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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-05-24
Quarantine Proclamation. Ticl
Eradication.

Quarantine Proclamation. Tick
Eradication.
Dear Sir:-In accordance with
Act No. Is of 1916 and under
authority vested in this board
under section eleven (11) of Act
No. 25 of Special session of 1917,
the entire parish of VIM, in adj
dition to being under federal
quarantine, is hereby placed
under State quarantine, to be-
effective at once.
The shipment of cattle, horses
and mules from any point in
VIM parish is hereby prohibited
unless accompanied by an official
certificate or permit blank au-
thorizing their movement, such
certificate signed by inspector in
charge of tick eradication in such
parish, certifying that such cat
have been properly dipped.
We kindly request that you
notify all agents along your line
to this effect Immediately.
La. State Live Stock San. Board.
DIR. E. Pegram Flower,
Secretary and Executive Officer.
Baton Rouge, La, May IL, 1919.
Mr.. w. T. Austin, WINFIELD, La.
Dear Sir:-You are respectful
ly advised that due to the dila-
tory action of the police jury of
Winn parish, in failing to make
arrangements for the uninter-
rupted completion of tick eradi-
cation, we are this day request
ing the Attorney Generals Of
fee to bring mandamus proceed
ings against such parish for their
failure to comply with Act Is of
special session of 1917. You are
further advised that, inasmuch
as the parish of VIM, is making
no arrangements for the pay,
ment of the inspectors services,
we are this day cancelling the
commission of the State inspect
or to become effective this date:
In addition to the above infor-z
nation we are issuing, under
this date, quarantine proclama-
ton No. 26 prohibiting the ship
ment of cattle from any point in
the parish of VIM, and are no
tifying all railroads to this effect.
In accordance with this infor-.
nation and advice, you are there
fore instructed to refuse inspec-l
ton or the issuance of any per-
mits pertaining to the shipment
of live stock from VIM parish
unless or until they have made
arrangements to uninterruptedly
carry on the work.
Yours very truly,
DR.. E. Pegram Flower,
Secretary and Executive Officer.
Mr.. Austin has also received
the following telegram from the
Federal Director for Tick Eradi-
cation in Louisiana:
Baton Rouge, La, May 10, 1919.
Mr.. W. T. Austin, WINFIELD, La.
Refuse to issue permit for live
stock to move out of Winn Par
ish until Police Jury co-operates
tick eradication. Smith,
Federal Direc. Tick Eradication. |
Because of the strict auaran-
tine put around Winn parish, mol
cattle, horses or mules will be
permitted to be shipped out of
the parish, or if livestock, strays
across the lines eff the boundary
parishes. where there is no quar-
antine, the authorities there can
put them up, dip them and not
permit them to be driven back
in the infested territory. 1t will
be strictly against the quarantine
rules for person in Winn parish
L L
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-05-24

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tors. druggists and the public have in
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-05-24

1t IS announced that up to noon
Wednesday the amount raised in
the Southern Methodist Church
is $24, 600. 600 on their quota of
$35, 600, 600.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-05-24
Difference Between Soviet Government
and BOlsheviki Party.
[From the Youths Companion-]


that all soviet government must
necessarily be Bolshevist. That
is not true. The soviet is a po-
litical institution; the Bolsheviki
form political party; the differ
ence between them is the same
that exists between a legislature
and the Democrats or the Repub-
licans who sit in it.
Soviet government is form
of representative government in
which the unit is not geographic
cal, as it is in the United States,
but economic or occupational.
The soviet is virtually the execu-
tive of labor union; the word
means council.
The soviets were first heard of
at the time of the abortive Rus
sian revolution of 1905. After
that rising was suppressed the
soviets contrived to support an
underground existence until the
revolution of 1917. When the
czardom broke down, they were
the most vital and best organized
units left in Russian society.
They seem also to be the kind of
governmental instrument best
suited to the Russian tempera-
ment and comprehension, for
from the very first they have
controlled the course of the revo-
luton, and not even the abuses
that the Bolsheviki have prac-
ticed through them have weak
ened the hold of the system on
the people.
The soviets may rest either on
the trade or on the industry. In
one case the members of each
separate trade, such as carpent-
ers, steam filters, soldiers, farm
ers, school-teachers, doctors and
hod carriers, would have a soviet
of their own, and that SOVIET
would have representatives in
the governing soviet of the town
or city. In the other cases all
the workers in a certain factory
or office would have their own
soviet, which would in turn send
a representative to the. local
soviet. In both cases the soviet
of the city sends its representa-
tive or representatives to the
SOVIET of soveits at the national
capital. That body, throughlthe
commissaries which it chooses,
rules the country. In Russia
both forms of organization have
been practiced. but the tendency
seems to be toward the second
type.
Such a system as that is not
undemocratic if all of the citizens
are enrolled in some one or other
of the electoral units; but of
course itproduces a different kind
of governing body from any that
we now have. The central soveit
would not consist, as our Con-
gress does, of a great many law
yers, a few farmers and business
men; it would be made up chiefly
of farmers and artisans, with a
small sprinkling of professional
and business men. Soviet gov
need not be administer
ed with the cruelty, the injustice
and the fanaticism that distin-
guish the Bolshevik regime; but
it would inevitably bring about
the overthrow of all the political
and legal machinery to which
we are accustomed, it would
tend to destroy the
economic organization that is
based on private property, and
it would lay the foundation for
the merging Of all classes and
all nations into a single socialis-
tic state. Whether or not those
results are possible. whether or
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-05-24
HOSTESS HOUSE
FAMILY REUNION
How It Happened to Entertain
Only A. E. f. Mother Who Visit
ed Army Of Occupation.
BIG CORPORAL DuTlFuL SON.

No kni0htly courtlers Ever Acted With
More oallantry to Lady Fair Than
Did He and He Douohbey
Pals to This Little White
Haired Woman press-
I'd ExquIsltsly In
Black.
BY GRACE coULpER.
with the American Y. w. c. A. Over
ssas.)
Coblenx. Germany.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-07-10
William Henry Poland.

William Henry Poland, son of
Michael and Elizabeth Poland. was
born near Munsey, Delaware county,
Indiana, Sept. %, 1916, and died
June 2$, 1919, at Mercy hospital,
mes ho'n and Iowa 1o d.a aged ~ years.
At the age of IA years he with
his parents moved to Decatur county,
Iowa, where he has since continu-
ously lived September 10. 1868, he
was married to Miss Rachel Ram
sey, to which union 9 children were
born, of whom Ellsworth Allie and
Ode Grover have in their childhood
The living children are Emmett,
Michael and Lester, the three sons
of Decatur county, Iowa, were pres
ent at his bedside at his death; Mrs.
Annie Mckee, of Westmoreland,
Kans.; Mrs. Elsie Boyd, of Natoma,
kas., and Mrs. Armina Boles, of Van
Vert, Iowa. Others left to mourn
his departure are 5 brothers, John
", Samuel j., Isaac R., Sanford NJ,
Bradshaw, of Walo, Kas.. and Mrs.
Harriette Weldon, of Davis City, Ia,
23 grandchildren, two great grand
children and host of friends. Three
grandchildren have preceded him to
their eternal rest; MI: Poland unit
church December Is, 1889, in which
he held his, membership until the
end of life's sojourn here. AS a
father he always advised his children
to live a good life; he was noted for
his honesty and was, a hard work.
ing, good citizen.
Funeral services were conducted
by Rev. r. L. Raybourn from the
Christian church and interment was
made in Wheels cemetery.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-07-10
We Had Trouble Last Week.

Some of our subscribers received
copies of The Reporter last week
which were poorly printed and bad.
ly blurreds but it was unavoidable
The. hot. muggy weather last wed.
nesday played havoc with our big
cylinder press rollers, and they sim
ply melted down, one after another
which caused the forms to fill up and
blur the print. A complete new set
of rollers were ordered. and we hope
to have them in time for use on this
weeks paper.-Ollie Hull in the
Leon Reporter.
If it isn't one ling it is another.
Ollie should have provided against
this catastrophe, by ordering sum-
mer rollers, sooner, as we did, but
who knew how beastly hot June was
going to be-?
But little does Ollie care. If
there isn't some shooting going on
down in old Decatur, or forms filling
up, or Jack rabbits fighting the bull
dogs. life becomes just one dreary,
cOlorless existence. Let the rollers
melt and be darned. and bid QUILL
care go away.Washington Demo
ef8I. - 81 1ssssH -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-07-10
Three Days Between Birth of Calves.

Mr.. Soloman Brown, of South
Lineville, who has Jersey COW in
q pasture on what is known as the
Ida Duncan farm, mile northeast
and occupied by Mr.. Browns son-in-
law, Noel Myers and wife, reports
the birth of two calves by the COW
under circumstances which are very
unusual He reports that on Sunday
evening, June 22nd, the COW gave
birth to fine heifer calf, which was
not remarkable or unusual occur
renee but the fact that on Wednes-
day evening following she gave birth
to another calf, bull, was somewhat
of remarkable and startling cir
cumstance. Both calves were claim
ed by the COW, were fully developed
and Of normal size and are both
alive and doing fine. While Mr..
Brown vouches for the absolute ac-
curancy of conditions surrounding
the birth of the two calves, the cir
cumstances is not altogether without
precedence. Medical authority gives
numerous cases of this nature oc-
curing with the human race and
there is no reason to doubt it has
occurred before in the animal king
dom, although vary rarely-Line-
Vile Tribune.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-07-10
Mort Arbuckle Dead.

D. N. Arbuckle, for many years a
resident of Mercer county, Mo, died
a few days in ST. Louis, Mo-, at the
age of almost "a years. Mort, Ar
buckle was a familiar figure years
ago all over northern Missouri and
southern Iowa, especially at the
county fairs, for he always had .
string Of race horses, some OF which
gained national fame ~
New-York tribune., 1919-01-22
Manning Left S9,O0O,00O
Breach of Promise Suit al 80
Cost Him 100000

John B. Manning, whose love affair
with Miss Honora May O'Brien. a
stenographcr, when he was more than
eighty years old, cost him 100000
when she sued for breach of promise
left an estate of $9,0O0,000. This valu-
alton was placed on it yesterday by the
executors in an application to urrcgate
Cohaian for permission to sell some
OF the securities left by Mr.. Manning,
who died April 90, 1918. in order to
meet the expenses OF administration of
the estate
Mrs. Anna NJ. Starke and Joseph B.
Meade. the executors, stated that the
Federal and state taxes on the estate
wlll amount to nearly 50 100000, and
the debts and funeral expenses amount
to about 100000.
1t is now necessary 20 dispose of
Sb00,OO0 in securities to meet current
expenses. Mr.. Manning left his estate
to SIX children and three grandchildren.
The former favor selling the stocks in
the present market, but special
guardian for the grandchildren OBJ
Jected to the sale. Decision was re-
served
New-York tribune., 1919-01-22
Danish Paper Says Polish
Leaders Join in Pogroms
'Finansbladet' Condemns I'm.
heard-Of Atrocities; Ayers
Reconstruction Is Ignored
Neac YORK; Tribune


Severe condemnation Of the recent
anti-Jewish excesses in Poland is
sounded by "Finansbladet," a Copen-
hagen weekly newspaper. 1t says ed-
torially:
"a terrible spirit of pogrom rules
throughout Poland. Acts of violence
against the Jews are committed not
only by the rabble, but even by stu
dents and intellectuals who have as
sumcd the leadership. Is this the way
in which the Polish nation celebrates
its resurrection? 1t seems to utilize its
hardly acquired freedom for the pur-
poses Of murder and pillage. There is
work enough to do for the whole people
and there are splendid possibilities for
a genera! boom as soon as the polit
ical situation has cleared. But in
stead of tacklng the honest work of
reconstruction the people submerge in
the eXcesses of chauvnism.
against the Jews unheard- of atroci-
ties are committed. Toward the neigh
boring nations a corresponding policy
of violence has been adopted, a policy
which is in full keeping with the atti-
tude of Russia and Prussia toward the
New-York tribune., 1919-01-22
Agents Threaten Strike
London Insurance Solicitors De.
Rnand Wage Increase

LONDON, Dec. 20. - Two thousand
agents employed by London nsur-
ance company have notified their en-
ployer's officers that they will strike
unless their weekly wage of about
$14.65 is not increased by $5. They
have also inaugurated a movement to
organize the agents of other companies,
and thus enforce the demand through
out the country.
AT the preliminary meeting, when the
demands were formulated and the men
appointed committee to call on the
directors. their leader. David Jones. of
Leeds, advised them to make their de-
mands retroactive from January /
1918, IN order that they might be re-
paid for the advanced cost of living in
the last year of the war. ''If your de-
'mands are refused" said Mr.. Jones,
take concerted action within q month. y
The suggestion was cheered
The men claim that the company
pays to its stockholders 40 per cent
free of income tax, on Il capitalization
of $5 900 600.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-22
Senate Committee FayOrs
Ford-Newberry Inquiry
Reports Pomerene Resolution
for Ballot Seizure and
Invest;-~a

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-In the
Ford Newberry Michigan senatorial
election contest the Senate Privileges
and Elections Committee late to-day
ordered a favorable report on Chairman
Pomerene's resolution authorizing an
immediate investigation and measures
to take possession of the ballots. All
Democrats present and Senator Ken
yon, Republican, supported the resolu-
! ton, which will be reported to the Sen
ate for its disposition.
Senator'S Knox, of Pennsylvania, and
Kellogg, of Minnesota, Republicans
protested against the committee's ac-
ton, declaring it illegal. Senator Knox
declined to vote on the Pomerene reso-
luton, and Senator Kellogg, after 1ively
clashes with the Democratic members
left the committee room before the
vote was taken.
Senator King. of Utah, Democrat
said he would oppose immediate hear
ings by the committee unless it was
clearly demonstrated that valuable evil
dencc otherwise would be lost. He
agreed with Senators Knox and Kellogg
that the present Senate was not author
lied to settle the contest and that the
matter should go over for disposition
by ,he next Senate.
Democrats voting to report the Pom.
creme resolution yere: Pomerene, OF
Ohio; Vardaman, of Mississippi Reed
of Missouri; Thompson, of Kansas;
Gerry, of Rhode Island; Wolcott, OF
/ Della "are; Ashurst, of Arizona, and
King Of Utah. In joining the Demo.
Gratis Senator Kenyon said he always
/ hnd favored prompt investigation OF
the Michigan contest in the interest OF
purit" Of Senate elections.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-22
Tunnel Town Begot Heroes

Rotherhithe. whose name has lately
been mentioned in the English press
in connection with the opening of a
new tunnel for the use OF Londoners. is
one of those old towns, Saxon in Origin
whose name lends itself to two ctyao-
logical explanations. Red Rose Haver
is said to be the origin of Rotherhithe
from Il Red Rose signboard which used
to mark some seaman's tavern centuries
ago. Probably the more accurate yer.
sion points to the old Saxon worc
"redhra." mariner, and "hith." g
haven, as accounting for the word. Ger.
tainly Rotherhithe had great reputa.
tion for the quality of her seamen; Sil
John Leake, the hero of La Hogue
hailed from the old port on the Thnmes.
In Pepys's day it was commonly known
rs Redritf. and occurs under that name
IN the Diary, on many occasions
Christian Science Monitor.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-22

more for their products without cost
ing the consumers more
Armour e. Co., the witness asserted,
own no livestock cars and only suf-
ficient refrigerator cars to handle their
own goods efficiently. He said the
refrigerator cars were operated at a
loss and quoted from Interstate Com
merce Commission reports to show
that the cars could not be operated
as we'll by the railroads. He pointed
out that the railroad administration
did not assume control of refrigerator
cars, although it had authority to do
so.
Stockyards Interests Defended
Packer interests in stockyards and
adjunct institutions, such as belt rail
ways, rendering plants, serum plants,
market newspapers and cattle loan as
soclations. were declared by Mr..
Armour to be necessary outgrowth
of the business, but not detrimental
to the public welfare, as the Federal
Trade Commission charged. All these
things, the witness said, were essential
to the successful marketing of live
stock. without which the producer
would suffer.
Mr.. Armour submitted comparison
of the earnings Of Armour & Co. with
those of thirteen other large corpora
tions. 1t showed that in 1917 Armour'a
percentage of profit on capital stock
was exceeded by ten Of the companies,
and that only three we're lower
New-York tribune., 1919-01-22
Packers Paid Agent
While He ServedU.S.
At Food Conference
Logan Admits Retainers
From Standard Oil and
General Electric Also
We're Effective at Meeting
Ncw Tori; Tribune


WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.-Retainers
totalllng $500 month were paid by
the meat packers, the Standard Oil
Company, the General Electric Com
pany and the Freeport Sulphur Com
pany to Thomas f. Logan for repre-
senting them in Washington, Mr.. Lo-
gan testified to-day before the Senate
Agricultural Committee
These payments were continued, he
declared, while he, at the expense of
the government, went abroad with
Chairman Edward n. Hurley of the
Shipping Board and sat with Mr.. Hur-
ley and Food Administrator Hoover at
the intcr-Allied conferences held for
the purpose of supplying Europe with
food
He returned before the completion Of
the conferences he told the committee
because the interests he represented
required his services in Washington.
Senator'S on the committee ques-
toned Mr.. Logan closely with view
to bringing out connection between
the desire to sell products for the
packers and the proposal to feed
Europe. Mr.. Logan denied Indignantly
that he had ever communicated with
the packers while abroad with Mr.. Hur-
ley and Mr. Hoover. He said naturally
it had been admitted in the confer
ences in which he took part while in
Europe that the supply of food to feed
starving Europe would have to be
brought from America.
Camouflage, Says Senator
Sharp language from Senator Ken
yon followed a denial by Mr.. Logan
that he knew members of the Federal
Trade Commission.
"That's all camouhage.' shouted the
Senator. He then stated fatty that Mr.:
Logan had been intimately associated
with Chairman Hurley while the pres
ent Shipping Board chairman was
chairman of the Federal Trade Com
mission. Mr.. Kenyon also declare !
that Mn. Lodge had been intimate With
Joseph f. Davies, another former chair
man of the Federal Trade Commission,
who resigned to run for Senator in
Wisconsin against Senator Lenroot. and
New-York tribune., 1919-01-22
United States Took King Bird

Particularly timely just now. when
the American eagle is so much in evil
dence, is an historical anccdotc in the
back of the Old Farmers Almanac for
1919. In the early Congressional dis
cussion of proper emblem to visualize
the United States in the eyes of other
nations, one member, it is related,
strongly opposed the adoption of the
American eagle. Among birds. said he.
the eagle is king therefore it is no fit
symbol for democracy. Another Rep
resentativc thereupon arose and pro
posed the goose, pointing out that the
goose is Enthusiastically democratic. and
that little gosling would be Just the
thing to stamp on dime. Presumably
the humor of this suggestion answered
its purpose, for the engle became a ma
tional symbol. Christian Science Moni-
tor.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-22
Sizan Fei5sers
Proclaim ireland
Independent

Continued from page
separatist that he does not expect to
accept what most of his predecessors
have accepted knighthood from the
British government.
Public Is Admitted
In the shabby Sim Fem headouar-
tcrs, situated in decayed old house
which was at one time one of Dublin's s
tlncst mansions, courteous Young wom-
en- secretaries gave cards of admission
to to-day's meeting quite impartially to
friend and foe, to supporters of the
Slnn Fem and to correspondents of
English newspapers which holr the
Sim Fein and all it's works anathema.
Cardinal Newman had his residence
IN this house during his unhappy in
cumbency of his high ecclesiastical post
IN Dublin, concerning which he was re-
ported to have said afterward that his
days in Dublin should be subtracted d
from his term in Purgatory, senti-
mcnt which Americans, who always find
Dublin one of the most DELIGHTFUL cities
in Europe, hardly can indorsc.
Io-day's programme in Independence
Hall" differed in one respect from the
solemnities of 1776 at PHILADELPHIA.
They were carried out in the Irish Ian
Su"SS' Wnicu Is virtually dead tongue,
so dead that the Sim Feiners have
been obliged to rehearse their parts.
Plans to Declare Freedom
Three items were expected to consti-
tute the body of the programme the
declaration of independence, a message
to "the free nations of the world" and
the appointment of delegates to the
peace congress.
Ireland is country Of the unex-
pected, but no one predicts any trouble
or disorder. The revolutionary flag
floats quite freely over the homes Of
the Sim Feiners in Dublin. Members
OF the party expect protection from
the authorities of the nation they are
defying. Once they would have looked
to the United States for sympathy and
help, but now they think they do not
command American support. They do
not talk of and apparently do not con
template violence. Dublin had an un-
happy and fruitless experience in the
lnsurrection of 1916, an experience
which cost rows of buildings in Sack
vile Street, once pointed to with pride
as the finest avenue in Europe