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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-07
SCHOOL BOARD
PROCEEDINGS

Lafayette, La. April 2. 1908.
The Parish board of School Direc-
tors met this day with the following
members present: DR.. N. P. Moss,
president, DR.. G. A. Martin, Messrs.
Jasper Spell, Alex Delhomme, ST.,
J. H. Bernard and A. D. VerOt. Alb
sent: c.. C. Brown, A. Judice, and
Arthur Comeaux.
The minutes of the meetings of
March 5th, 9th and 18th, were read and
adopted.
The question of selecting a success
or to Supt. v. L. Roy was then dis
Cussed.
On motion by MI. Spell, seconded
by Mr.. Bernard, w. ]. Avery was
elected to fill the vacancy, ut a salary
of 1925 q month for the position of
superintendent and principal of
schools.
The secretary reported that he had
leased lots Nos. 9 and II of the school
Hand in the second ward to Baptiste
Lagneaux for $40. 30 each per year for
three years.
The secretary reported that in re-
Spouse to the second invitation to the
banks Of the parish to act IS fiscal
sgent for the School Board no bids
had been received.
A statement of the proceeds of the
sale for $50 of the old school house
at Pilette was submitted by Mr.. J. O..
Broussard, trustee and Principal
Alcibiades Broussard, showing a bal
ance of $19.37 due the School Board,
this being the balance after paying
for the construction of q fence around
the Pilette school grounds. On mo-
tion OF Mr.. Bernard, seconded by Mr..
verot, the above statement was ac-
cepted and the secretary vas instruct
cd to request the trustees to pay over
the balance of $19.37 to the School
Board.
MI. Spell submitted . statement
showing the names of forty children
In the Indian Bayou school commun-
ity Who have not had an opportunity
Of attending any school this ses-
sion.
Moved by Mr.. Spell, seconded by
Mr.. Verot, that provision be made
20 send these children to the new
ssline'' school in vermilion Parish as
soon as that school is opened. Car
ried.
On motion duly seconded and car
risd, the secretary was instructed to
have the bond Of Mr.. ]. E. Martin
cancelled BY the parish clerk of court
as treasurer OF the School Board.
Moved and seconded that the treas
urer b authorized to discount school
land notes maturing in 1908 and 1909
- may b necessary to meet current
expeneee Of the board. Carried.
The following statement Of school
1nuas was submitted By Mr.. v. L.
Roy for the time he was treasurer of
ehe Lafayette Parish School Board
Gtesotnent Of v. l. Roy, School
treasurer, for period from Feb. 10,
10oe. 70 March Is, 1908:
Receipts.
February 10.
AZ boI. from ]. e. Martin,
ex-treasursr .-........ : 1891 90
Rroeeeds Of sale Of 5 bonds 1895 90
State superintendent. Feb. OTIS 90
slns. On 18th Sec............ ia S.
.Eoal Faxes. lO6 90
4pocdnl Taxes. ...... RIO az
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-07
Notice.

The regular annual meeting OF the
stockholders of the Improvement Co.,
Ltd, will be held Wednesday, April
8. at 4 o. M, at the First National
Bank. for the purpose of electing .
Board of Directors. --
C. N. PATTERSON,
Secretary.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-07
Constable Sale.

Theodore Leblanc VS. Unknown Own
er-State Of Louisiana. Parish of
Lafayette, Third Justice Court.
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in advance.


Notice.
Notice is hereby given that after
April 10, all dogs found running at
large without a license tax will be
shot. A. E. CHARGOIS,
Chief of Police.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-07
A REGULAR
School of Telegraphy
Organized and Opened
at the
Southwestern Louisiana
Industrial Institute,
Lafayette, La.

We have succeeded in securing the
services of Mr.. John I. Hulse, now q
train dispatcher at Beaumont, Texas,
on the Sante Fe Railroad, to conduct
the School of Telegraphy, devoting
his entire time to this work, which will
begin December /, 1907.
The eight hour law, which will go
into effect January !, will require three
telegraph operators for all positions
where only two are snow sufficient.
Therefore the demand for operators
will be greatly increased. For several
years to come no telegraph operators
will ever be out of q job unless he
strikes.
Write to us about entering; also get
Q catalog of the Institute, with full in
formation concerning all departments.
We have q large brick main building
and two large brick dormitories, one
for each sex.
E. L. STEPHENS,
President.
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Aunt Priscilla frest her soul in peace
once said to me. Thomas, your easy
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Typical I 1oQN5HlNE STILL

CIR. The intruder VINO does not belong"
mus. give strict account of himself and
III he does not rrtrace his tracks in peace,
when so commanded, lie can depend upon
being handled roughly. To successfully
raid the lair of the moonshiner therefore
requires the combined skill of detective
Office and an army board of strategy.
After the revenue men have worked up
their cases they generally call upon the
United States marshal OF the district tor
aid III making the raid and deputy mar
shals are then enlisted for the battle.
Gathering evidence Is often the most
risky part oil the work. Any one who
points out an Illicit still TO the revenue
men receives a standing fee of $40 as
soon as his story is verined and with this
reward goes guarantee that the IN
former will never be betrayed, for if
there is one Individual who receives
shorter shrft from the moonshiner than
the revenue man himself IL is the spy
who aids him.
Brutal Treatment of Spies.
The informer can always count on
death. but not always upon dissolution
free from torture and brutality. One
Roper. lately suspected spy, was
captured by posse of mountaineers and
thrown down a well ifty-nve feet deep.
After lie reached the bottom he received
"A fusilladc Of bullets. being wounded
twice in the head. Bat his wounds did
not prove fatal and after suffering the
aeonies of the damned for three whole
days he was rescued by friends who had
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r1ooN5F4lNER fANDCUFFEDa ssse STILL PEpFuRArEp

come to recover his body. They nursed
him back to life and at last accounts he
in good health.
There is good profit in moonshining as
long it lasts. Out of corn and mo-
lasses mash costing about 81 30 can be
distilled forty gallons Of whisky. sold at
81 per gallon. or for total of $50. Even
greater profit is made by moonshiners
who cheap brown sugar instead of
molasses. The stills secret agents pay
the keeper % cents for each pint taken
away. afterward selling for 30 cents, or
at a profit of 100 per cent. OF course. the
big profit for both dstiller and miduie-
man is made possible by the evasion OF
the heavy internal revenue tax.
A Fortune in Moonshine.
fortune of 100000 is said to have
been made in moonshine by Wayne
Gooch. King of the Moonshiners" who
some months ago pleaded guilty of Illicit
distilling He owns thousands OF acres
of land in Mecklenburg county, Va,
where for years he secretly operated a
still of 600 gallons capacity lie kept an
armed guard around his big estate and
he personally helped to keep inuuisitiye
neighbors off his land by riding around
the outskirts of the place at night armed
to the teeth and firing his rife into the
air. The revenue men lowered about the
premises a full year before getting evil
denca. After successfully ia ding the big
still they got ~ court order for its con-
fiscation and destruction.
The metallic parts Of a coutiscated still
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SOUTH

mountain women. armed with rifles and
big pistols. ran from the adjacent hous.
and surrounded the plant. They deffed the
deputy 10 make an arrest or DESTROY the
still, but IL rushed past them and COM
mencec breaking tGe apr&-a ttls with his
AK. instantly the mountain a,naZoms fcu
upon him and tore nearly all of Ills cloth
ing from his body. He seized his revolver
ana, running 10 a ueiChboring cliff fired
several shots. The WON IN thinking these
were from the guns of an approaching
posse. fed through the undarbrusil MAYS
although practically nude. completed the
destruction Of the still. and in his Adamit.
condition fed through the mountains 10
the house Of a friend. who lent him some
clothes.
II the mountains Of this same county
Mrs. Adeiiae Rose successfully engaged
III moonshiaiEg for. seventeen years until
arrested asst May. when only thirtS-fiye
years old and tie mother of eight chill
dren. Daring all of that tilne sh lad
eluded the revenue officers and Struggled
the product of the Still to market Her
husband was killed by his brother-in-law
in one of the famous Kentucky feuds,
and after his death an abandoned wife
who was jealous of Mrs Rose jumped
from 4 cliff into river. where she WAS
rescued. only to spend the remainder Of
her days a maniac. AT last Aaeine
was betrayed by an accomplish wLo went
to jail for killing his sweetheart she
was sentenced 10 six months I'm iqi' and a
fine OF 81 e3r. bit some weeks ago Press
ident Roosevelt pardoned her.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
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brought up the rear
] realized that | was prisoner a de-
fenseless prisoner in the hands of fifty
clubwomen. That they were ignorant
of their prey but gave new pangs to my
terror lest sneeze or cough on my part
should betray me.
Through the large meshes of the por-
there's / could command an extensive view
of the room. Miss Virginia evidently
thought l had escaped, for she looked
quiet and composed. Myras eyes were
wandering to my set of portieres. and a
wicked glee played on her features. Was
she thinking of the Marble Faun, or had
she seen me-
! was glad when a sharp rap of the
gavel brought silence Miss Flint took
advantage OF it and called the roll There
was Mrs. Brown. the president. Yes, she
had presence. There was no doubt of it.
After the reading of the minutes Mar
ella arose and addressed the chair.
Madame President, she said, and
paused.
Silence. Mrs. Brown famed uncon-
cernedly. Miss White leaned toward Mrs.
Brown and whispered nervously, "Recog-
nize her."
Il recognize Marcia calmly retorted
the hitherto undisputed leader of Pleas
ureville society.
Miss White coughed apologetically.
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are punched full of holes BY the revenue
men. as shown in the ACCOMPANYING snap
shot. below the handcuffed moonshiner
lin shirt sleeves The barrels found to
contain finished whisky are chopped to
pieces and the contents are allowed to
flow over the ground
The largest moonshine still recently
destroyed had a capacity of 800 gallons
1t was located in the woods eight miles
east of Eatonton. Ga. and the chief oper
ator was white man known as wild
Bill The plant was hidden along the
border OF a big creek. where a large up
right steam boiler formed part of the
distilling outfit and great quantities of
liquor flowed into the creek when the
revenue men used their axes in demolish-
ing the plant.
The smallest still ever confiscated by
the revenue men. and lately sent to the
Treasury Department. was found to con-
sist merely of a gallon can. a quart can
and n small copper coil connected to the
cap of the quart vessel and passing
thence to the larger. The corn from
which the mash was made was carried in
bottles by the operator. a parpatetic
moonshiner who lussed the little still in
his valise through the thirst zones of
Georgia.
A moonshiner who had successfully
eyaded the revenue man for forty years
was recently captured at the age of
eighty-two This was Henry KimbIe a
farmer who in .Smokehole," Pendleton
county. w Va. was found to be operat-
ing d sixty-gallon still
Two coal prospectors captured by moon.
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Copyright. 1905. by John Elfre,h Watkins,

Copyright 1905 by John Elfreth Watkins4
~ONGRESS is asked to authorize
the Secretary of the Treasury
to pay the hospital and doctors
~ bills of internal revenue agents
wounded in raids on. moonshners.
Mocnshning. the fraudulent dis
tillinE of whisky. is growing with
the spread of the temperance move
nent in the south. The internal revenue
bureau of the Treasury Department ex-
pends tens of thousands of dollars a
wear in keeping tab on keepers of Illicit
stills Filed away in its office is a long
blacklist of suspected moonshiners and
detailed maps of the moonshine districts
David A Gates chief of its special
agents, Is daily at work upon plans of
attack upon the mountain strongholds of
these desperadoes. The little army under
his command are perpetually in danger
of their lives and are constantly incur
ring serious injuries. Yet they are COM
nellad to pay the physicians who dress
their wounds. railways which trans
mort them TO the hospital and the hospi-
AL i;self-all OF these expenses out OF
heir own pockets.
Neither Rob Roy nor the outlaw Doones
were more systematically defended than
are the typical moonshiners of our
southern mountains and forests. Zach
fastness hiding a still is encircled Tor "A
radius of miles by watchers who signal
one 10 another the approach Of stranS-
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why not?' l demanded Miss Virginia
was almost weeping.
'Why-why did l let Marcia persuade
me to join this club and get into all this
trouble?"
You might resign / suggested Miss
Virginia shook her head dejectedy.
Il oughtn't to be a coward and
thought to keep myself in the line of
progress, Marcia says
Line Of fiddlesticks.' said l.
Miss Virginia's voice dropped. I'm
l m afraid / do let Marcia manage me; but
she is so up-to-date and am so hopeless
~ oldfashioned.''
There are no fashions so sweet and SO
true as. the old fashions said /. stoutly.
do you think 80. colonel,'' Miss Viz
sinia frightened visibly.
And no ladies so perfect as the old
fashioned ladies, and remember" l con-
tinued galantly--for | felt very young
oldfashioned hoses are the sweetest.
Miss Virginia.
The conversation had reached this thrill
ing climax when there came upon the
spring air sound as of flying, chattering
blackbrds
The club exclaimed Miss Virginia
"Where?" l asked, apprehensively.
AT the front door, whispered Miss
Virginia. IF you don't wish to run the
ganflet. colonel. You might go out the
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front of the store talking to Marcia and
finding imaginary punctures in the tire of
her wheel. The telephone bell rang
"Escott seems to have gone deaf out
there growled old Barton. Colonel, will
you answer the Telephone"
but the next instant almost dropped it, for
Miss Virginias voice was breathing in
my ear: tom, is that your
Yes" l answered. truthfuly.
t-y-o-n-i-c?"
l told her.
And, Tom. wait minute: how do you
pronounce A-l-c-m-a-e -o-n-i-d-a-e?"
/ mumbled something.
II can't hear you. Speak louder, and,
Tom. are you there"
Yes"
I'm getting very nervous. Tom. Do
you think you could run around here for
just five minutes and go over these
names with me again?''
ITO be sure I could said l.
You are dear boy" gently
THANK YOU warmly.
"And hurry, Tom; the club and Marcia
will be here in a quarter of an hour
Aunt Priscilla crest her soul in peace)
once said to me- Thomas your easy-
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Hearts and Clubs.
The Place of the American Man.

side door, and she pointed hastily to the
left. then turned TO the hallway TO meet
her guests
l saw two pairs of por;ieres- Which
covered the door? There was not time to
ask. for the enemy was upon me. \
phalanx of chairs separated me from one
pair of portieres. / darted between the
other pair to come into violent collision
with something cold. hard. tal--yes ii was
the Marble Faun. There was room for both
OF us bat none to spare. ! put the statue
against the wall. sat upon its pedestal
and noppcd my ciammy brow
Chatter, chatter. chatter Rustic. rus
tie. rustic. Like the waves of a restless
sea. the petticoats flowed into the room.
Myra Gait with her rowing. wicked eyes.
led,> and Marcia, handsome. literal Marcia.
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going. accommodating disposition some
day will get you into trouble.
Little did dream that this early predic-
ton was about to fructify when ! entered
the Talbot garden. A mingled fragrance
of hyacinths and tulips filled the air. and
felt young, very young, when l was
ushered into the long. old-f shioned draw
ing room.
She was dressed in gray. was dear Miss
Virginia, and she was standing by a table
on which were bowls of purple and white
lilacs. The room was filled with chairs
placed as if for private funeral From
Miss Nirginias face she might have been
judged to be chief mourner
1T was I at the telephone l an
nounced. boldly, so l came around"
You. gasped Miss Virginia. "Oh.
Col Scott
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Hang ii. colonel burst forth Tom.
finally. I'm no good at siding up TO
things Have YOU got any books on an
cient Greece
Amy number of them" 1 said.
Tom cheered visibly. Thank heaven
he calculated. Miss Virginia's got
paper to write about the ancient Greeks,
and she won't ask Marcia to help her. and
she keeps popping questions at me until
feel perforated. l want to stand in with
her-well-you see, she is Marcias aunt,
colonel and
Not another word, my boy; the books
are yours
April the 18th was a beautiful day. too
beautiful to spend in the drug store yet
there / was that memorable afternoon
idly watching while old Barton filled a
prescription. Tom Escott was out in
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rloONsI1lNEa CHALLENGING INTRUDER

ties attempted to arrest her. but she fed
INTO South Carolina and lust as they
came upon her She gave a peculiar cry.
Which brought a cavalcade of rescuers
from the mountains The deputies. al
though frightened off this time caught
her later and on each Of her three days
IN court she appeared in II different cos
tune. gaudy in the extreme
Another woman found to be operating
an Illicit still some time before this upon
a mountain near Marshall n c. could
not be taken to jail because she weighed
BOO pounds. and there was no way to
transport her down the steep mountain
slope. About the same time the fedora
commissioner at Greensboro. Ky, wired
Washington for permission to hold court
IN the open air in order to try one Jane
Wolsey, moonshiner weighing 499
POUNDS. and who was too fat to squeeze
through the courthouse door,
Clothes Torn by Enraged Women.
\ party of mountain women defending
still in Jackson county KY. lately gave
Deputy United States Marshal William
Mays more excitement than he had bar
gained for in destroying moonshine
plant. Mays had heard that one Gibson
was running still on Bull creek. Jack
son county. Slipping cautiously through
the forest. he worked his way to a clear
ing, where he discovered the still Glib
son was away at the time. and just as
Mays started for the still the party of
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sinners had an exciting experience lately
in the Kentucky mountains. according to
Il revenue man who has been visiting
Washington. These men. j. w. Thomas
and c. w. Jameson of Chicago, had pene-
trated the Cumberland to "a point near
Harzar. Ky. when the mountaineers,
mistaking them for revenue men. captur-
ed them and carried them to a cave where
a moonshine still was hidden Here the
moonshners with grim humor set the two
surprised men to work in aiding the
illicit business which it was supposed
they had been sent to suppress.
Woman Moonshiners Giving Most
Trouble.
Woman moonshiners have lately been
giving the revenue officers more trouble
than have the men of this desperate class.
Betsy Simms, a giantess and great
beauty who, although only twenty-five.
has for six years avaded the revenue men
who have watched her along the line be-
tween the two Carolnas, was lately cap
tured by three deputies. whom she gave a
long and exciting chase. Sent TO Jail al
Raleigh for four months. she set fire to
door in the prison. and. being sought
by the jaiier just she was about to
escape, she promptly stabbed him with
knife. but after desperate struggle lie
overpowered her and locked her in another
cell Two months previously she had sold
nine barrels of ruoonshine within sight of
the South Carolina line. The three depu-
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o IN
spread
the
the
itself bond
the of all the districts Sumter
With upodate road
machinery will of road
cond
considerable Economical machinery is
machinery
a the would be
il
than
would
this Inasmuch
that the Commissioners would
upbuidng the
Jetterm of surrounding the
residing districts of
the
of additional
ballot
be used practical
direct immediate benefit
different
will directly
would
vigorously conditions will permit
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THE TERRIBLE BURDEN BAD ROADS ENTAIL

How much money actually by
because
rut roads roads that hill
impossible in bad weather and hard
farmers of Sumter dollars
in actual due
money
a bar to hindrance development
recently interesting article on what poor
roads the
bills in
entail
experiences knows that in the course
lifetime
been saved if he hal had well kept roads which his
of good of important confronting
the millions
expended probable country would
making years vastly different
Discussing the subject
crops
ps Pa b Aeda s am al parts OF an the ma of @
then the price in this land of the free for having impossible
the News With lying and
ahome before the of our foreign critics. what monstros injustice
and the going on The Unted States
o how make the best sS & the sas SOS 600
her a ago g no c n vftog d gGae at thnt
prove the roads leading out into the farming region; the farmers are
nen phanthrots BY
m n6 are o% ge aed 0n and nePe s
b "6odp 6s b ow nfd6 nave Oeen MADE ne
Some Of the last deserve attention Macadam roads have long
OF the 0d f9d6 W.T." so GOO crushed e NeW Bss n
found that three four inches will DO quite as well and the cost
has been found that the clay that makes the roads
yet other regions farmers good roads
places clay 5000 $500
is varied
around nearly
terprise for a genera
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PRINT LEGISLATORS RECORDS.

Should any of the legislators be in
clined to whitewash the convict lease
system, or to get cold feet" in any
way in dealing with the question, the
Atlanta Georgian has informed them
that it has the records of every legis-
lator who is interested in the lease of
the convicts.
1t is fortunate for the state that the
Georgian is ready with the evidence
to publish which would show the self
interest behind many of the members
of the legislature who are opposing
the change. This is the club which
was needed to absolutely cinch the
death of the lease system The spot
light is not very pleasant neighbor
for the man with a skeleton in his
closet. Civic righteousness has reach
ed such a delightful level that leg
islator's constituents are apt to be
very inquisitive, impertinently so
legislator would doubtless feel who
had betrayed his trust.
When the Georgian permitted the
legislators little peep into its hand
Wednesday, the guilty ones no doubt
quaked in their boots and it is to
be hoped realized that the jig was
up.
The Georgian gives a hint as to
what may happen in the following
language:
We have brought as few names of
citizens into it as was possible and
tried to save Georgia the odium of
telling the world of the interest some
of her lawmakers have in this momen-
tous disgrace, but we give this word
of warning to the advocates of the
system: So sure as an effort is made
to perpetrate this course on Georgia
we shall be compelled to print the
convict lease history of every inter-
ested member of the legislature, and
we probably have it nearly complete
The public will not further toler-
ate any influence that tends to perpe-
trate disgrace and graft in connection
with our convict system, and those