The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-06-08
The New Town Administration.

mtnlSGFatlOn ana the incoming OI tn6
new, and the people of the town can
| speed the one and welcome the other
with equal cordially and confidence,
because the two are identical with the
single exception of the chief of police.
Knowing how well the old admins
tration discharged its obligation to
give the town faithful and efficient
service, we can safely assume that the
new body will do no less. Indeed.
with the advantage of two years tut
| ton in the school of that best of all
teachers, experience, it will not be nn-
reasonable to expect that the official
directors of the municipality govern
mental affairs will not only maintain
their previous admirable stand ard, but
better it if that be possible. Good
wine improves with age; why, then,
should not good town officers like Don
aldsonville's do likewise?
In an address to the old-new council
which might be characterized both as
a valedictory and a salutatory, Mayor
Charles Maurin briefly recounted the
leading achievements of the outgoing
administr alton as follows:
We have remodelled our systems of waterworks
and our fire department making them equal to
any and superior to many of those of the larger
cities and SO much SO that the Louisiana Fire
Prevention Bureau has promoted us from fourth
class to second-class basis, thereby enabling
our citizens to save thousands of dollars in in
suranee premiums annually.
Our entire street electric lighting system has
also been thoroughly renovated and arc lights
have taken the place OF lncandescents in our two
main thoroughfaFes.
We have successfully built one Of the finest
public school buildings in the state, with the
kind financial assistance of the police jury.
We have also completed paving Mississippi
street and Railroad avenue with bitulithic pave
ment, making these two streets the equal of any
TO be found in the larger cities.
The mayor recommended that the
watchWord of the old administr alton,
Progress, be adopted as the slogan
of the new regime, and Alderman Mi
chael Tobias, responding for the coun-
Gil, announced full concurrence with
the mayors views and pledged him
undivided support during the next
two years in advancing the best inter-
ests and promoting the material well
fare of the town of Dona1dsonville.
The Chief responds for the people:
$50 say we allI'' Every citizen of
the town recognizes the splendid re-
suits attained by Mayor Maurin and
his colleagues during the term of serV-
ice just closed, and every good citizen
will resolve to help keep the ball of
progress rolling along in the same di-
rection throughout the new term just
begun.
Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor.
The thirty second regular and Sec
ond biennial session of the supreme
lodge, Knights of Honor, is to open
at Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Tues
day next, the 18th instant, and will
probably continue until the middle of
the following week. Louisiana will
be represented in the body by Supreme
Vice Dictator L. E. Bentley of Dom
aldsonville, Supreme Representative
Solomon Klotz of Napoleonville and
Alternate Supreme representative
York A. Woodward of New Orleans,
the last named taking the place of the
late Supreme Representative L. P.
Paquet, who has died since the last
session of the supreme lodge at Atlanta
two years ago. The coming session
will be one of the most important in
the history OF the organization, as
several fund amental changes in the
system of protective insurance will
have to be made to conform to the
requirements of the insurance laws
and regulations of some of the largest
states. Among the projects to receive
consider alton is one which will give
the older members of the order the
option of paying such rates of as
sessment as they may select under con-
ditions that will be equitable to them
selves and the order, and another is
an Improvement in the method of con-
Quoting the propagation work. In a
general way the changes will be SINH
lar to those recently effected by the
Knights of Pythias and other fraterni-
ties carrying the insurance feature,
and will be based upon principles
which all such orders must recognize
and adopt in the near future. It is
hoped and believed that the new legis-
lation will insure the perpetuation and
prosperity of the knights OF Honor,
which has been in successful operation
for thirty-four years and distributed a
hundred million dollars to the widows
and orphans of its deceased members
and for the relief of the sick and dis
tressed.
Louisiana Man for President.
We desire to make the emphatic an
nouncement that, irrespective of party |
lines or political considerations of any
we are for a Louisiana man
for president first, last and all the
time.
It isn't the presidency of the United |
States to which we refer, however, but
the oficeof president of the Travellers
Protective Association of America,
and the Louisiana man we are support
ing for that position is Louis Ochs of I
New Orleans, who has received the
unanimous and enthusiastic endorse
ment of his local anization, Post