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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
Empire Teaches Ten Commander.

Empire Teaches Ten Commandments.
In almost every part of the British
empire provision is made for children
TO learn the ten commandments in
school hours. A new Zealand circular
urges that "a knowledge Of these laws
Is In the interests Of character build
ing and good citizenship, and is also
an aid to good government"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
New Kind Of Linen.

Textillt consists of paper thread
and fiber thread twisted together.
and though the percentage of long
fiber is very small. it Is claimed to
have yielded products that the I'M
initiated cannot distinguish from the
former linen andD jute fabrics.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
Scant Comfort.

One positive service performed by
visiting wife's relatives Is eating so
much that there aren't so many left
overs for next day.-Ohi0 State Jour
nal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
STATE OF LOUISIANA, !
Parish of Grant
Cats 4 Source Of Danger.

Cats are great carriers Of disease
germs, and scratches from their claws
are sources Of real danger, as those
claws are generally coated with mass
of germs which may cause infection.
and for these reasons alone should not
be allowed to associate too intimately
with young children whether the latter
are asleep or awake.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
As She Saw the ELEPHANT

Little Catherine, aged four, saw. an
elephant at circus for the first time.
Looking at it, she exclaimed: "Oh,
mamma, look at the fat horse with q
tail near his eyes,"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
Joint Snakes Tai, is FRAGILE.

The Joint snake, or glass snake, is
llmbless lizard Of the southern Unit
ed States. specifically resembling the
snake. 1t is SO called from its fra
gility. the tail easily breaking into
small pieces.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
Jeffersbn and Van suren.

Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van
Buren, have been the only men In fl,e
history OF t(ie uniied States who have
served rs governors Of states. foreign
minister's heads Of rabInets. vice pres
idents and presidents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
Somebody's Ears Are BURNING.

Some men will look you straight in
the eye while you dig down in your
pocket to pay for the gas you are us
Ing to give them Joy ride to which
they have invited Observation-Disclosures
can Motorist.'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
Houses Built Of Rosewood.

A church building. courthouse and
forty dwellings,, that comprise the set
Element on Pitcairn island, in the east,
ern part of the South Pacific, are built
entirely Of rosewood. The furniture
is made Of the same rare wood, which
grows plentifully on the ISLAND.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19

Kept Busy on Social Gala

The wife 0f member Of congress
can discharge her social duty In the
cabinet In nine calls. but cabinet
woman must pay more than 500 II
she makes. only one call during the
season on ehch senatorial and con,
sressionai household.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
The Milk Bottle Only.

Skagit County Times: 1.-THE first
duty of the American people is to pre-
pare the youth Of the land for the
bottle of life."-Bost0n TRANSCRIPT.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
His seyen.x.sexenth Bear.

Ginitzen. merchant of Kiachta has
the reputation of being the greatest
bear hunter In Siberia. He is eighty
five years old and has just killed his
seventy-seventh bear.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19

flowers their own possession. which
they will delight in keeping up and
making beautiful. The committee
recognizing that the time to imposs
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
Nabobs Among moroccans,

In Moroccan encampments the tents
of persons of note are often topped
with copper balls and decorated with
arabesques of cloth.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19

No Accounting for Tastes.
The Inhabitants of Cochin China,
prefer rotten eggs to fresh ones
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
Pearls.

The most valuable pearls are round:
next come the pear-shaped. and lastly
the egg-shaped.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
Opportunjty.

The space between mans ideal
and the man himself, is his opportu-
nity.-Margaret Deland.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19

666 quickly relieves Colds and La
Grippe, Constipation, Biliousness, Loss
of Appetite and Headaches.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19

champions Of the cause of the home
less Riddles of Louisiana.
Under the Arch Of Protection" is
the motto of the orphanaee at Rus
ton. Clean. healthful housing. kind.
careful attention, green lawns, state,y
trees beautiful flowers. fresh vege-
tables. farm animals-what child does
not delight in such surroundings?
VIII you slam the door In the face
of hungry child? The illiterate and
underfed child makes the degenerate
and criminal man.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
ARTICLE FIVE.

The affairs of this corporation shall
be managed by board of not less than
nine, nor more than twenty-one, seven
OF whom shall constitute quorum for
their transaction, and the following
persons are hereby designated as the
first board of directors, VINO shall serve
and hold office until the first Monday
in July 1921: 4. HI. Blackwood, J.. 4.
Swafford. l.. o. Clinton, j. II. Black
sher, John Abraham, w. A. Brownlee,
c. H. Tumminello, w. C. Carnahan, w.
j. Tison, Jr., Andrew Jackson, @. A.
Hargis. p. A. Dean, l.. b. Gay, Jr.,
l.. M. Futrell. +. S. Murrel.
DIR. E. H. Biackwood shall be presi-
dent. w. A. Brownlee, LIST vice-presi-
dent. Q. A. Hargis, End vice president
and j. E. Swafford, cashier.
ARTICLE SIX.
The names and places of residence
of subscribing stockholders and the
number of shares held by them respect
lively are as follows:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
CHARTER
OF THE
Grant State Bank
nc C1lfoU o,,,c,ara

Ut Colfax, LOUISIANA.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. j
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
PARISH OF GRANT.
Be it known, That on this 18th day
of the month of May, in the year of
our Lord. One Thousand Nine Hundred
and Twenty 1920 and of the Inde-
pendence of the United States of
America, the One Hundred Forty
Fourth (144th,)
Before me. Lott L. Roach, Notary
Public. duly commissioned and quail
fled, in and for the Parish of Grant,
therein residing. and in the presence of
the witnesses hereinafter named and
undersigned.
Personally came and appeared the
several persons whose names are men
toned and hereunto subscribed, who
severally declared: That they are cit
liens of this State, and that awaiting
themselves of the laws of the State of
Louisiana. in such cases made, provided
that they have covenanted and agreed,
and do hereby covent and agree and
bind themselves as well as all other
persons who may hereinafter become
ass ociated with them, to form Bank
ing Corporation, and under the follow
ing articles to-Wit:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
ARTICLE ONE.

The name and style of this corpora
ton shall be The Grant State Bank and
under said corporate name it shall have
and enjoy succession for the period of
Ninety-Nine (99) years. to have and use
corporate seal, to sue and be sued,
plead and be pleaded with, appear ans
wer and prosecute in any and all courts
of the State and elsewhere.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
ARTICLE NINE.

Whenever this Corporation may be
dissolved. either by limitation or by
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1ae undersigned pledges
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
ARTICLE TWO.

The Association shall have and pos
sess all the powers granted to Bank
ing Associations under and by virtue
of the terms and conditions of the
banking laws of the State of Louisiana
and especially Act 179 of 1902 and all
apoandrnortc thorofo
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-06-19
ARTICLE THREE

The business of this corporation is to
be carried on at Colfax, in the Parish
of Grant, State of Louisiana, where its
domiciIe is hereby established.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10
NATURE AND TIME, THE
-. HEALERS
By DR.. Frank Crane

In a play advertised the other day ap-
peared a line by the author, who thought
he had said something clever, but really had
said something shallow, why didn't God
make health catching instead of yellow
fever?"
The only answer to which is: He did.
All diseases by and by run out, else the
race would long ago have been exterminated.
Even under the worst conditions cholera,
typhoid and the hookworm cease.
Health never ceases.
Babies are born just as bouncing and lusty
today as in Noahs time.
Give the old earth time enough and she
will spin web of ivy over every ruined
wall, heal all scars, and knit and spin and
smooth away until the last wound is healed,
the last repulsive object is made beautiful.
Nature runs the original Beauty Parlor.
These reflections are caused by reading
the report brought back from France by
Hugh Fullerton, of the Long Island Agricul-
tural Experiment Station, on behalf of the
American Committee for Devastated France,
Of which Miss Anne Morgan is the head.
"The French agriculturists believed that
the devastated areas would never again
be productive" he said. ct went over
two months ago convinced that this was
not true, because I had had experience in
tearing up Long Island soil with dynamite
and had found the subsoil fertile. It is an
Old axiom of agriculture that the subsoil
cannot be productive, and the French gov
eminent, acting on this premise, had con-
demned large portions of what used to be
the most productive areas of France
In company with Miss Morgan and repre-
sentatives of the French government visited
one OF the worst bits of the Aisne war zone.
1t was Red Monkey Plateau which was
taken and retaken eighteen times Not a
trace OF cellar wall remains to tell Of it's viii
lagos, and the soil was overturned to the
depth of two to five feet
AT the foot Of the hill the French az
perts were still maintaining that nothing
coulo grow there. When we reached the ton
we round ourselves wading knee deem
through the richest red clover I have ever
seem The leaves were as big as silver dol
lars. Alfalfa covered the deepest holes.
L will say this for the French. Thew
were prompt to admit their error. Within
Two days the order condemning this territory
was revoked. Four thousand peopIe re-
turned to their old homes in one day.
1t appears that the blowing done nv the
sneLs brought to the surface the deem soil
wnlch contains valuable materials Of which
the top SOIL used for generations, had been
depicted Riding through France. one can
trace the lines of the trenches, now filled in
ana planted, by the richer darker green ~
Inc wheat growing in the deep-plowed soil ),
copyright 1920, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10
4 City Man Bovs to the
Farmer

The dominant place in American life oc-
cupied by the American farmer is tellingly
designated in an address delivered recently
before the Commercial Club of Chicago. At
this meeting of business men, the speaker
was discussing "The Essentials of Commu-
nifty Building" He summed up the question
in this fashion:
THE good community today has good
schools, because the people must be intelli-
gent before they can be good citizens 1t
has good churches, because the community
must have good morals, or it will never
progress.
"It has good merchants and good lawyers,
who will treat their customers intelligent1y,
and who will keep their clients out of trou-
ble That it must have good shipping facii-
ties goes without saying.
And 1t must have good farmers.
The farmers are the bu1wark upon which
all industry must rest.
we city folks must realize that the farm
er looms up as among the biggest and best
customer today. With the advent of the mo-
tor car, every day is market day for the farm
err. And he is no longer satisfied with what
Is cheap ana shoddy. The farmer today
wants and demands the best.
Inc buying power of the average farmer
has increased from 81, 500 to SO, 400 year in
the last four years. The average buying
power OF the city man is 5000 year. Fifty
two per cent of the population of the conn
try is engaged in farming
Nearly seventy billion dollars are invested
IN agriculture. That is more than any three
other industries. And, yet we sometimes ig-
more the farmer %
Some people today accuse the farmer of
oelng profiteer. Yet the farmer gets onlv
what ne can for his merchandise: and sells
IL Tor less than one-half of what it appears
on the general market for. It. is he who
should ask, who is the profiteer.
- Inc good community today is the one
that recognizes these facts, and makes If nos o
sloIe Tor the farmers to trade there. It has
good roads so that farmers can easily pct
10 It,. 1t has good merchants who are offer.
ing 5 the farmers their best in both merchan-
disc and SERVICE" u ''n-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10
Smith or Watson-Wh;ch?

THE Senatorial race in Georgia presents
the voter choice between fruitful
craftsmanship and barren agitation, be-
tween forces that construct Tor inc colhLnoh
good and those that recklessly tear down 1or
se1fish ambition. On the one side is pub
lie servant Of proved efficiency, a Dulloer
nv nature and by training, man VINO mas
made every interest of the Common"ea1nSn
the richer for his work at washington. vi
the other, is political MISUNDERSTANDING
cunning. erratic, destructive. Between these
two lies the contest; between them the peo-
nile must choose. 1t will be Senator HoKe
Smith. or it will be Thomas E. watson
Which of these do the States welfare and
honor require? That is the question.
There are efforts, we know, to inject ex-
traneous matters and becloud the SITUATION
with fractional feuds; efforts to divide the
thoughtful, loyal Democracy, whose support
trends naturally to Senator Smith, and to
divert a section of 1t to third candidate
mistakenly put forward against the interests
of party concord and public welfare. MS
however is merely incidental to the main
issue-a flank movement which, II persisted
in, will draw away certain elements that
otherwise would stand united, and to that
extent will aid the cause OF one conceded 10
be the party's foe. But the frontal contest
the decisive battle remains between that rec
ognized foe of Dem ocracy, that always de-
for reelection on a record of incompatible
service and capacity for continued useful
ness to the State.
Which of these shall it be-the builder
or the destroyer, the statesman or the ag1-
tator? Senator Smith has been an unswerv
ing Democrat from the grim days of Recon-
struction, when he asserted the party's faith
and the integrity of the ballot, even in the
teeth of Federal bayonets Mr.. Watson has
protested to be Democrat when caprice or
ambition so disposed him. but for the most
part he has been by his own acknowledge
ment the partys enemy. Senator Smith is
the author of legislation from which every
farmer, every business man, every laboring
man, every child and every household in
Georgia is ospering-construetive legisla-
tion written large and luminous in the ma
tons history. What single service of this
nature has Mr.. Watson rendered? Senator
Smith supported every war measure placing
his utmost influence and loyalty behind our
soldiers at the front. Mr.. Watson opposed
them with all the bitterness he could muster
urging course which, had it been followed
would have lost the war to Prussianism and
have stained our flag with everlasting dis
honor.
1t is between these two that Georgians
are called upon to choose. Who that knows
the traditions and character of this Com
monwealth can doubt what the answer will
be?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

the church bazaar for the angel food.
Many ma who has wife who Is
hard to endure as a domestic part
ner would find that she was an in.
If he took he, into his office, or store
and gave her the big constructive
work that her body and mind Cry
aloud for.
Also the organizing of the firm of
Benedict & Co. will enable thousands
wise would be compelled to remain {.
single. It is all very we'll to say
that man should be able to support
the woman he marries. Under pres
ent economic conditions the average
man cannot afford the luxury of az
idle wife before he is middleage-,
and by that time he is so set III mis-
ways, and case-hardened in selfish
ness that he is not fit to marry.
But there Is no reason why any
capable, industrious young couple,
who are willing to work together,
should not organize a business and
matrimonial partnership while they
are young enough to have the blood
running red in their veins, and the
wings of romance lowering over
them.
Moreover. the business partnership
will come nearer to solving the
divorce question than anything else.
The reason so many couples drift
mon interest to hold them together.
The man Is absorbed in his business.
of which the woman knows nothing.
The woman's days are filled with
dress, with society, with clubs of
which the husband knows nothing.
They are so little in touch they
haven't even anything to talk about,
| and they are SO bored at home they
seek aftinities abroad.
But the married couple who are
business partners have the strongest
of all bonds tying them together.
They have a vital, mutual interest.
They speak the same language They
| discuss together, and you will find
no husbands and wives such chums,
or so united, as those who work to-
gether.
The business partnership Of hus-
band and wife also eliminates strife
over money from the matrimonial
partnership. There is no fight over
every penny with tightwad hus-
band, nor any running of a generous
man by extravaganza when the wife
shares equally with the man in the
profits of the firm, and knows exact
ly what they can afford to spend,
and just why they can't buy car
or do over the house this year.
They used to say that whenever
man lived over his store he always
got rich They say now that when
ever wife works with her husband
they become rich. The idea of the
domestic business partnership Is only
new to us in this country. They
have practiced it for centuries in
France, and it is what has made the
French bourgeois the most generally
prosperous people in the world.
So here's wishing all the firms Of
Benedict G. Co. luck.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10

WE have long recognized that
M marriage is a partnership in
Wv which man and woman en-
ter into a life contract to
pool their money. their labor, their
intelligence and good will and strive
together for the common good of
the firm.
Heretofore woman has been a 81
lent partner in the concern. Her work
was all done on the outside of the
store Or office, or factory. All that
she had was invested in the bust
ness, but she had no voice in it's
management. Generally. she was
kept in complete ignorance of what
it was doing. Nature might have
nancial ability and executive eff
cheney, but she never had a chance
to use her talents. And she shared
In only such of the profits Of the
firm as the senior partner chose to
give her if it succeeded, while she
went down into bankruptcy If it
failed.
and capable women into the business
world, and especially the marriage of
SO many men to these aforesaid
clever and capable women is begin
ming to change this left-handed mat
rimonial partnership into a real part.
only a mans wife. but his business
partner as well.
Formerly when a man married q
highly-trained business woman he
dumped her down into kitchen
where, she was miserable, and where
he ascertained that being a cracker
jack stenographer does not neces-
cook, nor does a lightning calculator
enable one to always have meals on
time.
Now, when he espouses the eff
cient secretary who leaves her en-
ployer tearing his hair when she
gets married, Or when he leads tc
the altar a prize buyer, or a head
of wishing the gas range and sta
tionary washtubs on her, invites her
into his Office, or sets up a little bust
ness with her. The result is the
woman is happy and interested in
doing the work she has fitted herself
for and likes, and the man prospers
and matrimony becomes grand
sweet song, with two people work
ing shoulder to shoulder for the
same end.
So universally successful have
been these firms Of husband and wife
that they seem to offer a solution
of many Of the social problems Of
the energies OF women, for one thing
1t is having nothing worth while to
do that makes women peevish and
naggy and discontinued. for the time
has gone by when woman with
brains in her head can find sufficient
occupation for a life time in punch
irg holes in cloth and filling them up
again, and going to pink teas and
bridges, and realizes her highest am
bition in winning the blue ribbon at
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10
THE JOURNALS
LETTER BOX
Editor of the Tri-Weekly -.

Editor Of the Tri-Weekly Journal:
For the benefit of our farmer
brothers. will you please print this
letter notice that word is going
the rounds that the cotton crop is
good. That will not do for this Sec
ton.
have been through Warren, Green
Taliaferro and part of Oglethorpe,
Jackson and Clark counties, and the
can't be more than half crop made. .
The weed is small in most places
and two weeks rain in July made zoo
much weed in many distl lets.
The way I see it, there can't be
much doing as many have quit pick
ing up squares. There are so many
the farmers are out Of heart.
Yours truly,
W. P. TABOR. -
Barnett, Ca, r. F. D. No. /.
August 6, 1920.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10
QUPS AND QUIDDIES

Mrs. Perkins and Mrs. johnson
had met on the street and were dis
cussing the frailties of their mutual
friends when Mrs. Johnson's Iittia
daughter, who was interestedly re-
garding Mrs. Perkins new spring
chapeau, suddenly burst out: "Moth.
mother. Mother "Will you be
quiet! Mother, Mrs. Perkins hat
doesn't make me laugh"
A clerk went to work for a cer-
tain firm in Manchester, England.
and as the offices were situated soma
distance from the center of the city
the workers were provided with q
midday meal.
The new clerk was huge man
and had an appetite of correspond
ing magnitude.
During his second week with tina
firm he said to his neighbor at the
table after the first course: "I won
der what we shall have for sweets
today"
His fellow worker replied: ooh.
rice pudding"
yes" replied the clerk, "but we've
had rice. pudding every day for over
"Well," was the reply, "I have only
been here sight years and we have
had rice pudding every day, so I
guess it's rice pudding today