Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-12-29

SPSAullS tllC tAVlAdye Will ASA AoAAAAAy
in this city.
Mr.. W. H. Clark has as a holiday
guest his mother, Mrs. N. H. Clark, Of
ST. Joseph, La.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. O'Banion are be-
ing visited by their daughter. Mrs. 0.
L. Finley, of Lufkin, Tex.
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Mrs. Hoy Booker, Mrs. Lebarre,
Miss Wade and Miss Kirkpatrick have
returned from pleasure trip to Sla-
gle.
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Mrs. Oscar E. Morris, wife Of the
mayor of Leesville, has spent Christ
mas with her mother, who lives in
Shreveport.
Mr.. James B. Roark, the contractor
and road builder. has been in Lees
vile on business, having come here
from Jasper County, Tex.
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Counsellor W. w. Thompson has ad-
ded to his office staff Mr.. D. Newman
of Hicks, who is reading law and as
sisting Mr.. Thompson in preparing
cases for court
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! Mrs, Hebert, widow of Claude He
bert, who was murdered near the wa
ter tank some months ago, received a
check for nearly $1,000 from the rail-
road Trainmen's Insurance.
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The Christmas Fund Committee, Mrs.
Phil Hernandez, Mrs. E. P. Lamberth,
Mrs. W. E. Stephens, and Mrs. ]. K.
Bennett, report that the sum collected
for the poor of Leesville amounted to
! $257.49.
The newly-elected officers of the
Vernon Parish Medical Society are:
DR.: D. o. Willis, President; DR.. F. H.
Mecom, Vive-President; DR.. Philip S.
Perkins, Secretary Treasurer; DR..
Brown Word, delegate to the annual
meeting of the State Medical Society,
to be held next April at Alexandria;
Dr.. F. P. Jones, alternate.
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President Ward and Vice-presidenl
Wehrt, of the West Louisiana Bank
have their hands full, working all day
without cessation, as the ever active
cashier of the bank, Mr.. Wilmer Cain.
is/kept in bed by a severe cold, which,
his physician says, may develop into
influenza if not choked off in time.
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Miss Edith White, of Lafayette
College, and other students; MIR. Ru,
dolph Lee, of Texas Dental College in
Houston; Miss Mary L. GambIin, Of
Mansfield Female College; Miss Lucille
Hicks and Miss Edible Jones, of Cox
College, Georgia; Mr.. James White,
of Baton Rouge; Miss Beatrice Odom,
of Louisiana Industrial Institute, Rus
ton, La, are spending their Christmas
and New Years vacation with relatives
and friends IN Leesville.
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Sheriff Turner recently acquired a
beautiful set of selected foreign CLASH
cal romances-twenty volumes-ex-
quisitely bound, and comprising the
best works of Goethe, Sudermannn,
.Scheffel, Bjornson, Valdes, Seras, Cou-
perus, Freytag, Jacobsen, Gorky, Gal
dos, Tolstoy. Jokay and Valera. Mr..
Turner proudly displays his new acquis-
ition upon one of the large tables in
his office and when he is at leisure, a
condition too rare, he quietly enjoys
the writings of the most celebrated
minds in modern literature.
$685.
Old Tom Brinkley, who is reputed
Ito be l02 years of age, was in town
| Tuesday, from Conrad. Did you ev-
er hear Tom tell some Of the exciting
periods of his early life in louisiana
Well. you sure missed treat, because
old Tom can tell them SO that your
hair will stand up ready to fight. Some
day we are going out to see old Tom,
and retell some of his startling tales of
early life in Louisiana, some eighty
years back. Watch these columns.
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B. A. Guy, Robert Guy, Buckshot
Guy, lila Smell, Shorty O'Neil, and
Henry Davis formed hunting party
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