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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

How Mr.. Davis Got Rid of Bad Cough
"Some time ago l had very bad
cough" writes Lewis I. Davis, Black
water, Del. MY brother, McCabe
Davis. gave me a small bottle of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy. After taking
this bought half dozen bottles of it
but only used one of them as the cough
left me and have not been troubled
since" Obtainable everywhere. ADV.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Messrs. E. S. Murrell. j. B.
Roberts, JAG Bloch. j. w. Dun
can and F. B. Cole attended the
big Shriners' convention in Alex
andria last Saturday.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19
Now Feels Entirely Well.

A. H. Francis. Zenith, Kss., Writes
81 bad a severe pain in my back and
could hardly move. took about two.
thirds of Soc box of Foley Kidney
Pills and now feel entirely WE'LL" Mid.
dle-aged and older men and women find
these safe pills relieve sleep disturbing
bladder ailments J. w. Duncan Co. :
Adv.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Miss Ellen Price is a candidate
in the Shreveport Times subscrip-
ton contest and will appreciate
her friends support, by the saw
ing of vote coupons and soliciting
subscriptions in her behalf.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Mrs. C. j. Billiard will return
to her hore in Shreveport today,
after spending ten days here
nursing her sister. Mrs. A. M.
Goodwin, WHO'S gaining strength
rapidly, and is able to sit up a
short while during the day.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Mrs. c. w. LaCroix went to
Alexandria Thursday on a visit
to her daughter, Mrs. Chas. Nun
nally, and will return home Sun
day.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

The ladies of Colfax interested
in votes for women" held a
suffrage meeting in the court
house last Monday night and the
subject was discussed by those
assembled.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19
Sweater Lost.

Lost on the morning of Feb /, either
at depot, or left in Jordan Bros. auto
in their garage, ladies blue sweater
with white trimmed back strap, pock-
cts and collar. Finder please return to
A. NJ Goodwin or Chronicle office.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

The Peoples Cash Store has
built a warehouse on the lot back
of the Brinker hotel. The ware
house fronts on the alley and is
within a short distance of the
store.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19
have f0U Been SICK?

Then you realize the utter weakness
that robs ambition, destroys Appetite,
and makes work burden.
Torestorethat strength and stamina that
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or compared with SCOTS Emulsion, be-
cause its strength sustaining nourish-
ment invigorates the blood to distribute
energy throughout the body while its tonic
value sharpens the appetite and restores
health In natural. permanent way.
1t you are run down, tired, nervous.
overworked or lack strength, get SCOTS
Emulsion to-day. It is free from alcohol.
Scott & Bovine. Bloomfield, MI.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

BoRN.-To MIR. and Mrs. w. w.
Clark, of Oakdale, on Sunday, Feb. 10,
1916, a boy. Grandpa Pat Clark of
our town is stepping high over the
birth of his first grand child.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Mrs. H. D. May. of Dallas,
Texas, is the guest this week O,
her sister, Mrs. j. N. Bourg.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Miss May Klaus. of Pollock,
spent last Saturday and Sunday
with Mrs. JAG Bloch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

The undersigned owns lot in the
town of Alexandria which he desires to
trade for q 5-passenger Ford car. In
terested parties see me at the Iatt store
or write c. H. RHODES,
febl9-3ts Colfax, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Tuesday, February %, Wash
ington's birthday, is a legal holi-
day and the Bank of Colfax will
be closed on that day.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Attorney ]. A. Williams has
been in Natchitoches this week
attending to legal matters.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Mrs. M. E. Tooraen and son,
Charley, returned Monday from
a visit to her parents. Judge and
Mrs. E. G. Hunter, in Alexan-
dria.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19
A Sluggish Liver Needs Attention.

Let your liver get torpid and you are
in for spell of misery. Everybody
gets an attack now and then. Thous-
sands of people keep their livers active
and healthy by using Po-Do-Lax. Fine
for the stomach too. Stops the dizzi-
ness, constipation, biliousness and in
digestion. Clears the blood. Only SOC
at your druggist. -Adv.-3.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Mrs. j. M. Nugent and Miss
Mary Belcher, of Alexandria, are
visitors this week at the home of
Mrs. G.. w. Jordan.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Mr.. w. A. Brownlee, manager
of the Big Pine Lbr. Co., made
a business trip to Shreveport
Monday, returning home Tues
day night.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19
Constipation.

When costive or troubled with con-
stipation take Chamberlain Tablets.
They are easy to take and most agree
able in effect. Obtainable everywhere
ADV.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

If you want Black Langshan or White
Drama eggs, call on Mrs j. r. Miller,
Verda, La. jan29-3t'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19
The coHax Chronicle
SATURDAY, FEB. 10. 1916.

If you want ladies, misses or chill
dren's up to date trimmed hats, call on
Mrs. r. Miller, Verda, La. i29-3'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Mrs. j. N. Bourg spent Satur-
day and Sunday at Ball. La, with
her parents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

SALESMAN WANTED to look after
our interest in Grant and adjacent par.
ishes. Salary or commission. Address
Lincoln Oil Co., Cleveland, o. It
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

Subscribe for the Chronicle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-02-19

/. We have the exclusive agency in this territory
for the celebrated Kenyon line of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-24

Joe Cannun that his deerest ennemy wouldn't rec
ognize. and that the average citizen who has had
no training in oil painting would have to run to the
cattalog to tell whethur it was picture of an en-
mnint statesman advertisement Of extry pail
beer you've got to hand 1t to him one of the elect
EVEN folks with experience air often fooled in the
valew OF theese oil paintings. I had a gentulman
with me the uther day in the art gallery who used
to work for the Standered Oil Co., and he was asked
to give bis opinion on the value of thurty housend
doller oil painting OF yung lady clothed in moonie
and sad expression and he sed he thought fore dol
lers and q half would be about rite
1 have reserved invitasion to one of theese
gathul1ngs of artists and far be it frum me to mock
my resent hosts; am too grateful for an intended
Kindness and cortesy to make rude and unseemy re-
marks about those who extind the same to me- free
gratis, for nnthng. However, If may be permitted
to say the amostfeer of conversion of artists
does not gennerel proposition appel to me; / do
not feel that am in my element arnung geniuses.
Too much hybrow stuff is entirely out of my range
and cannot entur into the spirit of such occasions
with that kore de splits long hair and luther wearing
apparel effected by the inissated I met one man
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-24

mat falls down into the stream, hang
from above as though IT were a great
green carpet laid from the bed of the
river up to the shore
am surprised at the vegetation that
covers this part of Alaska All along
the Yukon and Tanana are trees of fair
ly good size. There are spruce and other
evergreens 30 or 20 feet tall; and some
of them are one or two feet In thick
ness The bushes grow far up the sides
of the mountains; and the land seems rich
in the valleys. At the wood camps, where
the trees have been cut away to furnish
fuel for the steamers, there are great
beds of pink fire-weed rising out of high
grass There are wild flowers every
where. and the scenery seems anything
but that of this cold, icy land of the
north. AS you go up the river you may
here. and there see them clearing the
land. The pioneers are choppling little
the trees and a year later pull the stumps
out by the roots. The ice is so close
to the surface that the roots cannot go
down. After clearing they plant little
patches of vegetabl or fields OF oats
hay. None of the farms is large, and
venture that it will be long time be-
fore the local market will be great enough
to pay the farmers of the United States
to leave their good homes to try their
luck here
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-24

husbands in the country The assembulled small fry
artists summoned up corrage enuff to request her to
resite - or two of the peeses that had maid her
Janus. At last gentulman with a long nose and a
forrain assent informed that she would reste that
thrilling and romantick little essay entitled, "The
Missing Dilpickle, Jimmy Is In Heaving Now"
frum Shakespeer, wheereupon there owd and
vosifferus applause But the audiense didn't reckon
fully with her temperament Aftur she had taken the
flannel frum around her ten thousend doller voise
and fidded round trying to get the tes adjusted so
that they would show up her dymunds to the best adj
vantage, she squared herself to shell the boys in the
trenches. But she didn't get far-evveryboddy sat
theere epectent and happy that they could breeth the
same gennere air and gurms with reel talent and
reserve at the same time this crate boon, when she
suddenly seased speaking. THE akooscks in this
phase air awful" she sed land | cannot sacrifse my
art under such trying circumstances She sed all
this in cold and houghty manner and quit us cold
like roach iii the stretch For time | thought that
what sed part of the peese she was pulling
us, but not so, it was her temperament working
overtime. Think of that-a lot of peepul getting
up an entertainment that supposed to have big
bunch of class to It, and overlooking the akoosticks
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-24

theere who looked good deel like itennerent bur-
ger who lodging the polise and was afraid that
everybody he met was a Shurlock Homes reddy to
slip the braselets him; he meek little man
with long, strngy hair and complexion like fried
egg During the evening he was indused to perform;
he stepped ovver to the grand peeano and a sollem
hush fell upon the multitude | was told that he was
probability the gratest cumming musssian in Ameri
Ca He was. and he is still that way-cumming
you air in for rare treet" naybor sed to me-
Ellis musick thrills you to the sole" But theere was
sumthing rong with my sole his thriller wasn't
working, one of the two He tinkured away annoy
ing that peeano and the plain peepul on the streets
for sum time without getting me existed in the eest
A gentulman who used to live in that visnnity told
me he moved away upon the advise of his fisssian
who told him the mite airs did not agree with him
this is very fine joke if you air subtle enuff to get
it. They didn't agree with me- eether.
There was also very celebrated actress there
who had been married ate times; she pulled down
thousend bones per week frum the vaudeville
sircut and ten thousend yeer frum allymony |
told Also that she had the biggest gennerel as
sortment of temperament, dyamunds and secund hand
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-24
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY--By Allen Griffin johnson

Henry E. Dixey in the name part. Thi.
is both cleveriy constructed and wei
PLAYED.
His Bridal Night" with the Dolly sis
ters, now playing at the Republic, in
west Forty-second street, is another play
which contains situations that are-well- =
yon might say-its his bridal night, don't
YOU see? So, if the wife is with you
this time. you can sort of come back at
her, after first taking her to see THE
Guilty Man.
Then there's "Pollyanna,' at the Hud-
son, in West Forty-fourth street. This is
the glad play referred to, 1t is full of
optimism and is calculated to make you
see the bright side of things, even if you
find you have spent more money than you
had any right to part with.
And SO the list might run on indeh-
nitely, but as a concession to the in
creased cost of white paper, just a men,
ton of a few other shows to which can
conscientiously attach the adjective COOL:
Margaret Anglin in Caroline" comedy
at the Empire. Broadway and Fortieth
street; Turn to the Right" comedy at
the Gaiety, in Times Square; The ST.
lent Witness" drama, at the Fulton,
Forty sixth street and Broadway: Seven
Chances" comedy at the Cohan, Broad
way and Thirty-third street; George Ar
liss in "Paganini," comedy at the Cri-
terion, Broadway and Forty-fourth street;
Very Good, Eddie" musical comedy
dong run already, at the Thirty-ninth
Street theatre near Broadway; Will
liam Collier in Nothing But the Truth"
farce, at the Longacre, in West Forty
eighth street.
The foregoing list should be enough to
enable you to 'get by on. You see, one
of the merits of the thing is that if
you spend only a few days here, you
car carry this list along with you. then
go back home and talk about having seen
the plays named. oh, yes, the idea is
quite simple and by no means original:
in fact. l knew man in Birmingham a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-24

AZ E7ISTUR EDDITUR Washington is CRATE
lNWlI meckka for geniuses, such as mussisians
HV0 artists and acturs, as well as uther spesies
of the human not found in outlying dis
riots far fum the haunts Of the white Its and book
beer They gathur heer in CRATE numbers and cheer
nly confur theere talents upon sosety at SO much
per confur Most artists-and they all cum under
he gennerel he'd of artists-air what Is community
allied temperamentaI Whenever you run across
persun with temperament you should eether call
doctur or apply for SANITY Commission and
lave them looked over. When they sir long on
temperament it is sure sign that they air shy on
tner assets but it is gennerely conseeded also that
he pcssessor of temperament has a pay streek of
eel genius conseaed sum phase about there system,
1t can only be developed We have lot of them
ort OF folks heer loaded up with latent genius strict
underveloped. There air dozens Of phases beer
vheer one can gQ-if he is unfortunate enuff to get
IN inv1tas1on-and wallow round ia reel ten-carret
enius up to his eyebrows till the cows cum home.
De can associate with folks with temperaments till
lie gets one himself-bous temperament. But they
ret away with it. When artist can pull down five
r six thousend bones for painting picture of Uncle
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-24

out on the grocery scales. The latter
price was received for 1000 pounds only.
l got it at Gold Run, where [ peddled
the hay out to packers and the men who
had saddle horses
AS we bounced up and down over the
corduroy logs I asked Tom Davis how
the road was built and kept in order. He
replied that it was a community affair,
the government and the people clubbing
together and paying the cost. He said
that the road was worked altogether by
the local community until two years ago
and that every one was then subject to
one days work on the road, or to pay a
poll tax of 49, Think of a coun-
try where the hands on the road are
valued at IS a day That is the current
wages in this part of the Tanana valley
Men are paid s. day and board or IS a
day when they find themselves The men
who are unloading the hay from the
steamer are getting 81 per hour.
I rode all day long on the Tanana river
in coming from Fort Gibbon to the Baker
Hot Springs. The Tanana flows into the
ukon at Fort Gibbon. 1t rises on the
eastern slope of the coastal range. and
goes for 800 miles before losing itself in the
Yukon. The river has greater volume
than that of the Potomac; and where it
joins the Yukon 1t is like an inland sea-
1t has many islands, some of which
are forested with spruce and birch that
rise straight and tall behind the willows
bordering the shore. At little distance
the willows look like hedge, and you
seem to see a floating forest inclosed
by green fence Is or 20 feet high.
The river is sluggish and it carries down
a vast deal of silt. The water is as
thick as bean soup, and glass of 1t, al
lowed to settle, will soon hide the bottom
of the. tumbler. There are frequent sand
bars, and you pass islands in every stage
of formation from the bare brown patch
of silt to forest-cfad patches washed by
the waves. Now and then the river has
floating islands, and great beds of green,
with brushes and trees upon them, move
down the stream. In places the river is
from five to 10 miles in width. 1t is shall
low. and it is always building up and
tearing down the valley through which
it flows.
AS you ride along in the steamer you
can see the banks crumbling. The water
melts the icy strata under the soil and
trees, bushes and the earth in which
they are growing fall down into the cur
rent under your eyes. The river banks
are lined with trees still living and still
green, which have fallen this way in,o
the current. At times the water so melts
the frozen strata that caves are formed
under the matted moss, and where there
is an open space and no trees this green
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-24

be grateful for guide to some few OF
the entertainments in progress. O.
course if you are not going to be crate
full, lose, for that is all can hope tc
get out of you, suppose. However, New
York teaches one to take all sorts OF
chances. so I'll risk this for you:
Te you want TO get a bit out OF the
beaten path, and like novelties, it might
be worth while to drop around TO the
Booth theatre, in Forty-fifth street, Just
west of Broadway, and see "Pierro the
Prodigal" This is a pantomine with
music. and it it is exceedingly we'll done.
At the Lyceum, Fortytifth street and
Broadway Otis Skinner has Just started
d run in new Booth Harrington play
called Mister Antonio. This is a com.
edy-yes, rural-n which Mr.. Skinner is
doing better than Mr.. Harrington has
done. 1t is a sort of monologue for Mr.
Skinner. but he gets away with it nicely,
as he has always done with all his plays
4 If you care for the-er--the plain
spoken--you know what I mean, see
THE Guilty Man." at the Astor. also at
Broadway and Forty-fifth. Especially II
your wife is with you--you will be abb
to stand the censure of masculinity it
offers, and it will make the wife feel So
good, and superior and-and all that sort
of thing you know. And it is interesting
to degree.
If you are new to this city, by all means
see 1.-The Big Show at the Hippodrome.
1t is not only one of the regular sights.
but is a magnificent production on a
scale that will surprise you. Besides, it
has recently added several new features,
hich have built it up even to a higher
standard The great ice ballet alone win
be sufficient novelty to entertain you.
and that is but small part of the en-
tertainment as whole.
At the Shubert. Forty-fourth street,
west of Broadway, you will find a very
interesting comedy playing under the
title. "Mr. Lazarus" with the capable
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-24

of celery. We grow kale, cabbage and
all sorts of root crops. We have green
peas. but beans will not mature.
have 4 fine asparagus bed and for
mushrooms. I grow them as big around
as dinner plate and as tender as any
in the world. We also raise lettuce and
radishes. I have a beardless barley and
oats and also one kind of wheat, which
natures"
do you make hotbeds?" I asked.
Eve have a glass greenhouse, So
feet long and 16 feet wide, built above
one of the hot springs. The hot water
furnishes the heat and no matter il
the thermometer goes to 80 degrees be-
low zero outside, it never gets to freez-
ing within. The plants grow in the hot
house all winter and in the summer
we have cucumbers, tomatoes and wa
tsrmelons. We also raise lettuce, young
onions and other green stuff. We have
a tree onion that grows well. 1t does
not lie i'll the ground, but grows on
the branches of a tree, IL or IA inches
high"
I asked Mr.. Schofield whether many
people came to visit the springs. He
replied:
yes. we have a hotel there that ac-
commodities 80 and the people come in
from Nome and all parts of the
Seward peninsula. Our best season Is
in the winter. The people come on
in the winter. The people come on sleds
drawn by dogs, and you can some
times see as many as 400 dogs there
at one time. 1t usually takes two days
to make the trip in the winter. but it
can be done in one day in the summer
the pup-mobile, a car drawn by dogs,
which takes you within six miles OF
the springs. You see, the waters there
are of various kinds, and they are good
for different diseases. We have springs
that seem to be a cure for rheumatism.
We have one. known as the Iron
Spring, whose waters seem to contain
little eles, and in the main spring we
have a combination of iron, sulphur,
lithia and magnesia that is especially
valua ble"
Riding back to the river on the hay
wagon, I sat beside Tom Davis, a farm
er who does teaming from here to the
mines He tells me the hay they are
now unloading from our ship is worth 800
ton at the river and s140 ton when
it gets to the mines l remarked that
the price seemed an extravagant one
Said Mr.. Davis:
1T is not high for Alaska. I have
known hay selling as high as $500 a ton
or at 40 cents per pound. That was in
the Klondike when the gold excitement
was raging have sold hay here for
80 cents a pound. and weighed the hay