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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03

Assuming then that decent lit
erature is desirable in the home,
and assuming that the adult
members of the American family
prefer mental food which they
regard fit for the young mem
bers of the household. in point
lof common decency,, the details
Of salacious divorce cases, at
least those based on charges not
yet proven TO be true, have no
business in the home. 1t is not
the moral privilege of a newspa-
per to drag filth into the homes
of the people.
Ii poor girl goes wrong, her
misfortune is capItaiizedas news.
She is fortunate if her picture
does not appear i'll the public
prints. All that tends to blacken
her name and consign er future
to distrust and contumely is
written up."
The nastier divorce case is,
the more space it is entitled to
in the paper that exploits vice
and crime and has daily access
to the home circle.
This is all wrong. The public
in so far as it is responsible for
the demand" for this stuff,
ought to be ashamed of itself.
But the corrupted public taste
does not and cannot justify the
self-respecting publisher in thus
prostituting his high office in
journalism to pander to the low
est appetite of the street rather
than give the home a wholesome
daily menu of decency.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03
Exploiting immortality.
Los Angeles, Cal, Saturday Night

Los Angeles, Cal, Saturday Night.
There is too much public, ex.
ploitation of crime and immoral.
ity.- The press has a response.
bility in this matter which is moi
to be gotten rid of by saying
that a perverted public taste JUS
titles it under the law of supply
and demand.
Some newspapers fairly reek
with the salacious details of re-
voting crimes, domestic unhap-
piness and immortality until they
are unfit to be taken into self
respecting home Of culture and
refinement.
In speaking of homes of "cul-
ture' and refinement" refer
ence is not made to fine homes or
those excessively or chiefly given
over to- culture. The so-called
fine" home not infrequently
furnishes the ''reek" already re-
ferred to. Los Angeles has Quite
recently witnessed instances
where homes of wealth were
centers of moral rottenness. On
the other hand. cottage homes
are often homes of true culture
and refinement. The laborer's
Preside may be the center of the
highest type of culture.
No home should be Indifferent
to its daily mental food. The Inc
telectual menu ought. at the very
least, to be decent and fairly
wholesome. Few can be found
so calIous as to deny this state
ment of the case.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03
Marking the pcrshing Way.

On Saturday, June 26, N. j.
Gardner, pictorial sign painter,
of Houma, La, passed through
Colfax. on his way as official
marker of the Pershing Highway
through Grant parish. T h e
route Of the high way runs from
Alexandria by way of Boyce,
Colfax and Verda to Winfield.
This is one of the branches of
the Louisiana highway system,
and is in line for State and Ma
tional aid. Another branch of
the system leads from Alexand-
ria by way of Dry Prong to
Winfield, and it is also to be
built up to standard specifca-
tons and will be in line to re-
ceive State and National aid.
Another branch of the State
system leads from Alexandria to
Pollock, and from there will 90
eastward.
So the prospect is for Grant
parish to have four great high
ways passing through its bor-
ders, two of them traversing
the west side of the parish and
two of them traversing the east
and central side of the parish.
The markings of the Pershing
Way is a white band about Is
inches wide around a post with
the letter p" painted in blue
in the center facing the road.
and at the top of the white
band a 3-inch band of red and
another 3-inch band of blue at
the bottom. This sign or en-
blem in red. white and blue
makes a very pretty marking
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03
PROCLAMATION.

Pursuant to resolution passed by
the Grant parish school board of Grant
parish, Louisiana, at meeting held on
the 7th day of June. 1920, l, j. II. Nc
Nicely, president of fhe SAID parish
school board. do hereby give notice
that in compliance with said resolution
a special election will be held in Rock
Hill school district No. 2. parish OF
Grant. Louisiana, on the 9th day of
July, 1920, for the purpose of submit
ting to the property tax payers quslifi-
ed uuder the Constitution and laws of
the State of Louisiana to vote at said
election, the following proposition to-
wit:
To levy special tax of five mills on
the dollars on all the property in school
district No. 2, parish of Grant, Louisi-
ana, subject to State taxation, an
nualH, Tor period of three years,
for the purpose of building and eqaip-
ping two additional rooms to the pres
ent Rock Hill school building. and for
equipping the building already erected.
1t being understood and agreed that
the present q mills tax, now in force
and effect, shall be repealed, annulled
and set aside if this proposition car
ries, and the funds on hand that have
accrued from the said "a mills tax shall
be,use for the same purpose for which
the five mills tax is being voted.
For the purposes Of said special cleo
ton the polling place shall be Bsgdad,
with j. E. TYSON, j. l.. Gray, M. C.
Buckner, commissioners. and Clarence
Dale, clerk, and they are to be paid
three dollars per day for their services.
At said special election the polls will
open at seven o'clock a. m. AMI close
at five O'Clock p M, and the election
will be conducted in accordance with
the laws of Louisiana applicable Their
to.
Notice is also given that at twelve '
M. on the 18th day of July. 1920, the
said Grant parish school board of the
parish of Grant, Louisiana, will meet
in open session proceed to open the
ballot boxes, examine and count the
ballots in number and amount. examine
and canvass the returns, and declare
the result of said special election.
This 7th day of June, 1920.
j. H. MCNEELY.
Prest. Grant Phi. School Board.
Section T.. Be it further ordained,
ETC., That the special election herein
and hereby provided for shall be held
and conducted and the returns thereof
shall be made under the provisions of
Act256 of 1910. and amendments there
of, and such other laws as may be ap-
piicable.
Board members.
j. III. MCNEELY, Prest.
b. d. FLETCHER, Vice Pest.
GUS ST.. ANDRE.
E. A. WALL,
G. F. BLACKWELL,
r. w. RAMBO.
j. N. WARNER, Secretary.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03
Distiliers and Bcotleggers Fined and
Imprisoned.

In the U. S. District Court in
Alexandria on July l, Judge Jack
sentenced Jim STAFFORD to &C
days in Jail for illicit distilling.
Swafford plead guilty to running
a whiskey dlstilling plant on his
place about five miles south of
Colfax. Two negroes, Lev Reed
and Turner Hall, who assisted
Swaiford in the business, were
each fined $500. Ollie Grayson.
VINO also plead guilty to distilline
whIskey, was fined $4,000.
NO oils were returned against
Milton Smith and Frank William.
son. who were charged with the
same offense.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03

The revival services at the Col
fax Baptist church has progress
ed this week with increasing in
terest. several asking to be re-
membered in prayer, and several
persons applying for MEMBER
snip. The services will be con-
tinued over Sunday and the gen.
eral public is invited to attend.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03
Is Ice at 81. so Hundred Sold at a
Fair Price?


We learn that the people of Col.
fax this week have been notified
that the delivery of ice has been
raised from S1.00 per 100 pounds
to $3.50 per 100.
In view of the charge Of Judge
G.. w. Jack to the u. S. District
Court, made to the grand jury in
in Alexandria on June 20: That
prosecutions for profiteering
should extend not only to sugar
and other foods, but to wearing
apparel, as we'll as shoes, hay,
corn. oats and other stock foods,
fertilizers, tools, farming imple-
ments, etc., the Chronicle rises
to state that ice certainly comes
under the u. S. law to prevent
profiteering in the necessities of
life in these days of the high cost
of living.
There surely is no more neces-
sity Of life in this country than
ice at this time Of the year. 1t
is not only gratifying and re-
freshing to persons in health and
strength, bpt it is a godsend and
extremely necessary to the sick,
who without 1t will suffer and
parch and in many cases burn
to death with fever.
We Judge the advance in price
is made because the price of ice
at the ice plant in Alexandria
has recently been advanced 81. SO
a ton, but the advance of $1.5O
per 100 pounds in Colfax is prac-
tically ten times that rate, and
is hardly justified under the cir
cumstances.
The Big Pine Lumber Co., we
understand has only been sup
plying ice to the citizens of Col
fax as a sort public accomoda-
ton, and there is very little
ground for complaint against
them. For the last fifteen years
the town of Colfax has been un-
der obligation to Big Pine for its
supply of pure drinking water as
we'll as ice, and it is high time
the town controlled these two
essentials as public utilities.
We have advocated this PROPOSE
ton several times within the
last twenty years. and now that
we have a new council we renew
the contention that the town
issue bonds for ten or twenty
years in order to assure the own.
ership of the ice and water sup
ply. The matter should be SUBJ
mltted to a vote of the people at
the earliest date possible.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03
Work Progressing on Grant State Ran

work Progressing on Grant State Rank
Ground for the new Grant
State Bank at Colfax was broken
last Monday, and about a dozen
men have been at work this week
under direction of Architect Joe
Carver digging out the dirt and
putting IN concrete for the foun-
dation. The building will be
25x52 feet, situated on Railroad
Avenue, and will be TWO stories
high.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03
BRYAN at San Francisco.

washington, June 70. WIZ
liam Jennings Bryan was urged
to let well enough alone on the
prohibition question in a telegram
sent him tonight by Represent
alive Upshaw, democrat of Geor-
gia, a former vice-president OF
the anii-Saloon League OF Amer
lea.
Il find leading lifelong drys
on every side," said Representa-
tive Upshaw's telegram. who
feel in view of the supreme court
decision that it is best for the
cause and the party to accept and
assume the prohibition question
closed by congress and the court.
| believe your supreme trump
will not be to put a dry plank in,
but to- keep a wet plank out. +"
San Francisco. June 26. vii.
liam J. Bryan today launched his
drive against administration con-
troll of the Democratic conven-
ton.
In lighting speech he laid
bare his plan of action and de-
manded that prohibition, and not
the League of Nations. be made
the paramount issue of the cam
paign.
Bryan's verbal batteries were
unmasked and turned loose with
dramatic effect at a luncheon to-
day. His drum fore echoed and
reverberated through the corri-
doris of the Palace Hotel amid
the cheering of his adherenis.
AS he spoke in one of the ban
quet halls. delegates ard cam
paign workers pushing and crow
ding their way through the lob
bies outside, heard the demon
stration, looked at each other
and asked: What's taat"
And the reply, That's Bryan, "
told the story.
Crowds surged towards the
doors of the room where he was
hurting his denunciatory bombs
at his opponents. In a moment,
he became the storm center of
of the convention. His fists
clenched, hair disheveled. his
voice one moment low and vib-
rant with emotion, the next rails
ed to a veritble shout, hopping
the perspiration from his face as
he paused for breath durlng|
bursts of applause. the Com
momoner" stood, a determined
figure, in the midst of the throng,
laundering his political war
chant.
The speech was unexpected;
he had been scheduled only to
make a quiet little address to the
Commonwealth Club, and few
had expected him to come into
the open in such a manner. But
the word ripped through the
crowds and into candidates head
quarters and to the ears of party
officials that Bryan had start
ed" and started" and for the
moment he became the biggest
figure in the convention picture.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03
Suffered Intense Pain.

"A few years ago, when visiting rel
atlves IN Michigan, something | had
eaten brought on an attack of cholera
morbus. writes Mrs Celesta McVick-
er. Macon, Mo. 81 suffered intense
pain and had to go to bed. got a bot
tie of Chamberlain s Collie and Diarrhea
Remedy and one dose relieved the pain
wonderfully. only took two or three
doses, but they did the work.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03

be noticed that there has been big decrease wards
and these being the wards in which several big sawm
their holdings within the last years and the employees
have moved away.
With exception of the mill hands who have moved
during the last few there has been healthy increase
permanent citizenship of Grant parish showing nd
cation of substantial progress and. prosperty.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03

In the game of base ball last
Saturday between the school
teams Of Colfax and Rochelle.
played on the Colfax high school
campus, the home boys won
by q score OF IL to l.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03
Democratic Achievements
In Congress
Extract from Speech Of Hon. James
B. Aswell, Of Louisiana, In The
House of Representatives.


ment, expressed in constructive,
beneficial legislation. are too well
known to need emphasis now.
1t is sufficient to contrast this
brilliant record by Democratic
Congresses with weak, vacillat-
ing, colorless, leaderless, moth
ingness that characterizes the
pr es ent Repubhcan-contrOlied
Congress. which has not a single
constructive measure to its credit.
The present Republican mill
ionaire steering committee, in
complete control of this Con-
gress, using methods so autocra-
tic as to cause Uncle Joe" to
smile when "Cannonism" is
mentioned, is without courage
to proceed constructlvely for, the
good of the people and is afraid
to permit the minority to initiate
wholesome legislation. The Re-
publicans in this Congress have
but one thought, and that is how
to get control of the White House
through the next national cleo
ton. AS an example of autocra-
tic methods, they limited all de-
bate Saturday. May &c. on the
soldier bonus bill to 40 minutes
and refused to permit any
amendment. Gag rule with
vengeance! Afraid a tax on war
profiteers would be substituted
for the proposed Republican con-
sumption tax! Instead of trans
acting the peoples business.
they play cheap politics incess-
antly. Instead of returning the
country promptly to an honorable
peace basis. repeating war meas
ures, and proceeding vigorously
to the adjustment of social and
economic conditions, they fritter
away the time in partisan wrang-
ling and squander the public
funds in political Investigations
and other nauseating personal
and partisan political perform
ances to the chagrin of the Dem
ocrats in Congress and the dis
gust of the American people.
In striking contrast with the
pitiable spectacle Of Republican
ineficiency are the achievements
of the Democratic Party. The
result during Democratic control
of Congress, is written in the
bronze of history. The record
of accomplishments is without
parallel in the annals of Ameri-
can Government. Constructive
measures successfully dealing
with finance, industry, tariff,
human welfare. commerce
and credit were writer
by Democrats into law. In no
instance did the Democratic con-
gress evade or ignore. Tariff
revision, the Federal reserve act,
the Federal Trade Commission,
rural credits, extension of parcel
post system and motor-truck
lines, the Clayton antitrust law,
child-labor law. eight-hour day,
wOrkmen's compensation, the
development of natural resourc-
es, seaman's law, the shipping
act, the income-tax law, the vo-
cational education act, the elec-
ton Of Senators by direct vote,
the abrogation of boss rule in
Congress, publicity of campaign
expenses, the corrupt-practices
act, marine insurance, soldiers
insurance, the warehouse bill,
the agricultural extension law.
nitrate plants. the Bureau of
Markets, farm-loan bonds, Fed
eral land bank, establishment of
the Department of Labor, the
Children's Bureau, and the Fed
eral-aid road law are but a part
OF Dem cratic achievement.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-07-03
The Census of Grant Parish for 1920

The of Grant parish is complete and the official
count as furnished to Ex-Mayor Long is as follows
The in 1900 IL 902 that in 1911 Is 959 while
that for 1920 ID 4O3 decrease of 1856 years
The census by wards is as follows:
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-10

and the former Hungarian eui- pire at 1,000,000; wheat sown in Ru- mania on December 1, 530 ,000 hectares against an average before the war of 1900, 900 hectares.
 It compares the coal production e. millions of metric tons in 1913 and 1919 as follows:
 Great Britain 292 against 234; France, including Lorraine, A against P; Germany, excluding the Sarre re zion and Lorraine. 173 against 109; the United States 517 against 496.
 It considers the general extrava- gance as a phenomena following all great catastrophes. It estimates the worlds total war debt at forty billion pounds and points out that gold prices have risen, as well as paper, iusranc- ing the increase in prices III rue UuII- cd States while tho gold standard re. mains effective.
 It concludes that as the purchasing power of gold is tho ultimate measure of prices. this change is responsible tor much of the increase in tho prices ot commodities, and attributes profit. eerinS and the increase in prices to the scarcity of goods.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-10
That Dull Aching

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 Amos Shrcve. 1s Flank Hill. Bisbee, says: My kidueSs weren't acting regularly and that annoyed mo very much, There was dull ache in my back over my kidneys and it seemed as though it would inever let up. My back was aS sore Aas q boil. When bent over or tried to lift anything. sharp pains would catch me. Doaus Kidney Pills soon relieved the pains in nay back and after had used them while, I was cured of all the trou- bic"
 Price COG at all dealers. Don't simply ask for kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that MT. Shreve had Foster Nilburn Co, Mfrs, Buffalo, N Y.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-10
COUNCIL TELLS
 NORLO'S NEEDS

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)
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RECAPTURE GOlcH

John Goich. a Slovenian miner of Lowell. who walked out of Judge Winters court and disappeared. fol- lowing his preliminary hearing at which he was bound over for trial before the superior court on S110C bail, was recaptured Monday evening on 3 goat ranch in Dixie canyon by Deputy Sherllis Gilman and Mid biff
 When the hearing in Winters court last week was over. Goich mo- ticed that everybody else was leav inE and as there was nobody to stop him he left also and had not been seen since. lie was locked up yes terday in the Jail at Tombstone but according to Judge Winters still may be bailed in the sum of S1000
 Goich was charged with having struck a fellow countryman. T. c.. Tobakovich. over the head with 8 piece of pipe after Tobakovich had been convicted and sentenced fol' knocking Goich out with cane.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-10
EVIDENCE
 OF RADICALS

FROM PAGE ONE
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-10
COULDN' I q OOP
 I ] I IE SH ! 1: 5
Gct3 Rid Of Rheumatism Ard GairS Twenty-four Pounds By
 Taking Tanlac

''Tanlac not only added twenty four pounds to my weight but put me in as good health as I ever had in my life" said Augustus Meihs, q well known farmer Of Morton, H.
 For four years I was troubled with rheumatism and indigestion" he con t'nued. 'and many a day I gave clean out while working in the field and had to lie down until 1 got strength enough to get back to the house My rheumatism was so bad that every morning 1 had to rub my legs before could stand up and my back was so stiff and painful that it nearly killed, ne to stoop over My joints, toO were 50 stir and sore that l could not bend over to tie my shoes My appetite was very poor and when did eat anything l was in misery for hours afterwards. l was hardly ever able to get q good nights rest be- cause my kidneys were so badly out of order, and last spring my condition got so bad 1 wasn't able to work and for several weeks l could hardly get out of the house.
 The man l hired to take my place recommended Tanlac so highly that began taking it, and to make a long story short, I haven't a pain in my body now and can do as hard a days work as any man. eat three square meals day, digest them perfectly and sleep like a top every night. In fact, I couldn't ask to be in better health. and all the credit is due to Tanlac.'
 Tanlac is sold in Bisbee by J. NJ. Ball and by ali other leading drug gists.-Ady.
Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-10

from Seminary Hill, is insane Three alienists agree, and Roberts former iamily physician expressed his belief, chat the defendant was sane and had been mentally competent. knowing the difference between right and wrong" on November II. Taking ls- sue with Dr. Arthur P Calhoun, of seattle, who testified that Roberts was suffering from dementia praecox. the states experts declared that Roberts aallucinations and delusions were on " elaborate sham. Other testimony today was offered to strengthen the states position that the fusilade fired ,nto the parade was unprovoked by any assault on the hall. Further evidence along this line will be given the jury and Judge Wilson tomorrow.
 Elta W. Roberts, a dental student at Portland, wounded overseas, corrobor- ated the testimony of Dutch" PfltZer Roberts said the service men were Tn ranks until the shooting started. About the third shot, he told the jury, he rushed for the hall, placing ms loot on the door.
 Did you look in?" he was asked.
 T did"
 What did you see:'
 was too hot for me there and got out"
 ri nf ha tn' witnesses who swore they were Ilrst to reach the hall and reached 1t after the shooting was in progress. Corrobora- tive evidence, intended to refute the defense contention that raid preced- ed the firing, was given by Frank Boyd and Melvin Randall, marchers, and by Mrs. Ed Fishell and Mrs. A. L. Coffman, occupants of Red Cross cars. Discussion of Roberts mental condi- tion occupied the entire morning ses- sion and a part of the afternoon.
 Deputy Sheriff Ben Cooper, who had been stationed in the jail for several months. expressed the opinion that the defendant was not insane. The deputy had noticed nothing out of the ordi- nary" in Roberts condition. He doesn't talk as much as the other pri- soners." said Cooper. but when he does talk it's much the same. He tried to pull a stunt on me once but didn't get away with it
 Did you ever hear him call Vande- veers by his right name?"
 "Yes, once at recess he said Van veer made a fool of the states attor- ney."
 Roy lnman, chief jailer, then took the stand, facing a jury of Snicn n:s Sather. w F. Inman, former Texas ranger, was a member.
 Do you think he's craZy?"
 T have an opinion that he is not"
 Elgi Morris of Centralia, testified that he had known Roberts for u,sre than ten years Morris said he had been foreman of logging camps in which Roberts had worked Roberts, reported the witness, always used to do his work right up to the handle" was efficient and quick to learn.
 E. M. Morris. a son of the last wit ness. gave corroborative evidence There was nothing noticeable about Roberts, according to this witness, other than that Roberts was "a kind of an agitator.'