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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
No. 1854


oHice OF Comptroller of the Currency
washington, D. c., December ~
1920,
WHEREAS, by satisfactory evil
dence presented to the undersigned
II has been made to appear that 1.-THE
First National Bank of Elton" in the
town OF Elton, in the Parish of JEFF
ferson Davis and State of Louisiana
has complied with all the provisions
OF the Statutes of the United States
required to be complied with before
an association shall be authorized to
commence the business of banking;
Now Therefore, l, John SHELTON viii
liams, Comptroller of the Currency
do hereby certify that "The First
National Bank of Elton" in the town
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

of Elton in the Parish of Jefferson
Davis and State of Louisiana, is auth
orized to commence the business of
Banking as provided in Section Fifty
enc hundred and siXty-nine of the
Revised Statutes of the United States.
In testimony whereof witness my
hand and seal Of. Office this Twelfth
day of December, 1919
JOHN SHELTON WILLIAMS,
Comptroller of the Currency.
SEAL Dec. 20 Soda
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

4 young lacy of Brooklyn married
four husbands without waiting for any
OF them to properly "decease". She
says she didn't know it was against
the law. The fact that she married
four men is sufficient proof of the alb,
sence of mentality to realize there is
such a thing as law.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07
THE "NlecER MINSTREL.

The Niger Minstrel" at the Audi.
forum Monday night, featuring local
high school talent under the auspices
of the Welsh High School Athletic AS
ISOLATION, was decided success, both
financially and as an entertainment
feature. A storm of applause greeted
every number on the program.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07
Minutes of PhiIomathic Literary
Society
Welsh. La, Jan. %, 1920.

SSStSAg
Welsh, La, Jan. 20, 1920.
The meeting came to order at the
sound of the gavel. The minutes of the
proceeding meeting were read and ap-
proved.
The program was then called for
The first number was a debate, Re
solved, THAT it is better for a Pupil
to Know How to Speak Fluently Than
to Write Well When He Graduates. :"
Affirmative, Melvin Doan, Lloyd Ro-
bin, Orville Watkins; Negative, Web,
ster Todd, Paul Hiestand, Hayward
Litchfield
Then in order:
Speech, Donald Grosh.
Current Events, Evans Hebert
Reading, Webster Arceneaux.
Defamation, Earnest Tabor.
Recitation, Sam Holiday.
Report of Reporter, Alton Prentice
The President then called for the
business of the society. Webster
Todd's movement to change Article
four of Section l.. of the By Laws of
the Constitution, was voted on. 1t was
rejected for lack of two thirds majority
A committee, Richard Mason, Don
ovan Armstrong and Webster Todd
was appointed to rearrange Article 4
Section |.
1t was then moved, seconded and
passed that the meeting adjourn un
til two weeks hence.
J. H. FISHER, Pres.
MELVIN DOAN, sec'y.
ALTON PRENTICE, Rep
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07
PEOPLES MEAT MARKET
CHANGES OWNERSHIP

Mr.. l.. A. Dumesnil has purchased
the Peoples Meat Market from Mr.. T.
r. Ewing, who founded the business
and has conducted it during the past
year or more The new owner took
charge of the business the first of the
week. Mr.. Dumesnil comes from Sui
phur, where he formerly conducted a
market. He expects to locate his fam
lily here just as soon as he can find a
house or suitable rooms.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

A neat little duel was recently pull
led in New York city, where two men
snapped ten shots from automatic PTS
tolls without being able to hit either
themselves or anybody else. 1t is high
time the American people were taught
TO shoot straight
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

gally convened and held in the once
of the said corporation, at 1870 o'clock
D. m, on Saturday, November loth'
1919, the charter of the said corpora !
ton was amended by a favorable vote .
of more than three-f0urths of the STOCK
issued by said corporation, in the Iol-
lowing particulars, tO-wit:
Article |.
That Article 4 of the Charter OF the
said Welsh Oil Corporation be changed
50 as to read as follows, to-wit: The
authorized capital stock of this cor
poration is fixed at $96,0OO,O0 which
may be increased to 5O,OOOOO, divided
into and represented by $500 shares
of the par value of $1,000 each
Article II.
That the first sentence of Article
of the Charter OF this corporation be
changed to read as follows, to-Wlt:
''All of the powers of this organization
shall be vested in and exercised by
Board of Directors to be composed OF
not less than three, nor more than
seven stock holders, majority OF
whom shall constitute quorum for
| the transaction of any business.
Appearers further declared that at
said meeting of stock holdrs, the said
John Carradine presided as Chairman
and the said Arthur T. Jones oficiated
as Secretary, respectively, and that
the amendments of the said Charter
of said corporatin as above set forth
was duly adopted as shown by the
minutes of said stock holders meeting
as the same appears in the minutes CT
the official proceedings of the stock
holders and Board of Directors OF said
corporation.
Witness my official signature and
Seal, also the signature of said appear
ers in the presence of B. NJ. Latour
and T. F. Colbert, competent witnesses
on this the 10th day of January, A. D.
1920.
Csignel)
JOHN CARRADINE,
A. T. JONES.
Witnesses:
B. NJ. Latour.
T. F. Colbert.
Before me,
JOHN T. HOOD,
Notary Public.
State of Louisiana,
Parish of Jefferson Davis.
Office of Clerk of Court.
|, Louis z. TOups, by. Clerk OF
the 18th Judicial District Court, in and
: for the Parish of Jefferson Davis, and
State of Louisiana, and Ex-OficiO Re
corder, do hereby certify that the with.
in and foregoing is true and correct
copy of the original act of Amend.
ment of Charter which was filed fol
record Jan. 18th, 1920, bearing File
No. 2O436, at 500 a. m, and duly re
\ corded Jan. 18th, 1920, in Charter
Record ONE" at pages 2S3 ct seq
In testimony whereof, witness n.y.
| Official signature and seal of Offict
at Jennings, Louisiana, this 18th day
of January, A. D., 1920.
\ l. z. TOUrS,
by. Clerk of Court and Ex-OtIicit
Recorder
Jan. "a Feb. TABLES
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

FOR SALE-75 acre rice farm; lfty
in rice and twenty-five in upland; we'll
of water. house. barn, dozen pecan
trees; ideal place to build; in city
limits of Vinton, on gravel road. Price
SIS per acre, half cash, balance easy
terms. Phone 20, H. NJ. Garnett, Vim
Ton Ia F7-3p
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

FOR SALE-SO acre farm; sixty IN
rice. twenty in upland; good house and
barn: near school and church; on
gravel road to Vinton, seven miles
away; price $4,5OOOO, cash. Phone ~
IN. NJ. Garnett, Vinton, La. F1-3p
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07
WELSH MOTOR CAR co.
HAS LET CONTRACT FOR
BILL DING NEW GARAGE.

Brick Building 60x130 Feet-WiII Cost
$30,Oo0oo. w. J. Quick
Awarded Contract.
Motor Car Cos. new brick garage mas
been let to w. j. Quick, contractor, OF
Lake Charles. The building will be one
story, 60x130 feet and will cost about
$SS3. 100000. Material is being assembled
on the ground and it is announced that
work will begin within a few days.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

Owing to the influenza situation be
ing so bad in Chicago, and to his own
health, DR.. LaCom announces that he
will not attend the post graduate
course at the North Western Universe
ty, as he had intended.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07
Invitation TO Ex.service Mer

All ex-service men of Welsh, Roam
Oke and vicinity are invited to attend
the regular monthly meeting of the
James 0. Hall Post American Legion
in Jennings on Friday, Feb 6, at 500
p. m. Temporary meeting place at
Elite Tailors, next door Strand Theat-
re.
(Signed) Roy S. Miller,
Commander.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

Fire losses in the United States dur
ing 1919 reached a quarter billion dol
lars. Carelessness was the cause OF
most of the loss.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

Ear Corn and Oats in car lots, de-
lvered at any r. r. station, subject
to inspection. Write, phone or see r.
A. Estes, at Mutual Warehouse.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

Another wise agent of the govern
ment has returned from Europe with
the idea that Bolshevism is on the
wane. That is what he says!
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

When you feel bilious, sluggish,
eonstipated and all knocked out and
believe you need dose of dangerous
calomel, just remember that your
druggist sells for few cents large
bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which
is entirely vegetable and pleasant to
take and is a perfect substitute for
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

Long Term Loans at low rate OF
interest. See Hood G. Colbert" o11-tt
See Hood G Colbert for Long Time
Loans. NOII'U
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

preaching upon the gentle subject OF
He'll Fire recently an earthly fire in
the basement of the church broke up
the congregation.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

Clerk of Court |. R. Price, OF Jen'
nings was a business visitor in Welsh
Tuesday.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

About million aliens have left the
United States since the armistice was
signed We had better sign another
armisiCe.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07
souLE BUSINESS COLLEGE, NEW ORltiss

Highest Grade and Most Prarthgii
Courses in Business, in Shorthand ~ ~.
in English. Best Equipments. 40
eqrlaled Facilities. Complete Go Cora
Bank only School with Actu2i 9 9.ots
and Actual Money, III w|Hch %,u'''
keen the houks and balance rs$i''
Personal instruction md
,sirnna%c GftlAun'as in rodora' ,'sI W.
fEo aouLE q EaaSi Raw OfisSi.s' So
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

There is little use in minting small
change any more. The chickens have
quit eating it.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

FOR Number of fresh mich
COWS. L. ]. Bowers, Phone $50, Welsh,
La. Fo-Ilc
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07
r. w. HOWARD
Editor and Publisher

"A profit is without honor unless it
is immense.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

Long Term Loans at low rate OF
interest. See Hood G. Colbert. O11-tt
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07
THE THRICE-A-WEEk EDITION
OF THE NEW YORK Woe, \
In 1920 and 1921.

Practically Daily at the Price Of
Weekly. No Other Newspaper in
the World Gives SO Much at so Low
a Price.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07
Business Announcement.

Having opened a first class fruit
tore in Roanoke, | take this means
of inviting the patronage of my friends
and the trade generally.
Respectfully,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

Flesh Oysters every Tuesday at
Kimb2ll'S.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

Order your fruit trees now, from
the Home Nursery, F. L. Cannon
Prop N22'tfc
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

O Labor! What crimes are commit
ted by Red loafers in thy name!
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

Sometimes the depth Of a sermon
Is in inverse ratio to its length.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

See Hood G. Colbert for Long Time
Ion. Motif
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

A shortage in the peanut crop does
not affect the peanut politicians.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07
It'll soon be in Museums
Take "Dodson's Liver Tone" Insteadl

calomel. 1t is guaranteed to start
your liver without stirring you up
inside, and can not salivate.
Don't take calomRl! 1t makes you
sick the next day; it loses you a days
work. Dodson's Liver Tone straight
ems you right up and you feel great.
Give it to the children because it ID
perfectly harmless and doesn't gripe.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07

E. B. MARTIN,
Canal Street Roanoke, La
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-02-07
THE RICE BELT JOURNAL
Weekly

Entered at the POSioffice, Welsh,
La, as Second Class Mater.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-11-04
The Joke
That Turned
BY A. w. PEACH
ID. LEO. BY Mcclure Newspaper syndlcate.l

90. 1920. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
as he a real, true, live woman
hater-and handsOme?" Beth Ham
mond asked, her gray, mischievous
eyes smiling at her sister.
Audrey looked down in turn at the
rosy face lifted to hers. HE was far
from handsome-that is, nOw-he was
so thin; but they told me at the store
that he had hired the Point cottage
and was going to board himself. He
was engaged to a girl, and after he
had furnished home she backed out
and it made a woman halter of him !"
II should think it would |" Beth an
swered briefly, then repeated musingly,
"a real, live woman hater!"
Her father looked up from his paper.
"Now, look here, youngster, don't you
go getting into mischief"
She nodded with an upward sweep
of her gray eyes at her father, who
always seemed able to read her mind {;
then she promptly started out to get
into mischief.
The Point cottage was a lonely
place on the shore beyond their cot
tage. That afternoon she left the
main road for the sake Of going by
it. 1t lay silent among the pines.
Beth hesitated. "He must be away,
and l would like to see a real, live
woman Halter keep house," she thought
to herself.
To think was to act with her. Her
small feet, falling lightly, made no
sound. She went up to the window
and peeped in. A slight noise behind
her made her whirl. She found her
self facing a tall, pale-faced man of
about thirty, and thin-aS she said
later. thin to the point of extinction"
His eyes were brown and Swallowed by
WEAKNESS, but they frightened as he
saw her.
"Good morning, Miss Slattery. You
have come just in time to help me out.
Please come this way. l am varnish-
ing a canoe out back" he said pleas
antly.
Beth was startled, but she was not
to be outwitted. "O-hoi! it is Miss
Slattery, is it? Well begorry," she
said to herself, as she followed the tall
form, che can't do anything more
than fire mel"
He led her to the kitchen and
pointed to the sink. 1t was heaped
with soiled dishes. She stared at it.
Good gracious" she exclaimed.
"You must have had a banquet all by
yourself. Don't You ever wash them?"
His brown eyes were cold. mo,
keep using clean dishes till I've used
all in the house; then l have them
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-11-04
LEGENDS OF SNAKE AND TOAD
Numerous Stories, Verified and Un-
verified, Have Been Put on Rec
ord Through the Ages.

In the late sos a paragraph APP
peared in the Rutland Vt) Herald
stating that workmen in digging a
we'll there had found a toad in a gray
el bed a few feet below the surface.
The toad was torpid when discovered,
and the incident caused little interest.
But when the toad revived, threw out
its chest and hoped off, observers
were astOnished. While in Boston
about twelve or fifteen years later, in
looking over a local paper l found
the paragraph referred to above,
"VermOnter" writes to the Boston
Herald. 1t read: "Recently work
men in digging a we'll" etc, had found
a toad. Upon showing the story to
my mother she recalled the fact and
told me how my father, with q
forked branch in his hands, had Iocat-
ed the water that afterward filled the
well.
The truth never dies, therefore
the incident here related should be
accepted as fact. Shortly after
the digging of the well in the yard
near by I saw two snakes engaged in
swallowing a toad. One had neatly
gathered in it's hind legs, While the
other was doing very nicely with the
head and fOrelegs. Excited by the
sight I killed the snakes and released
the toad, which seemed to be in a bad
way. I have always regretted the act,
and many times l have wondered
what might have happened had the
two snakes met in the middle of the
toad. Would one have swallowed its
rival and the toad at the same time?
Would the other snake when gath
cred in have continued to swallow the
toad while inside the other snake,
thus playing a joke upon the victor?
Now some writer of unnatural
history" might state that there was
a terrific combat between snakes and
toad; a great twisting of tails and
wriggling of bodies; that the toad
dragged the snakes to the well
whence it came and drowned them.
Another might say that the snake
inside after swallowing the toad, had
turned around and crawled out of the
outer snake, leaving it disappointed,
peeved and hungry. But am writing
natural history.
The following was told to me years
ago by a trustworthy person. My in
fOrmant while driving along cOun-
try road came upon a mother snake
and a number of little ones summing
themselves in the dust Upon bccom-
ing alarmed, the mother snake opened
her jaws and the little ones imme-
diately crawled down her throat to
safety. Then the family party glided
into the grass by the roadside and
disappeared.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-11-04
Important to all Women
Readers Of this Paper

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Women's complaints often prove to be
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If the kidneys are not in a healthy con-
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You may suffer pain in the back, head
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Poor health makes you nervous, irrita-
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But hundreds of women claim that DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be just
the remedy needed to overcome such
conditions.
Many send for a sample bottle to see
what Swamp Root, the great kidney,
liver and bladder medicine, will do for
them. By enclosing ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton N. Y, you
may receive sample size bottle by Parcel
Post. You can purchase medium and
large size bottles at all drug stores.-Adv.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-11-04

common meeting ground for both Of
them.
She found soon that the happiest
hours of the days were spent with
him. The revelation came when, after
long swim, he came lightly to the
house, his muscular, erect form swing
ing easily up the walk. She wished he
were hers The sudden thought we'll
ing from her heart left her trembling,
and something in her face must have
arrested him.
When he came downstairs again he
went over to her side and quietly took
the dust cloth from her hand. His
brown eyes were sober, serious and
very tender.
Il think that after today shall not
need you any more, Miss Hammond"
"Miss Hammond p" she cried at
his use Of her own name. How did
you know? Why" her voice lost it's
astonishment and changed to amuse-
ment.
He stood a moment In silence; then
he turned, and looking down at her
from his six feet, he smiled again in
the tender way that set her heart to
pounding.
Il confess knew who you were that
first day; and it popped into my head
to follow the plan l did. l owe you
an apology"
She shook her head. mo. I owe
you one. | thought l was playing a
good joke on you; instead"
Instead" he caught the word and
went on with a new note in his voice,
"the joke is on me, for, little girl, I
don't see how l can ever, ever let you
go! But your father"
Another surprise! MY father"
eyes. l went to your father and
told him what l was up to. He and
my father were college mates. He
said 1t would be all right; that for
once he would like to be in on joke
on you"
81 should think So" she said. EVERY
body has been fooling mel" There was
a slight waver in her voice.
81 thought we We're all fooling; in
stead-I have been falling everlast-
ingly in love with your
She smiled in the quick, tense
silence that followed, but her chin
quivered. His eyes watched that little
chin for one moment, and then she
found herself tightly imprisoned in
muscular arms, feeling upon her lips
his kiss-and kissing back
'YOu do that exceedingly we'll for q
real, live woman hater!" she said
breatheSSly. Then, of course, she had
to explain and he had to explain that
what her sister had told her was rank
gossip; that she was the first and only
girl he had ever loved. She believed
him, though she never told him the
reason; his love making lacked a fin
ish that only experience gives. SO, she
reasoned, she had "a little something
on him" after all.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-11-04

washed and start over again. That's
one thing | want you for"
She looked at him keenly, but there
was no smile in his eyes. All her life
she had her fUa with people who took
life solemnly, and many times they
had never known the merry game
she was playing; but she could not
make sure of him.
Nor did she in the week that passed.
Every day she went to the cottage and
did the housework for him. To be
called Miss Slattery" by the earnest
young man, to find herself hOmekeep-
ing for a man-all had in it an un-
usual flavor of huge joke. She did
rot realize the danger of it; she had
grown up fresh and innocent as a rose
in the friendly shelter of her home
garden.
1t was good finland silently, mys-
terously it began to be something
more Under his brown eyes she saw,
now and then, the twinkle of a merry
Slllll lllhI dloNSlNu W lSl pNhs pllC
liked the outdoors, and she soon dis
covered that he was putting himself
through rigid physical training. II
seemed to her that under her very
eyes his thin lean figure began to fill
out. Then one day she "stumped" him
to take her out on the lake fishing, and
left him staring when she showed him
she could handle a fly rod as skill
fully as he could. Then his books
rows and rows Of them about the cot
tage-gave her another insight into
his mind and nature and formed a
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-11-04
Hadn't Wasted Anv

Two country women were arguing
about thrift.
Dye see that purse" demanded one
with a triumphant air. ITS the one
| bought when | was married 20
years ago, and it's rs good as new yet"
"That'S nothing" sneered her friend.
You know my husband. JOhn?"
"Of course l do. What about him?"
well, he's my first husband and
you've had three. Don't you preach
thrift to me STRAY Stories.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-11-04

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