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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Good Roads.

1t is estimated that concrete
roads cost SIS, 600 a mile and in
volve $50 a mile upkeep. Com
bined statistics of the road ex-
perience of Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, Rhode Island, New
York and New Jersey for eight
years show an average cost a
mile of 5000 a year for upkeep
for roads built of material other
than concrete.
The difference in upkeep, $3.50
if capitalized at $50 gives a prin-
cipal sum of Sill, 169 dollars as
the differential capital advantage
for the saving in upkeep. Should
the movement to construct per-
manent roads gain Roadway, a
vast volume of road bonds would
come on the market, and on &C
count of the great agricultural
savings effected by good roads
over and above the saving in up
keep, such securities should form
an excellent class of investment,
provided the funds are properly
expended. 1t is important only
that methods of permanent con-
struction shall be followed.
Vermil1ion County, Illinois,
has just accepted bids for 141
miles of concrete highway to
cost 81, 100000. Spread over 20
years and over the acres bene-
flied and on the basis of $50.
value of land an acre, the total
cost to the farmer is 8 ga cents
an acre.
7 To attempt to express a transit
ton to permanent roads into
pounds of cement to be used and
into cubic yards of rock to be
crushed, considering the vast
mileage which could be advan-
tageously constructed from the
economic standpoint of money
actually saved, would require
figures or rather methods of ex-
pressing figures such as astrono-
mers use in measuring the orbits
of the planets. The cement and
r ock industries undoubtedly
would enter upon a development
which in the ensuing five years
will astound those who have not
considered the present situation.
Wall Street Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Building Good Roads Strictly an In
yestment.

NNothhSsss
1t is quite common for people
to refer to the issuance of bonds
or the levying of taxes to build
good roads as a tax" and the
long faces and lugubrious express
sion with which they try to
create the impression that some
body is doing them a grevious
and objectionable injury. would
be amazing if it was not so silly
and contrary to the facts.
The building of good roads is
strictly an investment of profit
and benefit to every citizen in
the community. 1t is no more
to be regarded as an onerous and
injurious tax, than it is for any
fl rm n to build himself a barn to
harvest his crops. or to build a
necessary addition to his home.
1t is purely an investment which
adds to the comfort and conven-
fence of himself and children,
and increases the value of his
property and his produce from
80 to 100 per cent.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Activity in jefferson Highway Circles
a. Fever Heat in Louisiana.

A notice has been given to the
public by Mr.. j. d. Clarkson,
manager of the Jefferson High
way, that he will spend the next
two weeks in Louisiana. devoted
to scoring the points between the
various communities contesting
for tbs route of this great high
way. In view of this notice great
activity has been awakened along
the entire line of the proposed
highway all the way from Col
fax to New Orleans.
On our first page will be found
Mr.. Clarkson's letter about the
matter, and also an account of a
meeting of the Grant Parish
Highway association, at which
steering committee was appoint
ed to lay before Mr.. Clarkson
the strong claims of the Colfax-
Bagdad-Pineville route to pref
erence over the Boyce route into
Alexandria.
Mr.. Clarkson's published itin-
erary says that he is to leave
Colfax at $3.50 a. m. on Monday.
Dec. A, to score the road from
Colfax via Boyce, Alexandria,
Bunkie and Melville, to Port AL
len, which will take until 5 p. m.
Wednesday. Then on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, Dec. Z, 8
and 9, he will make his return,
scoring the route via New Roads,
Simsport and Marksville to Alex
andria, where he is to arrive at
3 o'clock Saturday evening.
1t is the intention and desire
OF the delegation appointed at
the Colfax meeting to get Mr..
Clarkson to consent to score the
route from Pineville to Colfax,
via Bagdad between 3 and 5
O'Clock Saturday afternoon, Dec.
9th.
Mr.. Clarkson states in the cir
cular containg his itinerary that,
if the Colfax- Hadnot- Pineville
route cares to have their route
inspected, arrangements can be
made to that effect" For this
reason it is hoped he will readily
consent to make the score on the
date named, or on some other
date satisfactory to all parties
concerned.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Submarine Contracts Let by U. S,

Washington, Nov. 29-Secre-
tary of the Navy Daniels has let
contracts for q coast defense
and two 800-ton submarines.
Eighteen coast defense submer-
sibles went to the Electric Boat
company at $697, 900 each; six to
The Lake Torpedo Boat company
at 1854, 600; three to The Cali
fornia Ship Building company at
$698, 900. One fleet submarine
went to the Electric company at
81, 189, 600 and the other to the
Lake company at 81, 1875, 600.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
AN ORDINANCE

Creating Road District No. 8. Grant
parish. La, and defining the terri
tory embraced in the same.
Section l.
Be it ordained by the Police Jury of
Grant parish, La, in lawful session
convened, That in accordance with law
and Article 292 of the Constitution Of
1918 road district within said parish
be and is hereby created which shall be
known as Road District No. 8.
Section p
Be it further ordained, etc., That
said Road District No. 8 shall comprise
all the territory embraced in wards one,
six and seven, and all that portion of
ward two lying south and west of the
northern boundary line of said ward
two, extending from the northwest cor
ner of section 3, township 6 north,
range west, to the northeast corner
of section 6, township north. range 2
west, thence south to the southeast
corner of same section, thence east to
the northeast corner of section 8, thence
south to the northwest corner of Sec
ton Il, thence east to the northeast
corner of section 81, thence south to
the southeast corner of section 81,
thence east to the northwest corner of
section 26, thence to southwest corner
of section 26, thence east to southeast
corner of section 26, thence south to
northwest corner of section IL, town.
ship north, range west, thence east
to northwest corner of section 8, town.
ship north, range west, thence south
to Rapides parish line.
Unanimously adopted Nov. 81, 1916.
w. A. BROWNLEE,
President Police Jury.
MISS H. E. CAMERON.
Secretary.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Don't wait until the last minute to
BUY fruit cake ingredients. You will
ind them at Tumminello Bros.
AN ORDINANCE

Resembling and repeating the ordinance
adopted Nov: 6, 1916, creating and
defining road district No. 8.
Be it ordained by the police jury OF
Grant parish, La, in lawful session
convened, That the ordinance adopted
by this police jury on Nov. 6. 1916, Gre
ating Road District No. 8, and defining
the same as comprising all the territory
in the parish of Grant, La, be and the
same is hereby rescinded and repealed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Railroads Confiscate Coal.

Chattanooga, Nov. 20 An ex-
ecutive order made public here
by W. S. Andrews, superinten-
dent of transportation of the C.
N. 0. & 7. P. Ry., and the H. &
N. E. Ry.. requires all the coal
mining companies on those lines
to furnish the railroads 1870 of
their output until the order is
rescinded. Mr.. Andrews said the
confscation of coal was deemed
advisable from the fact that the
railroads have only one days
supply on hand.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Housewives to Combat High Prices.

New Orleans. Nov. % Officers
of the local Housewives League
stated today they were planning
to combat high prices of food by
augmenting the supply of prod
ucts in two curb markets, where
butter, eggs, poultry and vege-
tables, bought direct from the
producers are sold to the house
keepers. According to figures
announced by the league the
curb markets have saved New
Orleans housekeepers SIP, 294 in
66 market days on butter, eggs
and vegetables.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Federal Road Building Doubled.

Washington. Nov. 29.-T h e
equivalent of 562 miles of 15-foot
roadway was constructed under
supervision of the federal public
roads bureau during the year
ending June 81, according to the
annual report just issued. This
was more than double any pre-
vious annual report.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
House and 40 Acres of Land for Sale.

House and 40 Acres of Land for Sale.
TIE undersigned has forty acres of
black sandy loan hill land for sale,
within $50 yards of Happy Jack school
house, and q miles of Williana railroad
station. Three room house with front
and back galleries, sheds on place, good
200 gallon cement cistern, IA acres
cleared and about 80 acres fenced with
rails and pickets. Creek runs on two
or three acres at one side of place.
Model road within 300 yards. Abont
rs acres in woods and brush, and ample
timber for place. Price 1920, half cash
and balance in or years time.
Apply to H. G. GOODWIN,
Colfax, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Federal Road Aid Discussed.

Baton Rouge, Nov. 26-Louis-
iana's share Of the federal aid
appropriation for good roads was
discussed at length at a confer
ence between Governor Pleasant
and j. D. Fauntleroy, represent
ing the federal aid department
of public roads, with State High
way Engineer w. E. Atkinson
and Resident Engineer Shields
participating in the conference.
Louisiana, according to Mr..
Fauntleroy, is one of the three
states in the south organized and
equipped to participate in the
federal aid appropriation.
I'm point of road construction
Louisiana is the second state in
the south" said Mr.. Fauntleroy.
There are three states in the
south that are doing systematic
state highway work. These are
Virginia, Louisiana and Alabama
and | name them in the order
of the development of the good
road work in them. Tennessee is
starting this year. There are
several States that are giving SUI
pervision without state aid, but
state aid has been found to be
the most effective way to stimu-
late road work.
Mr.. Fauntleroy says that the
federal government, in the aid
which it extends, in road con-
struction will deal only through
the state highway department.
The government approves the
state highway plans developed
by the state highway depart
ment, and gives aid to these
roads only. For example, in the
mileage of graveled roads to be
built in the third ward, bond
issue for which is being voted,
amounting to $125. 600, there are
five miles in the state highway
scheme. To these five miles the
federal government can give aid,
through the state highway, to
the amount of 500 of the cost
of the building of the road, the
extend of its contribution not to
exceed $40, 1000 per mile.
T h e headquarters of Mr..
Fauntleroy will be in Dallas,
Texas, and his district will be
known as the Sixth Federal Aid
Road District, comprising the
states of Arkansas, Texas, Okla
homa and Louisiana.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02

Judge Cas- Moss of Winfield
has been elected president of the
Baptist State convention, on
permanent organization, c. P.
Rooney, secretary, and I. H.
McGregor, treasurer. A large
amount of business was trans
acted,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Buffalo Papers Advance

Buffalo, Nov. 29-All the Bus-
falo papers except The CONNER
cial announced Sunday the in
crease of their prices to two
cents. The Commercial alreac y
was selling for two cents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Strayed or Stolen.

On October Is one cream Jersey COW
not marked or branded, wearing a
small bell. Right horn slipped and left
broken off at tip. Will pay $40 for any
definite information. Was shipped from
Winfield to Tioga.
T. M. ROBY,
dec2-4t' Pineville, La, Route /.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02

Is, 900 Pounds of turkeys for Troops.
Brownsville, Tex, Nov. %
twenty-five thousand pounds
of turkeys for the Thanksgiving
dinners of the soldiers on the
border in this vicinity, arrived
today. The price paid was SAC a
pound.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Town Property for Sale.

A five-room residence on corner lot
in Colfax will be sold at close figure for
quick sale. Painted and papered and
back porch screened. Garden spot,
cow shed, barn and shade trees. Two
cisterns. See A. nj. Goodwin.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-12-02
Painting and Paper Hanging.

+. / am permanently located in Colfax,
and will do first class painting and pa
per hanging at reasonable prices. Con-
suit me before letting your job. Leave
yonr call for me with phone No. 81.
dec2-3t' ]. HAMMOND.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17
Subscribe for Campaign
COAL WEATHER

The season is here when preparations for
winter should be made for your winters coal Such
preparation will not only save you money, but will
more than likely you trouble and worry as you
may be unable to get it promptly in the quantity
desired.
We handle both the Cartervie and the Royalton
Coal The Royalton Coal, from the coal fields of
Franklin County, Illinois, is Of the finest grades
focal on be market. Our prices are always right
We also handle the Empire Brand and Morrison
& O. Brand If FERTILIZERS either of which
viii build your land up to the highest point 81 efl-
ceucy,i ropafiv used.
TETLEY-NLE!N LUMBER co.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17
CONCERNING CONTEMPT

There are those who think-or pre-
tend to thinl-that the United States
is "despised" ard "held in contempt
by the European belligerents. If that
be the case the European neutrals
would love most dearly to receive a
share of the same contempt manifest
ed in the same way.
When the U-53 made her raid off
the coast of New England, she stop
ped an American ship, but the mo-
ment the nationality Of the ship was
established the German commander
let go as if he had grabbed the wrong
end of a poker. On the other hand,
he sunk Dutch ship and a Norwe-
gian one--both neutrals-without
hesitation or conjunction, and now
German submarines have established
a virtual blockade of the south Nor
wegian coast, sinking everything in
sight that carries the Morse flag.
Danish vessels have received similar
treatment, and the merchants of Hol-
land complain bitterly that they must
suffer the losses of war without the
satisfaction of hitting back.
Contempt for the United States
Tell it in Amsterdam or Copenhagen
or Christiania. The people there
would be glad to pay high price fol-
being despised that way.-Chicago
Journal.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17
NEW YORK TRIBUNE'S
TRIBUTE TO WILSON

New York, Nov. 10.-The New
York Tribune, Republican, in its edi-
toriaI on the election day, says:
"The returns that are now at hand
constitute the most remarkable per-
sonal endorsement that has come to a
Democratic President since the days
of Andrew jackson.
at is relatively minor thing
whether the few hundred votes will
decide the electoral votes in Califor-
MIA and Minnesota fall to Mr.. Wilson
or to Mr.. Hughes. The very fact that
these great Republican States have
been in doubt to this moment indicates
the extent of the failure of the Repub-
lican candidate and his party and not
less clearly the amazing triumph OF
Mr.. Wilson.
"There is tendency to overesti-
mate the influence of the West in the
decision and to ignore the verdict of
the East, of New England in particu-
lar. Yet the votes of Massachusetts
and Maine, the almost unbelievable
figures from New Hampshire, indi-
cate that the same spirit which was
ABROAD III hdL5dS anu hllhSoOIaJ was
to be feltaand seen in New England.
However much Importance one
may attach to Mr.. Hughes failure
only deliberate and intentional injus-
tice could obscure the extent of the
personal triumph of Mr.. Wilson. He
has done what none but his friends
and partisans believed he could do
and he has won an endorsement in
! portions of the nation which have new
err before given a similar tribute to Q
Democratic candidate for the presi-
dency, save in years of Republican fac
tional strife.
"In the first hours of the count
when Mr.. Wilson's defeat was conced
ed by the newspapers which had sup
ported him most Loyalty and which
was written in all the returns tNer
available, the Tribune said that M
Wilson had been rejected with his pol
icies. 1t was mistaken and does no
believe that any such conclusion cal
now be drawn from the election, eve'
if Mr.. Hughes succeeds Mr.. Wilson b.
virtue of turn of a few hundred vote
in two disputed States.
"Such personal satisfaction as cal
be drawn from the result belongs t
Mr.. Wilson; he is entitled to it. Thu
Tribune hoped there would be |
straight-out issue between Mr.. Will
sons policies and those that it believe
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17
BIG TRIUMPH FOR MASSES
Secretary Of Treasury McAdoo Speaks
of Its Financial Results--Explains
Farm Loan Act

Secretary of the Treasury William
G. McAdoo was in st. Louis this week
at hearing of the Federal Farm
Loan Board, of which he is ox-officio
Chairman, to consider the claims of
that city for one of the twelve banks
to be established under the Farm
Loan Law. In commenting upon the
election, in an interview with the St.
Louis Republic, Mr.. McAdoo said:
81 would not refer to it as Tues
days unpleasantness," said the Sec
rotary in referring to the election,
"but rather to Tuesdays pleasant
ness. / don't know that can say any
thing about it, except to say that it
was the greatest victory the common
people have achieved in the history Of
the nation.
at was a great victory for the
West and for Ohio and New Hamp-
shire. 1t is a great pleasure to be in
Missouri, which has so great snare
in the victory"
When asked what result the cleo
ton would have on the financial sit
uation, the Secretary smiled broad
ly and said he had discussed that in
speech made since the election.
U. S. Has Third of Worlds Gold.
"The argument made by the Re-
publicans," he said, "that following
the close of the great European war
there would be a season Of depres-
sion in the United States, does not
accord with the views l hold.
"This country has more than one
third of the gold of the entire world.
We are enjoying a tremendous domes-
tic and foreign trade. The warning
countries of Europe are piling up ma
tional debts that will cripple them
financially for many years to come.
Simply paying the interest on the
debts they are now contracting will
be tremendous burden for the peo-
pie of those countries.
''The war is devastating their coun-
tries and is killing and Gripping
their men. This country is at peace
and is getting richer every day.
Expects Exports to Increase.
"How it could be possible for one
of these weakened and crippled coun-
tries to contend against the greatest
ard strongest country in the world,
country with the creates natural
resources of any land in the world
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17

found candidate after its own heart,
the representative of the narrow sec
tionalism of the East, man of one
issue, asking a nation in one of the
crises of the history of the world to
rally its forces and unleash its en-
thusiasms to support tariff policy
conceived and brought forth for the
exploitation of the nation by a few
groups of manufacturers in certain ia
vored industries of the Atlantic sea-
board, in collision with bankers of
the East who for years had exercised
for their own private gain the same
powers that other governments in
trust to Ministers Of Finance for the
benefit Of the nation.
The West has taken command. If
true to its trust, the old sectionalism
will be replaced by a new nationaism
and the certer of political power will
permanently rest on the Western bank
of the Mississippi-The Republic.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17

and country where the people are
the most intelligent and enlightened,
passes my understanding"
Secretary McAdoo said he expected
the foreign trade to increase steadily.
But he said the domestic trade was Of
the utmost Importance. He pointed
out that the foreign trade reached a
total Of $4,000, 100000 year, while
the domestic trade was 1900, O00,-
600 annually.
He declared the Federal Reserve
act and the establishment of the reg
ional banks had been of greatest val
ue in developing the trade of the Unit
ed States, both in the foreign and do
nestle field. He said new lines of
credit had been established that
would make a panic in this country
impossible.
Explains Farm Loan Act.
He said the farm loan banks would
do for the farmer what the Federal
reserve banks had done for the mer-
chant and other business men.
"The farm loan BILL" said Secre-
tary McAdoo, "creates a system under
which the farmers Of the United States
will be able, for the first time in the
history Of the country, TO borrow mon
ey on farm lands at low rates of in
terest on long time, from to 40
years, and by means of annual dues
or instllments not only to pay the in
terest, but also to retire the principal
of the loan at maturity. This piece
of legislation is comparable in its
benefits and in the magnitude of the
industry it will affect, with the FEEDER
al reserve act, but it is in many re-
spects far more important to the coun-
try than the Federal reserve act.
"The, farming industry is the very
basis Of the life and prosperity of the
nation, and this statement is more
particularly true of the United States
because of its agricultural develop
ment which, although great, can be
made vastly greater if our farmers
are provided with the longtime Gre
dts at low rates of interest, which
are so essential to the further devel-
opment of the farming industry.
Will Emancipate Farmer
"There is no inducement to greater
farm development unless it can be
made profitable unless the necessary
capital is available always to farm
ers upon reasonable terms.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-17
TRAVELLERS GUIDE

To reach Pennington you can use
either one of the following routes:
Via St. LOUSY
Iron Mountain--Leave st. Louis at
1850 or 9:05 a. M, arriving at Farm
sngton over Electric Railway from De-
Lassus at 1901 ,. m.
M. r. & B. T.-Leave st. Louis at
ESQ a. M, 3:15 and 5:31 p. M, ar
irving at Pennington over Electric
Railway from Flat River at 1901 a
M, and GAG and 1925 p. m.
From the South
Iron Mountain via Bismarck anG
DeLassus-Arrive at Pennington ov-
err Electric Railway at 1912 p. M.
Belmont Branch of Iron Mountain
Arrive at Pennington over Elec-
tric railway from DeLassus at 2:lO
Cane Girardeau Northern--Arrive
at Harrington at $40 p. m. from
Cane Giral deau and intermediate
points. Going south the train leaves
Pennington at 700 a. m. Both
rains make connections with Frisco
trains at Perryville junction.
To Reach st. Louis :.
You can go over either OF the ROADS
at the following hours:
M. R. & B. leave Farmington
over Electric Railway to Flat Rivcl
ut 4:23 and 500 a. M, and 1855 p. m.
arriving in st. Louis at 1885 and 11:5t
a. m. and 6:1O p, m. Fare from Farm
ington, S1.66. Round trip, $3.22.
Iron Mountain-Leave Farmingtor
over Electric Railway to DeLassus al
1888 D. M, arriving in st. Louis al
6:1O D. m. Fare for one way from
Pennington, $1.90; round trip. $3.50
ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY RI. 20
Time Table (Condensed).