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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-07-27
Estrav Notice.

Taken up by w. b. BIacksl'ear. a
resident Of ward five, Grant parish.
La. and estrayed before ne the un-
dersigned authority. one COW aud
calf. Cow white with black head
and neck. no mark or brand, about
six wears old. One brown heifer two
wears old. no mark or brand. APP
praised Ivy &. A. Maxey and A. Nj.
Mobley to I've worth $2l. Unless the
owner comes forward. proves prop
erty and pays all costs. the same
will be sold to the last and highest
bidder on Saturday, August 10. 1907
sale to he made at W. b. Blackshear'f
at p. IN.
This July Is, 1907.
j. w. SKETOE,
J. p. Ward 5. Grant Parish. La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-07-27
AN ORDINANCE

After n full investigation Of the as
sessment rolls. and Of .he revenue
to he derived from licenses and
other sources In Grant Parish. and
after a full investigation of the ex-
penss.s and probable expenses OF
the Parish for the year 1907, Mr..
Drewett offered the following resO-
luton. u adopt "A budget of expen-
ses for year 1907:
Be it ordained 10y the Police Jury
Of Grant Parish in regular session
convened. That the following bud
get for the year 1907 he adopted:
Sheriff's salary. $500 W
school fund. ................ ........ 1850 w
Court house payment......... 5000 w
JniI payment 5000 90
Bridges and rOads....-....-.... l0.W0 ~
Court and acknowledgements 5000 %
Maintaining prisiOnerr....... 2.5W ~
District Attorney. 100 W
Treasurer salary. 80 %
Justices and Constal,les.-.... 500 %
Printing $50 90
jury. 500 90
Clerk and ATTORNEY. .... 200 ~
Contingent Expenses. 1900 %
The above was duly seconded 10y
Mr. W. l.. Johnson. and on roll be-
ing called all members voted in favor
thereof. Absent at this time. MIR.
West.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-07-27
EsTRAY NOTICE.

Estrayed from me at Esiir. Lii.
one red heller. four years old. crop
off left ear. no brand. Was last seen
on Hudson creek. ward two. Grant
parish, going in the direction oil
Wheeling. La. will pay for any in
leading to her recovery.
j. G. l.. BROWN,
Effie, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-07-27
The pnblic Is Notified,

That the undersigned is notrespoi'-
sil,ie for any business or debts thar
b. Rhodes. or Buck Rhodes. may 90
or transact | have no interest III
Buck Rhodes business whatever.
h. w. RHODES.
Dry Prong. Louisiana.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-07-27
STATE OF LOUISIANA.

hereby certify that the within and foregoing
is a true and correct copy Of the original act Of
Charter Ms filed under register Number ana and
recorded IN Mortgage Book Ct page 81 ct.
eaa. al records OF above parish and State.
IN testimony whereof witness my hand and
the official zeal Of this parish ard State on this
the Esd day OF July. A. d. ian; C9lfax x;
Deputy Clerk nnd Recorder.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-07-27
a chance Now for Ten Boys.

To work at the Meridian Male Col
Iege to help pay their expenses III
school next session. Write at once
to VI. A. BEESON.
Meridian. Miss.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-07-27
STATE OF LOUISIANA. !

cIAI ~ Ut IOUISIANA.(
PARISH or GRANT.
Having examined the foregoing charter Of the
Selma Mercantile Company, Limited. and find
ing nothing therein contained contrary Ia the
constitution and laws OF Louisiana. I hereby APP
prove the same. JOHN X: HUNTER,
District Attorney 18th Judic. Dist Of La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-07-27

STATE OF LOUISIANA
PARISH OF GRANT.
Having examined the foregoing charter Of the
verta State Bank. and fndiaR nothing therein
contained contrary to the constitution and laws
Of the State Of Louisiana, hereby approve the
same
Done and signed at Alexandria. Louisiana, on
this 18th day of July. A. ID. 1897.
JOHN X. HUNTER.
District Attorney 18th Judicial District.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-07-27
STATE OF LOUISIANA

PARISH OF GRANT.
hereby certify that the within and foregoing
Is a true and correct copy Of the ORIGINAL Charter
OF the verda State Bank. ms nov hled under reg
lister Number 2l07 and recorded In Mortgage
Book ~" at page 377, ct. seq, Of the above
records.
In testimony whereof witness my hand and the
official seal ~ this Office ON this the nth day OF
July, A. ID. 1907
Deputy Clerk and Recorder.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
OF LOCAL INTEREST.
Some People We Know, and We VIII
Profit By Hearing About Them.

This is purely local event
1t took place in Americas.
Not in Buffalo or New York
You are asked to investigate it.
Asked to believe citizens word.
To confirm a citizens statement.
Any article that is endorsed at home
is more worthy of confidence than one
you know nothing about, endorsed by
unknown people.
Mitchell Lowe, the well known
blacksmith, who lives with his family
on the outskirts of the village, says of
Doans Kidney Pills, They are all
right and l can see now why YOU are
willing to give out samples. You
know they do the work and are not
afraid to put them on their merits. NV
back had been hurting me for couple
OF years past. thought | had rheu-
matism and was rubbing it with lini-
ments and taking medicines prescrib-
ed by doctors without benefit until |
was utterly disheartened. II did not
make any difference what did I
had that same old pain. Some one
spoke to me about Doan's Kidney Pills.
had lost faith in medicines of any
kind, but l went to ]. c. Dodson's drug
store in a habitual sort of way and
got box and tried them. l had not
used them three days before the
rheumatism left me. I kept on taking
them until I had used up two boxes
because could not believe l was
cured. / have not had Dhe rheumatism
or the backache as you call it since
then. They are certainly the real
thing for bacl;ache."
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's and
take no other.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

why do so many people insist on
having nurses for their Children
asked the motherly woman. THAT
is easily explained" answered the
unpleasant man; "a nurse enables
a woman to send a crying baby out
of her own hearing and let it stay
on the sidewalk to annoy the neigh
bors. Washington Star
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
FARMERS IN UNION TO
Fight THE GAMBLERS
TOiIerS Are Pitted Against
Sharks
ANNUAL MEETING AT uTTLEROCk
Farmers Union in Convention viii
Discuss Matters of Vital In.
pOrtanCe.-WilI Fix Price of
This Years Crop,
ANNUAL MEETING AT uTTLEROCK

LITTLE ROCK, ARK, Sept q
Hundreds of union farmers, represent
ing the new order of things in agri
culture, in which the producer, in
stead of exchange gamblers, fix the
price of their products, are in at
tendance today at the national con-
vention of the Farmers Educational
and Cooperative union. Over a score
of states are represented at this cos
mopolitan gathering of tillers of the
soil Many important problems vital
ly affecting the agricultural interests
of the country will be discussed dur
ing the sessions of the union.
The union is most perfectly organ
lied in the southen states, where, with
the Southern Cotton association, it
practically controls the price of the
feecy staple. That the union has been
highly successful in the short span
of its existence is shown by the fact
that, before its organization, cotton
sold as low as 5 cents, has since been
raised to 10 and II cents and is likely
this year to go as high as Is cents.
This has been accomplished mainly
by the erection of warehouses for
storing the crop until the price de-
manded could be secured.
In Texas, the leading cotton state,
the union has 800 warehouses with
a storage capacity of more than a
million bales. During the last year
more than $50 warehouses have been
constructed. The union has it's head
warehouses at Houston, the greatest
cotton market in the world, while
many other important shipping, sea-
port and distributing cities throughout
the South also have large warehouses.
The union represents the new idea
in the organization of farmers. 1t is
a strictly business body. entirely diff
ferent from the old Grange and Far
mers' Alliance. While the members
naturally constitute a factor to be
considered by the politicians, the I'M
ion is strictly nOn-partisan and no
political discussions are allowed at
conventions or meetings.
In many states the Farmers union
has effected an alliance with the fed
erations of trade unions.
In the old Grange days the farmers
were antagonistic to labor unions and
sought to force the prices of the goods
they purchased. The new movement
co-operates with the laborers in other
fields of endeayor and does not at
tempt to cheaper labor or cheaper
prices of manufactured goods, eX-
cept so far as to eliminate the profits
of raiddlemen. THE laborer is wor-
thy of his hire" is the motto of the
Farmers Unions and they see to
make it applicable to all trades as
we'll as their own.
The Farmers union was organized
in Texas in 1902 with ten charter
members. Now it has million farm
ers who are proud to claim member
ship Now that it has completed the
conquest of the land of King Cotton,
wrestling the supremacy from the
spectators, it is gradually extending
it's membership and influence all over
the West and North.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
CHANGES OF BASE
MADE ON LAMAR
Several Firms Have Shifted Pos
ition There.

Stills & Schneider are getting in
readiness their new store on Lamar
street and will be ready to greet the
trade there one day this week. The
Pinkston Company, too, is getting
ready to move, and by Saturday will
be lat home" in new quarters on La
mar street. Mrs. Hightower has re-
moved her millinery stock to the
large store, No. 3O5, next to Buchan-
ans, while Miss Nina Williams is "at
home" to her customers in the coy
store next the Windsor Hotel entrance
on Lamar street.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

Some medical societies are hewing
to the line pretty close in their en-
deavor to uphold ethics. The society
at Peoria, Ill.,, hauled one of its mem
bers over the Goals recently for
driving a piebald horse on the ground
that it was bid for public attention.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

MY wife, began Hicks" dropped
in to see me at the Office today and
-" Sorry, old man." interrupted
Wicks, but my wife held me up be-
fore l left home; l can't lend you a
cent. Catholic Standard and
Times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

The daily average of post cards re-
ceiyed for domestic distribution at
the New York post Office is over 3d.
600. The Adriatic arrived in New
York few days ago with over $4,000
post caEds from foreign countries in
her mailbags.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

two minutes; the practice differs in
different places. BY the end of that
time it is fair to presume that there
is no one to answer the telephone and
repeat on the call is given accord
ingly, though another attempt will
be made if you ask for it.
What Time Limit is For.
THE time limit on ringing is set
for the benefit of subscribers IA gen
eral. For instance, if an operator
is making repeated attempts to reach
somebody for whom you have called,
and during that time somebody else
should try to call you, your line would
necessarily be reported as busy. For
this and similar reasons the Bell
companies limit the length of time
Central shall continue ringing for
some one who makes no response. All
reasonable efforts are made to COM
plete every call and it is only when
repeated attempts to obtain a reply
have failed that it is reported they
don't answer
Very likely in your telephone ex-
perience it has happened tha3 you
thought you were there all the time
when friend called you an& -wa ;s.
told that you didn't answer. ".
haps however, if you had actually tim
ed your movements you would have
found that while you were near the
telephone when the bell rang you were
not very prompt in answering the
summons. Telephone men will tell
you that a lot of don't answer re-
ports are due to this cause. A man is
signing letters, or talking with a
customer, or has just stepped across
that sort When he hears the bell
he waits until he finishes writing or
talking and then goes to the tele-
phone, not realizing the delay he is
causing. Meanwhile a couple of min
utes fit by and before he gets around
to giving any sign of life the person
who called him has been told, after
the usual repeated ringing. they don't
answer,
Subscribers Often Responsible"
"The chances for this sort of thing
in residences is obviously greater
than in business offices" said Manag-
er Hawkins. at is not always con-
Venient to drop household occupations
on the instant; tbs hard, perhaps, to
break off neighborly chat on the
piazza; and if the telephone is up
stairs or in remote part of the
house, it takes some little time to get
to it. In fact, good many subscrib-
ers insist that their telephones shall
be put in closets or under stairs or in
out-of-the-way corners where they
will be inconspicious. This not only
means loss of time in reaching the in
strument, but it is likely to be the
cause of the bell being heard indis-
tinctly And if the telephone is on a
party line, ring may not be under
stood until it has been repeated sew
eral times, so when at last the sum-
mons is answered the person who was
calling is no longer connected
Subscribers who understand these
things also understand that other de-
lays and annoyances which many peo-
pie are prone to attribute to Cen
trails carelessness frequently come
about through combinations of cir
cumstances similar to those that
sometimes lead to mistaken busy
and don't answer reports"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

Chief Feagin lost his pistol, SO
calibre IS & W. with hammer, while
riding over the city yesterday and
will pax5J TewS@a 'ftS ret SEs-ss
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
For Rent.

have for rent for 1908 5 horse
farm near the railroad and on public
road in a fine neighborhood. Nice
residence and good land. Apply to
W. B. Heys, Americas, Ga. 1m-d-w.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

"Echo Springs" Whiskey.-Our lead
err $1.0O per quart Also other high
grade wines and whiskeys. Orders
given prompt attention.
1919. o. d. If w. B. HUDSON.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

FOR RENT-Next year farm of two
plows within four miles of city. Run
ming water on place. L. NJ. Hawkins.
8-29-d & WITT.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

The local chapter, T. D. c., will
have very important meeting this af-
ternoon at O'Clock at the home of
Mrs. j. e. Mathis.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

Instructions are said to have been
issued to behead every officer or man
in the Chinese army found smoking
opium.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

The city tax rate for this year has
not been fixed yet, but the figures will
closely resemble those named by the
commissioners for the county.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

Mr. John N. Kiker and family have
removed from College street to the
Whitley residence on Taylor, where
they are now at home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

The veterans of Camp Sumter held
their regular monthly meeting yes
terday, and there was. good turn
out of the boys in gray
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

A house was moved from Louisiana
into Texas across the Sabine river,
recently, but the family did not vacate
nor was the furniture disturbed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

More Danes commit suicide than
the members of any other race. The
average plumber of suicides in Den~
mark is 256 per 100000 a year.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

Mr.. William Duekworth was the
first citizen of Sumter to march to the
front yesterday and pay his taxes,
even at the increased rate.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

f"Kissing is a barbaric blunder," says
an Americas doctor. 1t certainly is
when there is somebody around who
has no business there. ~.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

While machines of the type
vented by Guillotin was first putN
dread use is not known, but thu
for the execution of Marie -
still exists in Berlin. -
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

Americas Elks will craze again
night in the new pasture, and TOW
a bunch of fawns that desire to
on the hornsI
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

Americas people now study II
road map and reflect upon a t
the reduced rates, if they onIv :
money.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

DR.. w. H. Bowdoin, the well known
osteopath, has removed from the Ali
son building to his new offices over
the Dodson Pharmacy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

Recently three days was spent at
Glessen, Germany, in celebrating the
ter-centerary of its Lutheran Univer-
sity.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

Yesterday was legal sales day, which
t1%Americus is but a memory Of tlZ
past Wien lands We're sold-iisa--ffront
of the courthouse.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
THE QUOTATIONS
IN AMERICAS
Cotton Market as Reported Daily
by L. C. Council.

Americas, Ca, Sept. 3.-We quote
the local cotton market steady, as fol-
lows:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

ICol. w. T. Lane has returned from
q brief vacation of a week, delight
fully spent amid the scenes of his
boyhood near Monticello.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
For RENT.

FOR RENT-Five room house with
city water. Corner Bell and HarTeld
AvenIt. A. w. SMITH.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

Supt. Miller of the city public
schools registered another eohort of
pupils yesterday. The ranks there
are rapidly filling up now.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

Three furnished rooms for light
house keeping, for family without
children. 100 Prince Street.
29-6t.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
LIVERPOOL.

Liverpool, Sept. 3.-Thc cotton mar
ket opened quiet and closed steady
Spots: Middlings 6.95.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
aus az +
TOLD IN /
Pencil Stubs Pick
RdRdOl \
DAYS HAPPENINGS IN \
loo Short for a Head and|
together -Four Lines
Here and There in
City.

Large elegant assortment
and box papers and tablets
your stationery from at II
Book Store.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
How Operators are Misled.

Sometimes, of course" continued
Manager Hawkins, lines are reported
busy when they are not actually in
use. Occasionally an operator is in
error but it is only occasionally for
the Bell companies supervise their
service with great strictness. There
are, however, a number of ways in
which the operator may be misled or
the subscriber may unCOnsciously mis-
represent himself. Thus the thought
lessness of a person who forgets to
ring off or to hang up the receiver
when he finishes a conversation is
often the cause of his line being re-
ported as busy when a matter of fact
he is not using it.
when Central has made the busy
test and found that a line wanted is
not in use, she pushes the connecting
plug into its jack and rings by
pressing a key. Should there be no
response to her first summons she
rings again at the end of fifteen or
twenty seconds-residence telephones
being slower to answer because they
are generally less conveniently loca-
ted are allowed five seconds longer
than business telephones. Still failing
to get a reply, the operator continues
to ring at intervals of fifteen or TWEEN
ty seconds for a minute and a half OF
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
NEW YORK FUTURES.

New York, Sept. 3,-Spots: Middling
steady at 1890. Contracts opened
barely steady and closed steady.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

FOR RENT. My farm of 80 acres
with or without house for 1908.
Let. C. H sEIS
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
FOR RENT.

Nice, new, room house; also 2 front
rooms up stairs, in my building on
Lamar street. LEE ALLEN.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
SAVAN NAH.

Savannah, Ga. Sept. 3,-Quiet Spots:
middling - cents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

A cool mouth and warm feet live
long.-George Hubert,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
TROUBLES OF TELFPHONFRS
MANAGER HAWKINS TELLS HOW THEY OFTEN ARISE
Frequently the Trouble That of the Subscriber and Not the Fault of
the Office.

OF all annoying things when an
Americas man or woman is in a hur-
~ the most irritating seems for the
moment to be told that the telephone
line wanted is busy" or that the per-
son wanted does not answer OF
course, it is nobody's fault in parti-
cular, but it always puts the telepho-
ner in a frame of mind TO blame some
one, and usually the person who has
to suffer is Central" who really has
nothing to do with the matter
Few people outside the telephone
exchange understand how an opera
tor can tell so quickly that line
is busy, or what effort she makes to
get a subscriber before she reports
they don't answer" said Manager L, NJ.
Hawkins, of the Southern Bell, yes
terday. 1t is simple enough, though,
when you see what goes on in the OPP
Grating room, and it is worth every
telephone users while to stop in
sometime when he has a few minutes
to spare and watch the performance
at the switchboard. 1t will save his
peace of mind on lots of occasions
later and, incidentally, will relieve
the young women who help the COM
munity to transact so much business
nowadays from some unjust impu
tations,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04
How the Busy Test Works.

Among the many ingenious fea-
lures of the modern telephone switch
board is the busy test Every sub
scribers line is run along the back of
the apparatus and brancked in front
of each operator so that she may
conect with it any of the small num-
Der of lines on which she answers
calls. If one of these branches is in
use an operator who tries to connect
with another hears a faint click in
her head telephone the instant she
touches the plug Of the connecting
cord to the switch board socket or
jack When you give Central a
number she tests the line you want
before plugging into it, and if it is
busy the warning click tells her so
at once,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-04

Fine harness caeSSed N
made to order at Baglss
and retail. NJ