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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25

couldn't rest well at night and was !.
Just iiieless.
II heard q Cardui and aifer reading
decided had some female trouble that
was pulnae me down. sent Tor Cafd,d
and began u -.
Gina very shoft while aftef begin the
CafdiA Home Treatment saw N I'm
provement md II wasn't long until ] was
an hght-good appetite. splendid rest,
and much stfuusef 90 that easily ia my
house won.
'Iates tock Q buttie o. cndsd - q
toaic. lcaa seeommend Cafdm and dad
y Do -, ~ d more women knew, II
wosdd saye 4 great dea q wury and
slckness.s
The enthusiastic praise q thousands d
othes women who have found Casdui
helpful should convince you that Il Is
worth trying. An druggists sell II.
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25
Games of Heather Origin

M ANY of our most famil-
N1 lar Christmas games have
a heather originfi and some of
their requirements once played a
most important part In the
heather rites and mysteries. Ev-
cry one knows how, when play
ing the popular Christmas game
of snap dragon" all other lights
Ia the room are extinguished
while we try to snatch raisins
from blazing brandy, but prob
ably few are aware that the
ancient British Druids were &C
customed to worship, In tenn
pie otherwise dark, a fame Of
burning spirits into which they
cast and out of which they
plucked certain sacred objects,
and that they thus performed
some of the most awful solem-
mites of their religion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25
How to be Healthy.

If you would enjoy good health keep
your bowels regular and stomach and
liver in good working order. This is
easily done by taking Chamberlain 8
Tablets. These tablets strengthen the
stomach and regulate the liver and
bowels. They are easy to take and
mild and gentle in effect. They only
cost quarter.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25
Best Of All Holidays
TAKING it all in all, It ma

TAKING 1t all in all, It may
l. be safely asserted that
Christmas is the merriest and the
best Of all holidays, and one
which is likely to be observed for
ages yet to come. Nations may
rise and fall. new beliefs and re-
ligions may sweep away the old,
but that would seem, indeed, a
dreary and empty year which
brought no merry Christmas In
its annual round. May old Fa-
Their Time long spare his holi-
day to mankind to gladden. the
hearts Of all with its coming,
and may each Christmas be
still merrler than the last.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25
A BIG JOKE
Duck: Now I
hope ! won't
Get . treatise on
"HoW to Swim"
for a Christ
mas GIFT.
A Form Of Generosity.

A Form Of Generosity.
THAT fellow is kind Of hard to de.
pend on"
He seems to be very generous"
Yes. He's regular Santa Claus"
Il don't understand"
He is willing to take the credit for
giving you anything you want proyid.
cd someone else stand the expense"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25
Estray.

Estrayed from Tide, La, one bay
mare mule, weighs about 900 pounds;
close sheared name, bushy tail, has
heaves. Any information leading to
his discovery will be paid for by 0. H.
Bradford, Tide, La. d18-2t'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25

Succession of A. w. Stewart.
All creditors please mail their claims
to me.
Colfax, La, Dec. 10, 1920.
j. B. ROBERTS,
d11-4t Attorney.
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d11-4t
Notice.

Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the next
regular meeting of the Grant Parish
School Board will be held at their office
in Colfax, Louisiana, on Tuesday, jan
uary 4th, 1921.
j. H. MCNEELY, Pres.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25
s.l' k~tsese
The oId Aae Of santa cIaus.

In Anna Farquhar's Conviction"
In The National Magazine, she says:
"Santa Claus totters under his pack.
wearing long, old face these days
Probably in his youth he had no idea
Of growing old or departing this life:
therefore when his enthusiasm and
Joyousness began to wane unaccount-
ably, he must have opined that the
world was tottering-not his own gen.
erous throne of life. Nowadays he
creeps down the chimney stealthily as
II somewhat ashamed Of his mission,
like polar burglar, and his eight tiny
reindeer make small clatter on the
lawn, for many of their Joy bells have
been lost. When Santa lays finger
aside of his nose reflecively In our
times, he exclaims, without a bit of
Jolly shake below the waist: 'Degen-
crates! Degenerates Has my world
come to such pass that people wish
to pay me for my presents2 Can 1t
be that little children are so surfeited
with toys that they stop to ask how
much they cost before accepting them.
There was little Willie, last year, who
said to his mamma, when he first saw
a beautiful woolly dog, What's it got
inside? Candy or money? Don't want
a dog Mess it's got somethin' in
sidel"'"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25
For Rent or Sale.

The Nick Roberts place, So acres
fronting Red river and about three
miles north of Colfax. Good state of
cultivation and reasonably good houses
and barns.
H. T. CREW,
d18-2t' Box 202, Colfax, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25

l want to hear from party having
farm for sale. Give price and descrip-
ton. B. B. Howard, Champaign, LII.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25

Buy your electric light globes from
Tumminello Bros.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25
WHEN CHRISTMAS WAS YOUNG
To Understand Mysteries of the Yuie-
tide, II Is Necessary to Search
Ancient History.

kN3 p ~ the midst Of the rush and
IAa j. excitement Of Christmas
SNHILG preparations certain ques-
X21S7E.} tons will flash across the
mind, and we find ourselves
wondering why 1t is that we do the
very same things Christmas after
Christmas. Why do we hang stock
ings, light Christmas trees, trim cur
homes and have plum puddlng7
To understand the origin Of these
customs we must wander far back
into the forgotten past-ages before
Julius Caesar set foot on British soil,
or st. Augustine told the story Of the
Cross to the men Of Kent. Hundreds
Of years ago-long before the year /
the ancients, as we call the people
of those times, all worshiped the sun,
the great giver of light and life. In
the month Of March they built big
fires to 1t, asking 1t to shine upon the
seeds they had planted and warm
them into life. In the autumn they
held another festival, thanking the
sun for the harvest, and again, In the
winter time, they held the greatest
festival of all to celebrate the coming
of the springtime.
In ancient Egypt, in Assyria. in
Greece, on Roman soil and in the
northlands these festivals were cele-
brated year after year and always
about the same time, the winter one
being held about New Years time.
Wherever the Roman eagle was
found, this feast was called the Sat-
urnalia and it was marked by univer-
sal license and good feeling.
All at once Christianity appeared
upon the scene. As the policy Of the
early church was to reconcile heather
converts to the new faith by adopting
some Of the heather customs and fes-
tivals. the new religion accepted and
retained many, and the result, as is
easily seen, has been the strange
medley of pagan and Christian rites
which we use at Christmas time to-
day.
After Britain was Christianized by
the Romans, the Saxons and northern
tribes came, bringing their old north
ern rites, and as Christianity at last
replaced paganism the Christians kept
the old pagan rites, merely changing
their meaning.
For many years no two lands cele-
brated the same day as the birthday
Of Christ. They did not know the
exact day, and we do not know It;
but this date has now become the
most important one in the worlds |
history.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25
Farm Wanted.

666 quickly relieves a cold.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-12-25

Rub-My-Tism cures bruises, cuts,
burns, sores, letter, etc.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
POnzi Admits Tern,
In Prison; Bank He
PqtrOnized Closed

BOSTON. Aug. 1i-Charles Ponzi
personally admitted today that he was
the Charles Ponsl who served a term
in the penitentiary in Montreal.
Bank Commissioner Allen today closed
and took charge OF the Hanover Trust
company, the institution In which the
account OF PonEi, was shown recently
to have been oyerdrawn Mr. Allen
said his agents had been examining the
bank since last Saturday morning and
their reports indicated II had been do
ing business In an unsafe manner and
that It would be unsafe and ineNpedient
for 1t to continue.
MONTREAL, Aug, II. (By Canadian
Press. prom records in the hands OF
the Montreal police, II appears that a
Charles "Nnsl was a me0her Of the
firm OF Zrossi and company bankers
this city, winch rallied VI 1913. Arossi
fled the country and was subsequently
extradited from Mexico City.
Under the name of Bianco, alias
Charles Ponsl a man was convicted of
forgery and false pretenses and SEN
fenced to three years in the st. Vincent
de Paul penitentiary.
ATLANTA, Ga. Aug. 1t.-Records Of
the federal penitentiary here show that
Charles Ponci served n two-year sem
tence in that institution from 1910 to
1912 He was convicted at Buffalo,
y. Y. of smuggling aliens into this
country,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
FRENCH GENERAL IS
ASKED TO LEAD POLES

WARSAW, Aug. II (By the Associ-
ated Press)-Supreme command of
Polish military operations was offered
to Gen. Maxine Weygand of the French
army by the council of national de-
tense, which met last night and took
important decisions relative to the de-
Tense of Warsaw and reorganization of
the army.
Although the other decisions taken
by the council have not been made
known there Is evidence that Warsaw
will remain the basis of resistance.
General Weygand has made accept
ance conditional on evacuation Of East
ern Galicia and the Lublin region for
a concentration of all forces on the
middle Vistua for a great offensive.
Up to the present the council has been
unable to resign itself to agree to con-
ditions involving the abandonment OF
half of Poland.
General Weygand's acceptance is al
so subject to the answer which the
soviet makes to the last note of Prince
Eugene Sapieha, minister of foreign
affairs.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
BOLT HITS
BARN, KILLS LOO HOGS

INDEPENDENCE No, Aug. ia
small fortune in pork went up In smoke
when lightning struck a barn on large
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11

money" and left free to become the
bait for the gamblers.
barbecue was to follow when just
little bit of everything in the eating
line was promised to the visitors. There
will be dancing and music galore.
one OF the features OF the night meet
ing is to be the auctioning off OF the
prizes awarded by various merchants
of Memphis. This will be purchasaole
with c. s. NJ. A. currency. The luck
at the gaming table will tell who gets
the prize.
Thursday will mark the closing OF
the convention. All delegates will b,
the guests OF the association az the
baseball game at Russwood park. New
Orleans is the visiting team and the
Chicks have promised to put on their
best bib and tucker for the merchants
The remainder Of Thursdays pro-
gram follows:
$3.50 am.-Convention called to order
Invocation by Rev. r. NJ. Lowry, pas
tor Alabama Avenue Presbyterian
church.
gao a.m.-Address: What Is to Be
Our Buying Policy for Spring" J. +.
Crowell, Ittabena, Miss, followed by
general discussion.
1913 am.--Address: Developing
Your Community by Organized Effort,
Hon. Chas. H. Brough, governor OF
Arkansas.
IL. UU q. IT. --AQreSS. i ne fTestHl <Ab
ricultural Situation and the Town Mans
Responsibility" Prof, Bradford Knapp.
University of Arkansas.
1900 m.-Address: THE Annual Fire
Waste" Walter B. bell, Tennessee fire
prevention commissioner.
1915 p.m.--Award of prizes to the
six travelling statesmen who have Sc
cured the largest humber of signed at
tendance blanks.
1890 p.m.-Report of committee on
resolutions.
Report of committee on nominations.
Election of officers for the ensuing
year
Adjournment.
Several of the delegates are planning
to remain in the city over Friday. The
program has been so crowded there have
been but few opportunities for them
to visit Memphis stores and manufac-
turing plants, and these trips Will be
arranged for Friday.
Much interest is being shown in the
election of officers for the coming year.
The convention has demonstrated the
great interest taken in association
work and for the coming year the
president and his associates will have
their hands full of work. Several names
have been mentioned but no definite
slate from any one locality has been
given out.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
SAY DIAMOND DYES"

Don't streak or ruin your material IN
a poor dye Insist on Diamond Dyes"
Easy directions in every package.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
Alkali in Shampoos
Bad For Washing Hair

Most soaps and prepared shampoos
contain too much alkali which is very
injurious, as it dries the scalp and
makes the hair brittle.
The best thing to use is Mulsified
cocoanut oil shampoo, for this is pure
and entirely greaseless. It's very cheap
and beats anything else all to pieces
You can get this at any durg store, and
few ounces will last the whole fam
lily for months.
Simply moisten the hair with water
and rub it in, about a teaspoonful is all
that is required. 1t makes an abundance
of rich, creamy lather. cleanses thor
oughly. and rinses out easily. The hair
dries quickly and evenly, and is soft,
fresh looking bright, fluffy, wavy and
easy to handle. Besides, it loosens and
takes out every particle of dust, dirt
and dandruff. adv.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
BRITISH BUY 3,323,075
BALES OF u. S. COTTON

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.--Cireat
Britain took nearly half of 69l5, 40S
bales Of cotton exported by the United
States during the fiscal year 1920, the
deror+'Ncnt OF commerce announced
A totaI Of 3,32S.O75 bales worth s6SS,-
Os3,249 were shipped to Great Britain
during the past fiscal year compared
with 2,41l,2 $50 bales valued at s4O5
6S6, 706 in 1919. Japan ranked next as
a market for American cotton, taking
S75, 637 bales at S175.977, 260, an increase
of 1921 bales over last year and
italy received 603,S5 bales worth SllS,-
SCI ,592. an increase of $685. bales over
the 1919 total
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
DRY PARTY NOMINEES
WILL BE NOTIFIED

GERMANTOWN, Ohio. Aug. 1I.-with
representations from all over the coun-
try expected to be in attendance, DR.
Aaron S. Watkins. Prohibition party
candidate for president, and D. Leigh
ColvIn, his running mate, win be form
ally notified OF their nomination here
today
Dr. Watkins is Ohio's third preslden-
tial candidate Mr.. Colvin, although a
resident of New York, was born in
Ohio.
DR. Watkins lives in Germaptown.
He is pastor of the NJ. E. church and
professor of English at Miami Military
institute here.
The notification ceremonies are TO
take place at pm, preceded during
the afternoon by parade at o'clock
Following their notification. speaking
tours of the candidates are expected
to cover almost all parts of the coun-
frV
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
22,976,325 TONS OF
U. S. COAL EXPORTED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-Exports of
oltuminous coal from the United States
during the fiscal year just ended ex-
ceeded by more than 100000 tons
shipments during 1919, according to for
eign trade figures issued by the de-
partment of commerce.
During the fiscal year 1920. 22,976, 1926
tons of bituminous coal, worth $lS2.-
299,97s, were exported, compared with
1S,152,S37 tons, valued at SIS, S26, 696, a
year ago. In addition bunker coal laden
on vessels engaged in foreign trade in
1920 amounted to 1856, 453 tons at 1928, =
47S.
Canada took nearly half of the blum
nous coal exports of 1920, receiving
lo,47o.176 tons. Italy with a total OF
2,S62,773 tons, stood next as an export
market for American coal Cuba with
a total of 1.24S,098 tons was third.
PITTsBURG, Kan, Aug. 11.-Nc
miners were working at the Kansas
coal mines involved in the present strike
| today. The handful OF men who work.
ed Monday and Tuesday at Jackson.
Walker No. 16, did not work today.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
LIVE STOCK COMMISSION
RATES ARE HELD UNFAIR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1l--Holdlng un.
fair certain rates now being charged
by Chicago commission houses on CO.
operative shipments Of live stock, Secre-
tary OF Agriculture Meredith today
served notice on the interested per-
sons that new schedules would go into
effect August 10. The department acted
under authority OF the food control act.
the announcement said.
Investigation Of prevailing rates was
made on complaint Of the American
Society Of Equity, seven commission
houses appearing at hearings held in
Chicago in April to answer charges that
higher rates were charged on live stock
In CArlots, having more than one owner,
than In single ownership CARROTS.
II find" Secretary Meredith said In
his order today, that the difference In
commission rates charged for selling
a single ownership car and n pludal
ownership car should be the actual
cost Of additional weighing and ac-
counting"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
GIRLS! MAKE A
LEMON BLEACH
Lemons Whiten and Double
Beauty Of the Skin

Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces of
Orchard White which can be had at any
drug store, shake well and you have a
quarter pint of harmless and delightful
lemon bleach for few cents.
Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion
into the face, neck, arms and hands
each day, then shortly note the beauty
of your skin.
Famous stage beauties use lemon
juice to bleach and bring that soft,
clear, rosy-white complexion. Lemons
have always been used as freckle,
sunburn and tan remover. Make this
up and try 1t. adv.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
LABOR WARNS PREMIER
NOT TO FIGHT REDS

LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE Committee
Of action" appointed Monday by the
joint conference by the Trades Union
Congress and the Labor party visited
Premier Lloyd George yesterday to de-
mand that there be no war between
Great Britain and Russia over the Pol
ish question. 1t is said the delegation
also proposed that no military, naval
or financial aid be given Poland and
that Great Britain should not seek to
influence her allies to take any such
action.
After a long discussion the premier
requested the delegation to await his
Russo Polish announcement In the
house of commons today, to which the
delegation agreed
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11
HANDS AND ARMS MADE
SURPRISINGLY BEAUTIFUL

With a single application of Derwil-
10. Girls, Derwillo not only beauties
your complexion, but it is wonderful
for the hands and arms, Derwillo
comes in three shades, white, flesh
and brunette. White is especially re-
Since short sleeves are in vogue it is
necessary to have your hands and
arms Hooking their best and trial
of Derwillo for this purpose will as
tonish you Remember, it stays on so
much better than powder and does not
come off on clothing. II is Just the
thing to use in identifying your hands
and arms. At all toilet counters of de-
partment stores and up-to-date drug
gists. adv.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11

farm near here owned by c. f. Ma
hone,
Following the bolt, the structure.
which sheltered eleven hundred hogs,
was totally destroyed by fire. Neither
the building nor the hogs, which hssa
been taken 10 the farm to be dipped,
was covered by insurance.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-08-11

At the recent Republican convention
at Saratoga, n. Y, Judge Nathan L.
Miller of Syracuse was designated as
the Republican candidate for governor
of New York, subject TO the approval in
September primaries. His selection
as head of the state ticket meets with
the fun approval of the national Re-
publican leaders, who have from the
start regarded him as the strongest
man,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-06-15
RUNNING MATE or
HARDING BIC LAWYER
Massachusetts Governor Became
Nationally Known BY Weld
ing Stern Hand in Boston
Police Strike.

Boston. June f5-Caivin COOLIDGE
of Northampton. Mass, although in
public lie almost ever since hi. grad
uatioa from Amhnrst college fk .Sa5.
was little known outside of Massa.
cAusetts until she greater nartv ol the
police force oE Boston went on stiku
itr September 1919 Cooiid.e was gov
error, he ordered oat the state gua-d
ii patrol the streets Of Boston after
might q rioting announced that law
ard order would preserve and declared
tsay their places would be t..lcd by
other men.
The strikers never regained their
positions Troops maintained or1eg ard
new police force was recruited The
stand taken hy the governor carried
his name throughout the country and
ia his own state he was prom t's rick
named law and order Coolidsc
A. tae presidential Campa'sa ot
1880 approached. his admirers tricd 20
induce hfu 10 hc come an active candi-
date for the republican nomination.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-06-15
SEWARD ATHLETIC CLUB HOLDS
FIRST. BOXING s-0W

Seward. Okla. June i5-Ths Sew.
ward Athletic held IT'S first private
boxing and wrestling show SUNDAY
evening at the W U. hall at Seward.
Owing to the increasing memhsrs Eip
IN the club three boxing bouts and
9le wrestling bout were given
Thomas Naudet, formerly 0f the
Guthrie high school and Carlos Mont
gomery. who acquired the boxing hah-
It in the U s. army pnt mp very
interesting boxing exhibition. Tho
Seward Athletic club is ALWAYS oren
Tor new members bur applicants
must be residents OF Logan cAntv
The next regular meeting VII he
held "Wednesday evening. June s. al
he Seward hotel After tue hrsinsss
meeting the third lesson In boxing
and the second lesson In wrsssiirg Z
will be given
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-06-15

ne was admitted 70 the TAR He oisn-
I'd law Office in the same -v and
continued to practice there urrn his
public duties occupied his time
His first office was as q f1arbeF
OF the Northam ton city couril m
1888. Successfully he was city SOL
lieitor. county clerk state ~s resen
tative for two terms. mayor sor Ewo
years. state senator for four vsnr
the last two serving as president of
the senate and Lieutenant governor
tor three years lr lSIS he was norm
mated ny the repu olicaus withOu. OF
position for governor and was electe'i
by a plurality os about n 91c Hv
was reuomiuated in 1912 and aided by
the prestige gained through his rela-
tion TO tthe Boston police strike was
elected BY a plurality os moro fhan
l7s.0 .00o. and received the fargp~ total
vote ever east in Massacausstts
Governor COolidgs was married in
1905 to Miss Grace A Goodhue 0f
burlington. Vermont. Their two
children are hoys-
He was AWARDED the houorng de-
gree OF doctor ~ laws hy Amherst
Tufts and Williams colleges in 1919