The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-18

The Tensas Gazette, st. Joseph,
contains the following items OF local
interest:
The Tensas Jail has ceased to be a
Jail and has become to be an asylum.
There are but three inmates In the
iail-one man and two wonderland
all three are insane.
Persuant to President Wilson's
proclamation the flag at the Court
House is flying at halt-mast out oil
respect to the memory of ex-Presl
dent Roosevelt, whose death oc-
Cured last week.
Owing to the unfortunate state oil
health now existing in both Iensas
and Concordia parishes, the ap'
preaching terms of Court for eac h
parish have been pretermitted. See
the Judges order elsewhere as relates
to Tensas.
Mr.. julius Morris was active last
week in collecting subscriptions for
the Jewish Relief Fund, to be de
voted 10 the relief of the suffering
Jews i'm war devastated Europe. tie
was right successful and collected
about 1881 90 at st. Joseph for the
worthy cause.
Mrs. Richardson, of Mansford, La.
was called to st. Joseph this week
by her brother-in-law Mr.. Jos. M
Harper, on account of the serious
illness of her mother, Mrs. New, who
has been very low for some time
Mrs. New is quite old and has al
ways lived a very useful and active
life and it is hoped her condition
will improve and she yet be spared tc
her loved ones.
Mr.. James Curry of Mounds, Mad
ison parish, was visitor to st. JOSEPH
this week. Mr.. Curry is looking wei
and brings best news about his sor
jim, who, he says, will graduate il
medicine at Atlanta next spring. DIR
Curry will have the heartiest con
CALCULATIONS of many friends when ht
receives his sheep-skin and hangs on
his shingle, and who will wish hin
greatest success in his practice.
The appearance of scarlet fever in
st. Joseph has caused another sus
pension of the public school, which
already has been interrupted very
much this session by the epidemic o
Spanish Influenza. Several children
are now down with the fever bu
none are regarded as dangerously
III, though the temperature has rur
very high with all II is difficult jus
now to say when school will be re
sumed.
A meeting of the stockholders o
the Bank Of st. Joseph was held oil
Tuesday for the election of boar
of directors for the year 1919. Tn,
old board, consisting Of Joseph Curry
W. M. Davidson, B. F. Young, Osca
Levy, s. ID. Watson, R. H. Whitne!
and J. c. Macpherson, was reelected
The board of directors meeting i'm
mediately thereafter reelected tn
same officers, viz: Joseph Curry
president, w. M. Davidson, vice
president, and J. q. Macpherson
cashier. The fiscal year for tn,
bank having ended on January 1st
the usual semi-anual dividend of fiv,
per cent was declared, followed b!
a further dividend of fourteen pc
cent, which makes total dividend o
twenty four per cent declared by tn,
bank for the year 1918.
The weather the past week ha
been generally bad with frequen
rains, and the roads have gotten prac
tically impossible, particularly tn,
road leading to the depot, which /,
the main artery of travel into and ou
Of our town and over which FAC.
tically all strangers who visit us us
come. The impression thus give, Of
our town and people and the spirit Of
enterprise here cannot be very fat.
tering. The demand for lands in
Tensas parish the past year has sur
passed the brightest hopes of every
one, even in view of the intolerable
condition of our public roads, much
land selling from sixty to seventy We
dollars per acre. With a modern road
system throughout our parish these
lands would bring from fifty to one
hundred dollars more per acre than
present quotations. In other words
II is costing us a great deal more not