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ARTICLE III.
ARTICLE ".

The capital stock of this corporation
shall be Five Thousand ($5000) Dollars,
divided into and represented by Fifty
Shares Of Stock at = par value of
One Hundred Dollars each; said stock
Vhall be paid for in cash at the time of
subscription, or as the same is issued,
Tor not lss than par, orin payment or
exchange for property actually re-
eelyed or purchased by this corpora
e0n, Or for services actually rendered.
hia cooperation may commence do
~ businsss and shall become q going
oonoern - soon % Three thousand
0ollAls q IL capital stock has been
Igqhecl1tsd for, and paid in. The
remaining stock not subscribed for
1hol b under the control of the
board Of directors.
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18th. Judicial District Court, State Of
Louisiana, Parish of Washington.
Louis A. Brown
Versus No. 1924
Eugene Simmons

Notice is hereby given that by vir
tue of an order of Seizure 4 Sale issue,
out Of the above named court in tn
matter of Louis A. Brow,
Versus No. 1924, Eugene Simmons
dated 9th day OF May 1911, and to m,
directed for execution I have seizet
and will offer for sale and sell to thu
last and highest bidder at the princi
pal front door OF the court house al
FrankGnton La, on
July 10Th, 1911
between the legal sale hours for judi.
cialsales the following described prop
erty to.wit:
50 acres Of land more or less being
8 W IL Of N W IL Sec. s and 10
acres off the s E IA of N Ella Sec. 6.
conditional line as follow: Commence
at a big hollow near 8. w. corner of
s. W. ID of N. w. IA Sec. 8, and
continue said hollow until it intersects
the branch, all being in To. /, SRI.
E. st. Helena Meridian.
Terms of sale Cash with benefit of az.
This 9Th day ofJune, 1911.
Joe N. Magee, Sheriff.
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Sheriff Sales.
18th Judicial District Court OF La
Parish of Washington.
Bank of Franklinton
VS.. No. 1879
Geo. Sam, Jr.

Notice is hereby given that by virtu,
OF an order Of seizure and sale issuet
out OF the above named court in thu
matter of Bank of Franklinton, versa.
No. 1873, George Sam, Jr., dated
May 10, 1911, and to me directed TO,
execution, l have seized and will offe,
for sale and sell to the last and highest
bidder at the principal front door OF
courthouse, on
Saturday, July LIST, 1911,
between the legal sale hours for judi
cial sales the following described
property to-wit:
Forty acres of land, situatee in the
Thomas A. Willis H. R. No. Al, TIP. 2,
s, R. IA, E, St. Helena Meridian, and
situated in the North eastern part of
a tract of land acquired by the Pearl
River Naval Store Co., Of A. G. Msgee,
on November 10, 1905, as per title
recorded in Conveyance Book 10,
pages 266 and 267, which tract of land
contains 16l. rs acres and described in
said act by survey.
Terms of sale cash with benefit OF
This 25th day Of May,
l9ll.
JOE n. MAGEE,
Sheriff,
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Charter Of the
Clifton Mercantile Company
State Of Louisiana
Parish OF Washington.

State Of Louisiana
Parish OF Washington.
Be it known and remembered thai
on this LIST day OF June, One Thousand
Nine Hundred and Eleven, before me
Magee W. OFT, Notary Public in anG
for the Parish Of Washington, State
Of Louisiana, duly commissioned and
qualified, In the presence Of the under.
signed witnesses, personally came and
appeared the persons whose names are
hereunto subscribed, who declared
that availing Themselves of the laws
OF Louisiana relative to the organiza.
ton Of corporations, they have formed
and BY these presents do form and con.
stitute themselves, as well as all such
persons as may hereafter join or be
associated with them, or with their
Successors, into corporation, for the
objects and purposes and ON the fol.
lowing conditions to-wit:
ARTICLE
The name Of the corporation shall be
THE CLIFTON MERCANTILE COM.
PANY, and under that name shall
have and enjoy existence and success
Non for . period and term OF Ninety
nine years, unless sooner dissolved
by law, or by consentof the stock.
holders - hereinafter provided.
Under this name this corporation
shall have full authority to transact
~ business necessary and proper for
the proper conduct of it's affairs or to
carry into effect any of the powers,
privileges and immunities it is per-
United to hold and exercise under
the laws Of this State.
ARTICLE II.
Tho domicile of this corporation
shall be ct Clifton, Washington Parish
Louistans, where all citations and
other legal process shall be served
ID accordance with the statutes of the
State of Louisiana, relative to making
'ervice on corporations.
ARTICLE III.
The objects and purposes for which
his corporation Is established and the
lature Of the business to be carried
n by It, are to be: TO own, operate
nd conduct general mercantile
isiness and to exercise all power and
necessary or incidental to
ae proper operation anL conduct Of
I'D business. J
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Constable Sale.
FIFTH WARD JUSTICE CoUhT-WAsH.
INGToN PARISH, LA.
Darlington Thomas & Co..
Versus No. 377
, j. n. TullOs

Notice Is hereby given that by vir'
ture Of . writ Of deri faciss ISSUED
out Of the above named court in the
matter Of Darlington Thomas &
Co., Versus No. 81, ]. N. Tullos
and to me directed for execution,
I have seized and viii! offer for sale
and sell to the last and highest bidder
In town of Varnado on
Saturday, July I, 1911
between the legal salt, hours for Judi
cialsa'es the following described prop.
erty to-wit:
Lots Nos. 9O8 and 2o9, located in the
town OF Varnado, Louisiana.
Terms Of sale cash with benefit Of
appratsement. This 10th day of May,
1911. II. 7. BOONE, Constable.
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26th judicial District Court Of La.
Parish Of Washington.
Emile Frederick
w. No. 703
Louis Grain

Notice is hereby given that by virtu,
OF q writ of Fieri Facias, ISSUED
out Of the above named court in tn,
matter of Emile Frederick versus No
7SS, Louis Grain, dated May 18th
1911. and to me directed for execution,
l have seized and will offer for ssle
and sell to the last and highest bidder
at the principal front door of the
court house on
Saturday, july Is, 1911
between legal sale hours for Judicial
Sales the following described proper.
ty to wit:
S. IL OF S. E. il, Sec 81, S. r. IL,
containing 80 acres.
Term of sale: Cash with benefit of
appraisement. This Sth day of June.
1911. JOE N. MAGEE,
Sheriff.
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State OF Louisiana, on the day, month ami veal
above written, and ia the presence Of the un.
derslgned competent witnesses who sign hereto
together with the said appeares and me said
Notary.
H. w. MAGEE,
| MISS LEILA MAGEE,
| per H. w. Magee;
J.ADDISON WADsWORTH.
| Witnesses:
! ". W. DARLINGTON,
G. W. MAGEK.
PRENTlss B. CARTER.
Notary Public
I, Lewis L. Morgan, District Attorney for the
Twenty-sixth Judicial District Of Louisiana
having carefully examined the Articles and
provisions Of the above Charter, finding moth.
ing in them contrary to, or against the laws OF
the state OF Louisiana, nor the Constitution
OF the state OF Louisiana, nor the Constitution
OF the United States, hereby approve the same.
Covlngton, La, April 18th 1911.
LEWIS l.. MORGAN,
District Attorney.
State OF Louisiana,
Parish Of washington. Clerk Of Court.
icertify that this instrument was filed for
r rec May 4, hour p. m. 1911. Recorded MAY
Attn, l9l!, In Mortgage Book No. 8, Eutrv So
pp' 6sS-s'sOo OF the Official records.
L. B. RENARD,
Chef Dy. Clerk & Ex-Offico Recorder
For Sale.
Poland China pigs, of a litter of
eleven, at S. each.
W. J. JONES,
Frankllnton, La.
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power 20 Ill VACANCIES ~ their num.
Der. from the stockholders of thif
corporation. Thesaid board shall have
power and control of the property Of
this corporation and shall exercise
Ia!l authority consistent with the
objects for which this corporation il
organized. Said board Is authorized
to adopt such bylaws, rules and
regulations as may expedient for the
conduct OF the business of this cor
poration or necessary for it's manage.
ment, provided the same shall
not conflict with this charter, nor
with the laws Of the State of Louisiana
nor the laws OF the United States.
ARTICLE VII.
This charter may be amended. or the
capital stock Of this corpora
ton increased or decreased.
or the corporation may be
dissolved at q general meeting of the
stockholders convened for that pur-
pose with the assent of three.fourth 3
OF the stock present or represented at
said meeting, thirty days prior notice
OF such meeting being given by pub
LEGATION in q weekly newspaper pub
lished at Franklinton, La, and a
written notice thereof mailed to each
stockholder at his usual place of bust
ness forty days prior to said meeting.
In case of the dissolution of this
corporation, either by limitation
or otherwise, it's affairs shall
be liquidated by two commissioners
elected from among the stockholders
at meeting called for that purpose.
ARTICLE VIII.
No stakeholder of this corporation
shall ever be held liable, or response
bic for the contracts or failures thereof
in any further sum than the unpaid
balance due said corporation on
shares OF stock subscribed for and
owned by the stakeholder; nor shall !
any informally in the organization of |
this corporation have the effect of |
rendering the charter null or exposing |
the stockholder to any further liability
than the unpaid balance due on his
stock.
Each stakeholder designates opposite
his name the stock subscribed for by
him, and this charter shall act as
written subscription list.
Thus done and passed at my office in
Franklinton, Parish of Washington,
State OF Louisiana, on the day, month
Ind year first above written in the
presence of Mrs.J. NJ. Stanland and J. ,
jcDougald, competent Witnesses re-
idiny in said town of Franklin:on, who {
igned these presents. together with I
aid appearers and me, said Notary, "
fter due reading.
W. N. GRAVES, us Share,) d
BY Delos r. Johnson; .
MRS. EMMA GIBBS, Is shares, !,
nee GRAVES,
BY Delos r. Johnson; p
NJ. J. GRAVES, Is shares,) +
BY Delos R. Johnson,
LUTHER J. GRAVES, (5shares) b
By Delos R. johnson. G,
Witnesses: q,
w. McDougald,
rs, j. NJ. Stanland. +.
MAGEE w. OFT, -.
Notary Public. %
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M u. lal(3PEN,
Clerk & Ex-O mcio Recorder.
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Notice..

Notice is hereby given that, on the
II day of July, 1911, q special election
will be held within the Mt. Herman
School District M. 6, at Mt. Herman.
parish OF Washington, state Of l.ouisi-
ana, ct which proposition will be
submitted to the property tax payers
Of the Mt. Herman School District
No. s, to vote special tax Of s mills
on the dollar, to run for a period Of S
years, beginning with the year 1911
and ending with the year 1915, for the
purpose OF erecting and construc ting
. public school building, the title to1
which shall be in the public in said
Mt. Herman School District No. &.
and for the further purpose Of
authorizing the Parish Board Of School
Directors Of the parish of Washington
to incur debt and issue negotiable
bonds therefor based on the special
tax to provide funds for the erection |
ana construction of said school build- |
Ing, Said bonds to be Ia denominations
d One hundred ($i00. 00) dollars each.
Ina divided into 5 series, maturing
rom one to s years respectively.
bearing interest at the rate Of & nsr
,ent per annnm from their date: Shat
W. =. Ott, G. E. Smell and W. O. +
Holiday are appointed % cammis:
toners Of said election end E. A.
.arter - clerk, and that the Parish
3oard Of School Directors viii. en-
he II day Of July, 1911, 1t II O'Clock.
2 open session, prUceed to open the
a!iot boxes, examine and count the
ellots tn number and amount
xamtne and canvass the returns MI !.
eclare tie result OF said election. \
w. BATEllAN, Pres. protsm.
0VSs II
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Notice..

Notice is hereby given that, on tn,
II day Of July, 1911, = special election
will be held in the Angie Schoo
District No. S, at Angie, parish o
Washington. state of Louisiana. Al
which proposition will be submitted
to the property tax payers of saiG
Angie School District No. 5 Of
authorizing the Parish Board Of
School Directors Of the parish Of
Washington to incur debt and issue
negotiable bonds therefor based on q
special tax OF three mills on the dollar
for ten years, voted on and carried al
the special election held In said Angie
School District No. 5 on the q day
Of July, 1910, the purpose Of mourning
said Indebtedness to be for the erect
ing and constructing Of 8 public
school building In the said Angie
3chnol District NO. 5, title TO which
Ihsll be In the public, said bonds to
% In denominations Of One hundred
el00.00) dollars each and divided
nto ten series, msturing from ODE to
en- years respectively, bearing interest
i the rate Of 5 Der cent per annum from
Iate; that John Ball, Eddie Adams
nd r. i, Ford are appointed ss
commissioners Of said election, and
Y. !. Ball rs clerk. and that the 4
'arish Bosrd Of school Directors
i'll, on the II day July, 1911, at II
clock A. NJ. In open session,
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:. Clerks Office

State of Louisiana, c,erk,s o,,,ce
Parish of Washington. ~
I hereby certify that the within and
foregoing is q true and correct copy
of the original charter of the Clifton
Mercantile Company, now on file in
this Office. ] further certify that the
original was filed for record, June list,
1911, at S o'clock, p. M, and recorded
in Mortgage book 8, gage 767, etc.,
June End, 1911.
NJ, A. TH1GPEN,
Clerk & Ex-O fhcio Recorder.
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Sheriff Sales.
26th judicial Dist. Court, State Of Louis
lana Parish OF washington.
Hackley State Bank
Versus No. 1927
J. J. bulioch

BY virtue of an order of seizure and
sale issued out of the above named
court, in the above entitled cause and
to me directed. / proceeded to seize
and did offer for sale, on Saturday,
May Ii, 1910, the following described
property to. wit:
s 1.2 of N. E. ID, and the N. ID
of the S. E. IA, Sec. %, Up. /, s. r. IL,
E. St. Helena Meridian, containing
1850 acres
There being no bids amounting to
two thirds Of the appraised values as
fixed by the experts appointed and
sworn, the property was not cold.
Under the provisions established by
law, will again proceed to offer for
sale at public auction, to the last and
highest bidder on
Saturday, June 10, 1911
at the principal front door of the
court house of Franklinton La, the
above described property. Terms of
sale twelve months credit secured bv
bond Of purchaser, conditional as the
law directs.
Joe N. Magee, Sheriff.
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ARTICLE v.

Mkfnn 0hAff hA uQ0GAn In AY1n
So 49,, s, hc.-a !, a,rsotars oo ~
q 8 = +n ,. ! s :, an
&. In. 80 s.. .n =, Mind this cornorat,on
B - ~ 49, .l.ction - tho hoard =
B. ,,,,..,e...s mas. th,.' Charter aha1
49,. !. ,,..t,,,. ), tho stockholdar
50 f 3 sh.ld an the f,rst Monday i,
49, 1919 and thereafter III,
o. ,hol,ar. ahall hold an electio,
3 81 tDe m Monday IN February 0
3 80 80 ana elect : board, Of d.
8 800. I'm shall serve until fhei,
80 - have been elected and
Is IS, ll6ea III officers to be elected from
y ! q ron. tia hoard 81 directors and nc
p, 1IAaIl - eligible ~ = director
AZ ~ "a !. stockholdar az this cor.
- ~ nurinr the ,bsence Of the
80 -. tha vice- president shall act
0 e,, 81; ~ il his stead. Notice Of
7 sl.an s. aiyen in writing
~ ~ naiI 1dd dressed TO e.ch stock !,
II rs Ill uoual place Of business.
{ m ylaye nrior to s.id election and the
1900 81 directors shall appoint one Of
fhelr number to preside q said elec-
[ IN and On III, failure to attend
~ a,lent han appoint ! stock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-19
TARDY TRIBUTE TO A WOMAN.
It Took the Astronomers Forty
Years to Get Around to It.

From the Illustrated London News
The comet which was recently to be
seen was thought to be the one discover
ed by Miss Caroline Herschell in 1880.
This lady trained in the observatory of
her brother in order that she might serve
him as assistant. gained eminence in
her own right as an astronomer. Among
her other exploits she discovered no few
er than eight comets. of which the one
now approaching the earth again was
seen by her in 1879. so that for 40 years
it wanders in its orbit.
Caroline Herschell is an instance of the
little preparation or reward allowed to
to have received any instruction in as
tronomy, but to have just picked up her
knowledge in the course of working for
and with her brother.
1t was not until she was over seventy
years of age, forty years after she had
found her eighth comet, that she received
her first honor from her scientific breth-
rem. by being made an honorary member
of the Royal Astronomical Society, the
council explaining that the tribute had
been so long delayed because not until
then had the time gone by when feel
ing or prejudice should be allowed to in
terfere with the payment of Well earn
ed tribute of respect, and the sex of a
to her receiving acknowledgements that
would be held due if she were a man.
Miss Herschell lived to be ninety-six,
and did an important piece of astronom-
ical work fhe reduction to a catalogue,
arranging in zones, of all Sir w. Her
schell'S nebulaeD when she was seventy
five.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-19
The Perrys in Naval History.

From the Chicago Post.
Cleveland celebrated the ninety eighth
anniversary of the battle Of Lake Erie,
a. fight and a victory worth yearly COM
memoration. Oliver Hazard Perry by his
triumph over the British fleet September
10, 1913, and his service as chief Of the
naval force at the battle Of the Thames
enabled in the first place the invasion Of
Canada by Gen. Harrison. and in the sec
ond aided to restore the supremacy of
American arms in the northwest frontier.
Perry is a great name in American
naval history. 1t was younger brother
of the hero Of Lake Erie-Matthew Cal
braith Perry-who opened the ports of
Japan to American commerce. Another
brother Alexander. was present at the
Erie fight and made the trip in a small
boat with his brother, the commodore,
from one ship to another under storm
of fire.
In the Capitol at Washington there is a
painting representing the perilous passage
of the brothers from ship to ship. 1t Is
a spirited picture and ii is the first OBJ
iect of interest to Japanese visitors. who
think, because the guides are misin-
formed, that 1t was Matthew Perry who
is pictured in the boat with the commo-
dore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-19
THE OLDEST INDIAN.
Sitting Elk, Mighty Warrior Who
Never Killed a White Man.
From the Denver Post


Oldest Of all Indians in the United
States. Sitting Elk, former chief Of the
Ogallalla Sioux, is visiting in Denver.
guest Of the white men. against whom
he always refused to make war.
For almost a century he has been a
leader among his people, but, wiser than
other chiefs, he early realized that the
red man was doomed and at every op-
portunity he counseled peace with the
palefaces.
He could well afford to do so, for his
people knew he was no coward.
Il have never killed a white man." he
proudly boasts. but L have fought many
battles, and / have done many brave
deeds in my long life Of ninety-siX years.
/ was but seventeen when L waylaid and
killed my first enemy. That was a very
brave deed. Since then | have killed
many, many enemies
Sitting Elk is a total abstainer. He
smokes cigarettes. but insists he has none
of the other bad ha bits of the white man.
He is childleSs, the last of his line, but
he expects to live for many years more
to be hale and hearty long after he has
passed the century mark.
Sitting Elk moves tall and stately
among his kinSmen, and puffs his pipe
with complacency unruff1ed by thoughts
of any immediate journey to the happy
hunting grounds.
Bright of eye, keen Of mind the old
warrior dOns paint and feathers for his
appearance with the younger members
of his tribe in the headlong dashes across
the amphitheater at the stock yards and
rides with abandon which defies the
spectator to single him from the reckless
redskins who have but one-fourth his
years to their credit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-19

The Change in Robert Louis Steven.
sons Name.
from the London Chronicle,

From the London Chronicle.
Alexander Pope was a victim of his
initials. After the publication Of the
''Dunciad" one of the poets enemies.
who had suffered a severe trouncing i'm
the satire. declared that if you took
the initial letters of Pope's name and
added the final letter of his surna M
you had his character.
The Jest" caught on. and in I12s ap-
peared a pamphlet entitled Pope Alex
ander's Supremacy and Infallibility EN-
amfned.' The frontispiece to this now
forgotten pasquinade represented Pope
in the form of an ape. with his head
resting on his hand and his elbow
placed upon a pile of his own works.
No modern writer is better known by
his initials than Robert Louis steven
son. but r. l.. s." was arrived at after
consider a BILE experiment. Stevenson )
baptismal names were Robert Lewis
Balfour, and the third name caused the
difficulty.
Until he was about fifteen he signed
himself "R. Stevenson" After that he
occa sionally used Stevenson. "R. l.. b.
him as Robert Lewis; but a year or
two later as he expressed in I'm a letter
to Mr. Baxter. after several years Of
feeble and Intellectual endeavor with
regard to my third initial "a thing L
loathe)" he finally abandoned il alto
gether.
Stevenson when about eighteen years
of age changed the spelling OF his sec
ond name from Lewis" TO Louis" but
Lewis he remained at all times in the
mouth of his family and friends.
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MISSOURI GRAssH0PPER YEAR.
How the Pest Interfered With Travel
| and Ruined Business.
From the Kansas City Star.

From the kansas City Star.
Kansas has sometimes wished that some
of the other rfghtful heirs to unpleasant
legacies would come forward and claim
their share OF the inheritance. Grass
hoppers. for instance, do not belong sole
~ to Kansas. ]. w. Wood recalls the
year that grasshoppers were distinctly a
Missouri pest. 1t was in 1875. the year
following the blight Kansas suffered from
| the all-devouring hordes.
Mr.. Wood went to Warrensburg that
year. the track, land on the sur
| face as the early engineering placed IT.
met many grades. Grasshoppers had
came to a slight grade it was necessary
for the passengers and train crew to get
out Of the train and drive the insects from
| the right OF way; crushed on the rails
| the track became too slick for the loco
through which the track passed near
Warrensburg, and there. Mr.. Wood re-
calls, was stationed section gang with
shovels scooping out the windrifts OF In
sects.
There was more or less bravado in the
offer of a bank In WaYrensburg made of
81 for every bushel Of grasshoppers
brought to the bank. Next day the
bounty was reduced to 50 cents bushel.
the following day to Is cents and the
day after the bank announced that IT
was out Of the market for grasshoppers.
| The wooden goods house for when
Mr.. Wood Travelled at that time was
dissatisfied with the business he was
doing in the west and was prone to dis
credit his account Of the adverse condi,
filled a large packing box with dead
grasshoppers and expressed 1t to his hrm
in the east. His house said nothing more
about the lack Of trade in the west. :,