The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-08-09
Echoes from St. Helena.
(From the st. Helena Echo. ]

/ We have eaten Watermeions dur
/ ing the past week or SO until we be
gin to feel a bit sappy, whether W,
look it or not
Since the rains set iii the hauling
Oh lumber to the depot has given u!
two roads from here there. The bes
/ one is about two feet below the olt
one.
i Women are becoming such experts
in shooting their husbands or thos.
/ whom they want to make husbands
of, that we have concluded to wall
just a bit more circumspecIly.
/ The Mansfield Enterprise says tht
trouble over the New Orleans docl
board grew out of the fact that the
lumber used by them was composed
principally of knots and Woodpeckel
holes.
The rains during the past weel
/ have, no doubt, rendered the boil
Weevils much assistance in the rails
ing of their families, and these young
er weeyils will soon be aping oul
Masonic friends by working ON the
square.
A female brother of the Louisiana
press gang recently ground out the
following: I'VE know of q few mer
/ in this community who are willing te
go to Africa as missionaries, but who
are not willing to take care of a
cross baby for tired wife for hall
an hour
We sometimes send out q few sam
pie copies of the Echo, just to lei
some folks see good thing, and al
SO as an invitation to subscribe te
it. The price is only one dollar a
year, and the paper is worth every
cent of it and more too. Take it a
year and get rid of the blues.
It is strange how some good men
will let their political prejudices over
ride their better judgment. 1t has
gotten our friend e. O. Rruner into
jail, and before he gets through with
it no doubt a great deal OF his cold
cash will have faded away. Nothing
but blind prejudice could ever have
induced him to charge that DIR. bod.
son was crooked, for he never be-
| lieved 1t.
One OF the most resoureeful as
well as devoted pastors belonging to
| the Louisiana conference is Rev. A,
Inman ToWnsley, now OF Rayville
He is noted for doing the right thing
at the right time, and we note by q
recent issue OF the Delhi Progress
that he appeared before his audience
there last Sunday in his shirt sleeves
and allowed his congregaIieA to at.
tend in like manner. This d acting
with common sense. and We would
like to see the custom become uni
| versal.
A Newspapers Proper Mission.
The Breaux Bridge Valley of the
Teche has been revived, with Dom
engeaux & Domengeaux as proprie
tors and r. E. Domengeaux as edi
tor and manager. The following ex
tract from the new management's S
salutatory outlines a course that de.
serves the fullest need of success
and embraces the very best concep.
ton Of local newspapers proper
mission:
"Our watchWord shall be progress
and our aim and purpose shall be to
push forward whatever will tend to
the. betterment and advancement OF
the community, and to oppose with
all our energy whatever in our mind
shall not be for its best interests and
material welfare. In this connection
we wish to say that we believe that
lack of harmony has been the mill
tant factor in our stagnation and re-
PROGRESSION, and that politics are in
a measure responsible for the exist
ing conditions. We shall therefore
have as little to do with politics as
shall be consistent with the work we
are undertaking. This paper is our
individual property and belongs to no
political faction. It win remain free
and impartial, promising fair play TO
every one, as indicated by its motto:
Justice to all, injustice to none.