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The Harlowton news., 1913-08-08
ADVERTISED LETTERS

Unclaimed mail matter remain
ing on hand at the Harlowton
Pos. Office for the week ending
Aug. 2, 1913.
When calling for same please
say advertised"
Bob Anderson, David Buyers,
Monta Little, Donald Martain,
Mark McCarty, NJ. S. Mclntee.
Miss Edyth Rhyan (2), Mrs. Geo.
Smith, G. f. Thomas, CIas Vain :.
wright.
BENZ. URKER. Postmaster.
The Harlowton news., 1913-08-08
Franklin News

Mrs. w. G. Jenizen has returned
home from Walker. Mimi, where
she was called to tic bedside of
her niece, Miss Ruth Cole, who is
ill at the state sanitarinm.
Miss Alice Asbury of Barber. is
a visitor at the Jenizen ranch.
Mrs. A. Dengolasky who has
been visiting at the home Of the
McQuittys, left last Wednesday for
her home ip Kansas City,
The Harlowton news., 1913-08-08

Carbonate Lodge,No. 80, ]. 0. O. T.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
The indian in Song and Story

Next Friday evening, Nicholas
Bauer, assistant superintendent of the
New Orleans public schools, will de-
Well-knoWn address on The Indian
in Song and Story Mr.. Bauer will
illustrate his description of the alb
origines of this country with beauti-
full stereoptieon views. All who have
ever had the good fortune to hear
Mr.. Bauer IN this, the most noted of
his lectures, are unanimous in de-
claring it is intensely interesting as
well as instructive from start to fin
ish. PrecediAg and following this
principal feature Of the evenings en-
tertainment, the high school glee
club will render musical selections.
A vocal solo by Well-known society
leader will bring the entertainment
to a close. The tickets for admis-
sion will be 10 cents for pupils and
children, and Is cents for adults.
The proceeds are for the benefit of
the high school, which is in need of
maps and charts, and Mr.. Bauer has
kindly consented at the request of
the high school principal, a former
classmate at Tulane University, to
make this special trip to Donaldson
vile to aid the school in it's efforts
to raise some money. 1t is hoped
the people of Donaldsonvil1e and vi
entity will also do their part in such
a worthy cause by literally patron
ling the entertainment.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
Weather and Crop Notes.

High southerly winds prevailed here
during the early part OF the week,
attaining unusual velocity at times,
and IN view of the reports in the
daily press of atmospheric disturb
ances occurring in various parts of
the country, apprehension was
felt that perhaps Donaldsonville
and vicinity would be visited by
another hurricane like that which
caused such damage Throughout
this section on Sept. 20, 1909.
The windy period terminated We'd
nesday afternoon, however. when a
torrentia1 rain fell, following which
me temperature dropped rapidly.
Wednesday night the mercury reach
ed the 40-degree mark, and Thursday
night a temperature of 3S degrees
was recorded, light frost being OBJ
served in the interior by early risers
Friday morning. The. cold weather
Will check the growth of cane and
delay the termination of newly-plant-
ed corn. Garden and truck crops
have been seriously damaged, and re-
planting will be necessary in many
instances.
The heavy, rainfall was welcomed
by the rice planters, but was not
needed for corn and cane. AT that,
it didn't do any particular harm, and
in many localities was thankfully re-
ceived because it served to lay the
dust, which had become very dis
agreeable.
The rice acreage in Ascension has
been considerably Increased, and if
the ason is favorable a record crop
should be produced this year. Tracts
of land in the barrow neighborhood
comprising several hundred acres,
which have been lying idle for the
past few years, have been cleared
and planted in rice, and the acreage
on the places where the cereal has
heretofore. been cultivated has been
materially enlarged.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
TERRIBLE STORM CALAM1TIEs

Many states of the Union have
been visited by destructive wind and
rain storms during the past two
weeks, resulting In great loss of life
and enormous destruction of property
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska
have been the principal sufferers
from these Visitations, and the ac-
counts of the fearful calamities with
which the daily newspapers TEEN are
gruesome and heartrending in the
extreme.
/, At Dayton. Ohio, it seems certain
that upwards of 1900 lives have been
lost in the flood that swept through
that beautiful city, submerging a
large area Of its business and resi-
Dental seehiansto depths varying from
six To twenty feet and swallowing up
! property values aggregating millions
of dollars. The horrors of hunger,
thirst and fire have been added to
lfhose of the flood itself, and it is
feared that many Of the people who
sought safety from the water in the
upper stories of buildings have been
burned to death.
Hamilton, Ohio, Peru, Ind, and a
number of other towns in both those
states are passing through the same
terrible ordeal. At Omaha more than
200 houses were destroyed by a
tornado, and scores of localities in
Iowa and Nebraska report losses of
life and property from a similar
causes
Storms OF lesser magnitude have
prevailed in the, region of country
extending from Texas to New York,
adding their quota to a record of
calamity and destruction that has
not been eeaitzaalllleea in the United
States for many years.
President Wilson and the governors
of Ohio and Indiana have issued proc.
lamatlons calling upon the people to
come to the relief of the sufferers,
and Gov. Hall Of our own state adds
his official voice to the appeal.
That the response will be quick
and generous there can be no doubt.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
Cuprocorba Selling Well.

The sale of Cuprocorba in large
quantities is reported by Karl Spahr
who is distributing the preparation
in this country, and it seems thai
the success achieved by the com
pound in Germany, where it was orig
mated, will be duplicated here. Mr.
Spahr states that in the Klotzville
nelghborhood on both sides of Ba.
you Lafourche, where rats had be.
gun to deVastate the neWly-planted
corn, Cuprocorba was used by a
number OF planters with excellent
results, and it was found that seed
corn treated with the preparation
was not molested by the rodents.
MIR. Spahr has sold some of the com
pound in every parish in the state,
and has yet to hear of an instance
where it failed to do what is claim
ed for it. One rather unique tes-
timonial was received from a plant
er in the LiFonia section of Pointe
Coupee parish, who wrote that Cuprc-
corba is saving him a tidy sum in
seed corn furnished to tenants. by
reason Of the fact that corn so treat
ed will not be eaten by chickens,
and hence the supply distributed to
his tenants goes into the fields as
intended instead of being fed to their
poultry Which brings to light an
other virtue possessed by this ex-
cellent preparation.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
PROCLAMATION or ELECTION.

He CITY OF Dona1dsonville hav-
1 ing been regularly organized as
city under the provisions Of Act No.
s207 of the general assembly of Lou
isiana for the year 1912, I, Charles
A.. Maurin, mayor of the town O. Dom
jacksonville, in pursuance to law and
by virtue of the authority vested in
mt, do pf ooeeiisaai II that that
regular city election to be held in
the city of DonaIdsonvi1le for the pur-
pose of selecting three commissioners
to- serve for period of four years
under the provisions Of said Act No.
2o7 Of 1912, viii be held on
SATURDAY, MAY 8. 1913.
between the hours OF 6 o'clock
a. N. and O'Clock .. m, at
which said election there shall be
elected at large the following COM
missioners, to-Wit: Commissioner of
public health and safety mayor; :
commissioners of finance, and com
missioner OF public parks and streets.
Witness my hand and seal of office
at DonaldsonViI1e, La, this 9th day
of March, 1913.
CHAs. MAuRIN. Mayor.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
Twenty-three for Roy's Voice.

The St. Bernard Voice turned
tWenty-three in January and is now
headed towards it's two-dozenth an
nua1 milestone. The present editor
and proprietor, Hon. VIM. f. Roy,
was one of the two founders of the
paper and has been actively connect
ed with it's management during the
entire tWenty-three years of it's ex-
istence. The Voice is Aone Of our
most interesting and valued ex-
changes, and the general esteem in
which its genial and able conductor
is held by his brethren of the state
newspaper cult is Indicated by the
fact that he is president of the Lou
isiana Press Association, while his
popularity with the people Of St.
Bernard is shown by his unanimous
election and reelection as their rep
resentative in the general assembly.
'Rah for Roy and viva his Voice!
Long may they be the peoples
choice!
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
GLORY ENOUGH FOR ONE DAY.

Tuesday. March tWenty-fifth, in the
year Of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and thirteen, should prove
memorable in the future chronicles
of Donaldsonyflle.
For it came to pass on that day
thai both the propositions submitted
to the qualified voters of the munich
pa1ity-one providing for the adop-
ton OF the commission form Of gov
eminent, the other Vesting the police
jury OF tie parish with authority to
issue bonds on which to obtain funds
for the building Of good roads-Were
approved by very decisive majorities.
The returns are given elsewhere i'll
today's Chief, and the figures show
that the commission government
question was decided in the affirma-
tive by more than tWo-thirds of the
qualified voters participating in the
election, while the good roads prop
osition came within a hairs breadth,
so to speak, of being accorded unan-
imous Endorsement, only three bal
lots having been cast against it.
DonaldsonYille will be; the principal
beneficiary of these measures. The
commission government matter apper-
tains exclusively to the municipal cor
poration, and our country neighbors
are concerned therein only to the ex-
tent Of the indirect beneficial influ-
ence that will be exerted upon their
localities by the improved condition
and increasing prosperity of the adj
jacent town All the Inhabitants of
the first road district have a direct
and very material interest in the
construction of roads that will be
good at all times, in wet as well as
dry weather, but the townspeople will
reap the greater share of benefit
from this improvement for the reason
that all the contemplated good roads
of the district will lead to Donald
sonville.
It is creditabIe to the intelligence
and good Judgment of the voters of
the first, second and fourth wards of
the parish, that they We'd with their
fellow citizens of the Donaldsonville
ward in supporting the plan that af-
fords practicable means of providing
this section Of Ascension with good
public roads, than which nothing is
more urgently needed.
There is stglory enough for one
day" in this gratifying victory, and
glory enough for US all!'
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
Commission Candidates Withdraw.

With a view of submitting to the
people solely on its merits the cues
ton of adopting the commission
form of government for DoDaldson-
vile, and in order that the issue
should not be clouded by any con-
/ sideration of the personnel of the
commission, the candidates for the
various offices to be created under
the new form last Sunday announced
the withdrawal Of their nominations.
They were: Walter Lemann, candidate
for mayor and commissioner Of public
health and safety; Aramis J. Melan-
con, candidate for commissioner of
finance, and James j. Won Lotten,
candidate for commissioner of parks
and streets. This action was taken by
the nominees with the hope that it
would unite the divergent political
factions of the community and elimi-
nate the opposition to the commission
form then existing, insuring the adop-
ton of the new system at Tuesday s
election.
In announcing his withdrawal, Mr..
Lemann issued the following letter:
To the Voters of Donaldsonville:
yielding to the same considera-
tons which prompted me to submit
my candidacy for the office Of COM
missioner of public health and safe
ty, and in order that the election to
be held on Tuesday, March rs, 1918,
be not ciouded by the consideration
Of the personnel Of the commission,
] do hereby publicly announce that
SO far as l am personally concerned
my nomination should be considered
as not having been made.
1.-THE voters will then be able on
Tuesday to vote on the single propo-
sition whether the commission form
Of government should be adopted.
Experience has demonstrated that
wherever this form of government
has been tried the very best results
have been obtained. A better I'M
derstanding of the needs of the COM
munity whose business they have to
administer is given the commission
ers, and there results from this
knowledge efficiency and economy in
the administering Of the city.
be essassof the entire state are
upon us, and we should all, setting
aside all questions of self, unite as
one to the end that a new form of
government may be assured for our
community.
Yours very truly,
..WALTER LENANN.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
GOOD ROADS And commission GOVERNMENT.
by of Municipal
for Donald

The special election held Tuesday
!! throughout the first road district of
/ Ascension parish resulted in the adop-
ton Of the proposition to authorize
/ the police jury to issue bonds to
| the amount Of $4,000, bearing 5 per
cent interest payable semi-annual1y
and running not longer than twenty
years, for the purpose of construct
| ing solid and permanent gravel roads
along the river on the west bank from
the lower Iberville to the upper st.
James line. and from Donaldsonvil1e
and Port Barrow to the Assumption
line on both sides Of Bayou La
fourche. These bonds will be secured
by a special tax of one and one-half
mills for twenty years, the levying
Of which was the object of Tuesdays
election.
Polls were located at E. P. Dom
inique's and E. P. Melancon's stores,
in the first ward; Cassard's ware
house, in the second ward; the Dom
jacksonville courthouse, in the third
ward; and Esneau1t & Boston's saw
mill, in the fourth ward. Majorities
in favor of the proposition were re-
turned in all precincts, the detailed
vote being as follows:
Dominique's store-For, 9 in num-
Der. and $4,000 in amount; against,
2 in number and $1410 in amount.
Melancon's store-For, II in num-
Der and $3.50 in amount; against, / in
number and 5000 in amount.
Cassard's Warehouse-F'or, - in
number and s4663.33 in amount;
against, none.
Courtho use-For, 118 in number
and s217, 553.32 in amount; against,
8 in number and $3.50 in amount.
Esneau1t & Boston saWmi1l-For,
II in number and s74,051 in amount;
against, in number and $1269.50 in
amount.
Totals-For, 1877 in number and
$685., 617.65 in amount; against, s in
number and s5419.50 IN amount.
The big majority in favor of the
proposition, both in number and
amount, is highly gratifying, and in
dicates that the public-spirited and
progressive citizens of the first road
district are fully alive to the neces-
sity and value of good roads.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29

The police jury met yesterday to
canvass the returns and promulgate
the result, ard as soon as the sale
of the bonds is arranged, which will
probably be in the near future, work
on the roads will be started. APP
proximately $4,000 will be required.
and the balance OF $4,000 will be OBJ
tanned by capitalizing an annual ap-
preparation of $4,000 for ten years to
be made by the police jury from the
general fund.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
Commission Plan a Winner.

Donaldsonville adopted the commits
sion form of government Tuesday by
vote of Isl for to IS against. Much
interest was manifested in the out
come of the election, and in view OF
the fact that only the question of the
adoption or rejection OF the commits
sion system was being balloted up
on, (the candidates for the various
commissionerships having previously
announced the withdrawal Of their
nominations, the vote polled is con-
sidered surprisingly large. Advo-
Gates of the commission form are jul
bilant over the result of the election,
and predict a marked improvement
in the administration of the business
affairs of the city under the opera
ton of the new system.
The vote by precincts was as fol-
lows:
Courthouse-For Is, against q.
Market-For 80, against %.
Lemann stable-For 81, against 50.
Elsewhere in today's Chief will be
found Mayor Maurin's official pro-
mitigation of the result of the cleo
ton, and also his proclamation of the
first regular city election under the
provisions Of the legislative enact
ment creating the commission form of
government. The election will be
held Saturday, May 8, and meeting
of she Democratic City Executive
Com@ittee will be called shortly to
ordeY a Democratic primary for the
nomination of candidates for the
three eommissionerships.
From present Indications there will
be number of aspirants for the va
rious offices.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
PRoMUL GATIoN.
Results Of Election Held Tuesday,
March IS, 1sf3-city Of Donald
sonvilIe-Parish Of Ascension.

sonviiIe-Parish of Asc ension.
- Y VIRTUE OF the law and in ac-
J cordance with the duty incumbent
upon me, /, Charles A. Maurin, mayor
of the town Of zDonaldsonyilIe, do
hereby publicly proclaim that I have
canvassed the returns of the election
held in the. town of Donaldsonyille
on Tuesday, March 25, 1918, for the
purpose of submitting to the electors
of said town the question: Shall
the, proposition to organize the city
Of Dona1dsuHYifiife under zze Ct Ne 2n7
of 1912 of the general assembly be
adopted, and I have found that the
returns of the said election show the
following vote. to-Wit::
At precinct ene-In favor of the
proposition, As; against, 81.
At precinct tWo---In favor of the
proposition, So; against, %.
At precinct three-In favor of the
proposition, 81; against, 50.
Majority in favor of the prop
osition, sixty-three (63).
And therefore, by virtue of the au-
thority vested in me, do hereby
publicly proclaim, a majority of the
votes cast at said election on Tues
day. March 25, 1918, having been in
favor of the proposition, that the city
OF DonaldsonVilIe has been duly or
gained as city unde~ the proyi-
sions of Act No 2o7 Of the general
assembly of Louisiana of 1912.
Witness my hand and seal Of office
at DonaldsonVil1e, La, this 9th day
df March, 1913.
CHAS. MAuRIM. Mayor
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29

George M. Plaisance, of Birming-
ham, Ala, sends The Chief a three
section postcard showing by means
of figures and comparative statistics
Birmingham's record Of steady, sub-
stantia1 progress during the past
thirteen years. The card was com
piled under the auspices of the adj
Vertlslng committee of the Birming-
ham Chamber of Commerce, and
makes q most effective presentation
of the wonderful development of the
steel and iron city of the south y
IN the period extending from 1900 to
1912.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
PRONUNCIATION
Result of Special Election Held !,
First Road District Of Parish ~
Ascension, Tuesday, March
25. 1918.

Donaldsonville La, Mar. Is. 1914
ID Y VIRTUE OF the law, and Il
ID accordance with our duty 8
hereby declare and promulgate ~
result of the special election held B
the First Road District of the Darjss
of Ascension, on Tuesday, March Il
1913, on the following propositoas.
submitted to the properly uualif9sd
taxpayers of the said First Rosa=
District Of the parish of Ascension.
TO authorize the police jury OF tba.
parish of Ascension, state OF Louis
ana, for and on behalf of the Hfssl
Road District of the parish OF Ascap
sion, to incur an Indebtedness
thirty-fiye thousand (s35, 0ool dollar
and issue negotiable bonds therein
said bonds to bear interest at the III
of five per cent per annum payabs
semi and to run for Is
Rod of not longer than twenty yeas
for the following purposes, to.Wit1
That OF establishing, maintaining
improving and sspairing the publ
highways and rSS.ds situated within
the limits of the First Road Distrtt3
of the parish of Ascension, togesha
with the bridges, cu1verts. drains and
other appurIenances and aeeessorha1
incident thereto.
| to be as follows, to-Wit:
The total number of votes cast d
favor of the proposition were hs1
sum OZONE HUNDRED AND NINE
-TY- SEVEN (197).
The total number Of voters cass
against said proposition were the saal
| of EIGHT ls).
The total amount in value Of pfop
erty cast in favor of said proposltoa
was the sum of THREE HUNDREDD
AND EIGHTY-TWO THOUSAND SII
HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN e5tal
{ DOLLARS ($382,617.65).
The total amount In value of plug
erty cast against said pronoslasa
| was the sum Of FIVE THuUSAanE
/ FOUR HUNDRED AND MN
AND $4,000 DOLLARS SIS.
The majority III number of
property taxpayers ID favor m to
( said proposition was the sun
| ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY. MIND NINE
! (189)
i The majority in amount of til /
property taxpayers in favor Of aald
proposition was the sum of THREE
! HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVEN
THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED And
I NINETY EIGHT AND 1900 Dol
| LARS (s377.1s8.15l
The majority in number anl
amount Of the property taxpaysls
properly qualified, voting at sali
election on Tuesday, March
1913, being in favor Of the said prat
osition, we hereby declare the sala
proposition carried and legal
adopted.
And finally the said above mentloas
ed and named proposition haTla
been carried by 'toth a majority 4
number and amoant of the properf
qualified taxpayers voting at ssf I
election On + tuesday HI e
we, the police jury Of the parish 9 !
Ascension, state of Louisiana. g I
hereby in accordance with Act 30
256 Of 1910, declare and proInulgaa
the result of said election as haV!a! E
been legally carried and adopted.
AD0LPHE NETTEERR,
President Police Jur
Attest: G. G. WEBER,
Clerk Police JllTE
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29

The New Iberia Enterprise. one OF
our most valued Louisiana exchanges
celebrated its twenty-ninth birthday
anniversary On the Sth OF March.
M. w. Fisher, editor and proprietor,
has been in control of the paper for
the past eleven years, and as a fish
er Of news items, pat and pithy edi-
torials and paying ads he is a pupil
Of Izaak Walton who has his patron
beat basketful.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
King of Greece Assassinated.

King George of Greece was shot
and killed on the streets of saloniki,
March Is by Greek degenerate
named Aleko Schinas, evidently a
weak-minded anarchist who cherishes
a hatred for all rulers and govern
ments Crown Prince Constantine,
who has distinguished himself at the
head of the Greek armies engaged
in the war with Turkey, has succeed
ed to the throne and promises to be
a popular king. The assassin of King
George was captured and is in pri-
son awaiting trial for his dastardly
crime.