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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
United States Troops in France.

The announcement made that
the first division Gao, 900 men) of
u. S. regular troops arrived safely
at a port in France this week.
This division constitutes one-third
of the U. S. field army command
ed by Gen. Pershing; and other
units of his army are expected to
follow in quick succession.
A field army is composed of
12O, 600 men, divided into three
divisions of 10000 each. 1t is
supposed that Gen. Pershing has
two field armies, or a force of
240, 600 regulars, that will join
him in France within the next
few weeks.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
EVER sA1vATED BY
CAL0MEL1 H0RRIBtEl
Calomel is quicksilver and acts
like dynamite on
your liver.

Calomel loses you a day! You
know what calomel is. It's mer-
curry; quicksilver. Calomel is dam
gerous. It crashes into sour bile
like dynamite, cramping and sick
ening you. Calomel attacks the
bones and should never be put into
your system.
When you feel bilious, sluggish,
constipated and all knocked out and
believe you need dose of dangerous
calomel just remember that your
druggist sells for so cents a large
bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which
is entirely vegetable and pleasant to
take and is perfect substitute for
calomel. 1t is guaranteed to start
your liver without stirring you ND
inside, and can not salivate.
Don't take calomel! Itmakes YOU
sick the next day; it loses you days
work. Dodson's Liver Tone straight
ems you right up and you feel great.
Give it to the children because it is
perfectly harmless and doesn't grippe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
Sheriff Sale.

Sheriff Sale.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Grant,
18th Judicial District Court.
j. w. McIlwain, Trustee, VS.. Claus
Foster and wife.
By virtue of a writ of seizure
issued out of the HI norable Thirteenth
Judicial District Court and to me di.
rected in the above numbered and en-
titled suit. directing ard commanding
me to seize and sell the property OF
defendant, have seized and will offer
for sale at the principal front door OF
the court house in Colfax, La, be-
tween the hours prescribed by law for
judicial sales. on
SATURDAY, AUG. a, 1917.
the following described property, seiz-
ed as the property of defendant herein,
to-wit:
The Sc or of SW or, section IL,
township 8 north, range west.
Terms of sale Cash, with the bene-
fit of appraisement.
Colfax, La, June %, 1917.
l.. o. CLINTON,
Sheriff of Grant Parish, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
Canned green peas and yellow
peaches help fight the blues.
Start the pay Rioht.

Start your day right. Bury the
Ratchet of the night before. Leave all
your grouci.es In the bedroom and
come out ;nto the dawn Of a new day
with smile What matter IL some
one has srpoye6 sou the night before?
That day has passed with every pleas
ure and annoy ance. Today Is only
started. and 40 one knows what will
happen, good or bad. so it is well to
be prepared for the best. Too many
prepare for the worst, look for 1t and
get 1t. Smiles are the least expensive
Of all joys OF life, and the most up
building. So smile whenever you can.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
w. C. T. u. Meets With Mrs. J. H.
McNeely.

The w. C. 7. u. held a meet
ing on Thursday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. j. II. McNeely,
with Mrs. C. w. LaCroix pre-
siding. The meeting was open
ed with devotional exercises.
The members present were:
Mesdames. c. w. LaCroix, R. S.
Cameron, G. H. Mcknight, j. H.
McNeely and A. M. Goodwin.
Each member responded to roll
call by reading facts on temper.
ance. Several very interesting
articles were read. At the close
of the meeting the hostess was
assisted by her little daughter,
Bernice, in serving delightful
chicken sandwiches and ice tea.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
Silo Conserves Farm Feed Stuff.

Sil0 COnServeS Farm Feed stun.
The si!o offers the best means
of conserving the farm feed sup
ply. 1t enables the farmer to
save the feedstuffs for the future
of his farm animals in much the
same manner that the canning
machine enables the housewife
to save the vegetables and fruits
for the future of the family.
The present and prospective high
prices and the growing demand
for farm products of all kinds
make it at once to the profit and
the duty of farmers to increase
in every way efficiency of their
operations. To the dairy farmer,
at least, the silo is essential to
maximum efficiency. Its advan-
tages are too numerous to fully
enumerate here. Suffice it to
say that experiments have prov
ed that silage will greatly reduce
the cost Of feed for dairy cows
and increase the milk production.
1t is a palatable feed. keeps the
stock in a thrifty condition and
the young stock growing all win
ter. 1t is more conveniently fed
than hay or corn fodder. Silage
enables one to keep larger num-
Der of live stock on a given area
of land than may be kept on for
age crops cut for hay. 1t furn-
ishes succulent food during the
summer when droughts frequent
ly occur. 1t prevents the waste
of corn cobs, stalks and overripe
fodder that would otherwise not
be eaten by the animals.
1t is not too early to begin
preparations for building a silo
for the crops of this summer and
fall. The Extension Division of
the Louisiana State University
will furnish free of charge COM
plete plans and specifications for
a silo of any size. L. S. U. Press
Bulletin.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
CLIP THIS AND PIN
ON WlFE'S DRESSER
Cincinnati man tells how to shriveI
up corns or calluses 80 they
lift of with fingers.

Ouch III! This kind of rough
talk will be heard less here in town if
people troubled with corns will follow
the simple advice of this Cincinnati
authority, who claims that few drops
of a drug called freezone when applied
to tender, aching corn or hardened cal
LUIS stops soreness at once, and soon the
corn or callus dries up and lifts right
of without pain.
He says freezone dries Immediately
and never inaames or even irritates the
surrounding skin. A small bottle of
freezone will cost very little at any
drug store, but will positively remove
every hard or soft corn or callus from
ones feet. Millions of American women
will welcome this announcement since
the inauguration Of the high heels II
your druggist doesn't have free1one tell
him to order q small bottle for you.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
Arrested for Labor Troubles.

On last Saturday Deputy S.
w. Johnston went to Alexandria
and brought to the Colfax Jail
five men arrested in Pollock for
labor troubles. They were
charged with lying in wait and
interfering with la b or with
threats, etc., some of them be-
ing under two charges. They
were Dorsey Blackwell, A. Ebey,
S. j. Ebey, j. w. Ebey and d.
Niece. Several of the women
relatives of the men visited them
at the Jail this week, and on
Wednesday and Thursday all OF
the parties succeeded in giving
bond and were released.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
SAYS LEMON JUICE
WILL REMOVE FREcKLES
clrIsl Make this cheap beauty lotion
to clear and whiten your skin.

Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
bottle containing three ounces OF
orchard white, shake well, and you have
q quarter pint of the best freckle and
tan lotion, and complexion beautiier, at
very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three ounces of orchard white for few
cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant
lotion into the face, neck, arms and
hands each day and see how freckles and
blemishes disappear and how clear, soft
and white the skin becomea Yesl It
is harmless.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
Cholera Morbus.

This is very painful and dangerous
disease. In almost every neighDor-
hood some one has died from it before
medicine could be obtained or a phy-
stefan summoned. The right way is to
have bottle of Chamberlain's Colo
and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house
SO as to be prepared for it. Mrs. Char
les Enyeart, Huntington, Ind, writes:
During the summer of 1911 two OF
my children were taken sick with chol-
era morbus. / used Chamberlain 8
Collie and Diarrhoea Remedy and it
gave them immediate relief.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
ner

One of the Improvements of
which the people of Shreveport
are justly proud is the new High
land Sanitarium, on Highland
street in that city. 1t cost one
hundred thousand dollars. 1t is
a four-story brick structure, fit
ted up with all modern appli-
ances, with large, airy and well
lighted rooms. 1t will be thrown
open for public inspection next
Monday evening.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
Sheriff. Brothers
Close Big Virgin
Hardwood Deal

The Colfax Hardwood Lumber
Co., Sheriff. Brothers, owners,
have recently purchased about
80, 900 acres of virgin hardwood
timber in the southern portion
of Louisiana. This is one of the
largest solid blocks of hardwood
timber in the south. They will
start the erection of one mill
about August l, at a point to be
determined within the next few
days, and the first of next year
they will start the erection OF
another mill, designed especially
for cutting long timber, up to &C
feet in length, at a location near
the first mill.
Their intention is to produce
on the two mills about 125, coo
feet daily of manufactured pro-
duct. These mills will manu-
facture for foreign and domes-
tic markets, specializing in ship
and barge material.
The Sheriff. Brothers will re-
tain their active Office at Colfax
until about the first of the year,
having five or six million feet OF
hardwood to ship out from this
point. Their mill at Colfax is to
be dismantled during the sum-
mer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
Don't Neglect Your Summer Cold.

We "catch cold" in warm weather
because colds are germ diseases and
our vitality is too low to resist them.
To kill those cold germs, the antiseptic
pine-tar of DR.. Bells Pine-Tar- Honey
is famously effective, besides helping
to relieve the tight chest and invigor-
ate the tissues. The honey and ex-
pectorant Ingredients heal the throat
and soothe the caugh. Always have
bottle of DR.. Bells Pine Tar Honey
in your home, Csc at your druggist
ady-2.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
Value Of a Smile.

Smile and the world smiles with
you. 1t does not cost you anything
to be human, to show by your man.
ner that you regard your fellow
worker or your employee as fellow
being. A friendly greeting, no mat
ter how hurried, is tonic. Take the
trifiing moment of time for that greet
ing. Make the trifling amount of eff
fort. Remember that the JOY or the
unhappiness OF life Is made up Of
trifies. just as the continents are made
of grains Of sand and drops Of wa
ter. you can catch a derned more
sight Of flies with sugar than with
vinegar" runs the homely old New
ENGLAND saying.-Exchange.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30

The long drouth of so to 60
days that has prevailed over the
greater part of Louisiana and
Mississippi was broken Wednes-
day and Thursday by rain fall
of IA to 2 inches over a wide
area. The section of country
around Colfax within four or
five miles has had two or three
good showers, but thus far re-
lief for this immediate section
from the drouth has been dis
appointing.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
Constipation Causes Serious Ills,

LET me see your tongue" is the
doctors first question. When the
tongue is coated it means sluggish
bowels, and you invite not only head
aches, Indigestion but serious ill.health.
Avoid those dangers by taking DIR.
Kings New Life Pills. They are sug-
ar coated, highly efficient, yet mild and
easy in action, pleasant to take by the
young. aged or delicate. Sold for
years at your druggist, 25c -adv-2.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30

1t is now announced that Gov.
Pleasant has decided to call an
extra session of the legislature
for twenty days, to consider the
widows dowery proposition and
q other matters, and that the
session will be for twenty days,
clear of Sundays and holidays.
beginning on Monday, July 9.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
Notice.

Colfax, La, June %, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that the next
regular examination for teachers will
be held at Colfax, La, July 80, 81, and
August 1, 1917, for white applicants,
and August 2, 8 and 4, 1917, for negro
applicants. All those desiring to take
the examination will please be on hand
at 8 a. M. at which time the examina-
ton will open.
]. N. WARNER,
Superintendent.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
Pay of Washington's Soldiers Contrast
ed With Army's Pay Now.

Chicago, June 26. An inter-
esting comparison between the
pay received by men who served
under George Washington and
what will be paid American SOL
diers who go to France in Perish
ing's war army, was seen to-day
in a recruiting argument which
placed on a poster of revolution
airy days side by side with one
appealing for men here. The
men who won freedom for the
United States received $50 a
year, the whole of which the
soldier may lay up for himself
and friends" according to the
poster, which points out that am
pie rations were allowed the army
and IAN annual and fully sufici-
ent supply of good and handsome
clothing provided"
The men who enlist during re-
cruiting week will receive not
merely food and clothing, but at
least $50 a month, with an auto
matte increase of 20 per cent
when ordered to foreign service.
If he qualities as first. class pri-
vate he will receive $33 a month
and men with trades do even bet
ter. Cooks especially are want
ed at $3S a month. 1t is estimat-
ed that one dollar in the army is
equal to three in civil life. be-
cause the soldiers housing, food,
clothing, transportation and med
ical attention are furnished by
the government. Army recruit
ing officers are pointing out that
chances of promotion now are
better than ever before.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30
Cut Unproductive Corn for Fodder and
Replant the Land.


The long drought that has pre-
vailed over the State this sum-
mer has rendered thousands of
acres of corn unproductive so far
as the maturing of the ears is
concerned.
Where it is evident that corn
will not make" farmers should
cut the stalks for fodder and re-
plant the land in either June corn
or one of the standard varieties,
says w. r. Perkins, of the Elk
tension Division, Louisiana State
University. One of the prolific
varieties, such as Hastings, is
just as likely to make good corn
when planted at this time of the
year as one of the June varieties.
In the event that the second crop
also fails to produce ear-corn il
may also be cut for fodder and
will thereby add to the supply of
feedstuffs.
If it is impossible to obtain
seed corn, then the land should
be planted to soy beans or velvet
beans. These may be planted up
to July Is, and will ordinarily
make good forage crops for the
fall season. L. S. u. Bulletin.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30

More than 800 girls between
the ages 10 and 20 years, have
mysteriously disappeared from
their homes in the city of New
York since January l.. Thous-
ands of them disappear every
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30

Last Saturday boy scouts COM
menced digging A million BUSH
els of potatoes in eastern Vir-
ginia, that would probably have
rotted if the boys had not taken
the Job.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30

Italy has harnessed its streams
until n ow it obtains 800, 600
horsepower from such sources
and engineers believes that more
than 1900, 600 additional horse
power is available.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30

The United States government
plans to put in a navy of 10000
airplanes during the first year
of It's participation in the war.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30

Sheet metal splints, adjustable
to various sizes, have been pat
ened by a Virginia surgeon for
temporary dressing broken limbs.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30

Natives of Peru use a boat
made entirely of reeds and straw
even the sail consisting Of straw
mating.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30

The necessity of government
control for the protection of the
public against the eXtortion of
manufacturers and middle men
in the present disturbed trade
conditions resulting from the
war is a self evident proposition.
This fact has been brought
home lately to the COlfax Chron-
icle with logical force that does
not admit of any questioning.
For the past year we have had
to pay a price for printing paper
that was practically prohibitive
of publication. Prices h a "
been advancing regularly for
two years. Every thirty or six
ty days we have been receiving
notices of an increase of ten to
twenty per cent, and sometimes
even larger raises in the price of
material.
A few days ago we received a
notice from E. G. Palmer and
Co., the well known paper deal
srs of New Orleans, that they
had secured a limited supply of
paper, (cOmmandered by the
government, } for distribution to
their customers at $45 per 1000
pounds, for July delivery. This
is about one-half the price we
have been paying of late, and so
we jumped at the opportunity
to secure our supply of paper for
the summer at this advantageous
rate.
This exhorbitant boosting OF
prices runs through the entire
list of articles necessary for ex-
istence, until the manufacturers,
wholesalers and retailers have
joined in a regular system of
robbery and extortion upon the
necessities of the people.
The only remedy for this out
rageous hold-up is control by the
government. In the present in
stance of paper control, which
We cite, the government authori-
ties have allowed the manu-
facturers a legitimate profit on
his output of material, and the
middle men and retailers have
all been allowed fair per cent
of profit for handling. And yet
when the paper reaches us, we
get it-at one-half the price we
have been forced to pay hereto
fore.
The greed of spectators in
the necessary commodities of
life, if uncontrolled leads to ex-
tortion and suffering among the
masses. All sorts of subterfuges
and excuses are made by store
keepers and retail dealers for
high prices, but the fact remains
that the majority of them are
putting on an extra profit, TAX
ing advantage of conditions to
bleed the people for their own
ungodly gain.
The stock in trade of excuses
among dealers is. that workers
are scarce, owing to the draft of
men in the army and navy; ma
terials are scarce, owing to gov
ernmental purchases, and the
necessity for supplies for the
allies; foreign shipments are cut
off by the su bm arin es; not
enough material imported to
supply the country's need; and
so on, ad infinitum.
All the excuses are found to
be without reason. because since
the government has ia k e n
charge of the output of corn and
flour and meat and metal and
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30

According to recent official
estimates there are about 80, 0O0-
600 sheep in Argentina.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30

Town Lots for Sale.
Three lots near Colfax depot. Apply
to c. L. HAYNE,
je30-2t' Boyce, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-06-30

The Knocker Is Agin improvements,
Agin Taxes, Agin Progress, Agin the
Weather. Agin everything except him
self. He Is the original Grape Hanger
and never says Anything Good about
anyone. Fortunately for all Of us, the
Knocker lives over In the Next Town.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-31
EldOra Man Kills Lynx.

Eldora. Jan. S.-Having undoubt-
eddy wandered from its far-northern
home to this county, a full-grown
lynx was shot in the Dennis Lawler
cornfield, a few miles southwest of
Eldora, on Monday. The animal, q
dark brown in color, was seen by
young Alb Lawler and the young
man, thinking it to be a wolf or fox,
fired, one load from an ordinary
shotgun killing it. Specialists and
those giving attention to wild ami
mails state that it is a decidedly un-
usual circumstance to find a lynx in
this section of the country. The lynx
family of the United States is beiiey-
ed to have come here from Canada
and they vary in size and color from
a pale-grayish buff to a blush color
spotted with black. The specimen
killed by Mr.. Lawler was as large as
an ordinary shepherd dog, possessed
long fur and rather large feet. Mr.
Lawler will ship the animal to Iowa
City to a taxidermist and have it
suitably mounted.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-31
Salaries of School Teachers Raised
in Butler County.

There has been a small increase
in the salaries of the Butler county
school teachers in the past few
years. In 1914-15 the average sal
airy paid to all female teachers of
the county was $47.49, per month
and in 1866 was $3.50. There
was also small increase in the sal
aries Of the male teachers. In 1914
Is the average for all male teachers
Of the county was $3.50, and In
191516, $7S.37.
The male teachers of the rural
schools in the county had their sal
aries increased from $48.35 to
$51.6S per month during that time,
and the female teachers of the rural
schools from s47.49 to $4S.S6.
There are twenty-four male teach
ers in the Butler county schools this
year, fourteen in the town schools
and ten in the rural schools.
The number Of months in the rur-
al schools are increasing aN< most
of them are working toward the
nine months the same as most of the
town schools.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-01-31
THOMAS JEFFERSON'S TEN
RULES.

Thomas Jefferson is said to have
had ten rules of living that he fol-
lowed very carefully. They are SO
good that it would not hurt us any
to try them.
Never put off until tomorrow
what you can do today.
2.-Never spend your money be-
fore you have it.
3.-Never trouble others for what
you can do yourself.
4.-Never buy what you do not
want because 1t is cheap.
5.-Remember that pride costs us
more than hunger, thirst or cold.
6.-One never repents of having
eaten too little.
Nothing is ever troublesome
that We do willingly.
S.-The most pain comes from
those evils that never happened ex-
cept in our imaginations.
9.-Take things always by their
smooth handles.
10.-When angry, count ten be-
fore you speak; when very angry,
count hundred.
What do you think of those
rules? Are they not pretty good even
now to follow?