Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-04-24


wastage, we're erected.
CYes, we are getting to our hero
1nei)
The employees were carefully con-
sidered, and magic city" sprang
up, with modern houses, pavements,
water supply, schools, churches,
camps, hotels, apartment houses,
stores 1--WE are getting to Virginia.
AS general manager of the stores,
A. X. Beall was called to Bogalusa-
and it was there our heroine arrived
upon the scene, the first white child
born in the forest town, the "Vir-
ginia Dare" Of the new settlement
Helen and Her Big Horse
Helen Virginia's hair is mass of
curls, as golden as the Louisiana sun,
and Helen Virginia's eyes are as blue
as Louisiana's summer skies, and
Helen Virginia smile is so delightful
that
(But we are getting ahead again!)
Sundays, and often weekday even
ings, Helen Virginia and her doting
parents went to the banks Of the linz
pid stream which, Indian christened,
had given the name "Bogalusa,"
"clear water" to the town upon its
brink. There off the snowy sand
banks, Helen Virginia learned to
swim, and there she learned her very
best trick, which afterward got for
her the
In the Beall menage was included
a great raw-boned old horse, which
Helen Virginia learned to ride
amidst squeals of mingled delight
and alarm, and when she wished to
enjoy a really spectacular event she
rode, bareback, across the splashing
shadows, with old Dobbin swimming
stndiIy where the current ran swift
and dark.
Everyone in the little city knew
Helen Virginia and her favorite
trick. So when moving picture OPP
orator from one of the great com
panies came to Bogalusa to film the
humming, widespread mill and the
great paper and fiber board fac
tories, and the camps back in the
pines, with their whining saws and
putting narrow-gauge log trains, he
heard Of it, too. He decided to wind
up the last industrial reel with pic
ture of Helen Virginia on her great
white steed galloping across the
splashing shadows right into the film,
until the sudden blackness registered
-"The End.Y
In Comes Fairy Godmother
Helen Virginia was excited, very
excited, Just as you, or anyone would
be, at the thought of being in the
really, truly, moving pictures. 1t
was with trembling knees that she
mounted for the old, old trick, and
with eyes sparkling, every golden
curl alive with the thrill, dashed up
and up until the operator shouted,
'sall right, sister, fine"
Then the film was carefully packed
and sent to Buffalo, N. Y. And that
is where the fairy godmother comes
IN.
The fairy godmother in this case
lives in marble halls" but money
has never touched her warm, human
heart. Side by side with her hus-
band, the late F. H. Goodyear, she
planned the fairy city in the pines,
and provided ali the welfare Incl
dentals which make employment in
the great mill desired by all work
ers. She wanted all of the people
of ''her'' town to have their place
in the sum-" and kept ever before her
the needs of the workers, their
amusements, and opportunities.
She early decided that as a special
gift she would educate some girl or
boy IN the best possible way as a
memorial to her husband and as a
gift to the city they had built.
Rides Into a Woman's Heart
But the idea lowered rather hazily
ia her mind until the famous film
was shown to the stockholders Of the
company, to show them how their
money was not only prospecting for
them, but also bringing good to 9TH
ers by giving them the means Of
earning an honest wage with
chance for the happiness due all. And
then at the end, the swift flowing
river was shown across the screen,
and curls flying, eyes sparkling, wa
ter splashing, Helen Virginia rode
ont across the screen and right into
Ilrs. GoOdyear's heart.
At first Helen Virginia's parents
were bit shy Of the offer Of an