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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-04-10
An Interesting Continued
Story of Local Happenings .
In and about Welsh Touch.
ing Personal Mention. .....


to his room several days this week with
LaGrippe.
Miss Mabel Miller who is attending
the Institute at Baton Rouge came over
Saturday to visit her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. R. Miller of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. II. Dautel moved into
their new home this week which has
Just been completed in the southern
part of town.
We have anything you need in Lace
and Embroideries. Martins
Mrs. w. B. Gabbert has been quite
sick for several weeks and the doctors
say that as soon as she gains sufficient
strength she will have to undergo an
operation for the regaining of her per.
feet health.
Get your Horse Clippers ground now
at j. W. Buckingham's, in the rear of
VanNess Machine Shop. 40
Mr., M, B. VanNess went to Fry, La.
this morning on short business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Heaston who have
been spending sometime in Indiana,
returned to Welsh Wednesday morning
OuriD Good Department is com.
plete in Vols -Crepe- Ratine- Swiss
Crepe De CheneEand Tissues. Martins
Miss Mollie Stewart and little nieces,
Marion and Evelyn May visited DR.. and
Mrs. W. L. Stewart who are in the San.
itarium, in Lake Charles:Sunday. Miss
Stewart reports them doing very nicely
at present and will be able to come
home in a few days.
Special-"Robin Hood" photo play
coming in May-Welsh Moving Picture
House.
Did any one hear our S. o. S. Signal?
We should say so, from the amount of
seed put out the last few Idays. We
still have plenty for all. Come and see
us. Welsh Bakery & Grocery.
Word from New Orleans indicates
that Mrs. F. G. Seward is still very i'll
but those at the bedside express hope
that by careful nursing she has hope
of recovery. Mr.. Seward has been in
New Orleans for week at the bed side
Mr.. j. S. De of of WoodlaWn trans.
acted business in Welsh thursday.
See our ad on local page. Prem.
tice Bros. Paper Hangers.
Mrs. P. W. Kiplinger and son Lester
of Lake Charles came over Thursday
afternoon to visit Mr.. and Mrs. j. C.
Kiplinger over Sunday.
Miss Aline Greer has been confined to
her bed for about ten days quite sick
with Malaria Fever.
The public school teachers and pupils
are enjoying a holiday on account Of
Good Friday.
Coming in May the Photo play" Robin
Hood" Welsh Moving Picture House.
Mr.. and Mr. willard of Santa Anna,
Cal. arrived Thursday evening for an
extended visit in the home of their
nephew, Mr.. E. C. Willard.
Mr.. Clay Robichaux Ihas accepted the
position made Vacantby the resignation
of Mr.. Willard Kimball at the Planters
Grocery Co.
Miss Cora Miller one of the Jennings
High School teachers is the guest of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. R. Miller
during the holidays.
GROCERIES:-Yes we have a nice
line, get our prices, come see our stock.
Welsh Bakery & Grocery.
Miss Lillian Carroll took advantage of
today being holiday in school and left
this morning for Glenmora, to spend
few days with her parents,
Martins for Hosiery in Ladies Gents
and Children. All shades and grades.
pnof D Innon coz Thonnx.roII x,ran
Newark post., 1914-05-27

KEEP them good. Over two miles of
bitches wer cleaned, seven. bridges and
culverts repaired, one new concrete bridge
built and four (4) new metal culverts
put in, about two miles of road was re-
paired, three (3) hills on the road from
St. Georges to Red Lion were cut down
and one on the road from McCoy's to
Wrangle Hill. We used 104 tons Of
stone and 1O2 cart loads of gravel.
Machinery and Tools-One scraper,
three steel drags, three wooden drags,
two scoops, two picks, one mattock, three
long handled shovels, two spades, two
short handled shovels, 40 feet metal
pipe and 6 feet cast iron pipe.
ST. GEORGES HUNDRED
j. C. Aston, Supervisor
RECEIPTS
Balance on hand, April l, 1913 $2,491.56
Cash received in Taxes. ....... 7,990.S3
Cash received, Western Union. 6.S3
Cash received, R. NJ. B. Resolu-
tion Observation-Disclosures. 4S.Uo
$1O,537.24
DISBURSEMENTS
Labor ................. ,212.14
Hauling .................. 1886
Materials Observation-Disclosures. 447.47
Miscellaneous Road Account. 1000
Overpaid Taxes .............. 14.03
Town of Middletown. ......... 401.74
Town of Odessa ............. 450.12
Luten Bridge Company. ....... 67.S0
$5,60s.46
Newark post., 1914-05-27
AUSTIN BURNS

Will make the season of 1014 at Elk Mills
Cecil county, Maryland. Austin Burns is
a dark bay with black points, fine name
and tail, 16 hands high, weight 1150 lbs.
For disposition he has no superior. Aus
tin Burns is a PAGER and does not wear
hopples or boots, excepting a pair OF
quarter boots for safety. He got his re-
cord in the fourth heat of winning race
at Decatur, III. Austin Burns is by Bob
by Burns, 2.19 IA, sire of 125 in the list.
TERMS-$15 to insure living foal;
$25 for two mares. Persons parting with
a mare before ascertaining if she is in
foal or not will be responsible for insur-
ance.
WM. J. GREGsoN, JR., Owner,
5.6-4t Elk Mills, Nd.
Newark post., 1914-05-27
Sewer Notice

Notice is hereby given that in all cases
where the property owner has failed to
pay the entire amount of the assessment
or has not elected to pay in ins3allment by
the first day of June 1914, the Sewer
Commission will proceed to collect such
assessments and the accrued interest
thereon in the manner provided for in an
Act entitled An Act authorizing the Con-
struction of the System of Sewers and
Disposal works in and for the Town of
Newark, Delaware.
S. J. WRIGHT,
H. G. NJ. KOLLOCK,
JOSEPH HOSSINGER.
Sewer Commission for the Town of Nep-
ark.
Newark post., 1914-05-27
DISBURSEMENTS
Do 90 -
20 o.DD
Cash on hand April l, 1911. So, 1893. Il

Cash on hand April l, 1914. =. 81, ,393.71
Our balance this year of $3,393.71 is
unusually large for this hundred. For
the last several vars We have had to re-
build each year several old bridges, and
as it seemed best we built them, when
able, of reinforced concrete with con-
crete floors, often leaving us with a poor
balance at the end of the year. We have
scraped ten (10) miles of road, dragged
about twenty (20) miles, repaired ten
(10) bridges and three (3) culverts and
rebuilt two (2) wooden bridges and put
in six CO. metal pipes of various sizes
and one terra cotto. Thompson s,
Tweed S and Hossinger's s Hills have been
worked down and rounded, and over a
mile of bitches re-dug.
Machinery and Tools-One Champion
scraper, three steel drags, shovels, picks,
ditching spades, etc.
Newark post., 1914-05-27
$10,S10.76

Cash on hand April l, 1914 .$1,475.95
We have spent a good deal of money
in this hundred and made some very
good permanent improvements in the
way of cutting down hills and fling hol-
lows, and still have $1,475.95 as a bal
ance for the new year. We rebuilt two
bridges and four large culverts and re-
paired several more. Twenty-fi five or
more metal pipe culverts were put in,
and a mile of new ditch dug. About
three hundred yards of road was sur
faced with gravel along Pike Creek.
Many other minor repairs We're made and
about forty miles of road scraped. The
road from Marshallton to Coopers Cor
ner was graded and widened, the breaks
and hills cut down, and the hollows fill
ed, new drainage pipe was put in and
the whole road cindered. The road from
Cooper S Corner toward Milltown was
graded, heavy cut being made on the
first hill west of Cooper S and the hol-
low in front of McClary filled some three
feet. Across the run a fine masonry
bridge ten (10) feet long, four (4) feet
high and twenty feet wide, with rein
forced concrete floor and pointed ap-
proach walls, was built and as above
stated the road raised some three feet,
On Lyman s road leading from Pennock s
Mill bridge near Milltown, the short
sharp hill was cut off and the dirt and
stone brought back to fill the approach
es to the County bridge crossing the
creek at this point. Trimble s hill on the
Mt, Pleasant road was also cut down
from 10 per cent. grade to a 6 per
cent, and the road widened at the top to
twenty feet. Each of these Jobs cost sew
eral hundred dollars, making in all quite
large sum, but are in the nature of per-
manent improvements, and well worth the
money. We hope to apply each year
some of our money to cutting off SINH
lar steep hill tops.
Machinery and TooIs-Two scraping
three road drags, one small
4-horse stone crusher, two scoops, one
whee, scoop, one road rooter, four dozen
shovels, picks, crow bars, mattox, stone l
forks, one house on wheels and Sc feet {
If metal culvert pipe. {
Newark post., 1914-05-27

Estate of Alexander Perry Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Letters Tes-
tamentary upon the Estate of Alexander
Perry, late of White Clay Creek Hundred,
deceased, were duly granted unto Hester
A. Manuel on the Fourth day of Nav.
A. ID. 1914, and all persons indebted to
the said deceased are requested to make
payment to the Executrix without delay.
and all persons having demands against
the deceased are required to exhibit and
present the same duly probated to the
said Executrix on or before the Fourth
DAY OF May, A. D. 1915, or abide by the
law in this behalf.
HESTER A. MANUEL,
ETecutriG.
Charles B. Evans, Esq.
Ford Building,
Del.
Newark post., 1914-05-27
ANNUAL REPORT OF
COUNTY ENGINEER
Supervisors Submit State
ment Of Work

Engineer Wilson recommends that the
county tax rate for road purposes be con-
tinued at the same fgure-forty cents on
each hundred dollars of assessed valua-
ton.
Included in his report Mr.. Wilson
submitted a recapitulatiOn of liabilities
from 1907 to date. 1t shows that with
the exception of one bond of $500 of
Pencader hundred, all of the hundreds
in the county are entirely free of debt.
Several other hundreds got out of debt
in the fiscal year 1911-12. In that year
Brandywine hundred paid off its last
$1,000, st. Georges paid off its last
81, 900 and White Clay Creek hundred
paid off its last $400. Appoquinimink
paid its last debt, 1887, in 1908; Black
bird paid $1S7 in 1907 and became free of
debt; Christiana paid its last $4,000 in
1909; New Castle paid its last $1,000 in
1910; New Castle its last $1,000 in 1909
and Red Lion its last $500 in 1908.
Mr.. Wilson shows that each hundred
has assembled a good building outfit,
Brandywine hundred having a stone
crusher. Mr.. Wilson recommends the
general use of the drag on dirt roads,
proper drainage, care of machinery, the
use of wide tires for heavy traffic. He
gives genera directions for dragging
roads. Mr.. Wilson's report is as fol
lows on local hundreds:
Newark post., 1914-05-27
NEW CASTLE HUNDRED
Geo. Harris, Supervisor
RECEIPTS

Balance on hand, April l, 1913 $3,1S0.27
Cash received in Taxes. .... 5,361.2O
Cash received, Western Union S.29
Cash received, R. NJ. B. Resolu-
tion NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 600
Newark post., 1914-05-27

An ice-cream and strawberry
festival under the auspices of
Wesley church, will be held on
Leon CARROTS lawn on Wednes-
day evening, June third. If stormy
the following evening. Proceeds
for the benefit of the church.
Newark post., 1914-05-27
Cash on hand, April l, 1911. 1,cO6.23

CASH on hand, April I, 19lt. 81 1,o06.23
The roads in this Hundred are in very
good condition considering the very bad
winter for roads we have had. Six (6)
miles of road were scraped iuto shape
and twenty-eight (2s) miles dragged
over number of times, the only way to
Newark post., 1914-05-27

cash on hand April |, l9l4. 4 ,92S.iS
Our balance is as shown above,
$4,92S.7S, and insures us a good work
ing capital for this season. We had no
new bridges to build and only three (3)
to repair. We have shaped up with the
scraper five (5) more miles of road and
have dragged and redragged some sixty
five (65) miles. The roads in this hun
dred after once being put into shape by
the road scraper ar easily and economic
ally kept so, by means of the road drags.
This work has been attended to with care
and system, with the result that ST.
Georges is our banner hundred for good
dirt roads. Two car loads of stone have
been put on the road from Port Penn to
Delaware City, but no roads gravlled.
Three hundred and sixty $500 feet of
metal culverts of various lengths and
diamters, have been put in, some to re-
plac old wooden ones, and others in new
places that needed them. Bunker Hill
was cut down somewhat and rounded
down and out several small hills and to
gravel several miles of road. We have
paid over to the Towns of Middletown
and Odessa all the road taxes collected
within their limits, amounting to $401.74
for Middletown and $450.12 for Odessa.
MdchNery and TOOls-Two large scrap
ers one small scraper, nine iron drags,
one Wrangle harrow, one rooter road plow
three Oliver plows, three scoops, two
dozen shovels, hoes and picks, and a few
old planks.
CLAY CREEK HUNDRED
Charles P. Wollaston, Supervisor
RECEIPTS
Balance on hand, April l, 1913 $2,G04.74 !
Cash received in Taxes. ..... s., ,043.24 |
Cash received, Western Union. ITO |
Cash received, R. VI. B. Resolu-
tIOH ''''''''. ''.''.' f'oo |
Newark post., 1914-05-27
Want Advertisements
For Sale, For Uent, Lost and Found

No questionable advertisement received by
THE POST
Phone you Want Ad. Call 90 d. A.
Any little Want, For Sale, or any
Short Notice that does not need dis
play advertisement, just put it in this
Column. 1t will bring results.
Newark post., 1914-05-27
Cash on hand April l, 1914. 81 ,54S.17


Cash on hand April l, 1914. $4, ,54S.17
We have a balance of $4,54S.17 to
start with and hope this year to do some
more permanent road work in the way
of reducing grades and resurfacing the
roads with cinder and Stag. We have
scraped an Grounded about twenty (20)
miles of road and dragged and redragged
about thirty (30) miles, rebuilt one
bridge and repaired four and put right
extra wing walls on culverts cleaned
l,150 yards of old bitches and cut 2,6O0
yards of new. We rounded and surfaced,
with Stag from the New Castle Mills,
about half mile of the road leading from
New Castle to the Reservoir Cross roads;
this is a good job and has held well over
the winter. We hope to do more of this
kind of work this year. We cut down
three (3) hills, Hog Swamp hill, Jourdon
hill and Lisbon Hill, in all some eight
hundred $500 yards in length. Several
metal culverts were placed where needed
We hauled over 700 loads of Stag and
l,255 bushels of oyster shells, besides
some gravel.
Mdchinery and T0olS-One scraper,
four new steel drags, one road plow, two
scoops, one dozen shovels, six spades and
other road implements.
PENCADER HUNDRED
Newark post., 1914-05-27
DISBURSEMENTS
Cash on hand April /. 1914 ..$1.SO5.72

=
This is the best balance on hand for
new work we have had for some time.
but every bit of it is needed. Pencader
seems to be always up against it. With
only about enough money to do one part
of the hundred at time, the other part
goes to the bad. BY the time you get
the hilly roads rounded up to drain the
water, the bitches along the fiat roads
are filled up and next year it is the re-
verse, so that a supervisor in this hun
dred stands poor chance of getting
much credit. The following work, how
ever, was done, four (4) miles of road
were scraped and twenty (20) miles drag
ged, nearly mile of bitches dug and
siXty-five old bridges and culverts re-
paired. Two (2) new plank bridges were
built and 250 feet of metal culverts of
various lengths and diamters put n. We
used some 10000 feet of lumber in
these bridge jobs, but ar slowly replac-
ing what we can of them with concrete
and metal structures.
Machinery and Tools-One (l) scraper
five (5) road drags, two (2) scoops, and
picks, shovels, brier scythes, etc, ecc.
RED LION HUNnKED
ID
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-12

ell here. The maid of honor was Miss
Elizabeth Willard. sister of the bride
and the bridesmaids were the princess
of Thurn and Taxis. Miss katherine
Page. Mile. Gilonele Veneur de Tiltieres
and Miss Virginia Christian.
In spite Of drenching rainstorm a
large crowd of spectators gathered out
side the American embassy and the
church to watch the arrival and de-
parture of the bride and groom and the
wedding guests. The party proceeded
TO and from the residence of Ambassador
Willard and the church in automobiles
and gala carriages. The bride was
dressed in ivory satin and tulle with a
court train, and wore orange blossoms
arranged with old lace and long veil
of tulle and lace. The maid of honor
was dressed in white satin with tunic
of pale blue tulle and the bridesmaids
in white tulle with tunics. All of them
wore lace touched with yellow, and had
yellow ribbons tied under the0hin, and
they carried bouquets of yellow orchids.
The wedding breakfast was served at
the American embassy. A reception was
held afterward, but rain made it impos-
sible for the guests to remain in the
gardens of the embassy, which had been
handsomely decorated for the occasion.
The bride and bridegroom plan to pass
their honeymoon in the south of Spain.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-12
ATTACK CORONATION CHAIR.
Militants Try to Blow Up Famous
Relic.

London, June l2.-An attempt to blow
I,lp the Coronation chair, which has been
in Westminster Abby since 1896 was
made last evening. The outrage is at
tributed by the authorities to militant
suffragettes.
The chair generally called st. Ed
wards chair, out OF respect to Edward.
the confessor, near whose shrine it
stands, was made by order of King
Edward ], to hold the coronation stone,
or Stone OF Destiny, on which the an
Gent Scottish kings used to sit when
they were crowned II was captured
by Edward ! from the Scotch.
The damage caused to the chair by
yesterdays explosion was slight.
The history of the stone. so far as it
is known, goes back to the year $50,
when it was placed in the Abbey of
Scone. Perthshiro by King Kenneth. A
legend connected with il SAYS it is the
identical stone upon which the Biblical
patriarch Jacob laid his head when he
had the vision of the angels ascending
and descending the ladder that reached
to Heaven.
The police took possession of the abbey
after the outrage.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-12
PERKINS REFUSES
TO BE TURNED OUT
Millionaire Refuses to Discuss the At
tack Made on Him by
Pinchot.

New York, June l2.-'1 have not the
slightest intention Of retiring as chair
man OF the executive committee of the
Progressive national committee" said
George w. Perkins in discussing Amos
Pinchot's attack upon him before leav-
ing up the Hudson on a trip to the in
terstate park. Perkins had as his guests
for the outing several New York park
commissioners and their friends. The
party sailed on the steamer Highlander.
"What Mr.. Pinchot says cannot drive
me out of the Progressive party" Per-
kins continued. Il don't think Mr.. Pin
chot's letter will either help or hurt him.
| don't think anything viii happen as a
result of the letter"
care you going to reply to Mr. Pin
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-12
EARLY ACTION ON
HOME RULE
Premier Asquith Says He Will Introduce
Amendment in Behalf of
Ulster.

London, June l2--Premier Asquith an
nounced in the House OF Commons yes
terday his intention of introducing the
promised bill to amend the Irish home
rule bill before any further progress is
made by the House of Lords with the
second reading of the main measure.
The Unionists thus have won the day
with their insistent demand that he
should take this action.
The Lords will be free to change the
amending bill as they think proper and
it is generally assumed that they will
insert provisions for the unconditional
exclusion Of Ulster from the operations
of the Irish home rule bill and also for
the protection Of the Protestant minor
ity in the rest of Ireland
The Unionists in this way will be en-
abed to test how far the government
and the Irish Nationalists are prepared
TO go in the direction OF compromise.
The new bill is not likely to be
brought into the House of Lords before
the week beginning June 81.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-12
GIRL CLUBS THUG.
Uses Policeman's Stick While the Officer
Is Capturing Second Assailant.

New York, June l2.-William Patterson,
,ecretaIy of the social service commits
tion of Philadelphia, while Summing
through the lower East Side yesterday,
was dragged into hallway by two foot
pads, who hit him over the head and
,ifled his pockets. The robbers were in
lerrupted at their work by policeman
md girl who had seen them hustle
Patterson into the hallway. After a
battle, during which the girl dubbed one
sf the robbers into submission with the
polceman's billy, the pair were led to
TO police station. Patterson was sent
10 hospital.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-12
I'D CEREMONY FOR
KERMIT ROOSEVELT
Chapel of British Embassy Scene of Per-
formance of Religious Mar
rage Rites.

Madrid, June l2.-The religious we'd
ding ceremony for Kermit Roosevelt, son
of Col Theodore Roosevelt, and Miss
Belle Wyatt Willard, daughter of Am
bassador Willard was performed yes
terday in the chapel of the British en-
bassy here. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. Dr. Samuel Watson, rec
tor of the American church of the Holy
Trinity at Paris, assisted by Rev. Her
bert Brown of the British embassy chap
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-12

chot or to the national committee of the
Progressives ?" Perkins was asked
No" he said mir. Pinehot's letter
is mere expression of opinion. He
knew how | felt before he wrote it.
know how he felt. Neither would be
news to the national committee. don't
see why ! should write to them"
Perkins would not predict what the
national committee would do. That il
for them to say" was his remark. He
refused to discuss Pnchot's intimation
that he, Perkins, had "doctored" the Pro-
gressive party's trust plank in the Chi
cago convention so that it expressed
the Perkins view rather than that of
the party.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-12
Secretary Wilson Sees a
Big Boom Com
ing
CROP TO END
STAGNATION
Steel and Iron Trade Will
Feel Effect, He
Says

Washington, June 20 enless Jobs
instead OF jobless men, in the very i'm
mediate future throughout the United
States were predicted by Secretary of
| Labor Wilson yesterday. The bumper
wheat crop, revival of the iron trade,
with the consequent stimulation of min
| ing and other associated industries and
continued activity in the textile business
are given by Wilson as his reasons for
prophesying prosperity with ''lots OF
work
Specific requests for more than 10000
men to help harvest bumper crops have
already reached the department OF labor.
Missouri alone has asked for 10000 men.
| How to get them West is the problem.
| As a solution Secretary Wilson is plan
ming to negotiate with the railroads to
arrange special excursions TO the wheat
belt from eastern cities, where the labor
might be obtained
"Such a plan would give thousands of
men in the East a chance TO get rural
vacation and make money while taking
it, said Secretary Wilson. 1T would
also effectualy solve the problem OF how
to get men to harvest the wheat"
Western farmers are Offering from
50 to $3.50 day and board for harvest
helpers.
Whatever there is of unemployment
day is caused chiefly by the depres
sion OF the iron and steel industry re-
sulting from failure OF the railroads,
which use 81 per cent of the steel prod
ucts of the country, to place orders, Mr..
Wilson believes. Up to two months ago
mining was in a hourishing condition,
and it is bound to improve when the big
steel mills soon resume in full, accord
ing to Wilson.
with this outlook in sight feel safe
in predicting that within month it viii
no longer be question of jobs but a
question of how to get men enough to
fill them" said Secretary Wilson,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-12
Everybody likes PURITY OATS

It's ideal food for the growing yoge hearty food for the
hard worke-te satisfying food for the portsman-the
right food for the business and his wife.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-12

Regular Size Package 10 eents--Family Size
Package. containing four pounds, Is the largest
package Of real good oats euer sold for rs cents