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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-01

the members OF the committee on
grounds Other matters will come up
for consideration
The Current Events class OF the
New Castle Century Club will meet
tomorrow afternoon. Mrs. Jacob H.
Spelcher will read the current events
and Mrs. J. Ernest Phillips will con
duct a parliamentary drill.
Mrs Theodore Hatton is seriously
IN at the home of her parents in Sea
ford. Mr.. Hatton, who is in charge
of Representative Harry Ahern's bar
Der shop while the latter Is busy at
the Legislature. at Dover, has gone
TO Seaford to be with his wife.
William Stewart, who was a SER
geant in the motor corps with the
Delaware Militia at the border.
brought home with him a collection
OF hopping and creeping things native
20 that section that are on exhibit
ton In James II. Challenger's store
Owing 10 the illustrated lecture
scheduled for tomorrow night in Naz-
areth NJ. p. Church, the choir rehears-
al will begin at O'Clock and con.
tinue one hour. The choir is rehears-
ing a special cantsta to sing Easter
Sunday night
Representative Harry Ahern of
this city who has been IN with the
grip for several days, is reported to
be improving
The roads in this section are so
deep In mud as 70 seriously interfere
with travel. Workers employed I'm
the New Castle plants who live some
distance away and are dependent upon
jitneys 10 take them to and from their
work or to and from the trolley lines.
are compelled to walk, iitneys not
being able to run on account OF the
roads.
Miss Mary Conover is visiting her
brother in Philadelphia
Joseph Baker Of Clark street, Is
seriously III with pneumonia.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-01

OF New York, Philadelphia and Balti-
more. Such freight. as heretofore will
be accepted oisiy where the shippers
present satisfactory evidence that
adequate vessel space has been en-
gagged and that the cars will be
promptly unloaded upon arrival. This
practice will be maintained in order
that the export freight traffic may be
strictly controlled, and the movement
OF foodstuffs and other necessities for
domestic consumption may be as free
as possible, This is in conformity
with the established policy of the
pennsylvania system to give foodstuifs
Tor home use preference in movement
over all other kinds of freight.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-01
ROADS APE MILDLY

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DELAWARE CITY, Del. March 49,
The roads in this section are almost i'm
passable because of the recent rains
People from Port Penn, who are work.
ing nc the plants in tho vicinity Of New
Castle, have to walk 70 this place. III.
neys not being able to operate on nc.
count Of the condition of the roads.
The Bob Morris is dredging in thu
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
Thirty recruits from Fort Slocum, n.
Y, arrived at Fort DUPONT yesterday TO
be assigned TO the companies Of the de-
lenses of the Delaware.
Tho meeting Of the Delaware CITY
Century Club on Friday afternoon win
be devoted TO "Our National Parks and
Conservation"
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-01
AFTERNOON FIRE.

The Water Witch Fire Company re-
sponded to still alarm of fire yes
terday at the house No 1105 Brooms
street. The loss was trifing.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-01
OLD FASHIONED FAMILY REMEDY
FOR COLDS And BODY BUILDING

Father Johns Medicine Builds
Up the Body Without Use of
Alcohol or Dangerous Drugs.
A Doctors Prescription, so
Years in Use.
Absolute Truth of This Story
Attested by Guarantee to give
$25,OOO.ON to Any Charitable In
stitutiOn if shown otherwise.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-01

Father Johns Medicine is a physicians pre-
scripton.
Prescribed for the late Rev. Father John
O'Brien. of Lowell, Mass, by an eminent spe'
cialist in 1855
Father John recommended this prescription
to his parishioners and friends and in this way
il became known as Father Johns Medicine.
This story is true and we guarantee to give
$25,00000 to any charitable institution, if shown
otherwise
Father Johns Medicine is recommended fol
coughs, colds, and throat troubles and to make
flesh and strength. Does not contain alcohol
or poisonous drugs.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-01
DEMOCRATS TO CAUCUS
over PARTY measures
STAFF Cnrresnondent.

STAFF Correspondent
DOVER, Del, March democratic
members of the Senate and House
have called a joint caucus to be held
at 1890 o'clock, next Friday morning
Senator Gormley is chairman of the
caucus.
Senator Gormley stated that the
purpose of the caucus - to go over
the Democratic state platform to see
if the pledges of that platform! are be-
ing carried out as near as porsible by
the Democratic members Of the Legis-
lature.
The caucus will also likely consider
some revenue bills on the calendar,
and decide what stand to take on them
as a party.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-01
COMPLETE SHELL CONTRACT.

Having completed the contract for the
manufacture OF Russian fuses, the Ar
tillery Fuse Company is planning TO
change the machinery in this department
so that fuses for the British Government
can be made. This requires considerable
change of Machinery, and owing to the
change being made numbr of em-
ployes have been laid off temporarily.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-01
CONNOR MAY Rim AGAIN.

Friends of Robert G.. Conner. who
represented the Second ward in City
Council some years ago. are urging
him to be a candidate for the office of
the coming election. II was intimat-
ed that Mr.. Conner would be q can
didate at the coming primaries.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-01

Emulate buying this month will take your old range kitchen
YOU TO TURN Ii IN AS FIRST PAYMENT ON A GAS CAB
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-01

Shortage OF
our filters busy 1t is in-between time
IL prices on Gas Ranges will advance sharply.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-01
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens FootEase. iho ontiseptro powder 20
be shaken into tho shoes and Eprinkled into
the foothnth. 10 relieves painful swollen,
smartinF feet and takes the sting out OF
carna and hunions. Use 70 whom You put on
fuhhcrs or heavy stockings. Allen Is Foot.
Ease Is a certain relief for swcating, callous,
tired. aching feet. Sold by Druggists every.
where. 2bc Always use Sc 70 Break In now
lhoos TRIAL package fREE Address. Allen
s. oimsted. lie Roy, n. y.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
Methodists Fail to Unite.

Traverse City, Mich, July g.
The conference of the commits
sion on unification of the Metho-
dist churches in America, adj
journed to day. 1t was announc-
ed that the conference failed to
reach an agreement. The ques-
ton of whether the negro Metho
dist of the South should have q
seat in the law-making body sof
Methodism, was the issue which
kept the branches of the church
from an agreement, it is under
STOOD.
The conference will meet again
Jan. @. in a Southern city not
yet decided upon.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
YES! LIFT A CORN
OFF WITHOUT PAM
Cincinnati authority tells how TO dry
up . corn or callus 90 Il IIfte
OF with fingers.

You corn-pestered men and women
need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes
that nearly killed you before, says this
Cincinnati authority, because q few
drops of freezone applied directly on .
tender, aching corn or callus, stops sore
ness at once and soon the corn or
hardened callus loosens 90 it can be
lifted out, root and all, without pain.
A small bottle of freezone cost very
little at any drug store, but will posi-
lively take of every hard or soft
corn or callus. This should be tried,
as It is inexpensive and is said not TO
irritate the surrounding skin.
If your druggist hasn't any freezone
tell him to get small bottle for you
from his Wholesale drug house. 1t ID
fine stuff and acts like charm every
time.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
.CALOMEL DYNAM|TES
4 SLUGGISH LIVER
Crashes into sour bile, making
you sick and you lose
q days work.

Calomel salivates! It's mercury.
Calomel acts like dynamite on a.
sluggish liver. when calomel comes
into contact with sour bile it crashes
into it, causing cramping and nausea.
If you feel bilious, headachy, con-
stipated and all knocked out, just 60
to your druggist and get a so cent
bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which
is a harmless vegetable substitute for
dangerous calomel. Take spoonful
and if it doesn't start your liver and
straighten you up better and quicker
than nasty calomel and without max
ing you sick, you just go back and
get your money.
If you take calomel today you'll be
sick and nauseated tomorrow; be-
sides, it may salivate you, while if
you take Dodson's Liver Tone you
will wake up feeling great, full of
ambition and ready for work or play.
1t is harmless, pleasant and safe to
give to children; they like it.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
Louisiana Troops to Go to a Larger
Mobilization Camp.

New Orleans, July 10.-Ofi-
GERS and men of the First Louisi-
ana Infantry and the Washington
Artillery are entering upon what
they confidently believe to be
their last thirty days at Camp
Nichols. While no intimation
has come from Washington re-
garding the prospective depart
ure of the troops it is the expec-
tation of Colonel Stubs and his
officers that the orders to entrain
for a larger mobilization camp
will come soon after August 5,
the date that the war department
has set for the Federation of all
Louisiana State units now recog-
nized as the State guard.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
BUSINESS Methods on the Farm.

Atlanta, Ca, July 10, 1917.
Editor Colfar Chronicle:
Will you kindly print a bit of
conversation l had the other day
with a Georgia farmer.
The farmer showed me a piece
of corn on as poor a hillside as
any to be found in Grant, en-
quired about the yield and here
is what he said:
THAT will make so bushels
per acre if we get favorable
weather. | asked him how he
knew so definitely and his reply
was: Il have the stalks sixteen
inches apart and the rows four
feet. That gives me 81 rows
with 157 stalks to the row. 125
ears of that corn will weigh la
pounds. Allowing a loss of 20
per cent for cut worms, bud
worms, blight, etc. | will get
81 bushels.
How many farmers in Grant
know the number of stalks of
corn in their fields?
| took dinner with this man
and he produced practically every
thing on the table. If | had
gone to Thompson's Cafe in at
lanta and eaten what ate there
the bill would have been $40.
The farmer assured me that
no body in his neighborhood
ever bought grain and hay. He
said there was once a man in the
community who always had to
buy feed. Finally the farmers
called a meeting and told the
brother that they could not have
a man in the neighborhood who
would disgrace them and that he
had to quit hauling grain and
hay from town or move.
These farmers value the last
incn of dirt and they hit system
atically for profits.
JAMES A. CHRISTIAN.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
The u. S. Red Cross Will Care for
Wounded Germans.

Following the rule which for
forty years has won for it world
wide honor and respect, the
American Red Cross units on the
battle field or elsewhere will
treat German wounded w h o
come within their operations
with the same consideration as
they will treat their allies.
This is the announcement of
former President William H.
Taft, chairman of the Red Cross
executive committee, as stated
to Arthur Won Briessen, of New
York, in a letter made public July
10, in answer to an inquiry as to
whether during the war the Red
Cross will serve the United States
and her allies exclusively.
The former president explain
ed that the Red Cross had de-
cided that it could not send sup
plies or money to Germany dur
ing the war.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14

A good practical method of
keeping the spring crop of Irish
potatoes through the summer is
to spread the potatoes thinly un-
der a building where they can
be kept perfectly dry and away
from the light.
In the enjoyment of fresh
vegetables, such as snap beans,
beets, peas and Irish potatoes,
let US not overlook the matter
of a late summer garden and
fail to provide for an abundance
of vegetables at this season also.
If you are anticipating a large
crop of sweet potatoes this year
make arrangements during the
summer for keeping it. Find a
simple practical plan of construct
ing a sweet potato storage house
and build one after you are
through laying by. IF. j. Crider,
in The Progressive Farmer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
Biggest Corn Crop Ever.

Washington, June 9.-More
than a three billion bushels pros
pective crop of corn this year is
the farmers answer to the presi-
dents call for food for Americas
allies in the war. Never before
was such a corn crop grown. In
the first forecast of the corn pro-
duction the department of agri-
culture announced for July / the
condition 81.1, with an acreage
of 12l, 045, 600, indicating a crop
of 3, 124, 600, 600 bushels. on an
increase of 16, 900, 600 acres over
last year.
The wheat production is fore
cast as 678, 900, 600 bushels.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
GIRLS! LEMON JUICE
IS A SKIN WHITENER
How to make a creamy beauty lotion
for few cents.

The juice of two fresh lemons strained
into bottle containing three ounces OF
orchard white makes whole quarter
pint of the most remarkable lemon skin
beautifier at about the cost one must
pay for a small jar of the ordinary cold
creams. Care should be taken to strain
the lemon juice through fine cloth so
no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion
will keep fresh for months. Every
woman knows that lemon juice is used
to bleach and remove such blemishes as
freckles, sallowness and tan and is
the ideal skin softener, whitener and
beautifier.
Just try it! Get three ounces Of
orchard white at any drug store and
two lemons from the grocer and make up
quarter pint of this sweetiy fragrant
lemon lotion and massage it daily into
the face, neck, arms and hands.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14

The position of the Alexandra
authorities and their Solons is
tersely and aptly stated by the
Shreveport Caucasion, in COM
menting on their attitude anent
the proposition to secure Camp
Stafford's recognition and use as
an army cantonment. The eau
casian says, with every con-
sideration of respect" their at
titude is a reminder of the cou-
plet about Old Nick,
1.-The devil when sick saint would be,
The devil got well and devil of saint
was he."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
National Guard Assigned to South.


Washington, July IL. Subject
to approval by Major-General
Bliss, acting chief of staff, the
following assignments of national
guard troops to concentration
camps has been made by the
military bureau for the troops
from the western and central
areas of the country: Michigan
and Wisconsin, to Waco, Texas;
Illinois, to Houston, Texas; Min
nesota, North and South Dakota,
Iowa and Nebraska, to Deming,
N. M; Kansas and Missouri, to
Fort Sill, Okla; Texas and Okla
homa, to Fort Worth, Texas;
Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Califor-
MIA, New Mexico and Nevada, to
Linda Vista, Cal. /; Washington.
Montana. Idaho and Wyoming,
to Palo Alto. Cal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14

Nothing Like Publishing Old Time
Methods.
The Lake Charles American
Press, under a triple heading,
prints an account of an inspec-
ton by D. L. Gallery in the Texas
sweet potato section, in which he
was greatly impressed with the
method used by the citizens to
cope with the dry weather and
make their crops success.
In short. the plan is to coat the
vines with a mud mixture about
like thick buttermilk. plant deep
with bud tip protruding, and thus
the plants get good start re-
CARELESS of tAe continued dry
weather.
We have known about this
method for more than fifty years,
and have seen it practiced in
Grant parish for fully forty years.
At first reading we thought it a
little funny that the American
Press should give the item so
much prominence. On second
thought, however, it took on a
very serious aspect. The people
of the United States are engaged
in a campaign to raise a great
food crop, and thousands of per-
sons who know very little about
sweet potatoes are struggling
with the difficulty of setting out
their vine cuttings during the
prevalence of a great drouth. In
this extremity the knowledge of
the mud mixture, and the great
success that attends the method
is extremely important, and in a
great many cases means the diff
ference between success and abb
solute failure.
By all means let the mud-mix-
ture method be published by the
newspapers. Let it be known
that the vines can safely be set
out as late as August 4th or 9Th,
with the prospect of a fair crop
before a killing frost occurs. Po-
tatoes take about 80 days to ma
ture, and our first light frosts
usually occur from Oct. Is to %.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14

On Wednesday the editor at
tended the third quarterly con-
ference for the Colfax and Mont
gomery charge. held in Mont
gomery that afternoon. The
people of that vicinity are suf-
fering a good deal from the long
drouth, and the gardens as a
rule are about ruined. Some Of
the crops are still promising, and
with rain will yield a fair return,
and the people appear hopeful
and cheerful. The new two
story brick high school building
has a fine location and its at
tractive appearance and promi-
hence adds a good deal to the
town.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
Army Can Use Small Men.

Washington, July IL. : New
army regulations made public
yesterday reduced the minimum
weight for recruits from 120 to
ITO and the minimum height
from 5 feet A inches to 5 feet l
inch. This will add thousands
who otherwise would be exempt
to the national army to be raised
in the draft. and opens the doors
of the regular army and national
guard to many volunteers turned
down in the past.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
Red Cross Overhead Expenses.

The question having been rails
ed as to the amount required for
overhead expenses in carrying
out the work of the Red Cross by
the War Council, Henry P. Da-
wilson announces that he is per-
fectly willing to hazard the pre-
diction that mot more than one
per cent of the money to be ex-
pended by the War Council will
be absorbed in administration ex-
penses.
He says so many factors enter
into the conduct of the work at
National headquarters it is OBJ
viously impossible to foretell the
expenses of operation. Yet he
is willing to hazard the predic-
tion that not over one per cent
OF the money will be taken to
pay necessary expenses. Think
of that, ye givers to the Red
Cross; SO cents out of every dol
lar will be used in the actual re-
lief of sickness and sorrow and
suffering.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14

Mrs. JAG Bloch. accompanied
by her little daughter Sybil and
little niece Doris. went to Wash
ington, La, on Thursday of last
week on account of the death OF
Miss Hilda Klaus grandfather.
Mrs. Bloch returned home on
Tuesday, but the little folks
went on to- Lafayette, La, on a
visit of a week.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
The Madness of wilhelm.


If there exist anywhere in the
world a reasonable human being
who doubts that the great war is
a struggle between democracy
and autocracy, all he has to do is
to follow the utterances of the
kaiser of Germany. The mon
arch who plunged the whole
world into horror and butcnery
is also just about 1000 yesrs be-
hind his time.
His thinking along some lines
goes back to the dark ages. He
still really and truly believes
there is such a thing as divine
rights of kings. Nations, accord
ing to him, do not select the
kind of government they are to
have. This is done for them by
men up above, under the guild
ance and sanction of God.
Wiring to the deposed King
Constantine, of Greece, Wilhelm
used these words: The mailed
fist of Germany, with further
aid from Almighty God, will re-
store you to your throne, of
which no man by right can rob
you.
In that one sentence there is
a perfect picture of the menace
this power-mad monarch is to
a world that would dwell in
peace.
1.-The mailed fist" - German
alteration of armed power which
may make ruthless war on it's
neighbors.
with further aid from AL
mighty God, "-Welhelm's be-
lief h a t the Almighty is in
league with the Prussian powers
of oppression.
Your throne, of which nc
man by right can rob you, -
here you have the autocrat clos
ing his eyes to the fact that the
Greek nation gave the throne to
''Tino's" ancestor and that the
giver can also take away.
We Americans must put our
backs into this war and wage il
until we have eliminated the
danger of the mailed fist, and
convinced even Wilhelm that the
voice of the free people alone
rules, and not the outworn creed
of the divine origin of the right
of an inbred family to hold sway
over millions Shreveport Times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
Board of State Affairs to Consider
Grant Parish Assessments

A notice from the Board of
State Affairs states that the
board will meet in Baton Rouge
as a Board of Equalization for
Grant parish assessments on
Monday, July 80. Parties in
terested in valuations and asses
sments are invited to be present
at the sitting of the board, as il
is thought the presence of repre-.
sentative citizens will materially
assist in arriving at correct con.
cluSiOns.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
Stabbed In The Back

How Many Colfax Readers Have Hac
Those Sudden Twinges..
Have you ever had crick in you
back?
Does your back ache with dull,
neavy, draggy throb?
Is it hard to strengthen up after
STOPPING?
Hard to rise from chair or turn in
oed?
Is the urine dark coIored? Passages
irregular?
When your kidneys need attention,
use a tested kidney remedy.
Use Doan's Kidney Pills-a remedy
chat has proved its merit.
Convincing testimony in the follow
ing statement:
H. O. Lacour, proprietor, grocer,
store. 1910 Gould Ave-, Alexandris,
La, says; 1.-Two years ago while o.
the farm, my back was so bad that
nad to give up for few days. If ]
stopped / could hardly straighten,
owing to the. sharp pains that caughs
me in my back. Doan's Kidney Pills
brought me relief from the pain RICH.
away and kept on taking them unit.
l was rid of the trouble.
Price Soc at all dealers. Don't simp
ly ask for kidney remedy-ge Doan',
nidney Pills = the same Mr.. Lacoul
recommends. Foster Milburn Com pa
Nv Props. Buffalo. N. Y
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-07-14
Suckers on Corn

Should | pull suckers from
corn or not?"
l found many years ago that
it was a waste of time and labor
to pull suckers off the corn. You
will make more corn by letting
them alone. In fact on strong
land in your section the sucker
will often make good corn. The
Progressive Farmer.