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Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-08-22

cAPToLlA TEMPLE NO. 1ss. .. N. 7.
nesdeys In each month at 1889 Arapa,
hoe Street. Members In good standing
are invited to attend.
MATTE HOLLY, w. p.
JENNIE JONES, Secretary.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-08-22

GAINES TEMPLE, Ne. 4, .. N. T.
OF Trinidad, meets the nrst and
third Monday Afternoons at J O'Clock
At Marble hall. Ill First street.
A. q. SUTTON, ". P.
n. B. WILSON, Sec.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-08-22

PHYTHiAS LODGE NO. II.
Meets the nrst and third Wsdnss
day nights, 1882 Arapahoe Street.
HARRY JONES, C. c.,
1922 10Th Street.
I'M. MARTENIA,K K. Of R. L 8.
Montclair P. o.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-08-22

ROYAL TEMPLE NO. 23, I. B. p. O.
E. of w. meets second and fourth
Wednesdays in each month at 17l2
Curtis street.
MRS. R. FRAZIER, d. R.
MRS. NETTIE NJ. KELLY, Sec'y,
1922 Arapahoe Street.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-08-22

Western Star Lodge No. 128, U. B.
Of F., meets the first and third Tues
day evenings Of each month at 1882
Arapahoe street.
II. B. BROWN, W. NJ.
R. GRIGSBY, Sec.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-08-22

DAMON LODGE NO. 8.
K. Of P. meets at 1712 Curtis street
the nr1t and third Friday Of each
month.
D. H. WILLIAMS, c. c.
w. A. Rice, X. Of r. & s.;
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
Three Negro ShOOtings.

Three shooting scrapes occurred
at Crowley Saturday night among ne
groes and as a result one negro is
dead and three others badly wound
ed Charles Fontenot was shot In
front of the Welcome Saloon at 8
o'clock and died within an hour. The
shooting was the outcome of fight
over a negro woman. About mid
night another shooting affray oc-
Cured in the negro quarters in the
west part of town, in which Chad
wick Thomas received a bullet wound
in one of his arms. The third shoot
ing took place on the Lowell farm
northeast of the city some time after
midnight, between Alex Brown and
Cesar Woodbridge. Woodbridge was
shot in the right arm at the elbow,
the bullet almost completely destroy
ing the joint, and it will probably be
necessary to amputate the arm. A
woman was also the cause of this
fight.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
ONE dead; Three WOUNDED
In Shooting Scrape at Crowley,
Louisiana
SHEEP BEING FED TOBACCO
First White Child Born i'm West Lou.
isiana Celebrates Her Ninetieth
Birthday. Schools COnsOl-
idating.

An antispitting law is now in ef-
feet at Covington.
Frost was experienced at Marks
vile, Alexandria, Minden, Roberline
and Shreveport.
F. E. Gee, for thirty years Dis
trict Clerk of Cameron Parish will
resign the office.
Mrs. Florence Boutterie, Joe Ciss-
ma and Joe Stansbury were released
on bond at Franklin.
The St. Tammany Parish Medical
Society will spread information bear
ing on the tuberculosis campaign.
In the King succession case at Ba.
to Rouge decree was handed down
in favor of the descendants wife.
R. l.. Bailey, of Bunkie, brought
suit against the Citizens Bank of
Bunkie for s24,A4S, alleging viola
tion of contract.
II was announced that Government
agents have unearthed extensive coun
terfeiting operations in the neighbor-
hood of Monroe, La.
White caps posted a threatening
notice at a levee camp on Red River,
near Bunkie, warning the negro Ia
borers to run or die.
A. G.. Reed, son of the late Mayor
c. III. Reed; of st. Francisville, shot
and killed himself at his plantation
home near that place.
N. C. Edwards, a merchant and
planter near Amite City, was shot
and painfully wounded by negro
who had invaded his store.
C. P. Harrell, at Plaquemine, shot
and wounded William Register, a
tramp, who had invaded Harrell's
home and frightened ladies and chill
dren.
Three passengers and three train
men were injured in wreck on the
Eudora-Gilbert branch of the Iron
Mountain Railroad one mile north of
Forest, La.
An indictment charging contra
vention and violation of the prima-
ry law as Commissioner of Election"
was returned by the Ascension Parish
grand jury against Alcide Leroy, of
Donaldsonville.
Judge Golson signed a suspensive
appeal in the LIE Blanc-Schwing
case and then rescinded the order
and ordered the clerk of the court
not to enter 1t. The attorneys rep
resentative refused to return the doc
ument when demanded by the Judge.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
Schools Consolidating.

Parish Superintendent S. R. Cum
Minis, of Grand Cane, has been visit
ing different schools an this week,
but has not completed his first round
yet. He is highly pleased with the
condition in which he finds all the
schools that have been visited. Six
school wagons are in operation now,
and an additional one will be put on
for the Oak Grove School, Smyrna,
Wood Springs. Walker and Moseley
schools will consolidate and the pa
irons will ask the Police Jury to
grant special election for the pur-
pose of voting tax sufficient to erect
a school building that will accommo-
date the children of these four
schools. At Samuel Chapel the pa
irons will ask for a special election
for the purpose of voting a tax to
build a brick school house.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
Novel Experiment.

Some novel experiments are be-
ing conducted at the State Expert
ment Station Just north of Baton
Rouge in the raising of sheep. Sheep
are being fed tobacco and salt as a
preventive of intestinal disease. The
sheep in the South suffer with an in
testinal disease. the successful erad-
ication of which is of very great i'm
portance in the profitable raising OF
sheep. At first the sheep would not
eat the tobacco, but they have finally
gotten so they relish it, and are now
devotees of "My Lady Nicotine"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
Gave Worthless Checks.

w. L. Moore, a stranger, was ar
rested on the charge of obtaining by
false pretense diamonds valued at
500 from A. E. Gordon, Shreve-
port jeweler. In paying for the jew
elry Moore wrote out a check on the
Commercial National Bank of Shreve
port, but when presented the check
was declared worthless. The CONNER
cial National Bank received a worth
less check signed H. H. Henderson
for s1.S75, written out in favor of
w. L. Moore, and deposited in the
Ouachita National Bank at Monroe.
The authorities at Florence, La, wir-
de that Moore is wanted there for
false pretenses." Moore states that
he sold a man named Henderson
some valuable land near Monroe and
took the check which was deposited
there in payment.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16

dy has total of 1877 descendants liv-
ing, three living out OF the seven
born to her thirty-seven grandchil-
dren, eighty-four great-grand chill
dren, and thirteen great-great-grand-
children. Over a hundred of these
attend the picinc celebration of Mrs.
Reeves birthday. She is almost en-
tirely blind, but possesses her other
faculties, and delights her great
great-grandchildren nth tales of the
pioneer days.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
Saw Mill and Gin Burn.

The saw mill and gin belonging
to S. w. Hines at Angie, were de-
stroyed by fire. The fire broke out In
the gin and before anyone reached
the scene the blaze was SO extensive
nothing could be done. The house OF
s. w. Hines and the blacksmith shop
belonging to T. E. Morhaw were saw
ed. The wind was very high, which
endangered the entire surrounding
territory from the falling of burn
ing einders. The loss is about $4,000
with no insurance.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
Notes from The Rice Belt.

Fine threshing weather has pre-
vailed all the week, and mUre OF
the Honduras rices are under COW
er. Japan is being rapidly threshed.
The best yield from Honduras in this
section was twelve bags to the acre,
obtained on the Hoyt Ranch from
new land and seed rice. one planter
sold from six acres more than $500
worth of japan rices, and another
disposed of 80 bags short of last
season, owing to reduced acreage.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
Award Contract.

The Board of School Directors met
at Houma for the purpose of award
ing the contract for the construction
of the Terrebonne High School Build
ing. There were several bids. Cald-
well Brothers were awarded the con-
tract for $37,250. Work will be be-
gun within six weeks, and the build
ing will completed within six months.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
Verdict for $12,5OO.

In the district court at Ruston
the jury brought in a verdict for the
plaintiff in the suit of Miss Willie
Lane Ford against the fremont Lum-
Der Company. and awarded her $12.-
500 damages. A little more than a
year ago, Miss Ford, at that time en-
ployed as stenographer by the Ire
mont Lumber Company. was badly
injured through the ignition OF
about half a barrel of celluloid
checks which were kept in the Office
vault.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
Celebrates Birthday.

A notable event was the celebra-
ton several days ago at Giliis of the
ninetieth birthday anniversary of Mrs
Mary Ann Reeves, the first white
child born west of the Calcassieu riv-
er. Mrs. Reeves parents we're pio-
neers who were attracted to western
Louisiana by the liberal inducements
of the government, which wanted the
land occupied on account Of q bound
ary dispute, and Mrs. Reeves was the
nrt child born In the disputed ter
ritory, Sept. 80, 1918. The aged Ia
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
Change of Crops.

The sale of cotton seed and the
preparations that are being made for
truck farming give positive evidence
of the change which some of the plan
ters are preparing to make in their
crops next season, now that the boil
weevil has infested the parish, and
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16

even this year has done extensive
damage to the cotton. The Baton
Rouge board of trade is working to
create a market for other products
in Baton Rouge other than cotton,
and some extensive plans along this
line will be announced by the direc-
tors in the near future.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
Judge Boarman's Resignation.

Following the rumors that have
been current around Opeiousas lately
to the effect that Judge Alex Boar
man, of the United States District
Court, would shortly resign, thereby
necessitating the filling of the va
cancy by the appointment of anoth-
er, several prominent names have
been mentioned for the important Of
flee. Among those spoken of here as
eminently qualified for the position
is Hon. E. B. Dubuisson, of st. Ian
dry, a lawyer of exceptional ability
and high standing, member of the
Opelousas bar.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
$1,000 SILK PETTICOArs. s4.es

200 double founce embroidered black silk Petticoats
made of the best grade rustng Twoprice stores
will ask you $40. Our price .... .......S S49s
TAILORED sUIAs AT ONE-FOURTH FORMER PRICE
Fortyve Tailored Sus-these are not new suits
We will be candid with you They are carried over
from last season-but q great many of them conform
very closely to the prevailing styles and may be bought
for mere fraction of their original worth They were
sold last season at $4,000 to $4,000. We must close
them out Icur choice. suit -. -. -. .e9.0S
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
Insane From Drink.

A stranger by the name of M. l..
Melrose arrived in Jennings and put
up at the Eureka hotel, and went to
his room. After awhile he broke out
a window pane, and, taking piece of
the broken glass, attempted to cut
his throat. Physicians were called
and sewed up the wound. He will re-
cover.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
New Lumber Mill.

Lake Arthur's new lumber mill is
progressing rapidly. The foundation
is being laid, and the plant is ex-
pected to be in operation by the first
day of January.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
AND DRESSES.

p s. Farmer Syndicate. The line includes a variety of
stripes checks and fancy warranted pure silk, at
500 AND $500 CHILDREN's CIOAKS AT s29s
100 chdrens Coa ks made all wool cloakings various
y trimmed with braids; vevets and or two
of each style; 81 and $S value $208
500 AND $500 LADIES' KUBBER COATS $4.os
Splendid Butterod kain Coats in dark grey stripes and
plain cloths; $3.50. Value ...... -. S498
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
WOMEN'S READY TO WEAR GAR
MENTS AND MILLINERY AT
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY
PRICES.

The great crowds attending our
formal opening again demonstrates
our leadership as the Fashion Center
of Vicksburg Monday We inaugurate
a special Introductory price sale In
new fall suits, tailor made suits and
hats, showing a number of the new
est models we have had especially
made up for this occasion, our pur-
pose being to impress upon you the
advantage of buying your new fall
suit here and now.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16

SPECIAL ITEMS-SPECIALLY PRICED For THIS
ofENNU WEEK.
Beautiful line of highly mercerized colored Sateens
tractive designs In line with all satin finished cloths
fashion authorities declare be the coming cloth
zoe Value YARD .15c
lucky buy enables offer pieces 36-inch Fancy
Dress Goods usually retaed at 35c If you early
will get the first pick and be thankful you read this
this ad. Special va rd -. 80. .... :. .15c
1900 yards of Fancy Silks purchased through the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-16
NEW SERIES VOL. XVI,
ST. JOSEPH. La, FRIDAY. OCTOBER IS. 1908


Never history of the Valley
speaking
His
to reviewing We know will appreciate
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-07-16

The Democrats may as well give up
the East and confine their fight to the
Middle West and extreme Western
States Richmond Journal.
If you can conjure up a nationally
possible majority of the Electoral Col
lege out of that territory, you are clev-
erer at figures than this writer is. San
guine conjecture may work out the nee
essary aggregate from the South and
West, but measuring the prospects by
the test of calculation, abandonment
of the East spells certain Democratic
defeat. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
Here we have the honest judgment of
two of the ablest Democratic papers in
Virginia as to Mr.. Bryan's prospects
for election. OF course no Democrat
who thinks or can figure has any hope
Of electing Bryan. Occasionally one
meets an enthusiastic Bryanite who ex-
presses confidence in the chances of his
leader, but thinking men laugh when
they hear a person say that Bryan will
be elected.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-07-16
A Decade From Santiago.
Philadelphia Press.
be elected.


1t will be ten years tomorrow since
the American army made history at
Santiago. After the passing of dec
ade it is we'll to recall that excellent
days work at San Juan and Ell Caney.
What happened there then and what
has occurred since in Cuba, are among
the most creditable achievements of
this nation.
The United States engaged in that
war with Spain simply and solely to
hberate Cuba. There was no motive
beyond that and no thought of conquest.
And this country has stuck tenaciously
to its promise to the world that it would
not hold the island. The valor displayed
In storming Spanish blockhouses on
those three days in July, 1898, has not
been put to shame by subsequent events
nor has the good American blood that
flowed been shed in vain.
1t may be deemed curious that of all
that band of high-class fighting men
who conducted the Cuban and Philip
pine campaigns on land and water only
one has since risen to great distinction
In civil life. Lawton, Chaffe, Shafter.
Macarthur, Young, Hawkins, Ludlow,
Kent, Dewey, Sampson, Schley, Evans,
Clark and the others who served with
such great distinction, and whose names
and pictures were so familiar ten years
ago, never emerged from their military
and naval careers. Theodore Roosevelt
was the one conspicuous product in civil
life thrown out by that war.
The Revolution made Washington the
first President of his country and an i'm
mortal. The second war with England
produced Andrew jackson, created him
national hero and landed him in the
Presidency. The Mexican War made
its President out of General Taylor, who
except for that, would never have ap-
peared in history. The Rebellion gave
Ulysses S. Grant to the nation as a
President and to the world as one of its
great military captains.
Roosevelt is the only one who engaged
conspicuously in the fighting against
Spain, who, after ten years, has become
far more conspicuous in the broader
history of his country and the world.
But there are others whose names will
not be forgotten in American school
books, nor should they be.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-07-16

If one feels dull and spiritless, in the
spring or early summer, they call it
Spring Fever" But there is no fe-
ver-usually. 1t is the after effect of
our winter habits. The nerves are
mostly at fault. Tired WORKOUT nerves
leaves US languid, hfeless, and without
spirit or ambition. A few doses of DIR.
Shops Restorative will absolutely and
quickly change all of these depressing
symptoms. The Restorative of course
wont bring you back to full health in a
DAY or two, but it will do enough in 48
hours to satisfy you that the remedy is
reaching that Tired spot" Druggists
everywhere are advising its use as a
splendid and prompt general tonic. 1t
gives more vim and more spirit to the
spoonful than any other known nerve
or constitutional tonic. 1t sharpens
failing appetite, aids digestion, frees
sluggish hvers and kidneys, and brings
new life, strength and ambition. Test
It few days and he convinced. John
E. Jackson.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-07-16
IL Can't BE Beat.

The best of all teachers is experience.
c. M. Harden, of Silver City, North
Carolina, says: II find Electric Bitters
does all that's claimed for it. For Stom-
ach, Liver and Kidney trouble it can't
be beat l have tried it and find it a
most excellent medicine" Mr.. Harden
is right; it's the best of all medicine
also for weakness, lame back, and al
run down conditions. Best too for
chills and malaria Sold under guaran-
tee at Jackson's drug store. SOC.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-07-16

The Roanoke Evening World, writing
under the head Misrepresentation, -
says:
at is little singular that Republi-
cans and the Republican press persist
in charging the Democratic party with
advocating free trade.
Neither Mr.. Cleveland nor the
party, of which he was such an illus
trious representative, advocated free
trade. The Democratic party has
strenuously contended that the chief
source of revenue to meet the expenses
of government should be the tariff on
imports, and that this tariff should be
so regulated as to afford all needed pro-
lection to American products and Amer
lean labor"
We wonder what the Richmond
Times-Dispatch, the News Leader, the
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and the Peters
burg Index-Appeal, all of whom con-
tend that free trade is a cardinal doc
trine of the Democracy, will think of
this exposition of Democratic tariff
faith.
Our Roanoke contemporary is very
ill-informed as to the attitude of its
party on the tariff, as heretofore enun-
ciated in platforms and as expounded
by Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Bryan. The
platform of 1892, on which Mr.. Cleve-
land was elected President, declared for
tariff for revenue only; and he refused
to approve and sign the Wilson German
bill, because it did not conform to that
declaration in the platform. Mr..
Bryan, who was then in Congress, made
speech on the Wilson bill, which was
nearly free trade measure, and in his
speech advocated boldly the doctrine of
free trade He has just been nominat-
ed for the third time by the Democrats
as their candidate for President, and is
an avowed enemy to Protection in any
form.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-07-16
The Remedy That Does.

"Dr. Kings New Discovery is the
remedy that does the healing others
promise but fail to perform. says Mrs,
q. r. Pierson, of Auburn Centre, Pa. -
1t is curing me of throat and lung
trouble Of long standing, that other
treatments relieved only temporarily.
New Discovery is doing me so much
good that / feel confident its continued
use for a reasonable length of time will
restore me to perfect health" This
renowned cough and cold remedy and
throat and lung healer is sold at
Iackson's drug store. Soc. and 81. 90.
Trial bottle free.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-07-16
Uncle Remus.
Richmond Dispatch.

@SASAA-Oha AACc-AIlSDdJCu.
Joel Chandler Harris performed the
supremely difficult task of Interpreting
the spirit of a primitive and alien PEG.
pie. The negro has not lacked for
writers of his own race, notably, Dun
bar, who have attempted something of
this sort. But it remained for white
man, of the blood Of his 'ole marsters, 4"
to catch his traditions and his dreams,
all the quaint threads of his folklore.
and put them Immortality upon paper.
Mr.. Harris did this. He did it so
charmingly, so wildly and surely that
there was never any doubt about the
genuineness Of his genius. He was al
ways the maker of epics at work. You
knew from the beginning that it was
all just the way he told it. Children
loved him, and that means much. Old
history or fairy tales, it was all one to
them. The thing was that no one could
tell story quite like Uncle Remus.
So the old uncle's place at the hearth
side is empty, but his place on the book
shelf is fixed. There was q corner of
life not known to many, and he revealed
it, and Immortality is the crown that
writers get for that But more than
his fame is the new gladness he made.
To bring so much joy into so many
homes is destiny which fortune gives
to picked company only.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-07-16

There Is more catarrh In this section of
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For great
many years doctors pronounced it local
disease and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a consti-
tntional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured 10y f. J.. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only coustitu-
tional cure on the market. 1t is taken in
ternally in doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case It
fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials. Address:
F. ]. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.