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Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05
PERSONALS

Don't forget TO ask for Popularity
votes. Begin saving votes at once S.
the Popularity Contest.
q x
Mrs. Eugene Jeffries Of Shreveport
is visiting Mrs. H. E. Winfree.
= 4 =
Mrs. ]. B. Roark arrived in Lees
vile on Sunday. She will visit Old
friends while here.
=
Dr.. F. 7. Lewis and wife and baby
returned from vacation Of some
weeks.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05
NINE INCHES RAIN
RECORD FOR JUNE

June totaled over nine inches and
July has started with over an inch to
its credit. This makes a total precip-
itation Of over As inches since the first
of January.
Altho there has been such heavy
rainfall. there have been very few
warm days this summer. due. no doubt,
to the amount of moisture in the air.
A few days of sunshine will be very
welcome. and if the weather begun on
Wednesday will continue for some
time, the farmers will be more than de-
lighted.
The record for the week ending July
End is given below.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05

Government veterinarians in the
Philippines have found that cattle can
be immuniped against rhinderpest
with loss of less than one per cent
of the animals.
Rubber boots with peculiarly shap-
ed cleats, into which caIks can be fas-
tened, on the soles and heels have
been invnted by an Idaho Iumberman
to insure sure footing on slippery
places.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05
STATE EXAMINATIONS
TO BE HELD

The next examination for Teachers
Certificates will be held in LeesWlIe,
at the Courthouse, August 4. 5, and 6
(white) and August 7. 8. and 9 (ne-
gro).
The second, and last, examination
on the books of the Reading Course
used during the session of l9lS-l9lo
will be held August II.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05

During the month OF June there
were twenty days that were cloudy or
partly so and ten clear days. Of these
twenty days, rain fell on sixteen, total
ing 9.32 inches. The greatest preciD-
itation was on June 10th when LIZ
inches fell. The maximum tempera-
ture was 60 degrees occurring on June
18th and 18th. and the minimum was
on June 4th when the thermometer
fell to 81.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05

Give your fayorite good vote at the
start and put her in the lead. Remem-
Der, it is usually the candidate with
the best start that keeps the lead. Get
votes and use them. Get your friends
to save them for you. Get them to
trade where they will be given votes
with purchases. That is the way to
get votes. Efery one counts. 1t may
be the person with only one vote to
spare who will prove to be the winner
after all, SO don't fail to deposit every
one.
Get the votes in early. Trade with
the merchants who give them. Now
is the time to give your candidate a
lead. Now is the time to pile up the
ballots. Keep the list of places where
votes are given and trade with the
merchants who are taking part in the
contest. Remember, with each ten
cents in trade one vote is given. Ask
for coupons. Vote them at once.
Every candidate should tell her
friends that she is in to win. 1t is the
help of interested friends that counts.
There is only one way to win and that
is to get votes.
Trade at the stores where votes are
given with trade and send votes in at
once. The candidate who gets the
lead will create the most interest. Now
is the time to do your work. Here
are the names of the candidates all
ready entered in the contest: /
Miss Marie Conerly, Anacoco
Miss Grayce Bowles. LeesviIle
Miss Doris Peters. LeesvilIe
Miss BeIva Caldwell, Leesville
Miss Lucille Hicks. LeesviIle
Miss Janese Allen. LeesvilIe
Miss Thelma McAlpin. Leesville
Miss Evelyn Obanion, Leesville
Miss Ada Jordan. Leesville
Miss Rose Lee Bradford, Leesville
Miss Vera Eaves, LeesviIle
Miss Annie Hutt, LeesviIle
Miss Lille Richardson, LeesvilIe
Miss Minnie Franklin, Leesville
Miss Elizabeth Ford, Hornbeck
Miss Lena Craft, Hornbeck
Miss Tina Dempsey, Hornbeck
Remember, these are the merchants
who are taking part in the contest:
H. E. Werner
Walter R. Hooper
S. G. Culotta
George Sliman
A. B. Dennis
W. E. Stephens
Rouss Racket Store
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05
FULLERTON NOTES

The unusual amount of rain is caus-
ing a great deal of sickness in this
vicinity. We have had two deaths
this week already.
Mr.. Halton, aged about IS. died yes
terday of typhoid fever. and the little
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John Etchman
was buried Tuesday. He died of ap-
pendicitis.
| think the old adage must be COM
ing true that says if it rains the End
of June, it will rain forty days, judg-
ing from the downpours we are having
now. The crops of the farmers are
badly damaged, and will be ruined if
rain continues. All the farmers here
are busy putting out sweet potatoes.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05
Vote Soon to Be Announced;
Contest Interest Wakes Keen

ne day grows nearer when the first
announcement of the count of ballots
in the VERNON PARISH DEMO
Graf AND MERCHANTS POPU-
LARITY CONTEST will be made.
Young women in various parts of the
parish are becoming very anxious, and
friends have been working constantly
in their behalf.
1t is considered signal honor to be
selected from among the most popular
girls of Vernon Parish, as well it might
be. And when to this honor is added
that of receiving as free gift beau
tiful piano-well, il is something
worth working for.
Though nearly score have been
announced as candidates, this does not
mean that there is no room for more.
It is matter Of energy, of getting
busy, Of getting votes. Of course
those who begin at the first have the
best chance, but those who come in
later and are active enough have just
as good an opportunity to win.
AS hitherto announced, no one even
remotely connected with the VERNON
PARISH DEMOCRAT or financially
interested can be considered a candi-
date, or will be permitted to win any
of the prizes which will be given. The
contest is to be conducted in fair
and honest manner. and unbiased
judges will do the counting of the
votes.
Votes by persons outside Leesville
may be sent to the DEMOCRAT to be
cast for favorite candidates, or they
may be sent to Hooper's Confection-
cry Store in LeesviIle. But in all cases
the utmost care should be taken to see
that the candidates name is written
so that there can be no mistake. Those
sending in votes must do what they
can to prevent errors.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05
SCHOOL BOARD MEETS

The Parish School Board holds its
regular meeting on Saturday, July 5th.
1t is the regular monthly meeting and
the ordinary work will be taken up.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05
DON'T FORGET BEAUTY
TREATMENTS

Arrangements have been made TO
have Mrs. c. M. Williams of the Mar
ineIlo Shop in the West Louisiana
Bank Building give beauty treatments
to those who bring in three subscrip-
tons to the DEMOCRAT. Any regu-
lar 81 treatment will be given for fifty
cents to any young lady bringing in
three subscriptions. In addition, 100
votes will be given for each subscrip-
ton brought in.
And by all means remember the
stores where votes are given. Trade
with them. Ask for votes. Don't for
get TO ask for them. Use them at once.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05

If you feel blue. mo account,
lazy, you need good cleaning out,
EERBTNE is the right thing for that
purpose. 1t stilulates the liver, tones
up the stomach and purifies the bowels.
For sale by all druggists. -Adv't
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05
Willard Hits Floor Six Times in Three Rounds

Toledo Ohio July 4-Aer the official end after half minutes
widest round fighting of between the third and fourth
worlds championship Jess Willard rounds when Wads seconds tossed
day surrendered the heavyweight title towel into the token Of de-
Dempsey Willard actual feat Willard from knockout
" finished in the first round The which certain
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05
Girls Canning Club Work

DIRECTOR-CARRIE McCALLUM
List Of Exhibits Vernon Parish Fair
Each exhibitor send
|. Daily Record Book. q Exhibit Of Products
Exhibit of Products counts 500 D. Daily Record Book30
3. Business Management 2096
yield, profit cost)
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05

best club members shown by exhibits products daily record
book and business short Baton Rouge Aug
lilo 1919.
Tangipahoa Parish Mrs. p. NJ Burgess Hammond. La
Ternbonne Parish E. C. WTzow, FOma, La
Union Parish Prof T. W. Shields Bemice. La
Vernon Parish Mrs. W. l. Thompson LeesvAIe La
Washington Parish M A. Thgpen. F1ankinton, La.
Webster Parish Captain R H. Lee Minden La.
West Baton Rouge Parish Mrs F. j. Whitehead Port Allen La
Vim Parish ]. B. Flick. Winfield La.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05

!. Business Management.
yield, profit, cost.)
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-07-05

H. E. Werner
Walter r. Hooper
S. G. Culotta
George Sliman
A. B. Dennis
W. E. Stephens
Rouss Racket Store
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Fine Dwelling Houses
East of 5th Ave. Sold
Crimmins Operating Co. Sells
Old St. Property; Buyers for
71th and Oh, Sis. Homes

William B. May e. Co. have sold 70
the Crlmmns Operation Comnanv the
five story modern white front nrivato
residence at 100 Last Sixtv-second
street, on lot 20.6 by 1905, between
Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenno
The buyer will occupy it after making
extensive operations. The house
covers the full depth of the lot. The
house was reconstructed several wears
ago by the former owner Alfred =
kossin, who gave it in part payment
for the forty-fve-foot Crimmins hous.
on Sixty-eighth Street. This exchange
was made by the same broker. The
house was held at $4,000.
Sale of Prayer Property
William B. May & Co. have sold tho
three story and basement private resi-
dence at 1919 East Seventv-fourth
Street, on lot II by 1922, for Zip
porah Prayer.
Cr0tona Avenue Deal
Angelo A. Frumento has sold the
tour-story building on lot 24.6x irreg-
ular at 2259 Crotona avenue.
Sale in Carpenter Avenue
F. William Eggert has sold for oseph
S. Wood the dwelling at 4421 Carpenter
avenue and for John Roando the two
family house on plot 33Xl50, at 1854
Richardson avenue.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
By Kenneth w. Dalzell
(Second Article)

Having decided upon a location for
the new home, or before making the
final decision, you should select or
commission an architect to look after
the entire building transaction. This
should be done with the same consider
alton that lawyer is retained, for
you arc placing several thousand dol
lars in property depending largely
upon the architects judgment and
ability to handle the kind of PROPOSE
tion you have in hand The profession
Of architecture as it is to-day is so
varied and broad in its scope that one
man cannot know all the details about
all kinds of buildings and types of
construction, unless he is genius, and
there are but few. This is a day of
specialization, and many architects
specialize upon various classes of
work, such as public buildings,
churches, schools, Office buildings, the
atres, factories and dwellings,. The
work of those who specialize in a par
tcular branch of work will be found of
a higher quality in that particular line
everything. Large architectural Offices
handle many kinds of work, having a
specialist in various types Of work. A
large organization, however, cannot
handle the small house proposition
economically, and the majority do not
care for this class of work. In ad-
diton to the design, plan and equip
ment, comes the architects ability to
get the most out of a proposition for
the money invested, which requires
intimate knowledge Of the class of
work in hand. With the present high
cost Of material and labor nothing can
be wasted. Rooms should be of size
that permit the use Of full length of
stock sizes of lumber, so that all Of the
material is in the house, and not 20
per cent of it in the scrap heap.
House Should Fit Location
The location will often determine the
type of house to be built. and certainly
has q great deal to do with the plan
Therefore, it is we'll not to make up
ones mind too positively as to type
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Government Help
industrial Queens
BY Lowering g g Rate
Large undeveloped Com
mercial Area OF North
Shore Put Into the Pre-
Eerred Freight Group

The industrial and residential devel-
opment of College Point ard White
stone is expected to be greatly st;mu-
lated as a result of the ACCOMPLISHMENT
OF the traffic bureau Of the Oueensboro
chamber of Commerce in having the
united States Railroad Administrative
place these sections on the same freiuht
rate basis as New York
q. Campbell, chairman of the East
ern Freight Traffic Committee of the
united States Railroad Administration.
has instructed committees, tariff pub
hsnlng agents and freight traffic Off
troll.
Revise all tariffs which publish Joint
through class and commodity rates be-
tween stations on Long Island Railroad
ana stations on lines of other carriers
IN which College Point and Whitestone,
Long Island, are shown as stations
taking Group 'B' rates, so as to read
Group "A rates"
+. NJ. Moore, manager of the traffic
bureau of the Queens Chamber of Com
merce, through whose efforts this re-
ductlon was effected. explained that as
result of this revision shippers and
receivers Of freight of every descrip
ton located in either College Point or
" Whltestone will now have their freight
charges reduced on through traffic 5
cents per 100 pounds on first class
1relght, cents per 100 pounds on sec
ono class, cents per 100 pouds on
thlrd class and 2 cents per 100 pounds
on fourth, fifth and sixth classes.
The New York freight rates have
applied for a number of years in LONG
Island City, Flushing, Jamaica and
Woodhaven
college Point and Whitestone were
not, however, included, and did not
share the benefits of these lower rates
winch have been of great value to man.
ufacturers in other sections of Queens
borough, giving them exactly the same
freight rates as their competitors locat
ed IN Manhattan or Brooklyn"
john W. Rapp, one of the principal
manufacturers of College Point, who
IS a member of the board of directors
said: = :
= This accomplishment by the Traffic
Bureau will not only save the manu-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

from the outset by the Guaranty Trust
Company. Directly opposite, the Har-
riman National Bank is increasing the
height OF its building. 1t is now eleven
stories. The two dwellings, almost ad-
joining the bank, those at 6 and s East
Eorty-fourth Street. are to be removed
and twelve story building erected by
The Chicago Pneumatic Tube Company.
which bought them several weeks ago
Then the old Curry dwelling, at the
northwest corner of Madison Avenue
and Forty third Street, well known in
The last years Is the home of the New
ork Exchange for Women's Work, has
been bought by the builders of the
Astor Trust Building, at the corner of
Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street.
Douglass l.. Gilman e. Co. must have
larger premises, although it is only a
few years since they moved into their
present quarters. The firm has taken
two dwellings, in Forty ninth Street,
just east of Fifth Avenue, two of the
hundreds erected during the great real
estate and structural boom in the
Fifth Avenue district during the early
'0s, and will improve the site with
ten-story business building. Then
there is talk that August Heckscher is
planning removal of the low building
ut the southwest corner Of Fifth Ave
nue. and tyseventh Street. which he
erected on the site of the William c.
Whitney dwelling some years ago. A
giant business building is said to be
the intention Of Mr. Heckscher for
che corner, and the story is that he has
secured building loan of several mill
ION dollars for the development of
the property. Nothing definite" is
the reply that comes from Mr.. Heck
scher's office when asked about the
reject. -
Fifth Avenue Flats
The Grant Schley dwelling at Fifth
Avenue and Sixty-siXth Street is COM
ing down. Several adjoining houses
are to be removed with it and the
entire site improved with an eleven
+atory building that will cost S75O,OOo.
The well known Astor dwelling is on
the lower corner of the block. The
Stillman property at Seventy-second
Street and Fifth Avenue which the late
president Of the National City Bank
bought years ago to prevent it's i'm
provement with tall apartment house
because he lived next to the corner,
is to be improved with such a build
ing IN the next year and according to
She latest information the Lawrence
property at the south corner of Fifth
Avenue and Seventy eighth Street fac
ing the Benjamin Duke house is to be
improved with fourteen story apart
ment hotel.
These are only few of projects
planned for Fifth Avenue realty. Mod
ernizaton has been going on steadily
but quietly. 1t is not likely that the
projects now under consideration will
escape general notice because of their
number and the properties affected.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Confidence and Financial Risk Rewarded
When Dwellings i'm Old Sections Are Remade

Three more houses in Politicians
Row, as the twenty houses on st.
Luke's Place are known, have been
purchased, and will be modernized. A
syndicate, presumably of investors,
has bought the houses at II. IL and
1212 St. Luke's Place under the name
OF the Aienteur Realty Company,
through Vincent c. Pepe, of Pepe g.
Brother. The purchase was prompted
in the row which have been altered
into studios, and then rented at three
times as much as before. The houses
have been improved, not only from
an investment or speculative stand
point, but in appearance.
The dwellings, purchased yesterday
will be altered under the direction of
Mr.. Pepe, who is as much, if not more,
responsible than any other man for the
development of Washington Square,
and particularly Greenwich Village, as
an attractive residential section.
1t has been no easy job. the recla-
nation of old Greenwich Village
Although New Yorkers appreciate
village because they we're not con-
WINGED the best type Of home could be
found there. 1t was up to Mr.. Pepe
and one or two other pioneers in the
section to blaze the way. The village
and Washington Square are two Of the
bcst residential sections in the city
to-day. They are different from others
in as much as the old has been pre-
served and made to meet the demands
OF modern life. Dwellings erected
years and years ago for the best fam
lies in New York of those days, have
been taken over and their attractive
old structural features restored
With modern appliances installed
these houses made attractive homes
and evidence OF their popularity in
seen in the large demand and the
high rentals paid. Folks az far west
as Oregon have made application to
dr. Pepe for accommodations in
Washington Square or Greenwich vii
lage, Mr. Pepe tells his own story
Of the reclamation Of old dwellings
for modern ~homes.
at has been my experience, that il il
always the man with little more
nerve than the other who starts i'm.
provemcnts. The promoter must have
confidence in the property, besides the
section. He must also have funds OF
bis own, 70 that he cap purchase one
or two parcels and IMPROVE them him
self, rent them and show the results
that the public may see for itself that
1t is good business venture.
-Four years ago the Butterfeld rs.
eatA-was selling fcur-gtory and base.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Well known Synagogue
Gives Way to Apartment
Church of Beth Israel. at Lex
ington Az. Corner, Bought
for Site Of Tall Flat

Douglas L. Gilman & Co. have sold
for the congregation of Beth Israel,
S. c. Bloch, president, the synagogue
on the northeast corner of Seventy
second Street and Lexington Avenue, on
a plot 45x1022, to the newly formed
Mordecai Company, Benjamin Mordecai
and E. C. Potter.
This sale marks the moving of one
of the most prominent Hebrew congre-
cations in the city, which has wor-
shipped in this building for nearly
forty years. The Mordecai Company
expects to erect a thirteen story apart
ment house on this site, with two apart
ments on each floor
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Suburban Home OF Dutch Colonial Type Most
Satisfying When Money for Building Is Limited

until the location has been selected,
formed; then site may be selected
which will suit the house, which is the
reverse way of going about it.
l believe, even with the smallest
houses, in following some type Of
architecture in design. This gives the
house distinction. takes it out of the
ordinary and, if designed on some we'll
established precedent, in favor for
years, it will always be pleasing. BY
this | do not mean that in building a
colonial house one should copy some
old colonial house in detail. Rather
give the colonial effect modernized to
meet present living conditions and
planned to take the equipment or
appointments Of our modern homes
Dutch Colonial Best in Small Houses
One Of the most appropriate types
for the small house is the Dutch
colonial with gambrel roof. bringing
the roof lines down to the first story.
This gives appearance of breadth to
the house, much to be desired. There
is honey, comfortable feeling about
house of this type not apparent in
one of vertical lines.
The house illustrated, which was
ago, is an example of this type, the
principal characteristic being the gam
brel of Dutch roof and the front porch
with it's slender square wood columns
and sweeping roof. "a To meet modern
living conditions, however, the porch
has been made wider than was custom
airy in the old houses, and to make
the second story more habitable there
is a long dormer with windows
In the Dutch colonial houses, wher
dormers were used at all, they wer,
usually small, just large enough fol
one window, two or more to the roof
very charming in effect and nice tc
look at, but it cuts up the second fool
and sets the windows in recesses from
the inside, which destroy their pur
pose of providing light and air. This
can be avoided by making recesses il
the roof for the windows, which kce1
the walls of the room straight, an(
the space under the caves at the sid,
of the windows may be used for closets
This scheme makes considerable tin
ming and flashing necessary, which l.
apt to be a constant expense to main
tain.
The Dutch type Of roof was a device
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
Investors Buy Bronx
Realty i'm All Sections

Charles S. Kohler has sold for the
Erda Realty Company, G. A. Kerker
president, to an investor, 2444 Crcston
Avenue, at the southeast corner of
188th Street, six story apartment
house, on plot 62X1OOx irregular, CON
tanning SIX stores.
Seabury Place Transaction
Moses II. Rothstein has purchased
from the 1447-1451 Boston Realtv
Company 1924 Seabury Place, on a
plot 5Oxl00, on which is a TWENTY-FIVE
family apartment house.
Buyer for Bathgate Avenue House
The Melton Realty Corporation has
bought the apartment at 1926 Bathgate
Avenue from George Mandel.
Homes On Concourse Sold
Foote & Martin have purchased
through E. Osborne Smith. the resi-
dence of Mary Mullen, with an adioin-
ing plotage of 5Ox179 on Grand Con
course and Burnside Avenue, PIP feet
NORTH of 18th Street. The pronertv
was held at $35, 5000.
The same brokers have also MN
chased the three-s story brick residence
OF Henry Breunith on the northwest
corner of 179th Street and Grand Con
course, with an adjoining plotage on
Burnside Avenue. The other half Of
the plot is occupied by the school of
Church of the Holy Church. The
property was held at $4,000 free and
clear. T. Osborne Smith was broker.
Activity in West Bronx
"A. Blumenthal sold to the Grand Con-
course Realty Corporation, Michael
haui man president. the nine modern
two-iamlly brick and stone houses. be-
longing to a group of eighteen, erected
ABOUT SIX years ago at 177th Street
and Dividson Avenue, at the junction
OF fremont Avenue.
The houses just sold occupy sites
from 35 to 45 feet wide. 1t is re-
ported that negotiations are now pend
ing Tor the purchase of the houses
by the tenants.