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The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1918-03-21
Transfer of One Of Our Boys,
Babingtons Move to N. o.

William Darlington, with his
wife and interesting little daugh-
ter, has moved within closer
range to his Frannlinton friends,
having been recently transferred
to New Orleans where his office
work is in the Post Office build
ing. A clipping from the Daily
Corinthian at Corinth, Miss, ap-
pears below.
The many friends Of Mr.. and
Mrs, w. Darlington regret their
departure from Corinth, after re-
siding here for several months.
Mr.. Darlington has been in the
employ of the railway mail SER
vice from Carbonate, ILL.,, to
Birmingham, Ala, and has made
Corinth his headquarters, and
both he and his wife have made
many friends here.
Mr.. Darlington has been trans
ferred to headquarters, and is en-
ployed in the Office of the Super
intendent in New Orleans, La.
where they will make their home
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1918-03-21

Mrs. I. J. Green of iona visit
ed here Saturday.
Cypress Shingles at The Bah.
ington Store. Inc.
Miss Irma Magee was a Sun
day guest of Franklinton friends.
Nice line Mems Straw Hats. -
Call and select yours.
The Darlington Store, Inc.
Miss Mary Johnson was an
honored dinner guest Sunday of
Mrs. G. T. Corkern.
Mrs. O. S. Kemk of Bogalusa,
visited her mother. Mrs Rosetta
Afford the first Of the week.
We will pay you cash for your
eggs.
The Darlington Store, Inc
Mr.. and Mrs, Robt. Wood anc
children of New Orleans spent
Sunday with Franklinton rela
tives.
We will buy your overpIus O
potato planting seed. We hav'
sweet potato planting seed TO
sale. The Darlington Store Inc
Can you stop your car quick
1--WE have the necessary equip
ment to repair any set of brake
without delay of ordering mi
terial. Motor Sales & Servic
Co.
My Spring Millinery openin
Saturday was specially crafty
+ ing and | thank my customer
for their interest and their Ill
eral patronage. Yours for flu
ure service.
: Mrs. L. H. Magee.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1918-03-21
Shipbuilders Wanted.

The ship building committee OF
the Louisiana State Council OF
Defence is endeavoring to enroll
1000 men in Louisiana to place
their services at the disposal OF
the government in building the
nations ships. These men may
file their enrollments with the
secretary Of the ship.building
committee, F. A. crippen, SO4
Gravier Street, New Orleans,
La, and the men are under moral
obligations to 60 wherever the
government may need their ser
vices in this work.
1t is the policy Of the govern
ment, however, to keep all mer
so enrolled employed at the near
est shipyards to the place of en-
rollment. Standard wages, eigh
I. hours a day and comfortabl
! housing facilities are promised.
Every branch OF labor that goe
q toward the building of a ship
i required for this important worl
d A limited number of applies
d ton blanks can be had at tn
r Office.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1918-03-21
FrankIinton, La, March Fl, 1918


Ice and Stone Coal at the Bah
ington Store Inc.
Fl. D. OFT of iona, was a Sun.
day guest of Mrs. M. W. Off,
Select Triumph seed potatoes
d for sale at The Darlington Store,
Inc.
Born-to Mr.. and Mrs, P. A.
Tins on Monday March IS, a
daughter.
Select cotton seed for planting
4 for sale at The Darlington Store,
Inc
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Chavers OF
IONA are the proud parents OF a
baby boy.
We have a stock of all kinds OF
fertilizers.
The Darlington Store, Inc.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Kerr OF
Covington spent Thursday with
friends here.
We will buy your velvet beans
and can syrup.
The Darlington Store. Inc
Mrs. B r. Fisher left Sunday
for Bogalusa to spend a fortnigh
with her son, Mr.. Fl. N. Sim
mons.
Mrs. J, A. LaCour and daugh
ter Fay of Jackson, were Sun
day guests of Mrs. Mike Bat
ington.
Misses Floyd Ball and Jos!
81 Bateman accompanied Miss Edr
Sones to her home at McNei
Miss, for the weekend.
For Sale-We have on hand tV
Ford Trucks in first class co
aition-for sale at reasonab
prices.
Motor Sales & Service {
E. W. Dees of Amite spe
several days this week in TOW
business being the init
cause, but Mr.. Dees has ma
friends here who always en]
his trip to town.
J. I. Davis, mechinician
Quick Service. has suffered
tensley this week from a shot
acid in the eye. The accld
occurred Monday but he is {
suffering the effects Of it.
Lost-On Sunday aftern
near zona, on the Spring
road, an Elgin gold watch
chain, initials c. G. W. engra
on back. Suitable reward
recovery. Carl G. Wolflin
.Zona, Ii
Mrs. P. B. Carter spent
eraI days last week in Boga
with Mesdames Richardson
Magee, being accompanied h
Wednesday night by Mrs. I
Richardson and children WHIT
NAMED over thru Sunday.
Saturday at 8 o'clock, we
place in our show window a
full device, that every house
should have-frst party gus
it's correct use gets rs cent
cash. Come and guess.
S. a, Burris, i
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1918-03-21
D. D. Moore and Senator c. E.
Schwing Address Enthusiast
tic Crowd. War Duties
Stressed.

TIC CfOWQ. war DuIleS
Stressed.
At 2-OOP. NJ, Tuesday, accord
Ing to previously ranged pro-
gram. Senator Chas. 3. Schwing
Of IberviIe parish and Hon. D.
D. Moore, members Of the State
Bureau If orators, discussed
the various war enterprises
before the court room filled with |
interested hearers.
His Honor, Judge Prentiss B,
Carter, as chairman, introduced
the speakers. Senator Schwlng
making the opening address and
impressing the fact that just as
he had needed the command to
come out and do his part in tell
ing the people the best ways to
help, so he expected the people
as a unit to do their part in car
rying out fully every request
made by the heads of depart
ments' whether it be carrying
out food laws, selling or buying
stamps or bonds, conservation
in every direction, knitting, Req
Cross work and all the rest in
which we can take part. Food
production was Mr.. Schwing's
special point of emphasis, and
made all feel like going the ex'
tent of war garden at least.
Mr.. Moore, who is so widely
known thru his editorial columns
in the Times .Picryune, relieved
the tension for a minute by
graceful and humorous introduc
ton, after which he became
deeply serious and remained s.
thru a sixty minute address
which held the interest of tn
people thruout.
Mr.. Moore said in substance
= We are in war. While it is ia
i away, yet it is in every home ant
9 we are all soldiers, khaki clad o
j. civilian. If we were not to joi
in with France. England an
f Italy we soon would be fghtin
q this war alone-there would b
r no France, England and Italy
,. fight with US.
q Information CLEANED frol
y Washington points to seven {
a ten years. war and calls for
- more serious consideration tia
we have yet accorded it, for it
~ not to be won till every ma
woman and child is in it, son
'g fighting at the front, some wa
Y ing as desperate a war on tt
RS home field.
b. We are going to win the W
It, but we are going to pay for it
blood and treasure, for we expe
to see our boys by the thousa1
20 down-boys from your tow
boys from mine; boys from 70
81 home, boys from mine-but tt
- is to be the price. Nothing
-, old age is harder than regret,
let US now act so that when it
all over there will be nothing
- US to regret which we mig
$3.50. have done and didn't.
~ Let US live governed by thr
;na hesitating not to save, to c.
oo1 serve everything, money q
no energy alike being put into
>,o, service of the government.
tho Fault finding with those hig
sor up must stop. Help our offic
to run things. We must {
~ and give, and give; and We
MIN and work, and work to furr
,or. the help needed. The U. S. is
an ing to take some of us to the
;oht ing line while the fight is goin
sh1o be brought to some of US, bu
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1918-03-21

We offer The Era-Leader and
New York Thrice-a- Week World
both one year for $500.
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-04

When once brought to realize what centraliZation of business into large commercial Centers means to rural life there will be an uprising among our American people that will resound from coast to coast.
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-04
Farmers Work Cut Out.

Uncle Sam has never called upon le American farmer in vain. The hird Liberty Loan will start April 6 his spring and summer the support
 the war is up to the farmers We ust lick Germany. Unless We do ouI ace in the world is lost We are siv g our sons, we are giving our fooc lpplies. and now let's not fail to bacf 3 the treasury with our dollars Blu! Liberty Bond and help to keep th, aiseg out of the United States.
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-04
InL UUI HI lIUWL JUL HIl W[VT.
Draining Small Towns of Cash
SPENDS MONEY AT HOME.

Local storskeepers Not AItossthe' Bjamelsss For Growth of Mail Orde' Business Petty Dickerins Shouie Cease, and They Should Trade WitF One Another.
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-04
Shopping Personally Conducted

The American soldier in France is a good fighting man. But when he faces the French hopkeeper-that quick-tongued, sharp-eyed little wom. an who keeps the till as full as she can while her husband fights. he Is glad enough to have an American woman beside him. So the Red Crosse women at the line-of-communicatio ton cantsens have new job. Thsy take the boys out shopptns. safr;
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-04
VnvUL VlMHID
 STRENGTH Positive-Convincing Proof

It is all very well to make claims, but can they be proven? We publish the formula of Vinol to prove the statements we make about 1t.
 n Cod Liver and Beef Peptones, Iron and
 " Manganese Peptonstes, Iron and Ann
 monium Citrate, Lime and Soda Glycero-
 phosphates, Casearn.
 Any doctor will tell you that the ingredients of Vinol as published above, combine the very elements needed to make strength.
 All weak, rundown, overworked nervous men and women may prove this at our expense.
 There is nothing like Vinol to re- store strength and vitality to feeble old people, delicate children and all persons who need more strength.
 Try it. If you are not entirely sat- ished, we will return your money without question; that proves our fairness and your protection.
 For sala Ivy Hesterly Drug Store, Prescott. srk
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-04

There was never a better illustra- ton than the retail mail order house itself of what may be expected of consumers who fail to see the signs" and neglect to 1t themselves to the times" The price of existence is measured both by demand and accom- plishment
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-04
prains Town sf polIars.

How many farmers and consumers are doing the same Identical thing as was this farmer-draining the town of its dollars, receiving. but not giving aiding the large ciies and cnpplins their own little town, which is striving and struggling to maintain a comma nd- ing position on board the good ship Earth?
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-04
Do Not Demolish, but Build.

The man who wishes to exert use full influence must practice what he breaches. He must not demolish, but build He must raise temples in which mankind will come to worship.
 There are hundreds of thousands of farmers yes, millions thorough. y realize the necessity of expansion of trade. the protection of their home markets, which is naturally brought about through the development and prosperity of their town.
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-04

Remember the Tuscania. Buy Lib. rty Bond and help build warshIps to rotect American soldiers upor the aS
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-22
Mrs. Bakers
Old Cat
@0
By DON LA GRANGE
Copyright, 1918, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
md who was Mrs. Baker.

And who was Mrs. Baker.
She was a childless widow who had
reached the age of sixty. She had
sufficient income to keep her out
of the hands of charity. She had
her little home In the outskirts of
the town, and her companionship for
the last ten years had been her cat.
1t was an old gray cat. 1t was a
solemn-loolling cat. 1t was a cat
which had once been kitten and
frolicked as kittens do, but that time
had long passed and the date had ar
rived when she must ponder over
what the future had in store for her.
1t was this bordering and wondering
that made her sit around without
ambition and permit the rats and
mice to come and go unafraid and
untouched.
On certain summer afternoon Miss
Ruth Brighton, wishing for a sight of
the trees, birds, lambs, hollyhocks
and toadstools Of the country, took
a street car ride for half q mile, and
then walked for the same distance to
find herself in front of the Widow
Bakers cottage. Just as she arrived
the old woman ran out Of the gate
and screamed:
Murder! Policel Fire r.
Who was being murdered? Where
was the fire? Where the police?
"Come in quick |"
Many girl would have taken to
her heels and clipped it along for a
mile without stopping for breath, but
Ruth Brighton didn't. She followed
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-22
VARYING IDEAS About Foods.


Don't stick up your nose at hearing
of the strange foods other people eat.
You may be trying them yourself some
day soon, and, anyway, your things
probably look just as queer to them.
The Hindu would rather die than con-
sumo meat; the Amos look askance at
traveler-missionary ''polluting" her
tea with milk, and the old-fashioned
orthodox Jew would as gladly eat a
piece Of horse steak as broiled fresh
lobster or a fried oyster. So it's all in
the point of view, and, if the truth be
told, anything that is not actually poi
sonous can be eaten and enjoyed if only
habits Of thinking the things aren't
right are oyercome.-P Philadelphia
North American.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-22
Inelegant
Martial
@0
BY MARTHA
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Copyright. 1918, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.l

Il hate frump-worse than any
thing" Elena pronounced with her
most decided air.
Hubert, her brother, raised his eye
brows qIlizzically, but went on with
his gar-e as though she had not
spoken. That was irritating enough
he had been playing Garfield all
the rainy afternoon 1t was now
close upon five O'clock. Elena was in
several minds with regard to having
tea as usual The table in action
made lingering inevitable to-any
casual body dropping in. However
she might loathe the inelegant Maria
with whom Dicky Dorr, her pet cousin,
was so Enthusiastically smitten, she could
not show inhospitality in her own house,
even though it were no more than a
scrambling rented bungalow, set fair
upon piny hillside.
She had hoped to be so happy
there with her boys-Dick and HUI
bert. Being their elder by ten years,
her dearest privilege was to fuss over
ond plan for them theoretically she
admitted a man had better choose his
own wife. Practically, she was firm
in the belief that in choosing her he
should have regard to much more
than his own vagrant fancy Dick
was, though she did not own it ex-
cept to her own soul, even dearer
than her own brother. He was 50
like the elder brother, Elena's be
trothed, who had been killed in a
train wreck while on his way to marry
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-22

hasn't really hurt you," she finished
anxiously.
Nothing but scratch" he assured
her, taking down his handkerchief to
prove his words. Its not worth talk
ing about and certainly not worth the
awful racket l must have made. But
you see it was the shock, coming as it
did when 1 was sound asleep. But
there's no harm done, so don't give it
another moments thought"
And so they sat there in the glory
of the summer sunshine and chatted as
only two young folks can talk, who
are mutually attracted to each other,
and for the rest Of that morning and
many a morning thereafter Sammie
Allen and Lem Crothers' summer
boarder walked together on the hard
stretch of sand that lay between their
two homes.
But three months is not forever, and
the end of the furlough was drawing
near. Again the two young people sat
on the sand at the very spot where
they had first met In such an uneX
pected manner.
In low tones Sammie Allen was
speaking to the girl at his side. MY
times nearly up, Aline,' he said, "and
l shall have to go back, Aline, now,
and think that our pleasant days are
over" He looked at her suggestively.
''Must they be-quite-over, Aline?"
He rose and, taking her two hands in
his, helped the girl to her feet "Aline,
little girl, won't you tell me that
there1l be even happier days for me
for us-when come home-for good?'
And with smiling eyes and little
,tremulous smile on her lips, the girl
went into the outstretched arms that
awaited her, and when he sought her
lips she did not deny him.
81 really think that l am the only
man in my company who can truth
fully say that he has suffered twice
from shell shock and survived" said
Sammie Allen some time later. "The
first took away the use of my arms
and legs for little while, but the
SecOnu rDCDeu me OIL my nelrt IOr-
ever"
'Well, 1 was frightened out of my
wits when 1t happened" confessed
Aline, but since it has turned out like
this" giving his arm little squeeze,
'why now, of course, I'm very glad
that l gave You that second shell
shock"
And together, they wendell their
way toward the Allen farmhouse.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-22
BY Al Carter

tolls. Suddenly she turned on him
a battery Of telling glances, smiled at
him in piquant provocation and began
a gay narrative of their day together,
which made even Elena laugh aloud.
Then, in the midst of it came a carful
of folk outside, the very cream of the
summer colony. Their advent melted
Maria to further display-she retoId
her tale, then went on to relate pi-
quaint happenings of her literary
career, winding up by reclting, unask-
ed, seven stanzas of verse that were,
to say the least, highly colored.
She would have remained to dinner
but that Dick peremptorily took her
home. He came back much subdued.
Elena was too wise to take verbal no.
tice of his mood. but In her diary that
night she wrote: 81 have won
thanks to Fate. In the cause of tenn
permanent against temper temperament
has lost"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-22
Shell
Shock
80
By MARY LONG

Silas Allen of Whitmarsh had re-
ceived a telegram, and it was not long
before everyone in town had heard the
news. In fact, more than two-thirds of
the inhabitants had read the contents
Of the yellow paper which the messen-
ger had brought that morning. 1t
said:
Private Samuel Allen home for
three months furlough. Arrive Whit
marsh Center, Tuesday, IL 40 q. m.
Meet" And nearly everyone who had
read the message had volunteered to
go to the station to welcome the hero.
Tem Crothers is the only one
hain't SEEN" said Farmer Allen to
Ma" Allen, as they sat on the porch
OF their comfortable farmhouse.
wonder why he amt been over"
well" replied his wife, 81 hear he's
got q summer boarder-some young
girl who's been awful sick. She jest
wants to set on the beach all day and
git built up, so LENS busy cleanin'
up his shore front, haulin' away all
the shells and stones SOS to make 1t
more comfortable for her."
And then silence fell between them,
and they sat there in the late twilight,
each busy with thoughts of their only
son, who was coming home to them
next day.
The IL 40 was pulling in and, tense
with excitement, the little crowd wait
ed for q sight, of Whitmarsh's hero.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-22
agISa
crimean War.

The Crimean war occurred in 1853
SIS, between Russia on one side and
the allied forces of Turkey, France
and Great Britain on the other. 1t
grew out of dominating and aggressive
claims by Russia. The war took its
name from that it was mainly waged
in Russian peninsula on the border
of the Black sea, a strip of country
called Krim or Grim by the Russians
and Angllcized as Crimea, pronounced
Crim-e-a, with the short as in GRIM
inal and accent on the second syllable.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-22
nLIfe Must Be Made Longer. /.

death under fifty or sixty years
has got to be prevented or avoid
ed, and the medical practitioner is
the primary agent in the task de,
elared Sir George Newman, in a men,
orandum on medical education in Eng
land, addressed to the president of the
board of education.
Heart disease causes one-third of
the deaths between fifty-flve and sixty
five, and is one of the most disabling
forms of disease. 1t is in the work.
shop and the personal habits of the in
dividual that reform must come. Heart
disease is therefore partly a problem
of preventive medicine, which has al
ready raised the expectation Of life
at birth from forty years in 1S3S-1S54
to fifty-one today.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-22

dead it will be rather up to me 10
supply another. And that young lady
that was there the other day"
Miss Ruth arrived at the cottage.
The cat sat on the porch. She hadn't
had another fit, but she looked as If
she was going to have one at the
first convenient opportunity.
Yes, she looks bad" agreed Mrs.
Baker, "and l am going to ask
great favor of you. You see, am
lame, and can't walk far, and 1 want
the old cat taken away and dropped
on the road somewhere. If she is
carried mile don't believe she can
find her way back again."
"But how'll l carry herr" asked
Ruth.
81 didn't know that you'd ever come
back, but I've thought it all out.
Well put her in paper flour sack
that have saved. When you get
about mile away empty her out,
say 'Shoop and that will be the last
of her. She'll find a home some
where
Miss Ruth agreed to do the err
rand and after time started back
with the captive. The cat made no
great objection to being sacked up.
1t is possible that she rather longed
for change of environment.
A cat in a flour sack meows and
snarls and splits. She claws and
bites and walls. She wobbles the
sack to and fro and back and forth.
Miss Ruth was hurrying along
with that sacked cat when she saw
young man approaching. It was
Osborne Chalmers. When he saw
the webbing sack held out at arms
length he suspected it's contents and
fastened his steps. He was too
late, however. What is to be will
be. 1t was foreordained that that
cat was to claw her way out, and
out she came. The feline could
have made peaceful and honor
able retreat into the roadside
bushes, but she did nothing of the
kind. She clawed off Miss Ruth's
hat and scratched her face-she
clawed and scratched the face of Mr..
Chalmers when he went to the rescue.
Then she inflicted two or three bites,
and went her way.
The humanitarians were sadly In
need of repairs, and they made for
the Widow Bakers.
The widow stood on her porch with
a glad smile on her face. So did her
old cat
'Pm so glad to see your ex-
claimed the woman as the clawed
and scratched and bitten couple en-
tered the gate. "The cat has got over
her fits and is playing around as she
used to when she was kitten. It
must have been the fright that did It,"
When the wounds of the victims had
been dressed the widow sent them on
their way with:
81 did think the whole world was
hQrd-hearted, but this incident has
shown me to the contrary. You are
passing by here when you find my
cat in a fit. You come to the rescue.
You come back the second time to
find her ready to have another fit, and
you carry her off and give her such
scare that her health is completely re-
stored, and she is good for another
ten years of life. May a Widows
blessing attend your
Miss Ruth and Mr.. Chalmers
walked away together.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-22

Mike entered the grocer's shop and
the man behind the counter gave him
an approving look.
Morning, Mixer he said. Il hear
you've given up drinking y
Eyes. Oh amt touched drop for
four weeks" was the answer.
"Well, you deserve credit ro1 that
"Ah, that's just what Oi thhlk, Mis-
ter Brown; and I've just come to ask
if you could trust me for some gro
ceries."