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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mr.. Philo M. Goodwin left
Christmas night for a visit of a
week to friends at Hammond.
La, and to his sisters in the city
of New Orleans.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mr.. Allen Goodwin. of Zim-
|merman, and Mr.. Gilbert Bar
ron, of Paramount, were among
the number who came to CoIfax
on Thursday to attend the dance
at the Pavilion that night.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mrs. Chas. Nunnaly and child,
of Alexandria, have been spend
ing the holidays in Colfax with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. w.
LaCroix.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Miss Maude Dunn. of Shreve-
port. after spending the Yuletide
season with Mr.. Frank Dunn, her
brother, and wife. will return to
her Shreveport home.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01
January's SLOWING Up. .

Winter indoor life, heavy food and
irregular exercise cause dull, tired
feeling. Foley Cathartic Tablets tone
up the stomach and bowels, liven up
the liver, cleanse the system and give
the light, free feeling of proper diges-
ton and good health. Do not grippe or
nauseate. j. w. Duncan Co.-Adv. !.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Miss Esther Parker came down
from Coushatta last Saturday,
and after visiting Miss Myra
Scott returned home Thursday
afternoon.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

A good many cases of la grippe
have been prevailing in Colfax
during the holidays, owing to the
prevalence of changeable inclem-
ent weather.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mrs. E. A. Mathis and daught-
ers Viola and Audrey and son
Ulmont visited relatives in Verda
this week, leaving Mr.. Mathis at
home disconsolate, and he has
been solacing himself by helping
the Chronicle get out this issue
of the paper.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Van Gold. of AL
exandria. have been visiting Mr..
and Mrs. A. w. Lewis this week.
Mrs. Van Gold was formerly
Miss Eula Lewis.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mr.. Foster F. McNeely, who
is taking a veterinary course in
Kansas City, came home to spend
his holiday vacation of ten days.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

The community Christmas tree
in the court house Christmas Eve
was quite a success, and a fine
lot of presents were distributed
to many happy recipients.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mr.. Owen Thomas. after spend
ing Christmas with his sister,
Miss Sadie Thomas, returned to
Natchitoches on last Sunday.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Miss Vernon Cameron is home
from Silliman College to spend
the holidays.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mr.. L. A. Barrios, Colfax
manager of the Cumberland Tel
ephone Co., who has been sick
with fever for some time, is
recuperating.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Miss Lena Bee Mccain, of
Montgomery, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. C. H. Mccain from Christ
mas to Monday afternoon.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01
A Big Business Change.

A big business change in Col
fax for the New Year is the con-
solidation of the Peoples Cash
Store and the Union Mercantile
Co. Mr.. w. B. Strother has
bought out the Union Mercantile
Co., and has moved into their big
brick building on the corner, and
he will continue to conduct bust
ness there under the name of
Peoples Cash Store, of which he
will be the manager. Mr.. j. B.
Mcknight will remain with the
business, and will be pleased to
have his numerous friends con-
tinue to call on him at the old
stand. See notice of the CONSOLE
dalton elsewhere.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mr.. Charles Timbes spent Sun
day in Coushatta as the guest of
Rev. A. H. Parker and family.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Miss Corinne Wells, of Shreve-
port, spent the holidays with her
parents, Captain and Mrs. T. M.
Wells and the home folks.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mr.. Wilmer Edmonds, OF
; Boyce, h. been the guest of Mr..
B. B. Bean and family during
Xmas week.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Miss Docia and Matte Lewis,
of Paramount, have been spend
ing the holidays with Colfax rel
atives and friends.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

School will reopen on Monday,
and all the boys and girls will be
glad to get back to their books
maybe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mr.. H. w. Witcher, of Bells,
Texas, came over on a Christmas
visit to his daughter, Mrs. Opal
Duncan.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

The Bank of Colfax will be
closed to-day, January LIST, a le-
gal holiday.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

statesmen WANTED to solicit or
ders for lubricating oils, greases and
paints. Salary or commission. Address
The Victor Oh Co., Cleveland, o. 1t
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mrs. V. w. Cain and two chill
dren, of Shreveport, arrived last
Sunday and were the guests of
her sisters, Mrs. S. H. Irwin and
Mrs A. M. Goodwin, untilThurs-
dau
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01
Announcement.

We desire to announce that we
have sold our stock of merchan-
disc to the Peoples Cash Store,
Ltd, and extend to you our
thanks for your liberal patronage
during the year now coming to a
close. We also desire to say that
our Mr.. J. B. Mcknight will re-
main with the Peoples Cash
Store and will be pleased to serve
his many customers the same as
in the past.
Wishing you a happy New Year.
UNION MERCANTILE, Co., LTD,
BY j. B. Mcknight.
Colfax, La, Dec. 81, 1915.
We are pleased to announce
that we have purchased the en-
tire stock of merchandise of the
Union Mercantile Co. and are
now located in their building
where we will be better prepared
to serve you than ever before.
We desire to thank our many
friends and customers for their
very liberal patronage during
the year now closed and we earn
estly solicit a continuance of
your valuable patronage. Mr..
j. B. Mcknight will remain with
us and will be pleased to serve
his many friends as in the past.
Wishing you a happy New Year.
PEOPLES CASH STORE, LTD.
Colfax, La, Dec. 81. 1915.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Master Walter Murrell has
been visitingrelatives and friends
in Verda this week.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01
The coHax Chronicle
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SATURDAY, JAN. l, 1916.
Mr.. Clarence Faraldo visited
in Winfield this week.

Mr.. Irwin Jordan visited
friends in Natchitoches this week.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Miss Beryl Carnahan has re-
signed as the hello girl" at Cen
trail.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Miss Gladys Scott visited
friends in Montgomery during
the holidays.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mr.. Charlie Williams, of Boyce,
has been a visitor to Colfax this
wook
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Mr.. j. C. Mcknight and wife
spent Christmas in Coushatta
with relatives and friends.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-01-01

Alfalfa hay for sale.
Apply to P. A. DEAN,
n2O-2m Colfax, La.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06

lowed to do it's assessing The difference in the actuel amount and the assessed amount would itself
 If 1t could be utilizedrun sevverel large and in- fewensial colleges. It has been sed that about dozen Congress, and it's mitey so at the same time grate big hefty statesman like Oscar Underwood Jim Mann don't pull down enny of the needful than Tom-tit frum Dpickle, Wis, who don't know the difference between roll call and infint baptism
 It is marvellus how memburs of Congress can boast of and point with pride to the patriotism of the plain peepu, and at the same time how little they trust sed patriotism Most congressman air obsessed with the idear that they must be the job to grab evvery doer out of the treasury possible to be spent in theere districts, whethur it is for the pubck good not, they will be defeated for re-elecsion. Be- cawse of this condision-or theeory-Unce Sam has spent milyuns of the peepurs mummy on foolish and imprachcabull objects all ovver the United States. For evvery doller spent legitimate enturprzes- developing waturways and opening sstreems for merse, wheere theere is a streem and sum commerce there has been spent three dollers sum follish little branch that hasn't enuff watur in it an unty-prohbisionist if he forsed to drink it all in ordur that the congressman in whose district it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06

heer he stands out about as promminintly the vity in doughnut. Still he is not discouraged He is willing to try it again. what he wants now he seys is vindicasion He hasn't dun much, as things go but he has dun his best and he thinks he ought to have vindicasion at the hands of his constituents Frum what he seys in discussing the suasion in his district vndicasion is going to high. They air willing, frum what gathur, to vindicate him at so much per vindicate He seys he may have to strug gle along next yeer with just moderate amount of vindicasion, but what theere is, he must have it.
 His fairly illustrates the bunch. If district gets good man in Congress it Is wise as they do in the south to grate extent, to keep him theere Aftur five six turns in tn lower house he will becum we'll enuff known to be abul to speek to the feeders the street without having explain to them who he is and it is quite possbul that the fveminute rule he mite get recognision to sub init few brite remarks. So when the new guy who is trying to brake into Congress in your district is telling the peepul he is going to "set the woods afire' when he gets on the job in Washington, you just fgger out that theere won't be enny con- fagrasion big enuff to attract pertcuer attension Of corse, theere is lot of brains in Congress but the pile would look hole lot bggur if Congress was al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06

may have had sum linguring doubts about it himself but they soon dispelled. He lerned to his as- tonishmint that practically everybody in the dis trict voted for him, tho he only squeezed in by couple of hundred votes and that about 95 per of all the leedurs who voted for him each sewer ely turned the tide in his favur at the proper mint, else he would have been showed under. With out much lingering he could arrive at the verry def mite conclusion that it had all been arranged for him to becum meel ticket for quite hefty crowd of the faithful without enny. unnecessary delay. Still he sed that he calculated that this was part of the polytcal game and he'd take the bad with the good He had sum idears of his own about what he was go ing to do in Washington, and how he was going to put thru sum needed reforms just he could get on intimate turns with his colleagues and the speaker.
 Now he is seeing things sum different. He has surved full turn heer and he Is stuck the plase but far startling the country with needed and as muchly promised reforms in varius lines of publck endevver, about all he has been abul to do is to get sumthng printed in the record consuming sed burning questions He is beginning to arrive the convictsion that congressman may be sum hefty punkins back in his own ballawhack but up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06

and machines. MT. Boyle's dredges have worked for weeks at more than 97 per cent of their capacity. They are run throughout the sea son, which lasts from May until the latter part of No- vember, with a loss of less than 10 per cent in stoppages of any kind. They never put in less than P hours out of the "A, and they go on day and night, Sundays and week days, until they are closed by the coldest of the winter months.
 Last month some dredging was done late in December, and this year in the middle of January, when the thermom- eter was 50 degrees below zero, Boyles biggest dredge was digging as usual. The dredge was steam heated and the men were as comfortable as aboard ship at any time of the year. During the past year some of the dredges have worked for six days of the week and lost only 20 minutes day during that time. When it is remembered that a single dredge takes up gold to the amount of 5000 a day. and sometimes to 5000 and upward, you will see how important is the length of the season and that the dredges lose no time by breaks or other conditions.
 And this brings me to another of the new wonders of civil engineering in the far north. It is the invention of Joe Boyle by which he keeps his big hydro electric lplant running throughout the winter, and that notwithstanding the temperature at times falls to 70 degrees below zero. It is so cold here in the winter that if you should attempt to run a spraying machine such as is used in an orchard the water would turn to snow before it fell to the ground. The thermometer keeps down to zero, or far below that for the most of the winter, and after the cold weather sets in the land Is ice-locked until spring. Some of the streams have seven feet of ice over them and many freeze solid. Neverthe- less. MT. Boyle has been able to turn branch of the Klondike river into a great ditch six miles in length and drop it down upon turbines with a fall that would create electricity to the extent of 10000 horsepower day in and day o,H the year through The amount he is actually using is only 5000 horsepower, but the equipment is such that it could be easily increased by the adding of units.
 There are many electric plants of this kind in the world, but none which is moved by water in such temperatures as freeze the soil and gravel every where to seven feet deep, or where the rivers run above strata of perpetual
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06

routes, there is none more delightful to travel over.
 The water here and there is peaceful in the starlight, it's salt water odor reaches our nostrils, making us sit up and drink in long breaths of it, and the lights of each city as we glide into and then out of it seem to smile cordial "bon soir' at us, only I am reasonably sure they do not speak French.
 Before the stroke of midnight we have crossed the little Harlem once again. and are back upon Manhattan island. Its sea of lights. surging away into ap- parently limitless distances. makes us sigh with content-for. after all. after having visited a number of real cities of size and prosperity, we are forced to realize that New York city is a city in a class alone; it is the real wonder city. city with which no other really hopes to compete; the marvellous modern reali- Zation of many a dreamer's daring dream. And so thinking, we ride swiftly up to a well known ''roof'' where, not wishing to keep you up later than is your habit. we say good night. and au revoir until our next little journey around New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06

teresting. Most of them are devoted to the raising of tomatoes and cucumbers, which are picked from day to day and served to the men. The centers of each of these hothouses consist of great bed of soil filled with tomato plants set put few inches apart. Under the glass round iron bars extend down into the roof is a network of wires, and from this soil bed, each bar serving as a stake for a plant. The lower branches of the plant are pinched off. and the result is that the stem grows as thick as your thumb; it climbs straight up to the roof, where it branches out and is upheld by the wire netting. There were 100 such plants in the hothouse visited, and all were loaded with green and red ripe to- matoes. About the walls of the same were cucumber vines. They had been trained up the netting along the walls, and the cucumbers hung down from the roof, just like grapes in an .arbor. have eaten some of these vegetables in my meals with the men. They are of de- licious flavor, and jucier and sweeter than those raised out in the open.
 The principal camp of the Boyle con- sessions is at Boyle creek. This is in the heart of the Klondike valley, about eight miles from Dawson and not far from the center of the great gold ter ritory for which Boyle has the conces- sion. It was here Mr. Boyle began his first work of getting the gold out of the earth, and here today are his offices and the little cottage that forms his home. His first house was a two-room log cabin. As time went on he built a bigger cabin, and then this cottage, which Is heated by steam and lighted by electricity. To look at it you would not suppose it the dwelling of mill lionaire miner. It is as plain as it's owner, and although there are kitchen arrangements connected with it, the family and guests usually take their meals in the messrooms at the same time as those of the men.
 MT. Boyle's camps have the same sort of supplies as those of the Guggen- helms, with all kinds of machinery to prevent any delay in the dredging. Each of his dredges cost in the neigh borhood of s50o,0oo. and it is estimated taht every minute a dredge stops work ing during the season results in a loss of gold to the amount of $1.s4 This means more than s100 an hour.
 Everything connected with the gold working going on in the Klondike is run just as carefully as great modern factory Cost sheets are kept, and the operation of the property is based upon the maximum efficiency of both men
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06

The work is the carrying on of great manufacturing establishment several thousand miles from the market and the same distance away from supplies. It is in a country that Is frozen tight more than half the year. and where in the summer 1t takes weeks or months to get duplicate parts of the machines from out side The work is such that the contin- uous running of the machines means profit and the breaking down of a dredge means a loss of thousands Of dollars if 1t cannot at once be repaired. Duplicates of everything must therefore be on hand, and supplies of all kinds of machinery ready to make instant repairs.
 The Yukon Gold company and the Canadian Klondike company as well have great warehouses filled with everything needed for carrying on their operations. They have a number of each. part of every machine that they use, and repairs for electrical equipment, steam equip ment, and every possible sort of machine shop and foundry for repairing broken parts upon notice.
 It Is the same with the supplies of food for their men. They are bought by the ton, and that with regard for the de- mands of the miners. One has to under stand the WOrklng 1Orco to Know now 10 order. For instance the first importa- tion of groceries was based on the de- mands of the Guggenheim mining camps ill California. The United States miners are fond of coffee, and this was sent with the supplies by the thousands of pounds. It lay in the store. These Canadian miners would not have 1t. They drink tea instead of coffee and, have tea for breakfast and dinner and tea for sup per as well. Another peculiarity was the flour needed by the baker. In the United States we use the same flour for bread and pastry. The Canadian wants hard wheat flour broad and soft flour for pastry, and the cooks cannot do without them.
 During my stay here I have gone through the Guggenheim warehouses. They include number of buildings made for the purpose. One structure, which is kept at three or four degrees above freez- ing, is devoted to perishable stuff, such as condensed milk and cream and all kinds of vegetables. It contains also rubber goods which are affected by frost. Another building has a temperature far below freezing. This is the cold storage plant Meat is bought in large quantities. and the supplies for the winter are brought down the Yukon on the hoof, and killed and frozen before the winter begins. There are no thawing spells in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06
ConSreSSmen and Politics

was would "vote rite" and so that he could go back and tell the peepul what a h-l of a feer he is, ennybow. |, The holds trew with publick buildings Uncle Sam has big postoffises and federel corthouses in sum towns alreddy and bildng moor that cost moor than all the store bildngs in the corporate limms That may be good polyiticks for the congressman that is party to that kind of graft it is ruff stuff for the party he belongs to when it Is allowed It don't say much for his constituents to keep in Congress man whose sole qualification is to dig an uncesurved appropriation in return for his vote for gennere dstrbusion of pork of the peepuls strong box What they ought to do is rise up and tell him that he wasn't hired to go into the second story bizness for his district if they need enny steeling they can attend to it themselves. If few such congressmen would get rapped theere polyti cal beans for such strong armed wurk 1t would do much to purify polyticks in this grate counry-and few patriots could mension, but won't call enny names-would have chanse. But what is the use me and Henery Ford can't elevate polytcks in the United States unaided and alone-and it looks like no is willing to help us.
 Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES. Washington D. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-06

water. Sharks? Not a bit of it-chickens, that's all. And let me tell you, I don t believe there is a shark in all the Allan tic, or any other body of water, bold enough to take his customary liberties old Manhattan isle. If we ourselves are not brave enough to presume so far, what chance do you think shark would have? And thus we have our afternoon surf bath in perfect safety.
 And soon Stamford is left far behind perhaps it is as we'll to insert just here that we are fully clad once more-but the marvellous system of good roads is not. Always ahead and behind us lies road that makes motoring one of sum- mer's greatest joys. Miles after miles 1t lies, without single break, without even culver, and always the country round about is soothing and restful to us, or else it awakens a thrill of appre- citation of it's richness and grandeur.
 Our destination is Bridgeport, and in the late afternoon we pull into the busi- ness section of that thriving New Eng land city, now making more money than 1t knows what to do with, out of war munitions. Bridgeport. in fact, is enjoy Ing period of unprecedented prosperity, and while some one may suggest that there is blood on the money, Bridgeport at least is doing none of the blood let ting.
 Evidences of civic growth are on all sides: it's streets are damned with traf- fic. reminding one a little of Fifth ave- nue at the intersection of Forty-second street, though the Bridgeport traffic po- licemen seem to feel life a greater bur den than do the traffic men of the New York police force.
 This city of Bridgeport is also known as the winter home of the great Barnum & Bailey circus. It has extensive winter quarters here. and the animals seem to feel perfectly at home among the citi- zens. And it is equally true of these New England people that they know how to