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Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
london TlrIno OF the nanoe.

London jazz band prOprietors are
somewhat gloomy just now, fearing
that the dancing boom may not last
much longer. One proprietor says that
the men he sends out nightly return
with very gloomy reports. The at
tendance is not so good recently in the
suburbs, but in the West end pro
prietOrs of large dancing halls say the
craze will last for at least five years.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
A BRIGHT, CLEAR COMPLEXION

is always admired, and it is the lauda-
BILE ambition of every woman to do all
she can to make herself attractive.
Many Of our southern women have
found that TetterIne is .invaluable for
clearing up blotches, itchy patches,
etc., and making the skin soft and
velvety. The worst cases of eczema
and other torturlng skin diseases yield
to Tetterine. Sold by druggists or sent
by mail for SOC. by Shuptrine Co.,
Savannah, Ga.-Adv.
Half the troubles we complain Of
are troubles because we complain Of
them.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
80 FlaurIno.

= TOOK Professor Jiggs out for a
Eias IN my car the other day."
sEes?'
Hes fully as absent-minded as you
sAin ne was. He was thinking about
something al the time we were riding
and never once opened his mouth"
"A think can explain that. He was
probably counting the number of jolts
yOn were giving him and calculating
how much energy was wasted every
time he was hurled into the air"
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
SATISFYING RELIEF
FROM LUMBACO
Sloan's Liniment has the
punch that relieves
rheumatic twinges

This thanksgiving, congestion
scattering Notwithstanding REM
edy beHetTGteS 0Vith0Ht rubbing right to
the aching spot and brings quick re-
lief, surely, cleanly. A wonderful help
for external pains, sprains, strains, stiff
ness, headaches, lumbago, bruises.
Get your bottle today-costs kttle,
means much. Ask your druggist for
it BY name. Keep it handy for the
whole family. The big bottle is econ
Omy. Csc, zoe, $l.40.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
Lens industry Revived.

A revival of the lens industry is
anticipated In Sheffield, England, and
the exhibits in this line range from
the smallest telescope to a lens with
diameter Of nine inches.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

not know what to do.
Ny mother advised
me to take Lydia Z.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and
use the S anative
Wash 80 / took her
advice and used
these remedies and
cured myself. feel
fine and do all my
homework which /
could not do before,
Z no,AI Lo-.g1...
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
Salmon With Rice.

Line buttered mold with cold
cooked rice, fill the center with
creamed salmon, cover with more rice,
put the cover on the mold and steam
half an hour OF more. Serve with
cream seasoned with lemon juice or
curry or minced parsley.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
Rack 70 the Renfnninn-

Little Bennies's father was explain
Ing the geography to him, when lit
tie Bonnie asked: "If the world is
round and turns around all the time,
why don't we fall OFF," His father
replied: 1.-THE law of gravity controls
the earth" Bonnie thought moment
and then asked: "But what did the
people do before the law was passed %
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
YOUNGSTERS!
Need "Cascarets" when Sick,
Bilious, Constipated.

When your child is bilious, consti-
pated, sick or full of cold; when the
little tongue is coated, breath bad and
stomach sour, get a box Of Cascarets
and straighten the little one right up.
Children gladly take this harmless
candy cathartic and 1t cleanses the lit
tie liver and bowels without gripping.
Cascarets contain no calomel or dam
gerous drugs and can be depended upon
to move the sour bile, gases and indl.
gestible waste right out Of the bowels.
Best family cathartic because It never
cramps, sickens or causes incOn-
venience.-Adv.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
Shuts OF Gas.

Above the frame Of new gas light
fixture is a turbine that is whirled
by the heated air, stopping and shut
ting off the flow of gas should the
flame be blown out.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
Pulled Brad.

Take a loaf Of freshly baked bread
within an hour after it is baked. Tear
Off the crust, pull the bread into strips,
using two forks. Put into a buttered
baking dish and bake a golden brown
In quick oven.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
Mothers Cook Book

To work. to help and TO be helped, to
learn sympathy through suffering, to
learn faith by perplexIty. to reach truth
though wonder; behold! this is what it Is
to prosper; this is what it Is to live.--
Phillips Brooks.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
Protect School Books

Cover the chlldren's schoolbOOks
with either stiff paper or cloth so
they will last the year and be in con-
ditiOn for the next In the family who
will need to use them.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
NEWS CONDENSED
At Home and Abroad Of Inter-
est to Everybody.
EPITOME OF LATE. DOINGS
Of the Entire Week That Is
Worth While of Mention md
of Interest to All.
sPITONIE OF LATE. DOINGs
WASHINGTON NEWS.

An order was issued by the depart
ment of labor Tuesday extending the
regulations for admission of Mexican
labor for agricultural purposes, in
view Of the legislation to give further
authority of law for the admissions
pending in congress. The order would
admit laborers from Canada for the
Northern states as we'll.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
uniustly Accused.

Mamma-BObby, why did you clean
your shoes on this towel?
Bobby-Why, mamma, l only wiped
my face and hands on it,
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

President Wilson's proposal to ere
ate joint commission to hear wage
demands of union railroad workers, if
such is not provided by law, will be
laid before the heads of rail corpora.
tions here late this week.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.

At conference at Austin, Texas,
Tuesday, between c. w. Minson, mem
Der of the Galveston County pink boil
worm board, and the commissioner of
agriculture it developed that Cover
nor Hobby has been or is to be urged
to call a special session of the legisla-
ture to enact legislation to clarity the
pink boil worm situation in Texas.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

Acid Stomach. Heartburn and Nausea
quickly disappear with the use OF Wright'8
Indian Vegetable Pills. Send for trial box
TO S72 Pearl St., New York. Adv.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
Food for the Family

To give the children variety the fol-
lowing will be found wholesome, with
milk, for the supper dish:
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
DO ALL MY
HOUSEWORk
Before I took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
! could hardly stand, says
Mira. Kwarcinslxi.

Chicago, I'LL suffered with dis
placement and Irregularities and did
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

Representatives of Ranger, Mineral
Wells, Abilene, Cisco and Eastland
voted at a meeting in Fort Worth.
Texas, Monday, to organize the West
Texas League, which, together with
these towns and q sixth, as members
to be admitted later will put over a
series of lao games of class D base.
ball to be played this summer.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
Regular Bowels Is Heath

Bowels that move spasmodicaiEy-
free one day and stubborn the next
should be BEAUTIFULLY regulated by DR..
Kings New Life Pills. In this way
you. keep the impurities of waste mat
ter from circulating through the sys-
tenn by cleansing the bowels thorough
~ and promoting the proper flow of
Mild, comfortable, yet always Pelia-
Bile, DR.. Kings New Life Pills work
with precision without the constipation
results of violent purgatives. Csc. as
usual at all druggists.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
DYED HER BLOUSE,
SKIRT AND A COAT
"DIamend Dyes" Turned Faded,
Shabby, Old Apparel Into New.

Don't worry about perfect results
Use Diamond Dyes" guaranteed to
give new, rich, fadeless color to any
fabric, whether it be wool, silk, linen,
cotton or mixed goods,-dresses,
bfOuses, stockings, skirts, children's
coats, feathers-everything!
Direction Book In package tells how
to diamond dye over any color. To
match any material, have dealer show
you Diamond Dye" Color Card.-Adv.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

The National Refining Company's
No. 2 Pryor, fifteen miles south Of
Uvalde, Texas, came in Tuesday with
a gas flow of LOO feet, estimated at
100000 cubic feet.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

SAFETY RAZOR BLADES sHARPEWKD.
Single edge &c. double Sc, Guaranteed bet
ter than new. Don't throw away dJill blades.
Mail Meentzen SHAY. Sup. Co. Beaumont. rex.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

England has seven woman magis
trates.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28
she Meant Hin

She Meant Him.
He-"There's something about you
like" She-"I always thought you
were the most cOnceited Of men,"
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

Captain Robert L. Pollard chief in.
spectOr Of the state fire insurance COM
mission, was found dead at home in
Austin, Texas, Friday with pistol
wound in his head. A revolver was
found nearby which he might have
been cleaning and oiling.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

Believing that the surest method of
stamping out bolshevism and unrest in
America is to give every boy a fair
chance to get an education and to in
culcate patriotism into the youth of
this country, Rotarians from all Sec
tions of Texas, assembled in Calves
ton, Texas, Monday, in district con-
ference, decided to devote the ener-
gies of their various clubs to work
among Texas boys. Reports made by
representatives of each Rotary club in
the state showed that in most cases
the one best thing the club has done
in the past year was fostering move
ments looking toward solution of the
boy problem"
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

Palestine, Texas, claims to have the
Oldest living white man in Texas in
the person Of George Draby, who
gives his age as 1OS years. He was
born in Tripoli, Syria. in 1912.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

The Swedish steamship Sonia ar
rived in New York Friday from Goth
enburg, Sweden, with 1,475 tons or
5000 rolls of newsprint paper.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

Prison Commissioner Sam Low has
advised Governor Hobby that the first
estimate of loss in the Huntsville, Tex
as prison fire a few days ago was too
large and that it will not go over $4O,-
600. 1t transpires that large amount
Of furniture made for the Northwest
Texas Insane Asylum, now in course
of erection at Wichita Falls, was de-
stroyed in the fire. Its loss will not
delay the opening of the institution,
it was stated at the governors Of
flee, as the building will not be ready
for some time. 1t was further stated
at the executive offices that the jails
are empty of insane, and that the new
asylum at Rusk, fashioned out of the
former penitentiary buildings, is now
filled to capacity.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-02-28

Three tornadoes near Macon, Ca,
Thursday resulted in the injury of one
woman and the destruction of a num-
Der of houses and much standing tim
Der.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10

MANY A MAN, on discovering that YOU thinl
we'll him. tries convert your good opinion int
cash
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10
SQUARE DEAL IN UTILITIES.

Senator Warren G. Harding republican candidate
for president of the United States expressed de-
cided views the public utility situation in adj
dress before the American Electric Railway Associa
ton recently Cltvelond discussing the unfair
financial burdens imposed public utilities, and
peGiay electric railway lines by the and its
consequences, he said:
The capital which seeks render necessary
public service merits deal and must have it.
Old time values of harmony in the
Of moneys changed measurements. Stable financing
righteous earnings and just returns based
upon proper charge for the service rendered
II believe in strctest regulation without conhic
ting authority. because all public utilities yield
he voice of public interests. But the power
TT protects the public protect the public service
whether that servant is capital the workman who
operates the utility.
Destroyed credits must be restored and flexible
circles of charges be provided that public
may pay Justly for that which it demands. The ex-
ploitation of ten twenty years ago ustifes fail
ure in coed faith today The public. which is served
has obligation less than that Of those who serve
it,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10

AROUND and telling about how
WE should have made
If we had bought lot IN such-and
such a place
WHEN We nrst came to town
AND should sell it at prevailing
prices
WE should have such-and-such an
AMOUNT OF money TO invest
N sinclair OIL or some other lively
stock.
WHEN they are two fools IN a fam
lily
THEY are not necessarily man and
wife
FOR instance fellow advertised
FOR a wife and his own sister ans
wered
THE advertisement
WHAT has become Of the .. !. mar
who got
HIS reputation FOR being
POOR but honest?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10
THE RETURN TO THE FARM.

There is growing belief that high and the
general high cose of living in the cities not be
an unmixed after all. They may have the effect
Of causing many to return to the farms and
dscouraging many others who plan TO
if there Is any thing that will help bring
conditions to normal it is return to the land
Many farmers re,inclined to magnify the oppor
tunittes living in the cities through comparison
high wages pad in industry with returns from
work on the farm They fail take into account the
high rents the ifact that they become consumers
instead of producers
OF course, the costs of operating farm have great
" increased recent years but while these costs
greater cost living in urban communities has
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10
The PaSsing Shoe

NURSING our grievances
sAPs our vitality 10 such an extent
THAT we guess We Will start
WEAVING them right away
AND you know II is not Impossible
THAT some OF those who are finding
1t the hardest
TO meet the high living costs
ARE saying the least about them.
NOTHING makes the passage OF
summer seem sure
THAN 70 have to lay aside Palm
Beaches
AND hunt UP pair Of last fairs
pants
A clock that isn't running
IS at least right once every "a hours
AND you know that's a whole
LOT ottener than most men are
right
HOW kind the world is after an-
WE were examining wasp the 9TH
er day
AT reasonably safe distance
AND the thought occurred to US
that while
WE have heard her waist mentioned
IN the most favorable terms
INNUMERABLE times
WE never in all our life heard a
sarcastic
REFERENCE 10 the ridiculously dis
proportionate
SIZE of her lips or her almost
COMPLETE lack of bust.
BOYS are as hard to understand as
women
AND We were never able to hgure
out
WHY boy vii chase truck
AT full speed for two blocks
IN order to hook on behind for half
block.
WE have found that none Of the
EXPERIENCES through which we
pass on our
BRIEF journey through this old
vale Of tears
AND laughter surprises Us more
THAN TO be sent upstairs
TO get something for our win under
the most
EXPLICIT instructions as to Just
where 1t is
AND actually to find it.
We have II on pretty good authority
THAT the iceman sees 50 much kit
chen
NEGLIGEE that he often
WONDERS why women are referred
to
AS the fair sex
THE marriage license clerk sees IN.
optimism
But the judge who grants the
DIVORCE sees the pessimism.
PROBABLY the commonest Of ali he
FUTILITIEs to which flesh is heir is
sitting
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10

states four Ash hatcheries located at
Riverside Park. Wawasee. Tri-Lakes
and Bass Lake.
According to George y Mannfeid So
perintendent of the division Of fish and
game. the exhibit is the largest since
the state began hsh culture work IN
1911. There are baby ash, parent FISH.
fish in all stages Of development and
Of every species familiar to Indiana
waters Mr.. Manifold and George
Berg, superintendent of hatcheries. are
at the display TO explain the work to
visitors
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10

increased. as any farmer who moves to town Will
discover
Much of the increase in population of cities
announced by the bureau, may be credited
the influx at good Those who look longing
~ the city relief should
take into account certainty that rents
and the other times OF living will offset large
any advantage they may gained by quitting
the farm
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10
WOMEN AS IuRORS.

That consideration of differences in govern
lnent affairs cannot be entirely obiterated by the
nineteenth amendment to the constitution Is made APP
parent by the discussion the part that women
play in jury service taken for granted that
the will have bear their share Of
possibility hereafter in passing the guilt limo
OF persons accused of crime and in deciding
suits at the Question arises If II would
be proper call upon them in murder trials.
where the jury Is released until It returns
dict and locked for several days and nights
is assumed that would be all to the liking
OF be subjected to such experience.
an interesting prospect. this Of having
juries. One speculates to whether their
natmaf tenderness of heart will them to be
more lenient to wrong-doers than men would be- Or
will they conscentiousy stife impulses of mercy and
let stern justice done? Illuminating comparisons
Of masculine and feminine obsnacy Will also be permit
ted by the new order OF things. The con
templates the subject. the richer to be the
possibilities study of differences in psychology
Then there the question Of womans willingness
To serve iuries VIII one hear such reasons offered
pleas be excused as that is necessary to re-
main an home put up" preserves, to for sick
child or to attend to innumerabe other household
duties?
Jury service for women promises to be a knotty
problem Ii surprising to learn that special
rules for their benefit are already considered
No doubt the influence OF women at he ballot
box has been expressed forciby heretofore and the
most difference be observed viii be in the
increase in the numbr of ballots cast.
MANY A MAN, discovering that YOU think
we'll of him. tries to convert good opinion into
cash
SOME CROUCH wants to know II the election
boards will expected provide mirrors and powder
pufs for the voting booths
IT SEEMS LIKE a waste Of effort for government
bulletins to tell the public what happened to it
month before.
SOMETIMES THERE is difference between say
Ing that a man has an automobile and saying that he
MANY A PHARISAICAL politician wonders how
all the rascas were the opposition party.
THE WISE MAN consuts his banker before he
hands money stranger any kind of stocks.
WHO remember when IL meant something
a1lol+ 49,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10

MANY PHARISA1CAL politician wonders no
III the rascals were chased into the opposition party
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10

THE WISE MAN consuts his banker before he
hands money a for any kind of stocks.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10

WHO can remember when it something
when they called them nickeIodeons?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10

SOMETIMES THERE is difference between say
ing that man has automobile and saying that he
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10

SOME CROUCH wants to know II the election
boards will expected provide mirrors and powder
puffs for the voting booths.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10

No doubt the influence or women at he ballot
box has expressed forcibly heretofore and the
most marked difference be observed VIII be in the
increase in the numbr of ballots cast.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-10

IT SEEMS LIKE a waste of effort for government
bulletins tell the public what happened to it
month before
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-02-21
Death of Howard
Morrison at Fitchburg

Howard Morrison died at his apart
ments in Fitchburg, Mass, on Feb.
16, after an illness of influenza only
"a hours. He enlisted from St.
Johnsbury in the war, serving 10
months, of which 10 months was
spent overseas. He was a member
of the Leominster Post, American Le-
gion. He is survived by wife, Mrs.
Edith Johnsquest Morrison, brother,
Charles Morrison of Providence, and
his mother, Mrs. Elvira Morrison of
st. Johnsbury. Mrs. Howard Morri-
son came on with the body and Mrs.
w. H. Morrison of Randolph also
came here to attend the burial SER
vice which was held on Wednesday
afternoon. Mr.. Morrison is we'll re-
membered here by the young people
who were surprised and grieved to
learn of his death.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-02-21
'INFLUENZA-CAN 1T
STRIKE YOUR FAMILY?
Don't Wait For Signs OF 1t To APP
Fortify Against 1t With
Goldine

Every day you read of the large
number Of deaths from influenza. You
read that it strikes all classes and all
ages, and that once a person is af-
hicted with it, physicians and medi-
cine cannot help to any great de-
gree.
You realize that the flu is a very
dangerous disease. But are you pro-
tecting yourself and your family from
it? 1t is folly to wait until signs OF
it appear before taking precautions
1t is too late then. Even if you are
in the best of health at this very mo-
ment, you must fortify yourself and
YOUR family against influenza.
Thousands are following the advice
iof prominent physician who advised
everyone to guard against the flu by
taking care of their stomachs. keep
the stomachs full and the bowels en-
pty," is his warning, and these ms
tluctions seem to be the best proven
tative so far discovered.
4 Goldine Morning Smile Laxatives
are used by thousands in your state.
They will regulate the bowels and
keep the system cleared out. No
poison has an opportunity to lodge
itself in the body if good laxative
is used regularly. And Goldine Laxa-
tives have been hailed by thousands
as the best laxatives on the market
today.
"Keep the stomach full" Perhaps
YOU are not able to follow that part
of the instructions. If your stomach
lis in poor condition, if you have no
appetite, if your food distresses you
if YOU are troubled with gas and
bloating, you should act and act
quickly. Goldine No. / in both Hqulo
land tablet form will straighten Out
your stomach and will act as tonic
to build up your system. With stom'
ach in poor condition and your sys
tenn rundown, you are inviting the flu
Iendangering your health and life anc
/ the health and life of all those neal
YOU. Don't wait any longer. Act 10
day:
!. Goldine is sold at all dealers II
your city.