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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
ToWBOAT BURNED.
Steamer c. j. Reynolds Destroyed by
Fire in River.

The Standard Oil Company's big
sternWheel toWboat C. j. Reynolds
caught fire Tuesday morning at about
II o'clock while en- route to Baton
Rouge with three empty oil barges,
and was burned to the waters edge.
For several days the vessel had been
moored short distance above the
coal feet of the West Kentucky Coal
Company in Port Barrow, from
whence oil was pumped from the three
barges into the big storage tank of
the Standard Oil Company on Bayou
Lafourche, just below Dona1dsonville.
Having emptied the barges, the
Reynolds cast off her lines and start
ed for Baton Rouge at about 7 o'clock
Tuesday morning, but some time la
ttssaassssn,-snle drifting down the river with
~ ) l;jw, it appearing to observegssssof,r ~, :.
s.a1ore that trouble was probably DC
ing experienced with the machinery.
Apparently the breakdown was re-
paired, for the boat soon was
brought under control and once more
started up the river. In a short while
she again came in sight, and this time
was a mass of flames.
The crew escaped to the barges,
which were cut loose from the burn
ing vessel, and which after drifting a
short distance were toWed to shore on
the east bank by fleet of skiffs
that put out to the rescue from both
sides of the river.
The Reynolds, afire from stem to
stern, driftsd slowly down stream
and finally, at about II o'clock,
grounded on sand bar on the east
bank of the river Immediately oppo-
site Donaldsonville. An hour and a
half later, the charred hulk went to
the bottom, a total loss.
None of the crew was injured, and
the barges being toWed by the steam
er were not damaged. The ferryboat
Ruth cruised about the doomed yes
sci and went to the assistance of the
crew, but the barges on which the
latter had taken refuge had been safe
~ conveyed to shore and the services
of the Ruth We're not required.
The Reynolds was owned by Cap
tain. E. F. Weeks, superintendent Of
transportation of the Standard Oil
Company of Louisiana, and had been
engaged in towing oil for that COM
pany under contract. The vessel was
built at Proctorville, o., in 1901, and
was 112 feet long by ~ feet beam,
with a depth Of hold of 2 1a feet, and
had one boiler Az inches in diameter
and "a feet in length, operating en-
gines having II inches diameter of
cylinder and 4 feet stroke of pistons.
In her early life she ran on the Ohio
river and it's tributaries, and later was
operated on the Mississippi river in
the cotton seed trade by New Orle-
ans company Subsequently she be-
came the property of w. G. Coyle q
Co, and four or I've years ago was
purchased by ca yin Weeks.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
LoUlsIANA's OPPORTUNITY.
New Constitution Should be a Model
for Other CommonweaEths.

The subjoined editorial, which is
attracting much favorable attention
to Louisiana, was printed in the July
IT edition Of the New York CONNER
ciaI and Financial Chronicle, the
worlds leading newspaper authority
on finance and commerce:
'sThe people Of Louisiana want to
develop their important resources OF
soil, of minerals, of forests and OF
navigable waterways, and the people
Of New Orleans want to develop COM
merce the valley way So they have
called a constitutional convention for
the purpose of adopting modern
code of fundamental law with which
to replace their present lengthy and
inelastic constitution, which has had
to be patched by amendment over and
over again during the last few years.
"NeW Orleans is now constructing
a complete system of co-ordinatlve
riyer-rail-ocean terminal and ware
house facilities, and plans to open a
great industrial navigation canal
through the city to connect the Mis-
sissippi river with an arm of the Gulf
in the rear. A million dollars is soon
to be spent on a modern vocational
trade school. A splendid system of
modern sewerage, drainage and pure
water supply has just about been
completed. The entire city is now
being rat-proofed as a permanent
safeguard against recurrence of
bubonic plague. Reclamation of the
fertile but wet alluvial lands all
around New Orleans is making pro-
gress and many orange groves and
farms now stand where marshes stood
before.
at is quite natural, therefore, that
the people of New Orleans and Loulsl-
ana should not be content to longer
live under constitution which, be-
cause of it's restrictive character,
checks their development.
Louisiana possesses great natural
wealth and New Orleans holds a
strategic position commercially. A
sane, sound and liberal constitution
under which to work and develop
would undoubtedly help state and city
in many ways.
Louisiana has in this constitution
al convention singular opportunity
to show how successfully d demo-
cratsa unit of government may deal
effectively with rather remarkable
situation.
Properly drafted, the new consti-
tuition, framed to meet the needs of
the new life opening before Louisiana,
might well serve as a model for other
commonwealths.0
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
ST. Louis Live Stock Market.

National Stock Yards, ILL.,, Aug. q.
Cattle receipts 5000. Included in
the receipts were 5000 quarantine
cattle, goodly proportion of which
were mixed cattle. The market was
Is to 25 cents lower on mixed grown
stuff, and 10 to is cents lower on
yearlings. However, steers sold
strong and featuring the trade was a
string Of Guatemala cattle, weighing
877 pounds, at $3.50. Among the
mixed cattle were the following:
Heifers, SIS to ST; mixed, S4.o5 to $4.-
90; cows, 81 to $50; bulls, $3.50 to
$3.50; oxen, $3.50 to $3.75; calves
and yearlings, 81 to $3.50.
Hog receipts 5000. Market slow
and s to 10 cents lower. Pigs topped
at $3.50; light shippers at $7.7O.
Bulk of the pigs sold at $3.50 to ST.
rs; light shippers and butchers, ST 80
to $3.50; hogs 210 to $50 lbs, $7.20
to $3.50; 260 lbs. upward, $3.50 to
1915; roughs, $6. Southern hogs
will sell 25 cents below these quota
tions.
NATIONAL LIVE STOCK COMMITS
SION COMPANY.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
PASSING OF THE BIG FARM.
Intensive Cultivation of the Soil q
Growing Tendency.

A complaint comes that the agri-
cultural dope whah | have been fur
nishing the press seems to be most
a1together" for the "one-horse farm
err Really, had not thought much
about it, but I guess it is SO, for the
reason, no doubt, that he needs it
most if it is any good, and because /
am not such very big farmer my
self.
Big farming is not thing of the
past, but it is passing. Extensive
farming means land-skinning, while
intensive farming means soil-build-
ing; hence the tendency toward small
or farms and better handling. And
there are other reasons, not the least
Of which is the fact that:
Since the Lord ceased making soil,
Some thousand years of sweat aga
toll
Have passed away; but don't forget
That He is making people yet.
From which it seems there is not
ground
Enough, even now, to go around.
The labor question, too, is coming
to be against the large farm, upon
which labor must be Employed; as it
appears to be the experience OF all
EMPLOYERS of farm labor that the sit
uation is becoming more difficult from
wear to year, owing to increasing un-
reliability of hands available, to say
nothing of trouble to procure laDor,
good on bad, on any terms.
It seems that a great many would
rather suffer want in the cities, than
to live well in the country. And even
when they starve out and return to
the country, they are rarely worth as
much as before they moved to town
and this is more particularly true Of
the Younger generation, who come to
love better the raucous noises OF the
citv streets, or a jam in the park,
than Bob White calling to his mate
from the top o. the fence; in short,
than the wider spaces and sweeter
sounds of the God-created country.
Finally, the troubles of the big
farmer-loss of labor to the cities,
increasing tax encouragement to
large land holdings, along with a
growing tendency toward encourage
ment of farm hands and renters to
become small farm owners-would
appear to indicate that the little
farm well TILED is to be the big thing
in the future, if you will pardon my
Irish.
But the large land owner-the big
farmer-in his day and time has
served and is serving a great purpose.
by making the country ready for the
small farmer He is, for instance,
the greatest factor in promotion of
diversifcation. Along this line last
year, Texas banker had 500 acres
in cotton, 200 acres in corn and LOO
acres in oats. This season, he has
the whole of the land in wheat, and
it is some crop.
Of course, that does not look much
like diversification, in SO far as he is
concerned; but it is an object lesson
to the small farmer against too much
cotton. When he is ready to parcel
out his land to small farmers, they
will know better what it is good for.
R. r. Claridge, Agricultural Agent,
T. & r. Ry. Co., Longview, Texas.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
Death of Frank Randolph.

Frank Randolph, formerly editor
of the Crowley Signal, but more re-
Gently with the Beaumont Enterprise,
died at his home in Beaumont, Texas,
July 18, after protracted illness. AS
a contemporary says, "Besides being
a fluent and virile editorial writer,
Mr.. Randolph achieved a wide reputa-
ton throughout southwest Louisiana,
through the splendid work he did for
the rice industry. By his splendid
efforts, he formed the rice growers OF
three states into an organization
which succeeded in marketing this
great crop upon definite selling plan
by which price levels We're maintain.
ed without bringing it into conflict
with the federal antitrust laws.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
New Faculty for S. J. c. /.

Brother Theodosius, the Jealous
and well-liked principal of St. JOS
eph's Commercial Institute, returned
Monday evening from Bay St. Louis,
Miss, where he attended the annual
retreat Of members of the Sacred
Heart order. 5ch was held at st.
stanislaus College. He reports that,
apart from himself, an entirely new
faculty has been assigned te st.
Joseph's Institute for the coming ses-
sion. the corps of teachers being COM
posed Of Brothers Columbian and
Gerard, formerly Of Baton Rouge;
Brother Ernest, Of Mobile; Brother
Alphonsus, Of Indianapolis, and an in
structor to be sent here from New
York. Brothers Gerard and Ernest
arrived Monday evening with Brother
Theodosius, and the other members
of the faculty will reach here within
the next two weeks. School work will
be resumed at st. Joseph's Institute
Monday, Sept. 6.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
IN MEL pRIAM.
+. w. johnson

DonaldsonvilIe, La, July IA, 1915.
it has pleased the Sovereign
w Commander of the Universe to remove
~ from this forest of life our esteemed
sovereign, T. w johnson, who died June 80.
1915: and
Whereas, We che officers and members OF
Olive Camp No. 18, Woodmen of the World,
desire to pay last tribute of respect and
esteem to the memory Of our departed
sovereign: be it
Resolved, that we, the Officers and mem e
hers of Olive Camp No. IS, Wocdmen Of the
World. mourn the loss Of our Sovereign
johnson and extend to his grief-strieken
family our heartfelt sympathy and condo
lence.
Be it further resolved, that our charter be
draped in mourning for thirty days, that a
copy Of these resolutions be forwarded 10
the sorrowing relatives of our lainented SOW
ereign, copy published IN the rewspaper OF
the city, and that q page be set aside on our
minute book for the above resolutions.
]. G.. BOUCHEREAU.
EMILE DUGAs,
r. N. ROBERTSON,
Committee.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
PERSONNEL or CONVENTION.
Lawyers in Majority Among Framers
of New Constitution.

Lawyers will dominate the CON
stitutional convention. They now
have 81 out Of 118 delegates, barely
lacking nine of clear majority.
Seven parishes in which there will be
second primaries are not taken into
this count, and more lawyers will be
elected from them.
The following analysis of the per-
sonnel of the membership of the con-
vention at this time gives fair idea
of the trend:
Lawers, 81.
Farmers and planters, 16.
Merchants and business men, "a.
Members of legislature, %.
State and city office holders, 5.
District judges, z.
District attorneys, 1.
Clerks of court, 2.
Sheriffs, 2.
Physicians, 2.
Editors and publishers, 4.
Bankers, 6.
School teachers, 1.
General contractors, 2.
Sawmill owners, 2.
Former congressman, 1.
In many instances, members have
more than one vocation. For in
stance, several are both planters and
merchants. Others are lawyers and
planters. John Marks, for example,
Bull Moose nominee in Assumption,
IS one of the largest sugar planters in
that parish and at the same time has
large law practice, both criminal
and civil.
In this analysis there are twenty
two members of the present h& use and
senate. In addition there are nine
public Office holders, seven district
judges, district attorneys, sheriffs,
etc., who are not included under the
caption 'soffice holders" F"
With the first nominating primary
over, greatest interest now centers
IN whether the convention will be or
dered by a vote OF the people in the
general election, August 81.
Delegates will be elected on that
date and the states electorate will be
asked to vote Eyes" or ''no" on call
ing the convention.
In this election the Democrats and
Bull Moose will 1gset in the contested
pa6ishes in the thS1a district.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

Alex. F. Leonhardt, former post
master of New Orleans and a prom
inent grain dealer, was seized by q
severe attack of acute indigestion In
a street car July 28, but recovered.
present postmaster, Hon s.
9s-ss1e, is still prostrated ME
stroke of apoplexy which he suffered
several weeks ago, and little hope for
his recovery is felt.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
GOOD NEWS.
Many DonaIdsonvilIe Readers Have
Heard Ii and Profted Thereby

1eafd III and pfohted thereby
Good news travels FAST and the
bad back sufferers in this vicinity are
glad to learn where relief may be
found. Many lame, weak and ache
ing back is badgpo more, thanks to
Doan's Kidney ellis. Thousand up
on thousands Of people are telling the
good news Of their experience with
this tested remedy. Here is an exam
pie worth reading:
Mrs. M. Copponex, Plaquemine,
La, says: Il suffered from dull
pain across the small Of my back and
I could hardly get around to do my
work. My kidneys acted irregularly
and caused me great deal of misery.
read so much about the good Doan's
Kidney Pills were doing others, that
got a box and began taking them.
| They made a big change for the bet
ter in my condition at once and two
boxes did me world of good"
Price Soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pil1s-the same that
Mrs. Copponex had. Foster-M Milburn
CO., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
Dependency Due to Indigestion.

About three months ago when |
Was suffering from indigestion which
caused headache and dizzy spells and
made me feel tired and respondent,
began taking Chamberlain's Tablets, -
writes Mrs. Geo. Hon, Macedon, N.
T. This medicine proved to be the
very thing | needed, as one days
treatment relieved me greatly. | used
TWO bottles of Chamberlain's Tablets
and they rid me of this trouble" OBJ
talnable everywhere.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
The Clerk Guaranteed II.

"A customer came into my store
the other day and said to one of my
clerks, have you anything that will
cure diarrhoea?' and my clerk went
and got him bottle of Chamberlain s
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
and said to him, if this does not cure
you, will not charge you cent for
it. So he took it home and came back
in day or two and said he was
cured,o writes ]. Fl. Berry & Co.,
Salt Greek, Va. Obtainable every
where.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
SUGAR CROP OF 1915.
Increase in Acreage Planted to Beets
Indicates Larger Production.

The area planted to sugar beets in
the United States for the present
year, according to the figures of the
Department of Agriculture, is $780,
800 acres, and increase of 10000
acres over 1914 and 10000 acres
more than in 1913. The direct cause
of this expansion in acreage is of
course the high price of sugar
brought about as result of the lock-
ing up of the export sugar supplies Of
central Europe due to the war. AS
suming the abandonment of 10 per
cent of the acreage between now and
harvest time, and yield equal to the
average of recent years, the output
of sugar should amount to 100000
short tons or about 715,000 long
ltsefssa tqefsassa This would be an incSa4se Of
4 IL per cent over thes saf a
sr514. Should the eptionally
vorable conditions that attended the
growth Of last years crop be repeat
ed, the total yield would be nearly
$4,000 long tons, but such condi-
tions are hardly to be expected, and
the figures given above may be ac-
cepted as a more reasonable estimate
at this stage of the season.
The acreage of the principal beet
growing states in order of size is
r.ixy fall
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
A Second Cincinnatus.

C. C. burden, editor Of the Kent
wood New Era, is reported to have
mysteriously disappeared, and the
former editor, j. N. Wolf, has been
compelled to leave his farm work and
take possession Of the paper.Han1-
mond Vindicator.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

Cipriano Castro, the banished ex-
president of Venzuela, paid visit to
St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, last
week, and was promptly notified by
the government to leave. He return
ed to Port Spain, Trinidad, where he
has resided for some time.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

A newspaper controversy at Mon
roe between Representative j. T.
Bryant and Col. Frank P. Stubbs,
growing out of the latter's candidacy
for constitutional convention dele
gate. led to the arrest of Mr.. Bryant
on a charge of criminal libel.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

r. P. Breckenridge has been elect
ed manager and Jesse Lobrano super
intendent of the big cotton warehouse
being erected by the New Orleans
Board of Port Commissioners.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

The Chief is the official jour-
nal of the police jury, parish school
board and city council of Donaldson
vile. Send us your subscription and
keep posted on the official proceed
ings Of these important bodies.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

Hubert F. Thomas Of Denver. Col,
has been appointed by the United
States comptroller of the currency as
receiver for the Union National Bank
of Monroe, La, which suspended busi-
ness recently.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has refused to sanction the pro-
posed increase of rates for carrying
lumber from the southwestern terri
tory to New Orleans.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

The Wabash railroad was sold at
auction July 81, at st. Louis, and a
joint committee of creditors repre-
senting a s41,O00,000 mortgage bid
in the property for S18,000,000.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

The home merchants are prepared
to supply your needs. Buy from
them, and by keeping your money at
home help build up your own com
rnunitY.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

The Danish consul at New Or
leans, t. soegaard, has resigned after
holding the place nineteen years.
Mr.. Soegaard retires because of his
advanced age.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

It is estimated that Louisiana's
1914 lespedeza crop yielded 72,734
tons of hay and 64,670 bushels OF
seed, approxinating s1,103,135 IN
value; and areas in lespedeza are con-
stantly increasing.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

Mutt and Jeff are going to cavort
exclusively in the columns of the
New Orleans Tines-Picayune from
and after August 10.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

J. P. Mills has resigned as COM
missioner of public safety for Boga-
lusa, La, and denies that his action is
influenced in any manner by the re-
cent reduction of his salary. He says
he can't do justice both to the city's
business and his own.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

DR.. w. r. Elgin, a prominent ply
sician of Ruleville, Miss, fell from a
third-story window of the Monteleone
Hotel in New Orleans and was killed.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
Automobile Repairing.

Frank Medine, the well-knoWn local
automobile mechanician, has leased
the repair department of the Donald
sonville Garage, in the Lemanr1 Addl-
ton, and is prepared to do any kind
Of work in the line of automobile
repairing and renovating, with the
positive guarantee that the job Will
be handled in an expert and entirely
satisfactory manner. Mr.. Medine has
had extensive experience in the field
of automobile mechanics, and with
the modern equipment at his com
mand is thoroughly qualified to tackle
the most difficult job with complete
understanding and a full measure OF
ability. His prices will be found to be
most reasonable, and he soliclts the
patronage of automobile owners with
this understanding. Telephone l5l.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

The Chief is in receipt Of a copy
of the catalog and premium list OF
the Louisiana state fair for 1913,
which will be held at Shreveport Nov.
3-s, inclusive. More than $4,000 is
being offered in cash premiums to the
farmers, live stock raisers, poultry
breeders, and boys and girls clubs OF
the state, as well as to the ladies IN
the art, culinary and textile divisions;
A copy of the catalog will be mailed
free to anyone making application for
same by addressing Louis n. Brueg-
gerhoff, secretary, P. Q. Box HOO,
Shreveport, La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

sumrall, Miss, had s250,000 fire
last week and the destruction of the
town was narrowly averted.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

Walter Cooper, a Natchez leyee
contractor, was sentenced to eight
years in the penitentiary for shooting
and killing Walter Flowers o.. on1.hhon. hhf
!. s.-.asn East Carroll parish, ay.ppssss a2yn.p,.,sss
Minnie Flowers, the victim ss1fe,
received a sentence of one year as an
accessory to the killing, while Elmo
Ferguson and a negro named jim
Posey, who assisted in burylng the
body Of Flowers under new levee IN
course of construction, were let OF
with parish Jail terms Of six months
and ten days respectively. All the
accused pleaded guilty.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07
For Sale.

Thoroughbred White Wyandotte
cocks, cockerels, hens and pullets.
Famous Bruce Bros strain. Prices
reasonable. Telephone 154. MRS.
u. u. BENTLEY, Donaldsonville La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

Jos. W. George of Yazoo City,
son Of the late United States Sena-
tor George, has been appointed by
President Wilson United States at
torney for the southern district Of
Mississippi. 4
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-07

Swat the fly, buy at home, be a
booster, and read The Chief.
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