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The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08

NOTICE TO BOND BUYERS
CRY oF NATCHIToCuEs, Ia.
$40, 10000 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT
Bids Wanted Until Thursday
April 18th, 1920, at 10 A. NJ.
The Mayor and Board of Com
mlssloners of the City of Natchi-
toches, Nafchitoches Parish. La.
invite bids on S24O,OOO.OO Public
Improvement Bonds.
Bonds are dated April 1st 1920,
denomination $500 90, interest
payable lst day of April and Oct
ober of each year, and are re-
deemable serially for 20 years
from date. Both interest and
principal are payable at the op-
tion of the purchaser.
The successful bidder will be
furnished a complete. transcript
of the proceedings issuing these
Bonds and fiscal facts statement
but he must include the blank
bonds ready for the signature of
the City officials. A certified
check for 100000. made paya-
BILE to Hon. W. +. johnson, May
or-Commissioner, must accom-
pany each bid.
Address bids to Hon. W. F. |
job ms "a. Mayor Commissioner.
who reserves the right to reject /
any offer made.
Taole of masurities and financial !
statement may be obtained by |
writing the Mayor Or consulting |
w. F. JOHNSON,
Mayor-Commlssioner
l.. P. CLOUIIER. !
Secretary
XAVIER A. KRAMER,
Consulting Engineer
Magnolia Miss.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08
NOTICE

: The Peoples Bank of Natchitoches,
La, having acquired all of the capital
stock Of the Natchitoches Hotel Com
pany Limited. corporation duly char
cred an domiciled in the city of Nat
chit6ches, La.
And having become owner of all of
the property and assets of said COM
pany and liable for all debts of said
company. The Board of Directors of
the Peoples Bank having determined
to dissolve the said corporation, Nat
chitoches Hotel company Limited,
notice is hereby given to all persons
interested to show cause, if any they
have, why the Natchitoches Hotel
company Limited, a corporation, should
not be dissolved.
Peoples Bank Natcfitoches, La.
st. SAMUEL LEVY, Prdsident.
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PUBLIC SALE

Payne Kochinsky, Natural Tutor ct al. ,
VS. 1888
Heirs of Chaaley Braden ct al.
By virtue of a final judgment in the
above entitled and numbered cause,
ordering sale of the herein later de-
scribed land for the purpose Of effect
ing partition thereof among the CO.
owners, and to me directed. /, J. w.
Payne, Sheriff of the Parish of Natchi-
toches, will offer for sale and sell to
the last and highest bidder at the front
door Of the Court House on
SATURDAY, MAY 18TH, 1920
the following described land, to-wit:
A certain tract of sand containing
50 acres more or less situated in Ward
Four, Natchitoches Parish bounded on
the West by q. L. Campbell, on the
South BY DR.. ]. W. Cockerham, on
the East BY jeff DeBlieux and on the
Noeth By Gus Bolden.
Terms Of Sale, Cash for whatever
~ property may brltg.
nuseheser 70 pay taxes for the
s-II,.s1r s.s-,G< sx ~ p. -
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08

All auto owners are warned to pur-
chase their auto. good road tag or
number at orce.
Those owning cars last year became
delinquet February 1st, 1920.
! Those purchasing automobiles since
then, have 80 days to get tags for
their cars.
l will ask every policeman, constable
and deputy sheriff to arrest every per-
son found running an auto without q
tag after April 18th, 1920.
THIS MEANS ONE AND ALL.
j. W. PAYNE.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08

Separate skirts will be uncon-
monty fashionable this spring and
every beautiful effect and style can
be found at
-LIEBER'S.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08

The next examination for Teachers
Certificates will be held here on April
5, 6 and for whites; and the 8, 9 and
10 tor negroes. The examination upon
books of the Reading Course will be
held Saturday. April 10th.
, E. HUDSON,
Superintendent.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08
NOTICE

am again applying for q
pardon.
JOHN BRYANT.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08

Every thing in Easter Millinery, new
shipment of hats just received at
-DEBLIEUX'S
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1920-04-08
| Notice Stockholders Meeting

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Bank of Robeline
will be held in the directors room
of the bank on
TUESDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1920
at the regular hour, when a full
attendance is requested.
GEO. G.. ENGLISH.
President.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
ALABAMA miners
TO GO Oh STRIKE
COMMITTEE OF NINE WORKERS
ACCEPTS ANTHRACITE AWARD
UNDER PROTEST
MANY MINES ALREADY IDLt
Report Declared Operators Failed Te
Put Coal Commissions Awards
Into Effect As Ordered

Indianapolis.-JOhn L. Lewis, pres
ident of the United Mine Workers Of
America. has issued an order Tor a
general strike in the bituminous coal
fields in Alabama. The order follow
ed a report made by the organization
committee of the international execu-
tive board.
The report declared the coal opera
tors had failed 10 put into effect the
awards of President Wilson's coal
commission of last March. 1t said
the mines were working for wages far
less than those specified by the COM
mission and declared every attempt
to arrange a conference with the coal
operators of Alabama and failed.
]. R. Kennamer, president of dis
trict No 20 of the mine workers with
offices at Birmingham, has been no.
titled of the strike order by telegraph.
Numerous mines in the Alabama
fields have been idle because of the
alleged refusal of the operators to
accept the findings of the coal com
mission.
President Lewis telegraph to Mr..
Kennamer, in part, follows:
THE organization committee of the
international executive board who re-
Gently visited Alabama and the exec
utive officers of the international un-
ion at a meeting at headquarters, gave
the fullest consideration to the unsat-
isfactory conditions prevailing in the
mining industry in the state of Ala
bama. We realize that ever since
the award of the presidents bitumi-
nous coal commission was rendered III
the month of March that Alabama
mine workers have been struggling to
secure the improvements allotted by
the commission. -
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
TROOPS AND MINERS
COME TO SERIOUS CLASH
AT WILLIAMSON, ". VA.
Nothino Is Yet Known As To The
Outcome OF The Fiehtins-Re-
Inducements Sent

Williamson, w. Va.-Firing from the
wooded heights upon the village OF
Chatteroy in the coal strike country
near here continued during most or
the night of September l, according
to information from that point.
Attacks have been renewed upon
Mine No. 2 of the Thacker Coal COM
pany, two miles up Thacker creek
from the Norfolk and Western Rail
road. Reinforcements of federal sol
diers were sent to both points.
News of the attack was sent to mil
itary headquarters at Sycamore Hol-
low, near here, and reinforcements
were hurried to the town. Nothing
is known here as to the outcome OF the
fight.
The shooting at Mine No. OF the
Thacker Coal company became so
heavy during the night, according to
information which reached here Sep
TENDER 2, that a special train was
quickly made up at Sycamore Hollow
and a large detachment OF men hur'
ried to the town.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
BRITAIN AND JAPAN
HAVE NOT ACCEPTED
U. S. VIEWS ON RUSSIA
Russ-PoIe ParIeys Seem At StandstiIl,
And Agreement Reached To Trans
fer Negotiations To Riga

WASHINGTON. - General accord with
the views of the United States as to
Russia has now been expressed by all
of the allied powers except two-Ja-
nan and Great Britain.
A formal preliminary statement OF
Italy's concurrence, which has been
transmitted through the counsellor ot
the Italian embassy, has been received,
while similar assurances have reached
the state department from Poland.
Peace Pareys At Standstill
Warsaw.-While Riga has been
agreed upon by the Polish and Russian
Soviet government as the place for fu-
ture peace negotiations, it is said at
the foreign ministry that no word
has been received from the Letvian
government regarding the Poles re-
ouest for permission to hold the con-
ference in Riga.
A wireless message from Minsk says
that members of the Polish peace del
egation and those who accompanied 1t
to the conference with the Soviety en-
issaries. are becoming i'll because Oh
the unsanitary conditions under which
thew are compelled to exist.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
TENNESSEE REVOKES ACTION
Legal TangIe Is Made More Complex
In Drastic Action OF The
Tennessee House

Nashville. Tenn.-The Tennessee
house Of representatives with a quo
rum present for the first time since
August 20. expunged from its journal
an record Of ratification Of the suf-
frage amendment and voted. A 10
"a, with 20 not voting, TO non-concur
in the action Of the senate in ratify.
ing
The action followed directly upon
the assembling Of the first quorum
in the house since Friday, August 20.
1t was on August p. the day fol
lowing the exodus to Alabama OF the
ants. that the motion of Representa-
tive Riddick of Shelby county was
made that the house reconsider its &C
ton on the ratification resolution,
which motion Speaker Walker over
ruled because there was no quorum
Of the house present.
Mr.. Riddick appealed from the rul-
ing of the chair and was sustained by
a vote of 40 to S.
The motion to reconsider was then
disposed of by a vote of 90 to U, de-
spite the objections of Speaker Wal
ker that no quorum was present.
Shortly after the house convened
lit became evident that the antl-ratiti-
cationists. majority of whom have
been in Alabama on a filibuster for
more than a week were in the ma
iority through failure of several OF
the suffrage members to arrive IN
time. With clocklike precision the
antis proceeded to put through their
plan of attempting to undo what was
done on August q, when ratification
was accomplished.
The first step was a motion to eH,
nunge from the journal of that day all
reference to the proceedings upon the
suffrage ratification resolution.
After this was carried, AZ to 81, Win
six not voting, motion was made and
carried that certified copy OF the
resolution, the original of which is IN
the hands of the senate, be spread up
on the journal.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
u. 5. SUBMARINE
DOWN FOR HOURS
ALL AVAILABLE VESSELS IN U. S
NAVY ARE RUSHING TO RES
CUE SUBMERGED CREW
80 SOULS ABOARD U-BOAT
The SIS Was On Her Maiden Trip
When Something Went
Radically Wrong

New York.-A telephone buoy, toss
ing ON the waves in the path OF the
steamship General GOethals, revealed
the plight OF the crew OF the subma-
rine So, submerged for more than
thirty-fiye hours off the Delaware
capes. according to information re-
ceived here. The bell on the buoy
was ringing and a small boat was inn
mediately lowered from the General
Goethals. The boat reached the
buoy, cut in on the telephone appara-
tus on it, and then from the depths
of the seas came this message:
The submarine So has been sub
merged for thirty-five hours. Air Is
running short. Machinery damaged.
Send for help
The General Goethals Immediately
sent out radio messages telling OF the
plight OF the submarine and then stood
by to render whatever aid was pos
sible, keeping in communication with
the submerged vessel by means OF the
telephone on the buoy.
An amateur wireless operator, sit
ting at his instrument at Pennington,
Conn, hundreds of miles from the
scene of the trouble, picked up the
messages from the air and made it
public.
New Haven.-A wireless message
from the United States steamship Gen
eral Goethals picked up at Farming
ton, Conn, says the United States
submarine S-5 has been submerged
thirty-five hours and asks that destroy
ers be sent to her rescue.
The submarines last position was
reported in latitude 1886 north and
longitude 74.OO west, which is vir-
tualy due east of the Delaware capes.
The radio was received by David L.
Moore, who has a wireless outfit at
his home in Pennington. 1t reads as
follows:
ION Board U. S. S. General Goe-
thals at Sea-Send destroyers with
gear to relieve crew in submerged SUBJ
marine So. Been in this condition thir-
ty-five hours. Bring material for cut
ting through hull"
Inquiry at the United States sub
marine base at New London brought
a statement from officers that moth,
ing was known there about the re-
port on the SIS. Officers said, how
ever, that submarine could remain
submerged for a much longer period
than thirty-five hours without danger
to the crew, providing its mechanism
was in working order
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
STOLE TO FEAST
MAN SHE LOVED
Girl Cashier of Baltimore InSur-
ance Firm Charged With
EmbezzIing S9,673.
CONFESSES HER GUILT
Told Detectives She Would Do Any
thing for Man She Loves, and Lat
ter Expresses Willingness
to Marry Her.

RaItimore.-That she had embezzled
thousands of dollars for the purpose OF
lavishing ii on the man she loved, was
the admission of Miss Bessie l.. PICK
twenty-seven years old, cashier EN-
ployed by an insurance firm, when she
was questioned at police headquarters
She is now locked up charged Win
embezzling S9,673 from the National
Life Insurance Company of Vermont
Following a close questioning OF the
young woman, the detectives arrested
Frank Schultz, who is being held on
the charge of violating the Mann act
Miss Pick said Schultz had accompa-
MED her in a taxicab to CharlestoWn,
w. Va, and spent the night OF July
with her at a hotel. John A. Hunt
chauffeur, told the detectives that
Schultz had paid him $50 for the trip
and that his hotel bills for the night
at the West Virginia town had been
paid by the couple.
Woman Involved in Case.
Involved in the case also is Mrs
Hilmar Stearns, fifty years old, at
whose house the couple is alleged to
have spent many nights, and where
they had obtained a large quantity OF
whisky. Mrs. Stearns is locked up on
the charge of having maintained dis
orderly house. According to MISS
Picks admission, the juggling OF the
insurance firms accounts has been 60
ing on for some time past, but the
defalcations escaped detection until
the early part of this month. Miss
Pick had been with the firm seven
years and besides acting as cashier
was confidential bOOkkeeper.
Miss Pick told the detectives that
she had often accompanied Schultz IN
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
STEAMSHIP
LINES INDICTED BY
UNITED STATES JURY

New York-Forty-two steamship
companies and freight brokers, includ-
ing Virtually all the big transatlantic
lines. were indicted by the federal
grand Jury here on charges OF con-
spiracy and restraint of trade in VIC
lation of the Sherman antitrust law.
The indictments included the Inter
national Mercantile Marine, Atlantic
Transport, Cunard Steamship Compa-
ni6s, Ltd, Anchor Line, Booth-Ameri-
ian Shipping Corporation, Compagnie
etsierale Trans Atlantique, Kerr
NO mship company, members of TIE
transatlantic Associate Freight con-
and directors of the Steam
shin Freight Brokers Association.
An Injunction and dissolution suit
against the defendants named in the
indictments as members of the Steam
shin Freight Brokers' association and
the associated freight conferences was
entered simultaneously.
The indictment charged and the Pc
tition in the suit alleged that the de-
PENDANTS on January l, 1917, conspir-
ed and have since continuously Vlolat-
ed the Sherman law by restraining in
terstate trade and foreign commerce
in grain, oil, lumber, coal and other
commodities and manufactured arti-
Giles produced throughout the United
States and in foreign countries.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
RAILROADS LOSE U. S. AID
Sig Loss Ensusd While Earnings OF
The Railroads Were Guaranteed
BY The Government

Washington.-Railr Of the coun-
try will begin operation on their own
resources on the night OF September
/. after having cost the government
approximately one hundred million dol
lars monthly for the six months in
which their earnings were guaranteed
by he transportation act.
The carriers will be allowed fur
Their aid only through loans from the
revolving funds which the ace created.
Earnings Of the roads will fall about
six hundred million dollars below their
standard return for the period since
March l, according TO estimates by the
bureau OF railway economics.
Fewer tina nhalf a score of lines
have produced revenue sufficient to
equal actual operating expenses,
which does not include the fixed
charges of interest, taxes and divi-
dends.
Definite figures on the cost to the
government of the earnings guarantee
provisions of the transportation act
will not be known for several months,
or until the various systems are able to
complete the mechanical task of bal
ancing books and giving detailed fig
ures.
Most all of the roads, however, have
indicated akeady to the interstate COM
merce commission and through it to
the treasury that they will have money
coming to them as a result OF the
guarantee.
The treasury has received dozens of
certifications for advances under the
guarantee with the last ten days of
the guarantee period, and more are
expected in a short time.
If the roads do not ask for an adj
vance against probable deficits before
the night of September /, they must
wait for a final compilation of the
sums the government owes them.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
PUT NAKED CHILD IN YARD
Father Arrested for Forcing Mother
to Compel Babe to Sleep
in Shed.

Camden, N. J.-In order to get his
twenty-month-o babe out of the
house, Frank Luchi, Twenty-Five years
old, placed 1t by day, naked, in hlthy
yard. At night he forced it to sleep
in an open shed.
Sick and emaciated from lack OF
proper food and care, the child was
found exposed to the heat of the sun
without any covering or clothes, and
tormented by flies from an open gar
bage can nearby by Mrs. W. ?. Walsh
secretary of the Camden branch of the
Society to Protect Children from Cruel
ty.
A housekeeper at the Luchi home,
mother of the babe, who says she is
the common law wife of Lucli, testl'
fed against him.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
u. S. GUARANTEE OF RAIL
EARNINGS BOOSTS PUBLIC
De BIT TO $1o1,755,ooo

Washington.-Fed guarantee OF
+ajIroad earnings resulted in an in
crease in the public debt of SOL 55'-
900 during August, according to treas
ury figures issued showing the ma
TONS gross debt to be $24,3z4,672OOo.
Treasury records charge the In
crease in the public debt to- an issue
of certificates of Indebtedness offered
August 16, sold to cover payment OF
the railroads under tho guarantee pro-
visions of the transportation.
Advances to the carriers, against
probable deficits during the month, are
said by treasury officials to have
reached nearly one hundred and sixty
million dollars, and on this basis they
figured there would have been a slight
reduction in the public debt had not
the earnings guarantee been in Ell
feet.
Payments to the roads in August
do not correctly indicate the amount
to which they will be entitled when
a final accounting for the six months
period over which the guarantee ex-
tended is made, it is added. AS
result. the drain on the treasury very
probably will continue for several
months, but the officials believe it
will be possible to clear up all the
transactions with the railroads with
the exception of the revolving fund
by the opening of the new year.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
BOSSY PUT KICK IN MILK
North Carolina Farmers Cow Thought
Dying Only Drunk on
Whisky Mash.

Durham, N. C.-John King, a farm
er living near this city, found two or
his cows dying on the ground Of their
pasture in stupor, apparently suf-
fering from some strange malady. A
veterinarian was called and after
lengthy examination pronounced both
animals as merely "beastly" drunk.
A search for the cause led to the
discovery OF big 'moonshne" still In
a secluded corner Of the pasture. The
cows had eaten n quantity OF the
mash used by the Illicit whisky manu-
lecturers.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
Death OF Celebrated TeIeerapher

Boston, William E. Kettles,
who. as a boy telegrapher. received the
message announcing the fall of Rich
mond. died at his home in the Charles.
town district in the 72d year of his
age. Kettles was manning a wire at
the war department offices in Wash
ington on the morning of April 3, 1865,
when the operator at Fortress Monroe
cut in and instructed him to make ad-
iustments to take message from
Richmond, which had been within the
Confederate lines
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
'EatOnic, in Four Days Did
Me $40 Worth of Good"

SO writes Mr.. Edward w. Bragg OF
Mecca, Ind, who suffered from
stomach troubles for a long time but
could not find anything to help him,
but at last had faith enough to give
eatonic a test. 1t quickly removed
the excess acids and poisonous gases
from the body and the misery dis
appeared. OF course, when the cause
Of the trouble is removed, the sufferer
must get well. Eatonic is quick, sure
and safe, and the lasting benefits
come in new strength, life and pep.
Your druggist will supply you with
eatonic at a trifling cost and every ALL
ing person should get it today. Adv.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09

taxicabs, and that often when they
had ordered dinner at hotel she
would Land money under the table to
him so that he would not be embar-
raised when the time came to settle
the bills.
She told the detective that she loved
Schultz and she would do anything In
the world for him. She said she was
willing to be married to him, and he
has said he wishes to marry her.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
.CALOMEL HORROR
TOLD BY DOlSON
You Don't Need to SiCken, Gripe
or SaIiVate Yourself to
Start Liver.

You're bilious. sluggish. constipated.
You feel headachy, your stomach may
be sour. your breath bad, your skin
sallow and you believe you need vile,
dangerous calomel 10 start liver and
bowels.
Here's my guarantee! Ask your drug
gist for a bottle Of Dodson'S Liver
Tone and take a spoonful tonight. Fit
doesn't start your liver and straiGhten
you right up better than calomel and
without gripping or making YOU sick l
want you to go back to the store and
get your money.
Take calomel today and tomorrow
YOU will feel weak and sick and nau-
seated. Don't lose a day. Take a
spoonful of harmless. vegetable bod
sons Liver Tone tonight and wake up
feeling splendid. 1t is perfectly harm
less, so give it to your children any
time. 1t can't saliyate.-Adv.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
Railway Promotions Are Announced

Washington, ID. C.-Promotions in
the operating department of the
Southern railway system, effective on
September /, have been announced in
circulars issued by Vice President Il.
II. Chapman as follows: w. s. An
drews, assistant to vice president, at
washington, d. c.; c. M. Mitchell gen.
eral superintendent of transportation,
lines west, Cincinnati, Ohio, vice Mr..
Andrews; ]. @. Clements, superinten.
dent, Cincinnati, New Orleans and
Taxas Pacific railway. Danvilla. KY.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
Four Stills Are Brought To Revival

Knoxville, Tenn.-Four stills were
brought to Straight Fork church in
Scott county and cut to pieces during
revival services. One was brought
and placed in the church one night
with a letter from the owner to moon
sinners telling them to do as he had
done. stack arms, deliver up their
stills and serve God" When some
parties offered to take the stills to
court Evangelist Adkins said there
were plenty more in the woods. GO
and get some of them, but let these
men alone, for they are the LORDS
converts and not your convicts," he
said.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-09-09
s,4s7727,e37 Pounds Sugar Imported

Washington.-The per capita con-
sumption of sugar was 90.6 pounds
during the IL months period ending
June 80, the highest in history, accord
ing to a study by the commerce de-
partment made public. Imports of SUI
gar total 9,4S7727,637 pounds and
exports 145S6SO,O26. Sugar was
brought from more than forty coun-
tries, Cuba being the chief seller with
a total of 6,9O5, 7O9,612 pounds sent
to this country, the biggest Cuban i'm
portation of sugar in history.