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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25
Government Should Build the Locks.

Government Should Build the Locks.
Petitions are going up to Wash
ington from Jefferson, Lafourche and
dam in the Lafourche, praying for
it's removal and asking the federal
government to take charge of the
work there and construct the de-
sired lock. It lis not disputed that 1t
ought to be built, and Bayou La
fourche opened to navigation again,
and the amount needed for that pur-
pose-s300, ,000-is small. On the
other hand, the leVee boards are un-
able to meet the expense. They have
had to face very high water for two
years, and heavy demands have been
made on them to prevent crevasses.
The federal government practically
accepts its responsibility, for it has
thrown on Louisiana and other low
er river states obligations and ex-
penses greater than they can bear.
Is it at all unreasonable to ask the
government to undertake the work it
self rather than to compel the
Atchafalaya board to do it, knowing
that such an order will mean the
withdrawal of the money needed for
levees On the AtehafaIaya, leaving
thousands of people in st. Landry, st
Martin and other parishes at the
mercy of a flood in the river?
/ Il strong and united demand
were made upon the government to
undertake the construction of the
lock at Donaldsonyille, as it has done
at Plaquemine, the 1evee boards, the
i people whose property is at stake
| the navigation interests, all joining
J ldn it, it should not be difficult Il
f get the assistance demanded for $.
) observing work.-N. O. Times-Pie
ayune.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

Balance Mar. 81, 1914 .s177 54
Dutchtown Special Tax Account.
Received from E. c. Hanson. s475 So
Oyerdraft Jan. 1, 1914 5 Il
Balance March 81, 1914. s470 %
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25
STATUS Of SCHOOL FUNDS.
Report of supt. j.. L. Rusca for
Quarter Ending March 31-Galvez
and Dutchtown Special Tax Ae-
counts.

Following is a summary of the re-
port furnished by supt. J. L. Rusca,
treasurer of school funds of the
parish of Ascension, to the supervisor
of public accounts for the quarter
ending March 81, 1914, in accordance
with Act No. 25 of 1910;
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

Six men held up the officers of the
branch Union Bank of Canada at
New Hazelton, British Columbia, and
took $1,000, but cowboys opened fire
on the robbers and killed two ot
them before the gang reached the
woods
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

Yellow poplar, or tulip tree, the
largest broadleaf tree in America,
has been known to reach nearly 200
feet in height and 10 feet in di-
ameter
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

The Federal Horticultural Board
at Washington has issued warn
ing to users Of imported cotton, par
ticularly in the south, to burn the
seed of all foreign cotton in order
to guard against the Introduction
of the pink boil weevil, an Egyptian
variety of this pestiferous insect.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

Brown Hanna. young man of ex
emplary habits, has mysteriously dis
appeared from his home at Winns
horo, La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

Attractive stationery is the only
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

JOKING n sf enarks.

Messrs. 3. L. O,Neal, Of GreenVille,
Miss, and L. J. EeheVerria, of Don
aldsonville, paid our office a visit
Mr.. O'Neal represents a syndicate
at Memphis whose holdings in farm
lands around GreenVille are under the
management of Mr. O'Neal. This
gentleman is here soliciting tenants
for his lands, offering a chance to
thrifty laborers to make good. He
says a good, saving man who will
work will be well treated and will
get help, but the lazy fellow will
suffer there as well and may be
more than he will here. Mr.. Eche'
verria is employed by Mr.. O'NeaI to
secure tenants, and receives a bonus
OH each family secured for the Green
vile farms. In fairness to all con
cerned, we publish the above, as Mr..
O'Neal appears to us to be fair.
minded gentleman.-Houma Times.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

The doWager Empress Haruko of
japan. widow of the late Emperor
Mutsuhito, died on the 9th instant,
of Bright's disease.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

Begin now TO get ready for the
fair.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

The Mansfield Journal issued a
special industrial edition of twelve
pages on the Bird of April, replete
with interesting reading matter, good
pictures of prominent citizens. build
ings and enterprises of the COM
n,unity, and a fair number of tastily
displayed advertisements. The en-
tire get-up of the issue was very
ereditable to the ability and skill of
Publisher c. M. Threadgill, and he
deserved to make a good bit of
money out OF it.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25
For Sale.

Yard eggs, guaranteed fresh. Any
found deficient in quality will be
replaced.
Also thoroughbred White Wyan-
dotte and S. C. White Leghorn eggs
for setting. MRS. G. d. BENTLEY.
Telephone I54
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

For results, advertise in The Chief.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

Mrs. Charles Gayarre, widow of
the noted Louisiana historian, died
on the 4th instant, at her girlhood
home in Mississippi. She celebrat-
ed her ninety fourth birthday ami
versary April 1, and was in posses
sion of all her faculties, except that
her sight had become very poor and
she was enfeebled by failing health.
The funeral took place in New Or
leans, and the remains were laid to
rest in the old st. Louis Cemetery
alongside those of the venerable
lady's distinguished husband, who
passed away twenty years ago in
his ninety-second year.
J. L. McAdams, a Well-knoWn citi-
zen of Arcadia, La, met death in a
peculiar manner at Alexandria, where
be was attending the Louisiana Men S
baptist convention. While on his
way to his brothers home after the
night meeting on the Sth instant, he
was presumably overcome by an at
tack of apopIexy and fell against a
picket fence in such way that his
throat became wedged between two
pickets and strangulation ensued.
DR.. R. +. Farrell discovered the un-
fortunate mans predicament and
quickly released him, but all efforts
at resuscitation proved unavailing.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-04-25

To correspondent who asks
ssWhat is meant by the repeal of the
canal toll bill?" the New Orleans
Times-Picayune makes the following
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-18
Screen Fayorite and Picked
Company Are Seen in
Scars of Possession

Francis X Bushman and picked
company present Scars of Passion.
at the Bijou theater today. 1t is a
classic as all OF Mr.. Bushman's pre-
carnations are. Maurice Costello
will appear in one reel subject,
The Mill of Life" and His Chorus
Girl Wife, closes the bill. There
will be extra big doings Saturday.
A two part Edison dramatic feature
will head the program, IA Question
Of Identity" is the title. 1t deals
with twin Brothers and is unusually
interesting. Slippery Slim and Sophia
will De on in "Sophia's Fatal We'd
ding" Helen Holmes will present
The Demon of the Rails. It is one
OF the Hazard of Helen" series and
thriller. 1.-THE Way Back" a Bi.
ograph drama. will close an interest
ing and entertaining program.
Irene Franklin, 1t is said, may APP
pear in the Conan revue.
Catchy music, pretty girls who
know how to sing and dance, clever
comedians who will make you laugh
until you cry, beautiful costumes and
appropriate scenery all go to make
THE Movie Girl" first class musical
offering. This attraction is to be seen
In the near future at the Robinson
Grand and during the engagement
popular prices will prevail which fact
alone should crowd the local play
house to its utmost capacity
49, Att
THE Fatal OATH" a powerful four
part drama. is showing today at the
Orpheum theater. The Great North
crn Feature Players present 1t. The
play is full of dramatic situations,
beautiful settings and fine photog-
raphy Margaret Fischer also APP
pears in high class beauty comedy,
called "Cupid's Dfess Coat" along
with a Majestic special, 1.-THE Good
for Nothing"
Tomorrow Seymour Hicks will be
seen in his greatest character role
| as "Scrooge." in the photoplay en-
titled "Scrooge." an adaptation from
Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol in
three. parts. A big special matinee
will be held for school children who
desire to see this play.
l :
Wiikie Bard is to pay another visit
to this country next season.
There is little doubt that the FAM
Gus musical comedy hit Of three con-
tinents, "The Quaker Girl" which
plays at the Robinson Grand Saturday
afternoon and night will ybe accorded
the popularity It deserves, for its
coming has been eagerly awaited and
its wonderful success in London Par
Is and New York is by this time
known to all who patronize the thea
tier.
The music is by this time familiar
to everyone and 1t has been played
and sung throughout the country at
Large, and it is certainty that a
large audience will leave the tfeater
after the performance humming the
Irresistible aCome to the Ball. waltz.
Henry Jewett is going 10 establish
a stock company In Boston.
The coming engagement Of the
gifted emotional actress Eugenie
Blair, who will be seen In the role Of
"The Vampire in Porter Emerson
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-18
NOTICE TO SHIPPERS.

Traction Company express cars
leave Clarksburg for Grasselli, o,Neil.
Mt. Glare, Weston, Shinnston, Fair
mont, Fairview. Pennington, Man
nington and intermediate points daily
except Sunday. Shipments for Man
nlngton and intermediate points
should be delivered in station not
later than 300 a. M: Fairview and
intermediate points, 1880 a. M; Wes-
ton and intermediate points, 1900 NJ
Quick service, reasonable rates, and
care In handling make this an ideal
line for shippers.
MoNoNGAHELA VALLEY TRAG-
TIoN COMPANY.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-18

dramatic fiction as cara, Paula, Tan
querey, Iris and sCamfile hut .n0thlng
more fascinating has been seen lately
than her devil woman; the woman
Rrdyard Kipling wrote about in his
immortal verso. "A Fool There Was
comes to the Robinson Grand Christ,
mas night
George Backus has been engaged to.
play in "A Widow by Proxy with
May Irwin.
With the mysterious :3rindamour.
the original jaiihreake and hhndcuifl
king as headliners and Stone and
Harris as added attractions, the bin
at the odeon theater for the last half
OF this week is a regular one. Not a
minute passes during tho time these
entertainers are on the stage that
there Is not something doing.
Brindamour, assisted by Miss Helen
billiard, presents HIS mysterious act
in such manner that his audience
Is attention at all times. People have
seen others get out OF handouts after
considerable effort, but this famous
artist loses no time In .accompl fishing
in seconds what It takes other hand-
Gun kings to do. in minutes. His
trick OF disrobing himself of coat
with his hands securely bound behind
him, in the twihkling OF an eye, is
proving sensation which. is being
discussed on the street.
The pictures for today include the
fourth episode OF .Zudoran entitled
"The Mystery Of the Frozen Laugh, 2
IA two part Lubin drama entitled
WAS His Decision. RightT' and
Hearst-Selig news pictorial, No. IS.
$3.50
Florence Nash, star OF the Also re-
lease, "Springtime." has finished her
Aim work in New Orleans. During
the stay of the "Springtime' company
in the southern city, Miss Nash was
given the freedom of the city by the
mayor. She was escorted to all places
lof historic interest by municipal
orders.
The vaudeville managers are try
ing to secure Ellen Terry and Phyl-
lis Nelson Terry.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-18
PRESENTS a
BUSHMAlN CLASSIC

Brownies remarkable drama, "a Fool
There Was" will be one Of the most
Interesting events of the current
theatrical season. Miss Blair has won
distinction in such famous women of
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-18
E,AqRMoNr nec IS s,n,on NJ nj

F,AIRMoNT. Dec. 1s.-simon M. Ell
more McFall, %, was killed when a
coal train from Underwood side
swiped Baltimore and Ohio train help
er No. SO at Pennington knocking
him from the engine.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-18

George Backus has been engaged to-
play in "A Widow by Proxy" with
Nay Irwin.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-29
CAPE COATS AND
BAsQUEs POPULAR
PlaidS and Velvets in Cotton
and Silk Give the Smart
Touch to Gowns
SHORT NOSE VEIL;
VALKYRIE TOQUES

NEW YORK, May 28-With the
ticking of Fashions clock the pendu-
lum swings back and forth, counting
out cycles of style, each one taking us
back along the same old paths our
grandmothers trod.
At the present time, there seems to
be three distinct circles striving to
weave themselves in Fashions web,
and become predominant. One in
cludes the Directoire period and it's
influence is largely with the tailored
suits of the day; the second shows the
crinoline of the early COS and is re-
Elected in our summer frocks; the
third is to bring us back to the
basque and pOlonaise effects of the
sos, and will probably be more in ev-
idence in the autumn.
In the first illustration is shown a
frOck of this latter character modern
lied to suit the fashionable figure.
With hustle instead of a sash, and a
smaller waist, it might we'll have fit
ted our mothers in their gay and hap
Ply youth.
The skirt worn with this waist has
the smart long tunic over tight and
narrow underskirt, tightness most
unlike the tight skirts worn under
these same basques in other days.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-29
HOW TO AVOID POTATO
SCA8 AND DRY ROT.

These two diseases are prevalent
in Kentucky, and now is the time to
lessen their injuries on the crop of
1914, if they are to be lessened
Scab is a fungus disease resulting
in roughness of the surface of po-
tatoes, when severe leaving most of
the outside assured, corky and black.
When used for seed, such potatoes
are likely to cause scab on the new
crop, and are unfit for planting if one
wants clean skinned potatoes. If
but slightly affected they may be dis
infected by soaking them for two
hours in thirty gallons of water con-
tanning one pint of fOrmalin. A
gunny sack containing the potatoes
may be set in a barrel containing the
water and formalin, and after treate-
ment it is only necessary to lift the
sack out, drain off the fluid, and
spread the potatoes out to dry before
cutting them them.
Dry rot is also a fungus disease.
Potatoes sometimes appear to be
perfectly sound, yet when cut show
a brown line of varying thickness just
within the skin and often following
the greater part of the circumference
This is the work of a dry rot fungus,
generally, in Kentucky, a species
known as Fusarium oxysporum. Such
potatoes ought always to be rejected.
They are certain to convey the dis
ease to the crop. No treatment will
reach the fungus within the potato.
When buying potatoes it is well to
cut some of them to see if the disease
is present.
Both scab and dry rot fungi remain
in the soil for time, hence old po-
tato land is likely to produce more
badly diseased potatoes than new
land.
% The selection of sound seed,
(2) treatment with formalin or cor
rosive sublimate, and 81 rotation, are
the means by which both of these
pests may be avoided.
H. CARAVAN,
Entomologist and Botanist, Kentucky
Agricultural Experiment Station.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-29

little Elton and bolero jackets, to be
worn over cotton dresses, a fancy
which is as attractive as it is practi-
CAL
Velvet and many ve4vet-like tex
lures are used a great, deal this sea-
son. touch is introduced here and
there to enrich gown of light and
airy texture, as the collar of cape, or
perhaps only in the flowers which
trim charming garden hat. This
contrast is a delightful fancy which
the French have employed with their
usual artistic grace and skill
Another adOrnment to summer
gowns are the new maline and net
ruches. Velvet, ending in an orna-
ment in front, usually forms the cen
ter of these thickly bOX-pleated
ruches. Different colors are used be-
side black, soft shades of rose, and
blue, rich geranium pink and the won
derful tango yellow, whatever tones
of color in your frock may be easily
combined into neck ruche.
Occasionally dainty nosegay of
field flowers are nestled at either end
of the ruff, so that when it is closed,
if closed it is, they form charming
bit of color at the throat.
These rufus occasionally lengthen
into boas, but require to be worn with
care. The way in which the ruff is
placed around the neck, well done,
gives cachet to the costume; if care
lessly worn, the whole effect is lost.
A costume may be perfect in it.
self, but the careless adjustment of
an accessory may be it's ruination.
Owing to the difficulty of a becom-
ing line at the neck, the wells will be
worn short, reaching just above the
lips. The object is to avoid the ugly
line about the neck, which the low
collar makes inevitable. In Paris on
dit, no wells are worn, provided the
hair is so arranged that it does not
fly. Usually an invisible hair net
accomplishes this result.
The latest toque is round close
fitting shape, with straight tall wings
placed Immediately at the front and
at the back of the shape. These hats
take their name, "Valkyrie," from the
Wagnerian maidens, whose helmets
they resemble.
The hats and tOques are brimless
and tend toward round crown that
fits we'll down on to the head, with
stiff, outstanding wings, usually in
black, directly in front. Often a
mass of small flowers cover thickly
the toque, relieved only by a high,
fine feather. White and purple vio-
lets are most successful when used
in this way.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-29
JUST WAIT UNTIL 7. r. SEES
THIS
(Strand MagaZine.)

A party of skaters were once pro-
crossing at considerable speed down a
certain frozen river in Canada when,
to the horror of his companions, one
of the party was seen to skate
straight into a hole in the ice. Be
fore he could stop himself he had
fallen through it, and the sharp edges
of the ice cut his head clean off his
shoulders. The speed at which he
was going, however, caused his head
to skim along the top of the ice,
while the rest of his body travelled
at an equal speed beneath it, until,
be a stroke of good luck, the severed
portions met at another hole farther
down, and joined so exactly that the
unfortunate man came out of his ac-
cident with nothing worse than a Sc
we're cold
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-29


er Waist, Our Mothers Might Have
Worn This Dress in Their Gay and
Happy Youth.
POplin seems to be a favored ma
terial for this style of a frOck, wheth-
er in wool or silk, striped and plain,
and takes us around another cycle,
which includes the time of Charlotte
BrOnte and her heroines.
In this frock is also shown a ten
dency to fit the figure more closely, a
thing ignored in the last year, and the
corset manufacturers are coming to
their own again.
In my second illustration is shown
the new and practical cape coat, COM
bined with that ever-striking and
handsome Scotch plaid. The body
and sleeve of this black satin coat are
in one, with a seam down the full and
gOdet back. The yoke is extended in
to straps which cross over the chest,
circle the body and cross again in
the front below the back, ending and
fastening in the front below the waist
The skirt has a long pleated tunic of
plaid surah silk, with a narrow under
skirt of black satin.
Speaking of plaid, l hear that the
Parisiennes have gone mad on the
subject; they are not content with the
"hazy-mazy" plaids which we have
worn all winter, in serge and similar
materials, but wear the plaids in
bright and glazing colors, in reds and
greens, yellOwS and blues.
The cloth dresses for afternoon
which are very much trimmed with
taffeta silk, often have tunics of plaid,
edged with silk rufnes or pleatings,
while the sleeves of silk, in plaid
and three-quarters length, are like
wise finished with ruffles, or pleatings
of silk.
Pique or silk vests, with large roll
ing collars, are being worn, buttoned
down the front with ball-shaped but
tons of the same material. CretOnne,
with white or cream ground, and
high-colored flowers, is also used for
vests, collar and cuffs, while most eff
fective is the wooden embroidery used
to embellish the smartest vests and
waistcoats of crash and coarse white
linen.
Cotton pique, in white, corn color,
light blue and white, and pink and
white, striped, are made intp cunning
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-29
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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-29

Are Among the Seasons Newest
Styles.
TOques, both white and black, will
be in great favor. If white straw
forms the crown, then white wings,
black wings or ears of black velvet
are the preferred trimming. One of
the latest millinery creations is a
small tOpue composed of small black
ostrich plurhes. These form the en-
tir low crown, apparently held in
place by the band of silk ribbon,
which is adorned with fiat bows of
the same ribbon, front and back
With hot weather, we shall see the
smart leghOrns that look large, but
that are no larger than necessary to
give a garden effect and to be becom-
ing in that fashion, possible only with
leghorn shapes. These are garlanded
with roses and at times lined with
velvet.
The word comes from Paris that
no sleevs are worn for the evening or
dancing frocks. The low cut bodice
narrOws over the shoulders, showing
the entire upper arm. Often the
sleeve is like a bracelet of sheer tulle
or of jewels interlaced. The effect,
however, is open, and no sleeve in
the real sense of the word is used.
The majority of these frocks are
very low cut in the back, with the
front often held in place by jeWeled
chains, in the way of the usual fast
ening of a child's bib. However, the
line of the neck in front is diverse,
often it is pointed, coming in a
straight line from the top of the
shoulder othe center of the breast,
square cut or round like the Greek,
with a use of tulle that gives an ap-
pearance of nothingness to the bodice
itself.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-05-29
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