The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-30

mon. was a political plare-hunter VINO
had once been sheriff Of Arrowhead
county.
"You've kept us cooling our hee'S
in your waiting-room for just aD'n'
tbe last time, Mr.. Norcro>S!' was 'l'e
spitefu} way in which llatch ope''e'
fire. "Weve come to talk stra'sl'.
business with YOU this trip, and 1t Wilt
no more tc your interest than ours
if you1l send your clerk away
While they had been dragging up
their chairs and sitting down, nav
heard Fred May lock up his typewriter
and 90 and had been listening ahAl,
ously for some noise that wou'o '''.
me TarbeII was on deck. | 'honsn'
7 heard the door of the outer o'''e
omen again Just as Hatch spoke ant
# comforted me whole lot.
The boss didn't pay any attehllo'
I re- Hatchs suggestion about Se''o'"'
me away; acted as if he hadn't ''e'''
it. Opening his desk he took a DON y I.
cigars from drawer and passed i
# With this concession to the small hoS
IS nitalitips fine boss SWING his chair
y face the trio. :, !,
e. INV time is yours, gentlemen" i
al said; and Hatch jumped in like lid
g, fairly spelling for a fight.
~ "tor six months, Norcross' you
IN becn moving pretty wide swath o
th hero in the tall hills. You've De'
nd posing as a little tin god oelore u
J." neople of this state, and al, the W"
US you've been knitting and sluss'hs "
in black lacking private capita. and p
iii vatp business wherever and whehe'
they have happened to get ID y
,as way. Now, at the end of the 'a"e,
nat Jupiter, we've got you deao TO ''S"'
of you and your ID ral'foa''
Of sent out as many Of the perso"
Of ties AS YOU can, and come TO
noint," suggested the boss qn'e'''
hat "You think | haven't any point
ton come to-" barked the CRATER ',
, rising anger. "Ill show you!
on,+ thought YOU were the only orig
not trust buster when you started }
" scheme of locally owned elevators
,oao warehouses and coal and lum
Yards and ran us out OF BUSINESS
~ I'm here to tell you that your
~ 10 haired little deal to rob us began Il
a ~ ,hout as soon as 1t was born"
i1n,t "How so?" inquired the boss
ut wasn't month before your
70 vo local stockholders began TO se'
gether and swap stock ana sell !.
cro very short time the control ''
ao,no whole string of local plants WI
' tho tho hands of a hundred men. 1
. ,ot IT'S in the hands of less than ["
= tho with John Marshall at the "e'
WV tbem. Citizens Storage & Ware
,,,on+ is now a consolidated property
' at w. John Marshall, Henckel and c.
,"' ~ iortv Of irs stock. How
Presi- malorI'! u .,
wost that strike you!"
wv "t "1t strikes me that the people
;', n; dpenly interested have been exec
''' ',;tS " foolish to sell their birthrlsh'
- I him that is strictly their own bushes
y, ,lD not mine or the railroad eomp'
among wal. -" a,,rs ond thp r;
VI companys business, before ~
through with it. Marrow her
s 81 IN resepts MARSHALL and l rel
De- ie Henckel and myself. What a
1t onIs going to do about those ground !. !.
h,s". "Nothing at all, except to lns'
: ,",s the condition under wNlc" '''e
u''.,e . granted by the railroad comp
III .n"' "Nleaning that you are gong
'''n~, IN, to hold US to the fixed per
.l's . uIv charge for handling packing
I'LL i s.n, y and TRANSFERRING?
} too'''' "Meaning just that. II 20" /
''' " proportional market-prlce eu'
~ nm. the producers and mercl''i
al cur lenses will terminate"
N'''s "'' 81 thought that was aoou
.,on you'd land. Now listen: ",
I''' , ,n,n Marshall and Henckel ana
d '''''e what we say, goes as it lies
,.+ going to use the present G.
,' " plants and equipment cl'ar'
was the