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The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1911-09-28
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Notice..

The PARISH School Board will!
receive bids on construc' ion of
Angie ScI,mI Plans and Spcci
tications are with J. E. bal.
Angie, La. and sealed lids will
be received through him until
October Il.
PARISH SCHOOL BOARD.
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To Eradicate The H00kW0rm

DR.. G.. B. Adams. of the State
Board of Health, has come to
Washington Parish to start an
active campaign for the eradica-
ton of hookworm disease in this
parish.
For the past three months Dr..
Adams has been carrying
on an active campaign in St.
Tammany Parish where he met
with great success. TO assist in
the work the Police Jury of St.
Tammany appropriated $3.50 to
be used IN buying medicine to
treat the cases found infected.
DR.. Adams will 90 before the
Police Jury of Washington
Parish at their next meeting. and
ask for an appropriation to be
used in the campaign in this
parish. If an appropriation is
made, dispensaries in various
parts of the parish where DR..
Adams will 90 at regular times
and examine all who care to be
examined and treat free, those
found infected.
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The Piano Contest.

obtain a handsome gift for prac.
tlcalIy nothing is presented by
People Drug Company in it's of.
fer to give a $500 Upton piano as
a prize to the lady who polls the
highest number of votes by Dec.
IL. Votes are issued by Peoples
Drug Company on every sale it
makes. Some days, notably on
Wednesdays, extra votes are is.
sued to each customer who buy
a small amount. Yesterday the
sales ranging from five to twenty.
five cents carried with them from
one thousand to nine thousand
votes. Many contestants availed
themselves of this and some did
not. Thus a few made big head.
way while others did not. It is
believed that some contestants
are holding back votes with the
hope that they may gain an ad
vantage. In this they will BE-
mistaken for the reason that
each weeks bulletin shows the
standing of contestants in their
relation to one another. Those
who have attained high standing
easily determine what votes are
necessary to remain high. True.
some fall out, and it's equally
true that some seize certain
opportunities to increase their
standing. 1t is evident that
none except a worker can really
hope to get the prize. Mr..
D0remus states that secondary
prizes will be given for consola.
ton. The trading: books are
bringing in good results. Over
thirty have been sold. These
bring contestants 10000 extra
votes and are receivable the
same as cash. Large bonuses
are still being allowed for sub.
scriptions for the Era-Leader.
The special sale for next Wed.
nesday will be from 5 to Is cents
with 1000, 5000. 5000, 1000 and
$4,000 votes. 1t IS funny to see
the school children calculating
what votes they will obtain for
their friends by buying writing
material, etc. on Wednesdays.
The contest is narrowing down
to about fifty. Votes increase
accordingly. Many persons are
holding votes awaiting some
girls request tor them. We
predict something lively. now, in
a few days.
The bulletin in the show.
window of Peoples Drug Co.
shows the standing Of all the
contestants above the 500, 900
class. We here list the leading |
ten for the week ending Sept.
n. There are II weeks yet to
run.
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Adriance Mowers, Winner
Rakes, Ames Buggies and
Chattanooga Wagons.
ROBT DARLINGTON, LTD.

Prot. Bates, a graduate from
the A. & M. College in Alabama.
arrived Monday and has taken
charge of the Agricultural De.
partment of the school here.
This is very important depart.
ment and should prove one Of
the most interesting and popular.
The school. is moving along
splendidfy and it is the genera!
opinion that we have the best
faculty in tile history Of tie
school. We congratulate the
local Board upon their Wis,
selection of teachers.
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! Local Items
:! Brief Mention OF Local and Personal
7 Happenings OF The Week,

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For stove wood oak and pine
ring no. u.
Miss Bessie OFT, of Clifton,
visited friends here Saturday,
The Boston Store will be closed
Monday, October 2 on account of
Jewish Holiday.
See D. E. Brsnch and have
your Automobile insured.
Our friend, B. B. Bond FROM
Aurora called to see US Tuesday.
Use Linoleum for your floors,
Babingtons' sell 1t.
Vol Morris, of the second ward,
was a pleasant caller at this office
one day this week.
Shoes and prices to fit every
body. Tue Boston STORE.
j. M. Afford, Of Elitown, called
to see US Monday and had his
subscription extended.
Shoes-Our Fall line NOW IN
OUR SHELVES. Babingtons'
Mrs. L. W. McDougall went to
New Orleans the first of the
week on shopping expedition.
New Firm! New Goods! New
Prices. The BosroN STORE.
Osceloa Carter, after a session
spent in the Chicago University,
returned home Sunday morning.
Everything to EAT and WEAR
at our Store. Robt. Darlington,
Limited.
Miss Bertha McD0ugald and
her aunt: Mrs. Campbell, spent
Thursday in New Orleans sight
seeing.
We make a speciality of Ladies'
Ready.to. Wear Goods.
The Boston STORE.
Miss Amy Wilsonaeft Wednes-
day morning for Abingdon, Va,
where she will enter Martha
Washington College.
Fertilizers for trucking.
RoBT. DARLINGTON, LTD.
Mrs. w. W. McDougald has as
guests this week her sister, Mrs.
Campbell, and son junior Camp.
bell, of North Carolina.
just received a nice line of
Fall and Winter Dry Goods,
Notions, etc. Babingtons'
Mr.. and Mrs. P. B. Carter
were honored guests Tuesda
night of the SlideIl Eastern Star
order, where there was a special
installation of officers for the
lodge.
Everybody is invited to inspect
our store and stock.
The BOSTON STORE.
Mrs. l.. T. Richardson, of
Bogalusa, spent Tuesday here in
tile interest Of the millinery
opening she is preparing to give
here OH the End and 3rd of Oct.
Her advertisement appears in
another column.
Our big line Of Men and Boys
Clothing for Quality, Styles. and
Prices can't be beat.
The Boston STORE.
The many friends Carl NJ.
Rabington will be gratitied to
learn that he was completely
successful in the outcome Of the
litigation pending. between one
sSnodgrass and the Southern
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The METZ twenty-five" 1912
water cooled four cylinder run.
shout Automobile, completely
equipped with. Bosch magnetic,
Clincher tires, 30 x3;~Top with
straps and side curtains, gas
lamps and generator. three oil
lamps, French horn, and a set of
tools. Only 100000. cash or
installments. This a guaranteed
HILL climbing car. Just the
car for our roads.
DARLINGTON & BOURGEOIS
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j. w. Bateman'S Accounts Ar
Found Correct.

The letter which appears be-.
low is self explanatory.
Baton Rouge, La, Sept. II II.
Mr.. }. W. Carter, President.
Board of School Directors,
Sunny Hill, La.
Delr Sir:
For your benefit beg to
advise that on several OCCASIONS
during the current year l have
examined the accounts of your
Superintendent, Mr.. J. w. Bate.
man, and take pleaure in stating
that | have always found his
books we'll kept and the vouchers
an d other records in good shape.
Yours very truly,
A. NJ. SMITH,
Supervisor of Public Accounts.
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Los T-Between Richardson
and Fran,lintnn, one Keyst, ne
watch charm Will, name on bacl,
Of it. Will reward finder.
j. G. DENMAN
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PARISH SCHOOL BOARD.
Gilpin observer., 1911-03-09
WASHINGTON.

The total of stock allowed on the
national forests will be horses and cat
tie. 1.S73.795; swine, 59,O15, and sheep
and goats, S,2i7,745.
Fifty-siX years of service lin The
rear of the army" won for David
Robertson the unique distinction of
being retired at full pay with the rank
of sergeant.
One hundred and twenty-nine vacan-
cies in West Point cadetships in thir-
ty-eight states are to be filled by
June 18th, through examination to be
held May 2nd.
Announcement has been made that
Charles ID. Hilles, assistant secretary
of the treasury, is to succeed Charles
d. Norton as secretary to the Prcsi-
dent on April ith.
The Senate passed four approprIa-
tion bills, providing for the expendi-
ture of more than s5O0,0OO,00O. They
were the postoffice, naval, sunCry
civil and general deficiency bills.
Secretary of State Knox has an
nounced that John Hays Hammond
would represent the United States as
special ambassador at the court of
ST. James at the coronation of King
George V. next June.
There is strong probability that
Representative Taylor of Colorado
may be the next chairman of the
House public lands committee. Mr.
Taylor is already a member of that
committee, but Representative Robin
son of Arkansas is entitled to the
place by seniority.
The Senate defeated the resolution
proposing an amendment to the con
stitution to provide that senators be
elected by direct vote of the people.
Fifty-four senators stood for the reso.
luton and thirty.three against it,.
Though this division showed so large
a majority to favor popular election,
the number was not sufficient by four
to carry the motion, which required a
two-thirds vote.
Gilpin observer., 1911-03-09
Minor Mention.


Work on the state road up Ute Pass.
Manitou is progressing.
Mrs. p. Tague of Red Cliff has been
appointed county judge of Eagle coun-
ty.
A petition to dissolve the municipal
corporation, of North Longmont has
been filed
A movement has been started to
build school of psychic research at
Crystola.
Leonora Acosta, years old, died at
Trinidad of hydrophobia. She was
bitten by a dog.
Dan Patch, the famous PAGER, will
give exhibition heats during the next
state fair at Pueblo.
1t is probable that Weld county will
get IT'S photographic survey from the
government next summer.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Dewey G.. Barley as United
States marshal for Colorado.
l.. j. Seville has been appointed
postmaster at Eden, Pueblo county,
vice f. S. Barnard, resigned.
More than $50 members We're added
to the Y. NJ. c. A. by the nine-day
campaign at Colorado Springs.
Awards fixed by the appraisers upon
property involved in Denvers Civic
Center project total $2,52S, ,463.10.
The farmers of Spring Creek mesa,
two miles west of Montrose, are being
aIn
plant.
Ninety potatoes, which weighed over
l20 pounds, formed part of a load
brought to Greeley. The potatoes av-
eraged one and one-third pounds each.
The City Council of Montrose has de-
cided to submit to voters at the com
ing municipal election the question of
establishing a commission form of
government.
w. G. Hubbell, editor of the Fort
Lupton Press, was nominated for may
or on the Taxpayers anti-saloon ticket,
with Dr. Monesmith, II. F. Johnson
and S. McComb for trustees.
At Windsor since the heavy snowfall
of the last two. weeks there has been
renewed activity in all lines of busi-
ness and the section is optimistic over
prospects for the coming season.
The officials of the Western Slope
Development Congress have issued a
comprehensive call for the second an
Tual convention of the Congress to be
held at Delta, Colo, March 1928.
A decline of s2OOOO.OOO in nine years
in the output of Colorado mines is
largely attributed to excessive taxes
placed on mining properties in this
state. according TO report submitted
to the Denver Chamber of Commerce
Gilpin observer., 1911-03-09
The New Ranseiy Oil Fields.

While a number of Denver people
are Interested in the new high grade
Rangely oil field of Rio Blanco coun-
ty, ii still larger number of Eastern
people have gotten there ahead of
the railroads. and considerable quiet
acquisition of properties has taken
place. Chief among them are the
Barber Asphalt Company of New York
owners of the Uintah railroad from
Mack, Colo, to Dragon, Utah; The
Southern Pacific railroad syndicate
and capitalists from Iowa, Indiana, IL
linois and other Eastern states.
Within year the county is expected
to have ample railroad facilities. The
Grand River, Meeker e Salt Lake rail
way, now graded five miles north
ward out of New Castle, will penetrate
Rio Blanco county from east to west,
through the heart of the Rangely oil
field: the Moffat road, as projected,
will serve the northwestern portion;
the Uintah railway last week an
nounced an extension of nine miles up
the White river towards Rangely.
Gilpin observer., 1911-03-09
Sugar Factory at Brighton.

Greeley-Farmers from the south
ern part of Weld county report that
they are assured sugar factory will
be built at Brighton this spring by
Michigan capitalists owning and oper-
ating sugar factories in that state.
Three thousand acres have been con-
tracted by the farmers of southern
Weld county, in the vicinity of
Brighton, which the company required
before it would build factory.
1t is said that for the present, the
old factory, used for several years in
making syrup, will be used.
1t is understood that it is the inten-
ton of the company to build up a CO.
operative organization and that in time
the factory will be turned over to the
beet growers to manage. Indications
are, it is said, that 4,500 acres will
be pledged before April.
Gilpin observer., 1911-03-09
w EST

General Manager Earle of the Ell
Paso smelter announces the smelter
will shut down on account of inability
to get ore from Mexico.
The first of a new series of dining
cars built by the Union Paciflc rail-
road, arrived in Denver, and went out
for the first time on the Chicago fiy-
er.
The Montana Assembly, on the sew
enty-ninth joint ballot, elected Henry
l.. Myers, Democrat, United States
senator to succeed Senator Thomas IL.
Carter.
At Houston because of Colonel
Roosevelt's attitude toward Jefferson
Davis, Judge Norman G.. Kittrell de-
clines to serve on the reception com
mittee when the Colonel arrives.
A worlds aviation record was brok'
en- between Laredo, Texas, and Eagle
Pass when Lieut.. Benjamin Foulols,
United States army, and Aviator Pnll-
ip c. Parmalee drove an army aero
plane lO6 miles in hours and Z
minutes.
Reports to the Census Bureau from
the slaughtering, and meat-packing es-
Establishments and slaughterhouses of
the United States show that during
1909 there were 6S,4O3,000 animals
slaughtered for food in those estdb-
lishments.
Thirty.five western railroads de-
cided to make no appeal from the re-
cent decision OF the interstate com
merce commission denying the roads
the right to acrease freight rates.
They will accept the decree of the
commission as final. Advanced rates
will be Withdrawn.
Captured just when plans for assas
sinating Mayor n. S. Pratt of Spo-
kane are thought to have reached
maturity, John Steele and Stuart Mof
fett, now in Jail, are considered by the
police as the murderers of Captain
John r. Sullivan, and accomplices in
plot to kill President Taft during the
next month.
At Hot Springs, Ark. after trying
to enforce the anti-gambling laws for
several months the so-called lid was
suddenly lifted in plain Monte Carlo
fashion. This followed the Sunday
baseball programmes INDUCED in by
major league squads and as result
there is rejoicing among the liberal
element. but considerable dissatisfac-
tion and threats from the reform set
who had calculated on keeping all So
closed.
Gilpin observer., 1911-03-09
WEEKS NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS

The Mexican revolutionists have
control of the railroad north, south
and west of chihuahua, according
to a telegram to the State Department.
In an imperial rescript, Emperor
Nicholas of Russia, announces his in
tention to complete his grandfather's
work for the emancipation of the serfs
by transferring the peasants into eco
nomically strong land owners.
Two regiments of infantry, the Thir-
tieth from the Preside at San Francis
co under Colonel Charles T. Chubb,
and the Eighth, from Monterey, com
manded by Colonel Charles Mason,
have been ordered to the Mexican
border.
One hundred and eighteen members
of wedding party of 1870, including
the bride and bridegroom, were de-
voured by wolves while travelling by
sledge from Obstpoff to Tashkend, in
Asiatic Russia. distance of twenty
miles.
Gilpin observer., 1911-03-09
siq Colorado Crops Assured.

New Windsor-The significance of
the last snow on ton of that of a week
or more prior to it can scarcely be
realized by most of us.
But most everybody agrees that
crops for this year are virtually as
sured by it so far as moisture is con
cerned for this year, not only in the
irrigated belt but in the dry sections
as we'll
A no more timely storm ever Wis
tied this part of Colorado. Frost was
pretty we'll out of the ground and ev-
cry bit of the moisture is being alb
sorbed by the soil The snow drifted
but little, and the moisture is pretty
evenly distributed over hill and vale.
The fields are saturated with suffi-
cient moisture to bring up the crops
and maintain them until irrigation be
gins, even if no more falls. But many
old residents are of the opinion thaS
the wet period has just begun and
that there will be an abundance OF
moisture This spring is conceded to be
the best for this time of the year in
at least four seasons, if not the best
in eight or ten years.
Gilpin observer., 1911-03-09

The Senate of the Missouri Legisla-
ture passed bill allowing damages
of $500 for mental anguish for The
failure of telegraph companies to de-
liver kilograms promptly.
In Minneapolis, one of the most dis,
astrous fires the city has ever knoNn,
destroyed the Syndicate block on
Nicollet avenue between Fifth and
Sixth streets. The total loss is esti-
mated at sl,JO0,OOO.
The United States army transport
Buford, loaded with provisions for the
femme sufferers in North China, has
sailed for Chinkian, flying the pen.
Christian Herald of New York and the
Seattle Commercial Club.
According to cable advices received
from Costa Rica. DIR. Rudolph Ep-
sinosa, well known throughout Cen
tral America, and forty-four others are
to be shot by the Estrada govern
ment in Nicaragua for alleged com.
plicity in the plot against the admin.
istration.
Or. Frederick \. Cook, the Arctic
explorer. has given out the text of a
telegram which he said he had sent to
President Taft protesting against the
Peary bill being signed by the Presl.
dent. The telegram accuses the dis
coverer of the North pole of gross i'm
morality, exploitation of the public
and other irregularities, personal and
commercial.
The itinerary OF Theodore Roose-
welt is announced. Atlanta is his first
stop, and the tour literally will Swing
around the circle" The line of travel
dips down to New Orleans. stretches
across the Southwest, follows the Pa.
cific coast northward to Puget sound,
wavers into Idaho and Montana, and
then reaches home through Chicago,
where the Colonel will stop for o few
hours only on Saturday. April Is.
The United States government be.
gun fight against what is alleged 10
be one of the most complete monopo.
lies in the country, when suit was
filed against thirty-five concerns en-.
gagged in the manufacture of ncan.
descent electric lights. The National
Electric Lamp Company. which has its
headquarters at Cleveland, and the
General Electric Company OF New
York, are named as two of the defend.
ants and are charged with being tho
keystone of trust that has ramifica.
tions in every state in the Union.
Gilpin observer., 1911-03-09
POLITICAL.

Some Democratic members of the
new House of Representatives are lay
ing plans for an onslaught on the Re-
publican attitude toward extending the
scope of pension expenses Represen-
tative Cullop of Indiana announced his
intention to reintroduce at the extra
session bill providing for a pension
of 81 ii day for every man who served
ninety days in the Clyii War and was
mustered in and mustered out, and the
same amount for every man who
served sixty days in the Mexican war.
of whom about 5000 are said to be liv-
ing.
President Taft's immediate call Tor
an extra session Of Congress in April
puts a new face on the reciprocity
situation and may, in the opinion OF
some of the opponents, as well as the
champions of the proposed agree
ment, save the cause in Canada from
any peril it may have incurred by the
failure of the United States Senate to
indorse the plan. 1t is generally con-
ceded that if reciprocity session of
Congress had not been summoned and
ratification had been left to the ses-
sion next fall, the Canadian advocates
of the plan might have been dis
heartened and probably parliament
would follow the example of Congress,
leaving ratification to its chances at
the succeeding session.
Gilpin observer., 1911-03-09
Consumption Spreads In Syria.

Consumptives In Syria are treated
today much in the same way as the
lepers have been for the last 1000
years. tuberculosis Is a comparative
ly recent disease among the Arabs and
Syrians, but SO rapidly has It spread
that the natives are in great fear Of
1t. Consequently when member OF
a family is known to have the disease.
he is frequently cast out and compelled
to die of exposure and want. A small
hospital for consumptives has been
opened at Beyrout under tho direction
OF DR.. Mary F. Eddy.
Gilpin observer., 1911-03-09
wellinston-cheyenne to Be Pushed.

New Windsor.-The Greeley-Hudson
branch of the Burlington railroad will
probably be completed by July 1st,
which is also the date fixed for the
completion of the Wellington-Chey-
enne branch. Information to this eff
fecb, was given out in Greeley early in
the week by Attorney T. S. McMurray,
who said: There will not be need
of the Greeley-Hudson line until the
Wellington-C Cheyenne branch is com
pleted, and it is probable that the two
lines will be finished and put to use
about the same time"