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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1917-07-20
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Mrs. Fred Cooley and two
children from Kankakee, Illinois,
arrived Saturday on No. 9 and
will make an extended visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Rausch. Mrs.
Cooley is Mrs. Rosch's cousin.
Mr.. C. C. Kimb!e was here
Tuesday visiting his family who
have recently moved back to
Welsh. Mr.. Kimble is at present
engaged in drilling a wild cat
we'll down on the lower Mermen-
tau for the Mermentau Drilling
Company, a New Orleans cor
poratiOn which has large fee
simple holdings on the gulf
coast. The well they are now
working on is on the Little
Cheniere, three miles above
Grand Cheniere.
Protect your eyes-We have
| just received a swell line of gog-
giles, from 25c to $3.50 a pair.
Come in and see our new display.
Greer Bros.
Mrs. Mabel Hickman returned
to her home Sunday after a
pleasant visit to the home of her
parents, Mayor and Mrs. W. B.
Gabbert.
LET George Do 1t"
w. M. Colbert Manager
DR.. B. J. LaCour and family
have been away this week on a
visit to relatives at Lafayette
and in AvoyleS parish.
Mug and Arthur Romero, Julius
Goldsmith and Albert LOuviere
went to Kinder Sunday, where
they played ball with the Kinder
team against Longville. The
game went to LongvilIe by a
score of 5 to3.
FOR SALE CHEAP One L. C.
Smith No. 2 typewriter in per-
feet condition. Apply to
E. E. Kimball.
At the Crescent Drug store
Wednesday evening we thought
we had met up with the real Jess
Willard, but investigation proved
him to be Mr.. Holden, repre-.
sentative of the Allen-P fiefel
Company of st. Louis. Mr.. Hol
den is truly an excellent speci
men of the fully developed type
of American manhood, and thu
Allen-Pfie Company can say
they are well represented. If VIZ
were a merchant and he should
advise US to buy any Of the ar
ticleS which he sells, we would
buy them without further argu
ment, whether we had needs o.
not.
For Sale = A good all-rounC
horse, buggy and harness, see
c. H, Grauke, Welsh, La.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Kimball
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Hackworth
Mr., Clarence st. Clair, Mr.. Franz
Senez and Mr.. Carradine motoret
to Hayes Wednesday evening t,
attend the wedding of Mr.. Ralpl
Walker and Miss Helen Hayes.
LET George Do 1t"
w. M. Colbert rlanageI
Mr.. and Mrs. Lionel Bertran,
. are moving to Welsh from Eltol
and will make their home wit
| Mr.. and Mrs. S. c. Davis MI
Bertrand called at the Journa
office Thursday morning to hav
the Rice Belt Journal sent t
them. He says they cannot ge
along without the home paper.
Call on US for paper napkin
and papius plates. A full line.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1917-07-20
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size and excellent flavor. 1t was
a great treat to us, and the spirit
which prompts those who have
in remembering those who have
not makes pleasant recollections
linger with US. Mr.. Wheeler adj
ded another pang of JOY by re-
his subscription to the
Journal.
For Hay, Straw, Wood
DRY Ash and Oak for
Turpentine Chips, House
Moving, call Clyde Davis,
Phone IS 81.
Mr.. Mathis, a prominent at
torney of Houston, Texas, was
in Welsh several days this week
on business.
MIR. w. NJ. Colbert of the Geo.
West Insurance Agency, motored
over to Lake Charles Saturday
night, he was accompanied by E.
A. Greer.
For Rent Nicely furnished
rooms. Mrs. Bolton. j2Otf.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pearce, Miss
Ruth Holland and Mr.. Shallen-
berger of Ruston, La, on motor
trip to Galveston, Texas, stopped
Tuesday for a short time in
Welsh, calling on Mr.. and Mrs.
w. E. Taught, Mayor and Mrs.
Gabbert and DR.. G. A. Martin.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Ash were
Lafayette visitors Sunday.
Jas. Hiestand returned We'd
nesday evening after having
spent a month at Sellersburg, Ind,
and Louisville, KY, visiting rel
atives and enjoying a pleasant
vacation during the past month.
Mrs. D. R. Prescott and daugh-
ter Praire are visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. F. c.
Seward. Mrs. Prescott is a
niece OF Mrs, Seward.
DR.. R. R. ArceneauX who left
Monday night and Mr.. c. L.
Abel who left Tuesday for New
Orleans on business, returned
home Thursday.
Hon. ]. NJ. Booze of Roanoke
and w. P. Annette of Jennings
spent several days this week in
Baton Rouge looking after the
interests of the schools in this
parish and other business mat
tiers.
C. E. Dyke was called to Mark
ham, Texas, Wednesday on &C.
count of the death of his grand
father. Mr.. Dyke expects to re-
turn Saturday or Sunday.
MIR. Monroe Davis, the inventor of
the Davis Rotary Thresher, arrived
Thursday and will spend some time
here visiting his brother L. 7. Davis.
Mr.. Davis home is at Enid, Oklahoma,
but he has recently been at Washing
ton, D. c., and other points in the east.
He says crop conditions throughout
essections he has visited are very
good, and that Oklahoma especially has
a bumper crop.
Mrs. L. E. McMillin who has been
visiting her sister. Mrs. j. b. Stewart,
here for some time left Saturday night
for Thomasville, Ala, where her hus
band is employed by the Layne &
Bowler Company.
DR.. Paul Guilty, Lake Charles Veter-
marian, was professional visitor here
today.
MeSSrS. r. L. Abbott and X. S. Greer
were in Baton Rouge this week appear
ing before the Railroad Commission in
behalf OF milling in transit.
Police Juror Arthur 7. Jones attended
the meeting OF the Police Jury in Jen
ningS this week.
Hon. John j. Robira of Jennings
was in Welsh Tuesday on business.
MIR. and Mrs. A, G. Moore had as
their guest for d lew days this week
Miss Stella Tobey oil jennings. She re-
turned home tuesday.
Miss Florence Mccullough of Crow
ley arrived last week and will spend
about two weeks visiting MIR, and Mrs
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-25
FAILURE TO FIGHT COSTLY.

That strong defender of true Ameri-
canism, the Cleveland Gazette, edited
by Hon. Harry C. Smith, a man of
whom all Americans may we'll be proud.
printed an editorial in a recent issue
which is so accurate an exposition of
the costly blunder the colored people
have made in failing to fight for their
rights that we reproduce it. We trust
that every reader will read it care
fully and ponder over the truths ex-
pressed.
1T has not been so very many years
since the adoption of the war amend
ments to the Constitution and the be-
ginning of systematic effort on the
part of our enemies to nullify the ef-
feet they were expected to have and
its subsequent good: Since these ef-
forts at restriction began, they have
grown and multiplied rapidly and
much of it has been due to our refusal
to fight the issues raised with all our
resources, before they became opera
tive. In the South DISTINGUISHING
constitutions have come, separate or
"jim-croI railroad and street cars,
peanut" galleries in theaters for our
men and women, separate bars in
saloons, "jim-crow" city parks, swim
ming pools, schools, "jim-crowism" in
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-25
FARMER FEED EXPERTS.

INAuonaI Crop improvement Service ]
A farmer who has devoted his life.
time to the study of feeding generally
has more success through his common
sense methods than any scientific
analysis can supply. If such feeder
could have on hand all of the in.
gradients (most by-products of cereal
manufacture), which according to the
market at the time would be more
economical, he could, through his ex-
perience, be very successful in mix
Ing his feeds. But the difficulty with
the average man is to maintain an
economical ration from the products
of his own farm.
he may be an expert, If he chooses
to study out new ration every time
the market changes, but he generally
prefers to letsssomeone who makes a
business of mixing feeds do it for him.
No doubt the majority of users Of
mixed feeds begin to buy it because
OF shortage of forage and grain
crops on the farm.
II such man will keep books he
Will find that as a usual thing the
use of mixed stock feed is mere mat
ter OF arithmetic whether he could
buy the ingredients cheaper than he
could buy them in a so-called bal.
anced" ration.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-25
CRIME AGAINST CIVILIZATION.

In the opinion of THE, APPEAL,
the strongest article denouncing the
East Saint Louis massacre was an
editorial published in the Christian
Register of Boston, Mass. The Regis
ter is the leading Unitarian paper pub.
lished in the United States and per-
haps that accounts for the article.
The Unitarian church is one of the
few Christian denominations in Amer
lea in which there is no color line.
The orthodox Christian sects in Amer
lea are so filed with prejudice that
the ruthless massacre of helpless men,
women and children fails to bring out
a protest.
The article from the Christian Reg.
lister, which follows, is not so long as
some of the articles which have ap-
peared in the daily papers, but it is
evidently the most sincere which THE
APPEAL has seen:
The hideous outrage against law
and humanity in East St. Louis. I'll.
makes us turn again from the barbara,
ties of war to the ferocities of peace,
from crimes against civilization abroad
TO crimes against civilization at home.
The testimony of eye witnesses shows
that nothing is to be learned among
White people of this city from the cru
eltles and brutalities of foreign con-
quest. No tribes of any name or time
have ever outdone the white men and
women who burned colored men,
women and children the other day in
this American city. Nothing more re-
voting was ever charged against Ne
groes than was done by these white
people. The organization of the man.
mood Of the nation for the protection
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-25
EUREKA GRAND CHAPTER
Order Of the Eastern Star in Twenty.
Eighth Session at Union Hall,
August 1415-16.

lowing to some typographical er-
rors in the account of meeting of the
Grand Chapter o. E. S. and in order
to combine with the report, a cut and
sketch of the newly elected Worthy
Grand Matron. the article from last
issue is republished.-Ed.]
The Twenty-Eighth Annual Session
of Eureka Grand Chapter of the Order
of the Eastern Star, State of Illinois,
and jurisdiction was held in Union
Hall Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day of this week and was the biggest
thing held in the city for long time.
One hundred and sixty-fonr dele
gates were represented in person or by
proxy and constituted as fine a BODY
OF intelligent men and women as one
would wish to see.
The delegates began to arrive last
week but the majority came on the
tWocoach special from Chicago last
Monday as the result of the labors of
Mrs. Hattie Woodbridge, chairwoman Of
the transportation committee.
A grand public reception was given
to the delegates at St. James A. M. E..
church last Monday night that testea
the capacity of the church which was
specially and beautifully decorated for
the occasion.
Mrs. Kittie Terrill was mistress of
ceremonies.
The splendid program presented in
Guided: Prayer, Rev. A. H. Lealtad;
piano, Mrs. Emma Archer; address of
welcome, Hon. Julius A. Schmahl, Sec
rotary of State, Minnesota; response,
MRS. Louise U. Webb, Chicago, Grano
Matron; vocal, Mrs. John Lewis; ad-
dress of welcome, Mrs. Ella D. Glass,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-25

goes without saying that the high
honor just bestowed upon Mrs.
Mcclure has been we'll earned. "a
Three years ago Mrs Mcclure agafiLr
found herself at home in Indianapolis
for a time, and while there she or
gained the Old Settlers Social Club,
the largest and one of the strongest or
CARNATIONS for pleasure and mutual
good in that city, having a membership
of more than 300.
10 become a member one must have
lived in Indianapolis or vicinity for
thirty years, and though Mrs. Mcclure
was eligible and was elected the first
president of the Club, one old member
thought she ought to be expelled on &C
count of her youthful looks and girl
ish ways!
Mrs Mcclure is the mother of a son
and daughter who have both made
a success of life in every way, and
in both of whom she may Justly take
a mothers pride; and it was of lust
such mothers as she, was written the
sentence: "The hand that rocks a
cradle is the hand that rules the
world. The son, DR.. Merwyn R.
BlDb OF Chicago, is graduate of Har-
vey Medical, School and is too we'll
and widely known as physician to
need further mention here. Her
daughter, Olive NJ, is a. graduate of
the Northwestern University School
OF Dentistry and followed her profess
sion with great success for several
years before her marriage to DR.. T.
M. Officer, also practicing physician
OF Chicago. She is the mother Of two
daughters and Mrs. Mcclure is very
proud of her grandchildren.
AS a woman of grace, tact, ability
and cool Judgment, who invariably
thinks before she acts, Mrs. Mcclure
will bring to the exalted seat she now
occupies naught but unflinching loyalty
to the Order, unwavering justice to
the subordinate chapters, and an alb
solutely impartial and impersonal at
titude toward every question that may
arise concerning the welfare of the Or
der Of the Eastern Star.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-25
WILL THE MOB RULE?

The Loyalty League of America has
been organized at Phoenix, Arizona.
The avowed purpose as set forth in
the constitution is to exterminate the
l. w. w.
The I. w. w. is seeking to exter-
inmate the workers who do not bow to
their mandates.
The draft resisters in North Caro-
lima and Oklahoma are resisting con-
scription bv violence.
In various parts of the country
colored men are being murdered be-
cause they are willing to work.
Is orderly government to give way
to anarchy?
Already enemy countries assert that
the U. S. is ruled by mob violence.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-25
WARNS AGAINST RACIAL HATRED.

1t Is so unusual for Christian
minister to preach against racial hat,
red that THE APPEAL is pleased to
note that one minister has the cour.
age of his convictions.
In his sermon last Sunday, Rev. H
E. Peabody, pastor of the South Con.
gregational Church, in Chicago, said
that racial hatred within the United
States is more dangerous than all Ger
mans outside this country.
DR.. Peabody likened the East St
Louis massacre to the "atrocities OF
the unspeakable Turk in Armenia
THE country's perils are not all on
the sea and beyond" said DR.. Pea
body. think of the moral earthquake
and volcano that has. burst in the
midst of the land, in our own state
since last we met.
"Who would have believed that a
massacre that reminds one of St.
Bartholomew night and of the atroci.
ties of the unspeakable Turk in Ar
menia, could occur among our own
fellow-citizens in East st. Louis?
But, beware! The peril is nearer
than that. The mutterings of the vol.
cano are felt in Chicago. The single
explosion is not the most significant
thing. The race prejudice, contempt
and hatred, working working be-
neath-these are the hell below-and
they find some lodgment in all our
hearts; God help us.
There is far more danger to the
republic from race hatred within our
borders than from all the Germans
put together.
Christian citizens of Chicago, think
this thing through. Try to make up
your mind beforehand what you will
do and say when the earthquake and
the volcano shall be around you. Our
country is in dire need of clear heads
and stout hearts, Christian hearts,
both within and without"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-25

dental Offices, churches, Y. M. C. AS,
etc. Indeed, there is apparently a de-
sire for a segregation Of the races in
Heaven, if some of them ever get
there. These things have all crept
upon US since emancipation and the
elevation to a citizenship supposed to
be equal to that of all other Ameri-
cans. We have lost ground, South
and North, because we have not
fought, and when we have resisted,
have lacked leadership, while other
supposed leaders have played into the
hands of our enemies. AS race, we
have been burlesqued, abused and hu-
inflated by the thoughtless (some,
members of the race), as we'll as by
those hostile to our interests, simply
because there was lacking proper re-
sentiment on our part and a determi-
nation to take a stand for our rights
with all the power at our command.
The world loves a MAN, a fighter!
on who thinks as much of himself as
any other like creature on earth. To
such aggressive MEN, unjust restric-
lions will in the end yield and break
down, because they will ever refuse
to recognize them. In cases of lux
uries of life such MEN will not &C.
cept the limitations though they
greatly desire them and have the price
demanded. In the case of necessities.
they will fight restrictions and limit.
as far as is within their power, the
demand for them.
A MAN CAN BE FREE IN A FREE
COUNTRY ONLY WHEN HE RE-
TAINs THE RESPECT OF HIS EEL
LOW CITIZENS TO THE EXTENT
HE RECEIVES THE SAME TREAT.
MENT FROM THEM THEY EXPECT
FROM HIM"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-25
FIVE POUNDS OF MILK ON ONE
POUND OF GRAIN

lNauonal crop improvement Service.]
&. II. Packard, of Delavan, .Wiscon-
sin, a progressive and practical dairy
man, was not satisfied with his ration
OF homegrown feed. Although he
mixed his ration with brains and it
seemed to be theoretically correct, he
thought he would try out his own
mixture in comparison with a first
class dairy feed. Much to his surprise
ne found that he could save about
five lbs. of grain per COW per day and
nearly 5 cents per COW. He figured
his own grain at prices much below
the wholesale market and bought his
mixed feed at retail.
Also when his ration was figured &C.
cording to Armsby or Energy method
his mixed feed proved to be the right
combination to make balanced ration
with his own farm roughage.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-25
SUCCESSFUL feeding.


1t is most significant and probably
the best argument for mixed feeds
when it is considered that large
number of the most prominent and
skilled men in America have dis
carded their. own mixed feeds and
ratlons because they have found
satisfactory brand of feed which will
make as much milk at less cost and
no trouble and, above all, keeps COWS
in perfect health.
Many agricultural schools and ex-
pertinent stations use and have used
them for the same reason.
- You can Verify this by writing to
any experiment station and they will
give you the names of mixed brands
which are best adapted to your pur-
pose.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-25

Grand Matron, beautiful bouquet,
speech by Mrs. Louise Tucker.
The recipients of the gifts all made
fitting responses.
The big crowd was not as courteous
as it should have been during the inS
stallation and made entirely too
much noise. The manner in which
some of our people behave in public
places is very shameful.
After the presentations the floor
was cleared and the dancing began
to the strains of music from Grants
Orchestra and continued until one
o'clock G M. Good Morning).
The crowd was the LARGEST since the
formal opening night of the hall and
it was a veritable Kaleidoscope of
color as the handsome ladies were
superbly gowned in all colors of the
rainbow.
The Grand Chapter was compelled
to hold an extra session yesterday
to complete it's business.
All delegates and visitors are
warm in their praise of the excellent
manner they we're received and en-
tertained by the people of the Twin
Cities. -
The Grand Chapter issued a hand
some SPACE program that was much
admired and of which THE APPEAL
is somewhat proud as it was a pro-
duction from it's office as well as the
fact that of the twenty-five adver-
tisements that were printed in it all
; but one was of our own business peO-
pie.
The success of the meeting was
due in very large measure to the
General Committee: Mrs. Ella D.
| Glass, chairman; Mrs. Ida Broyles,
asst. chairman; Mrs. Laura Stanton, j
secretary and Mrs. Della Pettis,
treasurer. The names of this COM
; mittee should have appeared on the
printed program but were left off by
| unavoidable accident.
Accompanying this sketch is a por-
trait of Mrs. Melissa E. Mcclure, who
was elected Worthy Grand Matron of
Eureka Grand Chapter, Order 81 the
Eastern Star, at it's Twenty-eighth
Session recently held in St. Paul.
Mrs. Mcclure was born near the
| city of Richmond, Randolph County,
Indiana. There she spent the earlier
| days of her girlhood, receiving her
schooling chiefly at Union Seminary,
where she was a classmate of the
| widely known and we'll remembered
Isaiah Mitchell. Union Seminary was
| one of the old-fashioned institutions
| founded by the Quakers, and thus it
| happened, through the liberality of
that gentle sect, that one member of
| its board of managers was a colored
man. That man was Silas Burden, the
father of the subject of this sketch.
In later years, as a married woman,
she made her home in Indianapolis,
; and still later resided in st. Paul for a
few years, but the greatest portion of
her life has been spent in the WINDY
city, by the big lake. Everybody
knows where that is
For many years Mrs. Mcclure has
been member of Talma Chapter No.
z, the second Chapter of the Order in
point of age and in membership, and
: during that time she has worthily filled
! every station within it's gift Thirty
one years ago Talma Chapter seemed
! to be declining, and Mrs. Mcclure is
one of the few remaining members
who worked in season and out of sea-
son to revive the Chapter and keep it
. IN the path that has led to it's pres
ent size and greatness. 1t therefore
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-25
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