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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-08-17
Mote for back of Ballot)

In filing out ballot, the Commission
ers, or Clerk ,:may fill the blanks on face
OF ticket, but the voter should write his
name in the appropriate blank on back
OF ticket and he should make sure that
cross (X) is placed opposite the eyes"
ors'No" on the face of his ticket, and
that the amount of his assessment is in
dicated on his ticket.
Section 3. Be it further ordained, etc,
That the Secretary of the Parish School
Board be, and he is hereby ordered to
cause to be prepared for Use at the said
election the tally sheets, lists of qualified
electors, assessed Valuation of property,
blank statements for the compilation OF
the vote, in number and amount,
and other election blanks that may be
required for the purpose of holding the
said election; to cause the same to be
placed in the ballot boxes for use at the
respective precincts, and to make pro-
vision for the transportation of the bal
lot boxes to the several precincts of the
parish.
Section 4. Be it further ordained, etc
That the polling places or precincts for
the said election shall be, for the First
Ward, Marks Place; Second Ward, Isl
Precinct, Newellton; Second Ward, 2nd
Precinct, New Light; Third Ward, St
Joseph, Court House; Fourth Ward,
Mayhower Store; Fifth Ward, Somerset
Store; Sixth Ward, Waterproof; Seventh
Ward, Highland Store, and the.followine
three commissioners and clerks of elcc-
ton are appointed to each respective poll
ing place: First Ward, +. c. Grace, Sam
Mark and Wade Newell, Commissioner
Henry Isaacs, Clerk. Second Ward, 1t
Precinct, Louis Buckner, Henry Kaui-
man and John Lynch, Commissioners
Julius Solomon, Clerk; Second Ward
End Precinct, X. l.. Slocomb, W. :. En-
finger and F. b. Hansborrough, Com
missioners; John w. Osborn, EClerk
Third Ward, j. p. Scott, +. j. Walton
and +. A. Buelow, Commissioners; 4. r.
Ratcliff, Clerk; Fourth Ward, Fred
Smith, Willy Gavin and Adam Anderson
Commissioners Steve Smith, Clerk
Fifth Ward, Evan Jones, w. z. Burn,
and A. B. Knowles, Commissioners
Douglas O'Kelley, Clerk; Sixth Ward
w. s. White, j. NJ. Gorton and e. y
Hunter, Commissioners; Henry Marks
Clerk; Seventh Ward, Elliott Coleman
Harrison Miller and X. B. Miller, Com
missioners; +. +. Graves, Clerk. All o
whom shall serve without compensation
Section 8. Be it further ordained, etc.
That the Parish School Board shall NEE
at eleven o'clock, a. m. on the oath day
Of August, 1917, for the purpose, in opeI
session, of examining and counting tbs
ballots, canvassing the returns and dc
claring the results of the said election.
Section @. Be il further ordained, etc.
That the President of the Parish Schoo
Board be, and he is hereby instructed t,
give public notice of the said election b.
proclamation to be duly published, &C
corsiihe to Law.
Section z. Be it further ordained, etc.
That the special election herein and here
b. provided for shall be held and con
ducted and the returns thereof shall b'
! made under the provisions OF Act PSI o
7 lSlO and amendments thereof, and sucl
& olhsr laws rs may be applicable.
w. ID. A. GoRToN, President
THos. NJ. WADE, Secretary.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-08-17

Proposition to levy a Two
Mill (.OO2) special tax on all
the property subject to tax
alton i'm the Parish OF Tensas,
State OF Louisiana, annually,
for a period of two years, for
the purpose of giving adj
ditional aid to the Public
Schools of the said Parish.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-08-17
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
William Sproule
On the Employment Of the Employer

O employer phase or the
exploited as the employment
of important to the pros
the known
to
yetth legislatures has been TO
Sproule President or the
Company, when asked discuss
NM&Mw 81 employer said
is the
those work Tor spe
SS& daily weekly monthly wage II is
of those engaged IN the
lie The facts quite TO the con
natural
himself WORK
himself
his
ployed employees and also M
and uncertain proceed safety 1t does
laid
The greatest trouble with
which developed
people become the object OF %
banketed with loose
and the VINO
with
they make them more OBSCURE
and m than before
until up 10
the employee s failing IN pros
learned
in industrial family winch we
not at ALL we Will nen nave
caolements unenpoy
the
which nled our
dinner pail OF the working man
in
in any
prosperity
Finally that the pubic
be
q aid ali the business designed TO serve
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-08-17
Taxable Valuation, 5. ..
Signature of Voter NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Signature of Woman Voters Agent cast
: ing ballot by proxy

NOTICE To VorERs:-To vote in favor of
the proposition submitted on this BALLOT,
place cross (X) in the square after the
word Eyes, and to vote against it, place
similar mark after the word "No".
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-08-17
(Form of Back oflBallot)

VrOTfIf OF f1ttCh Of k''t'''0V
TENSAS PARISH, LOUISIANA.
Parish of Tensas,
Ward. .... Precinct
Taxable Valuation, $..............
Signature of Voter NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Signature OF Woman Voters Agent cast
ing ballot by proxy
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
TO MORE CAREFULLY
GUARD Ell EVATORS

Aberdeen, S. D., Dec. S.-A large
membership of the state council of de-
Tense participated in a conference here
on Wednesday at which plans for curb
ing the operations of the hell fire
gang of the |. w. w, and for handling
the next Liberty o Were gone over.
The meeting was presided over by c. II
Anderson, Of Pierre, chairman Of the
state council. Others taking part in
Guided u. S. G.. Cherry, of Sioux Falls
chairman of the finance committee OF
the state council, Olaf Eden, OF
~Brookinss, chairman of the local
ell of defense committee: Or. r. d. Al
way, of Aberdeen, chairman of the
health committee: w. Ct. Bickelhaupt,
of Aberdeen, chairman of the committee
on transportation II fuel; II. A. Old
ham, of Winner, chairman of the edu-
cation and publicity committee; D.. w
Hickey, Of Huron, chairman OF the Lib
erty loan committee: George Dixon, of
Waterfowl, chairman of the food COM
mittec; Theo. j. p. Giedt, of Eureka
chairman of the Red Cross and Y. NJ,
C. A. committee, and George Wright
of Sioux Falls, and w. w. Soule, OF
Rapid City.
De%predations of pro-Gerinan incen.
diaries We're gone into Mt length, and
plans were made to guard every ele-
vator in the state day and night. and
foodstuffs are stored. 1t was stated by
a member of the council that enough
wheat had been destroyed in this Sec
ton of South Dakota, by means of fires
in elevators, to supply an army of 100,-
900 soldiers with bread a year.
The meeting continued it's sessions
over today.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
FLYERS DROP NJ
INJURING AMERICANS
By Associated Press.

With the American Army in France,
Dec. S.--A bomb dropped by a German
aviator during a recent flight at night,
struck In the street of Il town through
which two American aviation mechan-
icians, n from Detroit, Mich, and the
other from Buffalo, Mo-. was passing.
The Detroit MAJ was wounded in the
shoulder and the Missourian's nose
was broken and he received other in
juries to the face. At the same time,
an ambulance driver from Hannibal.
Mo-. was struck on the back by a flying
!, brick. The three men are in a base
hospital and their conditions is report
ed as not serious.
The men We're half way through the
town when they heard bombs dropping.
They paused and heard the whirr Of
propellers overhead. Immediately az
terward q bomb fell nearby and splint-
ers flew in all directions. In addition
to wounding the Americans, two French
women We're killed.
One American in a hospital said he
had learned his lesson. and that the
next time ne heard the hum of propel-
lers he would take to cover.
In the same town at the time of the
bomb dropping was an American army
cook who was onsa visit to show the
The bombing started before his lessons
had been completed, The cook disap-
peared, remarking later that the French
cooks in that town never would learn
the art OF pie making from him.
All except two of the American SOL
diers who have been wounded in the
trenches r rapidly recovering at the
base hospital. Some OF the men with
minor injuries are being discharged.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
HORRORS or BATTLE
0uTDONE IN HALIFAX
Soldier From West Front De
vastated District Was a
Living Hell.

ST. Johns. n. b, Dec. S.-Persons
arriving here on steamships from Halls
fax added to the story OF death and
suffering. Thomas Trainor, a pilot. said
that 1900 bodies had been recovered.
Several persons from steamers III the
harbor said thai many vessels had been
damaged and that the number of sea-
mem killed was large.
e.. Ii. ifriZzil reported having seen so
charred bodies in Campbell road While
walking from Halifax to Needham he
counted 1863 bodies scattered in the
fields.
Another arrival said that in a school
at Richmond 200 children had met
death.
The battlefelds of Europe do not
provide a parallel to the scenes Wit
messed ut HalifaX in the opinion of
Duncan Grey. who arrived.
This is his story:
II have been in the trenches in
Trance. ] have gone over the top
Friends and comrades awe been shot
in my presence. | have seen scores of
dead men lying upon the battlefield,
but the sight that greeted me yesterday
was Il thousand times worse and far
more pathetic.
Il saw people lying around under
debris; some battered beyond recogni-
ton and others grooming in their last
agOnieS.
Rushing here and there | struggled
TO assist them and as near as / can
remember pulled % men and children
from under the ~wreckage. Death was
everywhere.
Flames were sweeping a wide Path
way Some structures were belching
forth volumes of smok from doors and
windows. The district was a living
hell. Some of the bodies We're without
clothing. Many We're so mutilated that
1t was difficult to realize that they
were human. Some men We're virtually
demented. Thinking only of their
wives and children, they dashed about
IN the burning debris hazarding their
lives with the single thought of rescu-
ing their own.
II shall never forget how | felt in
that hour | saw little children run
ming along, some with blood streaming
from them. All We're crying for their
parents while fathers and mothers
raced about in frenzy. / have never
seen anything so pathetic even on the
battlefield.''
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
WILL RETURN MONEY
DESERTER BORROWED

Lead, S. d., Dec. s.-Joel Everett
Powell. a II man formerly of Dell
Rapids, who recently was arrested by
Black Hills officers on the ground that
he was q suspicious character, and who
was found to have Il card bearing an
other mans anne, indicating tina he
mad registered in the selectivc draft,
mas confessed to the officers that he de.
serted from the United states ship
Wyoming at Yorktown. Va, last April.
In his possession was found letters in
dicating that he was trying to pull off
what he termed IA $4,000 diamonsl
deal He also had written his mother
at Dell Rapids to sell the family COW
and send him the proceeds. The mother
had answered hat she could not get
over half what the animal was worth.
but enclosed s25 which the father of
the young man had succeeded in rails
ing. The authorities will return this
money to the father. He also succeed
ed In making a touch" on a brother in
Saskatchewan, Canada, who sen him
S35 This money is being held in a
Lead bank, and doubtless will be re-
turned to the brother in Canada. If it
develops that he deserted the navy
after war with Germany was declared
he will be subject to the death penalty
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
SPECULATION AS TO
CAUSE or BLAZE
Probability Aberdeen Elevator
Loss Was Not a Matter of
Mere Accident.

Aberdeen, S. d., Dec. 10.-Investiga-
lion of the ruins and the evidence of
the watchmen of the Freeman-l'ain
company elevator and seed warehouses
as we'll as of the night watchmen OF
the Aberdeen mill and other structures
near, fails to disclose the definite cause
OF the fire which caused a $4,000 loss
yesterday morning.
Indications point to Il fire from
source within the warehouse, presumed
10 have been a crossed wire or origin
In the furnace What it could have
been is problenlatical as the Waterman
had been in the furnace room within
the half hour before it was discovered.
The suggestion has been made that
a plant" could AVE been made through
one OF the basement windows in the
warehouse walls, but employees assert
that the glass of one of them was
broken mp to the time the heat shat
tered the panes.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
MITCHELL is SHOWN
TO BE PEACEFUL TOWN

Mitchell, S. D, Dec. aside from
the fact that the women's boudoir of the
local %calaboose has been turned over to
the ladies of the Red Cross for war re-
lief work n that one lone drunk
lodged one night in the Jail Mitchell has
not much need for either police or Jail.
The monthly report for last month
dlvulges the above information and
adds that the crime record for the past
month consisted of IL violations of the
auto traffic regulations.
WATERToWN-Claus Gunderson. a
pool room proprietor of Minor. N. D..
was arrested here on a charge of sland-
ering the Red Cross by circulating mali
cious reports concerning the activities OF
the organization and of persons connect
ed with it. His prosecution is the first
undertaken by the government against
those who have been hindering the work
OF the organization. He wilt be tried be-
lore a federal commissioner at Wahpeton.
ABERDEEN-William Mueller, Asso-
ciated Press operator in the American
office during the last four months, has
enlisted In Uncle Sans wireless service.
and has left for his home in Chicago.
from where he will go into training at
Camp Dodge, Des Moines. Ia. Mueller is
the eleventh man to go from the Ameri-
can office.
COLOME-Walter Waakley. employed
by the Nielsen Implement company, sus-
tanned such injuries in an
accident a few days ago that his death
finally resulted. He was driving along
a country road when he encountered an
other automobile which had been stopped
BECAUSE Of some trouble and did not have
lights.
HHRON-At the ~mid-winter meeting Of
the executive committee of the State Sun
a School association, held IN the office
of General Secretary George W. Miller.
plans were outlined for the state conven-
ton to be held at WATERFOWL, Mas IA,
Is and Is. and one of the strongest pro-
grams ever offered in the state was pre-
pared.
MILBANK-Some unknown person is
suspected OF having been responsible for q
fire which broke out In a large straw
pile on the farm Of Julius Berkner, two
miles west OF Milbank, and for "a time
threatened the complete destruction of
the barn and other farm buildings.
DOLAND-The current statement OF
the local banks show they have aggre-
gate deposits of more than $500. uO0.
PIERRE-The fire marshal's report
shows tlrat In October South Dakota suf-
fered q loss OF tx73, 4s2. q from fires, and in
September the loss wa 5O.T6.16 all of
these a1nounts being from fires tf saii-
U caueAE
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
GOVERNOR NORBECK
WINS HIS CONTENTION
South dakota Troops to B.
Held in at Least One
Complete Unit.

Washington, ID. c.. Dec. S.-order.
were issued today by the war depart
ment to the commanding general of tn.
Thirty-fourth division at Camp Cody
n. NJ. directing him to form and retair
at least complete unit of First
South Dakota cavalry and to preserve
other First South Dakota cavalry unites
wherever practicable.
The order was issued after a series OF
conferences between the adjutant gen
eral, Governor Norbeck, of South Da-
kota, and j. e, Mather, of Waterfowl,
who accompanied the governor here
and who the governor had previously
sent to Camp Cody to investigate ths
reorganization of national guard units
under which rhe first South Dakota
cavalry was entirely ~disorganiZed.
This is a greater concession than has
been made to any other states where
units nave been d~isorganized. A rul-
ing or the department requires reten-
ton OF regiments having longest service
record, consequently the First South
Dakota cavalry will not be retained as
a full reGimental unit, but the war de-
partment orders the retention of troops
units so far as possible.
The result of this order will mean the
organization from the First cavalry OF
at least one full machine gun battalion
or II fun artillery battery.
South Dakota will, under this order
have at least one complete fighting unit
in the Thirty-fourth division consisting
entirely of South Dakota boys.
Governor Norbeck has finished his
work here and leaves tonight for Camp
Mills, where the boys of the Fourth
South Dakota are in camp. He eN.
poets to go from there to Camp Cody
n. NJ, to personally see the result OF
the new war department order.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
BOY WAS DRAGGED TO
DEATH BY MULE TEAM

Mobridge. S. -. Dec. 10-The remains
of Walter Gordon, the l~4-year-old son
of o. j. Gordon. formerly of Pollock,
but for the past two and a half years
ranching near Ryegate, Mont. were
brought TO Mol.ridge to be prepared for
burial at Pollock.
Young Gordon was killed at his home
IN a most peculiar manner He was
watering IA team of mules, at the water
ing tank. While he went into the she'd
to shut off the gasoline engine which
pumps the water into the trough, he
tied the reinS around his waist. In
some manner the team became fright
ened and started to UNI. dragging the
young ma nearly a quarter OF a mile.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
CANADIAN STEAMER SINKING.

Quebec. Dee. ga wireless message
received from Fame Point. said an IS.
Q. S." call had been picked up there
from the government steamship. Sim
coe. which reported thai she was sink
ing.
The message gave the Simcoe's 30
sition as off the Magdalen islands. The
vessel is commanded by Captain Dalton
and carried a crew Of As men.
The vessel left here about {; month
ago with a cargo OF supplies for light
houses on the north shore, Belle Isle
II the New l'oundland coast. A wire
less message received from her at moor
yesterday said she was on her way to
Prime Edward island.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
JOHNSON AGAIN HEADS
IMPI EMENT MEM

Sioux Falls, $. d.. Dec. s.-The nine
teenth annual convention of the South
Dakota Implement Dealers association
which has just been concluded in this
city, was one Of the best attended and
most successful ever held by the asso-
citation. The following officers We're
elected for the coming year: President,
Z. w. Johnson, Salem, reelected: vice
president, j. M. Muggli, Ramona; treas
urer, e. c.. Bartin. Nermilion.
I'll. Nissen. Of Yanllton. and D. w.
Oaks, Of Hartford. We're elected
trustees. The association decided 10 in
future engage the services OF a paid
secretary, who will succeed &c. G. Bar
ton, Of Vermilion. who has beer secre-
ta~ry-treasurer of the association for Il
number of years.
1t was decided to incorporate the as
ISOLATION under the laws OF South Da-
kota.
The resolutions adopted by the con-
Eention breathe a spirit of patriotism.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
LUTHERAN PREACHER
IS UNDER ARREST
Charged He Made Disloyal Re-
marks in Meetings Held
in the Rosebud.

Colonne, S. D., Dec. s.-Deputy United
States Marshal Brook Ia returned to
the western part of the state with a
German Lutheran clergyman, who was
arrested on the Rosebud Indian reser-
walton on the charge of violating the
espionage act by making alleged dis
loyal statements regarding the United
States i'm its war with Germany. The
name of the clergyman has not been
made public. The accused for some
days had been holding religious .servi-
ces in churches on different parts of
the Rosebud reservation. 1t is probable
that the defendant viii be classified as
an alien enemy and intcrned in a CON
centration camp until the close of the
war.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
HOME GUARDS ARE
ORGANIZED AT PLANkINTOM

Plankington, S. d., Dec. 1O.-The citi-
Zens OF this community held a mass
meeting and organized q company of
home guards, clecting r. V. Fitzgerald
as captain, and III. II. Wilson and c.. f.
Goodlad as first and second lieutenants.
Present enrolment is 80, which will be
recruited to over 100. 1t is planned to
guard the elevators and mcrchantile
houses each night.
STORM LAKE-Mrs. George H.. East
man, a pioneer, who was buried this
week, died in the same house she had
lived in for 80 years. Mrs. Eastman came
TO this city 40 years ago and her husband
was tho first school teacher here. Their
home was almost the first one quilt
south of the Illinois Central railway,
which is now the finest residential sec
ton of the city.
ABERDIGGN-Sunday, December is, has
been designated Conservation and Loyal
ty day to be observed in all churches of
the state, by the division of churches of
the federal food administrator for South
Dakota. All clersymen and every mem
Der of a church is urged to cooperate
with the federal food administration in
the observance of this day.
STORM LAKE-Hugh r. Newsom,
grand son of Mrs. ID. X. Abbott, of this
city, Is the winner of the $3.50 prize offered
Dy the University OF Iowa, Tor a new
song. The title of the song is .JJniyersi.
ty, lows University" Mr.. Newson1 is
well known here, where he has spent sew
ernl lie is Il musician of re.
marliable ability.
LAKE CITY-A shot gun, just an or
binary double barreled duck gun, sold
for $500 at the Red Cross auction sale
held here. The LAX City Red Cross
workers will have more than S., 500 with
which to buy supplies as a result of the
sale. this amount being the total of the
sales made.
LAKE CITY-Herman Olson. of Lytton,
recently went out hunting and passed
himself off as a deputy game warden.
He was arrested and fined $5 for the Of
Tense. A fine of $& was also imposed
for hunting without a license.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13

The doctrine of the "unWritten law"
applied to confiscated coal did not inn
press the federal grand jury at Cleve-
land and that body handed down a
batch of Indictments against the Of
ficials of the town of Willoughby, Ohio
who swiped carloads Of a without
Prosecutor Won Beselar, one Of h in
dicted men, is said to have advised talk.
ing the coal, saying "tle law Of hu-
manity is greater than that of the gov
eminent"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13

Boosters of intensive. gardening
among boys in Massachusetts cleverly
finished the years fire record by pre-
eenting to every boy a certificate OF
service rendered OIL farm or gardens. 1t
is an ornate document from "the COM
monwealth OF Massachusetts, commit
mobilization Of school boys for farm
service and bears the state seal and
the autograph Of the governor. No
prouder treasure for enterprising boys
could be Fashioned,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13
ATTACKERS DEGIMATED
BY THEIR OWN CANNON

Washington, D. c., Dec. 1O.-Austro-
Hungarian invaders of Italy have suf-
fered enormous losses in the recent
two-day drive, s~emi-official dispatches
rom Rome say, n in one instance
were decimated by their own artillery
King George, the dispatches added
has conferred the military cross on
Gabrielle D'Annunz:o, the poet. flyinr
with the Italian a%viators, and the i;ine.
of Montenegro has conferred the sill
yer medal upon him.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-12-13

The longest novel In the world be.
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There. are 100 volumes, LOG, 900 pages
3,lS0,000 lines and about 49, O0, O0d
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