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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1917-12-15

paid on or before the first day Of March A. d.
1918. and subject to charge OF two per cent per
month interest, plus ten per cent On the aegre-
gate amount Attorneys fees from the time
said License becomes delinquent rs aforesaid.
Sec ILL. Be it further ordained etc: That
the payment of the said License, with interest.
and Attorneys fees as aforesaid, shall be secnr-
ell by first Mortgage and special lien and prvi-
lege in favor of the said Town of st. Martini
yille La. upon the property movable and i'm
movable, of the Delinquent owing the said LII
cense and the Tax Collector of the Town of st.
MartiNyille, shall COLLECT said License and in-
tere-t etc. in the same manner provided by ex-
listing Laws for the collection Of State and Pa
IRISH License, with the same penalties. interest
and attorneys fees
Sec. Nv. Be it further ordained etc. That
this Ordinance shall go into effect on the first
day of Jan. A. ID. 1918.
Yeas: X. j. Guirard. +. +. Fournet. J. Ii.
Duchamp.
Nays: None.
Approved:
ALBEIT BIENvENU, Mayor.
SIDNEY 4. DELAHoussAYE, Tee ty.
There being no further business before the
Council on motion of Mr.. X. j. Guirard secon-
ded 10y Mr.. f. +. Fournet the meeting adjourned
ALBERT BIENvENU. Mayor.
SIDNEY L. DELAHoUssAYE, Sec 'ty.
The following bills were approved and
ordered paid viz: LaiZairr Bienvpnu
$3.50. Duchamp Hardware Co s533O.
]. b. Fuurnpt & Son 10 cents. Duciamp
. Nc
Benin Gro. Co 50 cents. Casey Lasalle
$4.55. o. p. R-sWehe. s1.S5.
There being no further business Jpn
motion of Mr.. X. j. Guirard seconded by
NTH Duchamp the meeting adjourn
cd.
ALBERT BIENvENU. Mayor.
SIDNEY K. DELAHOUssAYE,
Secretary.
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TO THE FARMER.

IfyOu have anything to sell pertaining
to agriculture, horticulture livestock.
dairying, ETC., write the Commissioner
of agriculture, Baton Rouge. La. and be
will use every effort to dispose of any
thing grown Oh the farm in Louisiana.
The Commissioner has inargurated a
Bureau Of Markets and wants to aid you
in every way possible.
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PARTITION SALE.
In the matter VI
DIR. II. X. Martin et ais,

III. u IL. MAJ Vii ct ais,
vs.
Ernest Jean Louis ut ais.
No. llIo0
of the Civil Docket Of the lJtn Judicial
Dictrict Court. iu and for the Parish of
st. Martin. Louisiana.
BY virtus Of Judgment rendered in
the above entitled and numbered mat
ter, on the 10th day of June 1917, by
the Honorable the Nineteenth Judicial
District Court in and for the Parish VI
ST. Martin, state Of Louisiana, aud a
Commission To me directed to the terms
Of said Judgment.
will proceed to sell at public auc-
ton. to tho last aud highest bidder. at
the principal front door Of the Court
House at ST. Martinville, Louisiana. on
Saturday Dec. IS, 1917,
between the legal sale hours. the follow
lug described property, to-wit:
That certain tract Of land situated at
Anse La Butte. i'll st. Martin Parish,
La. Containing sixteen superficial ar
psnts. bounded North by the lands Of
the Estate of the iate Joseph Jean Louis,
aid South, East and West 10y the Public
Road leading from Breaux Bridge 10
Lafayette, La.
Sheriff's office, this 9Th day Of Nov.
A. ID. 1917.
WADE o. MARTIN,
Sheriff of st. Martin Parish. La.
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500 REWARD Sioo

The readers Of this paper Will he please
to learn that there is at least one dread
sd disease that science has been able To
cure in all its stages and that IL catarrh.
Cata,rh being greatly influenced 10y
constitutional conditions requires COIL
stitutiouai treatment. Halls Catarrh
Medicine is taken internally and acts
thru the Blood Cd the Mucous Surfaces
Of the System thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, giving the
patient strength bv building up the
constitution and assisting nature in do
ing its work. The proprietOrs have 50
much faith in its curative powers Of
Halls Catarrh Medicine that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any care that
IT fails to cure. Send for list Of testi-
monials. Address +. j. CHENEY ~ co.
Toledo. Ohio. Sud by all Druggist. .oc
The Washington herald., 1917-07-11
GERMANY IN TURMOIL
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.
mediate and decided action BY the
Reichstag.
"1f the government does not sepa-
rate itself from the pan-Germanists,
he threatened today Just before the
full Reichstag session. "the entire
Socialist party and others VIII rally
behind the opposition"
Slowly, bit by bit, more detailed re-
ports OF what happened in the main
committees star chamber sessions are
filtering through. Herr Won Batocki.
the German food controller. was call
ed upon to reply to a bitterly pessi-
mistic speech by a Socialist deputy.
II admit" said Batocki. that we
were deceived in our hopes in the
spring crops"
The food controller added. however.
that the crop outlook for fall was
excellent"
Government May submit.
Late this evening the surrender by
the Prussian government to the re-
form movement was foreshadowed in
an official bulletin Issued from the
Teuton capital This bulletin an
nounced that the Prussian govern
ment will submit to the Prussisn Diet
a proposed law granting electoral re-
forms instead of waiting until after
the war. The bill also provides for
Universal suffrage and for limited
extension of the rishts OF the voters
The Tageliche Rundschau said today
that Chancellor Won Bethmann-H Hou-
veg In Saturdays secret session cate
gorically rejected the request that he
express himself in favor OF peace
without annexations and indemnities.
He declared the formula impossible
and dangerous" He said he WAS un
able to accept the Socialist PROPOSE
tions in its behalf because they had
proved unsuccessful in Russia.
This was the first intimation that
the chancellor has made that his
course largely depended upon the de-
velopments OF the Russian revolution.
The Lokal Anzeiger quotes the chan
Cellor as saying in yesterdays secret
meeting of the main committee:
Germany must continue the war
with all energy.
Il do not deny that. We have great
difficulties to overcome in the in
terror, but We must not forget that
our enemies have the same troubles.
II have no doubt that We will con-
quer if We hold firm.
Nothing is further from my inten-
tions than to hold on to my post.
But at the same time. l consider
it necessary to protect the country
against the threatening evils"
The Bcrliner Tageblatt gives the
same resume of the chancellor ;
speech. adding that ne also spoke
on the Polish question, defending the
governments policy and vigorously
attacking what he called DR.. Erzber-
gers "nefarious policy
Later accounts give an account Of
the full session OF the Reichstag yes
terday evening. The Socialists called
upon the government to ameliorate
the food and coal situation.
This vital question was introduced
into the debate by Socialist Deputy
Sones He painted the situation in
the interior OF the empire in the
blacklist Colors ana pictured the eX-
treme misery of the population.
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william H. Baldwin, Harriet Stanton
Batch. and Miss Mamie H. Bur-
roughs were some of the eloquent or
ators who expounded the value of
work In the homes to supplement the
work in 49, trenches.
The tenor OF the speeches was the
same. Feeding the vast armies OF
our allies as well as our own fight
ing forces calls for sacrifices-indi-
viduslly small-but in the aggregate
effect toward preserving the food sup
ply of the nation-tremendous.
LET each man and woman feel
that when they take a little less sugar
in their tea or perhaps none. or when
they limit themselves to one meal a
day. that includes meat, they are
practicing little sacrifices that will
help to win the war"
When they think this sacrifice is
too great to make, let them pause
for q moment and consider the sac
rifices that red-blooded men are will
ing to make in the trenches to MAIN
tain democracy"
Such was the basis OF the first les
son that the women, with a liberal
sprinkling of men, received at the
schoolhouses, and everywhere the
pleas found a responsive chord ex-
pressed by hearty applause.
The schools in which the meetings
were held and the speakers were:
Western High School, Mrs. Archi-
bald Hopkins: Thomson School, Mrs
Harriet Stanton Blatch; Henry d.
Cooke School, Rev. Louis ]. O'Hern,
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw and George
A. Cullen; Jefferson School, Mrs
Frederick Dubois; Emery School,
Miss Elizabeth Howry; Peabody
School. Miss Mary Carmack McDou-
gall: Eastern High School, Miss Abby
L. Marlatt, Mrs. George Base and
Julius Peyser: Ketcham School. DR..
Cora Smith King; Mckinley School,
Mrs. Cordelia Powell Odenheimer,
Mrs. Edward Keating and Repre-
sentative Jeanette Rankin; John
Eaton School. Mrs. Rose C. Hoes
Powell School. Strabo v. Claggett
Park View School. Mrs George
Thacher Guernsey, Mrs. Ellis Mere
dith and Clifford Pinchot; Takoma
School. Sydney Snow: Arthur School,
Miss Ethel Mather Bagg: Wheatley
School. Mrs. Charles Wetmore; Madi-
son School, Charles F. Nesbit; Brook
land School. Mrs. Alice Allen; Phillips
School. Neval Fl. Thomas and DR.. c.
II. Marshall: Stevens School. DR..
A. NJ. Curtis: Garnet School. DR..
Greed w. Childs; Mott School. Mrs.
B. X. Bruce and Fountain Peyton;
Miner Normal School, Miss Mamie
II. Burroughs and DIR. J. II. Johnson;
Lovejoy School. M o. Dumas; Bir-
ney School. g. c. Wilkinson; Garfield
School, R. c. Bruce; Dunbar High
School, Mrs. Corslie Franklin Cook
and Rev. Walter II. Brooks: Randall
School, Prof. George W. Cook;
Western High School. DR.. A. ]. Nc
KeIway; Mckinley High School. Mrs.
Ida E. Kebler; Henry d. Cooke
School, Mrs F. L. Ransome: John
Eaton School. Mrs. George r. Wales
Powell School. Harry Bradford;
Phillips School. Georgetown. DR..
Charles H Marshall. Garnet School,
Rev. n. c. Garner; Miner Normal
School. Rev. Emery V. Smith; Love
10y School. Rev. F. I. 5. Bennett;
Garfield School. W. H. Lewis, jr.
Dunbar High School. Miss NJ. Z.
Kirkland; Randall High School. DR..
A. r. Collins; Wheatley School. Miss
Flora L. Hendley; Madison School,
/ Miss NJ. ]. Austin: Kctcham School,
Mrs. Charles F. Roberts. and Buck
land School. Mrs. Charles s. Molster
The Washington herald., 1917-07-11
FOOD REGISTRY
SUCCESS HERE
More Than $4,000 Wash
ington Women Sign Con-
servation Cards.

In 10 schooIhouses OF the District
yesterday. thousands Of the patriotic
women Of Washington pledged their
feAlty to the Government and signed
the food converation cards that make
them units in the nationwide army
Of Gen. Herbert Hoover. protector
Of the food supply.
Many thousands more. whose house
hold duties precluded a visit to the
schools, signed the cards In their
homes and the total OF women who are
registered to sconomize in home
menus and Cooperate to make the
meatless days and wheatless days a
success when necessary, will run well
above $1,000
william II. Baldwin. chairman Of
the District council OF national de-
fense, and Mrs. Archibald Hopkins,
chairman OF the women's committee
of the Organization, which had charge
Of the registration, could furnish no
authoritive list OF the total number
registered. The cards will not be
counted and tabulated until after
July Is, the last day in which the
women can register By mail.
The school doors were opened
promptly at noon, and 800 volunteer
teachers were on hand to furnish the
women with cards or any informa-
- ton that might be necessary In filling
them From noon until Z p. m. the
women filled in and filled the cards.
10000 Card. Distributed.
Last night they were bundled and
delivered to custodians, who will turn
them over to the Food Administrator
today.
The cards were distributed by the
police and the original allotment Of
5000 was exhausted two days ago.
An additional 10000 were furnished to
the police and these were partially
distributed, 50 that it is estimated that
upwards OF 1900 women received
cards
Much disappointment was expressed
by the registrants at their failure to
receive the window cards which VIII
designate them to the general public
as recruits in the army of food con-
ssrvation This was explained as due
to q delay Of the printer and II was
announced last night that every wom-
en- who filled out card will receive
her window display card from the
once OF Mr. Hoover within q few
days.
II was OllEHldAAN RthAAAlNN ~
the school meetings on food conserVa-
ton held in the afternoon as feature
Of the registration hours, but pros
poets Of larger crowds caused
change to the evening hour. with the
result that 500 or more cards were
filled out and handed in at the meet
ings.
Speakers Of national prominence
held the platforms in twenty-seven
schools throughout the District last
night and preached the doctrine OF
food conservation and women's WORK
in winning the war.
Probably in no other city In the
country will the distinguished array
of speakers that outlined the prelimi-
nary plans of Food Administrator
Hoover be gathered as those who
launched the opening campaign here
last night.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, leader of
the Suffragists; Rev. Louis J. O'Hern,
the noted Jesuit. head of the Catholic
chapIains in the army and navy; Rep
resentative Jeanette Rankin. Mrs. Ed
ward Keating. of Colorado; Rev.
Emory V. Smith. Clifford Pinchot.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-11
Must Protect Farmer,

"5. In order to do justice to the
producers who have shown great
patriotism In a special effort TO in
crease production in 1917 and TO
further stimulate the efforts OF 1915.
it is absolutely vital that We shall
proterk the farmer from slump in
price this year due to a glut as above
The Washington herald., 1917-07-11
SERVICE LEAGUE DRILL.

The Military Service League and In
struction Corps met last night at
o'clock at the headquarters in the Ma
tional Guard Armory. Col. r. d. Sims,
president of the Military Service Le-
gion, directed a long and strenuous
drill. This organization, which meets
every Tuesday night, IS composed
largely OF ex-soldiers and citizens in.
terested in military tactics. Its pur-
rose is TO instruct men for war serv-
Ice in the District. In addition to
drilling on Tuesday. the men meet
every Thursday night in the armory
and hear lectures by men OF military
experience.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-11
Rooster Holds the Road.

Columbus. July 1o.-"How the
Rooster Held the Road" is the sub
ject of a stirring tale going the
rounds here today.
W. V. Townsend and Harry Willie.
Columbus firemen. were 'f1ivvering
their way from Lancaster to this
city when they saw a chicken bob
up ahead of them. why does a
chicken cross the road" they Choir
used But this one didn't. He stood
his ground. with the result that the
machine turned over and was smashed
while the firemen we're bruised.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-11
SEVERE STORM DOES
LITTLE DAMAGE HERE

Only once before this season has
an electrical storm as sudden and
intense as the one which visited the
city late yesterday afternoon been
recorded at the Weather Bureau.
Flashes of lightning which were at
tended by a terrific windstorm and
torrents OF rain apparently did no
material damage if the lack of COM
plant reports at police headquarters,
be taken as criterion.
The only aftermath Of the storm
recorded, in fact, is an explosion OF
a street light. which occurred in
front of the Littlefeld. Alvord and
Company, at l4OS Pennsylvania avenue
northwest.
Crowds from the government de-
pnrtments, department stores and
theaters were put to considerable in
convience and delap on account OF the
storm, which continued long after
their customary "goins-home" time.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-11
REQUESTS Vote
FOR DISTRICT
Missouri Representative In
PRODUCES Franchise Bill;
Measure Approved.

Representative Dyer. of Missouri,
yesterday rekindled the smouldering
sentiment to give the District of CO.
lumbia a chance to be a part of the
government. by the Introduction of
a bill In the House designed to give its
residents a vote.
From all parts of the city last night
came sentiments of endorsement, each
expressing the hope that reference OF
the bill to the District OF Columbia
committee Of the House may not mean
its death In a pigeonhole.
A. Leftw h Sinclair, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, said: II am
GLAD that our friends in Congress are
active, even in these strenuous times.
We do not wish to push our COM
munity claims when the great needs
of the nation are pending. but just
as soon as they have been satisfac-
torlly settled. the District has a claim,
greater than any individual State,
that ought to be recognized"
Joseph Berberich. of the Retail Mer-
chants Association. said: "Of course
everybody with the welfare of the
District of Columbia at heart wants
to see the vote come as speedily as
possible. But for the war and the
imperative needs of the government,
everybody would have been pushing
this matter more actively. have
always contended that IL Congress
once has the fullest opportunity to
consider this proposition on its merits.
Washington will be granted a long
delayed Justice"
Ex-President p. T. Moran. of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce, a
prominent merchant. said: My own
ideas upon the subjects are so we'll
known, that l feel more or less like
a phonograph in expressing them
again. Give us the vote at the earliest
opportunity"
Martin ]. Mcnamara, a prominent
attorney and president of the Central
Citizens Association, said: The Fed
GRAFTON of Citizens Associations and
every individual member supports this
bill or any other bill that makes US
citizens in fact as we'll as In name
heartily indorse it,"
These expressions are typical OF
many leaders in the business and pro-
fessional life of the District.
Will Push Bill.
Representative Dyer announces that
he will endeavor to push his bill ard
have hearing granted at the earliest
opportunity
Its principal section simply directs
the commissioners to submit the fol-
lowing questions 10 an advisory refer
endum vote of the people resident in
the District Of Columbia:
DO you recommend that Congress
grant to the District of Columbia a
model charter establishing the right of
suffrage in said District with muni-
Cipal self-government in all local af-
fairs, including the election of COM
missoners and members of the school
board?
DO you desire that the District
shall he represented in Congress by a
delegate?
Other questions include the subject
of government ownership of tele-
phones and all public utilities, the
manufacture and sale of beer and
wine for home consumption. equal
suffrage. initiative. referendum and
recall and taxation.
Women. as well as men. would vote
on the referendum, provided they are
twenty-one years old. The commits
The Washington herald., 1917-07-11
Special Saturday Summer Schedule
Washington to HarrisOnburg
southern Railway system.

Beginning saturday, July IT, and
on Saturdays ONLY thereafter until
Sept. Is, 1917, inclusive, Southern
Railway Train No. 81. which now
leaves Washington 3:45 p. m, will
be changed to leave Washington 1:4J
p. m. passing Manassas 2:55 p. m,
Riverton Jet. $3.50 p. M: Strasburg
Jet, 6:1S p. M, and arrive Harrison
burg, $40 p. m. This arrangement
only for summer months. Consult
azents-Adv.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-11
REoRGANIzING GREEK ARMY.

Athens. July l0.-The Greek govern
ment has decided TO ask France TO re-
organize her army. it WAS learned
here today. The assembly to revise
the constitution was called today 10
meet in October.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-11

or from the uncontrolled decisions Of
any one buyer ! am informed that
most Of the allied oountSies have fixed
the price Of wheat to the farmer at
$3.50 per bushel and many OF the
producers believe that as allies II is
our duty to furnish wheat at q price
which delivered to them will not ex-
ceed their domestic price, In other
words. about $50 per bushel Chicago.
Neither their responsible officials nor
hold this view, because ] eansider
that the stimulation to production. IL
no other reason, is in the long run.
in the interest OF the allies.
'6 The proposed Food Admins
tration has conferred with many
hundred patriotic men engaged In
production and distribution and has
Investigated the condition Of the con-
sumers I'm many centers as well. Many
plans have been tentatively put for
ward and abandoned and others have
been developed, but in any case. none
has or can be settled until legislation
has been completed Three facts
stand out plainly enough from our
Investigations: First. that In this
situation, the farmer will need pro-
lection as to the price Of wheat and
second, that large masses OF people In
the consuming centers are being
actually undernourished today due to
the exorbitant cost of living, and
these conditions, unless some remedy
be found, are likely to repeat them
selves in even more vicious forms at
this time next year; third, the specula-
tor, legitimate or vicious. has taken
a large part of the money now being
paid by the consumer.
New Conditions Prevail.
"7. 1t seems to be overlooked in
some quarters that the marketing
of this years wheat is surrounded
with circumstances new to history
and that the old distributing safe
guards are torn away by isolation
from the reciprocal markets abroad
and the extinction of a free export
transportation. The harvest has
begun to move and from these very
causes the price of wheat has begun
to drop and IL the farmer is to sell
his wheat, either the speculator
must return to the market to buy
and carry on only the normal flow
from the farmer in excess of domes-
tic and foreign requirements but
also the glut due to the restriction
upon the outlet to the latter. He
must necessarily charge his toll to
the producer and the consumer and
this latter probably upon a more
extensive scale than last year. as
his risks will be greater. Practi-
cally. the export buyer must fix
his own price for export wheat from
the sole outlook of his own clients
and in execution of his duty he will,
in all normal circumstance. follow
the market down by buying only
his time-to-time requirements. as he
can not be expected to carry the
load of our domestic accumulation.
Il remain,
"Your obedient servant,
Herbert Hoover"
The Washington herald., 1917-07-11

sionsrs are directed TO appoint officials
to manage the referendum, and to
make the necessary regulations. A
certified statement showing the results
of the voting Is to be sent to the
President and Congress.
The Washington herald., 1917-07-11

A French inventors motor for small
boats Is driven by explosion. OF a
mixture Of hydrogen and oxygen.