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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30
Parish Treasurer to Serve Schools.

Baton Rouge, La, April 26. :
The committee on education, al
its meeting Monday afternoon,
voted to insert in its finished
schedule a provision, that the
treasurer should become the
treasurer of the parish schoo
board and that neither the par.
ish superintendent, nor any mem.
Der or employe of the school
board, should handle the funds
of that body. Under the exist.
ing system, the parish superin-
tendent is also treasurer for the
school board.
This change was agreed upon
after a full and open discussion.
Another matter of interest
came before the committee and
under direction of Chairman w.
j. Burke, was widely considered
from many angels. The question
arose in consideration of the or
dinance of E. M. Sledge, of
West Carol, providing for the
establishment of training schools
for teachers.
This discussion took on wide
range and embraced thequestion
of educating negro teachers. rs
it not better to educate native
coIored persons for school teach
ers than to import these colored
teachers from the north?'
Members of the committee not
only agreed that it would be bet
ter but that the state should in.
terest itself in the project.
Supt. Harris said he had long ap-
preciated the fact that training
school for negro teachers a Nor
NAL School was one of the
states need.
ITO my mind" said Chairman
Burke, it is more important
right now to educate negro teach
ers than it is to learn negro chill
dren to read and write, if we
can't do both"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30
Dam Dams Fish, Also Dam Dams
Water Relief is Wanted.
Pollock. La, April %. 1921.

Pollock, La, April %, 1921.
Editor Colfa1 Chronicle:
There is an obstacle which
should by all means be removed
which concerns the farmers who
live on Big Greek. My opinion
is that the police jury of our par.
ish is the agency which ought tc
use their power and authority t.
relieve the situation that creates
much confusion and is very de-
trimental to the farmers who
live below the so called dam at
the old mill site which was occu-
pied by the Ball Lumber Co.. re-
Gently. Now, the mill is gone
and the dam is there, preventing
a natural flow of water. When
the heavy rains come, if there
was no obstruction the water
naturally would pass off without
so much damage to our farmers.
Another very important rea-
son why the obstruction should
be removed is that the fish would
have access up the creek for
miles. which would furnish an
abundance of fish to the people
who are deprived of this privi-
lege except when they leave their
homes and go several miles below
to catch them. Another reason,
the large body of water which is
held k-stagnant, no doubt
helps to increase malaria and
mosquitoes. The Ball Lumber
Co., ought to be forced to remove
this dam, as they were the last
utilized the creek for thier own
interest. 1t has been rumored
that parties who own the Pollock |
Lbr. Co. plant promised to have
the dam removed if they were
allowed to use same while they |
were in operation. | do not |
know whether that is true or
not. but | believe the time has
arrived when it should be re-
moved. The peoples rig hts
should be vindicated. The peo-
pie are waiting and expecting
relief from those who represent
US in moving away the trouble
which creates hardships upon
many. JAS. Fl. WALKER.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30
Proceedings of Board of Supervisors
of Road District No. 8.

Colfax, La, April %, 1921.
The Board of Supervisors OF
Road District No. 8 met this day
pursuant to call Of the chairman.
Present-John Randolph, chair
man: DR.. 7. J. Harrison. w. A.
Brownlee, G. H. Mcknight. Alb
sent-H. L. Brian.
G. H. Mcknight was request
ed to act as secretary.
The secretary read to the board
a letter from the La. Ry. & Nav.
Co., relative to gravel taken from
the Edenborn pit and used on
the Colfax-Pollock road. The
secretary was authorized to pay
for said gravel at the price of 10
cent per cubic yard.
The Supervising Engineer was
authorized to complete the grad
ing of the O'Quinn Spur as far
as the Newt Williams place, and
to defer the gravelling of said
Spur until June 18th.
On motion of DR.. Harrison Sec
onded by Mr.. Brownlee, the Sup
cruising Engineer was ordered
to discontinue all work on the
Pershing Way. The motion was
put to a vote and resulted as fol-
lows: Yeas-Harrison, Brown
lee and McKnight-total 8.
Nays Randolph total l.
There being no further bust
ness before the board the meet.
ing was declared adjourned.
JONI RANDOLPH,
G. H. mcknight. Chmn.
Secretary.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30
Train Load of Hogs Wanted for Fal
Shipment.

4
The State Pig Club Agent is
organizing the boys and girls to
ship train load of hogs to one
of the big markets next fall,
probably the latter part of No
vember. Grant parish has been
asked to furnish one car load for
this shipment.
Boys can't we make it three?
Franklin parish has asked to be
allowed to put in five cars. 1t
will take about hundred hogs to
load a car The boys and girls
with their parents help can load
one car at Montgomery, one car
at Pollock, and one car at Colfax.
Fathers. take your children into
partnership with you. Let them
care for pig and after making
a hog out of it divide the money
when it is sold. Maybe you can
put in several. The more you
put in the more money you will
have for Christmas.
No, they don't have to be pure
breds. Sell the grades and pine
woods-rooters and raise more.
pure breds for some future sale.
Plenty Of peanuts, potatoes, and
corn to fatten them on are the
most important things.
| am pretty sure that we are
going to load one car. But for
fear that it might not be loaded
at the station most convenient to |
you, talk it over with your neigh
bors and friends and see if a car
can be loaded from your nearest
station. Its long time off, but
let's be ready. Write me how
many you want to swap for some
Christmas money. and where
you would prefer loading.
r. L. SLOAN.
See US before You turn your cash,
]. w. Duncan Co.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30
Louisiana Vans Go to California.

That Louisiana is broadening
her market for sweet potatoes is
evidenced by recent activities of
the Louisiana Sweet Potato ex.
change which have been instru.
muental in shipping sweets to
Pacific coast points. Although
California has received the ma
jority of these shipments a num-
Der of cars have gone to Port
land and Seattle, according to
M. Hull. sweet potato specialist
in the State University Exten-
sion Division.
High freight rates have been
a lettering factor in a free move
ment to these distant markets,
but the exchange is working to
secure a semi-perishable rate
which will be a considerable re-
duction over the preeent perish
able rate. This will no doubt
give the sweet potato industry a
big impetus.
When gCalifornia, that con-
noisseur of quality products,
comes to Louisiana for sweet po-
tatoes, /" says Mr.. Hull, it is
evident that Louisiana has some-
thing good in that line"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30

Sanders Battles Attempts to Destroy
His Road Plan.

Baton Rouge, La, April a.
For four long hours Wednesday
night Jared Y. Sanders, chair.
man of the committee on roads
and drainage, stood on the floor
of the. Constitutional Convention
and battled every effort to break
down or destroy the force and
effect of his state highway bill,
which is planned to yield SIS, 600, :
900 or $4,000, 900 a year for the
building and maintaining of a
system of state roads.
Twenty-eight amendments had
been fired at the Sanders pay
as-you-go" measure. The chief
attack came from sources oppos-
ed to the two-cent gasoline tax.
Gulf coast line parishes joined
with the rice growing sections in
combating this two cents per gal
Ion on gasoline as a handicap on
the small fishermen and the poor
farmers who cannot afford to
pay it.
An amendment by L. O. Pecot
of st. Mary parish, proposed
that the two-cent tax should be
confined to gasoline used for mo-
tor vehicles only. This would
relieve the payment on gas used
for tractors and fishing boats. U.
A. Bell and Justice Winston
Overton of Lake Charles, hailing
from a great rice country, sup
ported the Pecot amendment, !
but to no effect. The conven-
ton followed Sanders and voted |
it down.
Governor Sanders made %
speeches, and it won every de-
bate. Only a few amendments
to which he had no objection
were allowed to be written in.
j. w. Ethridge of Colfax, put
one over, which provided for the
appropriation of gravel pits and
beds, which Mr.. Sanders accept
ed, saying it would be a protec-
ion against combines in gravel
and building material sand and
would save the state from a
rust.
Consideration of the Sanders
bill occupied the entire
Wednesday night session.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30
Towns Real Opportunities.

Nearly all splaces go down in his
tory because Of the kind of people
they give II the world or encourage
to remain, because Of their interest
in education, religious training and In
true AmeriSanism. The real greatness
Of any cityv depends on the future 1t
Is building for its people, not on the
wealth and prestige which the people
are winning for it today.
No town need be pessimistic because
Its numbers are small. There are OPP
portunities aplenty for it to win last
ing fame If it helps those within it to
be intelligent, honest and anxious to
help the nation and the world to be
better places in which to Hve.-Walter
I. Robinson In Indianapolis STAR
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30
Strayed or Stolen.

Strayed or stolen from my place, one
cream colored COW and one dark brown
calf one year old; calf unmarked: COW
marked crop and under bit in one ear.
and two splits in other ear. 500 re-
ward will be paid for their return to
me. MRS. o. M. ANCHORS.
al6-It' Dry Prong, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30

See Us before you turn your cash,
]. w. Duncan Co.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30

The live wire, J. w. Duncan Co.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30
Ontario Votes Province "Bone Dry
By 125, OOO.,

Toronto, Ont, April Is. On
tario today voted for bone dry
prohibition" on the referendum
to stop the importation and sale
of intoxicating liquors in the
province, by a majority unofici-
ally placed between lbs, 900 and
200, 600. These figures were pred
icated upon an estimated total
vote of about 600, 900.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30
Some FACTS About
THE UNIVERSAL CAR

Here authentic figures from the Ford factory at Detroit Thev
show Just how Ford been built each month
since January 1921 and how many have sold to retail custo
mers, in the United States. ~ ~
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1921-04-30
The eoozer,a FIancee

From an English Story-ID her lux
ar1ant black uesses nestled a large. red
hSs<.
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Our slogan is to save you money, J
w. Duncan Co.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-04
REGIONAL FARM BUREAU
PLANNED,--F0UR 'STVTES
Meeting to Be Held in Spokane March
22nd. J. X. Howard, Farm Bu-
reau Head Will Be There.

Spokane, March Reorganization of
a regional farm bureau of the four
northwestern states may be decided
upon at a state meeting of the farm
bureau in Spokane March %, according
to A. G. Craig, president of the Spo-
kane bureau. who has returned form
Ellensburg, where the state executive
committee this week prepared plans
for the Spokane meeting.
Delegates from farm the bureaus o.
WASHINGTON. Idaho, Oregon and Mon
tana will attend the meeting here. 1t
is believed the delegates will favor a
regional conference, according to Mr..
Craig. !. r. Howard, president of the
national bureau, will give an address.
The first day will be given over to
an address by the president and re-
ports Of the project leaders. The sec.
ond dav addresses will be given by
+. o, Holland, president of the Wash
ington State college, r. c. Pollock.
a national organizer. and G. ]. Cannon.
of Half Moon Prairie. now a state or
panizer. Officers will be elected We'd
nesday afternoon after which a Joint
BANQUET with the stockmcn will be
held.
"This will he an important meet
ING" said VIRGIL Patton. Spokane
county agent. "We are pleased to
know Mr.. Cannon has been selected as
state organizer
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-04
ST. JACOBS OIL.

Did you ever hear of ST. Jacobs Oil ?
Not so many years ago, as time goes,
it was a nationally known proprietary.
1t was the biggest selling product in
a day when national distribution of a
commodity was an exception. st. ia
cob's Oil was advertised we'll. And by
advertising was the business built.
Then Charles Vogeler died. His wild
ow called in a banker to s%traighten out
affairs. Patiently and microscopicallv
he toiled thru the books; noting with
increasing outrage the tremendous
sums spent for advertising. Such ex-
travagance, such foolhardiness would
never do!
Now the widow had faith in her hus-
band for she had seer millions of bot
ties shipped to uncounted buyers; but
the sums spent for space in magazines,
%billboards and newspapers We're awful
and a banker is an all-wise business
man.
So when the contracts run out they
were not renewed. st. Jacobs Oil,
which was known to every man, wo-
man and child in America thru the
enormous force of advertising, began
to quietly efface itself from public
view. Within a year the advertising
had practically ceased.
Complaints began to reach head
quarters. St. Jacobs Oil was not SELL
ing as it had. - + Why continue the
story? 1t is only with an effort that
old timers recall the product. St. ia
cob's Oil is no more.
~Spasamodic, sporadic advertising &C
complishes nothing. Advertising must
have a unity of purpose, and above all
continuity. Repetition is to the mem
DRY as the drop, drop, drop of water on
a stone. The public must be reminded.
A year Of silence will undo five years
of advertising. If perseverance is a
characteristic of good craftsmanship,
is is an essential of advertising.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-04

shrubbery patches; their streets and
streets of homes.
But few houses here own a landlord,
here families mature under their w
, roof tree; here the family life is bed
ded deep.
God be kind to the child that did not
have a chance to grow in the home at
mosphere, where bird and branch and
breeze each hour bring the message of
love, of care; of association of all
things that distinguish mothers kit
chen from the steak broiler of a pot
house.
Here, when the lights come on in
the evening, and the families gather
about their own tables and end the day,
as they began it, in close personal low
ing touch; here will be found all that
is good, that will endure, that affords
insurance for the nation, no matter
what the time Of stress, of storm, and
of torment may come.
The family that abides in its own
home, and goes forth. renewed each
day, to do it's work in the world is
about all any nation may depend upon
for stability.
And the farm home, with its wider
horizon, its greater opportunity, its
dependence and it's haven of work
abiding right at the threshold, there
above all, bubbles the fountain of per-
petual national youth.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-04
NATURES UNCLAIMED BLESS
INGS

Senator Haley, that desperate char
acter" who sponsored the bill in the
Montana legislature, and which was
killed by that body a few days ago,
that bill which made it compulsory
that all sold maids" pay to the funds
of the state each and every year a
sum in taxes to the amount of So per
each said "spinster lady" is somewhat
at a loss to know what disposition to
make of n certain check now in his
possession.
The mails a few mornings ago
brought to the Senator's desk a neatly
addressed envelope which was found
to contain a check for $500 and a note
which read from an 'old maid" On
the back of the check was inscribed
this written plea: "Please have a heart
for a few of Natures Unclaimed Bless
ings."
The Senator would have been furthe,
embarrassed had his measure become
a statute, in that one of the "Un-
claimed Blessings" rendered an en-
qulry to him through one of the Helena
papers desiring information that would
have been difficult to furnish. This
lady desired to know what would hap.
pen of M of these unclaimed Bless,
ings' failed to pay this taX-would she
be sold for delinquent taxes"
1t is a pretty safe bet that Senator
Haley is quite fortunate that his bill
did not get by the board of Legislative
CenSorS.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-04
INDIANS
TO SUE GOVERNMENT
Continued from Page One

tween the Missouri river on the north
and the Yellowstone river on the south,
and approximately 100000 acres of
land in North Dakota, north of the
Missouri river has been claimed by the
Assinniboine Indians, and that the
Government had illegally obtained pos
session thereof.
The Assinniboine Indians through
some of their leading men, have, for
the past eleven years delved into their
history and gathered all data and
available materials for the purpose of
prosecuting to recover the value of the
above mentioned pieces of territory.
Both historically and from a legal
standpoint, this will be an interesting
case.
Almost all of the Sioux speaking
Indians of the Northwest have cases
analogous to this, and the combined
effort of the Sioux has been exerted
on each successive congress for the
past several years, until finally the
Sioux claims bill was passed on June
3rd, 1920. This bill authorized the
Court of Claims to hear and determine
suits of whatever nature or character
brought by the Sioux Nations, with
right of either party to appeal to the
Supreme Court of the United States.
Under the provisions of the above
act, the said tribe were authorized to
retain by contract, a counsel for the
prosecution of any and all claims be-
for the Court of Claims of Washing
ton, D. G.
Hence, under the above authority,
the Fort Peck Assinniboine Tribe as
sembled in a general council for the
| purpose of retaining counsel in the
person Of Daniel B. Henderson, an at
torney of Washington, D. c., on jan
uary 28th, 1921; and the Fort Belknap
Assinniboine Indians did likewise on
February 18th, 1921.
At the above stated tribal councils,
representative men of each reserva-
ton were chosen to execute the con-
tract on behalf of the Indians to re-
tain Mr.. Henderson acting in the ca
pacity of Tribal Attorney, during the
prosecution Of the claims.
All of these matters are, at this
writing, ready for transmission to the
proper authorities at Washington, d.
c., and in due time, it is my opinion,
the suits brought against the Govern
ment for the recovery of the value of
these lands will be started. Techni-
cally these lands are still owned by the
Indians and it should be insisted that
the Government pay for these at the
present valuation for which they are
being sold.
Very respectfully,
ARTHUR F0IIR STAR.
Chairman of the Assinniboine Coun-
ell, Fort Peck Reservation.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-04

Ia1N&-
PRESIDENT

Warren G. Harding was born in
Blooming Grove, Ohio, November 2,
1865, and so he was 55 years old when
he became president of the United
States today.
He is a newspaper publisher, but
also had an active political life, serv-
ing as state senator in Ohio, lieutenant
governor of Ohio and United States
senator from Ohio.
Nearly every famous man has said
that he owes his success to his mother.
Warren G. Harding, u new president,
is not unwilling to voice the same SEN
timent. The story is told that Warren
and his mother were intimate and af-
fe~ctionate, and that often the two
would work together owe the hard
problems in the arithmetic books or
the puzzling m in the big atlas.
Persons who knew the family we'll
have said that when the boy was but
Z years old, his mother would tell him:
Warren, stay with your books and
some day you will be president of the
United States" This feeling of COM
radeship was shared by the boy as we'll
as by his mother, and in after years
WUen WdIIen IlONeu W MdTlOH, d LOWIl
ten miles away from his parents home,
he made it a habit to go early every
Sunday morning to visit at his moth
er's home. By 8 o'clock he was usually
on his way to the old homestead armed
with a handful of flowers. For nine.
teen years he took or sent flowers t.
his mother every week without fail.
There is a story that tells of an in
cident of Harding's boyhood. Once he
tried to ride the family mule from his
mothers home to his new home in
Marion. On the trip he stopped a far
mer and asked how far from his des-
tination he still was. The farmer
looked at him reproachfully and dole
fully exclaimed: oval it faint so fur
if you get o ffthat there mule and
walk, but if you're goin' to ride that
beast, it's a purity durn far ways off,
his mother every week without fail.
Warren G. Harding was inaugurated
to the Presidency of the United States
today. Herein is manifest most plain
ly one more example of the liberty that
belongs alone to the republic-United
States-the liberty whereby a young
man may through his own initiative
and his own energy work from the
bottom of the industrial, social or pc.
litical ladder, to the top.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-04
Hoover's Friends and Enemies.

Entirely aside from his qualities of
mind and heart, a good many Ameri-
cans love Herbert Hoover for the en-
holds him in utter horror and detesta-
ton. To Senator Johnson he is the
bitterest pill of all possible bitter pills.
To Senator Reed he is a big red petit
coat goading a bull to desperation, and
William R. Hearst breaks into cold
sweats and big black type at the mere
mention of his name. To have incur
red the venomous enmity of this quar-
tet is an achievement of which any
man might be proud. And to appoint
Mr.. Hoover in the face of such op-
position reveals Mr.. Harding to be a
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-04
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
DIRECTORS MEET TONIGHT

The regular monthly meeting Of the
board of directors of the Glasgow
Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
will be held at the chamber rooms this
evening, March 4th. Many matters Of
vital importance to the chambers work
for the coming year will be taken up
ut this time. Among the most prom
inent of these will he matters pertain
ing tc problems Of irrigation. Pro
iect Manager George f. Stratton of
Malta has been invited. and it is ex,
rected that he will be in attendance
Assistant manager Peterson is also II
the city and too, will be present. The
Market Day proposition will also be
discussed at this meeting.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-04

The time has surely come when the
west should intervene. Protest has not
awaited. There are one or two organi.
cations in the west, intended to be
widely representative. which can act
A bin went kiting along through con
gress the other day carvings 400, OOO,-
who voted this %stupendous sum are
afraid they will burst their suspen-
ders if they appropriate one-quarter as
much money to finish irrigation work
in the west that was begun when the
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-04

would never accept the office of secre-
tary of state. These prophets declared
he was making too much in the prac-
tice of law and could not afford to
sacrifice his income.
But Mr.. Hughes has accepted. He
has taken a job paying $4,000 a year
despite his million dollar a year law
practice.
The new secretary of state will bring
to his position in the cabinet splendid
ability. Coupled to this ability is his
high sense of duty which induced him
to enter the cabinet at this time
Livingston Enterprise.