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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-17
DR.. BOWLING GUEST
OF PARISH MEDICOS.
Annual Meeting OF Parish Medical Society Brought
to Happy End with "A
Gorgeous Banquet.

The St. Landry Medical Socie
Ity met at the Courthouse on Jan
uary 18th, President Adams il
the chair, Secretary Lafeur a
his post and the following mem
bers present: Drs. Gardiner
Tarlton. R. NJ. and B. A. Littell
Saizan, Holman, Foster, Free
Vidrine, Stubbs, Guillory anc
others.
DR.. E. M. Ellis, of Crowley,
an honored invited guest read
an elaborate paper on the medi'
cal and surgical treatment of ap.
pendicitis, its diagnosis, etc.
This paper was discussed by
Drs. Gardiner, R. N. Littell,
Brown. Foster and Lafieur.
DIR. r. M. Littell moved that
the incoming president, Dr..
Brown, appoint a committee on
sanitarium, making the startling
announcement that thirty thou
sand dollars left the parish last
year that might have been re-
tanned here, if a properly equip
ped and conducted sanitarium
had been established in Opelou-
sas; the sanitariun1 proposition
was discussed by all the doctors
present, especially by Dr.. Ellis,
who had great experience in
their management.
The following resolution was
adopted:
Whereas a suit for damages
has been instituted against a
distinguished surgeon from our
neighboring town Of Crowley,
whose ability can be vouched
for by every member Of this
Society.
Resolved, That without any
intention of prejudicing this
case that the st. Landry Medi-
cal Society extends to him its
sympathy with an expression Of
confidence in the belief that he
will be entirely vindicated by
the courts. =
Dr.. Fred. J. Mayer, president
Of the state medical society, and
DR.. Oscar Dovvling, president Of
the state board Of health, were
present. DR.. Mayer participat-
ed in the discussions; made al
plea for better medical organiza-
ton and outlined the program
for the next state meeting in
April, declaring that it would be-
a red letter meeting; that already
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-17
EARLY STRAWBERRIES
FOR THIS PARISH
st. Charles College Has Dis
tinction Of Raising
Finest Ever.

ST. Charles College, the fa-
NOUS st. Landry institution sit
uated in Grand Coteau, has the
distinction of producing the
earliest and finest Strawberries
ever witnessed in this section Of
Louisiana, according to several
prominent citizens of Opelousas,
who are in a position to know
whereof they speak.
During the week Rex. Francis
x. TWellmeyer, vice president of
st. Charles, sent a sample box
of these delicious berries to the
Clarion, and all of those who had
the pleasure of seeing them ex-
pressed themselves to the effect
that these berries were the
largest and finest they had ever
seen.
January, it is presumed, is ex-
ceedingly early for strawberries
in St. Landry, but as Father
Twellmeyer speaks, in his letter.
it must be nothing out of the or
binary for the Jesuit fathers to
raise such fruits. It is the opin-
ion of Father TWellmeyer that
within the week the one
hundred and fifty students
of the College will be
treated to Strawberries and
cream which is indeed an ap-
preciatiye treat for the students,
especially at this time of the
year.
The College has large gar
den, in which all the vegetables
and fruits consumed which is
indeed a great amount--by the
college boys and the fathers are
raised, each year. 1t attracts
the attention of the visitors to
the historic old place, which at
traction is only exceed by the
picturesque. grounds and hand
some buildings.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-17
4,353 POLL TAXES
ST. LANDRY'S RECORD
First and Sixth Wards Have
Half Of The Entire
Parish.

The poll taxes collected for
1913 amounted to 4, 353. Out of
this amount there are 3,452
whites who paid their poll taxes,
the rest being negroes.
The Sixth Ward, which in
former days was the big eighth,
is once more in the lead, IN white
p5ll taxes alone, w hills t the
First Ward, in which Opelousas
is situated topples the list with
whites and blacks combined with
l121 against 1858 in the Sixth
Ward.
The poll taxes, throughout the
parish exceed the amount paid
during the year 1912. In Opel
ousas, it is said that never be-
fore did the citizens take such an
interest in paying their poll
taxes, as they did this year.
This is attributed to the fact that
next month a municipal election
will be held, when a mayor, five
members of the board of alder
men and a city marshall will be
chosen. A great deal of interest
is being manifested in the COM
ing election, the consequence OF
which the people here paid more
attention to the poll taxes than
ever before.
By wards the poll taxes paid
by whites, only, are as follows:
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-17
Ben Riseman Soon to
Start on Annex,

The ten thousand dollar an
mex to his present store, which
Mr.. Riseman intends to build,
will, in all probabilities be con
structed by the beginning of the
summer. Mr.. Riseman expects
to have the contractors busy
within the next six or eight
weeks on the new building,
which will be occupied by the
Ladies Department.
The annex will be a very large
one and will make the Riseman
building one Of the largest es-
tablishments in this section of
Louisiana.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-17
Boys Arrested For Driving
Spikes.

Sheriff Swords and Deputy
Sheriff Plais Horn jailed six boys
on Monday. The youngsters are
charged with driving spikes on
the O'Gee railroad at a point on
the Splane place, near this city.
Three of the boys named Gau-
threaux are white, whilst the
other three, named Chaplaine,
are negroes.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-17

Misses MathiIde and Gertrude
Fux entertained the KeWpie Club
Wednesday evening.
The club prize was won by
Miss Marie Budd; thegu est prize
by Miss Lulu Comeau.
A delectable luncheon was serv-
ed after which succeeded a time
of much merriment.
All entertained will bear ir
mind the most enjoyable evening
spent, along with the sweet hos.
pitallty that was felt throughout
the occasion.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-17

Hon T. H. Lewis who left for
New Orleans on Monday, has
been successfully operated upon.
He however awaits there a
second operation of a more
serious nature. Mr.. John w.
Lewis, accompanying his wife.
will leave Friday to join him.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-17
OPELOUSAS BANKS
ELECT OFFICERS
No Change Made In Local
Banks + Benoit on
i Board.

4
stockholders of the St. Landry
State Bank, Of this city, held at
their banking house on Monday.
the same directors were re-
elected to serve the ensuing
year, viz: DR.. j. A. Haas, j. J..
Thompson, Jos. M. Boagni, Sam
uel Haas, and I. M. Lichten-
stein.
The same officers were also re-
elected as follows: DR.. ]. A.
Haas, president; ]. J. Thomp-
son, vice president, L. 7. Cas-
tile, cashier; Leopold Simon. A.
A. Anding, and Fl. D. Larcade,
Jr., assistant cashiers.
The st. Landry State Bank is
one Of the strongest banks in
Southwest Louisiana, having a
capital of $50, ,00O.0 90, surplus
and undivided profits over $500, :
10000, declared a twenty per
cent dividend on January lst,
and has just been awarded the
fiscal agency for the Parish Of
st. Landry, and the st. Landry
parish school board for two
years.
Five members, constituting
the board Of directors of the Peo-
pies State Bank, of this city,
where chosen at the annual meet
ing Of the stockholders, last
Monday. The board of directors
is composed of David Roos,
Samuel Haas, Leon S. Haas, J.
A. Haas, ane Lawrence Larcade.
The officers elected by the
board of directors of the People
State Bank to serve for the year
are David Roos. president,
Samuel Haas, Vice President,
Leon S. Haas, End Vice President
Lawrence Larcade, Cashier, N.
NJ. Childs Assistant Cashier,
and Leo Larcade, runner.
The Peoples State Bank de-
clared a dividend Of 20 per cent
on the first of the year.
The Union Bank & Trust Com
pany, the youngest banking in
stitution in this city, will once
more be headed by DR.. Jos. 2.
Saizan, as president. At thean-
nual meetingof the stockholders,
on January 18th, the following
were elected on the board of di- (
rectors:: DR.. ]. P. Saizan. Oscar
Dardeau, G. H. Cretin, Lionel
Bienyenu, P. A. Sandoz, NJ. L.
Swords, L. J. Dossmann, Emar
Andrepont, G. Richard, Vim. ].
]. J. Perrodin and JOS
eph Benoit.
The officers chosen for the en-
suing year are J. P. Saizan, pres
ident;; Oscar Dardeau, 1st vice
president; G. H. Cretin, I'd vice.
president; J. J. Perrodin, cash
Ter; w. A. Hays, asst. cashier;
VIM. J. Sandoz, trust officer;
Homer J. Robin, asst. cashier at
the Leonville branch.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-17

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Fl. Lafeur of
Chataignier spent Monday with
Mrs. Willie Ardoin.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-17

Mr.. A. j. Deville went to
Alexandria on a flying visit to
relatives this week.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-17

DR.. R. M. Littell returned
from New Orleans Wednesday,
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-15

COATS worth up to $225o-$7. .5o-These
coats are made in Chinchila, Zibeline Boucle and
fancy cloakings and plain black tailored These
coats sold up to $22.50 but are last years styles to
20 now choice e..................... $3.50
COATS worth up to $10.oo-S1.50-There are
ten coats in this lot that formerly sold to $1,000
old styles; for quick clearance, each. s so
$1,000 to $500 coats-$15.oo-These coats
came in fancy mixtures, Boucles, Chinchillas, AS
trakhan and Zibeline. Last winters coats but
very good Styles 25 in the lot that formerly sold
from $4,000 to $500; now marked 800
Ladies' Winter Suits Half PrIce-These suits
are every this years best styles and materials
and high grade in every way. They sold from
$500 to $45O 90; your choice at. Half Price
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-15
Extraordinary Reductions in the Ready-to-
LDedr Department

SIPS PETTiCoATS, 89c-One lot colored mer-
cerized and fancy silk and cotton petticoats in
green, black. brown, pink, grey and black, $1.25
Values ................... ............. 49,. .00C
DRESSES, One-Third Off-One lot of ladies'
dresses in silk poplins and taffetas also silk and
wool crepes; many different coors and styles,
sold from $3.50 to $4,000; to go at. .OneThrd Off
$3.50 to $3.50 SKIRTS, $2.5o-About SO dress
skirts in plain blacks and mixtures, worth from
$3.50 to $3.50; our quick clearance price. $3.50
DRESS SKIRTS at $450-One lot of eponge,
wool crepe and serge skirts in Black and blue that
sold at $3.50, $500, $3.50; to go quick. 81 SO
is WOOL DRESSES, ss.oo-These dresses IL
in number, are all wool in black blue and tan. IS
to $3.50 values to clean up. $500
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-15
II Clean-Up in the Dress Goods and
Silk Departments
SOME EXCELLENT VALUES HERE STOCKS
SOME EXCELLENT VALUES HERE BUT STOCKS
ARE TOO HEAVY

$1.00 SILKS, 69c-One big lot of "a and SO inch
figured messane. poplins and chiffon taffeta silks,
regular 800 qualities for ..................88 CSC
pieces Of ROMAN STRIPE WOOL CREPE
"a inches WIDE special clearance price, yd. .38c
$500 MATELLAssE, $2.0o-5 pieces of 40 inch
wool silk matellasse In merOse black blue and
brown, pattern lengths. sold at $500 yard; mark
ed at, per yard. So 90
$500 SILK cHARMEusE, $125-6 pieces of
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-15

figured silk charmeuse SO in wide; sold at $780,
SO In. PLAIN AND BRoCADED CREPES-Also
plain and figured silk ratines that sold at 75c and
81 90 now, Marked per yard. SIC
ONE LOT OF WOOL DRESS GooDS-In
weights suitable for winter that sold up to LOO
price, per yard. ........................ .50C
$2.25 DRESS GOODS, s7c-5 pieces of 45 in. bor-
dered dress goods that originally sold for 1925; pat
tern lengths; price. e......................0 .07c
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-15

One lot II in number, Oxford gray and tan
Raincoats that sold for $295 to go. $500
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-12-15
Curtains and Nets

stitched table cloth In mercerized
material 64xS1, formerly sold at
$1.50 to clean up at, each. 49,. .7Sc
LOT FANCY WORK, SEQ
Drawn work and embroidered
scarfs and squares that sold at SOC
but are mussed and soiled SO we
close them at. at................ $3.50
FOR XMAS GiViNG-45x36
embroidered muslin pillow slips at
per pair. ,................, .8Oc
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-25
PERFECT HEALTH
IS A PRICELESS BLESSING

Poverty WITH HEALTH is better
than Luxury WITHOUT it. Yet the
cost Of Good Health is trifiing. Thou
sands of families enjoy perfect health,
through the aid of IL. F." Atwood's
Medicine.
AS a reliable relief from stomach.
troubles and indigestion-a certain
correction for constiptaion-the best
banisher of biliousness, headache and
colds-"L. F." is New Englands fav-
orite remedy.
Mrs. McAlpine of Prentiss Maine
says:
we always keep L. F." Atwoods
Medicine in the house. 1t is the ONLY
medicine used in our family. We think
very highly of it."
(Signed) Katie McAlpine.
Get Big 35 cent Bottle or a FREE
Trial Sample Today.
IL. F." MEDICINE CO., Portland, Me.
ADV.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-25
Ihen--and--NOW

Today there are more than 1900
wholesale meat packing and
slaughter establishments in the
United States producing dressed
meat and by-products valued in
the aggregate at 1870, 100000. 1t
is the largest single industry in
America in point Of value of
products and on it over 100000
persons are depended for liveli-
hoods. The plants form a vast
food mill through which pass an
nually more than 56,000,000 beeves,
CALVES, hogs, sheep and lambs,
goats and kids. AS an illustra-
ton of what this vast drove Of
animals means, 1t has been estt-
mated that they weigh on the hoof
more than all the people in the
United States would weigh with
their clothes on. Divided equal
ly among every man, woman and
child in the nation each would
have 165 pounds of live food ma
terial, and not to mention the
soap-oils, glue, fertilizers and
leather coming in the form OF by
products. The greatest center of
the industry is still at the stock
yards in Chicago which were
opened forty-nine years ago.
Here more animals are converted
into meat in a day than were
slaughtered in a year in the old
time abattoirs prior to the civil
war. 1t requires daily more than
1000 cattle cars to bring in the
stock over the thirty nine rail-
roads that empty into the Chicago
stock yards. 1t Is. said that If
these daily arrivals were arranged
in a single file, head to tail. they
would form solid procession
more than 200 miles long and with
the animals travelling 20 miles a
day it would require 10 days for
them to pass a given point.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-25

Forty-nine years ago today the
first chartered Union stockyard in
Chicago was formally opened for
business. 1t marked the dawn of
a new epoch in the feeding Of the
nation. The Pilgrims were the
first meat packers, records show
ing that a Colonial butcher OF
Salem, Mass, had packed a quaint
ity Of pork as early as 1640. Meat
packing as an industry did not,
however, begin until 1918 when
Elish Mills established a small
packing plant in Cincinnati Soon
all the large centers Of population
had their packing plants and
abattoirs to which stock raisers
within a neighborhood of hundreds
of miles drove their stock for sale
at the average rate OF 10 miles a
day. Frequently the drover ar
rived only to find the market
glutted and prices at level which
either spelled ruin for him or the
necessity Of leasing a large pas
ture in the neighborhood on which
to feed his animals until the mar
ket was more favorable. Trading
was based largely on credit. The
coming of railroads helped to solve
the problem of transportation, and
as those roads that tapped the
stock country of the west centered
in Chicago that city and the state
of Illinois became the greatest
center of the meat packing indus
try. The stockyard buyers paid
cash for stock. The discovery OF
the chilled-meat process and the
coming of the refrigerator car and
steamship made the meat packing
industry one Of the greatest In the
country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-25
STDMAGN lsYSET2
Get AZ the Real Cause-Take
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets

That's what thousands of stomach suf-
ferers are doing now. Instead of taking
tonics, or trying to patch up poor uiges.
on, they are attacking the real cause OF
the ailrnent-clogged liver and disordered
bowels.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets arouse the
liver in a soothing, healing way. When the
liver AID bowels are performing their
natural functions, away goes indigestion
and stomach troubles.
If YOU have a bad taste in your mouth,
tongue coated, appetite poor, lazy. don't.
care feeling, no ambition or energy, troubled
With undigested food, you should take olive
Tablets. the substitute for calomel.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are purely
vegetable compound mixed with olive oil.
You will know them by their olive color.
they do the work without gripping. cramps
or pain
Take one or two at bedtime for quicE
relief, so YOU can eat what you like. AT loc
and 25c per box. All druggists.
The Olive Tablet Company. Columbus "
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-25
The Star in the East.
(Kate Masterson. in !


A Christmas dawn through the sleet on
the hill
And the men that we left behind,
With eyes upturned to the morning chill
Smiling and brave and blind.
Oh, Holy Night! Have we left them dead
In the trenches where they fell
Comrades that laughed in the sunset red,
Without shroud or book or bell?
We march away where the cannon
hurled
In the breath of foeman's fear
The sword is sheathed and the flag is
furled
AT the grave of blood-red year.
Win the palms of plenty DER them surge
Or crown the shield they bore?
VIII the drums quick beat give them
welcome urge
To the homes they'll know no more?
There's star In the east and the dawn
of day,
The light of that other morn,
When the Christmas Child in the manger
lay
And the promise of peace was horn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-25

the license commission the strength of
public sentiment against opening the
doors of IA more saloons on our streets.
Republican.
Why not more saloons? II saloons
are a good thing, why limit the num-
Der? If Springfield needs the "reve-
nue"-if Massachusetts is in the busi-
ness for revenue-why not get all the
revenue possible out of the business?
Fourteen more saloons ought to bring
in $4,000 in cash. Revenue" was the
entire argument in Congress against
national prohibition. How can the
Springfield Republican consistently
pose as infallible adjudicator of the
line where the usefulness Of the sa-
loon ends and the public menace be-
gins? If Sc saloons are good for a
city's financial welfare and are not
harmful to its morals and posterity,
why the sudden fear of the next IA?
Up here in Maine the rum interest
tell us that the legal saloon drives out
the illegal ones, because the keeper of
the licensed places must pay his IL
cense and must, consequently, have
that much more trade, so he helps the
officers to drive out the outlaws. The
Republican will quite probably admit
that there are bootleggers, dives, kit
chen barrooms, ETC., in Springfield in
defiance of the license law. Then why
not legalize saloons enough to drive
out all the unlicensed traffic? Indeed,
why limit the number at all? If the
city gets the fee, why not sell a license
to every business man and household
err? 1t Is their gamble on getting the
trade.
Our exchange speaks of the great
number of saloons in the business
section of its ely in a regretful tone.
Does our friend think that visitors
would be unfavorably impressed with
the obvious appetite of a city that sup
ports such a number of saloons? Is it
ashamed of the standing advertise
ment? We cannot see the Republicans
unspoken ground of objection. If 1t
favors participation in the business
of degrading humanity by authorizing
one saloon, we cannot see why it
should balk at 100. Why and where
would it draw the line?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-25

sprinkled with drinking places 1t is
unnecessary and undesirable that fur
ther licenses be granted. The city's
interests will be best served by the
refusal of the commissions to add a
single license to the present list, how
ever great the pressure may be. This
result can only be accomplished by an
awakened public interest so clearly
demonstrated to the licensing author
ity as to come with the force of a
public command. The announcement
Of the result of the new census is a
humber of months away, but the pres
ent is not too early to indicate to
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-25

hotels where liquor may be legally OBJ
tanned. The time will come with the
declaration Of the result Of the 1915
census, when our license board, acting
under the law which permits the
granting of one license for each 1000 Of
population. may increase this already
ample number by one saloon for each
thousand people the city has added to
her roll of residents since 1910. Esti-
mates place the city's population at
more than 100000. SO not less than IA
additional licenses will then be at the
disposal of the commission. With
downtown streets already thickly-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-25
Samples Free by Mail

For pimples and blaclIheads the following
is a most effective and economical treat
ment: Gently smear the affected parts will.
Cuticura Ointment, on the end of the finger.
but do not rub. Wash off the Cuticura
Ointment in five minutes with Cuticura
Soap and hot water and continue bathing
for some minutes. This treatment Is best
on rising and retiring. At other t-nes use
Cuticura Soap freely for the toilet and bath.
to assist in preventing inflammation, irri-
tation and clogging Of the pores. Sold
throughout the world. Sample Of each
mailed free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard ":Cuticura. Dept. t, Boston"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-25
Lively Battle of Wits.

~ enterprising American went over
to England and decided to open shop
in London. He obtained premises next
door to a man who also kept shop
of the same description, but was not
very pushing in his business methods,
preferring to jog along in the old con
sentative way.
The methods of the newcomer,
however, caused the old trader to wake
up, and, with the spirit of originality
strong upon him. he affixed a. notice
over his shop with the words:
Established 80 years" painted in
large letters.
Established yesterday: no old
stock Boston Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-25
Too Many Saloons!

Springfield has Sc licensed places for
the sale of liquor, a more than ade-
Quate number 1t will be agreed by
those who look at the map which Tt g
Republic9p prints this morning, show
ing the business section of the city
with the locations Of the saloons and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-25

Haley to issue the order without costs,
but the law provides that costs must
be allowed in connection with find
ing for a petitioner.
Now orders have been issued to Bos-
ton & Maine conductors requiring
them to inspect the clothing of the
trainmen and make sure that they
keep their coats buttoned, shoes
shined, collars clean, and that they
are shaven every day before going to
work. There was great complaint
made about the loafing of the train
men and the Sinking of certain por-
lions of their duty, but the new orders
do not seem to include that.