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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-11
A Terrapin Patch
With Every Lot

within reach of all brochure the rearing and
terrapin will be obtainabe by all who have pulls
with Congressman and thereafter terrapm farms will spring
up like dandeon patches in every quarter of the land No
longer the market will coldy inform the md housewife
that diamond backs dollars and fifty cents each, for
they will be shoveed into bins like coal by the newly instructed
farmers and they bring ten cents dozen viii only be
a strong market
This Of viii lower the public veneraOn for the ter
rapm and lose him his high place the banquet but
will bring him into the lowy cottage of the tired
business and supply agreeable change in his daily diet
of roast beef medium.
The Bureau of Fisheries is to be congratulated Having left
its strictly legitimate domain deal with these amphbians
which only constructive fish at best perhaps it find
way classify and sheep fish, and by teaching how
they may be chepy brought maturity bring about real down
ward revision of the butchers schedules.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-11
By DOROTHY DIX.

- AS&@As
a shrewish woman was, and how
everybody would hate her and
avoid her if she gave way to tam
trums. All In vain. Sally was
insensible to that view of the sub
ject.
Finally one day her mother said
to her, You have a brilliant mind,
and a wonderfully strong will. I
wonder that any one with your
intelligence and your determine
ton of character should be domi-
mated by a weakness" That ap-
pealed to Sally's vanity, and just
to show that she was stronger
than her temper she conquered it
so that to-day she has reputa-
ton for amiability.
And if you can do more with
soft words than with hard ones
with children, how very, very
more efficacious in fiattery than
knocks in the family circle! Be
lieve me, it is soft soap that
makes the domestic machinery re-
volve without a hitch.
who is the woman who spends
hours and days joyously over the
kitchen stove, connecting tooth
some dishes for her lord and mas
ter? Is it the wife of the man
who is always batting her because
she can't make bread like mother
used to make? Nay, verify. The
woman who knows that her best
culinary efforts are going to be
growled over, anyway, stops on
the way home from her bridge
whist, and buys an unsavory mess
at the delicatessen store, which
she sets before the crouch she is
tied to.
praises his wife's handiwork as he
eats who fares sumptuously
every day. for there's some en-
enlargement to a woman to make
a burnt offering Of herself if she
is going to receive the proper ap-
probation for it. But nobody
wants TO be an unsung martyr.
The Secret.
Who is the woman who pares.
and scrimps, and economies, and
makes over her old clothes and
retrims her hats? Is it the wife
whose husband is always berat-
ing her for her extravaganza?
Not much. She feels that mas
much as she is going to be blamed
anyway, she had as well have
good clothes by way of consola-
ton. The woman who squeezes a
nickel until the buffalo on it bowls
with pain is the one whose hus-
band is always Boosting that she
is such a fnancier that If she had
her due she would be Secretary
OF the Treasury.
Also, you may observe, that the
husbands who are nailed TO their
own firesides are the men whose
wives are always telling about
how entertaining John is. and how
big and strong and handsome and
wise he is. Keeping flattery on tap
at home is like keeping Scotch on
the sideboard. A man doesn't
have to run around the corner TO
get It, Also it's generally a better
brand and not so expensive.
The moral Of all Of which is
that praise is the lever by which
each Of US can move our little
world. And the more fools we,
that we haven't sense enough to
use it oftener
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-11

Wrought to a high pitch of
indignation by the high cost of
terrapin, the Bureau of Fisher
les has determined to place
these delicate little creatures
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-11
Three Ships at a Time AS An
Example

They Would No More Think Of DiIy-DaIying With Their
Navy in Great Britain Than A MERCHANT WOULD
THINK OF LETTING HIS INSURANCE LAPSE
ON A GREAT STORE Filled With Millions of Dol
lars Worth Of Merchandise
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-11

n ONSIDERING that vanity is
the most prominent and
universal human attribute,
and that we are all brother and
sister to the donkey who can be
cajoled along anywhere. but can
not be driven step. isn't it
queer that we have never found
out how much more eficacious a
weapon praise is than blame?
Personally we all know in our
secret souls that we are easy
marks in the hands of the fiat
terer, and that we may be twist
ed around the finger of the jol-
Her, and yet we are so stupid that
we never think of applying to
those about us the means by
which we are ourselves so easily
worked. It's the creased hinge
that swings to our lightest touch,
not the rusty one that we batter
at with a sIedgehammer.
Poor Johnnie.
OF course, we should put in our
best effort, and time, and thought
in correcting our faults and
strengthening our weak perform
ances. As a matter Of fact, we
do just the opposite. It's our vir-
tues that we magnify. and the
things that we do well. and that
we know we are going to be
praised for, that we strive to do
better and better.
It's the people who give US the
glad hand that influence us, not
those who use a club on us. and
the surest way TO develop the
Characteristic you want in any
one about you is to keep a rosy
spotlight turned upon 1t.
For instance!
Every mother is anxious for her
children to be courteous, and to
have good manners. In order 70
achieve this the average mother
is just one incarnate don't" It's
Johnnie. don't come in the room
with your hat on; Johnnie, don't
sit still in your chair while a
lady stands; Johnnie, don't do
this; Johnnie, don't do that, and
Johnnie gets his back up. and
says 20 himself that ne isn't
going to be bothered with all that
foolish nonsense and he's going
to do exactly as he pleases.
know one mother with two
boys who, observing the futility
Of blaming children for their bad
manners. decided to try what
praising them for their good man
ners would do She would re-
mark where her Johnnie could
hear it upon his exquisite courte-
sy to women. and thereupon
Johnnie would break his neck to
open doors, and pick up handker-
chiefs for ladies, and you couldn't
have kept him in his seat on the
trolley while a woman stood If
you had nailed him to II. John
mics mother also casually re-
marked TO him how gratifying II
was to her that he had such good
table manners, and from there
on Johnnie ceased to be a spot
ter and became a Connoisseur
among the which-is which of
the forks and spoons on the din
ner table.
A Bad Temper.
knew a little girl who had a
terrific temper. Her mother tried
in every way to teach her to con-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-11
A Bad Temper.

I knew a little girl who had a
terrific temper. Her mother tried
in every way to teach her to con-
troll it. She pointed out to Sal
lie how unlovely and unattractive
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-08-01
THE PLEZOL.

The favorite refreshment parlor
of Welsh, especially of the fair and
gentle sex who here delight to fore
gather; is The Plezol, on Adams
street, so named after one of the de-
liciously paletable and refreshing
drinks that it serves.
The Plezol was established by MIR.
G. V. Moore, its present proprietor,
but scarcely a year ago, has always
done a flourishing business and the
fame of it's cooling, recuperative re-
freshments have travelled beyond the
parish prescincts. All the popular
soft drinks of summer are served and
it's delicious ice cream has an es-
pecially enviable reputation.
The sitting room for ladies and their
escorts is furnished and appointed,
electric fans generate a cooling cur
cent and in all regards the Plezol
Is recherche, recuperatiye and metro
politan.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-08-01
S. f. CARROLL.

The beautiful engravings In this
SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED EDITION
of the RICE BELT JOURNAL tell
tale of peerless proficiency in a pro-
fession or calling in which the most
titanic strides have been recently and
are being constantly made-the pho
tographic art.
The photos from which the engray-
ings were reproduced are the work
of S. E. Carroll. the well-known
Welsh photographer, and whilst the
engravings are the artistic handiwork
of a master house in this line, they
could not hold the mirror UP to ma
ture as they do but for the perfection
of the original photographs. Mr..
Caro- has followed this artistic call
ing for a quarter of a century, ever
keeps abreast of its advancing i'm
provements and ever his work is
capable.
He is a native of Illinois, but came
to Welsh from Kansas twelve years
ago where he had long lived.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-08-01
A. Il. JONES.

Tie engraving of the beautiful
residence printed in connection with
this brief sketch is characteristic of
the citizen of whom this mention
treats. 1t is the most charming and
architectually beautiful home of
Welsh and by analogy it reflects Mr..
Jones position in the community, for
pre-eminent success has perched up
on the banners of all projects with
which he has been connected during
his more than dozen years of resi-
dence in the Welsh country.
A. 7. Jones came to Welsh from
Mcpherson, Kansas, in the fall of
1900, though like SO many builders
and developers of Welsh and its re-
sources he is native of Illinois.
Until the first of the present year,
he successfully conducted a large feed
store and corallory Herewith be-
came one of the largest rice farmers
of this section, operating over 1000
acres.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-08-01

To this basic industry of the Welsh
country he now gives his undivided
attention, his farms being widely
scattered and demanding his person
al supervision and direction. And
he is Vice-President of the Welsh
Warehouse and Supply Company,
elsewhere told of, and interested in
other enterprises. He has found
time however, at the earnest solicita-
ton of his fellow citizens to serve the
town two terms as trustee and one
term as mayor.
Mr.. Jones has the grit, gristle and
gumpti0n of the son of his great ma
tive prairie commonwealth coupled
with the do-it-now push and hustle
of the Sunfiower state scions and he
combines with these qualifications
rare but unassuming executive ability
and an unfailing urbanity which dis
patches big business with unusual
promptitude. He is one of the cap
tains of industry who are building a
new and greater Louisiana.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-08-01
THE WELSH OIL FIELDS.

The pen picture of the preceding
pages of this paper of the great
basic industry of rice growing and
the Wonderous possibilities of profit
able diversified farming in this fertile
portion Of the Gulf Coast country
we believe a faithful one not over
drawn that there is here opulent
opportunities for safe and profitable
land investment and that here the
homeseeker can secure productive
acreage more advantageously than
elsewhere in the sunny southland.
Yet it can be said with equal can
dor of statement one of Welsh's
g eate.:t possibilities of future de-
velopment and rapid growth probob-
Iy lie in the adjacent Welsh oil fields,
located three miles westward.
This field is second to Spindletop
in point of time in the Gulf Coast
country being brought in here shortly
after the discovery of the great
gushers near Beaumont, indeed the
fabulous richness of Spindletop, Sour
Lake, Saratoga and other fields prob
ably retarded the development near
Welsh. Small leasers with shallow
wells have prevailed in the Welsh
ed and not sufficient acreage has
been consolidated under one lease
to warrant wild eating for deeper
oil and bigger wells. The principal
resent opera ors in the Welsh field
are Messrs R. F. Weichert and C. r.
Switzer who suitcase from the Gulf
Coast Oil company. These gentle
men have sunk and brought in four
wells from which they are now pump
ing so bbls of crude petroleum per
day which is converted into lubri-
eating oil at the nearby Rio Bravo
refinery, elsewhere told of, and which
is used by the S. P. System.
A few other shallow wells bring
the total daily output of the field up
to over 100 bbls. daily. Messrs
Weichert and Switzer, who are both
thoroughly experienced oil men, are
firm in their faith that here will be
brought in, when suitable develop
ment under right conditions be
come available, enc of the great OF
) fields of the Gulf Coast country il
fact that eventually half dozer
highly productive and profitable OF
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-08-01
POSTMASTER WIN. TERRY.

There are no safer criterions or
truer mirrors of the growth and de-
Velopment of a community than the
relative gain or loss in its postoffice
receipts and the fact that during Mr..
Terry's five years capable incumbency
Of the office of postmaster of Welsh
the volume of business in every
branch of the postoffice has increased
in volume fully one third amply
attests Welsh's abundant prosperity
during that period.
In passing it is perhaps proper to
say that Mr.. Terry's administration
of the postoffice has given great
satisfaction to the towns business
world and the people generally and
it is matter of qualification that
he was re-appointed in June last and
will serve for another four years at
least, regardless of the recent switch
in national politics.
VIM. Terry was born in Texas 33
years ago but lived in Kentucky prior
to coming to the Welsh country thir-
teen years ago. Before being ap-
pointed postmaster he was one of
the efficient salesman in the popular
Martin Bros, emporium for nearly
seven years.
Every body has a fad or hobby and
Mr., Terry's takes a form that is dis
tinctively valuable. He is a chicken
fancier, the beautiful plumaged
bountiful laying, blue-blooded Barred
Plymouth Rock, being his especia
favorites
During the FIVE years that he has
given play to this fancy he has
shipped the eggs and chickens O
this pure and profitable breed t,
every conflne of Calcasieu and JEFF
ferson Davis parishes with conse
quent improvement in the bloot
strain of their respective poultr
stock.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-08-01
III. A. DAVIDSON.

Probably no member of the mercan-
tile family of Welsh has played a
more prominent and materially use
lul part in the drama of the town
and country's development and up
building than the subject of this
sketch who, albeit young man in
the prime and zenith of physical and
mental power, is one of the pioneer
merchants of the town, and has been
connected with its business world for
over a quarter of century. He
began clerking in Welsh in 1887, or
26 years ago, in 1894 engaged in
business for himself and has since
climbed steadily upward and upward
to the highest rungs of the ladder of
mercantile success. And corallory
with successfully conducting this
business he has found time, chiefly
as senior member of the Davidson
Martin Real Estate and Loan Com
pany for four years, to be potent
factor in peopling the oil, rice and
timber lands of Louisiana and this
section in particular and in develop
ing these industries. His forceful
personality has helped develop and
upbuild Sour Lake, Saratoga, Eyange-
line, Iowa and other places.
Davidson's Cash Store, which is the
present firm name of Mr.. DaVidson's
business house, is corporation and
located in the handsome new David
son block in Adams street The Off
GERS are: H. A. Davidson, Mgr, NJ. E.
Davidson, treasurer, S. A. Davidson,
secretary.
The store deals in fancy groceries,
meats and shelf hardware, guns,
ammunition, boats and fishing tackle,
handles Austin Western graders,
ploWs and slips, J. |. Case Threshers,
engines, automobiles and Gray mot
tors, is agent for stationary and trac-
ton engines, and engines for deep
pumping equipment, and is a commits
sion agent for all machines used in
the rice belt.
Davidson'S Cash Store is one OF
the principal Spokes in Welsh's COM
mercial world and its manager has
been one of the most prominent fig.
ures in the making of the towns ma
terial history.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-08-01
CRESCENT DRUG STORE
@. j. TOUPS, Owner.

The infusion of new blood, OF new
energy and enterprise into the COM
mercial current of a community ever
makes for the material progress and
prosperity and the acquisition by
Welsh in the past year or two OF
several young and active business
men has been one of the potent fac
tors that has made for the towns
rapid growth during that period. A
notable and valuable recent addition
to commercial circles was the advent
of Mr.. 0. j. Toups who in February
last purchased the handsome, CEN
trally loca ed and we'll appointed
Crescent Drug Store adjoining the
Calcasieu Trust and Savings Bank
east on South street. The Crescent
is one of the neatest, prettiest and
best stocked drug store in Jefferson
Davis parish, model pharmacy and
credit to the town, and Mr.. Toups
states that since purchasing it his
business has been most satisfactory
exceeding very sanguine expectations
o. j. Toups is to the manor born
and first saw the light in Terrebonne
parish 28 years ago, After the usual
school course he took up the
pharmaceutical calling as his life
career and for several years past has
been a prescription druggist.
He is very much pleased with his
new home in the winsome Welsh
country.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-08-01
CITY GROCERY,
LOGNIoN & ROMERO, Prop

LOGNION & ROMERO, Props.
That the City Grocery has en-
joyed a tlourishing and ever increas-
ing business ever since it's establish
ment on Adams street near South in
July 1912 is not cause of wonder
mont.
For both of it's proprietors were
-orn and raised in Jefferson Davis
parish, they are known to everyone
nd have hosts of friends in the
Welsh country, the precept of the
golden rule was and is the guiding
star of their curriculum, training and
later business methods and this
equipment and these assess have
ever been crowned with mercantile
success.
The twentieth century is an age of
spec-alism and this firm very wisely
confines itself exclusively to staple
and fancy groceries, keeping in close
touch with the market in this field
of necessaries, thereby securing what
is good and desirable at the lowest
price and consequently frequently
changing its stock and insuring fresh
ness and purity at all times.
The members of the firm, A. E.
Lognion and v Romero, were born
on farms near Welsh thirty-two and
thirty-four years ago, respectively
They love their native town and par
ish and are ever in the vanguard OF
all movements making for their de-
velopment and upbuilding.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-08-01
PLANTERS GROCERY
A. BENOIT, Prop.

AS elsewhere more fully told of
in this issue the name of Benot is
indissolubly interviewer with the his
tory of Welsh and the Welsh country,
the development of their respective
resources, their material upbuilding
and moral improvement.
The subject of this sketch is
worthy SCION of this splendid Creole
stock of Jefferson Davis parish who
have contributed so much to it's ma
terial welfare and moral well being.
He first saw the light on the old
Benoit plantation near Welsh thirty
three years ago and is the head of
the family in point of being thu
Oldest son Of the present generation.
He was raised on the farm, educated
in the public schools and followed
different vocations until establish
ing the Planters Grocery five years
ago. Of this venture he has made a
splendid success by keeping the best
goods obtainable and by fair and
honest dealing with his patrons. He
does an increasing business each
succeeding year and no doubt his
trade will be still further augmented
in his new and neat store in the D..
C. Hebert building close to the depot,
to which he has just removed. Mr..
Benoit Is great lover of and believer
in the future prosperity of his native
town and parish and is ever to be
found in the forefront of all move
ments making for their growth and
upbuilding.
AS a single example of his pro-
gressiveness in business ways we
note that Mr.. Benoit was the first.
and so far the only Welsh merchant
to install an auto delivery. BY means
of this new venture he Is enabled to
deliver goods to his city patrons
much quicker than heretofore and
also to make daily delivery trips into
the surrounding country.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-08-01
DIR. r.. r.. ARCENEAUX

"A prophet is ever without honor
in his own country" runs the ancient
adage meaning thereby that the
average man seeks the goal of his
ambi,io in a section far removed
rom the place that gave him birth.
When the rare exceptions in this re-
gard occur they bespeak a forceful
personality and tell of one strong in
confidence in his own integrity, in
dtstry and capability to climb the
rungs of the ladder of success.
Such an individuality. unafraid,
Courageous and modestly conscious
of power is the subject of this sketch.
Upon leaving the classic shades of
lis alma mater, DR.. R. R. Arceneaux
did not seek pastures new but hung
cut lis professional shingle in the
aiming creole state. And as a re-
RI for his affection for and con-
ddence in his own home people he
IS been rewarded by a large and
c1ative practice in his chosen pro-
fe:sion in the Welsh country where
lie first saw the light.
He was born On the old Arcen-
eaux plantation, January Gath, 1877,
4 tended the public and high schools
OF Calcasieu parish and supplement-
ed this tuition with a classical curric-
ulum at Bowling Green College, KY.
Choosing the practice of medicine
as calling in life he matriculated as
student in the medical department
OF the Louisville University, gradu-
ated therefrom in 1900 and since that
time has practiced his profession in
Welsh.
DR.. Arceneaux comes from one OF
the old and distinguished French
families of this section of Louisiana
His father, F. A. Arceneaux, is one
OF the pioneers of Calcasieu parish
was for many years a member OF
its police jury, and is now member
of the same body for Jefferson
Davis parish representing Ward 7
His youngest brother, F. F. Arcen-
eaux, is treasurer of Jefferson Davis
parish and many of his nearest kin
are prominent in commercial circles
and other walks of life.
DR.. Arceneaux has that affable
urbanity and pleasing personality
which belong to the cultured Creole
of French descent.