The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-06-08
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school board will not be held at the
lime of regular State election, but
will take place in the fall OF 1908, at
the Congressional election.-Mans-
field Enterprise.
A truck farmer at Brownsviilr'
Texas. raised 81 900 worth of cab
bage on nine acres OF ground
What's the matter with North Lou
isiana ms truck farming country
Shreveport Times.
Under the new anti-gambling law
of Texas. the accused is not allowed
TO give bond until after they are in
dicted by the Grand Jury. The re-
suit is that all parties accused have
to suffer Imprisonment until court
meets.-Abbeville Meridional.
The unwritten law may furnish a
sufficient Justification of the kind OF
protection we provide for our young
girls. but the more economical way
would be to look after them IN the
way that European girls hre looked
after. We have been boasting for u
long time that our girls could le
trusted with their liberty, but the
number of tragedies OF late would
suggest that little stricter chaper-
onaye and IA little curtailmeht OF
that liberty would he good for the
yiris MS we'll MS the State.-kaplan
Times
The wide-awake, hustling, not-a-
fraid-to-work farmer can and Will
pull through an ocean OF difficulties
and come out with flying colOrs and
drums beating, but sluggards, put
off until tomorrow the things that
can only be done to-day, will fall by
the wayside and wonder how the 9th
or fellow nade a crop with weather
conditions that have existed for the
past two months.-Mer Rouge Dem,
ocrat.
The average voter is in a very bad
state of mind in having come to the
conclusion that the office seeker IL
working for himself and cares very
little for the good of the country, I;
conclusion largely justified by thu
record. This fact. together with TIN
other fact that all men are students
of public affairs these days, makes j
very difficult to gain the eonfidenc
of the people-Jennings Times-Rec
ord.
The somber attitude of doubt ant
wisdom assumed by Messrs. BrOus
) sard and Price-gently limiting to
gaping State that presently they ma.
5 come right ont i'm meeting and sa.
whom they will permit the people c
! Louisiana to elect as GOVERNOR
getting just Il bit funny. Both me
are divesting themselves ola consider
$ able degree of popularity and respec
that has heretofore been accorde
!. them throughout the Southern pa
ishes. The attitude is too plainly n
e Attempt to play for position. Bot
* seem to have forgotten that the VI
ters are going to decide the election
: if they have never decided one befor
'-4-Baton Rouge State.
In some of the parishes it has bee
the custom for candidates for sher
and clerk to announce in advance I'll
names of their chief deputies. II
Homer Guardian-Journal says Il
people have about as much busine
dealings with the deputies as thu
do with the principals ana IL IN d'
: them to let them know who are to
I" deputies. -Ruston Leader
le Now that the railroad manage
confess that their linesare SO conges
is ed with business as not to be able
\. carry the freights intrusted to thel
it is hoped they will abate some
he their opposition to interior wat
nr transportation.-New Orleans Plea
une.
p Instead of dropping back in Pre-
ress on account of bad crops and b.
weevil this country ought to go fl