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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
An Ordinance

BY Mr.. Douglas
Ordering special election in the
Parish of Caddo for the purpose
of levying a lax Of five mills for,
five years on all the taxable
property of the parish for the
building, constructing an d
maintaining of roads and bridges
throughout the parish in ac-
cordance with Article 29i of the
Constitution.
Section 4. Be iC ordained by the
Police Jury of the Parish of Caddo,
State of Louisiana. in legal assem-
bly, convened, that special election
lis hereby called for the purpose of
submitting to the property taxpay-
ers of, the Parish of Caddo who are
entitled to vote under the general
election laws of the State, the prop
.osition to assess and levy tax OF
five mills per annum for five con-
secutiye years, beginning with the
year 1912, on the taxable property
of the parish, for the purpose of
building, constructing and main
tanning roads and bridges through
out the parish, in accordance with
the provisions Of Article 29i of the
Constitution.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, etc,
That said election shall be held I'M
der the general election laws of the
State of Louisiana, at the usual poll
ing places of the parish.
See. 3. Be it}further ordained, ETC.,
That said election shall be held on
the 23rd day of January 1912: and
that the commissioners and clerks
of said election shall be the same as
those chosen to serve at the general
primary election to be held on that
date.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, etc,
that the form Of the ballot to be
used at the election herein provided
for shall be as follows:
For the special tax of five mills
per annmn on the dollar of the as
sessed valuation of the property of
the parish of Caddo for five consec-
utive years, beginning with the year
1912, for the purpose of building,
constructing and maintaining roads
and bridges in the parish of Gaddo,
in accordance with Article 29i of
the Constitution" or
Against the special tax Of five
mills per annum on the dollar of
the assessed valuation of the prop
erty of the parish of Caddo for five
consecutive years. beginning with
the year 1912, for the purpose of
building. constructing and MAIN
tanning roads and bridges in the
parish of Caddo, in accordance with
Article 29i of the Constitution
See. 5. Be it further enacted, ETC.,
That the name of the voter and the
assessed valuation of the property
shall be written on The ballot of
each taxpayer voting at said cleo
ton. and that all taxpayers voting
al said election shall be registered
voters, except women taxpayers,
who shall vote either in person or
by their agents authorized in writ
ing.
Adopted by following vote:
Ayes: Douglas, Wynn, Miller
Mahlen. POLICEMAN, Winter, Scott, Se-I
bastian. Maggie, Hutchinson, Craw-
ford. Nays: None.
w. 4. CRAWFORD, Pres.
A. I. DURINGER, Clerk.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
For Clerk Of lhe District Court.

The Caucasian has been author
ixed TO announce that Geo. POLICEMAN
il q candidate for the office of Clerk
OF The District Court, subject to the
action Of The Democratic party.
The Caucasian has been author
lied Go announce that S. N. Kerley is
a candidate for the Office of Clerk Of
The District Court, subject TO the &C
ton of The Democratic party.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
new TALES
THAT ARE TOLD
. PIayinu Golf With Opie Read.

Grizzly Adams, Whitechapel club
candidate for mayor at the dine Hemp
stead Washburne' won, came recently
TO the city he lost Mr. Adams has
great variety of interests. including
golf. and he carries his clubs with him
to be ready for any of them.
1t was on an excursion of similar
nature that he fell in with Opie Read
and Bill Sterrett at Dallas. In the old
days neither Grizzly nor Opie would
touch golf stick with tongs. but both
had become strong for the game If not
at 1t.
A three handed match was suggest
ed, and the first hole had been played
The second hole was beyond an aban-
doned quarry crossed by a bridge. 1t
took only an ordinary drive to be safe,
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
Flour and Meal.

FLOUR-per bbl: Patents 1925;
half patents 5000; extra fancy S5.75;
sacked l0c less.
MEAL-Standard 24-lb. sacks 45c;
cream 24-lb sacks 4Sc; cream meal
in wood $500.
GRITS-per Dbl. $40.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
PROVISION MARk9T
Quotations Carefully Revised and
Corrected.
Hoo Products.

BACON-Clear rib sides t03-4c:
dry salt 10 i-4c.
HAMS-Per Id. ice.
LARD-per lb: Tierce compound
Sc; pure lard t3 lie.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
For State Central Committee.

The Caucasian is authorized to an
nounce that John Jenkins is a can
didate for the position OF Commit
teelnan of the State Central Com
mittee from Gaddo Parish, subject To-
action of the Democratic primary.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
Chickens and Eqgs.

CHICKENS-Per doz.: Hens $500
fryers $3.00a3.50; broilers $500.
TURKEYS-Per Id. t5c.
COCKS. guineas and culls $500.
DUCKS--Per dozen $500.
EGGS-Ped dozen pic.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
For Police Juror.

Tic Caucasian is authorized TO an
nounce that Capt. VI. i. Crawford is
a candidate for reelection as a .po-
lice juror TO represent Ward Four
OF Cadao Parish. subject TO the ac-
ton Of the Democratic party.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
Sbep:H's Sale
No. 3,593-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La:
+. Z. Hansell & Bro. Co. Ltd

No. 3,593-ln the First judicial Dis
trict Court Of Caddo Parish, La:
r. +. Hansell & Bro. Co. Ltd.
VS.. r. ]. Boudreaux, ct al.
By virtue of writ of fieri facias
TO me directed from the Honorable
Eighteenth Judicial District Court
of Acadia Parish, Louisiana, in the
above numbered and entitled suit.
have seized and will offer for sale
at public auction for cash and ac-
ccrdng TO law, at the principal
elCnt door of the court house of
Caddo Parish. La, during the legal
ilnla's Of Sd 'eS on
SATURDAY, DEC. is, 1911,
One Maxwell automobile. Said prop
erty seized in above entitled suit,
and TO be sold for cash and accord
ing to law, to pay and satisfy the
debt as specified in said writ. say in
the sum of five hundred and forty
five and 70-i00 dollars, together
with five per cent per annum inter-
est thereon from June 9, 1910, until
paid, and the additional sum of ten
per cent on aggregate Of principal
and interest as attorneys fees, less
The following credits: 5000 paid
October 10, 1910: 5000 paid Novem-
Der /. 1910; 5000 paid December IL.
1910: 5000 paid January IA, 1911:
$4,000 paid February II. 1911: 5000
paid March i6,e 1911, and all costs Of
this SUIT. ]. p. FLOURNOY.
Sheriff, ex-Offieio Auctioneer.
Caucasian, December 5. 1911.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
DIR, T.. e.. Allen.

Ollice in The Cooper Buildin&. Dr..
Allen is a graduate Of both schools
and carries a full line Of honeosa-
the remedies. Special attention to
chronic diseases.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
A False Alarm.

Lookout for that girl who applied to
you today for job as stenographer.
She has designs on you"
'Shucks! You think every woman
who looks at me wants to marry me
This girls wants only to be assister to
me- "-Baltimore American
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
Insurance.

When you want money, fire instlr-
ance, bonds, life insurance, real es-
tate. accident insurance or building
and loan stock. see w. C.. AgurS, in
the Cooper buildiI0.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
For Sheriff.

The Caucasian has been author
lzed to announce that ]. P. Flournoy
IS d candidate for the office of Sher-
III and Tax Collector of Caddo Par
ish, subject to the action of the
democratic party.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
Clerical Error.

They tell OF Billville justice OF the
peace who had his first case the other
day. He performed the marriage cere-
mony aud then wrote it up in his Grim
inaI docket Atlanta Constitution
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
Not a Romance.

"Dear heart" murmured the woman
Thirty cents a pound today ex-
planned the butcher.
in that case perhaps you had better
give me some liver" louisville Cou
rier-Journal
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
EeehStuHS.

CORN-Per bushel 93c.
CORN-Per bushel 90c.
HAY-Per ton: Arkansas 1880;
timothy $500: alfalfa 5000; Red
river alfalfa $3.50; Bermuda $3.50.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
Notice Of Removal.

DR.. George A. Harper, Dentist, has
removed to the Hutchinson building,
on Texas street, opposite the court
house. Old phone 623.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
On All Fours.

A Barry county minister who quit
the pulpit to peddle fire insurance nus
gone lack 10 the ministry He says
be found onf It i M the same bus,
aess caas County tado.p Leader
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
Over Half-C Century.

Humphreys Specifics have
been used by the people with
satisfaction for more than 20
years. Medical Book sent free.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
EScuientS,

CABBAGE-Pe crate 1896; per
pound lie
ONTONS-Per bushel 81 40.
POTATOES-Per bushel $3.50.
NAVY BEANS-Per Id. &C.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14

We are prepared TO furnish COM
mercial printing Of the better kind
and we solicit an opportunity to
show you. Phones 1000.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
Dairy Products,

BUTTER-Country, good to choice
i5c; fancy creamery 35c; lib bricks
.38c.
CHEESE--Per h.: Daisy 18c.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
A Rad Time.

Have you read anything about this
Turko- Italian war;
I'm just beginning to catch up
with it. They showed poor judgment
in getting up war just at the end of
the pennant season. - Pittsburgh Post.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14

Small Brother-Are you going to
marry Sister RUTH
Caller Why-er-l really don't
know. you know.
Small Brother = That's what |
thought. Well, you are,-Life.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
Needed Lather.
some soap box orator"

who is the leather lunged speak
err
Some soap box orator"
Judging from the appearance of bis
countenance. be needs better ac-
quaintance with his platform -
Judge.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14

The Caucasian has been author
ized 10 announce DIR. 7. M. Cornegys
as q candidate for the Office OF As
SCISSOR of Caddo Parish, subject to
the action of the Democratic party.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
Coffee.

COFFEE-Per h.: Fair II i-2c:
medium lie: better grades 18c.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
SuUar and MOlaSSeS.

SUGAR-Standard granulated per
6 $50; choice Y. C. Lee.
MOLASSES-Choice 25c; prime
2Sc; common zoe; pure sugar house
45c.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-14
For Assessor.

The Caucasian has been author
lied to announce that 5. @. Hollings-
worth is candidate for reelection
I'd the Office OF assessor Of Caddo
parish, subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-09-22
r. Oil EATTIER
Lincoln Immorfalizes September 22nd


come and go at his own sweet will He did
not exactly become man on that day, but
he made a long step in that direction and it
was not long thereafter that he gained that
coveted boon.
August Fourth because it was on that day
under the leadership of William Wherefore
the English government emancipated her
West India slaves and laid the foundation
for the emancipation of all American
Negroes. In celebrating that day no dis
respect is shown to the United States, but
it is paying homage to the nation that took
the initiative in the freeing Of a race that
had been torn from its original home.
September Twenty second, because it was
the day that Lincoln took his first step to-
ward keeping the promise he made to his
God and himself, all of which has been gone
over in this connection.
The Negro of the United States firmly
believes that the time will yet come when
the white man will be as keen to participate
in these celebrations as he himself, because
he will see the justice of the acts of those
days and will by that time also realize that
it was the work of those days that made it
possible for the Nation to continue to exist.
At the time of the issuing of the eman-
cipation proclamation the four million
Negroes of the United States were almost
wholly confined to the Southern states, and
perhaps, not to exceed half million all told
lived north of Mason and Dixon line, and it
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that section, but they are rapidly scattering
all over the United States, to the islands of
the sea, even to South and Central America
while he still has an abiding faith in the
Lord Jesus he also has strong belief that
and to every place where the white man
prospers, and he, too, is learning to seek for
a share of the goods the Gods provide. He
has long since ceased to sing, You may
have all this world but give me Jesus" and
to get some of the goods of this world will
give him a much better standing with the
Lord Jesus.
The progress this people has made since
the emancipation some forty odd years ago
is surprisingly remarkable, and it is so be-
cause he is making it under difficulties In
the city of Seattle the few hundred Negro
families that live here own more than a
million dollars worth of property, and the
most of them have accumulated the same
by working at odd jobs and investing their
earnings in real estate, which has enhanced
in valeu as the town and city has grown.
For the most part they spurn colonization
AZ Al 4
vance more rapidly by mingling with the
whites and their realty holding become more
valuable If the white man would only real
ize that the black man would the sooner be-
come more worthy and acceptable citizen
of this proud republic by scattering and find
ing homes among them the sooner the mil
lenium, so far as the black and white folk
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-09-22


benefactor and the half million brave sons
of this land of the free and home of the
brave" who fought for their liberty, the
black folk all over the United States will
either meet in mass or in private today,
Friday, September 22nd, and re-relate to
each other and their children the history of
Abraham Lincoln and the bloody Civil War
that followed his emancipation proclamation
that broke the bonds of slavery from their
ancestors.
Like God, they will say, Abe Lincoln
came and went, after he had done the work
he came to do. Why, Lincoln, when only
a Mississippi river steamboat deck hand,
after seeing human being sold from the
auction block, should conceive the idea that
a time would come when he would be able
to administer to the institution of slavery
death blow is beyond human concep-
ton, but he did, and it was but few short
years before we find this man, who seemed
destined only as a newer of wood and
drawer Of water, with the reins of the United
States government in his hands, and the
same determinedness as the boat he piloted
down the Mississippi river with his horny
hands of toll On Bonded knees, as was the
Savior Of the world in the garden of Gethse-
mamie, he prayed to the God Of the uni
verse for strength to do what he had prom
ised himself he would do, if ever he had the
opportunity human slavery deadly
blow He was given the opportunity and
be kept his word, blessed be his memory,
and, the Civil War to the contrary notwith-
standing, the whole country is the happier
that he lived and that he kept his promise.
The colored people of this far Northwest,
though far removed from the race strife and
turmoi1s of the South and the effete East,
and though living in perfect peace with their
white brethren, have not lost sight of those
times and events, nor have they grown in
different to their memory, and they, there
fore, will congregate here and there today
and pay homage to the great emancipation
and likewise to his memory for having is
sued the emancipation proclamation, and,
finally, to the half million white men who
died that they might be free.
The black man of the United States of
America is no longer an alien race and is
no longer government charge, but is rapid
ly developing into broad-gagued liberal
minded citizen, and sharing a like in the
veal and the woe of the entire people, He
is as proud of his government as a Roose-
welt or Taft and is as ardent an advocate
of America for Americans as he or she who
boasts of being son or daughter of the Am
erican Revolution. The nations holidays
arouse his patriotism the same as they do
the white mans, and the sigh of Old Glory
brings the same tears Of joy 10 his eyes that
it does to the most Jealous and liberty-lov-
ing white man. But the black man wishes
it distinctly understood that there are three
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-09-22
SEPTEMBER 20, 1911.

mortal Abraham Lincoln fired the shot that
was heard round the world, and the Eman-
citation Proclamation, which was to break
the shack1es from four million human be-
ings, doomed above the political horizon,
which was already badly bedimed with war
clouds and occasional showers OF human
blood and stood out in bold relief. 1t was
truly the day on which the nation right
about faced and began to practice what 1t
had preached Equal Rights and Equal JUS
tice to all mankind The recipients Of that
proclamation of human rights are not ex-
actly justified in Undertaking that day as
the one on which peace was spoken to their
souls and freedom to their bodies, but they
realize it was the beginning OF the end
which, so far as the United States govern
ment was concerned, sounded the death
knell to slavery, the same to take full force
and effect the following January, the eXplra-
ton of the allotted time, those in rebellion
against the parent government were given
to Law down their arms and return to the
Union, from which they had seeded.
That proclamation was directly re-
sponsible for one of the bloodiest internecine
wars of medieval or modern history, the
final outcome of which was the emancipa-
ton of four million slaves and the suDse-
ouent enfranchisement of them by the coun-
try in which they had for so many years
been only chattels.
The results Of that proclamation gave to
the United States million untimely graves
and equally as many widows and orphans,
who mourned all Of their lives tor those
near and dear to them, who went down to
death in the heat of battle in the swamps OF
the South, where they will forever sleep
Finally, that proclamation gave to the cit
liens of the United States Race Problem
or controversy, solution of which the ad-
vanced thinkers Of the whole country are
seeking ways and means to solve.
And summing it all up, when before IN
the history Of the world did the one day
acts of a man bring to the human family
greater responsibilities and more causes Tor
mourning as we'll as rejoicing? And when
this latter day civilization OF the United
States quietly sits down and counts up the
cost of the whole, as resulting from the work
of September twenty-second 1862, it must
conclude that the price paid for the liberty
Of an alien race was unusually high. But 1t
has been written in the book of books, the
Rible. that the sins of the fathers shall De
visited up on the children's children, to the
third and fourth generation, and SO the sons
Of the rebellion suffered for the sins OF the
cons Of the revolution. The fathers OF col
onial days, who permitted the accused IN
stitution of slavery to become one OF the
fundamental principles of the government
...1oao chief corner stone was Human Lib
erty, sowed the seeds of sin that came can
gerously near destroying the government lof
which they fought SO long and hard TO es-
tablish
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-09-22

Talking Taft or Taft talking is coming,
and soon he may talk himself POLITICALLY
to death.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-01
NEWTOWN

The Walnut Tree Hill team defeat ed the Lenox- A. c. of Bridgeport at Hillside Park, Sunday afternoon, by a score of 7-6.
 John Heating of Bridgeport, spent Sunday the guest. of Miss Elizabeth Keating
 Fred Reiner has been entertaining James and Edward Lynch of Bridge port.
 Misses Mary and Margaret Crowe left yesterday to spend a week at Walnut Beach.
 Daniel Kenny of Bridgeport has been enjoying a weeks visit with Miss Anna Griffin.
 The Newtown High School Alumnae Association will give dance in the town hall, Friday evening, Aug. 4. A five piece orchestra from Bridgeport will furnish music, and good time is assured all who attend. Admission, 30; balcony, 25c.
 The game between the. Botsford Hill baseball team and Sandy Hook, play ed Sunday afternoon, resulted in fa- vor of Botsford Hill, the score being 14-1
 Mrs. F. C. Briggs and Miss Roberta Neville spent Monday in the Park City.
 Miss Eleanor Cavanaugh left yester- day for New York, after spending a months vacation with her mother, Mrs. Lucy Cavanaugh, who accom- panied her as far as Bridgeport.
 Master Frederick Leiss has returned from a weeks visit in the Park City.