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The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-09-11

Fred Cameron expects to open
his billiard room and bowling
alleys for business about next
Wednesday. No expense has been
spared u make this resort first.
class.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-09-11

Jesse Go6, formerly in the ON.
ploy Of L. L. Fassett, arrived in
town Thursday on a few weeks
visit with his brother n. A. Golf.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-09-11
Fassett's Store News.
BY FAssETrs DEPARTMENT STORE

1T better ssad cheap boqust living today than
tons q either white red place
dead"
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-09-11

II costs just - much 70 produce
. pound Of BEST - Il docs q pound
Of butter fat and tho best brings 70
the producer only six cents .
pound while the fat 10 worth
thirty cents and better 70 him.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-09-11

John d. Heilman will resume
fruit shipments from Farming.
ton, N. NJ. a. soon - tho railroad
10 opcn for business.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-09-11

b. o. Clevsnger, Of Chesterfield.
Ind, 10 expected here In n fcw
weeks To visit his friend, Dr..
Trueblood.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1909-09-11

Miss Edna Nelson has been absent
from the store this week on account of
sickness.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-20
Weather and Crop Notes.

This section vas visited By rain,
wind aud thunderstorm last Sunday
night lat did no harm TO crop pros.
poets, whatever might have been It's
effect upon trees. fences and other
structures not firmly rooted to the
soil. The rainfall at Evan Hall
plantation, where careful and accurate
meteorological data are recorded the
year round, measured 80 inches, but
the clear spell hat succeeded the storm
soon put the ground again in excellent
trim forsresumiug the work OF cane
planting, which is now nearly finished
on mos. Ascension plantations.
According to current reports, plant.
ing was concluded at the St. Emma
place last Monday and at New Hope
about the same time. Palo Alto,
Souvenir, Evan Hall and other vest
bank plantations were expected to
wind up this week, and it is doubtful
if there will be any seed implanted in
this parish by the close Of the coming
week.
--latest accounts regarding the con-
dition of the seed cane are virtually
Identical with those cited in this cor
respondence a week ago, showing a
range from Indifferent to very good,
with al average that leaves little cause
for complaint. A slight shortage is
noted on some places. but in most in
stances the supply Of sound seed is
sufficient to effect a satisfactory plant
ing for the coming crop.
ST. Emma had a surplus OF plant
cane and was enabled to sell enough
to Riverside to plant fifty or sixty
acres, and the transfer of the pur-
chased product in carts has been
effected without difficulty over the
fairly good roads that connect the
two plantations.
]. Emile Leblanc, manager of Evan
Hall, made business trip to New Or
leans this week. but didn't find that
it would be necessary to remain in the
city until after Mardi Gras, as SO
many country folk are won't to do at
the carnival season.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-20
Registered Vote Of DonaldsonYiile.

In compliance with the terms of the
Louisiana primary law, the Office OF
the registrar of voters was closed
Thursday afternoon in so far as con
Germs the registr alton Of voters of the
town of Donaldsonville, it being ten
days before the date Of the Democrats
municipal primary election TO be held
on Monday, March /. T. A Leblanc,
deputy registrar Of voters, yester
day gave out the following as the total
registered vote Of the city: Third ward,
100 Democrats, Republicans and 2
neutr al, making total of 10. Second
ward, 81 Democrats, 2 Republicans, !
Independent ard / neutral, making q
total Of l01. First ward, 81 Democrats
and ) Republicans, making a total Of
q. Total registered vote, 298. OF which
700 are Democrats, s Republicans, /
independent and neutral.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-20
Meetlng 81 neinoer atlc Parish c.onnllItee.

The Democratic parish executive.
committee met at the conrthone atnoor5
last sund az, Chairman II. G. Braud
presiding, for the purpose of passing
upon the notifications OF candid aey
submitted by the various as.
piran6s for the municipal Offices of the
town Of Donaldsongille. TO be voted
for at the Democratic primary election
to be held on March Following is
a list of The candidates and the offices
to which they aspire: Mayor, G. Kline,
Chas. Maurin. Secretary. Glen. Mol.
lere, Robert Henderson. Treasurer,
JOS. N. Gisclard. Collector. h. A
Terrio, Wilfred Gaigou. Chief Of pc
lice. FL. SchafT, Sr Robert 81. Dill.
Aldermen, Two TO be elected: First
ward, j as. Won Lotten, Alex. Bloom
enstiel. Frank Milano; second ward,
DIR. TIL. Hanson, ID. Israel,
J. Schroeder, d. Ohimeyer: third ward,
3. e. Blum, w. d. Park, E. d. Mel
aIcon. Members Of Democratic mum
cipal committee, two TO 5e selected:
First ward, ID. b. Doran, e. CALLER,
Lucien Acosta, e. A. Leblanc: seconU
ward, J. R. Duke, B. j. Vega, r..
Chauvin; third ward, Adolphe Meter
e G, W aIheR; at large, three to be
selected ], Dr., Clarence Goette. 3. +.
Trepagnler. W alter Lemann, J asmir
Tobias.
JOS. n. Gisclard. having no opposi
ton for the Office of treasurer, was
declared the nominee, and Messrs
Meter and Wathen, having no oppo
sition for members OF the Demoer atit
municipal committee from the third
ward, were declared elected.
Wednesday, March 10, was designa
ted asthed ate for the holding ola Demo
cratic primary In the sixth ward tt
nomin ate a candidate for police juror
to succeed Rosemond Braud, resigned
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-20
4 Tempest ina Tean0f.

But for the amount Of newspaper
space devoted to it, the rumpus stirred
up over Miss Bogson,s essay on Gen
al.al Robert g. Lee would pass unao
iced. A careful reading Of The ESSAY
demonstrates that the criticisms aimed
at It are utterly unfounded. The onI5
passages designated as Objectionable
are quotations inserted for the express
purpose Of showing the earlier and
now abandoned estimate of Lee by
northern writer's.
But granting that all said by these
self.constituted guardians of the repu
5ation of Genera al Lee be true, the rule
they seek to apply would condemn the
literary exeelleEee of the most bril-
liant OF Macanlay s. essays as we'll as
Of his history of England. The atti
tude and exhibition is so childish and
silly as to be nartify Ing. No one
living can be more mortified thar
would be General Lse himself were he
alive b witness this inexeusable
fare up.
The incident seems. however. to
point moral. When will our south
ern people learn that the truth will
never be vindieated by noise and call
ing Of names and personal abuse 81
those whose words and actions We
dtsapprava. The truth of southern
history is TO be = Indieated like ali
other history, BY the calm, dlspas
sIonate embodiment Of actual facts in
langu age simple, clear and attractive.
Proofs marshal II readable form
carry conviction and establish If.
Sophomore rhetoric and rhod0moI-
tade are no more convincing Or last
ing than the noise and snIphurous
stencil Of dreerackers.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-20
Don t forget to register.
The Panama Canal is All Right


The people of the United States need
have no apprehension as to the salts
factory progress towards safe and
sure completion of the great Panama
Canal, and sensational reports to the
contrary may be henceforth ignored
and relegated TO the junk pile OF ex-
ploded fairy tales
THE dust and the rubbish OF things forgot,
Vim. Fl. Taft, an American citizen
not unknown to fame and man whose
word is his bond, has just completed
a personal inspection OF the canal
work from Colon on the eastern shore
Of the isthmus to the city Of Panama
on the western shore. Ia a speech TO
large gathering of canal employees
and members of the Isthmian Red
Cross Society at Panama on the 4th
instant, Mr.. Taft declared that the
present condition OF the work ard the
progress made were q source Of great
satisfaction TO him, ard that the en-.
gineers who accompanied him had
been impressed with the organization
and spirit ofenergy prev ailing through
out the entire force.
The American people are going to
bald the canal said Mr.. Taft.
Congress knows the temper of the
people, and the appropriations will be
ample to complete the canal By 1915,
Il not before. z
Coming from such a source this
emphatic declaration is entitled to be
accepted as authoritative, and public
opinion IN The United States will SO
regard it.
Il may be added that the distin-
gnished engineers who went across
the isthmus with Mr. Taft and care
fully examined the work already done
and the plans Of that yet to be done,
unanimously concur Ii the Judgment
and opInioa Of the president-eIeee that
the canal is being constructed along
proper lines and will Be finished ID
due time.
Therefore, dear reader. set II down
as sure pop representation that
Uaela Sam will have his Panama
Canal open for business II lg15If
not before.
.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-20
Caa,t Keep sfore 8 I;IlolIt L.

Arthur BlouIn, . veil known cit
izsn and merchant Of Lasourche par
ISL, sends Us bis check for the amount
of two years subscription and accom-
paslies The remittance with the state
ment ehat foNnler AseensionEte
CAM do without the jacksonville
Che. & 8 Is scarcely necessary to
remark that Sc indorse that remark
with ING allied appreciation and m
limited enth as
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-20
Testing the New state Liquor Law.

District Judge Frank D. Chretien
Of New Orleans rendered a decision
this week IN a case involving ore oil
the most important OF the points at
issue relative to the construction and
effect Of the law enacted at the last
session Of the Louisiana general as
sembIy for the control and licensing
of the retail liquor traffic in thisistate.
The main contention in the suit de
cided by Judge Chretien is that the
restrictive and prohibitive provision
of the new law which declares that a
saloon cannot be located within 300
feet OF a church or school, does not
apply to or effect such saloons as
were established and doing business
prior to the enactment OF the law IN
quest N.
Z is contention is fully sustained
by The learned judge, who says that
any other Interpretation would be Civ
ing the law retrospective and re
troaetive effect in violation OF the con-
stitutional prohibition against such
legislation. Judge Joshua G. Baker,
who sat en- banc with Judge Chretien
during the trial OF the suit, agrees
entirely with the latter's views, fact
| which strengthens the presumption
that the decision is well grounded and
will be affirmed by the supreme court.
District Attorney Adams of Orleans
parish has taken suspensiVe appeal
to thai tribunal, and the great impor-
lance of an early settlement Of the
question at issue will doubtless impeI
all commemorative iitigants, the attor
neys and the eourt-to reach defn.
Tive determin alton OF the suit as soon
as practicable
Judge Chretien did not pass upon
the disputed point as to whether the
300 feet distance between new saloons
and churches or schools should be
measured in an ir-line or otherwise,
hence that must remain an open ques-
ton until judieially determined in
some other litig alton; and the same is
true OF the third contention to which
the Gay Shattuek law has given rise,
namely, that the provision prohibiting
any but American citizens from en-
gaging in the retail liquor business is
vfolative of the constitutional and
treaty rights and privileges accorded
to foreign residents of the United
States.
There is just as much room for diff
ference of legal and lay opinions on
these two undecided points as there
was with regard to the one passed up
on By Judge Ghretien with the concur
renee of Judge Baker. Attorney Gea-
era1 Guion and other capable lawyers
believe that the air-l line should be fol
lowed IN determining the distance be-
tween saloons and churches or schools.
City Attorney Gilmore of New Or
leans and other capable lawyers think
the ordinary line q person would
travel IN going from aHe point to the
o5her should be the basis of measure
ment, and representative Shattuck,
one Of the authors Of the new law, is
among those who hold the latter view.
We have heard able attorneys express
the opinion that the discrimination
against foreign citizens contemplated
by the Gay Shattuek act will not hold
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-20

Reg Ister or ron can vote.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-20

A circumstantial account of an au
tomobile accident at Tarpon Springs,
Fla. in which William Jennings
Bryan, the habitual presidential can
didate, was said to have Eesn pain
fully iolted and bruised, appeared il
the newspapers some days ago, and
much regret and sympathy we're fell
throughout the country for the sui
ferer, coupled with q general sentiment
of thankfulness that the mishap was
no worse. It now transpires that Mr..
Bryan lectured at j Jacksonville the
evening following the alleged accident
and denied that be had been seriously
bruised. or that he had been in an al
toms bile, or that he had been at Tar.
pom Springs; and his appearance al
the lecture proved that he was not In.
jured either on the leg or in the voice.
The New Orleans Times Democrat
With thesat MINI
amendments the story can be accepted
as probably true.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-20
ra,ils f,soo.x, a native Of ST. j anss

Fmiie I,snoux. native of ST. James
Yar5si1. Blt a. resident of Ascension
fnr nuwsrd8 Of IS years, died at his
home ind barrow on Thursday at, the
18th ms, aged s. years. His remains
were bought TO Donaidsonville yes
ferf ay forenoon and Inferred ia the
Gafhaic cemetery, after services at
the lnurch of the Ascension. MIR.
T.anex is survived by his wife, two
Il anS1ters, Mesd ames Nieolle Mar
ch al and adam Foret, and ore son,
R,oprt Lanoux, the well-knoWn Oar.
roystableman. To these eff c5ed ones
Th Chief tenders assurances of sim
ee sympathy.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-20

Tbs ground hog saw his shadow on
Feb. 2 and scuttled back into his hole,
hence there is going to be more cold
weather. hefore the advent of spring.
According to the legend that has wo-
ven itself around the ground hog, If
this little animal sees his shadow on
Feb. 2. when he energies from his hole
after bis winters Information, he
knows there is going to be more cold
weather aud retires tohis subterranean
domicile for a period of six weeks,
IF he does not see his shadow, be
knows the weather will be fair and
prepares TO make his exit from mother
earth in order to welcome the com
Ing Of spring.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-02-20

The first street pageant OF the car
rgal season in New Orleans was that
the Knights of Menus Thursday
light. The subject of Signs and
Superstition" was beautifully por.
rayed by seventeen tableaux, the last
aoat bearing the appropriate title of
-.s,22s3- Skiddoo.n The arrival of Rex
Nnday afternoon, the pageant of the
JeTe OF Protens Monday night, the
" parade Of Rex on Tuesday and
e pageant and ball Of the Mystic
Arewe of Comns Tuesday night prom
4se TO be as attractive as any OF their
predecessors, and the railroad agents
declare that indications point TO
record aking crowd of visitors TO
enjoy these events.
Blue-grass blade., 1909-09-26
BLUE GRASS BLADE.

thoritative revelation of salvation
Zone peculiar of situation that, the
past the deroye of the Faith have commonly been of
the world outside of churches today they inside the churches
LEADERS in great scholastic aposasy ntrenched in the fore
positions of power its pupits its press homes,
its educational institutions and its theological Summaries,
poisoning all the springs of its life
ask what the springs of life of Faitha Are they
superstition tradition emotion and desire Imagine if you
scientific investigation poisoning the mind against the springs
OF truth.
of Christian superstition,
the Roman Catholic everpresen with protest against sup
planting anauaed doctrines with modern ideas
We still find her claiming marriages
made in heaven and therefore, ndissoube She still pro
claims that her god the chief matrimonial agent for the
world and vehemently disputes that he miserable failure
the Office the face of the pfu and unhappy
unions she must every day.
The orthodox people of today, holding the Of church,
find much pleasure in empyng themselves of long and loud
dscouses about liberty mental freedom freedom Of Speech
and the right to worship according to the dictates of ones
that they that worship They
will grant relgious liberty long
is willing worship in way their god But what
happens if one cannot worship or
a god? He is shamefuly denounced and vifed by
being called by all the aumnous ephes their Christian minds
manufacture.
Happily broken The
today only passing clouds of superstition shadowng the
shining of Reason Just months learned of
the New York Pesbyery ordanng Rev. George A. Fitch
who denied the historical identity OF Adam and Eve the
birth of Christ the resurrection of the saviour the raising
of This by of Presbyterians
yet decided which side devil was working
during the casting of the Only recently heard of the
Connecticut State Legislature passing Sunday statute
intended to suppan the old law which has been force since
1922 Connecticut blue laws" always disgrace the
State stood at oodtd with Christian sentiment but they
being supplaned by statutes which would have been
sdered nfde in spirit had they been enacted in the 18th
century, We find the great State of Pennsylvania hotbed Of
Presbyterianm recently enacng law putting Freethnke
equal footing with Christians giving testimony court
which nothing less than confession from Christian
legislators that they longer consider Feehnker sect of
liars, and that they convinced tell the truth
without believing the supernatural We also learn of France
striking God from her oaths Friends let say you
that every written the books admission
that the socaed divine laws inadequate for the governing
of
Yes with at time all the world against battling
with sword and statute, fire and dungeon making rapid
strides toward the goal of ambition 1t is true, the
Bible League has stated its resolution of protest. that the
desroye Of the Faith who inside the churcheseaders
great scholastic apoasy intrenched in the posi-
Blue-grass blade., 1909-09-26

dam the many.
The Rev. Newell Dwight Hills Pastor of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, his "The Influence of Christ Modern Life
which elaborate apology for the of his colleagues and
Christianity in general, says
'Chrsian evolution has also changed idea of
Slowly undermining the old view of the fall that each
Aristotle the ruins of Adam, substituting, instead,
beginning low and state and under the povi
Dental oversight of God, slowly moving upward refine
ment, culture and character
This evolutionary view, which Hills at
tempted to throw Christian VEIL puroned from the science
that acknowledges god This view of the Rev. Hills is
nfde in character shows him having responded the
working laws OF evolution, standing mentally free head
and shoulders above his colleagues teaching doctrines directly
in opposition the fundamental principles of Christianity The
Rev. Hills says further:
GAS the nfante life develops, it enters into and
through the likeness of each lower animal ourneyng
upward carries with it the special grace and gift of each
creature that is left behind sometimes bone muscle
ganglon, until the exceences of all the lower animals
compacted in man. little body Many organs useful in the
found only in documentary form
says the body contains seventy vesga like
the vermfOrm appendix Indeed the human body like
old curiosity shop of obsolete anaomes and out
Take the theory that has risen from
lower animal condition, and these unused have abo
uey explanation With such facts befoes it is foolish
to assert that is not related to the animal creation to
assert that the ferns marked in the coal strata and the fishes
found in the layers of rocks throw light upon the events of
geology Strangely enough unwilling to believe that
body progressively through animals
quite willing believe that he created it Immediately from
cod in the Garden of Eden
Friends the Rev. Hills has uttered basphemy pure and sim
pe but like most basphemy, it is truth No doubt the Rev.
Hills breaches to people who read and awake to the
trend of thought and investigation He breaches
congregation who will tolerate the ignorant doctrine of the
Christian past They pay him preach the and uptodate
and he conform their ideas Behold The Spirit of the
Times has aroused the seeper the out of their umbe
and they debating to the pulpit debating to
the ambassadors Of god This decided contrast The circuit
rider who has congregation of dormant minds and breaches
he peases, giving them hell fire and birthstone morning.
and night But the preacher who talks about hell fire,
Miracles ghosts and immaculate conceptions matters of fact
is about CO. Soon he will only be found preserved in
glass marked, ga species Of the Christian
kypo extinct existing late the early of the
twentieth century, who preached damnaion for the many and
eternal happiness for the few
Mr. Harold Boce series of articles which recently
peared in the Cosmopolitan magazine has shown that the pro-
fesors great universities and colleges have thrown off
The Washington times., 1909-03-23
NATIONAL MUNICIPAL
CONGRESS IS PLANNED
District Officials and Trade Bodies viii Call Conference
in Connection With Civic Exhibition to
Be Held In May.

II is now practically settled that the
exhibit viii not be held at the ChamDer
Of Commerce, as the space there VIII
not be sufficient to accommodate the
large crowds. Arrangements VIII De
made at once looking toward the Secuf-
ing of a theater or public hall
That the movement IS to meet Win
local support was decided yesterday
afternoon at meetings Of the directors
and the executive committee Of the
Board of Trade, when a resolution 10
raise 800 WAS adopted.
At the meeting OF the board OF dIITt-
tors the proposition was explained by
William -. GUIDE and Scott G Bone ana
occupied more than an hOur OF uISCu9
sion. The executive committee Went
into session immediately upon adjourn
ment of the board of directors, and II
was decided to secure the $50 by SUD
scriptiOn. More than $50 Of the required
amount was pledged right away ana
steps viii be taken today TO secure me
remainder.
In addition to making the appropria--
| ton, the executive committee appOlHtCu
junction with the committee or the
Chamber OF Commerce The Dody Is
composed of Scott {. Bone, John JoJ
Edison. and George II. Harries. A Jolnt
me citing of the two committees VIII
probably be called today or tomorrow
convene ABOUT May 10.
The exact date Of the convention has
not been determined, hut It will prob
ably begin May 16, when the exhibit
comes, and last a week. While only a
short time is left in which TO make ar
rangements, it is desired that it should
be held before Congress adjourns, in
/ asmUCh as it may 1e decided 10 under
! take certain national legislation bear
/ ing upon civic conditions and problems
| The exhibit viii pe the largest of its
! kind that has ever been shown in Wash
/ ingtOn. 1t Is composed of charts, pans
| and photographs in addition TO other
| interesting features, and every phase o.
/ city life, both in America and foreign
! countries. Will be shown.