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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10

Mrs. Mabel Hickman who has been
quite i'll at the home of her parents is
is quite a bit improved and is better
this week than at any time since she
has been sick.
WANTED Stenographer aud Book
keeper for store business; must have
general understanding of mercantile
business.--A Putnam.Tupper
Lumber Co., Ltd, Elton, La.
M. L. Warmoth, and wife, of Baton
Rouge, were in Welsh the latter part of
last week and the first part Of this
week visiting their daughter, Miss
Winona Warmoth who is teaching in
the Welsh High School.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
The Deserted House
Cor The Rice Belt Journal By W,
LomaX ChildreSs.)


This is he house. Moss grown and
Sas-,I"s
The porches lean about the beaten
door,
But for the footsteps fast sometimes or
tagging
They come not any more.
The rooms are filed with memories
ever brooding,
Old songs that echo, voices Stilled so
long ago,
The furtive night wind taps the panes a
visitor intruding,
Seeking the f1relightS glow.
The freight, in whose gold and crimson
flashes
Fair faces Shone and love lit tender
eyes,
Long since has paled and died to dreary
ashes
Outside the night bird CryS.
Where are the lips that dubbed in to
laughter,
The lives that filed the old house
with their cheer,
What power shall ever break the sad
ness coming after,
They went away from here.
The fairy forms of childhood happy
hearted,
The twining arms of sister and of
brother,
And one who left the old house lone
when she departed
The loved and longed for mother.
The wild vines veil the faces of the
Roses,
The we'll sweep rots, the weeds are
tangled there,
TIE crimson sunset comes, the bright
day closes
With not an evening prayer.
There is the silence with the night
wind signing
1t stands as one who waits if happily
they shall come,
And wake some music from their llps
but unreplying,
They are forever dumb.
Roanoke, La, Dec. 9Th, 1915.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
Pumping Plant Burned.

Last week burning grass set fire to
the pumping plant of Mr.. Carl MCMil-
Ian near Roanoke, doing considerable
damage.
While the plant was badly damaged
it is not a total loss and can be repaired
and put in shape for the next seasons
run.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
Bear This ID aldd

az consider CharIlber laD' .s','sItsS
medy by far the best MI s
market for colds ana croun nsIa
Albert Blosser, LULA .rIuDes
others are of the sane
tainable everywhere.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10

Mr.. James Hewitt, q s J !. I
ings, Ark, arrived this Vsss 81
to his daughters and osl wa /
Mrs. Dave Thomas, Mrs y, aa's
andria, Mrs. Thomas walIs : Il
noke, and Mrs. Phebe Ps .,ss'
ings, are daughters Of Mr. - &C., e.
Hewitt will spend some tllls z
ing before returning home
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
Announcements
FOR SHERIFF
To the People of Jefferson
noI,ic Do ,,iah.

To the People of Jefferson
Davis Parish:
Believing in the principles of demo.
Cracy, / hereby announce as a Candl.
date for Sheriff of Jefferson Davis
Parish, Louisiana, subject to the action
of the democratic primary, and pledge
the people of this parish, if elected,
clean and honest administration.
ISAAC FONTENOT,
June 8, 1915. C&J
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
FOR POLICE JUROR-WARD 8

FOR POLICE JUROR-WARD 8
To the Votes of Ward 8
Jefferson Davis Parish.
! hereby announce myself as candi-
date for Police Juror of Ward eight,
subject to the action of the Democratic
primary to be held on Jan 25th, 1916.
Your support solicited.
DOLE BOURGEOIS.
WOodlaWn, La, Nov. IL, 1915. ID
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
FOR POLICE JUROR-WARD S.

FUN FULICE JUNON-W AND o.
To the voters of Ward S, Jefferson
Davis parish: Believing in the prinCi-
pies of Democracy. hereby announce
myself as a candidate for police juror
of ward S, subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
Your support is respectfully solicited.
j JOHN NJ. PITRE,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
ANNOUNCEMENT.

ANNOUNCEMENT.
We are authorized to announce
ADAM BROUSSARD
as a candidate for the office of Justice
OF the Peace, Ward eight, subject to the
action of the democratic voters at the
primary to be held on January rs; 1916.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
POLICE LuROR-WAkD S.

POLICE JUROR-WAkDS.
We are authorized to announce
MR.. AUSEM MARCANTEL
as a candidate for reelection as Police
Juror, Ward Five, Jefferson Davis Par.
iSh, subject to the action of the voters
at the Democratic primary. ~
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10

Mrs. E. M. Stewart mas gone to Ba.
ton Rouge to visit her family where
she will spend Christmas returning
during the holidays.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
Saturday, January Is, 1915.

between legal hours, the following de.
Scribed movable and immovabIe pro-
perty belonging to the said succession
and being sold for the purpose of pay
ing debts Of the succession, to-wit:
Northeast quarter OF Southeast
quarter; West half of Southeast quart.
er; Southeast quarter of Southwest
quarter and West half of Southwest
quarter; of Section seventeen IN, in
Township seven (7) south, Range four
(D West, Louisiana Meridian, together
with improvements situate thereon.
Two horses; one set of working har.
ness; one single pillow; one harrow;
twenty barrels of corn; five hundred
bricks; and household goods.
The land, or immovable property, to
be sold in forty acre lots.
Terms of sale: Movable property
bought to be paid for in cash on day of
sale. Land, or immovable property,
bought to be paid fifty per cent IF the
purchase price on day of sale in cash;
and the balance payable one year after
day of sale, bearing eight per cent, in
terest, and secured by vendors lien re.
tanned.
Jefferson Davis Parish, December 3,
1915.
JOSEPH NEVIS LAFOSSE,
Administrator,
PLAUCHE &~MAYEUX,
Attorneys, Lake Charles, La.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
Saturday, January 18th, 1916.


between the legal hours of eleven
o'clock A. M. and four o'clock P. M, on
said day, the following described pro-
pcrty belonging to said Southern Mer-
camille Company, Limited, situated in
Town of Welsh, Louisiana, to-wit:
Lots seven ~ and eight e. of block
thirteen QS) of the said Town of Welsh,
Louisiana, together with all improve.
mentS thereon.
Terms: Cash on day Of sale with the
benefit of appraisement.
-WelShsLa., Nov. "a, 1859
j. H. COOPER,
MCCOY & MOSS, Receiver.
Attorneys,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
What about Tornado
Insurance? We write it.
Ring up 40. Calcasieu
Trust s Savings Bank.
RECEIVES SALE.
Fifteenth Judicial District Court,

Fifteenth Judicial District Court,
State OF Louisiana, Parish of Jefferson
Davis.
HEISIG & NORVELL, Inc. V. No. 449;
Southern Mercantile Co. Ltd.
BY virtue of the authority of an ord.
er of the Honorable Court aforesaid
and commission issued Hereunder,
directed to the undersigned Receiver of
the above named Southern Mercantile
Company, Limited, there viii be offered
for sale at the store of the Southern
Mercantile Company, Limited, in the
Town of Welsh, in the Parish of JefRer-
son Davis, Louisiana, on
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
FOR POLICE JUROR-WARD7
We are authorized to announce
MD u ADrENrI1ATrv

as candidate for reelection as Police
Juror, Ward seven, Jefferson Davis
Parish, subject to the action of the
voters at the Democratic Primary. (J)
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
DaVieS-Fent0n.

Mr.. A. F. Davies and Miss Harriet
Fenton were married in Superior, Wis,
on the twenty. sixth day of Nov. and
will make their future home at Holly
wood, Cal. Mr.. and Mrs. Davies are
we'll known to many OF our people hav.
ing lived in Fenton many years.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
SUCCESSION SALE.

18th Judicial District Court of Louisi-
ana, Parish of Jefferson Davis.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10
SUCCESSION OF NO. 21S, JOSEPH
MANUEL.

BY virtue of an order of the Honor
able Court, aforesaid, dated November
29th, 1915, and a commission issued
Hereunder, to me directed as admins
traitor of said estate, will offer for
sale, at public auction, to the last
highest bidder, at the old homestead of
the deceased, Joseph Manuel, in Allen
Parish, Louisiana.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-12-10

No. 666 will cure chills and fever. It
is the most speedy remedy we know
CT 254.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-02-11
ITALY REGARDS BLOCKADE
AS BLOW TO ALL NEUT RAILS

Rome. Feb. Accommodating ON Ger.
man measures against neutral snlps,
the Tribltna declares that Germany
does not take into account ne rlslits
or even the dignity Of neWtrals, Whlie
Great Britain gave satisfaction to pro
tests made by the United states and
Italy. granting the latter the right to
irlafl1tain the distinction between ahse-
lutte and conditional c~ontraballd. Con-
tinuing the paper says:
"C,ermany can be assured that some
neutral powers will refuse TO accept her
ruling, under which the established
custom of the examination at sea of
neutral vessels is abandoned and peace
ful neutral ships arc put in the same
category as hostile vessels. This Will
evoke prolGst from some neutrals.
IF Germany finds she has been dam
aged by certain British measures she
should answer with reprisiiis damag-
ing to Great Britain. but not striking
at neutral powers in the movements
Of their ships or the lives of their
subjects
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-02-11
HIGH WATER MENACES
OHIO VALLEY CITIES
Crest of Flood Nearing Cincin.
nati-Rainfan Has Ceased
Traffic Suffers.

Washington. d. c.. Feb. S.-This is
today's official flood bulletin issued by
the weather bureau:
The rainfall in the Ohio watershed
is over for the present. Fortunately,
it was not heavy enough to seriously
alter the lood situation.
The crest of the flood is nearing
Cincinnati this morning. where the
stage at s o'clock was 54.3 feet. or AZ
fee: above flood stage. Down river.
points show rising stages. Evansville
is four feet above Hood stage and
Cairo about three feet below food
stage.
ON the Mississippi. near Cairo.
Good stages are probable by the end
OF lie coming week"
Cincinnati. Ohio. Feb. 6.-The union
depot Of savera railroads here will he
Naceted On account of 4 predicted food
stage of So feet. The roads were MAX
ing preparations to use their suburban
stations for passenger traffic. Freight
movements VIII not be seriously
iidrnpercd.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-02-11
Inviting the Jitneys.
From tho kansas CITY Star

From the Kansas City Star.
The street railway companies All over
the country have been preparing the field
for the Jitneys, They have got a monop-
oily of the streets. usually by strong arm
methods. They have crowded people on
cars and skimped the service in every pos
sible way in order to make returns on
watered stock. And when there has been
complaint they have laughed at the peo-
pie and asked them what hey were going
TO do about it,
They have done all this while they were
in a vulnerable position. The street rail-
way with It's inconvenieut tracks blocking
the streets. its unsightly trolley wires, its
noise, and above all, its inability to fur
ntsh express service is inadequate to the
needs of a modern city.
People are not going to be satisfied with
q service that stops at every block and
that takes half an hour to get down town.
If it is possible to have a direct through
service taking only half the time.
1t is hard for the fellows who have any
special privilege to think hat there will
ever be an end 20 it. The nobility OF
France thought they had the country
sewed up. The Shareholders in the south
believed they We're to be allowed to keep
slave property forever,
But 1t has always proved that Just when
the privileged class thought everything
was to go on as it was forever. the peo-
pie have become aroused and kicked the
table over.
The course of the street railway COM
panies e~verywhere has been an invitation
to revolt. Tn cynical way in which they
nave tr1ed TO COnlrol poEtlCS, Complneu
with their Indifference to the requires
ments of good service. has created a senti-
ment which welcomes competition with
the trolley.
And now while people are looking for
relief. apparently the evolution OF tho
automobile industry has reached a stage
where 1t is naturally taking over the city
transportation business. Perhaps the un-
organized Jitney service may not prove
the solution. 1t is still In the experiment.
al stage. But some solution there will be.
FThn n NJ fIa fn All nnfnf-
and perhaps eventually of he storage
battery. must mean a new day in trans
portation-a day to whose dawning the
| street railways themselves have power
fully contributed.
1t is a good guess that after the street
railways appeal in vain In city and state
governments to regulate the Jitneys
out of business. their next move will be
to furnish a seat for every passenger!
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-02-11
FARMERS PR0FIT|NC
BY high WAR PRICES
Agricultural Sections Expert
encing Prospe1ity-Finan-
cial Situation Easier.

New York. Feb. 6.-Dun's weekly re-
view todays says:
The great advance in the price Of
wheat, due primarily to the urgent
world demand, Is enriching the agri-
culturists of the west and is contrib
uting to increased commercial prosper
lty in that section though the violence
of the movement produces some on
Germ as to its other effects. The re-
cent rise in cotton, with expansion of
exports has reduced in considerable de-
gree the sharp depression in the south.
caused by the war. The strength of
the financial situation increases every
day and this inparts ii sense of security
to enterprise everywhere.
Bank exchanges for the week We're
$2,9l2.44s,155 a decrease of l3.5 per
cent from last year.
Wheat exports were 7.226,514 as
compared with 2.TI3.332 last year.
Failures for the week in the United
states We're 596 against 372 a year ago,
n Canada 81 against the same num-
Der last wear"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-02-11
Bluffina a Lion.
Stewart Edward White. in the America
Magazine.

Stewart Edward White. in the American
Magazine.
Now l am perfectly aware that a
tons are so rare as only to prove the
rule. But ! have always cherished Il
theory that wen n wounded lion can
De bluffed out, providing the man does
the charging first before the beast can
gather his faculties. Here was a
heavens given opportunity to try that
out.
80 L took the .405, stepped out from
our sapling, walked steadily toward
him.
IF l had stood still In his sight for
the instant necessary for hin to see
what l was he would AVE come in.
for he was hurt and angry. But he had
not that instant. Holding my rifle
ready for Immediate action I advanced
on him at an even gait. He saw me at
once, and fixed oh me his great yell
low eyes.
He xat thus absolutely still while I
covered about half the distance be-
tween US. In my mind ] a fixed upon
a certain little bush 20 yards or sc
from the lion as the point at which l
should begin to shoot. When l still
had a half a dozen yards to go. the in
tentness of his gaze brokc. He began
to act exactly as a Dog does when he is
embarrassed, CHANGING down, right and
left. At % yards the pressure became
too great. He SUDDENLY turned and
bolted! And ! missed a hasty shot at
him as he rant
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-02-11
EMBARGO PLACED
ON BIG MARKETS
Chicago, Indianapolis. Buffalo,
Louisville and Other Stock
Yards Guaranteed By
Government.

Washington, L. G.. Feb. S.--As the
result of discovery OF hoof and mouth
infection in Chicago, indianapolis,
Louisville, Buffalo, Cincinnati. Jersey
CITY. Pittsburgh Inc Columbus. the
department of agriculture today in
in those cities to interstate shipments
Of, live stock after shipments in transit
had bcen disposed of.
An order prescribing details and de
clarine whether the yards will be per
rnitt@G 10 continue to receive cattle
for immediate slaughter will be issued
later. AS to shipments in transit, the
inspectors We're instructed to allow the
live stock to go forward If they showed
no symptoms of the disease, had not
bsen handled in infected pens and were
destined for Immediate slaughter liz
q~uarantined areas, where federal in
spection Of meats is maintained.
Loss from the hoof and mouth dis
ease in the present outbreak thus far
has aggregated S3,399,11O, the bureau
Of animal industry announced today.
The outbreak of the disease now seems
to pe under control as a result OF the
vigorous policy of eradication followed,
the bureau states.
There has been slaughtered 46. 24S
cattle. Abb swine ISL sheep and %
goats. so far the losses are mainly To-
cal and have had no appreciable gen
eral effect OF the country's total sup
ply of meat n dairy animals.
In view of activities against the
disease on the part Of authorities in
various state concerned, department Of
icials decided a federal quarantine
would not be necessary at this time.
Nevertheless. the yards named are
closed for Iisinfection. Officials believe
instead of a repetition of the recent
quarantine over large areas. diSinfect-
ing Of the yards will suffice to stamp
out the latest outbreak.
Further conferences led officials to
conclude that no attempt would be
made to stop the entrance of cattle to
the yards for immediate slaughter. ex-
cept insofar AS the shipments come
from other wards closed for disinfec-
.inlA
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-02-11
TIME w
YEA, A FULL MONTH
South Carolina Solons Con-
slider Definite internal on
The Libation Period.

Spartansburg. S. c.. Feb. Son that
remote occasion when the governor of
North Carolina. meeting the governor
of South Carolina. uttered his m
able observation concerning the chron-
illogical interval between libations, lit
tie did he realize what he was starting.
1t is indeed going to be a long time
between drinks in South Carolina if,
as seems likely. the legislature passes,
and the present governor signs, a bill
now pending.
The bill permits each South Caro-
linian to receive just one "a shipment
of corn ticker per month. such ship
mcnt not to exceed one a. gallon. Thus.
by Legislative interpretation, the exact
length of time betWeen drinks has fl
nallY been settled. 1t is II month
80 days at the least-and to make mat
ters worse for the brethren, 1916 is leap
year,
In the historic words of a hardy scion
of Carolina: DO you all expect AIRY
gallon o. corn Ticker to last forever,
with six head o children, when the
cows gone dry None the less. the
fatal measure has already passed the
house and has beer favorably reported
TO the state senate.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-02-11
Tho Peoples SONG of Peace.

The grass Is green on Bunker Hill,
The waters sweet in Brandywine;
The sword sleeps in the scabbard still,
Tn farmer keeps his flock and vine:
Then who would mar the sceno today
With vaunt OF battlefield or fray?
The brave corn lifts in regiments
Ten Thousand sabers in the sun:
The riciSs replace the battle tents,
The hammered tassels toss and run.
The neighing ateed, the bugle's blast.
These be but stories of the past.
The earth has healed her wounded breast,
The amor plough the field no more;
The heroes rest O, let them rest
In peace along the peaceful shore!
They fought for peace. for peace they fell;
They sleep In peace, and all IS well.
The fields forget the battle fought, :.
The trenches wave In golden grain;
Shal We neglect the lessons taught.
And tear the wound agape again?
Sweet Mother Nature, nurse the land,
And heal her wounds with gentle hand.
Lo. peace on earth. Lo! Flock n fold!
Lo! rich abundance, fat increase.
And valleys clad in sheen of golds
O, rise and sing a song Of peace!
For Theseus roams the land no more,
And Janus rests with rusted doc
-JoaQuin MulaI.
E A 81 NH
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-02-11
The Snow storm.

Announced by all the trurnpets Of the sky.
Arrives the snow? and, driving Ger the
fields,
Seems nowhere TO aiight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and tho
And veils the farm house at the gardens
end.
The sled and traveller stopped. the cour-
ier's feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, the house
mates sit
Around the radiant fire place. enclosed.
In a turnultuous privacy of storm
Come see the north winds masonry!
Out of an unseen quarry, eyermOre
Furnished with tile, the fierce a~rtiflcer
Curves his white basticns with projected
roof
Round every windward stake or tree or
Speeding. the myriad-handed. his wild
SO fanciful, SO savage: nanght cares he
For number or proportion. Mockingly
On coop or kennel he hangs Parian
wreaths;+
A swanlike form invests the hidden thorn:
Fills up the farmer's lane from wall -
Maugre the farmers signs; and at the
A tapering turret overtops the work.
And when his hours are numbered, and
Is ali LII his own own. retiring i he were moi.
Leaves, when the sun appears, ~astonished
81 mimic II slow structufss. stone. 81
Butt IN an age. the mad winds nieht-
The froiic arc1atectur 81 thss snow
Eg1szse9s&
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-02-11
SWEDEN is INDIGNANT
ABOUT GERMAN BLOCKADE

Stockholm. (via London). Feb. O.
I%nignation is expressed by he Swedish
press because of Gernlany's p~focianla-
ton relative to a blockade of the Brit
ish isles. The belief is expressed that
it will result in the government making
a protest to Berlin.
The Dasens Nyheter, which is in
close touch with the foreign office,
declares England's regulation in re-
gard to neutral shipping in the North
sea caused annoyance, but that 1t
guarantees traffic would be safe on
certain routes. The paper says that
while Swedish vessels suffered severely
from German mine laying. the latest
order beats the record by declaring
the most extensively used waters q
closed sea and Threatening neutral ships
with torpedoes.