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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-07-29
CORRESPONDENCE
Plain Dealing.

Tuesday, July q. Mrs. S. A. An
drews OF Minden has been a guest of
Mrs. E. S. Fluitt for several days.
Mrs. John Dexter and her son, Master
Jack, are visiting Mrs. Dexter's sister,
Mrs. Joella Russell, of Joella, Ark.
Misses Mamie Gray and Mamie
Meares of Beleher have been visiting
relatives here for the past ten days.
Miss Susie King of Lewisville, Ark,
and Miss Fannie May Heifner of Benton
are guests of Plain Dealing relatives.
Andrew Bixler of Murphy, Texas, and
Mrs. Cliff Bixler and children are visit
ing Mr.. T. B. Bixler, the young mans
father.
Miss Nina McGaughey and her bro
Their, Paul, returned yesterday from
Texas, where they have been on an ex-
tended visit.
Arthur Tunnely sustained a broken
collar bone in baseball game here last
Saturday, but is out and apparently all
right to-day.
Miss Ruth Nuckolls was taken to
Shreveport Sunday for an operation for
appendicitis. The operation proved
entirely successful and at last account
she was reported as doing nicely.
The District Conference of the Meth
odist Church has been in session here
since Monday night, but the member
ship will finish up their business and
adjourn this morning. Plain Dealing
is always glad to entertain such distin-
guished gentlemen as compose the con-
ference.
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Gard of Thanks.

With grateful hearts we wish to thank
our neighbors and friends for their kind
ness and assistance in the recent illness
and death of our darling little son.
Also, Drs. r. Butler and T. N. Keoun
for their kind and untiring services.
May the Giver of all good keep and
sustain you. Sincerely,
VAsSAR WINDSOR and Family.
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POLICE JURY PROCEEDINGS.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE FOUR. I

The President then appointed the fol-
lowing Budget Committee: Messrs.
j. G. McDade, J. T. McDade and r. D..
Wilmington, which committee, after
due consideration, made the following
report as the budget for the year 1915,
and the same was unanimously adopted,
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lows: Schools, 8 mills; Parish Jail,
one-half mill; sinking fund, 1 mill;
roads and bridges and general fund, So
mills.
We further levy special tax of 61s
mills in Road District No. 1, for the
purpose of taking care of bonds and in
terest for said road district for the year
ensuing. Respectfully submitted,
]. G. MCDADE.
J. T. MCDADE.
r. D. WHITTINGToN.
The Budget Committee having rec
commended special 6hs-tax for Road
District No. 1, the following ordinance
was presented and unanimously adopted:
AN ORDINANCE
Levying special 61.-mill tax for the
year 1915 in Road District No. 1, as
created in the Parish of Bossier, Lou
isiana.
Be it ordained by the Police Jury of
the Parish of Bossier, Louisiana, in reg
ular session convened, That special
tax of 81 mills on the dollar of the as
sessed valuation of all property in Road
District No. be and the same is hereby
levied on the aforementioned property
for the year 1915 for the purpose Of pay
ing a portion or prorata of the bonded
Indebtedness, with the interest thereon
for one year at the rate of 5 per cent per
annum, which bonds were voted at
special election held in said district on
July IA, 1918, and in accordance with an
ordinance passed by the Police Jury of
the Parish of Bossier mourning such in
debtedness; and that the Assessor of
the Parish of Bossier is hereby ordered
| to extend the said 6L- mill tax against
all property located and assessable in
Road District No. 1, Bossier Parish,
Louisiana, for the year 1915.
Done and signed officially on the 14th
day of July, 1915.
| j. C. LOGAN, President
Police Jury of Bossier Parish.
The following report and account of
the Treasurer was received, examined
and ordered filed, to-wit: The Treas
urer's report appears elsewhere on this
page.-Editor.1
The following report of the Sheriff
and ex-oficio Tax Collector was re-
ceiyed, filed and duly checked and found
to be correct:
To the Honorable President and Members of the
Police Jury of Bossier Parish
| Gentlemen: beg leave to submit my
report on collections from all sources for
the quarter ending June 80, 1915, and
for the month of October, 1914, omitted
| from previous statement:
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Attached to the above report was a
report on delinquent taxes for the year
1914 and a request by the Sheriff and
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SHREVEPORT, LA, July g, 1915.
SHREVEPORT, La, July q, 1915.

Local Editor Banner, Benton, La.
EEAR SIR: Please announce that there will be
preaching at Bossier City at eleven am. and
eight O'Clock pm. each Sunday in the month;
Sunday school at three pm. Midweek prayer
meeting, Friday evenings at eight o'clock, under
the auspices of the Senior Epworth League.
Meetings of the Junior Epworth League (Mrs.
v. L. Thomson, SUPPLEMENTARY every Wednes-
day afternoon at three O'Clock.
w. B. PERRITT, P. C.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

The governor of Wisconsin takes rather
peculiar attitude in regard to the large
number Of students that have awaited
themselves of the privileges of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. Instead of feeling
a sense Of pride in the possession by the
state of an institution of learning which
Is so superior as to attract large numbers
Of students from other states, the new
governor declares that he finds too many
alien students there and that they have
raised the cost of living for Wisconsin
students at the capital. The truth is that
the governor is taking a very short-sighted
course in not extending a cordial welcome
to the students from other states. No
other one agency has done so much to
make Wisconsin famous as her excellent
State university. The agricultural instruc-
ton dispensed by that institution has
raised the standard Of farming through
out the Middle West, and Wisconsin Is
infinitely stronger and richer because OF
this benefit conferred on the surrounding
Fcountry Such an attitude is narrow
one for the governor of any state to take
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

If you eat bread made in Brattleboro"
you viii not need to worry about it's hav-
ing plaster of paris in it. The use of
plaster of paris and powerful chemicals in
the making of bread, as discovered by a
board Of health inspector in Boston, calls
attention to an outrageous fraud on the
public and d menace to the public health.
The plaster of paris is used because it is
cheaper than wheat flour, costing only
one cent a pound. Mixed with ordinary
flour it gives the requisite weight and bulk
to the loaf at a saving Of two or three
cents a pound for the baker. But plaster
Of paris IS not Il food product and 40 sane
person will knowingly eat it. As a result
of the Boston discovery bill will be in
PRODUCED in the Massachusetts legislature
forbidding the use of anything but food
product in the manufacture of bread and
authorizing agents of boards of health tc
enter bakeries at any time to secure sam
DleS
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05
Value of Local Option Law.
bennington Banner.)

bennington Banner.)
The Perry prohibition bill will come
mp in the state senate within a few
days probably, and the general inn
preston is that the bill will pass. If
this forecast is correct it will prove
most unfortunate for the interests of
in Vermont The results
of the vote on the sale of liquor in the
several towns and cities Tuesday
shows the steady progress that is be-
ing made toward temperance under
the local option law. Only fifteen or
sixteen towns will have saloons dur
ing the coming year, a reduction of
eighty per cent in twelve years. If
the friends of temperance would leave
the present law in force it would be
only a few years before practically
every town in Vermont would be dry,
| with the possible exception of three
! or four of the larger communities on
| the west side of the state, and they
| will all be very close. When a town
votes dry the mandate Is Obeyed be-
cause there is public sentiment TO
back up the order, but if, under a ref
erendum, the rural communities
where the prohibition sentiment is
strong are able to force prohibition up
on the whole state it viii fail com
Ipletely in very many more towns
than those which vote for license I'M
der the local option law. Under pro
hibition there viii he hundreds of il
legal saloons in Bennington, Rutland
iChittenden and Franklin counties and
mot a few in some Of the other counties
These saloons viii run all the time
for as soon as one is closed another
springs up. To bring prohibition bach
in Vermont means a Knockout blow
for temperance III this state and il
viii take many years to overcome the
damage that will be done Mr. Perry
and his fellow workers on this bill
make the mistake of thinking that i
is severe penalties prescribed tina
keep out saloons in the towns that vot,
dry. As a matter of fact these penal
ties have little to do with it. TIL,
great value of the local option law /
the fact that it keeps the Temperance
sentiment active and militant 1t com
pels the no license forces to be aliv
and on guard. Prohibition is an in
= effective remedy that looks all RICH
f in theory, but in effect gains nothin
I good. 1t will bring back the reign o
4 hypocrisy and corruption; it will dc
bauch local politics in a hundred Vel
mont communities; it Will split til
I Republican party; and it Will tur
. back the clock of temperance progress
: in this state. The supporters Of tn
Y Perry bill in the legislature are III
Y Idoubtedly sincere, but they are ma kin
/ a serious mistake.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

sections of the state; 1t would be idle to
attempt to prove the contrary because the
few cities and towns that voted license
did SO with reduced majorities, with the
notable exception of Bennington. which
swung back from no-license to license by
a wide margin of votes, while IN very
many other instances the no-license ma
iorities were largely increased. However,
it must not be taken for a fact that the
sweep of sentiment against legalized sa-
looms in the individual cities and towns
of the state Is identical with the sentl-
mcnt in favor of statewide prohibition
as proposed in measure now pending be
for the legislature; the cases are not par
allel throughout by any means. There
are a great many voters in all parts of the
state who are firm in their convictions
that the sale of liquor should not be legal
lied in their communities because of con
ditions which are entirely familiar to them
and who are equally convinced that it is
the right of the voters in some other
town in far distant section of the state
| to saw what their policy shall be for a
year In other words, they believe in a
certain measure of home rule that decides
upon policy which each community is
called upon to enforce. Moreover, these
people believe firmly that the constant
stirring up of this question, together with
the influence of moral obligation which
the annual adoption of a policy imposes,
| is far preferable to an unchanging policy
in which the individual community falls
back into SNUG quiescence as regards en-
| forcement from year end to year end. II
| is with that idea in view that thousands
of men vote against the legalizing of the
sale of liquor In their communities but
who would not vote for a statewide pro
hibitory law; and, for that reason, We
say that the vote on Tuesday in the 24t
cities and towns against the sale of liquor
is not by any means indicative of tn,
sentiment of the voters on a fixed polio!
like statewide prohibition.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

The trolley lines gave the steam rail-
roads a staggering blow and now the
mtney is threatening the trolleys. The
iftney is nothing more nor. less than an
automobile service operating on regular
schedules between various points. The
jitney needs no tracks, no poles and no
franchise. In Los Angeles there are a
thousand jitneys in operation, fully as
many in Kansas City, and the scheme is
beginning to make the city fathers worry
in Cleveland, where the city-owned trac-
ton system furnishes a general three-cent
fare. The jitney will undoubtedly come
into vogue in New England the coming
summer. There is big field for its opera
tions between the large towns and sum
mer resorts.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05
RAWSONVILLE.

Lyle Bolster of Londonderry recent
ly visited in this place.
Clifton Landman, Clyde Rawson ana
Clifford Cobb are working in South
Londonderry for o. D. Parker.
School closed Friday, Feb. 20. with
play in the evening which was well
attended. y large clock was bought
with the proceeds for the school
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Head and
daughter, MagoIene, have returned t.
their home in South Londonderry after
a few weeks visit with their mother
Mrs. L. NJ. Stickney.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

The Brattleboro Reformer has opposed
a referendum on state prohibition be
nause women were to have the ballot
and that would mean statewide pro
hibition under local option. Now that
women are not to have the ballot, does
The Reformer favor Il referendum =
Bellows Falls Times.
The Reformer opposed the referendum
idea before woman suffrage became an i'm
portant issue at this session OF the lcgisla-
ture, and it still opposes it as an unnec-
cssary and unasked for burden upon the
state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05
KITCHEN CABINET CLUE.
Emerson & Son Get Permission to RIM
Another Club Sale of 25.

Emerson & Son have received a per
nit from the Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet
company to run another club sale of
= cabinets and have also given them
special permit allowing them to
make $3.50 discount to all members
meeting payments when due. This is
an unusual concession made to Emer-
son Son at their urgent request.
During the year of 1914 they ran
two very successful club sales, there
lore anyone interested in the lIoosier
Kitchen club proposition should act
quickly. Full particulars regarding
this sale viii be found elsewhere in
this issue, also in succeeding issues OF
The Reformer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

fuls Of jam mixed with the cream is
a most delicious combination also.
Small cup cakes may be used if so de-
sired, serving one to each person.
German SaIad.-Cook salt herring in
boiling water Is minutes; drain and
cool and separate into flakes. Add an
equal quantity of cold boiled potato
cut in cubes and one-fourth the guam
tity of hard-cooked eggs chopped. Mar
mate with French dressing and serve
with dressing made as follows: Beat
fourth of a cupful of cream until
stiff, add two tablespoonfuls of canned
red pepper. put through a sieve; then
add an equal quantity of good boiled
dressing. Serve the salad on lettuce
with the dressing.
Corn and Rice SaIad.-Take equal
quantities of cooked corn, we'll drained,
and rice cooked until soft; mix and
season with salt, pepper and add stiff
mayonnaise dressing. Serve on lettuce
leaves.
Mexican Tomato Saad.-Rub salad
bowl with cut Glove of garlic. Line
the bowl with lettuce and lay in few
slices or tomato, cover with chopped
| green pepper, teaspoonful of onion
and dozen chopped olives. Pour over
| French dressing of a tablespoonful
| of vinegar to three of oil, season with
salt, pepper and dash of celery salt.
! Serve well chilled. Cucumbers may be
added in place OF the olives if so de-
sired.
Spanish cream.-Take a quart Of
milk and soak half box of gelatin
in it. Beat the yolks of three eggs
light, add cupful of sugar, stir in
the scalding milk and cook until the
egg is thick. Strain through cheese
cloth. When nearly cold flavor with
lemon juice. Pour intp mold and
let stand in cold water to stiffen.
N1HH 1< .~
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05
GREEN RIVER.

Master Teddy Parmenter and Mrs.
Herbert White are the latest victims
of grip.
Misses Elsie and Bertha Hazelton Of
Dummerston were guests of Mrs. My
ron Thompson recently.
The dance in Union hall Wednesday
evening was well attended and pleas
ant evening was enjoyed by all.
Mr., and Mrs. Ernest Thomas and
three daughters were guests Sunday OF
their great-aunt, Mrs. c. II. Frost.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery of
the paper each night and it solicits the
cooperation of subscribers to that end
Prompt report should be given of each
failure to receive the paper on the morn
ing following the omission, in person,
by telephone or postal card, thus enabl-
ing the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper
remedy Immediately applied. 1t is only
by this method that the publisher can
secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

Of course it Is annoying to think
that a misunderstanding like that
which resulted in the reduction of the
board should make a special meeting
necessary, but when one stops to think
that the legality of the grand list is the
foundation on which rests the town $
ability to raise money the i'm
pOrtance of the matter is more clearly
understood The truth of the matter
probably is that the idea of cutting
down the number of listers originated
with the few disgruntled taxpayers
who brought about the defeat of H. B.
Chamberlain. They wanted to be sure
that Mr.. Chamberlain would not have
an opportunity to get on the board,
and without stopping to consider the
consequences offered and put through
the motion for the reduction so that
only one place would be left to fill
this year. Without commenting on the
motives of those who engineered the
Chamberlain movement further
than to say that they were wholly per
sonal The Meddler believes his retire
ment was a serious mistake. Mr.. Cham
beIlain may have his shortcomings, but
the fact remains that he has done the
technical part of the listers woTl
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05
The MeddIer
IT the coat fits goa. put It on"

Well, one thing was certain,'' said
a man at the close of Tuesdays town
meeting, "they had their axes out for
appropriations all right And nobody
was inclined to disagree with him. If
there was any one distinctive feature
about the prolonged session it was the
spirit of retrenchment which seemed
to pervade it. In their efforts to 90
on record for economy the voters took
a crack at everything that appeared in
the nature of unnecessary expenditure,
and If 1T hadn t been for the sober sec
ond thought of few more than one
serious mistake would have been made.
Requests for special sidewalk appro-
prlatlons We're turned down summarily
as was that for the installation of by
drants IN the Western avenue Sec
tlon; an attempt was made to curtail
the annual appropriation for the free
library; the tax rate was cut two cents
below that recommended by the select
men; the board of listers was reduced
from five to three, and it was only
through reconsideration that the meet
ing was induced to favor putting the
town s floating Indebtedness in the
form of bonds, thus saving a considera
bic amount in interest each year.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05
TO ADVERTISERS,

Transient advertising-Run of paper,
so cents an inch for first insertion; 25
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
ton. Limited space on first page at
double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements - Five cents
a line first insertion with so per cent
discount for each subsequent insertion
without change of copy.
Reading NoticeS-Ten cents line first
insertion with so per cent discount for
each subsequent insertion without change
of copy.
Position, 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05
Member of the Associated Press.
FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1915.

The Iocal-option law in New Hamp-
shire will not be changed The bill
providing for repeal was defeated in
the house 226 to IA, after four hours
of strenuous debate. New Hampshire S
experience with the local option has
has been very similar to that in Yer
mont-the number of license towns is
gradually growing smaller.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05
The Local Option Vote in Vermont.
Barre Times.

The vote of Vermont on Tuesday as re-
CARDS local option on legal sale of liquor
in the 246 cities and towns is clearly in
dicative that the trend Of sentiment is
against the licensed saloon in almost all
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

rom a d e e p
sponge cake, filling
with jam, put on
the lid and serve
sliced with whip
ped cream and
sugar. Filled with
whipped cream and
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

Here is prayer said to have been
offered recently by Welsh clergyman:
Dear Lord, bless our armies and our
cause. We understand the Kaiser is
supplieating thee as earnestly as we
are. But wilt Thou, to avoid complied
tions, remain neutral till we have time
to whip the Germans. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

With two of the three selectmen, two
of the three listers and the road com
missioner nOn-residents of the village
the outlying districts ought to feel as
if they were pretty well represented in
the town government. II is significant.
however, that this division of officers
came about through no controversy
between sectional factions. Bv The
Meddler 1t IS taken as an indication
that the old-time feeling between vii
layers and suburbanites is passing
away, for if there were any disposition
on the part of the former to monopolize
public offices they could of course mus
ter the strength to do it. Let us hope,
however, that before any such feeling
crops out again the village lines will
have been obliterated.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05
SWEETS AND SALADS.

A simple and most tasty dessert
may be made by scooping the center
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

Rollin S Childs was to Tuesday :
town meeting what Marshall J. Hap
good is to the present session of the
legislature.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

faithfully and well for q number of
years and without question knows bet
ter how to draw the grand list in legal
form than anyone else in town.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-05

Men who have had long experience
in the work like \. j. Currier and !.
l.. Barney say that it will be absolute
" impossible to secure a legal grand
list under the present arrangement,
and Mr.. Barney goes as far as to make
the statement that unless something
Is done to increase the size of the
board he shall resign. Mr.. Barney
points out that no amount of clerical
assistance can remedy the situation
for the reason that clerks cannot be
given authority to take lists under
oath. The selectmen say they have no
right to appoint additional listers I'M
der the law, and so the only solution
of the difficulty would seem to be a spe-
cial town meeting for the purpose of
choosing two more members of the
board.