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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08

The first load of cauliflower for
the 1913 season was taken to the
Margaretville depot on Monday.
Caulifower is bringing an excellent
price at present and the local grow
ers out-distance the Long Island
raisers in the matter of an early
crop. Cauliflower raising has be-
come a very important industry in
Dunraven and New Kingston
townsville News.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08

The neighbors of a certain ANA
teur farmer on Straw Hill have been
having considerable fun at his ex-
pense the past few days. He had a
small meadow to NOW and had only
one horse. He engaged a moving
machine and neighbor to drive and
then he got into the harness and
helped the horse pull the machine,
making an assistant of himself to
the other horse.-Sidney Enterprise.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08

Susquehanna borough council
awarded the contract for the paving
Of Main and Front streets of that
town to w. E. Bennett, of Lanesboro
for the sum of $21,467.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08

that the American army would fight
uphill from the moment it set foot on
Mexican soil and that every military
crest would be point Of vantage for
the Mexicans. Most of the fighting
would occur in the defles between the
escarpment walls With fanatical
Mexican soidiery holding the heights.
this would become bloody work in
deed.
The diversion movement upon Tam
pico would have little value, except it
sustained an invasion across the lower
courses of the Rio Grande Strate-
gically Tampico is hardly on the
map, and the American military sphere
to be established there would extend
to the north rather than to the west
and south. The country's topography
determines that.
But with Mexico City taken and with
the territory toward the coast cleared
the pacification of Mexico would not
yet have commenced. To all intents
and purposes that part of the republic
is as trunquil today as it ever has
Deeu VI pIobuDiy eNtl VIII US
Capture of Capital.
To what extent would the taking Oh
the capital influence the Mexicans is
now the question to be considered To
be sure, when the Germans had taken
Paris In 1871 the back bone of all re
sistance had been broken. There are
many instances of this sort of history,
but In this respect the City oftMexico
means so little to the MeXicans that
such a result could not be hoped for
The pacifcation of MeXice-for that
could be the only reasonable objective
Of intervention--would have to be car,
ried into the most remote parts of the
republic In thut would lie the diff
Guilty
There is the hope, of course, that the
saner element of Mexico would by that
time realize that law and order We're all
the American army demanded But
this Is merely a hope, not well sup
ported by the cOuntry's antecedents
One has to know the intimate history
of political Mexico, from Hidalgo and
Juarez down, to understand how little
justification there is for such conclu
sion The Mexican is not above de
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08
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Miss Louise Todd, of Lake Como,
will enter the West Side hospital,
Scranton, to become a nurse.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08
Minute Movies"
of the News
Right Off the Reel

Cherry pies in Chicago were found to
be made of watermelon pulp.
Entire church congregation Of 800 in
Milwaukee has been formally placed
under arrest on a charge of illegal
liquor selling.
One thousand Kansas churches have
been abandoned because of automo-
biles, it was declared at conference
Of ministers there
Woman in Sandyston township, N.
j., felt something bite her at night
and found q copperhead snake two
feet long in her bed.
Policemen have been placed on the
Northwestern University campus, in
Chicago, to keep students and co-eds
from promenading together.
In a barber's chair when called to
preside over the senate, Senator Clark
hurried TO the rostrum and from the
Republican side appeared clean shay
en-, while those on the Democratic side
saw a DAVIS growth of beard
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08

The D. & H. company must pay
$93, ,634 to Shoemaker estate in Lu-
zerne county for small sizes of coal
mined since 1873 according to an
opinion handed down by Judge
Strauss of the Luzerne court.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08

Clyde Pratt, member of the
Nicholson Rod and Gun club won
first prize in the amateur events
held by the United Sportsmen at
Scranton with a score of 13O out of
$50 shots.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08

Surveyors are going over the Bo-
vina, New York State road again. 1t
is stated that the purpose is to ascer-
tain if the contractor removed the
number of yards of dirt claimed, etc.
With the original survey costing 5000
a mile, this will bring the amount to
over $1,000 mile for the survey
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08

Dyfed, the Welsh poet laureate,
has been granted a pension of $3.50
per annum by the British govern
ment. He was recently entertained
by the Welsh Americans of Scran-
ton. He and Rev. d. w. Jenkins, of
this place, wrote for the same pub
lication years ago in Wales.-Forest
City News.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
DeviIIe Home Burns.

Last Monday night, almost at
the ushering in Of the New
Year, the holiday festivity of
Christmas week was marred by
a sad and disastrous fire at the
home Of one Of our we'll known
citizens, Mr.. Edmond Deville,
near the western limits of the
city. While Mr.. Deyille was at
tending the evening performance
at the Princess theatre and other
members of his family were ab-
sent from the city, his home
caught fire in some inexplicable
manner and before the alarm
was sounded was under such
headway that it was impossible
for even our efficient fire boys
and the willing hands of a host
of citizens to save it. The home
with practically all its contents
were wiped out. We extend to
Mr.. Deville our deepest sympa-
thy in this loss, one which strikes
so deeply at any time, and es-
pecially at such a period.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
Lodges Elect Officers.


raine Ghanfer No. az Order Of
Eastern Stars. held on Dec. 23d
the followino e officers were elected Il
to serve for the ensuing wear.
Miss Irene Shnte Worthy Ma
tron. n.9H Mrs d Della Goo1loa A Associ- u.
are Matron. T,eon g Haas 'Wor-
thy Patron Miss Helen Cain.
Worthy Secretary. Dr. + A,
Haas Treasurer: Mrs r G.
Shute Condnctress. Miss Daisy
Thoonson, n Associate CondI1efr.
ess. Mrs M M Haves Chan
lain. Mrs e " Hicks Ada.
Mrs G z. Harrison Ruth. Mrs
g. f. Loeb. Esther: Mrs. 3. Ben
net. Martha. Mrs, G. 3. Price.
Electa. Mrs Addie THOMPSON
Warder. M Winsbero Sentinel.
.Iames N M sanders Marshal. +. Miss
.Tosie Price, ORGANISE.
The installation took Mace on
Dec. 9th. at the Masonic Hall.
At It's regular meeting on Dee.
18th, humble Cottage Lodge NO.
u, +. q !. A. NJ, elected the tol-
lowing officers to serve Tor the
next year:
Waiter w. Smith, w. NJ; !;
ghas. L. Yoornles, s. w; Meyer
WnsDerg, y. W. Dr. Jonn a.
Haas, treasurer; Alien Dezaacne,
Secretary; y. l.. Botten, 2. Y. !;
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
oPELoUsAs LA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4 1918
THE PARCELS POST STAMP.

The local postofice has re-
ceived a large supply of stamps
for use in the parcels post ser
vice, and have been on sale since
the 1st.
The stamps are very attractive
in design and coloring. They
are oblong and very similar in
shape to the special delivery
stamp now in use. They are in
many denominations, running
from l cent to Is cents and are
red in color.
The designs show various
phases of our modern Industrial
and business life and some de-
nominations are devoted to a pic
torial exposition Of the wonder
ful postal service which Uncle
Sam has built up and which en-
ables the expeditions transac-
tlons Of the vast volume of bus
mess done by the American peo-
pie.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
SANDERS TO SPEAK IN
OPELOUSAS.
Good Roads and Street Paving
His Subject.

The question of paving the
main business streets of the city
has been discussed at different
times, but the fact that street.
paving without first having sew
erage would entail too great an
expense has kept the proposition
obeyance. Now that the sewer
age system will soon be complet-
ed the project is being generally
discussed by the progressive bus
mess men of the city. In order
to bring the matter more promi-
nently to the attention Of our
citizens Mayor Loeb and Presi-
dent L. H. Mornhinveg Of the
Progressive League have ar
ranged to have Ex-Governor
Sanders, President of the Petrol
ithic Good Roads Development
Co, speak here on the subject,
the meeting to take place at the
courthouse at 7:30 o'clock on Fri
day, January 17th. Mr.. Sanders
is well-posted on the subject and
isssa most forceful and convincing.
speaker, and we have no doubt.
his demonstration of the great
benefits to be derived from good
roads in the country as well as
paved streets in the city will
assist greatly in the construction
of the paving project.
All should come and hear him,
whether they believe in good
roads or not-his talk will be
well worth listening to.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
Mrs. S. c. cappel.

Died, at her residence at Ever
green, La, on Monday evening
the 23rd., of December past,
Mrs. S. G. Cappel, nee Matte
Thompson at the age of 55 years.
she was the daughter of the late
Col. Jas. M. Thompson and a
sister of Hon. ]. j. Thompson
and Mrs. John n, Ogden. She
left thirteen children, t w O
daughters and eleven sons.
The deceased was a woman of
great charity and kindness of
heart, and ministered to the
wants of the sick with the great
est kindness and care. If those
who do their duty here are rem
dered in the next world, size is
now a partaker Of those Heaven
ly Joys that are reaped by those
who have led a well spent life.
Peace Ito her ashes. May her
dear ones learn to bear her loss
with Christian patience and
fortitude.
Marksville, Alexandria and
Crowley papers will please copy.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Dee.lir,
after spending several mor,ths
in Opelousas and Eunice. re-
turned to their home in PoHlte
Coupee parish this week.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
SUNSET NOTES

The holidays passed very
quietly in Sunset. The pupils of
the Sunset school were given a
Christmas tree on Dec. 20, at6:30
O'Clock in the auditorium of the
school building. A program of
appropriate Christmas songs and
recitations was rendered, after
which Mr.. Fernand Dardeau ap-
peared in the role of Santa Claus,
and delighted the childr en- with
his happy speeches before dis
tributing the gifts from the tree.
A number of visitors were
present and the occasion was
much enjoyed by all.
Miss Louise Foraist and Messrs
Geo. Boudreau and Reni Laver-
gne, who are attending school at
the Industrial Institute in Laf-
ayette, spent the holidays at
home.
Miss Elma PuIliam and Miss
Josie Price, two popular teachers
of Sunset, spent the holidays at
their respective homes, Gueydan
and Opelousas.
Misses Rita and Bertha Bernard
spent Christmas with relatives in
Opelousas.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Stewart Of
Opelousas paid Sunset a short
visit this week.
Miss Rita Dardeau visited in
Carencro last Sunday.
Mrs. Sheppard and little
daughter from Michigan spent
the holidays IN Sunset with Mrs.
Dardeau.
Mr.. Eaton GiIbeau Of Grand
Point was among the many
visitors to Sunset this week.
Mr.. Armond Andrus and
family Of Carencro spent Sunday
with relatives in Sunset.
The many friends of Mrs.
John Sibille will learn with much
regret Of her sudden death which
occurred at the residence of her
father, DR.. Ben Guilbeau, Dec.
80. The funeral took place atsthe
Catholic church in Grand Coteau
the following day at 4 o'clock.
A little girl has come to make
her home at Dr.. L. E. Landry's,
arriving Thursday the 18th.
Mrs. Felix Guilbeau and little
daughter, spent the holidays in
Crowley with relatives.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
The CORPORATION
CRA|RHEN NAMED
Butler and Burke to Head Two
State Investigating
Bodies.

Baton Rouge, La, Dec. 28.
Governor Hall to-day named
Robert B. Butler of Terreborne
parish chairman. of the commits
sion to compile and revise the.
corporation laws of the state,
and Walter j.. Burke of New
Iberia chairman Of the commits
sion on employers liability.
The two commissions were ehe
two most important created by,
the last general assembly, and
the appointment of the chair
man, it is believed, viii at an
early date be followed by the ap-
pointment of the other members
of the two bodies.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
NINETEEN SALOON
LICENSES ISSUED
City Gets S IL, 10000 Revenue
For The State OF Liquor
I'm 1913

Nineteen licenses were issued
by City Clerk Stagg this week to
retail liquor dealers eight white
and eleven colored: The whites
are: Courthouse Cafe, Doucet &
Lewis; Chachere's Cafe, by John
Molaison; The Waldorf, by R. B.
Christman; The Red Top Saloon,
by DeVargas & Fonteot; The
Branch Saloon, by Leon Pitre;
The LaCobe Hotel Cafe, by
A Ardoin&CampelI; WybIe & Budd,
and John Nico.. The licenses for
colored saloons were issued to
JOS. Lassalle, J. L. Cahanin,
Remy Wallior, Ardoin & Sandoz,
L. Tridico, Stephen Corti, jim
Polite, Ben. Donoto, Duplechain
Bros. Benny Green and Moses
Fl. Green.
Each of these paid into the
City treasury the sum of $500, 90
making a total revenue to the
city of S Il, 10000; they also paid
to the State $4,000 each,. and
for internal revenue, $25. 90 each.
Several changes in the salofh
business took place with the
advent Of the New Year. The
Court house Cafe. was sold to
Messrs. Frank Doucet and W. D.
Lewis, who have assumed charge;
Mr.. John Molaison, the former
assuming charge of the
Chachere Cafe on Landry street.
Messrs. L. B. Wyble and Foster
Budd have succeeded Mr.. J. A.
Budd, and Mr.. ]. F. DeVargas
has associated himself with Mr..
Ariel Fontenot in the Red Top
Saloon, Mr.. Fontenot having
removed to Eunice where he
will engage in the same business.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
OUR BANKS
Annual Statements Show
Satisfactory Business
Conditions.

We publish in this issue of the
Clarion the annual statements
of our five city banks and the
banks of Melville and of Sunset,
all of which show healthy prog
Eress compared with the state
tments Of last year, and show a
better general condition Of bust
mess than the conditions earlier
I in the year seemed to warrant.
In spite of high water. in the
early part Of the year., the boll
Weevil, and the consequent short
age Of crops, the business Of the
banks has been satisfactory, as
a perusal Of the statements will
show. Two of them, the SIT.
Landry State Bank and the Peo-
pies State Bank, have declared
dividends of 20 per cent. and the
Opelousas National it's usual 4
per cent. senai-annual dividend.
The Planters National and the
Union Bank and Trust Co., both
being young institutions, have
not yet declared any dividends;
but it is expected will be on d
dividend-paying basis before
long, Judging from present In
dications.
The bank of Sunset has also
declared a dividend Of 10 per
cent.
This speaks well for them and
shows that, while conservative,
they are also progressive in their
business methods.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
BISHOP SESSUMS
VISITS OPELOUSAS

That gifted orator and most
popular churchman, Bis h o p
David Sessums of New Orleans,
head Of this diocese of tn e
Episcopal church, visited Opelou-
sas on Monday evening of this
week to oficiate at the annual
confirmation services. In the
class confirmed were Mast AL
McGinnis, Miss Eleanor Boagni,
Miss Ruth Lastrapes, daughter
of DR.. w. R. Lastrapes, and
Master Ernest Mckinney, son
Of contractor Thurston McKin-
ney. The services were, as
usual, well attended and carried
out with impressive formality.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04

The condition of our streets is
something horrible and does not
improve with tn e continued
changes in the weather fair one
day and foul the next which we
have been experiencing for the
past month. Work on them has
been practically abandoned, ex-
cept emergency cases which are
numerous and are promptly at
tended to by Commissioner Hal
phen who, like the Watchman on
the tower, never sleeps on the
ioh
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04

/ ton Of the Lafayette institute;
made plans for the Natchitocfes,
Houma, Thibodaux, Breaa
Bridge, Jeanerette and St. Mar
tin school houses. Furnished
the plans for the erection of the
Opelousas National Bank, the
Union Bank & Trust Co., both of
this city, and many others too
numerous to mention. They
stand at the head of the sAmer-
lean Institute Of Architects. But
upon this occasion they Wereshut
out the same as the contractors,
not permitted to offer anysplans.
Will Mr.. Thompson plesae
answer the following questions?
Is itnot a fact that your minor
son, a member of your housel
hold, is conducting lin y r
office, an office rented and paid
for by the school board a schoo-
agency known as The Evange-
line Teacher Agency" and "The
Texas Bureau, and that all
teachers applying for schools
through that agency have to pay
a percentage Of their salary to
teach school in this parish?
Is it not a fact that you told
Mr.. Stevens OF the firm of
Stevens & Nelson that there was
no one here able to construct the
school house, and advised him
to that effect?
Is it not q fact that you stated
in the presence Of DR.. Berwick
and Mayor Placide Robin that
ysur objection to the erection of
the school house near the Catho-
lie church in Port Barre was be-
cause the priests S influence with
the school was bad, and the
priest would run the school?
/ hope you will see your way
clear to answer the above ques-
tions in thes next issue of this
paper.
Yours truly,
CHAS. THIBODEAUX,
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
The Parish Medical Society

The Parish Medical Society
will meet in this city on We'd
nesday January 8. The annual
election of officers will be held in
the afternoon, at which lectures
will be delivered by DR.. J. NJ.
Bachelor of New Orleans and DR..
Ellis of Lake Charles. In the
evening a public meeting will be
held at tn ! court house at
Z o'clock. DR.. Bowling will speak
at this meeting on sanitation and
no doubt his talk will be of
interest to the people of the
surrounding country as we'll as to
the people Of the city. The
public is cordially invited and
your presence is efnestly re-
quested. Members of the Society,
with members Of their family
and the speakers will banquet at
the Lacornbe hotel after the
meeting.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
STORY OF "THE CLANSNAN'
Plot of Famous Play w
Known to All Theatre
gOers.

The story Of Thomas Dixon's s
celebrated drama, ''The Clans
man." which will appear in this
city on Tuesday, January 7, 1913,
at the Sandoz Opera House. is
we'll known to all theatregoers.
However, in view of the coming
engagement of the play, it may
be we'll to mention it.
1.-THE Clansman" is briefly the
story of how the descendants of
the Scottish clans, living in the
South Carolina hill country, rose
up in the year Of 1867 and threw
off the carpetbagger yok e..
Their agency in effecting this
result was the celebrated Ku
Klux Klan. ;, The hero of the
play, Ben Cameron, is a leader
of the Klan. His sweetheart,
Elsie Stoneman, is the daughter
of an Abolitionist, the organizer
|of the hated Union League.
Here is the interplay of love and
hate, Of passion. and circum-
stance, in which the dramatist
delights.
Elsie's father puts forth every
effort to enforce negro domina-
ton, and Ben as stoutly resists.
The latter is arrested and clap
ped in jail by the scalawag
white Governor of the State, who
is egged on by the mulatto Lieu
tenant Governor, Silas Lynch.
A Federal Court martial SEN
tences Ben to death. Elsie begs
the Lieutenant Governor to save
him. The latter says he will if
Elsie will marry him (the mu-
latto). Elsie faints at the shock
ing proposal. Stoneman enters
and is maddened on learning
what his trusted protege Lynch
has done. He has encouraged
Lynch about social equality and
indeed has told him to go ahead
and marry a white woman; but
when he learns that Lynch wants
his own daughter, that is another
story and his rage AM disgust
are beyond bounds.
Yet Stoneman and his daugh-
ter are helpless in the hands of
the mulatto. It is the Ku Klux
Klan who, headed by the res
cued Ben surround the house,
make Lynch prisoner and free
the old man and his daugh-
ter. Stoneman at last sees his
gigantic mistake in trying to
rule the country by carpet bag
gers and negroes and in instilling
false ideas Of social and political
equality. He announces that he
will make another trip to Wash
ington to induce the authorities
there to withdraw the Federal
troops and allow the Southern
people to manage their affairs in
their own way. Ben and Elsie.
are united. A fairer day begins
for that portion of the stricken
South, thanks to the high pur-
pose, steadfast courage and he
roic achievements of the KuI
Klux Klan, an Invisible Empire
which within a few months over
spread a territory larger than
modern Europe, snatched power
out of defeat and death,
and tore the fruits Of victory
from twenty million conquerors. 4"
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
The Power Plant Is Self
Sustaining.

When the Meitz & Weiss oil
engine was purchased for the
power plant Mayor Loeb prom
ised the people of 0peIousas a
self-sustaining plant. The ma
chinery has been running Just
twelve days now and shows a
profit for the month of Deceln-
Der OF S427. 80. At this rate the
profits for January will be more
than double that amount.
The plant is in truth self-sus-
taining and Mayor Loeb's state
ment has been verified. We con-
gratulate the Mayor and the city.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
A. rectiorl

In our report Of the baby show
last week, we stated that one Of
the prizes was won by Golden
Lassalle, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Goldman i. Lassalle. It
was his bright little son Goldman
E. Lassalle, Jr., who was the
winner.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04

Postmaster Lassalle requests
US to state that ordinary postage
cannot be used on packages
going by parcels post; they must
be stamped with the special
parcels post stamps l.royided for
that purpose. For Rates apply to
the postmaster.
Attorney L. Austin Fontenot
returned on Thursday from q
business trip to the Capital.
Gilbert L. Dupre. Jr.. a prom :
nent young attorney of New
Orleans, son Of Judge G. L.
Dupre, spent the New. Year with
relatives and friends here.
Capt. Vincent w. Boagni,
capitalist, Of New Orleans, was q
visitor here this week, combining
business with the pleasure Of the
holidays.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-01-04
Ministerial Appointments

The Metodist Conference,
recently in session at Monroe,
made the following appointments
in this parish: G. A. Morgan,
Opelousas and Washington; w.
II. Long, Eunice; P. A. Swan,
Melville. Rev. FL. w. May, who
filled the pulpit here ii 1910,
is presiding elder Of the district.