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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10
STATE CT LOUISIANA.
PARISH OF CALCASIEU.
Charter of Bertrand-Davis Co., Ltd

Charter of Bertrand-Davis Co., Ltd.
Before me, Lee E. Robinson, a du-
ly qualified and commissioned Notary
Public, in and for the said Parish and
State, came and appeared, Fred D
CalkinS, Samuel G. Davis and Lionel
Bertrand, all residents of the Parish
of Calcasieu and State of Louisiana,
each of whom declared unto me, said
Notary, in the presence of the under
signed witnesses, that availing them
selves of the laws of the State of Lou
isiana, creating corporations, they
do by these presents organize them
selves into and create body cOrpor-
ate and adopt the following articles as
its Charter, to govern themselves and
such others as may become associated
with, or succeed them:
ARTICLE I.
The name and title of said Corpora
ton shall be the Bertrand-Davis Com
pany, Limited, and under which name
it shall have and enjoy all the rights,
privileges and immunitieS granted by
law to corporations for a period OF
ninety-nine years from date hereof un.
less sooner dissolved under the pro.
visions of this Charter, or by a de-
cree of some competent court. The
domieile OF this Corporation shall be
in the Town of Welsh, Calcasieu Par
iSh, Louisiana.
ARTICLE II,
The purpose for which this Corpor.
alton is established, and the nature OF
the business to be carried on by it.
are declared to be, to carry on d
wholesale and retail general mercan
tile business, and to buy, sell arc
deal In all kinds of merchandise. uud
especially dry goods, clothing, grocer,
les, notions, boots and onues aud
furnishing goods of all kinds, uard.
ware, tinware, glassware, stoves, farm
Implements and machinery, and Ve-
hicle, # all kinds and all of the vari-
Gus articles and merchandise usually
KEPT with any of the above lines: to
pu. cna> '"Au, sell, mortgage, lease,
sub least ur hyp0thecate real estate
nec-eSpr, or incident TO the carrying
on 1T RI" above business: to issue
not, -. ckS or drafts or other evi.
deace, # debt for the obligations OF
this 'or. rIrdlion only; to make and
exAeut all contracts relative to its
hn,,Gess, or as NAV be necessary on
INCIDENT to the carrying out of the pur-
poses and objects of this Corporation;
adopt AMI use ;, cornorate seal; IT,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10
Notice Of Change.

Interested parties will note MAJ lDs
famous Tennessee Jack, recently
bru ught here by COsner q HliehesO.l
will make the remainder of the season ..
at the Saxby farm, mile soatnes'.
of the post Office. Call on or saufs''
C. A. Saxby, Welsh, La.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10
For Sale

The best rice land in United States,
on Grand Prairie, Arkansas. For par
ticulars write or see J. E. Bale.
20 Stuttgart, Arkansas
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10
ORDINANCE NO. 125.

An Ordinance providing for the
collection of license for balls, dances,
etc:
Section |. Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Board of Trustees: That
any person or persons wishing to con-
duct ball or dance upon any premi-
ses in the Town of Welsh, where any,
thing to eat or drink is offered for
sale, or admission charged, shall first
pay to the Town Tax Collector, the
sum of ten (Sl0l dollars, provided
this Ordinance shall not apply to any
ball or dance given for any charitable
or benevolent purpose.
Sec. ,. Be it further ordained:
That anyone violating the provisions
Of this Ordinance, shall, upon c0nvic-
ton, be fined not less than ten $40
dollars, nor more than twenty-five
S25) dollars, or be imprisoned not
less than five days, nor more than
fifteen days, or both, at the discretion
of the Mayor.
c. E. Carr, Yea.
a. Y. Jones, yea,
f. c. Willard, yea.
f. H. Boiling, yea.
Approved April It'll, 1907.
Jno. H. Cooper,
Mayor.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10

Scholarships. We have scholar.
ships in several of the best bushes,
colleges in the United States. which
we can sell for less than you can &c.
them at the school. Apply at ths
Journal Office.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10

Remember that Daniels has o'"
feet of floor space upstairs. ASK lOf
goods in the upstairs department
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10

Having completed said compilation
which we certify to be correct, we dc
hereby make public proclamation OF
the above result, and declare C. f
Carr elected Mayor, and E. G. Will
ard, f. H. Boiling, A. T. Jones, F. d.
Calkins and Chas. Dautel to have
been elected Trustees.
Jno. H. Cooper, Mayor.
c. +. Carr, Trustee
+. Fl. Boiling, "
A. 7, Jones, %
Witness: Samuel Blackboard.
Samuel Blackford, Sec.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10

O KID by Finance Committee be al
lowed and paid. Motion carried.
Ordinance in regard TO dancing, on
motion on roll call was adopted.
The Board proceeded to the compiI-
latiOn of election returns sent in by
the commissioners of the Town cleo
ton, held in the Town of Welsh, Lou
isiana, on the 7th day of May, 1907,
the result of which is as follows:
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10
Rice Bran at Jones Bros.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Welsh, La, Nav !.

Welsh, La, May :, 1907,
Hall Of Council Chamber.
Council called to order in regular
session by the Hon. Mayor, Jno. II.
Cooper, Members of the Board of
Trustees present: f. Fl. Boiling,
+. G.. Willard, a. u. Jones and G.. f..
Carr. Absent; Philip Miller.
Minutes of previous meeting read,
corrected and approved.
Matter of bills taken up and dis
posed of:
JAS. Ketcb. street work ..........$2l.0 90
Homer Boucher, janitor. 200O
H. a. Davidson, scraper and
fence for cemetery $500
Peter Johnson, street work. ..... 1000
a. SOnnier, street work. ........ 400
Morse Hardware Co............ 40
Welsh Printing Co., Ltd ....... 1870
Tom Cox, marshall and street
commissioner ................. A. 90
NJ. L Sloan, election Com.... 800
G. NJ. Field, ...... 800
l.. +. Robinson, " ..... 800
w. p. Russell, Jr., Clerk. 900. 800
James +. Murphy, La. Com. 80. 800
Moved and seconded that all bills
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10

adopt, amend and repeal such bylaws
rules and regulations as may seen
desirable for the proper management
of its affairs, and do all things Incl.
dent to the conducting of the business
of this Corporation.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08
Too High For Revenue.
burlington Newsl

1t is said that the Anheuser,
Busch Brewing company will not
take out wholesale license in Yer
mont, but will transact their business
by mail. 1t is proprietor of Budweiser,
the best bottled beer in the world,
and the st. Louis brand, These beers
are large sellers in Vermont. 1t
looks therefore as though the whole
sale license was placed at too high
figure. If this large concern, with
good trade in the state cannot
afford to pay the license there must
be others of the same mind. When
one comes to think of it there is nothing
strange, however, in the decisions of
the concern. The number of license
towns is small and decreasing in num-
bers, while there have been or indeed
can be, no more than half dozen places
where any fair amount of business
could be done. There ought in all fair.
ness to be wholesale license fee for
outside-the- concerns, but it looks
to us as though the present price was
too high-that is, for revenue. We have
no doubt that this concern will make
money by doing its business by mail.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08

The newsboy has changed his habits
of late. Formerly he spent his spare
time in mischief but nowadays he reads.
The stenographer, too, is more inclined
to the literary and devotes her few odd
moments to perusing the newspapers.
The foreman is getting into the habit
of taking home an exchange every eve
ming ''for his wife to read,' and the
local reporter neglects his typewriter
for few minutes to glance through a
paper or two. The man waiting for
his turn in the barber shop forgets to
keep pace with The Adventures of Ner-
Wy Nat and becomes so absorbed in
the first page of some sensational daily
that he starts perceptfbly when the ton
serial artist yells "next." The gro
GERS clerk pauses momentarily in his
work of weighing cheese to scan the
headlines of the paper that has been
left on the adjoining counter. The
milkman purposely delays his return
to the farm until after the arrival of
the paper train. The doctor will be
found reading the HChoinal' or the
"Whirl' in preference to the erstwhile
interesting medical magazine. The
merchant, the banker, the lawyer and
no doubt even the MINISTERIAL have
suddenly joined the ranks of news
paper readers interested in the same
thing. And what is that yon ask? It's
the Thaw trial. Is it any wonder that
enterprising metropolitan journals find
it good investment to employ such
expert literary chefs as Julian Haw-
thorne, Samuel Hopkins Adams and
others to make this mess into morbid
curiosity satisfying hash?
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08

DR.. L. p. Sprague Of Burlington, who
was recently chosen agent of the state
10 look after the enforcement of the
pure food law, is beginning his work
along the right lines. He was recently
in Bennington and according to The
Banner "visited the establishments OF
six miIkmen and inspected their out
fits. He also moused around among
the drug stores, carried off samples OF
medicines that he found on the shelves
for sale, asked to see the records of the
poisons sold. looked over the apparatus
used in compounding medicines and
otherwise gave evidence of performing
his duties thoroughly. Every sample
he carried away he insisted in paying
for at the market rate Bennington
ism IT the only town in the state which
DR.. Sprague is going to visit nor is it
likely that he will be any less thorough
in his investigation as he continues his
itinerary. Brattleboro dealers whose
business is in any way subject to the
pure food regulations will do well to
bear in mind that they are likely to re-
ceive a visit from the Burlington doctor
at any time.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08

1t takes true diplomat to meet
a trying situation properly. Secretary
Root s recent visit to Canada came at a
time when the thermometers in the
Dominion told of below-zero weather
But the secretary did not make this
fact the basis of any cheap joke about
ga frost etc" In the course of his
address before the Canadian club Of
Ottawa he remarked that he did not
feel a stranger there because in the
Canadian winter climate blood had to
be thicker than water. Is it any won
der that man who can deliver such
happy little witticisms is popular out
side as well as within the borders of
the country which he so ably repre-
sents? -..
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08
II Will Be Modest Enough.
darlington Clipper

If the report is true that the Yer
mont commissioners have decided to
have Vermont building at the
jamestown exposition it must be that
Lieutenant.G Governor Prouty has offered
to give the lumber and probably have
the building erected at one of his big
mills and then assembled on the expo
sition grounds. This would be a materi'
al help to his gubernatorial ambitions.
The commissioners are not all fools and
they must know that no respectable
building can be put up at jamestown
and have anything leIt for advertising
the attractions and resources of the
state, say nothing about making an
exhibit creditable to Vermont. The
Vermont building at the World fair
at Chicago cost $4,000, and it certain
ly was modest enough to cause
every Vermonter to blush for shame,
and building materials and lumber cost
only about half as much then as now.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08
The Cold Weather Poultry Food.

Fowls have a natural craving for ami
NAL Food especially when the weather
is cold. All kinds of grains are good,
but to produce lots of eggs, an occa-
sional ration of Green Cut Bone and
Meat is absolutely essential. This
product can be obtained of Carroll S.
Page, Hyde Park, Vt. He will ship a
200-pound barrel to any address on re-
ceipt of $3.50 and at this price pays
the freight to any railroad station in
New England or the Middle States.
Money may be sent at his risk by reg
istered letter, postal money order,
check or express money order.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08
Long Live the Lyceum.
(St. Adams Messenger)

II is gratifying to observe that
such an excellent educational institu'
ton as the Brigham Academy is
still old fashioned enough to hang on
to the lyceum debate as a method Of
developing the reasoning faculties and
powers of ready and fluent expression
of its student. 1t is only to be re-
GREETED that others do not do the
same thing. There have been and are
a great many improvements in edu'
cational methods, but it will be long
time before the lyceum debate is out
classed by any new device. 1t is diff
cult to make some instructors realize
it and perhaps more difficult still to
interest students in il in these days
of strenuous athletics and kindergar,
ten fraternities in high schools and
academies.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08

Mason s. Stone, state superintendent
of education, has suggested that the
towns of Guilford, Vernon and possibly
Dummerston unite with the Brattleboro
town and village districts for the for
nation of a supervision district under
the new law which provides that towns
thus united may employ school super
intendent whose salary shall be paid in
part by the state. There is little wis
dom in this suggestion. Brattleboro
school district No. 2 already employs a
supervisor whose time is wholly occu'
pied by the duties of the position, and
there is no reason for thinking that
the payment of a larger salary would
make it possible for one who is already
busy to assume charge of the 81 schools
in Vernon, Guilford and Dummerston
spread over the area that they are.
Experience will doubtless show that the
practical value of this school super
vision law is greatly deprecated by
the provision requiring a minimum
number of so schools in any combina-
ton of towns wishing to benefit from
the measure.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08

A movement supported by many we'll
known educators and other prominent
citizens of New Hampshire to secure
an amendment to the state liquor IL
cense law whereby towns in which edu-
cational institutions are located may
be placed under a permanent prohibi-
tory law, has been brought to the at
tention of the legislature. This natur-
ally brings up the question:: Do College
Bows Drinks
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08
WEEK IN THE WORLD.
Great Events and Movements Which
Are Making History.

In an address delivered in Washing
ton last Friday evening Senator Perkins
of California dwelt at some length upon
the probability of a conflict between
the United States and Japan. He spoke
of the two races as "irreconcilable y,
and called attention to the fact that
the inherent national traits Of the Jap
anese made them foreign element in
any country to which they migrate.
Senator Perkins spoke of the small war
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08
For Wives and Mothers.
Save the Loved Ones From Drink Evi
-Orrine Guaranteed to Cure Can
be Given Secretly.

If your husband or son has fallen vic
TIM to the drink habit, stop pleading
scolding and crying. Use Orrine whicl
is recommended by thousands.
This successful remedy can be given
secretly if desired, or the patient can
take it of his own free will. 1t absolute
ly destroys the desire for strong drink,
and builds up the. run down system.
strengthens the weakened nerves and
soon restores the patient to his normal
condition. Write for free pamphlet on
cure of alcoholism to Orrine CO.. Wash
ington, d. G. Sent in plain sealed enve-
lope.
The price of Orrine is sl.00 a box. Or
rine is sold by Brooks House Pharmacy,
Main street.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08
ppospERITy BEGINS AT HOME.

The average citizen Of Brattleboro
would no doubt be greatly surprised II
he knew how many pondereus mail
order house catalogues are Distributed
nv the local post men, and his surprise
would be in no way abated II II were
possible to give him an idea OF the
amount of goods sold in town by these
mammoth cut.rate concerns, a desire
to get something below the market
price is what prompts people TO Patro'
nize mail.order houses, and the eata'
logues which these establishments issue
are arranged 10 stimulate that desire
as much as possible. Experience has
proven. however, that in ~ cases out
Of every hundred the goods ordered do
not come up TO the representations
made for them. People ought to nave
this fact thoroughly digested by this
time, but the success which mail'order
houses enjoy Illustrates the truth oil
the homely saying that sucker is horn
every minute and two to catch him.
Aside from the question of value
there is another strong reason why peo'
ple should not do their buying of out
of.town concerns, and that reason can
he characterized in the single word
LOYALTY. The advantages that every
town offers its citizens are due primari'
" to the commercial prosperity which
the community enjoys, and this pros
perfty is dependent upon the willing
ness of the people to patronize home
Industries. The man who sends to the
city for his groceries, his clothing and
his furniture because he can save few
cents or few dollars doubtless never
stops to think that if all his neighbors
adopted this policy local merchants
would have to 90 out of business and
that if there were no local merchants
the town itself would soon amount to
naueht in the way of education and
other civic advantages.
The same reason applies to certain
extent to the matter of investing money.
People are too prone nowadays to allow
their good Judgment to be warped by
the glittering promises of wildcat min
ing companies, and learn too late that
the enormous dividends from Hopping
Toad exist only for those who were
smooth enough to exploit the scheme.
A prosperous town always has oppor-
tunities for the investment of money
at safe and sane return, and if peo-
pie would only take time to investigate
these domestic opportunities there
would be fewer fake offerings to stimu-
late the imagination and deplete the
pocket book.
Everyone who is interested in bigger,
better, buster Brattleboro should bear
in mind that he can only bring it about
by being loyal to home interests 1t
has been well said that he helps him
self who helps his own town, and there
is equal trIth in the precept that pros
pefity, like charity, begins at home.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08

Twelve states, through their legis-
latures or their governors or through
other agencies representing them, have
petitioned congress for the passage of
legislation which will make possible
the establishment of the White Noun
tain and Appalachian forest reserves.
The secretary Of agriculture has re-
peatedly called attention to the need of
such legislation. Two presidents of the
United States have endorsed the propo-
sition In their annual messages, and
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08
A Miserable Quarrel.
(Hartford Courant)

Senator Redfeld Proctor of Vermont
and pereiyal w. Clement Of Vermont
are fellow stockholders in the Rut'
land Hcrald,n and Clement holds the
most stock. Proctor has applied for a
receiver on the ground that Clement
has tried TO use the paper for his own
political ends. Quarrels of this mis-
cradle style suggest emphatically the
advisability of keeping ofiice'seekers
out Of newspaper management or IN
terests.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08

Visitors in Rutland say that the Mar
BILE City is growing 10 a gratifying az
gree, a number Of new blocks aud olhet
structures including homes being IN
prorress there. Barre and Montpelier
are also expanding in n suhstantial
manner, aud are plainly hourishlng'
Even Mortified Is growing ms never De.
fore although IL is ON a single line OF
railroad and is without water trans
portation. Burlington Free Press
And what about the modest, retiring
little hamlet. Brattleboro, nesting
among the hills in the southeast corner
of the stated Isn't she keeping pace
with her sister communities in indus
trial and commercial advancement as
well as in official plum gatheringi Wen
rather. And ism I she beginning year
that promises more than ever as its
share Of material prosperity We should
say ms much. And aren't there other
towns-many Of them--in the state that
are casting green'eyed glances in her
direction. We think there are. Please
kind contemporary, when enumerating
the list of those communities that
"have arrived include BrattleborC
in the list. Competition is so strenuous
nowadays, and we are loath to bio"
our own horn.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08

United States Senator John +. Dry
den of New Jersey has withdrawn his
name as a candidate for reelection by
the legislature of that state. The only
regret anyone can have over this action
is that John will now have more time
to devote to the management of the
Prudential life insurance company.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08
visit op,imismville,
(Morrisyille Messenger

The WILMINGTON Times pessimis'
tically declares that in the face of the
appropriation available for n Yer
mont building at the jamestown OK,
position, Vermont visitors to II viii
feel like registering from some
other state. Brother Strawser should
snowshoe over TO Brattleboro oftener
where, just now, they don't LOOK
through glass so darkly.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08
Familiar with FOSSILS.

Ii would be unjust TO a good man
and competent to suggest that one
brought up In noighborhood familiar
Inv with fossils was just the man TO
lead geographical survey, But FRO
lessor Clark was only "born in Brat
tloborou and that dear old town, as
usual, is only serving in this instance
AS Fame's midwife.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08

In reply to question with regard to
the cost of old age pensions the chancel-
Tor of the eXchequer recently stated that
the number of persons in the United
Kingdom over the age of IS was 100000,
and the number over the age of 20 was
l,O25.OOO If a pension of SIPS week
were granted to every person over the age
of 65 the cost would be Sl3O, l25 900, and
if the pensions were limited to those over
20 the cost would be 81, 100000.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08

German military authorities are expert
menting with device by which the loca-
ton of troops using. smokeless powder
may be easily discovered. BY this device
it is proposed to survey the landscape
through pale red glasses. The flash of
smokeless powder appears strong in red
light, while ordinary objects are dimmed.
By furnishing field glasses with the de-
vice in question, which is provided with
screens of the proper tint. the position of
marksmen can be detected.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08

Another specimen of the citrus limon
um comes Brattleboro-ward. Some en-
terprising newspaper man has discov-
cred that wealthy woman of this town
is the principal donor of large granite
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-08
Eloped with Hired Man,

Mrs. Minnie Slayton and George Ken
field, who has been employed by Mrs.
Slayton for some time, left her home in
Stowe Friday, Feb 2, between I and s
O'Clock in the evening and were seen
driving through the village between 9
and TO-. Since that time their where
ahouts have been unknown to their fam
lies. Mrs. Slayton left two children at
home, one of whom is ill., Mr.. Kendalls
wife and five small children are living
in Morrisville in destitute circumstances.