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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
Arranging to Rebuild Pollock School

hIfduSfuS W iACDuiiu OhOSh OSHoOAs
We learn that Mr.. J. H. McNeely,
acting under the instruction of the dis
trict attorney, in connection with Mr..
Jim McCammon, contractor; represent
ing the General Construction Co., has
entered into an agreement and compro-
mise whereby the Pollock high school
building lately destroyed by fire will be
rebuilt. The terms of the agreement
we understand embraces a settlement
of all complications, and the contract
and agreement will be in force as soon
as the school board meets to-day (Sat-
urday) and formally approves the same.
Mr.. McCammon, the contractor for the
General Construction Co., appears to
be ready and willing to fulfill all obi
cations that rest upon his company,
and we are sure the good people of
Pollock will feel relieved to learn that
their fine school building is not to prove
loss to the community. All hands
should now pull together for the COM
pletion of the school, which is greatly
needed to accommodate the children,
now greatly lacking in school facilities.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
Forget Your Aches.

Stiff knees, aching limbs, lame back,
make life burden. you suffer from
rheumatism, govt, lumbago, neuralgia,
get bottle of Sloan's Liniment, the
universal remedy for pain. Easy to
apply; it penetrates without rubbing
and soothes the tender flesh. Cleaner
and more effective than mussy ONT
ments or poultices. For strains or
sprains, sore muscles or wrenched liga-
ments resulting from strenuous exer-
else, Sloan's Liniment gives quick re-
lief. Keep it on hand for emergencies.
At YOUR druggist, 25c. -Adv.-2.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
Organization of Civic League.

Tuesday afternoon, October 3,
a number of ladies, including all
members of the Ladies Memo
rial Association and of the Pro-
gressive School League were in
vited to the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. H. Mcknight for a meet
ing, at which Miss Sarah Firth,
9Th District. Pres. of La. FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs was ex-
pected to preside. By some mis-
understanding in dates Miss
Firth was not present. How
ever the time was pleasantly
spent in general discussion of
civic plans, concensus of opinion
being that since the membership
of the Ladies' Memorial Associa-
ton and of the Progressive School
League is largely the same; and
that since the work of both So
cieties is of a civic nature, a un-
ion of the two might extend ac-
tivities throughout the town as a
Civic League. A vote was taken
separately in each society, and
the decision in each case was
unanimous in favor of the union.
Other ladies present enrolled
as members of the Civic League,
and officers were elected as fol-
lows: Mrs. G. H. Mcknight,
president; Mrs. ]. A. Williams,
LIST vice president: Mrs. C. w.
LaCroix, End vice president; Mrs.
j. C. Mcknight, recording Sec
rotary; Mrs. N. P. Barton, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. j. H.
McNeely, treasurer.
A meeting of the Civic League
will be held in the town pavilion
next Monday, October 9, at 3 p.
m. Miss Firth will be present
on this occasion and all ladies are
invited to come and hear what
she has to say for the welfare Of
the town and community.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
How Catarrh is Contracted.

Mothers are sometimes so thought
less as to neglect the colds which their
children contract. The Inflammation
of the mucus membrane, at first acute,
becomes chronic and the child has
chronic catarrh, disease that is sell
dom cured and that may prove life's
burden. Many persons who have this
loathsome disease will remember hav-
ing had frequent colds at the time it
was contracted. A little forethought
a bottle of Chamberlain Cough Rem
edy judiciously used, and all this trou-
BILE might have been avoided. Obtain
able everywhere. Adv.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
Jefferson Highway Activity.

Already, within a year of the
final adoption of the route dag
onally across Louisiana from the
northwest to the southeast, this
State has begun to witness the
far-reaching effects of the Jeffer-
son Highway project from Winni-
peg, Canada, as its northern ter
minus through the middle west
to its southern terminus at New
Orleans. The good results al
re ady attained in Louisiana
abundantly justifies the fight
that was made to have New Or
leans fixed as the southern ter
minus of this highway.
Passing through northeast Tex
as, whence branch turns off to
terminus on the Texas coast,
the Jefferson Highway enters
Louisiana through Caddo parish
and traverses the parish via
Shreveport to the DeSoto parish
line. Thanks to the splendid
roads already constructed in this
parish, the Caddo link in the
Jefferson Highway has already
been built, some of the finest
hard surface roads in the State.
DeSoto was not slow to recog-
nize the value of this highway,
and steps were Immediately taken
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
Dipping Vat for Hargis Community.


At a meeting of the citizens of
the Hargis community, held on
Friday night. Sept. %, a stock
company was organized and cap
ital stock sold for the purpose OF
constructing a dipping vat.
At this meeting Farm Demon
stration Agent and Mr.. /. M. Nc.
Nicely, of Colfax, made talks re.
garding the value of dipping and
the methods of constructing q
dipping vat.
Mr.. ]. F. Fletcher was elected
president of the company, Mr.. j
w. Bryant, vice president, anG
Mr.. E. F. Fletcher elected secre
tary treasurer.
The citizens of Hargis expect
to start work upon the vat al
once. This will make the seven
teenth vat built in Grant parish
What community will build thu
next?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
When You Take Cold.

T With the average man a cold Is a
serious matter and should not be trified
with, as some of the most dangerous
diseases start with a common cold.
Take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and
get rid of your cold as quickly as pos
sible. You are not experimenting
when you use this remedy, as it has
been in use for many years and has an
established reputation. 1t contains no
opium or other narcotic. Obtainable
everywhere. ADV.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
Bond Issue of $3.50, 900 Proposed.

At the meeting of the police
jury last Monday, Capt. G. H.
Teal, President of Grant Parish
Jefferson Highway Association,
accompanied by other citizens,
presented the petitions of citi-
zens asking for the creation
of wards one, six, seven, and a
part of ward two, into a road
district to be designated as Road
District No. s, and stated that
the people of said territory asked
that the question of issuing $780,
GOO in bonds to run for thirty
years be submitted to vote.
Parties from Verda presented
a petition asking that the eastern
portion of ward seven be left out
of the proposed Jefferson High
way district. A discussion Of
this proposition lasted until the
hour for adjournment Monday
afternoon, and no action was
taken by the police jury.
Further discussion Of the mat
ter was had on Tuesday, but no
action taken. A substitute pro-
position was discussed, which
seemed to meet the views of a
majority of the police jurors, and
without any official action of the
board it was agreed that each
member of the police jury would
canvass his ward and get the
sentiment of the people on voting
a bond issue of $3.50, 600, to run
for period of thirty years. OF
this amount $3.50, 900 is to be used
in building the jefferson High
way link across Grant parish.
The other 5000, 600 to be used to
build model roads, as follows:
from the Jefferson Highway near
Summerfield to Verda; from Yer
da to Dry Prong; from Rochelle
to Pollock and to the parish line.
And also to gravel all the model
roads of the parish.
Petitions signed by the proper
~ taxpayers of the parish asking
tor the $350,0O0 bond issue are
10 be submitted to the police jury
Mt its meeting the first Monday
in November, so they may act
upon it at that time.
In case this proposition does
not meet with popular favor, we
understand a majority eff the po-
lice jury will favor ordering the
election on the original PROPOSE
ton to vote $3.50, 900 to build the
Jefferson Highway link through
Grant.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07

by tnat parish 10 Duild It's HIN
connecting with the Caddo roads
and running to the Natchitoches
parish line. Long before the
jefferson Highway is completed
the DeSoto section will be ready
for the north and south travel
and traffic that is expected to
flow over this highway which
will bisect the country from Cana
da to the gulf.
The example of Caddo and De-
Soto was not lost upon Natchi-
toches. Agitation in that par
ish for the construction of its
section of the Jefferson Highway
became insistent and resulted in
an election at which $3.50, 600 in
bonds were triumphantly voted
for this purpose. The Natchi-
toches link also will be in use be-
fore the Jefferson Highway is
completed throughout its length
and Natchitoches will enjoy the
benefits of a splendid highway
bisecting that parish.
Now comes Grant parish,
which proposes to vote a bond
issue of $150,000 to build the
Grant parish link in the Jeffer-
son Highway, connecting with
the Natchitoches line and rum
ming through to the Rapides sec
ton. Our advices from Colfax
leave no doubt that the people of
Grant will vote overwhelmingly
in favor of the bond issue and
thus keep up the record of pro-
gress on the Jefferson Highway
lin Louisiana. From what has
been done by these four parishes
in North Louisiana there is no
reason to doubt that the other
parishes south of them will take
up the work and that within a
very short time the Jefferson
Highway will be an accomplished
fact so far as Louisiana is con-
cerned.
The Times feels that it is in
order to congratulate the people
of Grant parish upon the mani
festation of their interest in this
great undertaking and upon their
determination to see to it that
Grant does not propose to be
placed in the attitude of OBJ
structing the Jefferson Highway
across Louisiana. The burden
of this work falls upon each par
ish that the highway traverses,
as it properly should. We be-
lieve that, quite aside from the
Importance of the Jefferson High
way itself, the roads that will be
constructed in this State will am
ply repay the communities that
build them and that they will
lead inevitably to the construc-
ton of a splendid system of per-
manent highways radiating from
the trunk highway in all direc.
tons. 1t is not difficult to see
in this that the Jefferson High
way is destined to prove a dis
tinct blessing by encouraging the
building of good roads through
out its length. Shreveport Times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
The Woodrow Wilson Campaign Fund.

The Woodrow Wilson Campaign Fund.
The Chronicle this week opens
it's columns for contributions to
the Woodrow Wilson campaign
fund, to which we. add a SUBJ
scription of So. so, as follows:
j. B. Roberts ................$ 500
Colfax Chronicle. ........... ESQ
Our friend, MIR. Roberts, seeing
the notice in the Chronicle last
week that we intended to open
our columns for this laudabIe
purpose, has responded with a
liberality and promptness that
we hope other friends will follow
in short order. He accompanies
his contribution with the follow
ing patriotic note:
Colfax, La, Oct. 5, 1916.
Hon. H. G. Goodwin, Colfax, La.
Dear Mr.. Goodwin Enclosed
find my check payable to you and
sent as a contribution to the
Woodrow Wilson campaign fund.
| hope every Democrat who can
do so will respond to your appeal
for funds for the national cam
paign. Woodrow Wilson is the
foremost statesman of the world
to-day, and our country would
be untrue to itself, to its tradi-
tons and to its high hopes for
the future, if it were to fail to
re-elect him in the coming cleo
ton. He has done too much for
us for any of us now to fail to do
our little for him.
Very truly your friend,
]. B. ROBERTS.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
District Court for Grant Parish.


District court in and for Grant
parish convened here Monday,
October 2, pursuant to law, with
Judge w. F. Blackman presid-
ing, and District Attorney Jno.
R. Hunter present to represent
the State.
The following grand jury was
drawn and impanelled, and charg-
ed by the court:
C. H. Teal, foreman.
Paul Roshto Geo. Wagner
N. G. Morgan VIM. Stewart
P. G. Thompson Weyman Dyson
]. G. Smith Joseph Rambo
L. j. Harrison w. A. Nugent
A. ]. Faulkner.
The grand jury retired to their
room and were in session until
Thursday afternoon, when they
adjourned to Monday morning
without making a report.
Monday and Tuesday was TAX
en- up mostly in hearing motions
fixing cases, etc., and the judge
adjourned court until Friday,
when a few civil matters were
heard, and court adjourned over
to Monday.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07

We hope the citizens of Grant par
ish will respond quickly and literally
to the Woodrow Wilson campaign fund
which The Chronicle has opened this
week. The time is now short before
the election, and every dollar is needed
in this cause.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
How About Making 1t Unanimous?

The building of a dipping vat
at Hargis, now under construc-
ton, will make the seventeenth
dipping vat in Grant parish. 1t
is getting about time for the Dip
ping of cattle to be made unani-
nous in Grant. How about our
police jury passing an ordinance
requiring every owner to dip his
cattle? 1t would add 500, 900 to
the value of the cattle in this
parish in less than twelve months.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
STATE OF LOUISIANA !
n-.l e O. Il

STATE OF LOUISIANA
Parish of Grant
/. ]. N. Warner, President, and l,
G. A. Foster, Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the best
of my knowledge and belief
Subscribed and swt IN to before mt,
this day 30th day of September, 1916.
c. u. ROBINSON,
Notary Public.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
Constable Sale.

Constable Sale.
1st Magistrate Court. Ward z, Grant
Parish, Louisiana.
d. H. Wallace vs.. w. H. Dixon
and
]. L. Fletcher VS.. w. H. Dixon.
By virtue of writs of fieri facias is
sued out of the First Justice Court of
ward seven, Grant parish, La, and to
me directed in the above entitled suits.
directing and commanding me to seize
and sell the property of defendant, /
have seized and will offer for sale at
the late residence of Defendant w. H.
Dixon, near Verda, La, between the
hours prescribed for legal sales, on
SATURDAY, OCT. 81, 1916,
the following described property, seiz-
ed as the property of defendant herein,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07


tO-wit:
l mule.
8 blind brides.
horse collars.
/ set wagon harness..
2 sets names and traces.
/ pillow single tree.
l pair sheep shears.
pair cotton scales.
2 breast chains.
carpenters square.
/ frow.
! pillow stock.
/ Bully Boy harrow.
l wooden chest.
/ lot pillow tools.
/ feed basket.
/ sewing machine.
2wooden bed steads.
wardrobe.
l quilt box.
! trunk.
/ dining table.
/ kitchen safe.
/ small tool box.
l cotton mattress.
l feather bed.
2 sets bed springs.
3 bed quilts.
l roam COW and brindle calf.
l light colored COW.
3 one inch grass ropes.
/ Della cultivator.
Claim on hogs, one black sow mark
ed crop in right ear and split in left.
one black sow unmarked, two black
pigs.
Claim on one set brace and bits, one
set wagon lines.
Terms of sale Cash, with the bene-
fit of appraisement
This Sept. %, 1916.
T. l.. DEAN.
LIST Constable Ward z. Grant Phi.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07

Mr.. J. H. Kemp, of Natchitoches,
spent last Sunday in Colfax with friends.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-10-07
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For School Board Member.
We are authorized to announce
MAC ARLINGTON

as a candidate for member of the Grant
parish board of school directors, from
the third ward, to be be determined III
the November election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-24
.PROPERTYOWNERS !. FILE APPEALS ID
 THE CIRCUIT COURT
Board of Equalization Hear ing Complaints at Court hOuse-Meets in Besse-
 mer Next Week

The property owners who came be- fore the county board of equalization yesterday showed more dissatisfaction than has heretofore been noticed Evi- dence of this fact became noticeable when individual property owners be- gan filing appeals to the circuit court after having been before the beard. II was stated that approximately 40> ap peals were taken yesterday. It was stated that one individual appealed 15 cases.
 More large property owLers came be- fore the board yesterday than any day this week and while the crowd was as large as on the days previous perfect order was maintained
 Beginning Monday, July IF, the board of equalization will meet for one week in the Bessemer city courtroom and will take up the cases Of all prop erty owners living in that district. The hearing at Bessemer will last ofly ore week. then the board will return to Birmingham to resume their work in this district.
 While the board is hand1inc more cases day now. 1t is said that at the present rate not more than 40G) cases can be disposed of during the time they nave for hearing. In all there was 1S,000 property owners raised and 35 days was set aside for the hearings of all complaints from this number Aver aging this number up with the time in which the board has to hear the 1S.. 900 complaints. 500 would be the re. quired number of complaints to be heard each day. At the rate the cases are being disposed with only a little over a hundred are tried a day mak- ing time for only about 4000 cases dur. ing the time allowed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-24
FOUR PLAYERS ENTERED WILL PRESENT BRILLIANT GAME. TWO BIRMINGHAM MEN WILL DEFEND THEMSELVES
By l.. 6. RETTY

Considerable local interest is attached to the matches in the semi-finals of the golf tournament at the Country club this morning. In the championship event, Bir-
 mingham has two players competing for honors, H. G. Seibels and Jack Allison, both of whom are matched against two of the strongest players of the south. The former will play Louis Jacoby of Dal- 1 las, and the latter will compete with Bob Jones, Jr., of Atlanta.
 Jones is a boy, hardly in his teens, be- ing only IA years of age. However, many veteran golfers have met defeat at his hands, and he bids fair to rival the best players in the country Jacoby is cratic, though he plays brilliant game. Tn the southern tournament at Montgomery tEree years ago he made a record on the course that has never been equaled, his score being a 65 on a 7S bogey course The matches this morning will be fol-
 lowed with peculiar interest, for it is
 doubtful if any four players have ever met on the local course who are capable
 of playing a better game.
 Birmingham has one player who will enter the sem-finals in the second flight,
 R. H. Baugh. In this flight there are
 perhaps as great players as there are in the championship event. for in addition
 to Baugh, Nash Read of Montgomery,
 Ferry Adair of Atlanta, and R. c. Richard of Chattanooga are entered. Adair un- questionably is the strongest player of
 the four.
 Other local players are represented in the four other flights. but particular in terest is centered in the first and second events.
 MATCHES THIS MORNING
 Matches to be played this morning, with the time of starting, are as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-24

under the same conditions. Remember if all is not right it will be, when I see you. Don't tell any one about the Sth for I am not supposed to come home then"
 The next letter was one of the so-called alibi letters postdated February 9 at Madison and mailed, it is alleged, by a friend while Orpet was at Lake Forest It spoke in commonplace terms of school work.
 T haven't heard from you in long time. Just through exams today and don't know whether I got through or not.'' he wrote.
 The last of the letters introduced by the state was one from Marion to Miss Rumsey, her Sunday school teacher. It was written February s. the night before her death, and was found on her body on the 10th. It read:
 Your note came yesterday and I want to thank you more sincerely than you can imagine for it. I am very glad that you think that there is a possibility of my amounting to much after all. I was very much afraid that you thought that was a silly on account of what is termed my giggles. At first just giggled because I thought life was nothing but a Joke and felt no responsibility. But late- ly it has been because I really wasn't happy so I tried to disguise my feeling that way.
 You may think it queer for one to laugh when they really want to cry, but am rather queer anyway. But now l feel much better and I sincerely want to be some one that will do a, little good anyway. I have tried that w. G. C.. Westminster Guild club plan. I feel that it is succeeding fairly well. It helps me in many other things, too. l thank you once more for your good wishes, with love, Marion"
 "P. S.-I just learned about w. G. c. meeting next Saturday, today. I will be there and try to bring some of the ones that don't come very often. if possible" :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-24
PERSHING REPORTS
 BUT z SURVIVORS OF
 FIGHT AT CARRIZAL
(Continued from Page One)

in all details with the report made from the first arrivals from the battlefield. General Persing reported there was a scene of wild confusion when the Mex jeans opened fire and their cavalry charged The stragglers apparently were cut off in an effort of Captain Boyd to extricate his men from the jaws of the trap which was closing on his com n.and, or fled before the outcome of the battle could be learned.
 General Pershing, according to his re- port, had received no word from the two battalions of the Eleventh cavalry, which he had sent to rescue the rem nants of Captain Boyd's expedition He stated that he had taken no measures to support the squadrons of the Eleventh.
 General Funston said tonight that he had received no news regarding a report that General Bell had crossed the bor- der at Fl Paso and that no confirmation had been received of rumors of reported bandit raids near Hachita, N. M, and Brownsville.
 General Funston was unable tonight to account for the failure of General Pershing to receive word of the Carrizal battle from the relief squadrons. Even if delayed by the transportation and the care of the wounded, it was not under stood at headquarters why the command of the relief expedition had not sent on a courier to General Pershing with an account of the fight.
 The number of officers with the troops at Carrizal was not known here, but 1t was thought that if only Captain Boyd. Captain Louis Mercy and Lieut.. Henry Adair, all either reported killed or wounded, were the detachment, the com mander of the relief expedition might have hesitated to send report based on stories of the negro troopers.
 There has been no indication here that tho relief squadron had been attacked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-24
ORPET'S LETTERS
 READ TO THE JURY
(Continued from Page one)

it up. and when I get home we'll take the lid off,
 By November 3. after the summer va cation. Orpet addressed her merely as Dear Marion
 In this and subsequent letters he had stopped pleading with Marion for warmer expressions of her regard.
 Later in November he wrote that he hopes "She got the stuff" all right De- cember he wrote:
 Letter received this morning. and was surprised to hear that there was nothing doing yet. Don't see the doctor until l have given you something to take"
 Will try to go down to see you Feb ruary g. he wrote in another letter Will call you up evening February g. Remember the dates. It will be