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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-01-24

Language cannot express the
gratitude ! feel toward the good
people Of Grant who have SO
earnestly given their support to
me in the race for assessor.
TO Mr.. Straughn's supporters
] turn with confidence. The Of
ice TO which / aspire means pro-
motion to me. A public official,
Of oil others, should be a pro-
gressive man. There is always
room on top; the bottom is for.
ever crowded. Help the fellow
who Is trying to climb. he needs
= Get out the way of him who
oming down. be can make j,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-01-24
The American Cotton Association

Drive.
With ]. w. Duncan, Of Colfax,
as chairman, Grant parish mas
been organized for the member
ship drive of the American Cot
ton Association to be conducted
throughout this parish and the
entire state of Louisiana the first
week in February.
Chairman Duncan has named
the following parish executive
committee: iR. L. Sloan, secre-
tary; H. G. Goodwin, publiry di.
rector: J.. III. McNeely. T. G.
Bush, Jno. Randolph, IA. A.
Dean. ]. O.. Logan, Charles Dale,
r. B. Roach, T. B. Deem, G. F,
Blackwell, W. r. Deem, r. w
Richardson, CDIfax; Odns Wat
son. Dry Proni.;; w. L. Nugent,
M. H. Nugent, Iatt; A. H. Bar
|rGt, 7. H. Holl nes, James Brad
ford, Georgetow b; CIV Calhoun
!: ". 0'Quine. Aloha; +. y y,
Dunn, Crews; C. Nv. Dyson. ]. E
Drewitt, Montt pmery:S, D. 81
Wallace, Verda lib. ID. FIetcl1er
New Verda; C. @. Groves, Pol
lock.
Captain C. H. Teal, Of Colfax
has been appointed parish pepre
sentative on the state executiv'
Icnnmiffoo
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-01-24

Ebert to Raise Lusitania's Treasure
London, Jan. q. Efforts to
raise some Of the treasure from
the Lusitania will be made early
this year. Engineers and divers
have beer prospecting about the
sunken vsssel and believe they
can at least get thousands of
pounds Of valuables, but it will
be impossible to raise the steam
Of or much of the cargo, owing
10 the great depth Of the water
"a which she is lying.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-01-24
Nineteen Nations Represented At Peace
Signing.

Paris. Jan. 10. (By A. P.
The. treaty of Versailles, making
peaee between Germany and the
ratifying allied powers, was put
into effect at 4:l5 o'eeleek this af-
ternaQn BY the excha~~
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-01-24

- 1AfeDu MFS. MaItud
Valdez, vito of Wiley Walker,
Sr., who died near Pollock, La..
Novembers23, 1919.
She died at the age of seventy
four years, leaving husband,
several children, eighty grand
children and fifty-one great
grand children.
It was my good fortune to como
into close acquaintance with
"Auut Martha. Gas she was
familarly called.) while / was
quite young, and there is asweet-
ness in her memory which / car
only cherish as one of my own
blood. For many years when /
was most in need of help and
sympathy, she was almost q
mother to me.
The word friendship meant
a great deal to Aunt Martha"
and | am sure there never lived
a woman truer to her frienhs.
Mrs. Walker was not q friend
in prosperity and merely an ac-
quaintance in time of need.
When once she bestowed her
friendship it was lasting. and
nnless the person proved unwor-
thy there was never any change
in her.
The people of Grant parish all
bow with sorrowing hearts al
the demise of Mrs. Wiley Walk
er. and each places q tribute on
the grave Of her, whom al loved
as a relative,.a neighbor and 2
friend.
The name Of Aunt Martha
Walker win be d inonun5en6 q
the memory of the relatives and
friends, andher many kind words
and good deeds among US will
bask in the sunlight of friend
ship for cycles of time that shall
roll by us. and until we shall lash
our memories and immortal spirs
its where the Prince of Peace is
our guide. in a home beyond the
skies. eternal and in the Heavens,
She was kind, generous polite
and considerate in all of her re,
lations with people. and there Il
today no one who knew her. WHIT
would not lay 4 flower on bel
grave.
| Heaven is made brighter b,
her presence, and if new worlds
are to be created and new stars
made to shine,S the Lord Almigh
ty could not have a more capa
BILE agent to perform His purpos'
than she whose death hail
brought friends relatives t
tears.
With fresh cut lanrels on her brow
We lay our 6id friend down:
| On earth her work is finished now
In Heaven, awaits q crown.
r 8 MIJRREI.L..
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-01-24

4
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ana PROFESSIONAL men OF the cot
ton growing section OF the state
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-01-24

--.teS VI uei
licatlons.
The entire ceremony, which
took place in the Clock Hall al
the French foreign ministry, was
completed by 4:16 o'clock.
At 400 p. m. Baron Kurt Won
Lersner, head Of the German
mission. signed the protocol OF
November |, providing for re-
paration for the sinking Of the
German war-ships at Scapa Flow
and to insure the carrying out OF
the armistice terms. The sign
ing of this document occurred in
the office Of the minister of for.
|eign affairs.
Paris, Jan. 10. = The putting OF
the League of Nations into.beine
which will be one of the ifnmedi.
ate consequences of the exchang
of notifications Of the treaty OF
Versailles. will occur in Paris al
1890 o'clock in the morning Of
Friday, January 16. the supreme
council decided today.
:
Ambassador Wallace cabled
this. decision of the council to
President Wilson so the president
might issue the formal notice OF
the meeting of the council of the
league to be held on the date
named.
The first meeting of the coun-
ell will be called to order and
presided over by Leon Bourgeois,
the representative of France in
the council. He will deliver a
b-ief address. Earl Cnrzpn. the
British. foreign secretary, who
will represent Great Britain al
the meeting also will speak.
Washington. Jan President Viii.
son is expected to sign the cal
for the first meeting Of the Lea.
que of Nations council immedi.
ately after receiving notice from
Ambassador Wallace that ths
first session had been fixed fol
next Friday. The United State.
however, will not be represented
at the meeting as the treaty ha!
not yet been ratified by the sen
ate.
Provision for the President t,
issue a call for the initial meet
ing of the council is made in tn,
peace treaty and officials explain
ed that in signing the call Mr.
Wilson would not be acting il
his capacity as president Of tn
United States.
The coming into force of TIL
treaty through exchange of rati
fication today between Grea
Britain, France. Italy and Ger
many will not effect the Unite'
States, officials said. While tech
nically the state of war betweel
this country and Germany stil
lexits, trade between the coun
tries were resumed some month
ago and is steadily increasing
particularly the export movemen
| from the United States.
| The United States, however
will not be represented on an
Iof the various commissions sc
Iup by the treaty for carryin
out its terms nor can this cour
try send consular agents int
Germany until the state Of wa
lis ended.
Colfax Lodge +. & A. NJ Elects an
Installed Oficefs for 1920.
M. Ferrier, w. M. !; G. w. Wi
!, liams. 8. W.T.. w. Dowden !.
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M. Terrier, w. M; G. w. Viii.
liams. S. WI. w. Dowden, j.
W.; C. H. TummineIlo. Tres. A.
B. Perkins. Secty.;; ]. NJ. Strau.
CHAN, S. D.; F. M. Wells. ]. D.
II. G. Goodwin, Chaplain: L. L.
Roach. M. c.; M. ". Bostic, anG
r. v. Straughan. Stewards: PasI
Masters. r. S. Cameron. L. L
Roach. ]. M. Straugnan, NJ. Fer.
rier. G. w. Williams. Jac. Bloch.
G. H. Mcknight. R. w. Rich
ardson. ]. w. Duncan, J. G. Nc
Knight.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-01-24

The LouisiaAa Division ST the Amefi:
can Cotton Association,
Step by step the Louisiana Di-
vision Of the American Cotton
AsseeIatIon 4 advancing tewaFds
its gold Of ~. @e members. and
now the stage is all set for the
SspFelAe Effort during The week
II February xnd.- when re
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-01-24
colFAx GRANT PARISH. La SATURDAY JANI1. " -

A Flower for the Tomb of Mrs. Martha
Walker.
Editor c0vaz Ckswssas
| can no longer resist the duty
OF placing a flower upon the
tomb, and recording Z trih'at~4
my departed -
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20

The Wauchula Advocate, the neat
est and best all-round weekly paper
in North America has just celebrated
its goth birthday, and comes decked
out in a new typographical outfit
which makes it neater than before
if that were possible. Goolsby and
the writer are getting to be the old
timers in Florida journalism, very
few of the boys having stuck to
their bush as long as we have. We
have nothing to say for present COM
pany, but Goolsby, at least, is not
falling behind the times, and the most
progressive young newspaper man
could do no better than watch his
smoke. OF course, there is no ex-
cuse for man ever getting old or
rusty who is privileged to work in
such surroundings as the Advocate
office, where the editor can write u
paragraph, then reach out of the win
dow and pluck an orange. and, while
enjoying it, watch the pretty girls
who make up the FORMS etc., fit
about the parlor-like premises. Wen
say that's the life!
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20

salvation? l have met ing GODDESS
wicked men who'd say: People make
their own hell on this earth and that
is all the hell What a big lie. All
the hell those babes ever saw or ever
will see was caused by the other rel
low. | have been in some blessed
meetings but the greatest is yet ahead
Of us. I've seen mammas in mourning
for babes that had slipped away 10 NC
with Jesus. The saddest hour OF tne
whole life was after arriving at tne
home from the little new-made grave
like poor Mary John III but wnen
she arrived at the grave, so full Q.
gloom, she discovered he was not
there. So the mamma, if our precious
Lord would pull aside the curtain OF
heaven, she'd see that only the house
was in the grave. There may be some
doubt about some others OF the fam
ily. but not the babe-they go like a
blossom to the sun. Adam will De
there. / long to talk TO MIN ABOUT tns
fall. And Lot, the poor fellow, who'd
look for him there only for 2 Pet 2:7'
who stuck to the wicked city until ne
lost all of his fsmily-to make money
was one who went to heaven by the
skin Of his teeth. oh, my, but the
Lots" who are to be there by the
skin Of their teeth" wholly by the
grace of Cod. Then shall be the har-
vest-the consummation Of all things
Saints who have been robbed OF even
a fair living and the robber who has
gotten fat on the job-all are going to
get the thing they have been looking
for all the years. A woman said to
me: IT was a Baptist; then / be-
lieved in hell, but now I'm Mil
lennium Dawn and don't any more. :
But after a while she said in our
conversation: II believe if I'm faith
full I'll get there Get where"
asked. why, to heaven!" We'll
suppose you are not faithful where
will you go? She, in big surprise,
Continues on page 3
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20

There have been tremendous plant
ings Of oranges in this county the
past season. When all the young
groves now set out come into bearing
Polk will produce more oranges than
the present entire crop of the State.
Yet we do not believe there will be
any overproduction, for the demand
will have increased with the rapidly
increasing population, and the prob.
lens of marketing and distribution
will by then have been worked out
to maximum efficiency. Orange cul
ture will always be a profitable pur-
suit, for there is only a very small
area in the entire country where or
anges can be grown, and from whence
the continents entire supply must
come.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20
TOMORROW'S SUNDAY 1
SCHOOL LESSON
Lesson-Rev. 1911.

btooOu-lSSN JILL
Nrhis lesson is vision OF God S re-
deemed. 1t sure does glow in the eyes
of man who has been driven from
everything that was dear to him, be-
cause of his loyalty to his Lord. Some
today are serving time who are as
pure and faithful to our blessed Lord
as God has ever made. Every tongue
and tribe are in this vision-in white
robes no black factory. All sang the
new song; all had the palms-a type
of victory-in their hands No big
and little you. The gulf of hatred and
so-called patriotism all gone now
All brothers now, sure; all douDts
and fears gone; the face OF shame is
gone. Some, we notice, are on the
throne (Rev. 3:21. They are the
overcomers.
Rev. 1911 we see how they over
come, by the blood Of the Lamb and
by the word of their testimony and
we may know if there Is silent
tongue to be found it is not on the
throne, but before 1t.
I have been in some great meetings
but that is going to be the greatest.
A conductor said: I'm afraid you
are going to be lonesome In heaven.
"Why?" Because there are going to
be so few there" How foolish you
are. Why? Oh you don't know that
our God takes over half the world to
heaven in their infancy. Think of 1t,
millions of babes who could not lisp
the name of mamma, who never saw
a we'll moment in this life-all IN
glory-tongue able to sing the new
song and introduce the mamma to
Jesus when she comes.
Who gets all the glory for their
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20
NOTICE OF STOCK
HOLDERS MEETING

A special meeting of the stock
holders of the G. E. Todd Hardware
Company will be held at the Office Of
the company in Lakeland, Polk coun-
ty, Florida, on Tuesday. the 9Th day
Of April, A. D., 1920, at ten o'clock
a. m. for the purpose of voting on
an increase Of the capital stock of
the said company.
$40 C. E. TODD. President
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20
FLORIDA. DAIRYING STATE



the wealth developed by Denmar.;
from the production of eggs and but
ter, mentioning the fact that Den
mark. naturally a bleak and infertile
country, a land of long winters and
toggy and cherries summers still
managed to supply the markets of
London and Paris with 2OO,OOO'OO0
pounds of butter yearly, and that the
Danish butter bore an excellent repu
tation in the market and was enrich
ing it's makers,
We have states in this union which
might compete with Denmark in but
ter making, not only as to quality,
hut also as TO quantity, but Florida
il not one of them as yet. With all
the advantages for stock raising pos
sessed by any state, and more than
most Of them, we are content to get
our beef from the prairies Of the
west, our butter from the creameries
of Illinois and Wisconsin and our
eggs from Tennessee. Wisconsin is
perhaps a typical state for dairying.
It has a state dairying commissioner
who tells us that the number Of cows
in Wisconsin exceeds 1000 900, that
there are 10000 milk producing
farms, which return 20 their owners
the sum of s215OOO,OOO yearly. Parl
Of that great sum, too much, goes
from Florida, for we import many
tons Of Wisconsin butter and use
numberless cans of condensed milk.
And it goes without saying that in
its natural advantages for carrying
on the dairy industry, Wisconsin can
not compete with Florida. The Wis
consin dairyman must provide warm
and comfortable quarters for his
cows for at least six months in the
year a tax from which the Florida
farmer is exempt The stabbed COWS
must be fed aid cared for at a cor
siderable expense for these six
months Labor aud feed are not
small items in the expense bills Of
the western dairyman but they can
be largely eliminated by the Florida
dairyman His herds have a longel
season on grass as well as o greater
variety of nutritious grasses t.
choose from Then there is a great
variety of valuable forage plants,
which can be grown successfully in
Florida and reduce the amount of
grain required to keep the animals
healthy and productive. Again the
lands of Florida are much cheaper
than the highly developed lands with
the expensive buildings in Wiscor
sin. The first outlay would not need
to be as great.
Here Is where Florida is neglecting
great opportunity. The 100000 milk
farms Of Wisconsin should be match
ed by 100000 similar farms in Flor
ida. The state has more than two
thousand square miles more land
than Wisconsin; a better and a
longer grazing season, and an abund.
ance Of pure and wholesome water
Drouhts are rarely long continued or
serious with us. In fact, from every
possible point Of view we are as we'll
situated for carrying on a successful
dairy business as any state in the
Union, and some day the farmers of
Florida will find it out.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20
kim

Seven leading physicians of Lake
land recommend Kiln to their pa
tients as being the purest and most
uniform milk-and have. frequently
called upon the distributor to deliver
it to sick babies.
II kim is best for invalids and ba
bies, it is surely best for you.
MRS. ]. F. HOUGHTON
S0l ). Iowa Ave. 292 Blue
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20

Young Roster Cats has resigned
the position of harbor-master at Key
West, to which he was appointed by
his father, and we understand will go
into business for himself That boy
seems to us to be trying to live down
some of his antecedents. He is said
to have a mighty fine mother, and he
appears to take after" her
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20
We are mighty tired of seeing Flor

We are mighty tired of seeing Flor
ida libeled by so called reformers,
who seem to get some kind of salts
faction from spreading the idea that
very large part of the people of this
State are afflicted with loathsome
diseases We know that no such con
dition exists, and we resent the idea
Of classifying the whole population OF
the State in accordance with data Sc
cured from the examination of a
bunch of negro army recruits.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20
We know of no better advice and
none more easily followed. by the
workingman OF today than this: Don't
hate capitalists-be one!

Newspapers are always truthful
but they can't always be taken too
literally. For instance, the Orlando
Sentinel says THE young grove of
today will be the bearing grove Of to-
morrow" We have just set out some
trees, but we're afraid We won't find
any fruit on EN- tomorrow.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20

Mrs. A. S. ]. Mckinney, of Stanton,
arrived yesterday for a short stay and
is the guest Of her friend, Mrs, Frank
II. Hursey. She is being most cordially
welcomed by her many friends
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20
The Evening Telegram

Published every afternoon from The
Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. En-
tered in the postoffice at Lakeland
Fla, as mail matter of the second
class
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20
LAKELAND, FLORIDA

The first locomotive with steel
springs was built in England just one
hundred years ago, and Is still to be
seen in the South Kensington Mu.
scum.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-03-20
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press Is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication OF
all news dispatches credited to 1t or not
otherwise credited in this paper and
also the local news published therein.
All rights Of republication Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Another Gem in Our Diadem.

Records of the year that is drawing toward
its close will show that Washington has enhanced
her architectural sculptural and arboreal beauty to
greater degree during the twelve months than any
other metropolis of the nation.
apartment hotels and business houses on Sixteenth
street OF other principal thoroughfares, the addition
of memorial fountain IN Dupont Circle among
notable innovations of the artistic kind and extern
sive landscape gardening incident to suburban i'm
provements the Capital has been going a pace that
is beyond proportion to the reconstruction stride
elsewhere.
1t has been frequently said that only population
is needed to make this the most important city in
the world except in manufacture AS center of
education and veritable axis of world affairs it
stands apart, and only Paris dares to challenge it
for beauty. Since the construction of the Congress
Sional Library a generation ago we have led the
procession IN architecture and city has competed
with US in expansion along this line. Census fig
have been added reputation for health and climate
With long List of such glittering soubriquets to
our honor as: The City of Magnificent Distances,
The Mecca of Sight-seers, City in the Forest Capi-
tai of Democracy, Worlds Most Beautiful Capital,
The Peerless City and on, may soon be added:
Incompatible Washington. There are many citi-
zens, former citizens and visitors ready now to con-
cede our right to be known as the incompatible
city, but the figures in black and white will award
US the wreath If the strides we have been making
in almost every line of endeavor continued
The Washington herald., 1920-10-24
Out of the Blue.

1t you ask the mystic whence come the illum-
nations and inspirations that control his life and
shape his ideals he often will say "out of the blue
If you ask the seeker for food for the plant
life of the world where the greatest supply of nitro
gen is to be found he will say "the air." and then
will proceed to tell you how applied science already
IS tapping this supply, and how much nearer gen
eral use and commercial profit the method now is
as the outcome Of the experiences of the war
Now comes the Italian inventor Lentner and
claims to have perfected apparatus by which the
static electricity of the atmosphere can be trans
formed cheaPy and swiftly into power that will take
Ehe place both of black and white" coal and make
unnecessary the costly power-plants now using
water as driving force m the process of CONVEX
sion.
Excessive imagination is not needed nor much
technical knowledge for the ordinary layman to
sec that If Lentner's claim holds good the poten-
tia wealth of the is to be increased immensely
and some OF the worlds most pressing problems of
production and transportation hastened to their So
luton; and this too at a time when a poor world
much needs the gift the discovery implies.
Encouraged by the Italian government the dis
eoverer viii hasten to make practical application of
MS hnding in the realm Of physics And this for
patriotic as well as for professional reasons If the
dScoycrer enriches himself none will covet him the
pittance that will come to him as COMPARED with
the fortune that the will acquire Who cov
cts any OF EdiSon'S fortune or MarconPs?