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Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-08-04

The Town Council of LeesvilIe,
Mayor o. E. Morris presiding, at its
regular meeting held last Tuesday ev-
ening. at the City Hall, granted d PEI
tition Of citizens who asked for side
walks on the streets of the Mona Dis
trict. Otherwise the Council transac-
ted the usual routine business accu-
INFLATED during the past month.
The family of Mr.. v. o. Craft are
bereaved by the death of Mr.. Cats
beloved wife. who suddenly died Of a
stroke of paralysis. Funeral services
were held at the family's home nd the
interment took place at the Anacoco
cemetery.
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The family of Mr.. S. ]. Stidham
have returned from a camping trip
to Alexandra. Boyce, Hot Wells. and
PinevilIe; Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Winfree
have the pleasure of a visit from their
son, Mr.. Chas. B. Winfree, of Joplin,
Mo-; Mrs. |. c. Boyd, accompanied by
her son, Elmo Boyd, left for a visit
to relatives in Houston, Tex; Nh. NJ.
]. Bethune had as his guest his broth
er, Mr.. Walter Bethune. of GIenmora;
Mr.. and Mrs: W. P. Thompson have as
visitor their son, Rev. E. L. Thomp-
son, of Kansas City; President Of Po-
lice Jury. Hon. Columbus Pitre. and
Counselor c. E. Hardin have returned
from business trip to Little Rock,
Ark; Mr.. M. B. Dreeben has had the
pleasure of visit from his daughter,
Mrs. L. S. TopIitz and her husband,
Of Dallas, Tex; Mrs. S. EtheridSe is
being visited by her granddaughter,
Miss Fay Franklin, of Port Arthur,
Tex; Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Hope had
visit from Mr.. B. M. Jones and his
wife, Of Hope, Ark; Assistant Dis
, trict Attorney P. L. Ferguson went on
a business trip to Many. yesterday;
MRS. N. e. Peters and two children
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-08-04
PITKIN Dolls

The revival begins in Pitkin the 5th
Of August, the pastor being Reverend
Kinnin.
The B. Y. P. U. is getting in good
shape now, and every one is invited to
attend. The classes are held every
Sunday evening about seven-thirty.
We had singing in the community
Friday evening; every one seemed to
enjoy it very much. There was also
a tacky party. but it wasn't learned
who won the prize.
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The farmers are nearly all idle now
as there isn't much work to be done
on the farm.
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There seems to be a good deal of
illness around here. although there is
none serious.
Mrs. Edward Jordan has been spend
ing the past two weeks with her sister
Mrs. Colbert Richardson.
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Mr.. c. C. Carver has been visiting
Mr.. Je. F. Franklin.
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Mr.. ]. F. Franklin and son Webster
have just returned from few days
visit to Mr.. Joseph Franklin, of Beau
mont.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-08-04
Local and Personal at LeesviIIe

Mr.. ]. A. Cole, of the Rouss Rack
ct Store, left for New York last week,
where. he has gone to purchase his new
stock for fall.
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Mrs. ] p. OBanion and daughter,
Myrtle, arrived home Monday from
Lufkin, Texas. where they have been
on an extended. visit. Mr.. O'Banion
has his optometrist office in the Ma
tional Bank building.
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]. M. Mcdonald, who was in charge
of the Louisiana oil station. which re-
Gently burned, is informed that the
reconstruction of their oil station will
commence as soon as the material can
be assembled.
H. E. Werner has just completed an
indeDendent census of the farmers OF
the Parish Of Vernon for the Ford peo-
pie, and f;~ds that there are l845 far
mers in. l., parish. Many of these
are not reilly farmers, as they are oc-
cupied in saw mills and logging camps
part of the year.
1893
Marriage licenses were issued this
week by Hon. R. A. Hicks, Clerk of
Vernon Parish, to: Mr.. Albert C. Wal
ton, of Shreveport, and Miss Maud
Carver, of Leesville; Mr.. Dave Walker
and Miss Della King. both of Anacoco;
Mr.. Boss Brit and Miss Cora Russell
both of Ludington; Mr.. Ernest Holm
es, of Kurthwood. and Miss Eddie Da-
Wis; Mr.. Joe Washington and Miss
Liddie Simon, both of Kurthwood;
Mr.. T. R. Stephens and Miss Annie
Ross, both of Leesville.
SHRW
Bids for operating the transfer
routes over which pupils are to be
taken to the various public schools in
Vernon Parish, must be submitted tc
Mr.. Finly Stanly. secretary Of the
Parish School Board, on or before 10
am, August 10th, 1921. Routes or
which less than IS pupils request trans.
portation. will be discontinued, and pu'
pills not living within two and hall
miles of the respective school will noi
be transferred. The maximum salary
for transfer contractors it to be $5C
per month.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-08-04

went on a visit to relatives in Little
Rock. Ark; Miss VeIma Lyons and
her brother Kyle, Of Surprur, have
been the guests of their aunt, Mrs. Co
lumbus Pitre; Misses Beatrice Odom
and Miss Eva Ford have returned from
Rouston, after successfully attending
an industrial course in that city; Mrs.
B. F. Cowley has as her guest Miss
Julia Bowden, of Pelican; Mr.. J. v.
Etheridge went on a visit to friends in
Lake Charles and Mrs. A. E. Etheridge
has gone to visit her daughter, Mrs,
H. J. Franklin, at Port Arthur, Tex. +;
Miss Leila Mantz has been visiting
relatives and friends IN DeRidder; Mrs
A. B. Parker and her children have
returned from visit to friends in Alb
beyville; Miss Myrtle Word has re-
turned from an extended tour through
Texas; Mrs. c. E. Cook had visit
from Mr.. Charles Cudd end his wife,
of Bovce; Mr.. and Mrs. H. T. Booker
and Mrs, F. T. Lewis are enjoying a
tip to Hot Springs.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-08-04
VICTIMS OF IGNORANCE
GREED AND EXPLOITATION

Hundreds of cases Of pellagra havl
been discovered among the tenants s
cotton farms in Southeastern Okla
homa. Fifteen of the victims have Be-
come insane from the worry, privatiol
and semi-starvation. and their cond
ton of servitude. Is it in the interes
of such freedom (p) that jefferson
penned his immortal Declaration 5
Independence, with these words
All men all created free an.
equal, and are endowed by their Gre
ator with certain inaIienabIe rights and
that among these. the right to life. Iih
erty, and the pursuit of happiness
Have these victims of Unsuitable humai
greed the least opportunity for Ia
tional, sane. adequate living, for hh
erty, or happinessa Please, think th
out for yourself. Would you like I
be in their fixp Can human beins
treat their fellow men in that way wi
profess to believe in the teaching
Whatsoever you would have others q
unto you, do you so even unto them
just think it over, for this is a mich
serious problem. and it is up to you
help to solve ii. Is semi-starvation 5
cessary in world Of plenty. where Ia
of food is always going to waste
is deliberately destroyed to mainta
high prices3
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-08-04
Insure Yourself
Good Big Crop
BY W A. DoUCFERTY u. S. FARMS.

ure crops has been the small TIC costs are Of
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-08-04

Cooperation and competition are
not external qualities beloneing to
some legal frame work or social sys-
tenn, but are dispositions in man. They
cannot be put on or off as occasion
may demand, but are matters of NOR
al and ethical education. So, too, a
true socialism is not matter of po-
IiticaI form, but its location must be
within the heart and consciousness.
Henry Wood.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-08-04

There is nothing truer than that the
quality of thought which we enter
tain correlates certain externals in the
outside world. This is the law from
which there is no escape. And it is
this law, this correlative of the thought
with its object, that from time imme-
mortal has led the people to believe IN
special providence.-Wi lmans.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-08-04
bow 10 PURIFY THE BLoOD

Impurity of the blood consists Of ex.
cess Of sumo element and deficiency
of others. By comparing the list Of
elements required with the list hab:tu-
ally supplied, we can ascertain what
elements are wanting and what are in
excess. Having an analysis of all the
articles of food in common use, which
contain all the elements of the human
system in different proportions, we
have but to use our common sense in
! selecting such as will supply the def
cient elements, or avoid the excessive.
The intelligent farmer finds that
some of his land will not produce
wheat; and by analysis he will be sure
to find that the elements Of wheat are
wanting, or are excessive. IF wanting,
he supplies them in such manure or
fertilizer as is known to contain them,
and is sure of crop of wheat; or. if
excessive. he plants the ground with
other crops that need the excessive ele-
ments, and after they are thus remov-
ed, he can get crop of wheat.
What would we think of a farmer
whose land needed phosphorus. end
! nothing else, for a crop of wheat, who
should follow the advice Of his neigh
bors, as ignorant as himself, and use
lime and ashes and salt, and dozen
other things that contain no phosphor-
Jus, because somebody else had used
some Of these articles on land perhaps
entirely different, and had found them
useful. No article in the world could
do good unless it contained phosphor-
us, but might do harm if it contained
elements already sufficiently supplied,
and perhaps already in excess. But
this is the method almost universally
adopted by mothers, in order to pu--
iify the blood Of their children.
That mother is indeed rare excep-
ton who does not, when her daughter
is pale and she fears impurities of the
blood, or perhaps to prevent such an
evil, resort to something which some
body says is good for the blood, with
out stopping to consider the absurdity
of the experiment, or whether it may
not, as it must, do harm by burdening
the stomach with elements never in
tended for the human system and
therefore consequently injurious.
A high protein (meat, eggs, fish, Of
nuts) diet is the basis of the diseases
classed as rheumatic, such as rheuma.
tism, govt, lumbago. sciatica, and Ger.
tain forms of cancer, ulcer, and acic
erosions. This class differs from cat
arrhal diseases, which are due mainly
to excuses of carbohydrates, starch O.
sugar, decomposing in the system.
A change TO a fruit diet with low
protein content produces a marked
change for the better in rheumatic dis
eases. A diet of semi-acid fruits, o
buttermiIk, or of raw vegetable salad
Twill help to eliminate the waste produc
from the system. In case of catarrha
troubles, starches and sweets must b,
reduced to a minimum. Raw milk
! fruit. and green vegetables are especi
ally desirable.-Selected.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-08-04

When you are all worn out with the cares
and anxieties of the year, and the hot sum-
mer sun and the call of the woods get you to
thinking of vacations, let your mind run to
a community Of congenial people, intelligent
above the average, cooperative to high
degree, and happy as any community any
where.
This community is located in the western
highlands of Louisiana. The health is excel
lent and the climate splendid and equable
Not terribly hot in summer, and delightfully."-
mild in winter.
This is where you should spend your va
cation, for you will imbibe their spirit OF OPP
timism and renew your thought factory. Your
carefree attitude will rebuild your mental
and physical being.
Not only that. but you may become inter-
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-08-04
A Vacation For You?
Spend an inexpensive, Interesting, Healthful and
Profitable Vacation with the Colonists
at LIano

ested enough in them to want to join and
live vacation all the year around.
This community is the Llano Cooperative
Colony.
Your vacation will cost you less here than
anywhere else. for your board and room will
cost you only dollar day.
Why not write and make arrangements to
come and spend your vacation at Newllano.
Learn all about how this Colony has lived
and almost died; how they have now discov-
cred the cause of its failure, and how they
have made more Roadway since this discov-
cry than in all the previous effort. Is this
not worth knowing1 Is it not worth vaca-
tiOning FORE
Plan to spend week or two. and under
stand the cooperative colony movement.
This IS an invitation to YOU.
The spectator., 1921-04-01
ARMENIAN NATION
 LOOKS TO U. 5. FOR
 SUCCOR FROM DEATH"
Edwin N. BuIkIey, Financier and PhiIanthropist, Defines Near
 East Relief Work.

New York -"There Is no spot on the globe today where there is more desperate and hopeless suffering than in Armenis," Edwin NJ Buikley, tue well known New York banker, who has just heen elected chairman of the board of trustees of Near East Relief, declared today. Mir. Eulkley succeeds the late Alexander !. Hemphlll as head of the American relief work in Armenia. Turkey. Palestine, Syria M-sppo;amia and Persia. He has long been connected with the banking house of Spencer Trasl, X Co.,. and Is thor. ough conversant with the Near Fla st. ern situation.
 "ElseNhere." Mir. Eulkley continued, 'there i> famine that tears at our hearl-stringS and eNokes our pity and our help. But in Armenia it is not starvation alone that the people face -- but starvation coming after six years
The spectator., 1921-04-01
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The spectator., 1921-04-01
Notice

Any body wanting me to buy fertilizer for them please send their order in immediately,
 Wm. F. Williams
The spectator., 1921-04-01

destruction. wrought by war that has never ended and that today k not even ended. IL is starvation following reStiience. and stalking hand in hand with death from exposure, from Nio- lence or from disease
 In the mountains between Kars and AleSaudrepol there are 263. .tsU human beings without clothing. food ar shelter ill the bitter winter. who are wandering from place to place like people in nightmare Unless they are succorcd before Ihe end of ln- other month. they will sl be dead. ln southern Persia the remnant of the ancient family If thaidean Christians have been forced to reuDunce forever all hope ot ever returning to the hume- land where they have dweit and flour ished for l.6tN years and tu become pitiful fugitiVes, dependent upon the geNerositN ot strangers for life itself. In Cilicia, l5,Ouo Armenian refugees have crowded into the coast regions seeking safety from thc anarchy which reigns in the interior, in terror for their lives. They live from day to day on the food ulicA is given them in the soup kitchens established by the Near East Relief. Scattered throughout the Near East, there are some 7,19o, 49o ArmenanS. the re- inainder of nation of 4UoU.ooo. who have neither government, country, homeland. shelter or hope of resenera. ton, save that which lies in the great heart If America.
 Ut is a tragedy >o StupendouS that 1t Is difficult for us to grasp it's mean ing. A whole nation a living. Christian people, face to face with eNtermina- lion today. nllc>s We hrlp. We shall see an entire nation disappear from the face of llir earth before our eyes if we withhold our hand now, when the call comes to Us [" save by giving, or by lnacliou to condemn to death.
 Save the Children.
 "Perhaps We cannot save all the grown prupdc of this eldest Christian nation in the world But al least We can save the little children who hold the future in their hands They have wronged no one. They have harmed no one. And they have suffered through the precious years of child- hood a calvary of agony and wretched- ness. For three years the Near East Relief, an AmrritHu organization. m- corpuratcd hX Congress. has built up the nucleus If d HcW generation in hr Near East, with the lttle children that il has taken In frpm the roadside. and barren places and nurSed back to health, fed, clothed, housed and cdu- eated, in the uautc of the American people who have furnished the faHdS for this great work.
 This has hreu our signal contrihu. tion to the worlds future peace that tens of lhou>aud~ uf these little oneS shall all their lives book to u~ With world hrorhtrhuod that We have sown Shall we Let il die now
 "rhe Near East Relief Is appealing to the American people for the money to go an with this wurk ito keep these little ones alive and to save this martyred Christian people. Sixty dol lars per year Sln Der muuth-fceds z child We have taken this great re sponsibility upon us. \ whole natloi looks to us in faith and trust. "We cannot h-tray them now Contributions may he sent to Clevs land H. Dodge. Treasurer, l Aa6lssa Avenue. New York City.
The spectator., 1921-04-01

t2r Shoe rlpa'E.T@, quich ser vice, best leather and guaranteed work see c A. Davis. East side Q. sq.dre
The spectator., 1921-04-01

Wanted 10 SeIl-One good bug gy. good work mare and good saddle. /. l.. Evans. Webb City
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-05-30
Will
Meet at Blair
National Convention Comes to
Nebraska--Plan Big Build.
ing Program.

Blair, Neb., May 2o.-(Special) y
The annual convention of the Dan
.lsh Lutheran church of America
will open here May 81. 1t is ex-
pected that l,500 delegates and visit
ing members will be here from all
parts of the United States. Blair was
made the permanent headquarters of
the organization at the convention
last year.
The large building used for Dana
college will be remodeled and en-
larged and other buildings will be
constructed on land already pur-
chased. The estimated cost of the
buildings agreed upon last year will
be 81, 100000. Construction will be
started this year. .
Rooming capacity of the. city will
be taxed in housing the 1,500 guests.
Many visitors from abroad will be
taken to the homes of country men,
bers.
A tabernacle has been erected on
the compus grounds with a seating
capacity of 1,s00. Blair Community
club and band will have charge of
the welcoming exercises Wednesday
afternoon and in the evening the
Dana college choral union will pre-
sent the cantata, "The Eternal
City" Mayor Aye has issued a
proclamation and all business hoNses
will be closed to welcome the guests
to the cifN
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-05-30
Neigh Makes Bid for
State Reformatory

Neigh. Neb.. May 2e.-(Special.)
A SPECIAL meeting was held by the
executive committee of the Cham
bcr Of Commerce and influential citi-
zens to consider the proposition OF
securing the mems state reformatory
for this city. 1t was decided to Of
Ter the state board of control tract
OF land consisting of 500 acres, a
mile west OF Neigh, which is> con-
sidered the best farm land in the
Elkhorn valley and is directly on the
main line of the Chicago & North
western railroad and on the federal
aid road. Secretary Fairfield of the
board of control was communicated
with by telephone and informed that
a delegation of the Neigh Chamber
OF Commerce, accompanied by sew
eral men OF influence in this section
of the state, would be in Lincoln
Tuesday to make an effort to have
this new $30o,o00 building located
in Neigh.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-05-30
Farmers Union Picnic
To Be Held in Lodgepole

Lodgepole, Neb., May 2o.-(Spe-
cial. 1.-THE annual Farmers union
picnic will be held in Lodgepole June
"a. Farmers union locals over the
county will be represented. Prom
inent Farmers union speakers will he
on the program also ball game and
band music.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-05-30
Allied Nations (.
Honor American
World War Dead
Representatives to Bow Heads
In Memory Of Soldiers Who
Are Sleeping in For
eign Lands.
By HENRY WALES.

Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright, 1921.
Paris, May 29.-On Memorial day
this year representatives of all the
allied nations in Europe will bow
their heads before the graves of the
American soldiers to do honor to the
memories of the valiant doughboys
who sacrificed themselves in Ire
cause of right and justice and who
sleep their last sleep in the fields of
Europe
For the occasion military, political
and literary leaders of the foreign
countries have availed themselves OF
the Chicago Tribune to testify the
gratitude and admiration of the
whole world for the noble sacrifices
OF the American soldiers and for the
influential help which America gave
Europe during the war.
Marshal Fayolle. former comman-
der of the French armies for the
Somme, said: "The United States
is about to render solemn homage to
those of her children who fell on the
battle fields of the great war in de-
fense of right and liberty. America
has never forgotten the intervention
of General Lafayette's soldiers in the
revolutionary war. France will keep
a grateful and lasting remembrance
of the heroes who came to help her
and who contributed, in large
measure, to the victories of 1918.
France and the United States will be
forever bound by ties of mutual
friendship and esteem. This union
will not only be for their mutual
advantage but will be the safest
guarantee for world peace.
General Gouraud: after having
struggled almost alone against the
barbarians from the beginning of the
war when, in spite of the. heroism
of the French soldiers, we began to
feel exhausted, the entry of America
gave us comrades in arms as reso-
lutte as ourselves to fight the war to
a finish, to make right, justice and
liberty triumph. The American as
sistance gave US the necessary fac
tors to win victory"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-05-30
Glass of "a Graduates
From Loup City School

Loup City, Neb., May 2o-(Spe-
cial. )-Loup City High school grad
uated class of "a. consisting of sew
en- boys and II gifls. Commence
ment festivities began with the ju-
nior-senior banquet, and closed with
commencement exercises. Governor
S. R. McKelvie made the address of
the evening before one OF the larg-
est audiences that has ever congre-
gated in this city. He spoke on
"The Essentials of Citizenship"
The class play, "At the End of
the Rainbow" was given to large
audience.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-05-30
Prices Going Up
In Near Future.
U.S.EmployesSay
Claim Congressmen's Salaries
Would Have to Be Tripled
To Keep Pace With
Costs.

Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, May 2o.-Federal em-
ployes who are seeking compensa-
tions from the government comnlen-
surate with the rising cost of living
point to the fact that the salaries OF
congressman would have had to be
trip1ed and then some if they had
kept pace with the rising cost OF
living.
The cost OF living is going up and
not down." they argued in a state
ment issued through their national
federation. "We are at present 60
ing through 'thank-you-maam and
very shortly prices will rise so that a
year from now they will be consid-
erably higher than at present. If the
salaries of congressman, $500 a
year, had kept pace with the dirnin-
ishing purchasing power of the dol
lar, it would have, been necessary to
add to them in 1914, $1,35l; in 1915,
1922; in 1916, $1,4l7: in 1918, $3,210;
in 919, $5,212; in 191o-20, $7,267, so
that if congressman were to receive
at present, enough money to make
up for the loss they sustained
through the diminishing value of the
dollar while their salaries were sta
tionary during these six years, they
would now be receiving $17,56 a
year. A government employe on
ST 200 a year in 1918 should now be
receiving $500. In other words, to
keep pace with the decline in the
value of the dollar, men and women
on a stationary salary during that pc
riod should now receive lump pay
ment OF S2.34 for every dollar"