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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09
TAX NOTICE

To owners and nonresident owners
whose post-of-ice is unknown
take notice:
That all taxes due the VILLAGE O.
Tallulah fo. the year 1920 are delin
quent and if not paid by or before
the expiration of twenty days from
the date of this publication, together
with penalty, at the rate of ten pei
cent per annum from December 81
1921, will advertise for sale, accord
ing to law, the least amount o. the
following properties any one will take
and pay taxes, interest and costs, un
der provisions of Sections SO and 81
of Act ITO of year 1898; said delin
quent tax debtors being as follows
Estate T C. Tyler, lots on Chestnut
Street, Tallulah, La.
Taxes, s3.2s
Interest and costs to be added.
A. H. HURD,
Tax Collector, Village of Tallulah
Tallulah, La, June 20, 1921.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09
SOME QUIZ AND QUlZZlCALS
Bv the Inevitable A. L. kATZ

Happiness, like health, is mans
divine heritage. Don't be cheated OF
YOUR birthright. The idea that sorrow
is the normal condition, spring from
the same mind which imagined that
IL a man were not sick occasionally.
there was something the matter with
him.
Little acts of kindness and thought
fulness day by day are really greater
than one immense act of goodness
once year.
The state of the world reminds us
that the prodigal didn't begin to mend
his ways until he became mendicant.
A man never realizes how insight
ficant he is until he makes the ac-
quaintance of the stars. And he never
realizes how important he is until he
makes he acquaintance of moonshine.
Modesty: The quality that permits
her to reveal everything north and
south of the fortieth parallel, and
then worry because her petticoat
shows.
1t is admitted that the Chinese are
more honest than other people, but
thu are rapidly learning Western
culture.
. Dinkelheimer: Say Poompernickel,
if a Limberg and a half cost a cent
and a half what will two cost?
Poompernickel: Two scents, of
course, you Dutchman!
A few lines to the mosquito:
Summer times here in all its glory
Mosquitoes too, and plus their song,
ling bizz-zing to make one worry
Summer time you stay too long.
Oh, for a cline without this pest
Why, oh why, were you created,
To pestifcate with our nightly rest
Scat! then shall we be elated.
Oh, for blast that will annihilate you
You good for nothing pestiferous bird,
Let's pray for that blast-you will
sadly rue
And joy over the land, will be heard,
will be heard.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

give a scholarship to Louisiana Poly
technic Institute, at Ruston, La, and
that all applicants for the scholarship
must apply in writing to the Police
Jury before Wednesday, August 3.
And that Prof. Linton, Prof. Byrd
and Mr.. G. P. Blair be appointed a
committee to examine the applicants
and decide to whom the scholarship
shall be given. Motion passed.
Bids for the painting of the Parish
Jail were opened and read.
The bid of Mr.. J. E. Bethea, the
only bid received, was rejected be-
cause it was deemed too high.
The Secretary was instructed to re-
advertise for bids for painting the
Jail, in the Madison Journal and the
Vicksburg Herald.
Mr.. John H. Devine reported for
the Tick Inspectors, that there are
no fever ticks in Madison Parish and
that the employment of the Tick In
spectors be discontinued.
Mr.. Hewes motion seconded by Mr..
Holloway, that Mr.. Devine be author
lied to issue stock certificates when
requested. Motion passed.
The Finance Committee reported
the following bills approved and or
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

The readers Of this paper vim h
pleased to learn that there n st lsast
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure In al it, stages and
mat 10 catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
maocnced By constitutional condition.
requires conottutiona1 treatment. Hall'a
CsssrSn Medicine z taken internally and
facee Of the system thereby dostroyine
ne foundefton o. The dieeaso. giving the
Patient strsngth by building up the con
eeitueaon and assisting nature ii doing ita
faith q the curative power Of Hsifs
HnndFsd pollaEs fpr any cas- that Il fsiis
- eSA - IT, II 6 teetimoniQle
o. - = 2SsssH'uss =: 49,
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09
SHERIFF SALE

State Of Louisiana, Parish CO Ia lisc =
Ninth judicial Distri.c Court
ROSE SARTORIOUS DRUG co.
VS.. Nc
II. H. BURDEN
BY virtue OF Writ CT Fic"i Fa
cias, to ma directed from the Hoaor
able Ninth judicial District Court fo:
the Parish Of Madison, aforesaid,
the above entitled cause, I will pre-.
coed to sell, at public auction, at tn.
principal front door of the CCur
House in the town of Tallu,&h, IL
Madison Parish, La, on the four.l
Saturday, the 23rd Day of Jul,
A. D., 1921, between the hours r. =
scribed by law, all the right tide ano
interest of H. H. Burdccn in and x
the following described property, TO
wit:
One second hand Fo-,l Automobile
seized in the abo2e suit.
Terms Of Same. CASH with benefi
Of Appriasement.
/. J. SEWER,
Sheriff of Madison Parish, In
Sheriff's Office, TalIulah, La, Jul,
9th, 1921.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09
WHY THE PUBLIC KICKS

y, listen to the big Chicago meat
4 err one would think every last
( Of them is going to starve to
u before the year is over. In
1. IL there was even one citizen
(cted to putting up as much of a
V Is the meat packers are putting
1 we'd feel like ordering the tar
feathers for him right away.
he packers claim there're making
one-fifth Of a cent on each dollar
bsted. And yet they have so cor
Id the meat business of the coun-
/ that no one else can get into it
. big scale, even if teey were
SIZED to earn that sum. They ap-
b to overlook the fact that the
lie generally dosen't care if they
ke q reasonable profit. What the
>lic is sore about, and good and
: about, is that the packers have
! been content to stick to the meat
1iness, but have, after sewing il
20 tight that competition was CON-
tely stamped out, sought to enter
Ter lines. They have attempted to
inch out to such an extent that
y would have controlled in a few
M various other forms of food
|lKs, even to vegetables and fruits
ere il where the public registers it
X against the packers, and that il
lere the public demands stern &C
d on the part Of congress.
The packers are giving good ser
y, and the public appreciates it
ley are entitled to q fair profit, tn,
ne -. anyone else, and the public
Ints them to have it. But when the.
n to monopolize other lines o.
|rIness that Is where the publi'
-, and has q perfect right to kick
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09
rREsPAss NOTICE

Public notice is hereby ~ ~
trespassing in any manner
bee, Eden and Hester Plant
Madison Parish is prohibited.
one found so doing win be q -
prosecuted. This applies 81
hunters and trsppers.
z G. s.. BLANCh1
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09
TREsPAss NOTICE

Public notice is hereby given that
all tn Singer Manufacturing Com
pany's land in Madison Parish Louis
ana is posted against camping or tres
passing in any manner. Violators will
be vigorously prosecuted.
P0INSETT LBR. 4 MFG. CO,
v. w, E..JEFFERSON,
"a Timber Warden.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING

The regular annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Tallulah State
Bank will be held at the Bank on
Tuesday, July IL, 1921, at IL A. NJ,
Tor the purpose of electing Directors
for the ensuing year, and for tran
sacting such other business as may
come before the meeting.
w. s. CRAIG Secretary.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09
DUN E RF EFT

Virginia Griswold, the only child of
a famous old Southern house, has
been educated in schools abroad. Re-
called by the sudden death of her
father, she returns home to find that
practically all her parents fortune
had been lost through speculation.
Colonel Harrington, typical South
ern gentleman of the old school, in
forms Virginia that the news must
be kept from her mother, already i'll
from the shock of her husbands
death. As the bills keep piling in,
Virginia wonders what can be done
to secure funds to meet them. The
morning brings an idea.
The Treasury at Washington has
been trying for long time to dis
cover the source of the large amount
of counterfeit money that has sud-
denly come into circulation. Secret
Service operatives have traced GER
tain clews to Newport, but have been
forced to stop for lack Of further
evidence. Thomas Allen, the big
financier, has offered hundred thou
sand dollars reward for the apprehen-
sion of the counterfeiters.
Virginia determines to win the re-
ward and persuades Colonel Harring-
ton to take her to Washington and in
troduce her to the Secret Service
authorities. After long session the
idea Of putting a beautiful and in
telligent young woman on the trail
eventually appeals to them andshe is
equipped with proper credentials and
despatched to Newport. There the
letters which the Government has
furnished her are sufficient to gain
her entree into the home of the rich,
where she quickly takes society by
storm.
After few weeks Virginia stumb.
les by chance upon an interesting
clue. Mrs. Palmer, wife of one OF
the prominent summer residents, is
heavily in debt. Her husband, after
warning her time and again about her
extravagances and extending her al.
lowance to the limit. refuses to heir
her out further. Her creditors are
hot on her heels and her plight be.
comes so desperate that she dicides te
end it all by killing herself. She ha.
the pistol raised to her forehead wher
vincent Cortez, foreign adventurel
and society hanger-on visiting the
Palmer home, rushes in and avert,
the tragedy. He is an agent Of coun
terfeiters and when he hears Mrs
Palmcr's story he sees chance t.
further his game. On the pretenss
of helping her out her promises hel
a large sum of money in exchange fol
check and Mrs. Palmer agrees t.
the proposal.
Virginia has been a silent witnes.
% ihis scene. A few evenings later .
representative of Tiffany's oils or
Mr. Palmer and tells him that hi,
wife's last bill contracted at that les
Establishment was paid with counter
felt money. Mr.. Palmer is great,
agitated, but gives the man a checl
for the amount to keep the matter
hushed up.
Mrs. Palmer has been nervously
watching this transaction from be.
hind curtain and when her husband
leaves the room quickly takes the
rejected forged bills and places them
In safe. Again Virginia is q witness
and late that night while . party i
in progress in the kintchen she stesls
into room where Mrs. Palmer kssps
Z book with the combinations Of IL
safs n Il. She has opened the safe
end = about 70 take ~ mensy wILsu
zereFf Asa yeung ~ deeply 3
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

received and read. published in an
other column.)
There being no further business,
the Police Jury adjourned.
ALEX CLARK, Presiden.
p. o. BENJAMIN, Sec-etry.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09
ANNOUNCEMENT

4. Henry C. Sewer has become
Lated with me in the practice of
Eand the firm name will be Sny-
Sewer.
I ]. B. SNYDER,
Fslah, La, June %, 1921.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

So many Of them are getting jobs
undsr the new administrator fellow
lent have to apologize any more
~ being IN editor.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

When the average politician can't
Alnk Of anything else to do he starts
= 70 cooddle the farmer.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

An exchange says the war served
~ bring lot Of historical books in
- general use. Yes, and a lot of
o16ck books, toos
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

And II 1t hadn't been for moon
nine John Barleycorn would by this
>lne have been in his grave.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

A. long as girl can wear short
oklrts she needn't worry about a
(nxt on her necks
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

Some men are best known. by the
~ that precedes them down the
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

Our idea Of coward is,a man who
1n0ws he is wong but refuses to ad-
III It.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

It's difficult to convince the man
~ has been up against it for long
olne that he has a lot Of good luck
coming to him.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

And still another form of tax that
j dangerous Is tax on the patience.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-07-09

ye Rad IN m eastern paper that
1rP wan win be won by gas
- ! What started them in the past
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

good to others. But always to all who
will grasp it, written on the very face
Of the turning globe, the next year
will be "good."
Last summer a wealthy visitor at
the lakeside hotel drew the proprie-
tor to the corner Of the veranda, and,
lifting his glasses, asked: "Do you
see those letters on the rocks? | am
the boy who cut them, January 1,
1847. You seem glad to know the au
thor. I never revealed the fact. Why
should I?
ut is not because l said it that it
is true. No matter who says it, on a
Happy New Year the New Year will
be good. 1t is true in itself. Happy
the man or boy who says it, who feels
it, and who will have it so.
'The mere freak Of moment, yet
somehow later I awoke to the fact that
7 had written a life creed on my heart
out of the hopefulness and daring of a
boy"
Let us take the hope and courage OF
youth as the truth Of this latest of
our years. The New Year must be
good. We will make it good. Can
YOU not see those iettered cliffs? No
visitor ever was dull to their magic
spell, and many have read them
through grateful tears.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

w ELL, Old Year, good-bye-Taps
w while you die!
You brought a lot of new things
failings and helped us to step better.
You have tripped us up and knocked
us down and talked cross to us, at
times. But we understood, and didn't
mind, because we knew you thought
lot of us.
SO Taps to you, as you steal away
into a past strewn with the efforts OF
the mighty.
We made a lot Of mistakes while you
were with us, Old Year. But Taps to
them. We went ahead and did things
without thinking them carefully out.
And then you told us afterward of
these plumbers. &c. you see, we
learned. Thank you, Old Year.
How many times we were disap-
pointed! What great things passed us
by! But Taps for them, now, too.
Life, after all, is but an unfolding,
a sowing and a reaping, a going to
bed at nighttime and a getting up in
the morning, tears and laughter, work
and rest, while Time plays about us.
But now you are going away, Old Year.
Good luck to you with what we have
given to you. Taps!
For all that we have lost Or failed
in-Taps!
But no regrets-just gladness for
chances, and million prods of every
sort hidden away in the somewhere
to find us all anew in the glad New
Year that will awaken us on the NOR
row. We tried, we failed-we won.
While you go, we smile, and few
tears touch our smiles. But we blow
our Taps. Listen to them, Old Year.
And goodbye Detroit Free Press.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
NEW YEARS IN MANILA.

To occidental eyes New Years day
in Manila is a strange ola podrida of
Christmas, Easter and Fourth of July.
The day is ushered in with early mass,
celebrated in the cathedral, which is
attended by all the women attired in
old clothes, and the poorer class bare
footed, and the wealthy in sombre
black with black mantillas or shawls
shrouding their heads But immedi-
ately after breakfast everybody be-
gins to prink and preen for callers.
Raven locks are plastered into elab-
crate coiffures with cocoanut oil and
crowned with red or yellow blossoms.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
SLEIGHBEEL.S JINGLE

Hear the moaning and the grooming
of the winter breeze; Old Years dy-'
ing-hear him signing, listen TO him
wheeze! Weary Willie is quite chilly
IN his threadbare coat; this cold
weather altogether gets his ill-clad
goat. Old Br'er Rabbits wary habits
now avail him not; hounds are telling
nv their yelling that the trail is hot.
See the fuel fight duel with your
next weeks pay; watch your meter
and the heater steal your heart away!
You remember last September, Au-
gust and July? Sun was shining, you
were whining, vowing you would die J!
You were praying for. some sleighing.
crying for some ice; now it's freezing,
quit your sneezing; yell, and say it's
nice!
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
TO PRESS SUNDAY BLUE
LAWS IN THE SENSTE
Drastic Provisions Backed by Sixteen
Churches Aimed to Secure Sab
bath Regulations.

Washington, Dec. 31.-Blue law adj
vocates have their bill all ready for
Introduction in the senate and expect
to press it for consideration soon after
New Years.
It was sent to Senator Mcclellan Of
Tennessee by the Tennessee annual
conference of Methodist ministers and
laymen and contains provisions dras-
tic in the extreme.
1t would forbid Sunday work Of
any kind by any employee of the
United States.
1t would stop the running of all in
terstate trains.
1t would exclude from the United
States mail all newspapers published
cor purporting to be published" on
Sunday.
1t would not only punish by fine and
Imprisonment persons doing these
things, but anyone who "aids or pro-
cures another" in doing them; that is,
who pays for a ride on an interstate
train on Sunday or buys Sunday
newspaper that has been carried by
the mails.
Though not officially given out, it is
understood that this measure will
have the backing of the Lords Day
alliance, which is supported by six
teen of the strongest evangelical de-
nominations in America, including the
Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Epis-
copalian and Congregational churches.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06

neglect so to do he shall, on convic-
ton thereof, be subject to fine not
exceeding ten dollars and the costs Of
prosecution; and in default of the
payment of such fine and costs he
shall be committed to the common
Jail Of Iowa county for term not
exceeding twenty days.
Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be in
force from and after it's passage and
publication.
Relating to DISTINCTIONS on Streets
and Sidewalks
Sec. 8. No bench, box, barrel, bale
goods or merchandise shall be suf-
fered to cucumber the streets or
sidewalks longer than twenty-four
hours, and then only for the purpose
of unpacking such goods; and no
goods or merchandise shall be sus-
pended over the sidewalk at less
elevation than seven feet in the clear.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
MERCHANTS DECLINE TO BUY
Trade at StandstiII, Says St. Louis Re-
serve Bank Report-UnempIoyed
Increasing.

st. Louis, Dec. 31.-Marked apathy
continues to characterize commodity
buying in the Eighth Federal Reserve
district, according to the monthly re-
port issued here. The quietness has
been accompanied by further price
cuts, the report says. These have
failed to stimulate purchasing. Mer-
chants are doing virtually no future
buying, and consequently manufacture
ers have curtailed operations. and, in
number of instances, closed their
plants. This is resulting in the re-
lease of skilled and unskilled workers,
and the surplus of unemployed is in
creaSing.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
THE GOOD
NEW YEAR
y
EMORY J. HAYNES
IL the Boston Globe

TT WAS foretold forty years ago.
The New Year shall be a good one.
This is the story of the prophecy.
1t depends upon you to believe it.
Forty years ago lone skater upon
the CLASSY surface of lake in north
ern New England celebrated his soil
tary holiday At the far end of his
ten-mile dash he rested in the noon
day sun, sitting at the base of tow
ering cliff.
He was a stonemason's apprentice,
a mere boy workman. He habitually
carried his steel chisel in his pocket.
Climbing high, and with much hazard,
up the face of the towering rocks, he
cut this legend in the face of the
mountain:
1.-THE New Year Will Be Good"
The bold lettering is visible for
miles. The lake in summer is a ia
vorite resort of pleasure parties. Each
year thousands of eyes have spelled
out the CHEEKY monograph, while boats
passed, and many hearty laugh has
Will ACdI IlC1 JOy as Oiu anu
young have approved the sculptured
promise.
1t will long endure, for the steel cut
deep, and the mountain will not re-
move, nor the pretty lake pass away.
The boy did not date it. Forum
ately SO, for that makes it fit every
year and every reader Why not for
a century to come?
A thousand times the question has
been asked: "Who wrote it," And
no one knew. So it seemed some
eternal truth Of nature that the very
rocks had miraculously inscribed upon
themselves.
1t was true to anyone who would
take the trouble to lift his eyes and
read it, In storms the snow silvered
the lettering. In sun the words cleaned
with lines of living light. A sentence
by no means elegant, but crude and
boyish rather Yet what rhetoric
could add to the abrupt and simple
prophecy from a hopeful, healthy
spirit?
The New Year was to be just plain
good" Was that enough? Is it
not enough for us all? One good to
you, another good to me. still another
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
GOAL OIL JOHNNY" DIES
Man Famed as Spendthrift Fifty Years
Ago, Dies at Fort Crook,
Neb.

Omaha, Neb., Jan. 3.-Fame and
money are nothing now to John w.
Steele, the Goal Oil Johnny" of more
than fifty years ago. He died of pneu-
-monia at Fort Crook, where he was
station agent for the Chicago, Bur-
.Iington and Quincy railroad. He died
in one of four little rooms back of the
station.
At the top, Goal Oil Johnny" had
about 100000. which looked much
larger in the eastern cities over fifty
years ago than it would today.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
FORD CLOSES DETROIT PLANT
Factory Will Not Reopen Until Late
in the New Year, According to
Report

Detroit, Mich, Dec .3O.-The Ford
Motor company has closed its Detroit
plant indefinitely, it was learned on
excellent authority. The plant, which
was closed on December "a, for its an
,nuai inventory. will not reopen until
late in the new year. it was stated.
The close-down is due to the present
business depression. it was stated.
Fifty thousand men will be thrown out
OF work.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-01-06
CITY ORDINANCES
Relating to Riding on Had Sleighs
and Skating

The common council of the city of
Mineral Point do ordain as follows:
Section 1. All persons are hereby
prohibited from riding on hand sleds
or skating on any of the following
streets, alleys or sidewalks to-wit:
High street, Commerce street, Front
street, Henry alley, Jail alley from
Vine to Commerce street and Vine,
Chestnut and Iowa streets south of
High street, or on any of the side
walks therein; and any person who
shall be found riding on a hand sled
or skating on either of the above
mentioned streets or sidewalks there
in, shall on conviction thereof be
fined not less than two dollars nor
more than five dollars, together with
costs and charges for prosecution,
for each and every offense.
Requiring the Owner or Occupant
to Keep the Sidewalk in Front
of His Premises Free from
DISTINCTIONS
The common council of the city OF
Mineral Point do ordain as follows:
Section /. Every owner or occu-
pant of premises within the city of
Mineral Point shall keep the side
walk in front Of his premises free
from distractions; and on failure or