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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
1.An,aninq of Grinding Season.

~ a1 eool spell OF the past several
I nopehas furnished just the variety
Oh Weather needed IN the sugar dis
# espe-at this time, since the low
St ton. lures will have the effect Of
cheeir IL the growth of the cane and
causiIs it to ripen, thereby increas-
ing the sucrose content of the stalks.
From the standpoint of tonnage, the
crop is expected to measure up to
the average, but as the acreage has
been considerably curtailed the total
output will doubtless be considera-
ably smaller than in former years.
Active preparations for the opening
of the grinding campaign are under
way at all the factories that will
operate this year, and the season
will be started at some of the mills
during the coming week. Others will
give the cane a little more time to
ripen, but the work Of taking off the
crop will be in full blast by the end
of the current month
Milliken & Farwell's Westover
plant in West Baton Rouge parish
will begin grinding next Monday.
Walter Burke, of New Orleans, and
Florian ]. Michel, of this city, will
have charge of the sugar-making de-
partment, and they will leave for
Westover today to get things in
readiness for the seasons operations.
Fred. Werner, ST., who has served
as chief sugar-boiler of the Lemann
Company's Palo Alto factory for the
past two years, will preside over the
pan-room of L. NJ. Soniat's Cedar
Grove mill this season. Mr.. Werner
will be succeeded at Palo Alto by
Louis Rome, Of Smoke Bend.
Gale T. Chapman, of Port Barrow,
returned Thursday morning from sar-
tartia, Texas, where he has been
operating a gasoline engine in a
cotton gin since July. Mr.. Chap
man will hold down the job of assist
ant engineer Of Prejean's Halfway
factory in Assumption parish during
The coming grinding.
P. S. Richard will leave tomorrow
for the Shadyside plantation in St.
Mary parish, where he will have
charge of the sugar end of the house
throughout the rolling season. The
wheels will commence to turn at
ohadyside Monday morning.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
BID Dairy Farm for Ascension.

A telegraphic despatch from Wash
ington, d. c., to the New Orleans
States, under date of the 18th inst,
conveys the following interesting and
welcome information:
The Department of Agriculture
will cooperate with J. K Newman,
president of Maison Blanche Co., in
his improvement of his dairy stock
farm near Donaldsonville.
with Representative AsweIl, Mr.
Newman conferred with government
officials here Wednesday.
Mr.. Newman will spend $4,000
on the farm to demonstrate the prof
its from dairying and stock raising
in the sugar district"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
Formation of Central Selma
Association Deferred.

Deciding that further missionary
work is needed, representatives of a
number Of local truck growers, and
marketing associations of this sec
ton of the state, at meeting held
at the Association of Commerce
headquarters in New Orleans We'd
nesday, voted to postpone the or
ganizing of central purchasing and
marketing association. This meeting
was convened in response to a call
from committee appointed to con-
slider the advisability of forming a
central organization by the associa-
ton of secretaries and managers Of
truck-groWing associations, formed in
DonaldsonVille some weeks ago.
The committee reported that al
though sentiment was strongly in IA
vor of the idea, it was deemed ad-
visable to do more missionary work
among the outlying associations, in
order to insure the success of the
undertaking.
The meeting was called to order by
A. S. Baker, sales manager of the
South Louisiana Growers Associa-
ton, and president of the Association
Of Secretaries and Managers w. D.
Beraud, of the Lafourche Crossing
Truckers Association, was appoint
I'd chairman of the meeting, and r.
7. LeGardeur, of Napoleonvi1le, acted
Is secretary. Prof. G. L. Tiebout, of
he Baton Rouge experimental sta
ion, made a strong address in favor
# the organizing Of a central body.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
Pig Club Work in Movies.

Louisianas place as leader of the
boys pig club work in the United
States is to be recognized in the
visit of an expert motion picture
maker, who will be sent to the state
to take 1000 feet of film showing
this form of extension work at every
stage, from the time the boy picks
out his pig from the litter to the
time when. he gets the blue ribbon
at the fair. These pictures are to
be made for the Bureau of Animal
industry of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, and will be dis
tributed to every land grant college
in the union that has an extension
department.
The pictures will show every
phase of the pig club work. said
Prof. q. S. Richardson of the univer-
sity extension department. from
the very first thing done until the
last, They will show the selection of
the pig, building Of the pen, feeding
and care, different stages of devel-
opment and growth, preparing him
for the fair, putting him in the
crate, and at last will show him TAX
ing the blue ribbon at the state fair
The first pig club in the United
States was organized in Caddo par
lsh," continued Mr. Richardson. sThe
man who started it is E. w. Jones. |
The idea spread, and was taken up
by the university. The Louisiana
State University is the first institu-
ton in the United States to employ
a man to give his special attention
to pig club work. The movement
has grown, was taken up by the de-
partment< of animal industry, and has
extended to all the land grant col
leges in the union
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
coIaneh afr-5day and Tomorrow

Both from the standpoint of char
acter and diversity of exhibits, and
attendance of spectators, the colored
fair to be given in this city today
and tomorrow promises to prove a
most successful and interesting
event. The officers of the organiza-
ton of colored citizens which is
promoting the enterprise have done
some effective work during the past
week in the way of advertising the
fair and securing exhibits for the
different departments, and they are
confident the display will be a most
credltable one and indicative of the
substantial progress and achieve
ments of members of the colored race
In agriculture and other branches of
industry. Much interest in the fair
has been aroused among the colored
people not only of this community, but
of the surrounding country as well,
and large crowds are expected on
both days of the festival. With a.
view Of encouraging the enterprise
and indorsing the movement to i'm
prove farming and living conditions
among the negro element of the pop
alation, a representative delegation
If DonaldsonVille business men will
visit the fair in body tomorrow az
.ernoon. An interesting program of
fmusements will be carried out each /
lay.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
Horse Racing to be Revivea In New
Orleans.

An association of New Orleans
business men has been formed to
conduct forty-day race meet in that
city, to open January / and continue
until February II, the day after Mar
di Gras. This will be good news to
the considerable portion of the pop
uiation inclining to the belief that
horse racing is an almost indispensa-
Die factor in the city's progress and
prosperity, and inasmuch as the law
prohibits the gambling feature that
made the sport obnoxious to anoth-
er considerable part Of the states
people, it is to be presumed that
there will be general satisfaction
over the prospect of an experimental
revival of "the sport Of kings in
the metropolis.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
To the public!

| announce to my many friends
and customers that from now on I
am prepared to serve them with oys-
tiers Of the finest quality at the fol-
lowing prices: Per hundred, SO
cents; per dozen in shells, 5 cents.
Fruit of all kinds and Italian goods
a speciality. All orders given prompt
attention. r. SAVOIA, corner Cheti-
maches and Charles streets, Donald
sonville. Phone lilo.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17

J. w. Goodfellow, editor of the Jef-
serson Voice. has gone to England on
O. visit that is expected to last sew
eral months, and during the interim
the editorial chair is being filled py
Associate Editor Fred NJ. lift. inc
associate seems to be a goodfelloM
too. hence it will be ill-if things Iall
tn On we'll with the Voice in the
head scribe's absence.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17

The Morgan. City Chronicle, which
dubs itself as mot a chronic kicker
but nagging little agitator Wnen
agitation is needed" began its third
volume the first week in September,
and patted itself upon the back for
having earned liberal share OF pub
lie favor in it's advertising, subscrlp-
ton and job printing departments
Wherefore Business Manager Maurice
Blum and his coadjutors are to De
felicitated.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17

And yet. notwithstanding all tna Ina
WAS said and written on the SUI
iect, some Donaldsonvillians dld MOI
even have sufficient pride OF c1tlzen-
ship to attend the glorious fesIl'al'
We're YOU one Of the mossbacks?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17

The editor of the Logansport rec
ord announces that he doesn't believe
In carrying on controversies through
the columns of the paper, but pro-
poses settling such affairs personal
" whenever the occasion calls for it..
II some esteemed contemporaries OF
whom we wot would adopt a similar
policy a lot of space Woud be saved
for reading matter of public interest
and value, and in all probability
there wouldn't be any great increase
of peace disturbances either.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17

The Hammond Southern Vindica-
. tor, one Of the best of the small-city
exchanges that comes to our table,
has begun the twenty-second year
of it's existence, and comments upon
the circumstance in this brief and
pungent manner: eve have not the
space to dilate upon the experience
OF the past tWenty-one years, but
will simply say we have no kick
coming. We sincerely appreciate
the patronage given us, and will en-
deavor to merit its continuance. :"
Brother j. B. Adams, who has guided
the destinies of the paper since it's
establishment, can be counted on to
succeed in such an endeavor.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
pRoGREssfeoF T4E aH5fREAr WAR.

The main developments of the past
two Weeksariin the E-~0pean war
theatre have occurred in Belgium,
where the Germans have captured
Antwerp and are reported advancing
upon Ostend with an evident deter
mination to seize that seaport, which
is only sixty miles across the water
from the coast of England. Antwerp
was said to be- one Of the most
strongly fortified cities of Europe,
but the big siege guns and cthe pow
erful forces of troops employed by
Germany in the assault required
barely ten days to subjugate the city
and compel it's evacuation by the
Belgian and English garrison. The
defenders of the stronghold were
greatly outnumbered, Of course, but
it was generally presumed that the
boosted strength of the Notifications
would enable a comparatively small
garrison to hold the place during a
protracted siege.
The long battle lines in northeast
ern France and near the German and
Belgian frontiers are being stubborn
ly maintained, with the brunt of
the fighting falling upon the right
wing Of the Germans and the left
wing Of the allies.
The Germans and Austrians claim
to have checked the advance Of the
Russian hosts in Galicia and War
saw, but the usual differences are
noticeable in the character of the re-
ports that emanate from the capitals
of the warning nations and Petrograd
advices are still indicative of the sue
cess Of the Russian arms.
Italy maintains her neutrality, and
Turkey has not yet committed any
overt act in favor Of Germany. Bull
garia is on the fence also, but it is
quite likely these countries and sew
eral others will be drawn into the
maelstrom OF the war before the is
sue is decided between the original
belligerents.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
A MOTHER SUCCESSFUL FAIR.

The second annual fair held at
DonaldsonviIle under the auspices OF
the South Louisiana Fair Association
On the 9Th, 10th, 18th and 18th days
Of the present month, proved such
a gratifying success IN SO many es-
sentia1 particulars that It's few ae
fects and shortcomings may wen Dc
overlooked and ignored, save as a
guide and spur6eeo their correction u
avoidance in thCeconduct OF the many
future expositians Of like character
which we hope are in store for this
community.
Last years fair was SUCCESSFUL De
vond the expectations OF its promo
ters. and this cEar's was SO much
larger and better that there ought
tn lie no room for controversy or dl1-
ference Of opinicn among our people
as to the value. and utility Of such
an enterprise, OF. the duty of all pub
lic-spirited residents to combine their
energies and efforts for its perpetual
ton and promotion
What the GREET Dallas fair is to
Texas and the Shreveport fair is to
north Louisiana the DonaldsonFille
fair may become in relative measure
TO south Louisiana, or at least to the
group of parishes represented in the
present association, if the spirit Of
competition and friendly rivalry that
lies at the bottom of the success of
enterprises like these is properly
maintained and encouraged.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
Malaria (I1iiIIIIs & Fever

Prescription nc. CSC is prepared especially
for MALARIA CT Cs4lLLS G. FEVER;
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return 1t acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not grippe Or sickcn. 2ae'
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17

Logansport, La, has broken into
the newspaper game again with a
neat and spicy eight-page weekly,
the Logansport Record, edited by T..
B. O'Bryan, with E. A. Whitley and
Mrs. r. S. Welborn as associate edi-
tors. The new paper has an excel
lent showing of advertisements and
is all-home print, two things that in
dictate hustling management and a
progressive community, while the
typographical appearance of the
young candidate for public favor Is
exceedingly artistic and attractive.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
School Day Brings Crowd.

4
Saturday made the fair success
1t was school day, and children from
every section descended in droves
That made the athletic games a fea
lure, and the rivalry was keen, es
peclally between Donaldsonville an6
DutchtoWn. Names famous in Lou
lsiana history proved the brave blood
to which they belonged. The fai,
| will develop athletics and physical
training as it has done agriculture
and education, and next year splen
did system will be adopted. The
plans is for each parish to hold raj.
lies, the reward of the winners being
entry in the South Louisiana games,
That will assure wider training,
larger competition and deeper inter.
est.
The better babies contest brought
out quite a number of entries and
the competition was keen in all class.
es. Drs. w. w. Butterworth and l..
IT, DeBuys, of New Orleans, were the
Judges, assisted by Drs. T. HI. Han
son and &. K. Sims, of Donaldson
vile, and the prize winners were as
follows: -
Girl, months to 1 year-Mrs. H.
Il. Powers, Hohen Solms, first: Mrs.
Frank K. Sims, Donaldsonville. sec
ond.
Girl, II months to 2 years-Mrs
Waiter Lemann, Donaldsonviile. first:
Mrs. Joseph Thiac, Donaldsonville,
second
Girl, 2 to years-Mrs. Sidney
Harp, Donaldsonville, first.
Boy, months to 1 year-Mrs w
4. Hamilton, Burton, first; Mrs. Pat.
Stakelum, Donaldsonville, second.
Boy, IL months to 2 years-Mrs.
st. Martin Landry, first.
Boy, 2 to 8 years-Mrs. Albert
Grace, Plaquemine, first.
Most perfect boy of the first prize
winners, Mrs. W. A. Hamilton,
Burton.
Most perfect girl of the first prize
winners, Mrs. H. R. Powers. Hohen
Solms
Most perfect child, either sex, Mrs.
H.. r. Powers, Hohen solms.
In the inter-scholastic athletic
events, Donaldsonyille High School
captured first honors with total Of
~ points, represented by 5 firsts. 4
seconds and 3 thirds. DutchtoWn
High School was second with So
points, made up of 8 firsts. z sec
sHnflnJrnd nor y
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17

Erroneous information led us to
state in last weeks Chief that the
waste oil which became ignited on
the 4th instant was in the vicinity
of the Standard Oil Company's tanks,
when as matter of fact it was
around the tanks of the Texas Oil
Company, in the same neighborhood.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
Some fair, wasn't it?

We told you it was going 70 We d
great show.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17

Jefferson's exhibit was one of the
beauty spots, and L. H. Marrero, Jr.,
made popular director general. The
Metairie Ridge Nursery arranged a
model garden entrance, and the i'm
portant industries and resources of
the parish were attractlvely rep
resented Jefferson shells We're free
" donated to improve the grounds,
which were rain-soaked early in the
week. A more extended mention of
the magnificent showing made by
this enterprising parish will be CIV
en- in our next issue, limitations of
time and space preventing us from
doing the subject full justice this
week,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
SUCCESS CROWNS SOUTH LOUISIANA FAIR
Magnificent Array Of Exhibits Veued by Thousands of
Spectators Marvellous Resources of Fertile Parishes
ssrikingiy Demonstrated Pernanercy OF Monaenfous
Enterprise Assured.
warded a royal purple championship

awarded royal purple championship
ribbon
There was an especially fine DIS
play by the women, whose handsome
new building was one of the most
popular show places on the grounds.
The exhibits of needle-Work, trim
med hats, curios, relics and art,
cakes and candies, canned goods and
preserves, were far superior to last
years. and demonstrated the skill
and industry Of the ladies in the
domain of household science and
household art.
Harry Papworth, of New Orleans,
who judged the floral exhibits, said
he had acted as a judge and been
present at flower shows in London,
Paris, New York and other places,
and had never seen any finer speci-
mems of maidenhair ferns than those
exhibited by Mrs. Charles Maur1n, OF
this city, which were awarded first
premiums in their class.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17

The ceremonies incidental to the
opening of the fair, and the features
OF the attractive program carried out
On the first day, were described in
our last issue. At the closing SEES
sion of the inter parish teachers in
stitute on Friday evening, addresses
We're delivered by Rabbi Emanuel
sternheim, of Baton Rouge, and
State High School Inspector c. A.
Ives. Dr.. Sternheim discussed the
influence of schools upon the com
munlty at large, speaking of the
good the teacher can do outside the
sphere of her school work, and his
talk is generally declared to have
peen one Of the most eloquent and
scholarly ever heard here. The pro-
gram was interspersed with vocal
solos by Misses Ethel Werner and
Violet Keller
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17

An ad in The Chief viii pay.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17

Continued on page three.)
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-10-17
IbervilIe Wins Capital Prize.

ibervile Wins Capita! Prlze.
The capital prize of $3.50, offered
to that parish ascension barred)
whose citizens totaled the greatest
number of points in all departments,
as determined by the number Of
premiums taken, was awarded to Iber-
vile, whose splendid display in every
division was one of the striking fea-
lures of the fair. Ibervilles score
Of points included 10 blue and 9 red
ribbons for agriculture; 1 blue and
2 reds for poultry; blues and l
red for horses; 3 blues and reds
for cattle; II blues, reds and / pur-
pie (grand championship for hogs,
and 8 blues for Shetland ponies, a
total of 46 blues, % reds and l pur-
pie. This does not take stock of the
premiums won in the Woman's de-
partment and for canned goods and
other articles, which will run the
total number of ribbons captured by
this progressive parish up to nearly
100. Iberville gathered its exhibits
together wherever possible and put
signs of ownership prominent, thus
enhancing the effect of its remark
able display. Among the new lines,
it Won honors in citrus fruit, grape
fruit grown from seed, Satsuma or
anges and lemon ponderosa. Lewis
3. Murrell, of Bayou Goula, took the
blue ribbon for lespedeza hay with
a bale that the judges pronounced
one of the most perfect they had
ever run across.
Jefferson parish was close sec
Arizona republican., 1914-11-15
Elephant Butte Dam
(By John Leisk Tait)

There is a tide in the affairs of
 men
 Which taken at the flood, leads on
 to fortune'
 So Shakespeare declared, and so the experience of men has amply proved both before and since the in spired Williams time. It is being forcibly demonstrated once more, right at this time, in the fertile lands lying below the nearly completed Elephant Butte reclamation dam. A number of prudent people are talk ing advantage of the opportunity jo buy land in the Las Palomas, Rim con, Mesilla and Fl Paso valleys Ut the present low prices, facing the dead certainty that the moment the government engineers pronounce the job sufficiently finished to store wa ter and turn the water into the big the thirsty lands below these lands will jump from 25 to 100 per cent in valuation. They are riding in to prosperity on the full, golden tide of present opportunity.
 There are thousands more who would do the same thing if they only realied the facts touching this Si- gantic reclamation project of Uncle Sam's. The land awaits them The demand for more farmers is the most patent and insistent thing in connec- ton with these rich valleys. Those who are already settled here extend
Arizona republican., 1914-11-15
AWARD OF PRIZES
 IN STOCK JUDGING

Farmers and students alike took a lively interest in the competition in the farmers stock judging contest held under the auspices of the state university. A separate contest was held for high school students.
 Awards in both contests were made on a scale of 400, the winning scores in the farmers match being as follows: First, G. w. Scheerer, student, $40; second. w. W. Pickrell, student, 335; third, E. B. Oxley, student, BPS.
 Floyd Osborn won the high school contest with a score of 334 out of a possible 400. K. Pickrell was sec ond with a score of 258, and Rolla Wade scoring 252 took third.
 In each ycontest good specimens of Holstein, Jersey, Ayrshire and Guernsey breeds were used, and awards made by Dr. R. H. Williams, animal husbandman and his associ- ates. A basis of 50 points was used in each class of dairy cattle judged. The awards in each contest were $20. $1O and $5. Medals were also given to winners of first and second places.