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The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1916-06-29
Valuation on Property S.............
Signature of Voter. ...,....,..............

NOTICE TO VOTERS: To vote in
favor of the proposition submitted up
on this ballot, place cross (X) mark
ia the square under the word 'YES";;
and to vote against it, place a similar
mark under the word NO..
Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the
Police Jury is hereby instructed to have
prepared for use at SAID special elec-
tion all the necessary ballot boxes,
tally sheets, list of voters, valuation Of
property. and complied statement of
voters in number and amount.
The following Commissioners Of said
election are hereby appointed.
For precinct No l, Polling plaee
Court House B X. Boydston, 10
Inter and J. II. Eeyser; Clerk Of sal
election, Frank Raggio
Precinct No. 2. Ward One, PoIling
place Court House, Paul Keyser, E. J.
Phillips, and J, H. Stephens; Clerk Of
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1916-06-29
RAYNE A. LOWE,
ORDER OF NOTICE THEREON

WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA, sS
On this 5th day of June A. D. 1916,
on reading the foregoing petition. it is
Ordered by the Court that hearing
be had upon the same on the 9th day of
July A, d. before Honorable r. A.
Grain, Referee and Special Master, at
Shreveport, La, in said District, at 10
o clock in the forenoon; and that notice
thereof be published in NatchitUches
Enterprise, a newspaper printed in said
District, and that all known. creditors
and other persons in interest mly az
pear at the said time and place and
snow cause, il any they nave, why the
prayer OF the said peCtloner should not
Oe granted
And it is further ordered by the
CourC, that the clerk shall send by mail
to all known creditors copies OF SAID
petition and this order. addressed -
them at their places of residence as
stated
Witness the Honorable Aleck Boar.
man, Judge Of the said Court, ana Lne
seal thereof, at Shreveport in said Dis
,rict, on the 5th day of Jure A. d, 1916.
Attest: LEROY B. GULoTTA, Clerk.
By E. c. Jackson, Deputy Clerk,
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1916-06-29
United STATES OF AMERICA, WESTERN

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WESTERN
DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA, IS.
In the United States District Court in
and for said District.
Shreveport Division.
In matter of Rayne A. Lowe, Bankrupt
No 1871 in Bankruptcy.
PETITION FOR DISCHARGE.
To the Honorable Aleck Boarman,
Judge of the District Court of the
United States for the Western Dis
trict Of Louisiana:
Rayne A Lowe, of Grapes Bluff, in
the Parish of Natchitoches and State
of Louisiana, in said District, respect
fully represents that on the 7th day
of October, 1915 last past, he was duly
adjudged bankrupt under the Acts of
Congress relating to bankruptcy; that
he has duly surrendered all his property
and lights of property, and has fully
complied with all the requirements of
said acts and OF the orders of the court
touching his bankruptcy.
Wherefore He Prays that he may be
decreed by the court to have full dis
charge from als debts provable against
his estate under said bankrupt acts, ex-
cept such debts as are excepted by law
from such discharge.
Dated this 14th dry of April A. D.
1916.
RAYNE A LOWE
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Peter Moore
Yeas: Messrs, Pierson, Williams,
Adams, Knott, Page, Parker, Taylor,
Russell. Carried
By Mr.. Knott, seconded by Mr.. Page:
Be it ordained by the Police Jury of
the Parish of Natehitoches in special
session convened as per special call.
Section l. That in accordance with
petition of citizens of Spanish Lake
School District, of ward five, of the
Parish of Natchitoches, La, a special
election is hereby ordered to be held in
said district on Saturday the 22nd day
of July 1916, at which shall be sub
mitted to the property tax payers
qualified to vote in such elections the
following proposition to-wit:
Proposition, of levying, assessing and
collecting annually for period of five
years commencing with and including
the years 1915, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920,
special five mill tax upon all the pro
perty situated in said Spanish Lake
School District, subject to both State
and Parish taxation for the purpose Of
building, constructing, repairing and
maintaining roads and bridges in said
Spanish Lake School District.
Section 2. That the Secretary of the
Police Jury is hereby instructed to
have prepared for use at said special
election the necessary ballots for u.s.
at said election, on each of which shall
be submitted the proposition submitted
in section of this ordinance in the
following form:
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1916-06-29
Valuation of propertys ...... ...........
Signature of voter .....................

dluaIlVh u PtOPSiSyfp -'..,.s, s'tt.t's..t-'.
Signature of voter ............,..............
NOTICE TO VOTERS: To vote in
favor of the proposition submitted
upon this ballot, place a cross *
mark in the square under the worG
YES; TO vote against it, place g
similar mark under the word NO.
Section g. That the Secretary OF the
Police Jury is hereby instructed to nave
prepared for use at said election all the
necessary ballot boxes, tally sheets, liyl
of voters assessed valuation of prepeft Y
and complied statement of voters in
number aud assessment.
Section 4 That the said special cleo
ton be held in accordance with the
laws of the State of Louisiana anG At
polling place, Spanish Lake box number
four, ward five Of the parish of Natchi-
toches, La and the following as
hereby appointed to serve as CoriI1is-
sioneTs and Clark OF said eleeti1U: /:
Tony Soliee, Phillip Flores and Iel j
Green Commissioners, and John 'YLi.e
Clerk Of said election.
Section 8. That the President Of the
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1916-06-29
BALLOT.

Proposition of levying, as
sessing, collecting, annually
for a period of five years.
commencing with and includ-
ing the years 1916, 1917, 1918,
1919, and 1920. A special five
mill tax upon all property
situated IN said Spanish Lake
School District subject to
both State and Parish taxa
tion, for the purpose of build
ing, constructing, repairing
and maintaining roads and
bridges in said Spanish Lake
School District.
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has led her sisters with eminent sue
cess. They look to her for help and
guidance in important matters. and it
is given generously and efficiently.
On the national board of management
when, as chairman of tellers she found
that voting tine brought forth vor-
tex OF confusion. Standing up and
using the gavel effectively. she neither
plead nor begged for order. but. with
out fear or apology. and with quiet
and firm authority. she demanded 1t,
SO that the hysterical body of women
was forced Immediately to see and
accede to the just demand.
Mrs. Guernsey has taken strong
and active part in making the great
Santa Fe trail which is one of the
largest pieces of work the Kansas
d. A., r. has seen completed. Kansas
was the first state to mark the old
trails which brought the east and the
west together. and from this begin
ming grew the great idea of the na-
tional ocean-to-ocean highway. Nearly
500 miles of the old Santa Fe trail ran
through Kansas. and it is marked with
hundreds of powders. shafts and tab
let's, which not only point the way of
the trail. but also serve as memorials to
thousands of sturdy pioneers who lost
their lives when the way was forged
across prairie and desert sand This
begun and carried well on under a
former state regent, has been brought
to successful conclusion under the
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he was admitted to the bar in 1909 and
practiced in Annapolis until 1913. after
which his residence was at Baltimore.
where he was postmaster for many years.
Under President Madison he was COM
missioner in charge Of foreign mails, 1872
1914. He was the first to give warning
by the British on Washington in August.
1914. BY riding all night. after learning
the intention of the British, he reached
Washington and told the President of the
British landing at Benedict. 1t was re-
ported that the British burned his home
on St Ieonards creek revenge.
Col. Skinner was with Francis Scott
Key at the ombardment of Fort Nc
Henry when the Star Spangled Ban
ner" was conceived and partly written.
In 1924 he entertained Lafayette. and
the marquis took one of Col. Skinner $
sons with him to France, where young
Skinner was educated with Lafayette s
grandchildren. To Col. Skinner was
committed the management of the
American estates granted by Congress
to Lafayette. According to his biog-
rapher he is memorable as the first
voted his pen to the farming and sport
ing interests of the country, and he has
sometimes been called the father of
American agriculture. He was the first
to organize agricultural fairs and stock
shows in this part of the country. He
was third assistant postmaster general
from 1S41 to 1S4S and he was chairman
of the committee at the opening of the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal, October 10,
1850. He died at Baltimore, March 81.
1851.
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On THE windows of Washington
II flower shops one sees many orchids
y not perhaps many varieties OF
this curious flower. but many specl-
mems of a few varieties In the con-
servatories of the wealthy and IN some
of the national greenhouses in Wash
ington one may see rare anu 'o"'iS
varieties that for one reason or another
are not commercially grown. lheS are
treasured for their rarity ana the cost
and adventure of discovering them III
some tropic forest. They are not more
striking in their beauty than the va
rieties that are grown on conihercial
basis for the specialists IN the cul'i-
walton of orchids have chosen from an
the great family those members Wnlch
they consider more beautiful, ana Two
of those members are frequently seen
in the capitalize Cattleya ana the
aelia and sometimes the Epidendrutn.
all of which belong to the l-aelihae
tribe There are twenty-elSht tribes
and in the Laelinae tribe are twenty
two genera. These flowers are native
to trouical America. There are other
tribes of which genera are cultivated
for the market. and these are the
tropic American genera CaSteium ana
Cynoches, which are grown because OF
their wonderfully strange faces. There
Is a tribe called Oncidiinae. having
forty-four genera. native TO troplc
America and two genera are quite pop
ular in the United States-Odontoglos
sum and Oncidium. An orchid called
the cymbidium, belonging to tribe
having eight genera, is another Of
these wonderful flowers which is
largely cultivated and is a popular va
riety in Europe.
The number of species of orchids is
very large. amounting to $1,000. con-
tanned in 400 genera This large num-
ber" says the Encyclopae Britain
MICA" is partly accounted for by the
diligent search in all countries that
has been made for these plants for
purposes of cultivation, they being held
at present in greatest esteem by plant
lovers, and prices being paid for new
or rare varieties which recall the days
of the tulip mania.
One fact which many WashingtonianS
do not know is that thousands of the
beautiful and curious orchids which
are shown in the shop windows of the
local florists and are sold in the flower
shops of Philadelphia, New York and
Boston were grown in Washington.
Edward Albes of the Pan-American
Union staff. writing in the Pan Amer
lean Bulletin of the quest of the or
child. has said:
A thing of beauty that is and difficult
to obtain seems to have proved ire
sist8ble lure to adventurous man. To possess
it he will suffer the hardships of the highest
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Col SINNERS connection with Fran
els Scott Key and 1.-The Star Spangled
Banner was told by Ben: Perley Poore,
as follows:
Mr. skinner went down the bay on an ofhcial
visit to Admiral Cockburn to negotiate for the
exchange of gentlemen who had been cap
tured from their plantations. He was accom-
panied by the accomplished Francis 5. Key,
esq and they OF course sailed under a nag
Of truce. But reaching the British squad
ron the found the enemy on the point OF sail
ing to attack Baltimore and they were politely
informed that they could not return until the
welcome board the flagship, or could remain
aboard the yacht which they came. on
parole. Choosing the latter, the British COM
mander took away their sails and sent guard
skinner and his friend remained during the
bomba rdment of Fort McHenry. TO the annoy
ance of their guard. who wished TO desert. but
restrained by the prisoners. The Brit
ish not succeeding In their attemrt the gen
tlemen mad their sails restored and were per
mitted return to Baltimore, with apologies
for their detention. Immediately on landing
they went to the old Fountain Inn. on High
street, where Mr.. Key wrote that justly ad-
mired song The Star Spangled Banner" II
was a literal description of their feelings during
the night Of the bomharimenr when the rock
cts and bombs betokened the assaults OF the
enemy, and of their patriotic joy when IN the
gray light of early dawn they saw the starry
ensign waving In proud defiance.
Mr.. Skinner the song was completed saw
its beauties, and obtaining Mr.. Keys permis-
sion to have IL published. took copies Of II 10
the printing offices of the morning papers. Ere
a recovered echo of Thermopylae, its stirring
notes Qike those Of the Marseillkise hymn In
France) finding accompaniment in the throb-
bings Of every American heart.
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nearer. There can be no reason, how
ever. to quarrel with the name given
to that battle because in 1914 the town
of Bladensburg was a place of cons1d-
cradle commercial Importance and of
considerable population, and the en-
gagement called after it really began
in the village. though the important
blood letting and the beginning of the
final retirement of the Americans took
place on the Veitch property. Much of
that land was then covered with crops
of corn and tobacco.
This section of country across which
runs the survey line separating Prince
Georges county. Md, from the District
of Columbia is made historic by the
fact that the dark and bloody dueling
ground of Bladensburg is there. that
the somewhat feebly contested encoun-
ter called the battle of Bladensburg
was fought there and that it was the
eastern part of the northern line of
civil war defenses of Washington
which described a wide and irregular
from the Eastern branch to the Potomac
On its Southerly side this ridge rises
from lowland over which some small
farms have spread themselves and
which is dotted with many garden
patches and few old houses where a
century or less ago lived people of
wealth and distinction. Through this
lowland flows run which for many
years has been known Hickey run
from the fact that before the civil war
Col. Hickey owned a large and fertile
tract along it and lived in one of the
largest and best houses of the neigh
borhood. That house is still standing,
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MANY ORCHIDS ARE GROWN I'm WASHINGTON.

sometimes wealthy individuals began
the practice of employing daring and
adventurous men for the sole purpose
of securing the remote and unexplored
sections of the world where orchids
were supposed to grow in order to Sc
cure the rareSt or most beautiful Speci-
mems. A number of men made orchid
hunting and collecting their profession.
of the most famous being a Bo-
hemian botanist of the name of Roezl.
He began his explorations early in the
nineteenth century and died an old man
in 1883. There is a statue to this man
in the city of Prague. Bohemia. While
he specialized in the orchid. he cata-
logued new lilies. conifers, fuchsias.
agaves, cacti. begonias, dahlias. con-
Nolvuli, tropaeolumS and tacsonias,
and a biographer of Roezl, Frederick
Doyle. an orchid specialist and collect
or. wrote: 'RoeZl will be gratefully
remembered so long Is science and hor-
ticulture survive. / have heard 1t al
legged that he discovered 500 new species
of plant tree. 1t is credible A wise
regard for his own interest confined
him almost to orchids in the later
years"
1t is unfortunate in a way that the
orchids which are most admired have
never been given common names but are
always known by their botanical names
The economic use of the orchid is
small. and considering the great size
of the orchid family is very small The
vanilla bean of commerce grows on the
orchid called vanilla planifolia 1t is
native to the warmer parts of Mexico
and certain sections of Central Amer
ica, but has been transplanted to other
tropical countries, and plantations are
now to be found in several of the West
Indies and in the islands adjacent to
the east coast of Africa and in the In
dian ocean generally, especially in
Madagascar. Reunion. Mauritius and
the Seychelles. There is a food called
selap, which is eaten in the Leyant
and which is prepared from the dried
tubers of an orchid.
Volumes have been written on tho
work of orchid hunters. Mr. Albes
has called attention to the fact that
Brazil has enacted laws which pro-
hibit the gathering of orchids in Ger.
tain forest areas because the most
valuable orchids grow on the most
valuable trees such as cedar. mahog-
any. rosewood. jequitiba and gurulin.
and possession of the plant can usually
be obtained only by cutting down the
tree on which 1T grows. Orchid hunt
ers are able to gather the plants and
ship them from remote and inaccessi-
BILE regions to horticultural firms and
fanciers throughout the world because
the orchid is plant that NAV he
withered and dried. packed in cases
for weeks and even for months. and then
resuscitated and with proper care be
made to live and bloom.
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guidance of Mrs Guernsey, and she is
proud of her connection with 1t.
Early realizing that in union there
is strength, Mrs. Guernsey became one
of the pioneer clubwomen of her state,
and formed clubs for state and civic
work long before clubs We're federated
National Council of Women. of the
woman's section of the Army and
Navy League. National Society of the
Patriotic Women of America, vice
president of the National Star Spangled
Banner Association and a member of
the Social Science Club of Kansas.
She is a strong advocate of good
reading for the people, and such is the
confidence placed in her ability in this
direction that she has been chosen to
select the books for the public library
of her home town. She has a keen sense
of values in literature and art and
uses it for the benefit of her fellow
citizens.
Regarded as one of the best-gowned
women of her state, and maintaining
this record when she comes east to at
tend the conventions of the various or
ganiZations of which she is officer or
member. Mrs. Guernsey takes particu-
lar pride in the fact that all her cos
tunes are designed and made in the
west.
While she Is fRA business woman
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E1HE Rambler has lately written
of several things associated
with the capture of Washing
q ton by the British. 1t was such
a momentous event that the great
grandchildren of those dwellers in the
country south and southeast of Wash
inston who had personal Knowledge
of it still discuss it and point out the
landmarks that are reminiscent of the
invasion and the invaders.
The Rambler has sought to lead his
readers over a stretch of the Bladens-
burg -Landover- Brightseat road, along
which the British marched. and he has
pointed out to them the spring, called
Barney's spring, which flows by the
side of the Bladensburs road a few
Yards from the crossing of that road
bier would like to lead his readers
over the slopes and to the crest of that
high hill or short ridge to the east of
the Bladensburg road. on which the
National Industrial Training School
stands. which is generally called Re
form School hill" which is sometimes
called Mount Lincoln" from the fact
that Fort Lincoln. civil war earth
work, was spaded up on its crest. and
whichl for considerably more than a
century before the civil war was called
Neitchs hill.
The fields at the north and the
west bases and the north aud the west
slopes of this hill were really the bat
tlefeid of Bladensburg. though Bla-
densburg is a mile distant. and there
are suburbs of Washington which are
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ss2Mft} c3he @atnblfsf.fE s.

Strengthening lines and affording more
room for farm work. The tract taken
first by the institution was called the
Peter farm. which had been carved out Of
the great Veitch trac, granted to the
first Of that family, in 1715. The owner
of this land at the time of the battle of
Bladensburg was John Neitch. son of
John Veitch. He was born there in 1884.
Eastward from the buildings of the In
dustrial Training School is burial
ground. in which are tombs inscribed as
follows:
John Neitch, born August 20. 1884.
died October 3. 1861 Carolina NJ. wife of
John Neitch, died April "a. 1862: Dr.
Eldredge R, son of Rev. Eldredge B. and
Elizabeth Ve.tch. died Jonuary 30. 1862:
Col John w. son of John and Caroline
Neitch. died October II. 1892: Rev. Will
nam h Boyle. born July 16. 1910, died
Fepruary 20, 1895; James William. son of
John and Caroline Veitch, died November
3. 1S4S: John A. son of William and
Rachel Feitch. died November IS 1881"
Ihere are many other graves. some with
lnscriped tombstones and some with rude
rock markers.
There are two houses on the prop
erty. one comparatively new and the
other quite old. which stands on the
foundation of the first Neitch house
Near it is a springhouse. which reaches
Tar back into the past. and shading it
is an oak tree of magnificent size and
computed to be 200 years old Near the
house is one of the tobacco barns of
the Veltches Living there now is Mrs.
Buddington, a lady Of long colonial
New England ancestry. Her son, Ar
thur Buddington, pastured cows over
the historic ridge for many years and
helped make rich the soil which the
government recently bought as an addi-
ton to the reform school. Arthur and
his wife and baby, whom the Rambler
met on his last visit. do not live on
Mount Lincoln now, having moved to
Hyattsville.
The house in which Mrs. Buddington
lives was long the home of the Rev
William K. Boyle, who married Eliza
beth Veftch, daughter of John Veitch
He was the pastor of the Methodist
Church at Hyattsville and also had a
charge in Baltimore, where for a long
time he edited the Southern Methodist.
TT HE Rambler comes upon many por-
traits of ancestors in the homes of
old families in and around Washington
but the limitation of space usually pre-
vents making more than a passing men,
ton of them. There is one old picture
which hangs on the wall of the home of
Mrs. A Wade Sheriff near Benning
which interested the Rambler, and the
stor'' of the subject of that portrait may
be interesting to large number of read
ers. 1t is a portrait of Col. John Stuart
Skinner. who was born In Maryland Feb
ruary u. 1888. His biographer tells that