. F. 8. Broussard and
Francis Gauthier of Broussard
were visiting here last Sunday.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1906-09-15
$I.35 a sack
at 49,
Duchamp's Feed Store

DuCndmp TScu SVOTc.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Martin and
daughters, Marie Louise and Ruth,
returned home last Sunday after
having spent six weeks travelling
10 the north and in Canada. They
return we'll pleased with their trip.
Souvenir Postal Cards Of home
views for sale by l.. Bienvenu at
5 for 5 cents.
Nobody knows but father how
it costs for the family to fly
around in the good old summer
time.
As a dressing for sores. bruises and
burns, Chamber'ain's Salve is all that
can b. desired. It Is soothing and heal
ing and in its effect. Price g cents.
For sale by T. j. Liable.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26
Arroyo Ars AntediIuyian Broncho.

l was out a-ridin' fences on the Frooze.
out Mountain range,
When | had a nights experience that
call most weird and strange;
I was sleepin' near Bone Cabin, where
,., the hills are red as blood
beasts that beat the flood.
l was wakcned, long at midnight. by
most onearthly sound,
And l found my bronx had bolted-
yanked his stake pin from the
Twas a sure onholy racket, and my
foWin' locks they riz,
And I felt like that there Hamlet when
his blood stood still and friz.
Well. the moon was shinin', pale like,
40, and | saw mighty shape
Aloomin' right before me-and there
1t was broad as this here bunkhouse,
a bone digger's since told me 'twere
Well, saw there weren't no runnin'
that would make agetaway,
drunk few that day
he knelt down in his track,
swung off on his back.
So I rode off in the moonlight on my
And put him through his PAGES, like a
racer on the course;
L quirted him and spurred him, and I
wished ! had my rope
Fer to snub maverick or two when
gOin' on a lope.
1 rode till blamed near daylight, when
my steed begins to buck,
And, havin' nary saddle, gettin' throw
ed was jest my luck:
NO. couldn't dream this story, fer
when l walked up there
1 was jest hundred miles from where
I'd said my evenin' prayer!
denver Republican.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26
NOTE AND COMMENT

Education never units a man for
anything. Some men unfit education.
however. ...
F., Winter must be badly in love with
spring the way it fingers in her lap.
The wise one who said, "All is van
ity," must have just returned from an
Easter sermon.
If the Revelator had seen an auto
mobile he would have changed the
statement that death rode pale horse.
1t takes the second husband a long
time to get over the death of the first
one.
1t is wrong to charge women with
retailing gossip. They usually whole
sale it.
The museums are getting over
stocked with fossil. Must have made
a special draft on Kansas.
The modern version should read:
"Be good and you will be lonesome"
According to the bible, Rockefeller
is meek, fro it says the meek shall
inherit tho orfh
Some people believe that in order to
have taste for Wagner, you should
work in boiler factory.
The difference between some men
and the moon is that the latter only
gets full once month.
It would seem from the quantity
that are not. answered that prayers
are pretty vigorously edited in
heaven.
One of the signs Of spring is the an
nouncement that the patent medicines
advertised last summer as cures for
hay fever are now. good for spring
tonics.4
Some people think every public man
is q CRATER, but that when they them
selves can swips few thousand by
dishonest means It Is shrewd bust
ness.
Y Granna people are largely engaged
In raising shickens. Politicians ID
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

tractors and builders, and they "clean
up" or realize on their contracts each
year in the fall, when, as has been
stated before, money is tight" in the
west. Dinnie Bros idle money is then
placed at the disposal of the city,
where 1t remains until the next spring,
and the warrants are then cashed out
of the tax collections by the city, and
Dinnie Bros. put the money back into
their building operations and the ma
terial purchased therefor is each year
listed, assessed and taxed both in the
city and township of Grand Forks, for
a considerable portion of this money
goes to buy wood and other material
for the brick-yard.
This disposes effectually of the at
tempted issue of evaded taxation.
There Is another aspect in which
this matter could be viewed, and that
is, these warrants draw but per cent.
The tax rate in the city Of Grand
Forks is approximately 6 per cent.
We have yet to learn of an instance
where a municipality issuing bonds or
warrants has attempted to tax the
same. 1t would not appeal to one
as displaying the best business judg-
ment. No sane man would purchase
the warrants of the city bearing per
cent with the understanding that the
city would Immediately list and tax
them at per cent. Such course
would effectually destroy it's own cred
it, and instead of making money: there
by it would suffer great loss.
Again, during the past two years Mr..
Duis has had the appointment of the
assessors and these warrants were
listed in the city Offices; the record
thereof was open to examination by
Mr.. Duis and the assessor. Mr. Duis
knew of the warrants because he sign
ed them, except when he could not
spare the time from his private bust
ness and it was done by the president
| of the council.
If these warrants should have been
listed for taxation and were not, it
was because of the negligence or care
lessness of Mr.. Duis or his appointees.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26
CUMMINGS ADVICE
TO ELK|NS
Continued from mage l.,

d d. 81 H't.,.t.
is sharply stamped on my memory,
and 1t Is impossible that can be mis-
taken about it. Sitting sQuarely at
your right hand, just tride behind
you, sat gentleman who, as I was
afterwards informed, is ex-senator
Faulkner. inquired what relation he
bore to the investigation, and I was
told that he was an employee Of the
railway companies to resist the pro-
posed law. I do not know whether the
other senators saw. him or not, for
their faces were turned toward me,
and therefore away from him; but i
do know that you saw him, first, be-
cause he was SO close to you that you
could not turn your head without see-
Ing him; second, because you were
in conversation with him a part of the
time; third, because saw him, with
his hand On your shoulder, pass to you
questions which you read and then
put to me. There can be no mistake
about this, for my senses were as
alert just then as human faculties
can be.
you may, believe that an investi-
cation carried on in this manner is
in accordance with fairness and
decency. 1 do not. You may con-
ttnue in your belief If you like, but
l shall continue in my denunciation.
1T appears to me that II you pro-
pose to assail all persons and papers
and magazines that have admitted
your loyalty to the railroads and
questioned your fidelity to the people.
you should give some attention to the
attacks that come from points nearer
Washington than Iowa.
The truth u.s., senator, that you have
fairly established the reputation Of
standing for the railroads in the Unit
ed States senate. It is most unfortun-
ate that any senator should acquire
such a'reputation among the people of
the country. It is in the highest de-
gree important that the body of which
you are member shall enjoy the full
est public confidence. The grayest
problems which confront us are! those
which relate to the regulation and re-
striction Of corporate power. These
problems will not be successfully
solved by those whose lives have been
SO moulded by corporate thought and
corporate influence that they in
stinctively turn to corporation officers
and managers for information and
guidance. 1t is with regret that have
condemned your course. but my re-
greet disappears and another. feeling
takes its place when observe that Won
are not only persisting in your indie
feasible attitude, but are endeavoring
to reach over thousand miles Of
space and advise the republican voters
of Iowa how to select a governor. The
burden ts too heavy for you; you can
not lift it. The task is too great for
you; you cannot accomplish it."
The polished Christian comes from
the mills Of adversely.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

market in competition with the prod
ucts of other localities.
This is why the development of the
building material industry should be
encouraged. The products will find
a ready market at home. and the mar
ket will last until the permanent
building throughout the state is COM
pleted-until every vestige of it's early
history as recorded in its architecture
al development has passed, and it
takes the permanency of we'll es-
tablished community.
This industry therefore is thorough
ly linked with the future prosperity
of the state. and should be nourished
and encouraged.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

this city are largely engaged in rails
ing something not reverently mem
toned in the scriptures. wa
There is lots more fun getting on a.
drunk than getting OF.
Local farmers are getting ready to
raise a crop and local politicians are
getting ready to raise the devil.
Because this Office is advertising for
rags it does not follow that it wants
them for chewing purposes.
Ldgerwood has passed an ordinance
declaring dogs public nuisance. Or
dinarily no ordinance is required.
Often when the color leaves a young
woman's cheek it may be found on the
young mans shoulder.
When man wants office without
opposition, he is merely trying to sup
press an investigation.
st. Patrick certainly did good job
when he converted Ireland. There
have been no backslides.
What usually passes for content is
merely we'll trained resignation.
Oshkosh will have monkey as one
of its fair attractions. Grand Forks
will have several.
One-half the world may not know
how the other half lives, but the thing
that keeps most people guessing is
which half to believe.
This is the season when town peo-
pie try to break into the farming class
with an eight by ten garden and two
setting hens.
Most of the decisions that men hug
are dresses. r-
A Minneapolis man who married q
saleslady in department store is
asking for a divorce because he got
his wife at bargain counter.
After all, there are plenty of men
who would swap places with Rookie
Teller.
The girl who marries a man Just
to make some girl mad is usually the
girl who gets mad.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26
THE BUILDING MATERIAL IN.
DUSTRY.

Because OF the scarcity of timber
in this state, the question of building
material will in the future be an i'm
portant one.
Whenever this material can be taken
from the earth, it is clear that the
building question has been solved.
1t is interesting in this particular
to know that even brick is far cheaper
as a building material than wood.
The reason probably is that the lun1-
Der used is shipped long distances,
thus adding the extra freight to the
cost.
In the case of mineral products
used for building nearly every ele-
ment is found in practically every To-
cality, and these can easily be con-
verified into the finished product at
comparatively small cost.
What is wanting in this matter is
u AoA 0OA AudAClIy uSCu LuC Gull
sequent enlargement of the facilities
for producing it.
Not only would it afford better
and probably cheaper material for the
construction of the permanent build
ings that must mark the next business
decade in North Dakota, but it will
diversity the industries of the state
and give the state what it needs-a
purchasing and consuming class that
will give the agriculturalists a local
market for the perishable products.
If there were nothing else in the
development of the building material
industry in the northwest than this
one feature it would deserve large
place in the consideration of capital
lists and business men.
1t is possible to SO develop this state
that every quarter section of land will
support family in comfort-not as
millionaire farmers such as we now
have, but thousand times better than
the small agriculturalists live in the
older states.
Under these conditions the state is
able to support a population of ap-
proximately two hundred and fifty
thousand families, or one and quar-
ter million souls, from the agricul-
tural resources alone.
But to do this the land must be
made to yield as abundantly as it
now does, and at the same time the
crops must be those that will produce
the greatest quantity on given area.
AS indicated before these crops are
now almost valueless because of the
lack of an available market.
To produce this market there must
be a population partially engaged in
industrial pursuits.
These pursuits are only practical
when the products can be put on the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26
FOR MORE MILLS.

The Evening Times has. been an
earnest advocate of the policy of Sc
curing more milling industries for the
northwest.
The reasons are old, but like good
wine, they improve with that element
The principal raw material of the
state at this time is wheat. A large
portion of the world is fed from the
regions which produce number one
hard. 1t seems ridiculous as a BUSH
ness proposition that millions of
bushels must be shipped to other
points every year, there to be con-
verified into the finished product, thus
depriving the state of the advantages
arising from this enormous manufac-
turing business.
Take the flour industry from Min
neapolis and its business houses
would become abiding places for the
owls and bats.
Yet every bushel of the wheat used
in these mills come from the fields
of the northwest.
Why should there not be a great
flour city in the very heart of the
wheat producing region? Why should
not the two industries go hand in
hand?
Pittsburg is today the greatest in
dustrial center of the iron trade. 1t is so
because coal, iron ore and limestone
the three things absolutely necessary
to the iron trade-are found within
easy access of that city.
Capitalists, among whom was Car
negie in his earlier life, saw the adj
vantages of finishing the product in
the mills near the raw material, and
the city of Pittsburg is the result.
Within an area less than Grand Forks
county is gathered a population suf-
flcient to populate state, and every
man who wants it can find work all
the time.
We do not have the iron industry.
but we do have a monopoly on the
bread industry, and while we furnish
large part of the world with this
necessity OF life, We have not vet
awakened to the fact that we are only
getting part of the benefits. That
cities with far-seeing enterprise have
taken from us the manufacturing of
the products of our farms, and by
Keeping the farmers between the SELL
ing market for wheat and the buying
market for flour, both of which are
the creation of the foreign milling
trade, they are ground between the
upper and neither millstones.
! What is wanted is manufacturing
market nearer home which cannot
control by means Of combinations, the
price Of the products of the farms.
We want a milling trade nearer
| home SO that the farmer will not be
forced to pay the cost of the trans
portation of his product to the mar
ket as he does now.
When these things come there will
| be more money in raising wheat than
there is now, and the growers will
not be fighting a hopeless battle
against monopoly bent on robbing
them.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26
APPRECIATED.
, [Walhalla MOuntaineer. |

Caftoonist stewart, whoever he is,
II making some excellent pictures
for The Evening Times ut Grand
Forks. While the caricturinE of To-
cal men Ii ont of reach of weekly
newspapers, the execution of good
cartoons In n feature that makes any
paper interestinE-and sOmetilm lines
very effective. and Mr.. Stewards
work In certainly Of the best. The
Evening Times il making a place
for itself in North Dakota neWs-
papertiOM.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26
The Sustaining Hand.

The little child who wakes at night,
Affrighted at the sombre gloom,
And clamors for array of light
To drive the darkness from the room
To quiet dreamland sweetly, goes
Contented. If a hand is near,
Caressingly, because it knows
There is no terror it need fear.
So we, who stumble through the gloom,
In aimless manner seeking light,
Will blindly wander to our doom
II travelling by our own might.
But when in darkened paths we stray
And cry aloud. the Father hears
And reaches out His hand to stay
Our apprehensions and our fears.
E. A. BrininStOOl,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26
A Trlaine Maladv.

"Oui, madame is ill, but re doctor
half pronounce it something very
trifling, very SMALL" said the French
maid to an inquiring friend.
ooh, I am SO relieved, for I was
really anxious about her." replied the
friend. what does the doctor say
the trouble is?"
"Let me recall. It was something
very leetle," answered the French
maid. ooh, 1 have it now. Re doctor
says Eat madame has re smallpox"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

Has the name of Geo. e. Duis ever
been found attached to a guaranty of
the city's contracts? Would he become
liable to the extent of $4,000 thereof,
or has he ever indicated that he would
do so?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

The Herald. treading its regal path
way in majestic splendor, has never
before descended or assembled with
vigor into local politics. Its efforts
along that line in this campaign are
highly edifying. The hippopotamus
is agility personified in comparison.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

The democrats of the state are in
spfred with new breath of life. They
hope, with the help of the Grand Forks
Herald, Mr.. Spalding and the Scan
dlnavian league, to win in the cleo
ton this fall. The city election in
Grand Forks, according to the Herald.
is being run on these lines, and If Mr..
Duis is successful it will be interpreted
as a harbinger of success for the
democratic party in this state.-Pem-
bina Pioneer Express.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

The Herald recently devoted two
columns to profuse apologies and ex-
plantations for the bad showing made
by the chemical analysis of the water.
Will 1t now favor us with it's explain
alton of the granting to the harvester
trust of perpetual franchise for
side track and switch in the streets
and alleys by Mr.. Duis without con-
sideration or payment to the city,
while to private property owners ST.
500 was paid for right of way for rs
feet of the same tract? -,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

Mayor Duis freely admits that he
does not even know the terms of the
contracts entered into with the tele-
phone and street railway company I'M
der the terms of which revenue is due
to the city.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

Does any one believe that if Mr..
Duis was entitled to quarterly reports
and payments from debtor in his
private business he would be ignorant
of the terms of the contract?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

How many dollars did Geo. E. Duis,
the Herald OF Plaindealer ever adj
vance to maintain the credit of the
city?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26
seatimeat to BE Ineuleated,

LET reverence Of law be breathed by
1rsttles in her lap; let It be taught in
the schools. semfnaries and colleges;
let It be. written in primers, spelling
xrom pulpits and proclaimed In legis-
eAtiye halls and enforced in courts of
1uetlce;. in short, let it become the
00aitical religion Of the nation"
Abraham Lincoln.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

1t is freely asserted that Mr.. Duis
is the originator of the 'pig" story
and has repeatedly offered to furnish
another one.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26
Cupid Turns the Leaves,

LET me see." said the apple.cheek.
ed country girl as she entered the big
department store; shave you any sit.
close books?"
'Sit-close books?'" echoed the clerk
in establishment. What in the world
are they?" @aii'
"ny, er-family albums. You see.
have q gentleman caller."-Chicago
Daily News.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26
Tired Of the Monotonv.


Bishop Doane of Albany, whose
work toward the abolition of the d.
vorce evil is SO we'll known, paused
for moment, in an earnest discus
sion of divorce, to narrate pat an
ecdote.
"The motive of these people, he
said, his eye twinkling, sis like the
motive of Scot who was found weep
ing one day by his comfortable
hearth.
Eth, Saunders, mon,' said a neigh
Dor, peeping in at the open door, at
tracted by the sounds Of woe, what's
ailin' yer
"'oh, dear; oh. DEAR sobbed saund-
ers. Donald Mackintosb's wife is
dead
Aweel,' said the neighbor. what O.
that? She's no relation o yours, ye
KEN
:" I know she's not walled saund-
ers. I know she's not. But It just
seems as Il eveybody's gettin' a
change but me-"
Reflections Of Bachelor,
New York Press: Lots Of nonsense
seems wisdom because It's in a pretty
head.
When girl is learning about love
she can teach man more than he
ever knew. m
The only kind Of advice that is ever
taken Is the rich relations, and only
when he is there to see you do II.
II women wore different clothes
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-26

they might be a lot more sensible, but
they wouldn't be millionth part as
nice.
When man happens to make his
bank balance agree with the cashiers
he goes out and begins to brag how
he almost took honors in mathematics
when he was in college.