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The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1920-03-04
NOTICE

In accordance with the terms of an
ordinance of the Police Jury of the par
ish OF Natchitoches. dated February 10
tn, 1920, notice is hereby given that the
Police Jury will receive sealed bids for
the purchase, at price not less than
par and accrued interest, of Sixty Thou
sand $3.50, OO0, 00) Dollars of Road Bonds
OF Road District Number Twenty Nine
(29) Of the parish of Natchitoches. dat
ed February |, 1920, and authorized at
an election held in said Road District on
November Ia, 1919.
Bids must be sealed and ACCOMPANIED
by certified check on some National
Bank doing business in this state or
some solvent bank chartered under the
laws of this state, for not less than two
and one half (2lsl per cent of the face
value OF said bonds, payable to the pres
ident OF the Police jerry of the parish of
Natchitoches.
The check of the successful bidder
will be credited on the purchase price
OF his bid, or forfeited to the said Road
District if he fails to fulfill the condi-
tions Of his bid. The checks of the un-
successful bidders will be returned to
them upon the rejection of their bids.
The successful bidder will be furnish
ed proper legal opinion of Mr.. John C
Thompson Of New York City as to the
validity of the bonds.
All bids must be unconditional and ad
dressed to the Police Jury Of the parish
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1920-03-04

of Natchitoches, at Natchitoches, La,
with statement on the envelope that
it contains bid for The purchase of
the Road Bond issue of Road District
No. Twenty Nine (29) of the parish Cf
,, NatchitocheS. Said bids will be opened
at Eleven O'Clock A. M. in open session
of the Police Jury, on the 5th day of A.
pril 1920, at the Court House at Natchi
toches, Louisiana.
The police Jury reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
For further information concerning
said bonds, or the proceedings leading
thereto, apply to Miss Addie Tauzin.
secretary of the Police Jury, Natchi-
toches, Louisiana.
Thus done and signed at Natchitoches
Louisiana, this the 10th day of Febru-
ary 1920.
JAS. F. SALTER
President
J, the undersigned secretary of the
police jury of the parish of Natchitoches
state of Louisiana, 90 hereby certify
that the above is true and correct copy
OF the notice issued by the president of |
the police jury calling for bids for the
purchase of the two hundred thousand |
$500, ,0OO.O0) dollars of Road Bonds of
Road District No. 29 of the parish of |
dated February |, 1920.
Given under my official hand and seal
At yNatchltoches, Louisiana, on this the
10Th day of February 1920.
ADDIE TAUzIN,
Secretary.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1920-03-04
NOTICE

| In accordance with the terms of an
ordinance of the police jury of the par
lsh OF Natchitoches, dated February 10
| 1870. notice is hereby given that the 20
lice jury will receive bids for the con-
| structlon Of roads in road district No.
Twenty nine 1921 Of the parish of Nat
chitoches.
Bids must be accompanied bv a certi-
ned check, In an amount equal to five
81 per cent of the amount of the bids.
which check will be forfeited to the
road district if the successful bidder
1al!s to carry out the terms of his bid
and the checks of the unsuccessful BID
ders VIII be returned to them upon the
rejection of their bids.
All bids must be addressed to the DO
lice jury OF the parish of Natchitoches,
Natcbitoches, Louisiana.
The bids will be opened at Eleven iii
o clock A. Nj. IN open session of the pol
ice jury, on the 5th day OF April 1920.
at the Court House at Natchitocres, La
The police jury reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
For further information and specifi- |
cations apply to the secretary of the |
police jury of the parish of Natchitoches
at Natchitoches, Louisiana
Thus done and signed at Natchitoches
Ia. this the 10th day cf February 1920.
JAS. F. SALTER
President Police Jury.
|. the undersigned secretary of the
'olice jury of the parish Of Natchitoches
tate OF Louisiana, do hsreby certify
nat the above rs "a true and correct COPY
Il the notice calling for the construction
i roads in road district number 20 of
ne parish Of Natchitoches, as issued by
ne president of the police jury on the
9th day of February 1920.
Given under my official signature and
eai at Natchitoches, Louisiana, this the
nth day OF February 1920. ,
ADDIE TAUZIN,
Secretary.
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1920-03-04
CHARTER
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
PARISH NF NATCHITOCHES


be 1t known, that on this the 4th
| day of the month Of February. A. D.
1920, before me, ]. o. Gunter a notary
public duly commissioned and qualified
in and for the parish Of Natchitoehes,
State Of Louisiana, personally came
and appeared II. A. Cook, L. E. Hud-
son and r. A. Miller, who declared
that, desiring to avail themselves Of
the laws of the State of Louisiana and
particularly of the provisions of Act
267 of 1914 relative to the formation of
corporations, they do hereby join and
unite to form corporation, and adopt
as their articles of incorporation the
following, to-wit:
ARTICLE /.
The name of this corporation shall be
GULF STATE OIL & GAS CORPORA
TION, INC. In such name it shall
have and enjoy succession for period
OF ninety-nine (9y years from the date
OF incorporation and shall have all the
corporate powers conferred generally
by the laws of the State of Louisiana
upon corporations organized there.
under.
ARTICLE II.
The objects and purposes for which
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1920-03-04
SUCCESSION OF MRS. M. A.
RACHAL.
11th d. C.. No.

Pursuant to an order cfethe Honora.
BILE Judge of the 1lth District Court OF
date February %. 1920 and to that eff.
feet and to me directed and in accord
ance with the last will and testament
OF deceased, will sell at pGbllc auc-
ton at the front door of the Court
House in the City of Natchitoches, La
,at II o'clock a. m.,
SATURDAY APRIL 3, 1920
the following described property be-
longing to deceased.
The certain lot of ground with all
buildings and improvements thereon
situated in the village of CloutierviIle.
Parish of Natchitoches, Louisiana
fronting on Main Street, bounded North
by property now belonging to F. A.
Charleville, South by property now be.
longing to Mrs. Gustave Racial, East
by Cane River and West by Main
Street.
Terms of sale-Cash for not less than
the inventoried appraisement.
HENRY RACIAL,
b,26-'20 stamentory Executor
t-d-s
The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1920-03-04
ARTICLE II.

The objects and purposes for which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02
JAPAN AND PHILIPPINES

From "A Philippine Republic?" by
 Charles H. sherrill, in the April scrib-
 ner
 6C1HE matter of Philippine indepen-
 dence has been much complicated
 by the fact that the Japanese, as 2 result of secret treaties made in 1917 with England. France, Italy and Russia, hold the Marshall and Caroline Islands, owned by Germany when the great war broke out.
 The location of these islands, lying as they do across our line of communica- tions with the Philippines. falls within the spirit, if not the letter, of the valu- able Lodge amendment" to the Monroe doctrine adopted in July, 1912, by the United States Senate, because in the lan- guage thereof it might threaten the communications of the United States This amendment refers to places in the American continents, but it is neverthe- less certain that "the government Of the United States could not see, without grace concern anything which might threaten the communications of the United States in so vital a link as that connecting Manila with Hawaii.
 This encircling of the Philippines by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02
THE PASSING STRANGE

John Masefield, The Yale Review Since moons decay and suns decline How else should end this life of min Water and saltness are not wine But in the darkest hour of night, When even the foxes pore for sight, The hyrelcock crows; he feels the light So, in this ~c.er mixed with dust, The hyre-cock crows ss@ feels the light That death will change because it must For all things change the darkne
 changes.
 The wandering spirits change tn The corn is gathered to the sranges The corn is. sown again, it grows; The stars burn out, the darkness goes The rhythms change. they do not close They change. and we. who pass Ii
 foam.
 Like dust blown through the streets
 Rome,
 Change ever. too; we have no home. Only beauty. only power, Sad in the fruit. bright in the flower Endlessly erring for its hour But gathering, as We stray, sense Of life, so lovely and intense, It fingers when we wander hense, That those who follow feel behind Their backs. when all before is blind Our joy. rampant to the nina
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02
LUKE McLUKE SAYS

What has become of the old-fashioned dude who used to be known as Berry Wall?"
 married man can save himself long wait if he gets there at o'clock when ne has date to meet his wife at D o'clock.
 This would be better world if a mar ried man was as afraid of his conscience as he is of his wife.
 More married men would own thefs- homes only they know that as soon as they bought one, friend wife would dis- cover some place that she likes better
 Our idea of a financier is a man who can take $l0 bill and make it do as much as 5 bill would do ten years ago.
 The nights that father wants to go out, mother wants to stay home. And the nights mother wants to go out, father wants to stay home but dassent.
 The girl who uses paint to attract at tention is certain to attract the wrong kind.
 A girls idea of spineless boom is a fellow who Squits when he is told to quit.
 Between the honeymoon and the wooden wedding husband drops from his place as a god to his place as doormat
 Not all women are as good as they might ~be. And few of them are as bad as other women think they are.
 It is easy enough to convince a man that he needs rest. But it is hard to convince him that he needs more exercise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02

Vienna intellectuals advocate going barefooted. Since the intellectuals are 'whlte-collar' folk. their position is cas- fly understood The population of Oshkosh. ~is., in- creased only 100 in ten years. That may be the result of the towns having mu- sical comedy name.
 # + # The radical candidate who is in jail cannot be accused of letting some million aire pay his hotel bills
 # * x The publicity MT. Carpenter is receiv- ing is in inverse ratio to the publicity given Mir. Dempsey.
 # x # No matter how many candidates there are in the field. there is never any short age of stumps. No doubt Germany will be glad to know that Congress is willing to let bygones be bygones.
 # # * The fact that Birmingham is some dis- tance from the coast wifi not prevent the city from giving whale meat fair test
 x # # Lloyd George and Senator Lodge think alike about the Irish resolution adopted by the Senate
 It is encouraging to be told that prices have reached the hesitation" point, but can we hold out while they hesitateg
 < # # Cfermany's ''vons" seem to have crawled into their holes and pulled the holes in after them
 # < x When Birmingham's auditorium is com pleted no time will be lost in extending a formal invitation to Caruso.
 * < < As soon as one gets through with h1s dentist it is about time to be vaccinased again.
 Chicago needs a Governor Coolidge to handle a strike of city employees.
 # + # A nation that can survive the "shinrny'' can live through almost anything.
 x # < Life would be almost Utopian if Easter hats cost no more than Easter eggs.
 * x # 
 China offers a promising field for brew cries and motion picture houses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02
FOR THE NEXT WAR

From the New York World.
 A French inventor has sold to the gov ernment the patent on new gun with a range, as shown by tests, of from 100 to
 l2o miles. Great Britain is negotiating
 for the right to manufacture this weapon,
 and Belgium has a cannon of it sown of equal power. From laboratories in all parts of the world come reports of the production of gases and explosives so terrible in their destructiveness as to | suggest annihilation Wherever naval construction is under way the warships Socn to be in service are monsters un- dreamed of ten years age.
 The seveny-five-mile gun with which the Germans began the bombardment of Paris in March( 1918, was thought by
 many to be myth, but investigation proved it's reality, and that it's practica- oility was not unknown to the people against whom it was used As with gas
 and submarine and aerial explosives and other devices of death, even the dissem- ination of contagion, the use of such n- struments depended upon the desperation of the nation conducting hostilities The last months of the great war found all the beligerents drawing from the ar senals of discovery and invention the re- sources that threatened not armies and
 strongholds alone, but civilization itself. In the covenant of the League of Ma
 tions a purpose and plan to save man lSlnl from these horrors were honestly proposed. The authors of that agreement
 knew that with such forces in use aL-
 c.,sr conflict could not fail to devastate
 che earth. We have seen already thtt r.a'.s capacity for destruction has sur- passed is towers of reconss suction, and th most gr:tvous truth in that relation f the fact t.iat the United States, by it's
 rcflsl 70 Iiomote disafaan.,at si q p,,e. casts it's power and influence t1 side r' a,.-other war. 10 otne- coun- try has more reason to safeguard itsel. h, orably iicm the chaos which coni''et co n5ining all that is worss :s aoierce a1i savdgelN is certain to p1 cduce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02
soMETHINGG LACKING

From the Sun and New York Herald
 One of the prettiest pictures of a we'll known movie actress is not shown on the screen, but in what movie studios call a still. The subject is shown at her breakfast table, which is set forth with one egg in a cup and nothing else. The popular artist holds in her hand cup of coffee, but the table groans under no means for replenishing the cup. Here is simplicity, frugality, if you please, all the more creditable because upon author ity no less reliable than her press agent the lady's salary is million dollars a year. The photograph reveals that the subject denies herself knife to open the egg, spoon wherewith to Serve her self. salt for flavor, butter for enrich ment. Had the table been set by her press agent attractive simplicity could have gone no further.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02
JorioIanus.

TIT HE peace resolution which re-
 0 publican Congress proposes to pass, declaring the war with Ger many at an end, is another example of the incongruity of American gov ernment.
 It would be confession that while republicans in Congress are unwil- ling to ratify treaty of peace drawn up in concert with our associates in the war, and will not abide by it's terms which involve certain respon- abilities, for the sake of business they are prepared to adopt gro- tesoue peace resolution which means nothing
 We have long had the finger of scorn pointed at us as a mercenary nation, and not without good reason. This latest exhibition of self-interest and blind partisanship will confirm the unfavorable Impression of Amer ~ica that has been created in Europe.
 What a travesty on the sacrifices made by our soldiers abroad, who died for an ideal but are placed in the attitude of having sacrificed their lives for ''big business!" Is this to be the end of our fair promises to help humanity get out of the naire and make war, if not impossible, at least improbable?
 The powers of the chief executive cannot be usurped in any such rash ion without grave consequences. The constitution is clear enough in dele gating peace making prerogatives to the President If such a resolution is passed, it will not solve the prob lems growing out of the war. The League of Nations will still be left suspended in midair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02
PIONEER DAYS IN Mrsso,Iar

From the Excelsior Springs Standard.
 Accordin' to Bill sipes. the fall of 5s was the most remarkable season that he ever rut through-says he reckons there was no less than 5O0oO,oo0 wild geese flew over his cabin that fall, darkenin' the sun until the chickens went to roost at noon, all scuawkin' at nights till nobdsfy could sleep One cold night Sipes was "aked up by big passel of geese flyin over honk'n to beat the band; he didn't feel like runrlr' out into the cold night to shoot into 'ern. so he takes down his old Betty Gun, an pokes her up the chimhley an lets off both barrels. Twen ty-seven big brants come a-floppin' down the chimbley in response to old Betsy's command, an they spluttered an sizzled in the fireplace till the smell of burnt feathers mighty nigh driv old Miss Sip<s distracted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02
New York Socialists
 Expelled From Assembly

m HE ousting of five socialists
 U from the New York state as- sembly will give new impetus to radi- cal propaganda in America. It will be cited from one end of the country to the other as an illustration of the oft repeated charge made by radicals that our government, state as we'll as national, is not truly representative of the people.
 The 100 per cent American has no sympathy with the subversive be- liefs held by the socialist party; that the New York socialists do not have the best interests of the American government and American institu- tions at heart there can be little doubt, but they were duly elected and busting them has simply made them martyrs in the eyes of their follow CTS. They could probably be re-elect- de just as easily as Berger was in Wisconsin.
 The New York assembly voted overwhelmingly to expel the socialist members and was evidently convinced that it was doing the right thing, but the question, viewed dispassionately, is at least open to argumen5. A pre- cedent has been established which might conceivably lead to far-reach- ing changes in our system of govern ment. Berger was made a martyr hy the lower house of Congress, al- though he was convicted of felony. Nothing was brought out against the New York assemblymen except the fact that they are radicals.
 Combating idea with force has never been a success and it will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02
SOFT FOR GOLD MINERS

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 Chicago.-Pity the gold miner in tn Porcupine district.
 His only means of locomotion is fiv or six high-priced cars and an airp!an or two, and after his hard days toi his only resting place is villa costipi a half million dollars.
 In the movies the gold miner alway is pictured as wild and woolly, 4adl in need of a bath and shave and \ad dicted to red likker. Not so in M Porcupine district in northern Ontari1
 A. s. Fuller, former Chicagoan. juY back from there. says that, though sl mines are not working, a million dol uars month is being taken out of a] area eight miles square.
 Yes, frontier life is pretty rough, he admitted.
 We get there in Pullman sleepers two trains a day. Our chauffeurs mee us and take us to our villas or the club We have golf and tennis and countr| club, and our wives will not look at gown unless it comes from Paris
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02

Japan's advance in that quarter ff-' spires inquiry as to their intentions, and means that the formers independence is no longer an isolated question capable of separate consideration and treatment, but that it is now part and parcel of the Japanese question, which is the next great international problem confronting us.
 Filipnos like to dismiss this danger of theirs by telling you the Japanese don't want their lands, and yet, when the pro- lection of those lands against excessive Japanese purchases by Philippine legisia- tive acts was being opposed by our state department during tho winter of 19iS>l9. their leader and speaker of assembly, Mir. Osmena, cabled their agent in Washing ton, MT. Quezon, president Of their Sen ate, that it was absolutely vital' such legislation be permitted.
 Absolutely vitaI' means that there was danger from these purchases by JaIt- anese, especially in Mindanao, the greas hemp center. And yet now these politi- clans tell you there is no such danger. since the Japanese do not want thleiI islandsi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-02
THE GERMAN REPUBLIC

pr. Bernhard Dernberg. in Leslie's.
 "A ANTICIPATING the reply at once, A\ I would say I believe that the S 9 democratic republic in Germany is there for good, that it will probably have many organized foes and antag- onists both in the ranks of the con servative right. which embraces all that is left of the ancicent regimei and from the ultra socialist left, ranging from the independent socialists of the Llen- knecht- -Ledebou type to the commun- ist and bolshevist, although there IS nobody in Germany who cares for the last appellation; that it will prevail, and that it has come to stay. How ever there is one condition, viz, Ger many must survive economically and that does not depend upon the German people but upon the other signatories of the Versailles so-called peace, who have assumed thereby all the responsi- bility this document entails and thus also in final analysis the responsibility for the ultimate form of government in Germany.
 When in the first days of November, 1918, the tower of Kaiserdom, much to the surprise of the outer world, broke all of sudden asunder and collapsed in heap of dust it had not been as solid for some time as it seemed. To the experienced eye it was full of rents and Assures all over.
 The demand for an armistice revealed like flashlight the utter failure of the Emperor and his military. Al though the nation had given it's all dur-
 ing over four years, had been drained of it's men. had been starved by the blockade, had withstood world Of warriors and destructive machinery of the highest effectiveness, it was now to be at the mercy of it's antagonists. The universal feeling of helplessness and rage broke the inner front, just as the outer front had been smashed by Foch. Emperor and military leaders had lost all credit The chancellor de- mantled of William II to vacate his throne. After some time of indecision the Kaiser preferred to seek safety in Holland, Ludendorff disappeared from the scene, revolts by sailors broke out at Kiel revolution commenced in Mu- nich. and the chancellor turned the power over to Herr Ebert as to the accredited leader of the only organ ized, more or less disciplined political body with influence on the great masses. viz. the socialist party of Ger many.
 And with the Emperor fell no less than twenty-five kings. grand dukes and other dukes; they disappeared as if they had never been there, as pain lessly as the extraction of milktooth when the strong molar has eaten it's root and commenced to shove it out of the way. The German revolution was the result of the general conviction that the old system had ruined the land had cost it the sympathies of the civilized world and was unable to lead the nation to peace and reconstruction. It was the longing for new order off things, for the abolishing of an obso- lete tradition, of a system of autocracy, lies and deception. And this conviction was the conviction of the great ma Jority of the German people
 The way has been hard and thorny. Nevertheless, we have succeeded in making democracy safer every day We will have new elections early this summer. It seems that they will not