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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-05-17
COnstable's sale.

W. w. Kimball Company VS.. John Green. In
the Second Ward, Justices Court, Bossier1
Parish, Louisiana.
DY virtue Of writ Of fieri facias,8
ID issued in the above entitled suit.
and to me directed, have seized and
will proceed to sell at public auction to-
the last and highest bidder, at the front.
door Of my residence, in Bossier City,
La, oa Saturday, the 18th day OF May.
A. D. 1917, the following described
property to-wit:
One organ, sold to defendant by the.
plaintiff, and duly identified, as it will
also be identified by me at said sale, and
may be inspected at any time upon ap-l
plication to the undersigned.
Terms Of Sale-For cash, without the
benefit of appraisement, to pay and sat-l
isfy the sum of S58.15, or such portion
thereof as same shall produce at said
sale, and all costs Of suit and sale.
Said sale to be during the legal hours.
for such sales, beginning at II o'clock
am. on said date.
D. E. SoRRELL, Deputy Constable.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-05-17
STRAY Sale.

TSTRAYED before j. d. Roger
T. Justice of the Peace, Ward -Four
Bossier Parish, Louisiana, on May "
1917, by J. D. Wilson, who resides me-
Buckhouse, La, two Mule Colts, ga
scribed as follows: One light bay mar.
mule colt, about two years old, apprals|
ed at s65, and one brown horse mule con
crippled in both hind legs and hips VII
something like stringhalter, and aR|
praised at $40.
The owner is requested to come fof]
ward, prove property and pay costs,
said animals will be sold according
law, at J. D. Wilson's residence, With
the legal hours Of sale, en- SATURDAY.
the 10Th day of June, 1917.
LUTHER Il. COLE,
Constable. Ward Fours
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Tax Lard Notice.

To r. F. Green, Nonresident.
| hereby notify you that | bought the
one-half inserest in the southeast euar1
ter of the southeast quarter of section f0,
township %, range IS, at a pubic sale
held Saturday, June 10, 1915, for taxea
due the State Of Louisiana and the Par-
ish of Bossier on the roll of 1915, and
the amount to redeem same win be ar
follows:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-05-17

Mrs. L. M. Shull and her son, Mr..
J. M. Shull, are now keeping house
in the Bogard cottage.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-05-17

Recorded June IA, 1916, on Convey
ances, volume SO, page $780,
This realty was formerly assessed q
you, but if not redeemed within one year
from date OF purchase my title becomes
perfect under the law.
j. S. RODGERS,
SO Plain Dealing, La.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-05-17
Application for Commutation.

NOTICE is hereby given that ~
lN applying for comrutatis@s
sentence. 1873 Boss CHAP
Meade County news., 1917-07-05

and Moscow markets Is marked.
Broadly, Petrograd disposes of a higher
class of article at corresponding prices.
Moscow's clients belong mainly to the
peasant classic the inhabitants Of
the rural towns, whose wants are re-
strlcted, If not primitive, and who are
in the stage when new wants and
habits are forming. This does not
necessarily lessen the range and va
riety of the articles deslred-rather
the contrary. But the attractiveness
of the articles, rather than the quality,
appeals, and cheapness is an all-deter-
mining factor. This attitude was clev-
erly grasped and exploited by the Ger
man trader, and in this connection
nowhere else so much as in Moscow is
the evidence of German adaptability
and of German trade penetration" OF
Russia more apparent. MoscOw's
stores We're full of German goods.
Large numbers Oh these stores were
obviously German, while the represent
atives of German houses in the dis
trict must have been numbered by
thousands. In Moscow's best depart
ment store, the largest in Russia,
which was founded by Scotsmen in the
forties of the last century, and Is still
conducted under British management,
probably GO per cent Of the foreign
goods on sale have been of German
manufacture. The range of retail
prices paid, and the quality which sat
isfles even the good class in Moscow,
are distinctly lower than in the better
class trade Of Petrograd.
Center of the Fur Trade.
Moscow is the chief fur center for
Russia, and there is tendency
Meade County news., 1917-07-05
BIG REDUCTION
IN PRICE OF COAL
EASTERN MINE OPERATORS TO-
MAKE REDUCTIONS RANGING
FROM 81 TO SIS TON.
PUBLIC TO DERIVE BENEFIT
New Prices Become Effective July l.
Present Agreement Affects Only
Bituminous Product, But It is
Believed Anthracite viii
Lowered Later.

Washington, June 29.-The sweeping
reductions in the price of bituminous
coal at all mines east of the Missis-
sippi river ranging from one to five
dollars a ton to the public, with
further cut of 80 per cent for the
government, were agreed upon today
at conferences between the operators
and government officials. The new
prices become effective July 1.
Four hundred operators who gath
cred here yesterday at call from Sec
retary Lane and pledged themselves
to furnish their product at a reason
able price were represented in, the fin
al conferences by committees from
each field. Earlier in the day they
had agreed to place the price fixing in
the hands Of the government through
the defense councils coal production
committee, Secretary Lane and Com
missioner Fort of the federal trade
commission, thus avoiding the possi-
bility of violating the antitrust laws.
Director Smith of the geological. sur
vey, estimated that the reduced prices
would mean that the operators would
get $1S0,000,000 less annually for their
output, and that the saving to the gov
ernment and the coal consuming pub
lie would be even greater.
In addition to placing prices upon
coal at all the mines it was an
nounced that all the jobbers, brokers
and retail men would be permitted to
charge commissions of not more than
% cents a ton, and that not more
than one commission should be
charged. In other words, the consum
er will get his coal at the NINE price
plus transportation charges and %
cents per ton.
The agreement does not affect ar
thracite, and the cool committee an
nounced tonight that action on that
problem had been postponed until
after July 1, by agreement with the
operators. The anthracite producers
have indicated willingness to meet the
government in the same spirit man
ifested by the bituminous men.
In the final conferences trade Sc
crets between competitors, cost prices
and other confidential information
were laid on the table and the gov
ernment acting as Judge, decided what
would be the highest prices paid at
mines, prices to go into effect July 1,
to stay in effect until Investigations
are made and other changes ordered.
Representatives from various states
were asked to quote the minimum
price at which they could furnish coal.
The Clearfield district of -Pennsylvan-
ia agreed to cut its price for coal as
it was loaded at the mouth of the
mine from $5.25 to $500, with $3.50 for
lump sizes. Tennessee came down
from $3.50 to $500 Virginia did like
wise. West Virginia reduced the cur.
rent contract price of $3.50 to $500,
and Illinois and Indiana reduced their
prices to $2.75 for coal as it came
from the mine.
Meade County news., 1917-07-05

alone forms almost party in the
state and exercises a potent influence
on the tariff policy of the country.
This association is responsible for the
Russian textile Industries, which cen
ter mainly l>'-e; the iron and steel In
dustry, and many other manufactures,
which are financed with local capital.
1t was MOscows initiative, also, that
started cotton growing in the Cauca-
sus and central Asia, which now sup
ply considerable portion of the raw
material of the country's cotton trade.
The air Of business which pervades
this strange but fascinating city is at
tractive to a Westerner. Business
men are more accessible than else
where. They seem to have q grip on
affairs, and they pursue definite meth
ods in their dealings, which lead
to quick decision and execution. These
qualities, coupled with a strong local
patriotism and self-confidence, form
the driving power of Moscow's citizens,
! which cannot fail to secure for the city
an ever-increasing influence in the po.
litical and economic development OF
Russia.
The Ussin ilarity of the Petrograd
Meade County news., 1917-07-05
GRAIN MEN TO LEND HAND.

Hutchinson, Kan, June 29.-Resolu-
tions pledging the support of the grain
men of the state to the movement for
"200000,00Q bushel wheat crop for
1918" in Kansas were adopted tonight
by the Kansas Grain Dealers associa-
ton, in convention here. G. c. Isley OF
Cimarron said million dollars was
needed at once to aid western Kansas
farmers to get seed wheat.
Western Kansas is not asking for
charity" he said. "All we want is CO.
operation. Unless something is done
and done right soon tens of thousands
of acres of Kansas wheat land in the
western part of the state will lie idle
this fall instead of growing the wheat
the nation and world needs so badly"
Meade County news., 1917-07-05

towards gradual transfer of the busi-
ness of subsidiary fur markets, like
the Irbit and the Nizhni-Novgorod
fairs, to Moscow. A movement has
been initiated by the fur section of
the Moscow chamber of commerce and
industry to render the Russian fur in.
dustry in future independent of the
Leipzig market.
Leipzig has hitherto taken largely
the Russian raw furs; has treated and
finished them, and has resold the fin
ished product again to Moscow. In
future Moscow purposes to do more
Of the finishing process herself, and
is endeayorlng also to get into touch
with London, New York, st. Louis and
other important fur-producing and fur
importing centers, for the purpose of
direct business dealings. Moscow can
under normal conditions supply fin.
ished furs such as squirrel, squirrel
tails, ermine, marten, stone and baum
marten, hares, Persian lamb, etc. Rus
sla, as is well known, is very large
buyer Of fur goods.
Meade County news., 1917-07-05

7r- Charles 70. 0vensfire of Minneapolis,
who was elected Imperial potentate Of
the Shriners at the annual meeting Of
the imperial council In Minneapolis.
He was advanced from the office of
deputy impeflal pCtentatel
Meade County news., 1917-07-05
Bio Task confronts Him.

San Antonio, Texas June 29.-Ap-
proval of the plans for the infantry
barracks to be built at Camp Wilson
for the men of the draft army was re-
ceived by the contractor this morn
ing. An effort will be made to have
the 120 buildings, each two stories and
housing 200 men, ready for occupancy
before September l. An order for
eight carloads of lumber, the initial
shipment of 400 cars was started on
its way from eastern Texas to San
Antonio this morning.
Meade County news., 1917-07-05

~ ENTRAL Russia, with Mos
COW, the ancient capital, as its
4 focal point, is at once the
richest and the most thickly
populated part Of the country.
This region contains 1S governments,
covering an area of 100000 square
miles-less than One-half Of the area
of the Petrograd district but with
more than twice the population, viz,
45,000,000. AS might be expected, says
a writer in the magazine, Russia, the
large towns are both larger and more
numerous than elsewhere in Russia.
Moscow had in 1912 population Of
100000. Railway communications
are, for Russia, relatively well devel-
oped here and to the south.
AS place of business Moscow occu-
pies a unique position. The interests
located there control and serve the
enormous area of which the city forms
literally the geographical center, in all
matters of supply and demand for a
mainly agricultural country and it is
through the Moscow merchants and
agency houses that foreign imports
are brought most directly before the
consumers. With characteristic enter
prise, the Moscow merchants have also
organized and may be said to control
the Siberian trade. Many of the most
successful of her citizens are Siberian
born, who find 1t desirable to live in
Moscow to direct the financing and the
purchasing end of their business opera.
tions.
Manufacturers Are Powerful.
Finally, industrial Russia may be
said to center in this city, where the
Moscow Manufacturers association
Meade County news., 1917-07-05

The Brazilian government by act of
congress late in May authorized the re-
vocation of Brazil's neutrality in the
war between Germany and the United
States. 1t notifying the Brazilian le
cations of the sanction of the revoca-
tion Uilo Pecanha, the foreign minis
ter. in a note said Brazil up to that
time had refrained. from taking Sides
in the European conflict, but that the
republic could not remain indifferent
from the moment the United States
found itself involved in a struggle for
the rights of the people and when Ger
manv meted out Unfortunately to
Brazil the most brutal treatment.
Meade County news., 1917-07-05
BRAZIL TO JOIN ALLlEsY

Rio Janeiro, June 29-Brazil has re-
voked her decree of neutrality in the
war between the entente allies and
Germany.
Meade County news., 1917-07-05

There have been several instances
Of sleeps lasting 20 years
New Britain herald., 1917-12-14
S0L0MON'S NEAREST RIVAL
"Rcv. Arthur WorthingtOn" Had Ten
Wives from Whose Funds He Cen
crOuSly Helped Himself.

cfOuSly Helped HtmSoIf.
Newburgh, Dec. 14.-Samuel Oakley
Crawford, better known as REV. Ar
thur Worthington," one Of the clev-
crest characters in modern criminal
history, died under dramatic circum-
stances in Jail here yesterday
Crawford, who was Y years old,
collapsed when confronted by Mrs
Jennie A. Showalter, Of Wilmington.
Del, who identified him as tho man
she had married in July, 1915, under
the name Of Charles Graham Boone
Two months later, he decamped with
$4,000, all her savings. When the
woman appeared before him yesterday
he stared at her for a moment and
then sank to the floor with a. groan.
He was dead before a physician could
reach him.
Crawford had been in Jail since jan
uary, when he was arrested for swim
ding the Rev. DR.. Stanley, of New
Hamburg, out of several hundred dol
lars while a member of the Presby-
terry. After being deposed, he fed, but
was found in the National Soldiers
home at Newport News.
Crawford's career reads like an i'm
aginative story of criminal fiction. His
years of crime reached nearly forty,
and in that time he 10 believed to have
New Britain herald., 1917-12-14
RED CROSS "NURSES,,
Young Women Selected to Preside Mt
Booths About the City.


Booths About the City,
Final preparations are being made
for the big drive for $4,000 members
for the Red Cross in New Britain
next week. Mrs. William S. Rowland
has called a meeting tonight at s
o'clock at the Red Cross headquarters
on Court street of the young women
who are to don the Red Cross nurse
uniforms and preside at the booths to
secure members.
These young women are as fol-
lows: Ebba Neri, Irene Byrne, Marie
Descola, Madeline Caufield, Catherine
Campbell Catherine Mccarthy. Grace
Burns, Mae Cox, Margie Conlin, Mrs.
w. F. Mangan, Irene Trask, Florence
Cashion, Mrs. Christensen, Elizabet
Slaney, Mildred and Genevieve An
derson, Mary Kiniry, Rita Cooney,
Gertrude Callahan, Rene Dorsey,
Julia Sullivan, Eliza beth Morrin, Mar
garet Cochrane, Grace Riley, Ruth
Corbin, Grace Flannery, Eleanor
Bunny, Helen Monsees, Ella Moore,
Lillian Kolodney, Mary Curtin, Della
Haugh, Katherine Eagan, Ger
trude Larson, Gertrude Pilz, Lo-
retta Sullivan, Mary Smith, Anna
Murphy. Marion Egan, Mary
Meehan, Mrs. c. H. Barnes, Dorothy
Latham, Mrs. Arthur Sampson, Agnes
Vance, Mildred Robinson, Mabel
Crawford, Edith White and Mrs. Louie
Jones. General Manager C. H. Barnes
will meet the campaign managers for
the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth. wards
tonight at o'clock. The managers
selected are Earl Kisselbrack, A. S.
Andrulewic1 and A. Gorback.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-14
WIRELESS FROM ST. PETERS
Messages Will Flash from Dome Of
Famous Church, II Suggestion to
Pope Is Received FavorabIy.

milan, Dec. 14.-The esta blishment
OF wireless station on the dome of
So Peters in Rome has been suggest
q to the Vatican so that it may Sc
cure independent transmission of for
eign messages of diplomatic character
In code and also receive confidential
and >reliable reports from the Vati-
cans representatives abroad.
I While the Vatican has not COM
planned to the Italian government re-
gnrding Geographic communication, it
4 iaT assumed the censor uses ordinary
precautions.
1T is pointed out that the wireless
would have the advantage Of dealing
with Switzerland, Austria, Germany
and Russia.
The Italian government is not likely
to raise decided objections because
the Vatican never has paid tolls on it's
messages The. proposed wireless
would relieve the heavy pressure on
existing ordinary lines.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-14

eral volumes of history for popular
reading and a number of text books
on history. Professor Botsford was
born at West Union, Ia, SIS years ago,
and was graduated from the Univer-
sity of Nebraska
New Britain herald., 1917-12-14
PROF. BOTSFORD DEAD.
Noted Historian Passes Away Sudden
1y at Columbia.

J New York. Dec. 14.-George Will
III Botsford, historian, died suddenly
n his office at Columbia university
yterday.
lie taught Greek and Roman his
terry at Harvard from 1895 to 1901
ana had since been a professor of
1tory at Columbia. He wrote sew
New Britain herald., 1917-12-14

obtained fraudulently and spent more
than 100000 and to have married
ten women biganfously.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-08

up and looked into his plaintive ex-
preston of real injury she could
barely hold back tears. Jasper
loved applause, pettings and wom-
anly caresses. For a dog he had an
unusually fine sense of the theater,
artistry and humor. 1t is said of
him that during one of the early re-
hearsals OF young America" the
company were having lunch and Miss
Wood was telling a story, her hap,
being occupied by Jasper. She fin
ished, and the company applauded,
Jasper barking to show his appre-'
citation. Mr.. Ballard then announced
that he had a good one, whereupon
Jasper unceremoniously jumped down
from Miss Woods lap and walked
slowly from the stage.
He would pose for many minutes
during scene, blinking sleepily;
but he seemed to know to the fraction
of second when the good jokes were
coming, for he was always alert.
would wag his tail happily and bark
as the audience clapped. This genus.
CAMS found a dogs life something
very much to be desired, and no act
was thrown to the dogs" that JAS
per had anything to do with. His
hard work, necessitated by -continu-&
GUS travel, FASTENED his end But.
knowing the countless children hes
made happy Che performed in chill
dren's hospitals free Of charge), ands
the artistry he always maintained, we.
can gratefully say he did not live in
vain. Boston Advertiser
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-08
MAKE YOURSELF STRONGER

People with strong constitutions
escape many minor ills that make life
miserable for others. Don't you envy
the friend who does not know what a
headache is, whose digestion is perfect
and sleep undisturbcd?
How far do you come from this des-
cription and have you ever made IN
earnest effort to. strengthen your con-
sfHution, to build up your system to
ward off disease and discomfort?
Everyone cannot have perfect health
but unless you have an organic disease
It Is generally possible to improve your
physical condition by attention to the
rules Of health, the first ofwhich is to
keep the blood built up.
ERr. Williams, Pink Pills for Pale
Hf6ple contain Just the elements need.
e13o build up the blood and restore
tho lost coloEand vitality. New en-
cry circulates through the system
With the enfiched blood, the heart
Stbps its Alarming palpitating, color
returns to cheeks and lips.
SNothing more Is needed except sun
light, good air, proper food and rest.
III You do not know exactly what rules
to follow in these matters write today
to the DIR. Williams Medicine Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y, for booklets on
the blood and diet. Your own drug.
gist sells DR.. Williams Pink Pills.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-08
STOMACH UPSET?
Get at the Real Cause Take DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets

That's what thousands of stomach
sufferers are doing now. Instead of
taking tonics, or trying to patch up a
poor digestion, they are attacking the
real cause of the ailment - clogged liver
and disordered bowels.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets arouse the
liver in a soothing. healing way. When
the liver and bowels are performing their
natural functions, away goes indigestion
and stomach troubles. N
If you have a bad taste in your
mouth, tongue coated. appetite poor,
lazy, don't.care feeling, no ambition or
energy, troubled with undigested foods,
you should take Olive Tablets, the sub
stitute for calomel.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are a
purely vegetable compound mixed with
olive ole You will know them by their
olive color. They do the work without
gripping, cramps or pain.
Take one or two at bedtime for quick
relief, so you can eat what you like.
At 10c and 25c per box. All druggists.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-08
coldbeatlne Interesting Operation.

Goldbeating is most fascinating
craft to watch, and it is especially in
teresting when the workman arrives
Mt the last stage-the transferring of
the Incredibly thin leaves of rich, ye'-
low metal from the mold" 20 the
books bought by the gilders. This Is
done with a very line pair Of clips or
pincers, made of the highest wood.
The leaf is deity laid on cushion
of soft leather and then delicately cut
to the size of the book, with simple
looking instrument of wood with
sharpened sides. known as a wagon"
The edges of geld leaf left over are, of
course, most carefully preserved by
the workman. TIT Bits. ras
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-08
Edible British seaweeds.

Other BIRTHS seaweeds besides car
Tageen moss make excellent eating.
Among these are laver, samphire,
dulse, erings, and sea holly. Samphire
used to be cried in the streets of
London under the name of "crest ma
zine" but apparently present-day cos
iermongers never sell it. LAYER tastes
rs good as spinach and is more nutri-
tious. Sir James Barrie tells us how
TO cook dulse. In "a Window in
frhrums" he writes: ''Dulse is roast
ed by twisting it round the tongs when
these are fred to red heat"--a mode
of cooking which gives 1t an oyster
like flavor. Dillisk, chopped up small
md stewed in milk thickened with oat-
meal, is splendid dish.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-08
"pead" Defendants Plea.

Judicial skepticism to a marked de-
gree is shown in the opinion in Free
man. VS.. Frank, 10 Abb. Pr. IN. W,
$40, in which the court makes the fol-
lowing answer
''The fact that the defendant has an
swered, though by attorney, shows he
is neither civilly or physically dead. It
is conclusive that he is living, and not
under any disability that prevents him
defending the action. The defendant,
by answering, proves he is alive; and
when he AYERS In his answer that he
is dead, he is not to be believed. The
answer, therefore. contains two con-
Trajectory averments, one of which in
judgment Of law is fiction. If the
defendant was dead. he could not an
swer. Hence the averment that he is
civilly dead must be deemed untrue"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-08
Personality.

The two great obstacles to the
healthy development of personality
are Jealousy and fear, and they are as
high and terrible in business as in
any other department of life's activi-
ties. So long as man harbors envy
for any one of his fellows. more es.
pecially his competitor in business.
SO long will he be devoid of that elixir
which personality advertises. Being
jealous of some other man does not
harm the other man; it only Injuries
the Jealous one. And If the jealousy
be openly expressed. the extent of the
damage increases, whilst the object
Of the envy receives an addition OF
benefit and value for himself through
the gratuitous advertisement. A man
occupied in envying another is using
up power which he could better apply
for his own progression.--Exchange.