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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
The Press Convention at Alexandra.

The Press Convention at Alexandria.
The Chronicle editor spent
three d avs in Alexandria this
week attending the 18th annual
session of the Louisiana Press
Association. April o, "a and 25.
We have been a member of the
association for 81 years and great
ly enjoy these annual reunions
with the press gang. We did
our bit by reading a paper and
taking part with some of the
committees during the session.
and altogether was one of the
boys at the reception and in the
automobile ride that the business
men Of Alexandria generously
provided for the Entertainment
of the editors.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
CLIP THIS AND PIN
ON WlFE'S DRESSER
Cincinnati man tells how to shrivei
up corns or caIIuses 50 they
lift off with fingers.

Ouch f!fil 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 drug called freezone when applied
to tender, aching corn or hardened cal
lus 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 infiames 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 If
your druggist doesn't have freezone tell
him to order q small bottle for you.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
TRY It! SUBSTITUTE
FOR NASTY CAL0ME[
Starts your liver without making
you sick and can not
salivate.

Every druggist in town-your
druggist and everybody's druggist
has noticed a great falling-off in the
sale of calomel. They all give the
same reason. Dodson's Liver Tone
is taking its place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know it, while Dodson's Liver Tone
is perfectly safe and gives better re-
Suits" said a prominent local drug
gist. Dodsonis Liver Tone is per-
sonally guaranteed by every drug
gist who sells it. A large bottle
costs 30 cents, and if it fails to give
easy relief in every case of liver
sluggishness and constipation, you
have only to ask for your money
back.
Dodson's Liver Tone is pleasant
tasting, purely vegetable remedy,
harmless to both children and adults.
Take spoonful at night and wake
up feeling fine; no biliousness, sick
headache, acid stomach or consti-
pated bowels. It doesn't grippe or
cause inconvenience all the next
day like violent calomel,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
Naval Recruiting at Alexandria.

Alexandria, April 4.-Chiet
Carpenters Mate L. Holt of the
local navy recruiting station has
received a letter from E. C. Tan.
cey, a young man of Bunkie, in
which he makes inquiry as to
the requirements necessary for
Enlistment in the navy. He also
stated that there were twelve
young men in Bunkie who de-
sire to enlist. One ofNthe ques-
tons asked was whether the
term of enlistment would expire
with the termination of the war.
Chief Holt announces that he
had three applications for enlist
ment on Thursday, only one of
which was accepted. The sue
cessful applicant was Robert S.
McNeeley of Colfax. who will
go to tn e Great Lake Naval
Training School at Chicago on
Sunday.
Since the naval recruiting sta
ton opened here, Chief Holt has
had II applicants who were ex-
amined; SO of who were not con-
sidered, and there are % who
have been accepted and have en-
tered the service. Alexandria
Town Talk.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
Stop Left Over Coughs.

DR.. Bells Pine-Tar- Honey will stop
that hacking cough that fingers from
January. The soothing pine balsams
loosen the phlegm, heals the irritated
membrane, the glycerine relieves the
tender tissues, you breathe easier and
coughing ceases. Don't neglect lin
gering cough, it is dangerous. DR..
Bells Pine Tar Honey is antiseptic and
pleasant to take, benefits young and
old, get it at your druggist today.
Formula on the bottle. 25c.-Adv. z.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
The Editor and His Garden.

The editor of the Chronicle has
been enjoying a fine supply of
vegetables from his garden for
the past week. such as Irish po-
tatos, sweet peas, beets, onions,
spinach. mustard, etc. We had
our first mess of new potatoes
on Saturday, April Il. The po-
tatoes, Triumph variety, were
planted on Jan. 81. For 38 years
we have made it a rule to plant
potatoes on the 30th or 31st day
of January, if the ground was
prepared and the weather suit
able, or on or before Feb. Is in
any event, and we never failed
to make a good crop. Sometimes
the potato vines are cut down
by the frost, but it never hurts
the potato. 1t is all nonsense
to cut off the vines with a hoe,
or pour water on them before
sunrise when frost bitten, as
some folks do. If let alone and
planted in good soil they
will come out all right.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
After H0llweg's Scalp.

Copenhagen, April 25 iva
London. THE movement for
the overthrow of Chancellor Won
Bethmann-Hollweg is again be-
coming evident in Germany.
The agitation is encouraged by
dissensions over civil reforms,
possible peace terms and food
troubles.
The Pan-Germans, conserva-
tive and national liberal organs,
are, Wednesday, sharply cam
paigning against the socialist
peace program and take the
chancellor severely to task for
not disassociating himself and
his administration from Scheide-
mann and his propaganda. The
conservative Deutsche Tages
Zeitung demands a strong hand
at the helm, which alone it says,
can save the country from the
dangerous Schiedemann course.
The liberal organs declare that a
strong and positive policy at
home and abroad is much needed.
Other papers accuse the chan
cellor of losing the imperial pres
tige on the emperor's Easter
manifesto. which failed to satisfy
any party.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
The Widows DOwery Law Should Go

The Widows DOwery Law Should Go.
1t is thought that Gov. Pleas
ant has decided to call the legis-
lature to meet in extra session
about May IA, to consider the
proposal of amending the civil
code so as to allow the small far
mers to mortgage his property.
1t is proposed to do away with
the provision of the law which
sets aside $1,000 for the widows
and minor children in necessitous
circumstances. This provision
prevents the Farm Loan Banks
from making loans in Louisiana
to the small farmers, the very
ones it is intended to benefit.
Some of the best informed law
yers in Louisiana claim that not
more than one per cent of the
widows left in this State ever de-
rive any benefit from the dowery
law, and if it were repealed at
least SO per cent of them would
be benefited by the operation of
the Farm Loan law in this State.
If this is a fact, and the argu-
ments in favor of the proposition
seems to prove it, then ordinary
business precaution demands that
the dowery law should go.
The other States seem to get
along alright without the widows
dowery law; and they are in line
to share in the farm loans, where
as Louisiana is handicapped by
this law, and the small farmers
will not be able to get loans on
their farms until it is repealed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
Pollock Municipal Officers Elected.

Pollock Municipal Officers Elected.
The following town officers
were elected in Pollock last week:
Frank Hamilton, mayor, who re-
ceived 80 votes. His opponents
were w. P. Guynes, II votes,
and C. E. Mccain. 9.
G. A. Moffett was elected mar
shall, receiving 43 votes.
The following were elected as
aldermen: R. w. Wagner, 46
votes; James Tracy 40; j. w.
Wilson, SO; w. o. Johnson, 80;
Lee Honeycutt, 80.
Other candidates for aldermen
and the number of votes received
are as follows: R. A. Walker, o.;
w. L. Boswell, 81; ]. C. Clark,
%
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
Oak Grove Agricultural Club Resolu-
tons of Preparedness.

~~es~~->s
Whereas, the United States of Amer
lea is engaged in war with foreign
power; and whereas, we the farmers of
Oak Grove community desire to do all
in our power to help our government
and our soldiers in t h i S crisis; and
whereas, we realize that the producer
who makes sacrifices is doing patri-
otto deed in the same way that SOL
der makes sacrifices to join the army;
and whereas, our government and our
state has called upon US to do all in
our power to feed the army, and the
world, after we have fed ourselves;
therefore be it,
Resolved, by the citizens of Oak
Grove community, and the members of
the Oak Grove Agricultural Club. that
each of US will and shall agree to plant
not less than one half of our cultivat-
ed acres in feed or food crops, such as
corn, sweet potatoes. cowpeas, velvet
beans, peanuts, cane, soybeans, water
melons, popcorn, and vegetable and
garden products.
Resolved, That we agree to increase
the production of livestock, as fast as
we well can by better management and
not to sell any cows, sows, ewes, hens,
or nanny goars for the period of one
year.
Resolved, That we agree to do all in
our power to aid in the control of con-
tagious livestock diseases, such as hog
cholera, Charlton, tick fever, and black
leg.
Resolved, That we shall keep in touch
with the market values of farm pro-
duce and livestock through our farm
papers, our merchants, and our demon
stration agent, and not to sell any
thing for less than a reasonable price,
but on the other hand, not to sell for
an exorbitant price.
Resolved, That if there are any
people in our midst who do not have
seed, fertilizer, machinery, or team to
work all of the crop that they are able,
that we will do all in our power as an
organization to arrange for the proper
credit to enable them to carry on their
business on as large scale as possible.
Resolved. That we pledge ourselves
ready to answer the call of our gov
eminent as an army of producers in
like manner to the army of soldiers.
R. H. BENTON, Jr.
j. T. FLANAGAN,
G. F. FULLER,
FRED LOWELL,
Committee.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
w. O. w. Notice.

Black Jack Camp No. 1916 w. o. w.
will unveil the monument of our late
Sovereign James E. Kent, in the Oak
Grove Cemetery, Sunday May 20, 1917,
at 8 o'clock, p. m. All visiting Sow
ereigns are cordially invited to partici-
pate in the ceremonies.
R. L. WILLIAMSON, Clerk.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
Louisiana Oil Is To Be Stored BY
Order of u. 8. Government.

New Orleans, April 2O-The
great oil-producing companies in
Louisiana have been quietly d.
rected by the United States gov
eminent to tank their product
and hold it in storage subject to
orders. The have been told to
use from this storage capacity
no more than can be replaced on
forty-eight hours notice.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
Some Good Advice.

Don't think too much of your own
methods. Watch other peoples ways
and learn from them" This is good
advice, especially when bilious or con-
stipated You will find many people
who use Chamberlain Tablets for
these ailments with the best results.
and will do well to follow their exam
pie. ADV.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
Draft Plan is Misunderstood.

w dollluS tOlI, Apiil 6O' 40 OhS
step toward meeting opposition
in congress to the administra-
tons plans. President Wilson
Thursday sent a letter to Repre-
sentative Helvering of Kansas
explaining what is meant by Sc
lective draft and expressing earn
est hope that the bill drafted by
the war department will be pass
ed. The letter said:
Il welcome the inquiry of your
letter of April 10 because | have
realized the truth of what you
say from my own observations
namely, that what is meant to
be understood by the selective
draft is not generally understood
throughout the country.
The process of the draft is,
! think, very clearly set forth in
the bill drafted by the war de-
partment and which ! so earnest
ly hope the congress will adopt,
but it is worth while to state the
idea which underlies the bill a
little more fully. ! took occasion
the other Gay in an address to
the people of the country to point
out the many forms of patriotic
service that were open to them
and to emphasize thefact that the
military part of the service was
by no means the only part and
perhaps all things considered
and the most vital part. Our
object is a mobilization of all the
productive and active forces OF
the nation and their development to
the highest point of cooperation
and efficiency and the idea Of the
selective draft is that those
should be chosen for service in
the army who can be most readi-
ly spared from the prosecution
of the other activities which the
country must engage in and to
which it must devote a great
deal of its best energy and
capacity.
1.-The volunteer system does
not do this. When men choose
themselves they sometimes
choose without due regard to
their other responsibilities. Men
may come from the farms or from
the mines or from the factories
or from centers of business who
ought not to come, but ought to
stand back of the armies in the
field and see that they get every
thing that they need and that
the people of the country are
sustained in the meantime.
THE principle of the selective
draft in short has at its heart
this idea, that there is a univers-
al obligation to serve and that a
public authority should choose
those upon whom the obligation
of military service shall rest and
also in a sense choose those who
shall do the rest of the nation
work. The bill if adopted will
be a great source of stimulation.
Those who feel that we are turn
ing away altogether from the
voluntary principle seem to for
get that some C00,000 men will
be needed to fill the ranks of the
regular army and the national
guard and that a very great field
of individual enthusiasm lies there
wide open."
Naval Recruiting at Alexandria.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
Nature Cures, the Doctor Takes tn.

Fee.
There is an old saying that mature
cures, the doctor takes the fee," but
as everyone knows you can help nature
very much and thereby enable it to eff
feet cure in much less time than is
usually required. This is particularly
true of colds. Chamberlain Cough
Remedy relieves the lungs. iiquifes the
tough mucus and aids in its expectora-
ton, allays ihe cough and aids nature
in restoring the system to q healthy
condition. ADV.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28
American Corn to the Rescue of the
Nations.


the whole of the civilized world,
owing to the great war that is
threatening to produce a state
bordering on famine on all of the
continents of earth, it is astonish-
ing to US that a thoughtful and
earnest presentation of the Won
derful value of the humble corn
pone has not been brought for
ward as a world preserver at
this critical stage of food supply.
Here in the South, we who
know how easily and beautifully
the women and children were
fed on hog and hominy at home.
by the labor of slaves while the
men were at the front fighting
the battles of the Civil War, well
remember satisfying foods pre-
pared from corn meal. The hoe
cake and the corn dodger and
mush were almost our sole means
of subsistence.
They tell us now that the world
is looking to America for its sup
ply of food, while its armies are
engaged in killing off the men
that should be at home providing
food for their women and chill
dren.
The proposition apparently is
that this great food shortage is
going to be attempted to be sup
piled from the wheat fields of
the United States and Canada,
which are already reported mil
lions of bushels short, with the
prospect that it may be depleted
and shortened other millions of
bushels before the crop is har-
vested.
Statistics of the United States
Agricultural Department show
that the production of corn in
the United States exceeds that
of wheat more than three fold.
Our biggest bumper crop of
wheat does not amount to more
than one-third of our average
crop of corn.
A recent bulletin of the Agri-
cultural Department refers to
the fact that this country has
produced in one crop three billion
bushels of corn, while the great
est wheat crop ever harvested
was only one-third that quantity.
1t is perfectly astounding that
this immense supply of nutriti-
Gus human food should be allow
ed to go almost to waste, so far
as the world at large is concern
ed. Even here in the United
States there are thousands who
do not know and understand the
value of corn food; and, like rice,
another bountiful and valuable
crop in the South, in many Sec
tons of the country, it is scarce
ly used at all.
Passing gently and persuasive
ly from these huge figures, the
bulletin goes on to say that a
pound of cornmeal at 3 cents per
pound is equal in food value to
two loaves of wheat bread, and is
not only the cheapest but the best
foodstuff obtainable at this or
any other time. 1t is declared
that 3 cents worth of cornmeal
contains as much nutriment as
80 cents worth of eggs at so
cents per dozen or Sc cents
worth of round steak at 80 centsj
per pound.
The agricultural bulletin also
says that cornmeal contains
twice as much fat as any other
cereal except oats, and costs one
tenth as much as some Of the |
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-04-28

R. L. WILLIAMSON. Clerl
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-25
June 1926 Named BY
President Wilson as
Red Cross Week

ton of our people can have the op-
portunity to serve upon the actual
field of BATTLE, but all men, women
and children alike may servs and
serve effectively by making it possible
to care properly for those who do
serve under arms at home and abroad.
"And inasmuch as the American Red
Cross is the official recognized agency
for voluntary effort in behalf of the
armed forces of the nation and for
the administration of relief.
"Now, therefore, by virtue of my
authority as President of the United
States and President of the American
Red Cross, l., Woodrow Wilson, do
hereby proclaim the week ending June
Is, 1917, as Red Cross Week, during
which the people of the United States
will be called upon to give generously
and in a spirit of patriotic sacrifice
for the support and maintenance OF
Fthiss work Ufonational need.
te eli apoo sri (SignedD 81
Iss Woodrow wilson.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-25
WAITE LOOKS
UPON DEATH
As ADVENTURE
Dentist Who Murdered His Wife 3
Parents Is Electrocuted at
E. .'af .. Ett3 sss} *. i,s VII, r. -. a-
y, - !. Sing Sing
WENT TO FArE.WITHoUT
''s ss''..'s A WORD or PROTEST

Ossining, N. Y, May 5.-tDr. Ar
thur Warren Waite was executed al
Sing Sing prison at II: 10 o clock last
night, for the murder of his father
in-law, John E. Peck of Grand Rap
ids, Mich ~, oa,
The young dentist walked calmly
from his cell to the death chamber,
accompanied by the Rev. A. N. Peter
son, Protestant chaplain Of the pris.
on. He faltered, however, as he near
ed the electric chair, but recovered
quickly and nodded to the group of
physicians, prison officials and others
who had assembled as witnesses.
Waite went to his death without a
word of protest or goodbye. Three
shocks we're administered within four
minutes. When the clergyman asked
the condemned man If there was any
one to whom he wished to send a
message of farewell, Waite replied
mo, thank you, doctor. There really
is no one to whom I care to send
farewell message"
"Not even to your MOTHER" asked
Mr.. Peterson.
"No sir, to none,' was tho answer.
The chaplain declared that Waite,
who confessed that he had poisoned
his wealthy father.in-law in the ex-
pectation that his wife would obtain
Peck's estate, seemed to look upon
his approaching doom as wonderful
adventure.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-25
Austrian Parliament
'convenoS for First
Time Since ar

Amsterdam, May 25.-A Vienna
telegram says that in the course of
a meeting of the Representatives of
the Lower Chamber, Premier Clam
Maritime expressed the hope that the
session would proceed in manner to
increase the reputation of the mon
archy abroad. He mentioned bills
which would be submitted including
coalition law and one providing for
war profit tax. The Premier ad-
mitted the right of the House to de-
eide Independently what it considered
necessary.
The foregoing dispatch gives the
first news that the Austrian Parlia-
ment has convened. The cOnvening
of Parliament, which has not been in
session since the outbreak of the war,
has been one of the most acute polit-
ical questions in Austria. DR.. Fried
rich Adler, the assassin of Premier
Stuergkh, gave as the principal rea-
son for his act, the Premier's deter
mined refusal to convene the legis-
lature.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-25
WAR REVENUE
BEING. TRIMMED
DOWN. | ! J \ BY SENATE
Budget to Defray Expenses Will
/ Be Reduced About One
Third !,
RETROACTIVE TAX IN
FOR EARLY ELIMINATION

Washington, May 25-Revision OF
the $1,8000OO,O 900 war revenue bill
passed yesterday by the, house was
ee,gm,ttes begun todXAby 81 y, the tn senate finance
Reduction of the gross tax levy of
the bill 10y phe-third, or to about ST.
250,O00,00g,' Is said to be favored by
most OF the committeeman. 1t is
deemed certain, at least, that the ag.
gregate tax burden will not be in.
creased and that the committee will
not consider adding the extra esti.
mates of $445, 100000 recently SUBJ
mitted by the treasury department.
Chairman Simmons announced aft
er today's meeting that the commit
tee had agreed to the following
changes in the measure: .@
To strike out the additional retro
active income tax on incomes earned
in 1916.
To strike out all provisions for in
creased second class mail rates under
the. zone system and substitute a low
direct tax (probably about 2 per cent?
on all advertising, including that in
newspapers and magazines, and of bill!
boards. posters and street cars; to
strike out all proposed increase in
inheritance tax schedules, and to sub
stitute for the house excess profits
tax on profits over 8 per cent of in
vested capital, an excess profits tax
based on average profits for period
of years, not more than five.
Elimination of the retroactive tax
on 1916 incomes, Senator Simmons
estimated, alone, would result in re-
duction of the house bills tax levy by
sos, ,000, 900.