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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1916-05-20
SCHOOL DIRECTORS MEET.
Important Business Transacted al
Special Session Of Board.

Donaldsonville, La, May 10, 1916
/ The school board Of Ascension par.
| ish met this day in special session
with President w. B. Stuart in the
/ chair and the following members pres.
ent: Henry Dugas, EN-. Pugh, f. E.
| Babin, ]. f. Saxon, Louis Bourgeois
Absent George Bergeron, Emile Lee
/ Boeuf.
| The reading of the minutes of the
last meeting was dispensed with and
| the minutes approved.
The superintendent submitted the
following report:
| Donaldsonville, La, May 10, 1916.
In accordance with your instrue-
tions, embodied in the minutes of the
| last meeting of the board. the colored
schools throughout the parish were
ordered opened. Due, however, to q
scarcity of qualified teachers, only
two were assigned, Miss E. West for
the PrairievAle school, and G. j. Sor-
rell for the Donaldsonville colored
school.
The rural schools Of the parish
were ordered closed, as per your in
struction, at the end Of the sixth
scholastic month. I wish to report,
however, that by private subscription
six of the schools Were operated one
and two months more.
On May 2 the following letter was
received from State supt. T. H. Har-
ris:
Baton Rouge, La, May 2, 1916.
Dear Superintendent:
T have been notified by the state
treasurer that the balance due the
high schools and the departments Of
agriculture and domestic science out
OF the revenues Of 1915, amounting
to $62,378.68, viii not be available,
for the reason that this and other
appropriations exceed the taxes col
lected. Gov. Hall informs me that
no relief can be expected from the
board of liquidation. In other words,
nothing further will be received from
the state this session in aid of the
classes Of schools mentioned above.
Of course am fully aware of the fact
that this informal ton will come as a
great shock, as you have predicated
your budget of receipts upon the UNI
derstanding that you would receive
these state funds. The money, how
ever, is not in the treasury, and will
not be, and we are forced to accept
the loss. Yours very truly,
r. TT HARRIS
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1916-05-20
Giants Win Another.

The S. ). C.. |. Giants added an
other victory to their string last Sum
day afternoon, when they took the
measure Of the strong S. ". A. team
.of Baton Rouge in an exciting game
on the local campus. The Giants had
Wlitewashed all Of their previous OPP
ponenbs, but encountered in the Baton
Rouge boys foennen worthy of their
steel and were compelled to put forth
their best efforts to cop the big end
of the score. The visitors tied the
count in the ninth inning, but the To-
Gals came back in their half Of The
frame and succeeded in putting q run
across, the final tally being s to {.
A big crowd witnessed the game,
which was one Of the fastest and
most holly contested played on the s.
J. G. I. diamond this season. Tomor-
row the Giants will tackle the speedy
Echoes Of Lumville, and an interest
ing exhibition is assured. The game
win take place on the s. j. G. ]
grounds, BEGINNING at $50 o'clock
and the prices Of admission will be I
cents for ladies and children and 1e
cents for gentlemen.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1916-05-20

Judge man by the company he
keeps and the key he wears.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-19
Jayhawkers Believe
That Prospects are Good.

The Daily Kansan of last Saturday
has this to say of the football practice
of the Jayhawker squad:
"Thirty-seven varsity football men
worked out yesterday in the longest
football practice of the season. Prac-
tice began at 2 o'clock and continued
four hours. 1t was a hot, tired, wind
ed bunch of players who took their
showers in Hamilton Hall after the
last scrimmage-but it was happy
bunch. Prospects for a 'steamroller'
team have not been so good in years.
"tSixty-five men eligible for var
sity competition have checked out
SUITS" Coach Beau Olcott said yester
day afternoon. "Of the sixty-fve, an
average of thirty-two are reporting
daily for practice. I want more men,
however Nebraska has seven teams
of varsity men on the field every day:
and Kansas could do as well if only
the men at X. L. who have playeS
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-19
American League.

Seventy-five men-more than had
ever reported on a previous first day
we're out in suits for the first football
practice of the season yesterday aft
ernoon. More than fifty of these were
candidates for the Varsity squad, while
about twenty huskies reported to Mil
Ter, who has charge of the freshmen
and ineligibles. Ninety suits have
already been checked out, and Director
Brewer says that he expects at least
fifty more to be called for today.
Eleven NJ men were among those
who came out for the first practice.
Captain Lansing, Van Dyne, Preston,
Muir. Rutledge, Hamilton, Giltner,
White, Pittam, Rider and McAnaw
were the veterans who reported in
suits. Stankowski, the scrappy quar-
terback. arrived yesterday afternoon
and was out to watch the others.
Groves, one of the two two-year men
in school. did not report
Only light practice and drill was
engaged in by the coaches for the
first days work. The men were ou,
only about an hour and a half, and
much of the time was taken by
Schultz in telling the men the A B.
C's of the game and refreshing their
memory on many football essentials.
The backs and ends worked on the
south field, while Captain Lansing
drilled the line men on the eastern
end Of the south field Miller had
an unusually promising bunch Of new
men on the field next to the gymna-
SUM. The main field will be kept
clear until scrimmage starts the latter
part of this week
All of the substitutes of last years
team were out, with the exception or
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-19
Football Prices at NJ. e.
Stand Comparison Well.

The football patrons gets the bene-
fit Of athletic department. economy
at the University of Missouri, if a
comparison of the admission prices
for the games here and games at other
Valley schools may mean anything.
Take Nebraska. for instance. A little
advertising circular sent out by the
Cornhusker management represents
well the average of prices to be found
at most Valley schools. Six home
games were scheduled-one at Is
cents, three at 81 and two at s15O,
with good reserves" and "best re-
serves" at higher prices. Here at
Missouri the six home games, aside
from the two 25-cent freshman con-
tests. sell at the following schedule:
Central College, 80 cents: Washing
ton, 81; Ames, 81: Texas, $3.50;
Drake, 81; All-American, % cents.
No reserves are named.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-19
NEWS
and
SPOR T

Wyatt, who may report later, in case
he is badly needed Mcmillan, Chit
tenden. Bond, Haines, Slusher and
Vogt were out Most of the promising
freshmen graduates were out for the
first practice Included in this num-
Der were: Eubank, Hamilton. Simp-
son, Schroeder. Whisner. Viner, Col
Inns, Bass, Woodlief and Marshall.
Ross, a 190-pound line possibility
from last years freshmen, will not
be out this season owing to a recent
silo accident in which he lost a finger.
Kreiger, a 1S5-pound upper classman,
will be back in a day of two and is
expected to be out for the team.
Director Brewer expressed himself
as well pleased with the opening
practice both as regards the condition
of the men and the number reporting.
"The men are below wight ne SAID
this morning, "but that always hap
pens here. Most of the team have
been working during the summer and
are in good cndition. We do not have
the same problem here as in Eastern
colleges where the men loaf during
the summer and report in the fall ten
CT fifteen pounds overweight. The un-
usually hot summer was hard on the
men. too. and we expect little difficulty
in building them up to their normal
weight"
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-19
$500 RURAL SCHOOL FINISHED
COIumbians Attend Dedication @
Building in Cooper County.

Duuuiug IN NOUpcT SOuutgs
Between 300 and 400 persons. in
Guiding Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Kelly Wright
and Mrs w. L. Nelson Of Columbia,
yesterday attended the dedication of
the Lone Elm Schoolhouse, a Cooper
County one-room institution built at
a cost Of nearly $500.
The Lone Elm community issued
bonds for 1885 for the building of
the school, and advertised for bids
All bids went over the bond issue, but
one contractor agreed to put up the
building. exclusive of heating plant,
interior decoration and hauling of ma
terial, for the amount of the bonds.
Residents of the school district haul
ed the material, did the decorating and
donated the heating plant. The build
ing will serve for only one school
district, and but one teacher will be
employed.
The Lone Elm school is about ten
miles south of Boonville The in
habitants of the district plan to use
the schoolhouse as a community CEN
ter.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-19
Missouri College GridirOn
Prospects Are Good.

Football practice in Missouri COL
leges starts this week. William Jewell
the 1915 champions, will have D. G.
Peterson, an Oklahoma speed marvel,
as captain. Prospects for another sue
cessful season are good at the Liberty
school. They will play the Westmin-
ster Bluejays, last years runners-up,
on October 13 at Fulton.
Westminster opens its seaon on Oc-
tober with the Maryville Normal
School. which will have a football
team for the first time in several
years. Westminster plays Central
at Fayette this year instead of in Co
lumbia as last season.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-19

fourteen letter men will return to
school They are Cameron. Galley
Cook. Shaw. Riddell, Otoupalik, Doyle,
Gardiner, Proctor, Moser. Seller, Port
er. Halbersleben, and E. Kositzky.
The subs and last years freshmen.
who are expected to add strength to
the lineup are: Bullard, Burns.
Baehr, Collins, Dale, Donnegan, Da-
vies, Dobson, Diers, Engstrom, Fuchs,
Fouts. Hunter. Hoadley, Klepser, Kel-
ley, w. Kositzky, LOepp, Maloney.
Mackey, McGlassOn, Ralston, Rhodes.
Wilder, White and Wilburn.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-19

football would check out suits and
come out for practice
..The workout began yesterday
with practice in kicking off, in catch
ing punts, and in working out back
field formations to be used with the
forward pass. Coach Olcott directed
the punting and kicking-off, and As
sistant Coach Clark worked with the
men who were practicing formations" :"
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-19

football in the Cornhusker state. DR..
e. ]. Stewart is the new director OF
athletics at the University Of Nebras-
ka. For the last four years he has
been at the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege. Previous to that he coached at
Mt. Union College, Western Reserve
University and Allegheny College.
Dick" Rutherford, who, the an
nouncement says, more than any 9TH
er one man is responsible for Ne
br.ska's unbroken string of victories
for the last three years." will be DR..
Stewards assistant. Tim Corey is
the captain of the Cornhusker squad.
He only weighs 215 pounds. Corey
has played tackle for the last two
years and he has never played in a
game in which Nebraska was loser.
The Nebraska schedule for this sea-
son follows:
October Z, Drake University, Lin
coin; october IA, Kansas Aggies, Lin
coin; October 81, Oregon Aggies, Port
land; October %, Wesleyan, Lincoln;
November 4, Ames, Lincoln; November
IS, Kansas University, Lincoln; No
vember 25, Iowa University, Iowa
City; November 30, Notre Dame, Lin
coin.
The prospects for a winning season
are very bright, says the announce
ment. In addition to Captain Corey,
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-19
Kansas Aggies Start
PractIce Under New Coach.

Football practice started early last
week at the Kansas State Agricultural
College under the direction of Bert
Barnes. captain. Ten men were in
the regulation togs Tuesday. and the
number is being increased materially
each day. Adolph Germany" Schultz,
the new coach, has arrived, and near
ly fifty men are expected to be on
hand this week.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-19
COrnhuskerS at Work
to Boost Football.

Every alumnus of the University of
Nebraska is receiving this year a
large folder telling Of the schedule
and the prospects COR The season in
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-18
Jury SAYS ORPET
Is NOT GUILTY OF
NUMBERING GIRL
Youth Accused of Killing
Sweetheart, Marion LAM
bert, Acquitted After Five
Hours DeIiberation
(By Associated Press.

wAUKEGAN, July 15.-Wnliam H.
orpet. the university student charged
with numbering Marion Lambert, 'high
school girl and his former sweetheart
was found not guilty tonight by jury
in Judge Donnelly's court AFTER iNe
hours elaboration.
The iurv retired at $3.50 o'clock. AT
o'clock its members were taken TO
dinner. where they spent half an hour'
one hour later came word that YER
dict had been reached. PROBABLY nIty
persons were in court. Three oaliols
were taken. The first two stooo eie'-
en- to one for acquittal
OrDet brought from his cell to hear
the verdict, was silent through excess
OF emotion. He was barely able 10 re-
turn the handclasps of his attorneys.
He made his way 10 the Jurors ana
shook their hands one by one, smiling
wanIy, but saying nothing.
Orpet's mother received the Verdlct
as matter of fact. She noted that
photographer was trying 10 snap a p PIC
ture of her son and herself and warned
him. The defendant, his father ana
mother. his brother and several frlends
hurried into the witness room. Hair an
hour later they emerged.
We'll 90 home now, William" Mrs.
Orpet said, and they made their way
down the back stairs and to the jail
Orpet had recovered his self-posses-
sion by this time and thanked Sherin
Griffin for making his four months
STAY in Jail as comfortable as possible.
The party was then driven home.
The selection Of the jury began on
May Is, the taking OF testimony was
begun on June is and acquittal came
on July 10.
James H. Wilkerson and Ralph f.
Potter, Orpet's counsel considered
Judge Donnelly's instructions to the
Jury highly favorable to the defendant
in their Interpretation Of reasonable
doubt as applied to the series of cir
cumstances which constituted the prin-
cipal part of the evidence.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-18
Democrats in Caucus
Revise Program So As
To Adjourn August 20


WASHINGTON, July 15.-AdJourn-
ment of congress not later than August
20 was tentatively agreed upon by the
senate Democrats in caucus tonight TO
revise their legislative program with a
view to bringing the session to an early
close.
A resolution unanimously adopted d.
rected the Democratic steering commit
tee to prepare a program and to in
cIude in II as most urgent and demand
the first consideration the following
measures:
Appropriation bills, government ship
ping. revenue, workmen's compensa-
ton, corrupt practices, Philippine self
government, Civil war and Spanish war
pension bills, and a bill TO enlarge the
Interstate commerce commission.
The conference directed that in event
the pending child labor and immigra-
ton bills cannot, in the judgment of
the steering committee. be disposed of
in time for adjournment by August 20,
an agreement should be entered into. If
possible. whereby consideration and a
vote on these measures would be assur-
ed next December.
August 20 will fall on Sunday, but
Democratic senators said it would be
the aim Of the steering committee to
arrange a program for adjournment by
Saturday the nineteenth.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-18
VILLA TROOPS YELL
VIVA FELIX DIAz!' is
THEY ENTER PARRAL
Bandit Is Said to Have OCCu-
pied That Town as Well as
Mapimi and BermejiIIo in
Durango
(By Associated Press.)

EAGLE PASS, Tex, July 15.-Fran-
cisco villa was seen in Mapimi, Durango
state, Mexico, on June 26 by resident
of Torreon, according to adviees here
from the latter place today. This town
was occupied by the Villa forces without
resistance, the information stated, as
we'll as the town of Bermejillo, Durango.
where one of the bloodiest battles of the
Carranza revolution was fought in 1911.
The same source of information told
of the battle between Villa followers and
de facto government troops at Parral'
saying the Villa men entered the town
with cries of viva Felix Diaz"
On July 10, this report continued, VII
la forces were attacking the city or
Durango and at that time had hopes or
victory before another three days. An
attack on Toreon was expected at any
time, it was said.
This report stated that de facto gov
eminent troops under General Canuto
Heyes, who was recently amnestied by
the de facto. government and who was
sent to Parral on July Z, had DETECTED to
Villa.
Famine conditions around Torreon
were reported as never so bad. The peo-
pie are subsisting, according to this in
formation, on mesquite beans and prick
ly pears.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-18
MY FATHER IS IN
FINE SHAPE NOW, ?"
. SAYS c. v. SLAYTON
Georgia Farmer Suffered for
Twenty Years and Paid Out
Thousands Trying to Get
Well

my father has suffered from chronic
stomach trouble for over twenty years
and has paid out thousands of dollars on
medicines and DOCTORS" said G. W. Stay
ton, a well-known Cobb county farmer,
who lives near Smyrna, a short distance
out of Atlanta.
I'VE tried nearly everything trying
to cure him, and he went off to the
springs. thinking maybe the water would
help him, but it just looked like nothing
would reach his trouble. Then he tried
dieting. and lived on liquid food until he
almost starved-but even that failed to
do any good, and he just kept going from
bad to worse.
'I don't guess there ever was a case
as stubborn as his, and if there ever was
a confirmed dyspeptic he was one of
them, and. 1 guess he would have been
one yet if it hadn't been for this Tanlac.
1.-THE first we heard of this medicine
was when my father saw an advertise
ment in the papers from parties he knew
in Tennessee, who were friends of his,
and he knew what they said about it was
the truth-so he got it right away and
began taking it.
"WeN. sir, it acted just like magic
and everybody notices the change in faith
er now-why, he is just like different
man, and sits down to the table and eats
like a farm hand Only yesterday, he
ate pork and turnips for his dinner, and
ate so much we were actually afraid he
was OVERRIDING the thing, but he laughed
and said nothing hurt him now, and that
he was hungry and expected to. eat and
make up for lost time.
Now, when a medicine will do things
like that 1 think people ought to know
about il, and 1 want to say right now
that 1 would not give one bottle of Tan
lac for all the other medicines and
health resorts in the country put to-
gether."
Tanlac is sold by regularly established
agencies in all principal towns of the
south.-(Advt.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-18
Want Federal Nitrate
Producing Plant at
Mussels Shoals, Tenn.
fBy Associated Press.)

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July Ito
bring about the location OF the 10000
900 federal nitrate plant at the Mussel
shoals Of Tennessee river Is the purpose
of a, meeting in progress here today,
attended by representatives of Alabama,
Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Leaders of the movement hope to enlist
the sentiment Of the entire south In
favor of the Mussels shoals site.
Commercial bodies of Tennessee and
Alabama have been especially active in
promoting the Mussels shoals site and
both states have large delegations pres
ent for the meeting.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-18

some little package once a week. I'm
der the present system we think that
not more than one man in six receives
any outside aid"
What do the Russian prisoners most
need I asked.
Bread" said she. Food. They are
starving
STORIES OF BRUTALITY.
There are scores Of stories in circu-
lation Of the brutality with which the
Russian prisoners are treated. 1 do not
propose to repeat those I have heard,
for they come from exchanged prison
ers or from escaped prisoners. In Meth
er case can il be expected the man who
tells the story will be free from bias.
Rut every one has read the official
statements as to conditions in German
prison camps, and every one over here
has seen men. who have been recently
exchanged, and who are wan and ema-
ciated and i'll. 1t is quite impossible
for one to believe that such men have
been we'll fed and well treated. That
conviction does not rest upon their
stories.
Nine. de wienawska and the society
for the relief of the Russian prisoners
Of war only wish to call attention to
the fact that while the needs Of the
Russian prisoners are as great as those
Of any other nation. those needs have
not been met. 1t has been difficult to
send packages from Russia to the Ger
man prison camps. They must of ne
cessity pass by way of Denmark, in
volving a long and risky journey. There
has been no effective organization in
Russia for the relief of the prisoners.
following the Russian rule not to or
ganize effectively for anything. What
help is given must be forwarded from
France or England.
I'VE are doing all in our power,
said she. Perhaps the United States
will help"
Mime. de Wienawska's suggestion IS
that either an independent organiza-
ton be formed in the United States or
that the organizations now in exist.
ance be aided. All packages sent to
prisoners in Germany are delivered In
violate so far as the senders have heen
able 10 learn. and the need is very
great
IF they are not helped, I assure you
that a great many of the 100000 Rus
sian prisoners now in German hands
will die" said she. Help US to save
them"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-18
ReaIignment of Troops
On Border Is Planned
(By Associated Press.


BOOUILLAS, Tex, July 15.-(Via
Army Field Telephone to Marathon.
Tex. )-Realignment of troops for pro-
lection against bandit raids in the Big
Bend country began today with the ar
rival here of one company of the Second
re giment, Pennsylvania national guard,
and the dispatch of a troop of the Sixth
cavalry to reinforce B. troop at Glenn
Springs. Troops also are being rushed
from Alpha and Maria to the border as
result of repeated warnings that BAN
dts are advancing to the Rio Grande
TO raid this exposed part of Texas.
Five or six hundred Carranza soldiers
are reported to be encamped across the
river.
Estimates of the number Of bandits
reported moving toward the Big Bend
vary from a few hundred to more than
thousand.