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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
How War May overcome r.re IuoIce.

Englishmen are overcoming their old
fashioned prejudice against "brainy"
women. and nowadays all sorts of Jobs
are being tackled by women with won
derful success.
But there is one sphere which has al
ways been open to them and which has
proved more or less failure, and that
is the medical profession. The failure
Of women In this branch Is due, strange
TO say, to the prejudice of women
At present there is shortage of ply
sicians, but there are In training q
$50 women medical students. 1t re-
mains to be seen to what extent Eng
lish women will patronize them.
Meanwhile the authorities are urg-
ing expectant mothers to engage wom-
en- doctors to bring their children into
the world.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
Big Sum For Children

The Salvation Army spends $500.
Ooo, year in caring for women
and children, according to state
ment just issued by National Head
quarters. This is devoted 10 the I'D
keep OF twenty FIVE rescue homes
and maternity hospitals, one gen.
eral hospital. childrens hospital.
three children's homes and eleven
slum posts and nurseries.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
Boost The Victory Loan But
Don't Forget Tho Saliva
tiOn Army

Salvation Army workers preached
to 25,000.000 persons in the Unit
ed States last year, according to sta
tistics Of Army activities given out
at National Headquarters recently.
Of these seven millions attended
in door meetings and eighteen mil
lions out door meetings.. The num-
Der who declared themselves con-
verted was thirty three thousand.
The Salvation Army has 1918 off
GERS and cadets in the United States.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
GENERAL. LABOR NEWS

Hungary has over $4,000 female
| trade unionists.
In the factories in Sweden there are
% women to every 100 men.
Women are employed as glassblow-
ers and engravers in England.
Over $500 girls were placed on
farms last year by the Ontario labor
! bureau.
Argentina is threatened with strike
of tenant farmers throughout the re-
public.
Toronto (Canada) street railway
men have been granted an increase in
pay.
In some parts of England dogs wool
is being spun and manufactured into
| garments.
Nearly $4,000 people are employed
in the various plants Of the Armour
Packing company.
During the first ten months Of 1918
2,04s men were killed by coal mine
accidents in the United States.
One hundred thousand Canadian
women are represented In the FEEDER
alton Of Women's Societies recently
formed at Winnipeg, Canada.
French postoffice and telegraph
workers have been granted 200 per
cent increase in wages. Under the
provisions Of the bill women's wages
will be the same as men for the same
kind Of work.
Fur manufacturers in New York
have granted their workers higher
wages and guarantee against slack
season layoffs. The increase in wages
amounts to about 40 per cent over the
old minimum.
Park Place colliery. near Mahanoy
City, Pa, owned by the Lehigh Rail-
road company, has been placed on
seven-hour schedule for an indefinite
period. Over 800 men and boys are
employed in the mine.
The Welsh tinplate Cancellation
board at Swansea, Wales, has granted
further increase bonus throughout
the trade ranging from Is to 20 per
cent on present bonuses, which already
amount to 95 per cent.
To protect mineworkers. from pos
sible injury by explosion in gaseous
mines and to instruct new miners Of
underground danger, the anthracite
coal industry has posted precaution-
airy rules In and about the coal mines.
The twenty-four international
unions in the the steel industry have
membership Of over 100000. They
cover the iron and steel industry in
all its branches from the men who
dig the coal and iron ore to the men
who load out the finished products at
the plants.
In order to take care of unemployed
soldiers, the federal government of
Australia has appropriated $780, 900
for the construction of public works,
pending the completion of a larger
loan scheme to provide work for the
home coming Anzacs along more per-
manent lines.
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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

The Cleveland fire department is
now on an eight-hour basis.
All union labor painters and paper
hangers at Springfield ILL.,, struck for
higher wages. Ninety men were In
volved.
About q per cent Of the women en-
ployed in the cigar and tobacco fac
tories in New York receive $40 week
or more.
The strike of operators and other
employees of the Buenos Aires Tele-
phone company called on March ID,
was settled.
The Pennsylvania workmen's COM
pensation law covers about 90 per cent
Of all men, women and children en-
gagged in gainful pursuits In that state.
1t was voted by the Massachusetts
legislative committee on social welfare
to report bill limiting the hours of
labor of women and minors to 48 In
each week and nine in each day.
The minimum wage board of the
District of Columbia, created by an
act of congress, has ruled that SIC
week Is the lowest amount any working
woman can live on in the nations cap
ital
The Tidewater Boatmen's union. one
Of the six organizations participating
In the New York harbor strike, voted
to accept an offer of $110 monthly
wage with the same working condi-
tions as before the strike.
A joint meeting Of representatives
of the mill owners and work people at
Manchester, Eng, decided to close
down all mills In Lancashire that spin
American cotton between April 10 and
%, in order to distribute more evenly
the hardships of the present stagna-
ton In trade
The governor Of Wisconsin has ap-
proved bill providing a minimum sal
airy Of 5000 for teachers in the Mill
waukee grade schools. The language
of the bill will be amended to over
come constitutional objections. Mil
waukee teachers have tried for years
to get higher salaries.
Organization Of 10000 striking WOOL
en- workers was effected at Passaic,
N. j., by delegates of the Amalgamat-
ed Clothing Workers of America. The
strikers have affiliated with that or.
ganization, they said, In an endeavor
- ne thnir 6fffor-
ences with the mill owners.
Amsterdam and several ether cities
in Holland are reducing the working
day of municipal employees from nine
hours or more to eight hours. Stimuli
taneously the wages of employees In
Amsterdam are being readjusted on
a higher basis, the lowest annual pay
for unskilled labor being $50S.
Less than three million laborers
working on farms not owned or OPP
Grated by themselves, or in other
words, "hired men," are reported in
the United States census for 1870
This number Is strikingly small
when compared with the total num-
Der Of persons engaged in agricul-
ture, which the same census reports
at twelve and half millions.
The printing and publishing industry
in Washington, D. G., employs AS
women, of whom 25 receive less than
so week.
More than 100000 persons have
been placed in employment through
the United States employment service
since it's reorganization in January.
1918, the department of labor an
nounced. Approximately 100000
were men and women found for war
industries up to the signing Of the
armistice, while the other million have
been mostly soldiers, sailors and civ
ilian war workers placed In peace-time
Jobs.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
How state encourages settlers.

4
Colonization In California is being
pushed by the state on a 100000
acre tract, purchased recently, near
Chico. The state proposes to pro-
vide the settler not only with land,
!, but will erect simple, modern houses,
barns, silos and other necessary build
inGs, payments to be made on an in
stallment plan, with terms that may
be met easily. One-third Of the In
vestment must be paid at the start,
but rs to SO years time is given to
pay the balance. The prime requisite
Is loyal, patriotic citizen not hold
ing land In any other part Of the
state. Plans are made to invest at
least 100000 in the project at the
star. Engineering News-Record.
A three-year agreement, providing
for daily wages, ranging from $500 on
March j to $3.50 on April 1, 1921, in
the monumental granite industry Of
the country, was announced by the
conference Of producers and granite
cutters at Boston.
There are still no signs of settle
ment Of the Buenos Aires port tie-up.
The government shipping agents and
the labor unions are exchanging notes.
but no move has been made for the
men to return to work under the
government decree Matchmaking the
port services. The port has now been
tied up 81 days.
The present scale OF German wages,
indicated by an agreement reached
with the Berlin building trades, gives
apprentices APO marks a month as ini-
tial wage. Skilled workers are to be
paid proportionately higher and are
to be given % per cent overtime and
80 per cent for night and Sunday
work. Eighteen days vacation are to
be given annually with pay.
John P. Murray Of Jersey City, a
member Of the New Jersey board Of ed
ucation, declared that unless mini
mum wage was granted to teachers
they would form unions and strike for
higher pay. Mr.. Murray spoke at a
meeting Of the board called to discuss
a teachers wage bill. Commissioner
John @. Van Dyck Of New Brunswick
predicted union Of farmers to meet
after-war conditions, and then the
board president, Melvin A. Rider Of
Red Bank, suggested union Of tax
payers
More than 1000 women took the
places Of men on six steam railways in
and about New York city; 1850 went
to work in munition factories, while
nearly 5000 were employed In similar
factories in the Eastern states, all be-
tween the spring Of 1917 and that Of
1913.
More than 5000 Chicago girls pre-
scented demands for 10 per cent In.
crease in wages, double time for over
time, the 44-hour week and recogni-
ton Of their organization--the Waist,
Skirt and White Goods Workers
union, affiliated with the international
Ladies' Garment Workers union
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03

Forty FIVE thousand prisoners were
visited last year by Salvation Asmv
workers assigned to prison relief.
All OF them were assured of a hav-
en- at Salvation Army institutions
when they were freed, and 1900
avalled themselves of this offer Of
temporary relief after discharge.
Salvation Army employment bu-
reaus found Jobs for 100 ex.con.
victs in the past year.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
HOW AMERICAN TROOPS
LIZ w FOuGHT OFF HIINS

HOW AMERICAN TROOPS
IN w FOUGHT OFF HUNS
IN TRENCHES IN FRANCE.
The American troops used
what Is sometimes known as the
new French system of defense,
and sometimes as the new Ger
man system. At the beginning
Of the war the front trenches
were held very thick" espe-
cially by the British. Later the
idea was to have only a hand
full Of men In the first line, one
man to hundred feet, perhaps;
for the second line there were
many more men and many more
machine guns; for the third line
men were much more heavily
massed and reserves kept avail
able, Luclan Swift Kirkland
writes in Leslie's.
This theory of defense against
raids was based on the fact that
the enemy can concentrate his
men in his front lines for a sud-
den "over the top'-then lay
down a heavy barrage. When
the attacking troops come over
they strike the first line with
their maximum impact. They
are likely to overwhelm any or
binary defense, and thus 1t is a
waste of men to try to defend
the first line obstlnately. But
the human body gets tired and
when the machine guns and
rifles Of the second line have
had their innings at the attack
ers the enemy is beginning to
slow up from natural eX-
haustion. On a counter-attack,
then, the third line, being fresh,
meets the enemy tired from ex-
ertion and proceeds to drive him
out.
Thus, as we waded through
the mud, sometimes we'll over
our knees as we visited some Of
the half-demolished lines which
the Germans had tried to fiat
ten with their artillery in their
last raid, we did not find much
society, but the snipers, whom
we did find at their posts, SEEM
ed to have been born to the
job. They were men who knew
their rifles, and it was a state
ment Of fact and not boasting
when they declared that they
had the German sharpshooters
buffaloed. We came upon one
lanky ex-cowpuncher who had
been having a four-hour duel
with a "bush," as he called him.
He didn't know I was taking his
picture, but just as the camera
clicked so also did the hammer
of his gun. This time Mr.. Ger
man had taken one too many
chances. The fact was proved
through the periscope.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
Nurseries In Sums.

Eleven Stun posts and nur.erie.
are conducted by the Salvation Ar
my IN the large cities of the country,
Last year the workers assigned r.
these visited l7.I64 families and
gave shelter to 1850 children.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
Twenty Fifth Annual State c..,
Junior Order United American
Mechanics of Tennessee win
Convene in Morristown
Tenn, Tuesday, May
Is 1919

The Inc 2Sth annual State co,,.;,
o oS Order United American Me-
chanics of Tennessee. will i''c cnnr me-
Nav isSirl IoeS, Tenn Tuesday.
way 10. Iyls. Headquarters to be
o c,.,,,,...-, Hotei. The Order in Tann
Hssee Ms Is IN fine shape and will meat ,s..
i, !, IL Morristown with the Iarg est
, assan in its history in Tsn ann
=; nss &C., with about 25, 900 nem nI.r.
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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1919-08-02
FOR THE ISSU XNCEOF
BONDS.

Proposition to incur a debt
and issue bonds OF the town
of st. Martinvilis, Louisiana,
to the amount Of Twenty
three Thousand Dollars, to
run twenty years, bearing
interest at the rate of 5 per
csntum per annum, interest
payable ssmi-snnually for
the purpose of constructing
and finishing with gravel,
the Public streets and high
ways Of the said town of
Saint Martinville, Lie uisisna,
aud those entering therein.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1919-08-02
FOR THE ISSUANCE OF.
BONDS.

Proposition to incur q debt
and issue bonds Of the town
of St. Msrtinvills, Louisiana,
to the amount of Twenty
three Thousand Dollars, to
run twenty years, bearing in
tersst at the rate Of 5 per cen.
tum per annum, interest pay
able ssmi-annully, for the
purpose of constructing and
finishing with gravel, the
Public streets aud highways
OF the said town of Saint
Martinville, Louisiana, and
those entering therein.
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removes the cause.
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Section 5. Be it further ordain-
ed. etc, that, if the majority of the
qualifsdipropertv tax payers in
number aud amount voting at the
said election, shall vote in favor
Of tho proposition herein submit
ted. tho Town Council Of the
town of st. Martinville, Louisiana,
shall impose, levy, and collect an
nually, beginning with the year
1919, to and including the year
1898 in sxcess of oil taxes, . tax
sufficient to pay the interest ssmi-
annually, and the principal Of said
negotiable bonds falling due each
year or such amount a. may b
required for any sinking fund ne.
cessary to retire the said bonds At
maturity, by ordinance, and in all
respects, as provided by law.
Thus done, read, adopted aud
signed in open session at tho City
Hall, ut st. Martinvills, La. on
the lst day of July 1919.
Approved LIST day Of July. 1919.
Signed: Albert Bienvsnu. May
or Of the town of st. Martinville,
Louisiana.
S,gued: Sidney E. Dslahoussays,
Secretary.
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The Town Council of the said
town Of st. Martinville, az tho 60
vsrning authority in this matter,
will in open session to DO held at
the said City Hall at tho said town
of st. Martinville, La, on Satur.
day the 9th day of August 1919. at
10 o'clock A. <, proceed to OPEN
tho ballot box used at tho said
election aud count tho said ballots
in number and amount cast at the
said election, and examine and can.
vass the returns and declare and
promulgate tho results of the said
election.
Thus done and signed this lot
day of July A. ID. 1919. !
ALBERT BIENVENU,
Mayor Of the Town of st. Martin.
vile, Louisiana.
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NOTICE OF ELECTION.


l, Albert Bionvenu, in my capa-
city OF Mayor of the town of St.
Martinvills, La, and acting 40 the
governing authority of thu said
town, aud in compliance with an
ordinance passed by the Town
Council of the said town of st..
Msrtinville, La, aud a. q govern.
ing authority, aforesaid, on the
7th day of August A. ID. 1919, do
hereby call . special election in
the said town of st. MartinviIle,
for the purpose of taking the sense
of the qualified tax payers, cleo
tors, a. to whether or not they will
vote to authorizes the snil Town
Council as governing authority of
said town OF st. Martinville, La,
to incur all indebtedness and issue
bonds representing the said in.
debtednsss, to the amount OF
Twenty-thrse Thousand Dollars,
and said bonds to bear interest at
the rate of ) per csutum per an
mum, aud which interest is paya-
bio semi-annually; AID the said
bonds to run for the period of
twenty years, and the said Town
Communicating as governing al.
thority aforesaid, binding itself TO
impose, levy and collect such tax
as may be necessary. in this town
to provide for the payment of the
principal aud interests on these
bonds thus issued. Tho proceeds
of the said bonds to DO used ex-
olusivsly to construct and finish
with gravel the said Public streets
and highways within the said town
OF st. Msrtinville, aud those On.
tering therein.
The said special election will b.
held on Thursday August 7, 1919,
between the hours Of 7 O'Clock A
NJ. and 5 o'clock P. NJ, at tho re-
gulsr polling place, to-wit: tn
City Hall in tho town of st. Mar
tinville, La, and tho following
persons are hereby appointed, in
structsd, and empowered to act as
the officers of the said election,
'o.wit: L. F. Gary, d. E Du-
champ, Robert P. Halphsn, Com. |
nlssionsrs, Daniel DsBlanc,
Clerk.
The ballots to be used at the
laid election, to be in tho follow
ny form:
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666 cures Headaches, Bilious
ness, Loss of Appetite, foul
breath or that tired aching
due to Malaria or Colds. 1t
removes the cause.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1919-08-02

Of ST. Martinvills, La, qualified
and entitled to vote under the
Constitution and laws of this State
and under the charter Of this
town, tho following proposition.
To incur q debt and issue bonds
of the said town of st. Martinvills,
La, to the amount of Twenty
three Thousand Dollars to run
twenty years bearing interest pay
able semi-aunually at the ratio Of
D per cent per annum, for tho pur-
pose of constructing and finishing
with gravel the public streets aud
highways of the said town Of st.
Msrtinvllle, La, and those enter
ing therein.
Section 2. Be it further ordsin-
ed, etc, that the usual polling
place for the said town OF St.
Martinvllls, that 10 tho City Hall,
DO aud is hereby dsslgnatsd and
determined rs the polling place
at which to receive the ballots to
DO cast at the SAID election, shall
DO held; and the following persons
are hereby appointed, instructed
and empowered to act As the Off
GERS of the said election, to-wit:-
l.. +. Gary, d. E. Duchamp,
Robert P. HaIphsn commission
els, and Daniel DeBlsnc, Clerk.
The officers of the said election
above named shall hold the said
election to conform with Act 256
of tho General Assembly of the
State Of Louisiana. OF tho 1910,
and amendments, and shall make
due returns of tho said election at
the meeting of the said town
Council to bs held on Saturday
the 9Th day Of August, 1919, at
tho City Hall at 10 o'clock A. NJ;
and tho said officers of election
shall DO compensated in accord.
ancs with the law of this Town
Council.
Section 3 Be it further ordain-
cd, etc, that notice of said cleo
ton shall DO proclaimed by the
Mayor of the town of st. Martiu-
vile. La, the said proclamation
to embrace substantially all things
that are required to be set there
in, and further that this town
Council will in open session to be
held on Saturday the 9th day of
August 1919, at the City Hail IN
the town of ST. Martinvills, La.
at the hour Of 10 o'clock A. NJ.
proceed TO open the ballot box,
examine and count the ballots in
Number and amount, examine and
canvass tho returns and declare
the result of the said election;
which notice of election SHALL be
advertised for thirty full days IN
The Weekly Messenger. the Off
oial paper of the town of st. Mar.
tinvllIr, La.
Section 4 BE it further ordsin-
cd, etc, that the ballots to bs used
at tho election, shall be in the fol-
lowing form, to-wit:
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Signature of Voter
Notice To Voters:

NOIIC0 10 VOI0r0.
TO vote in favor of the pro-
position, submitted upon
this ballots place u cross (x)
mark in the square imms-
diately bslowths word Eyes,,
to vote against it, place q ST.
milsr mark Immediately be-
low the word mo.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1919-08-02
Notice Of Teachers Examination.

The next teachers examination will
take place at st. Martinville high school
on Aug. 4. 5, 8 (whits); 7,8. 9 (npgro)
The examination of the Institute Books
will be held on August IL.
+. o. Chavez.
Parish Superintendent of Schools.
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JAMES d. SIMON,
ATTORNY-AT-LAw AND
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Office near Court House.
st. Martinville, La.
sHERlFF's SALE.
H. G. VAUTROT

Widow Martin LeJsune u ais
No. 1879
State of Louisiana, Parish of st. Mart in
18th judicial District Court.
By virtue Ofsn order of seizure and sale
issued out Of the 18th Judicial District
Court. i'm and for the Parish OF st. Mar
tin. State Of Louisiana. In the above Gu
titled and numbered suit. dated the 10
day Of June 1919.
l have seized and will proceed to
sell and will sell at Public
Auction to the last aud high
est bidder at the front door Of the Court
House, between the legal sale hours III
a. N. to 4 p. NJ in the Town Of st. Mar
tinville, on
Saturday Aug. IS, 1919,
the following mentioned and described
property. to wit:
That certain property acquired bv tho
the Bank Of st. Martinville at Shsriff's
sale on the 18th day of March 1917 as
pr Process Verbal thereof recorded on
April 8. 1917 under No. 394Sl Of the Con.
veyancs Records of the Clerks and Re-
cordrr's Office of the Parish of St. Mar
tin. Louisiana sold between boundaries
and described thusly:
1. Forty Eve (mOre or lsss) arpents
situated in the 9th ward of St. Martin
Parish. Louisiana. with improvements
thereon bounded north by lands Of Mrs.
Cyprien Guidry formerly but now Jean
Caller. south by lands of Athana Ira
han and west by lands Of Francois Ma
thlsu.
2. Sixteen and three quarters ar
penis Of land more or less In superficial
area situated in the same locality 40 Of
above. bounded north by lands of Mrs.
H. COmsau, south by lands of the Estate
of Stewart. west by lands of Alcee Castillo
aud east by lands of Estate of Stewart.
Terms and cOnditiOns-cash.
Sheriff's office this 9TH day OF July
A. ID. 1919.
WADE o. MARTIN. Sheriff.
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Taxable valuation S
Signature of Voter
Notice To Voters:

10 vote in favor Of the pro-
position, submitted upon
this ballot a cross (x) mark
IN the square immediately
below the word yes" to vote
against it. place a similar
mark immediately below the
word NO"