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PUELIBHED TWICE-A-WEEK, Tuesday aid Fridav Mornin-gs, ONLY $t.OO A YEAR IN VLUSVANCI,. VOLUME ~ LAFAYETTE. LOUISIANA, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1914. NUMER 74 PLANTING COT fON SEED IMPROVED VARIETY GENUINE SIMPKINS PROLIFIC COTTON SEED FROM N. C. PEOPLES COTTON OIL CO., Lafayette, La. INSTITITE DEFEATS LOUISIANA COLLEGE Two Fine Games Played Friday and Saturday-Weather Fine and Good Attendance. Two fine games of ball were play ed on the Institute diamond Friday and Saturday between Southwestern and Louisiana College. A good at tendance was present and all great ly enjoyed the games. Friday the score was 8 to 6 in favor of South western. Batteries-Institute Drou et, pitcher; Bergeron, catcher. Louis Jana College-Durham, pitcher; Richmond catcher. Jas. Caffery and Antoine Lacoste, umpires. Saturday the weather was again fine and Southwestern again won, the score being 5 to 2 in favor of the local boys. Southwestern opened up with I three runs to her credit and kept the Louisiana College boys scoreless un til the seventh inning, when they E scored one run on Alleman's error. t The game was fast and was a fair * exhibition of the national game. The -features of the game were Prejeant's cool and effective work in the box a And the fast and snappy fielding of the Lafayette boys in the eighth e inning. Batteries-Southwestern, Berger- a on and Prejeant; Louisiana College, Richardson and Cline. Umpires-J. 1 P. Caffery, Virginia Military Insti tute; A. W. Lacoste,Lafayette. e Car of Sulphur Burns. About 1:30 Friday a box car In the west end yards caught fire and was A burned.r The switch engine with a crew and Supt. Knightlinger rushed f4 to the scene and played the engine hose on the fire, but did not succeed in saving it. The hose burst and badly scalded A. A. Mouton on the S leg, the injury will confine him to d his home for possibly eight or ten w days. The cause of the fire is not known. a] New Millinery Store. di In this issue appears the ad of w Miss E. ML. Bertheaud, who has open. ed a millinery store in the building on Vermiflion street formerly occur. pled by the Heron Millinery tore. at Miss Berthpand has just received a at the line of new hats and millinery at Miss Bertheaud moved here fromw Broussard where she kept a milli ,ary store. She invites the ladies to call and see her handsomae new line. st4 " -Cc Free Disinfectant. Si The City Board of Health has at powdered disinfeetapt for free dis- en tribution for the iurpose of destroy. ing the breeding places of flies. Any one wishing some of this disinfect tnt can get same by communicating eg 'with Inspector Veasey. lII YOU CN INVEST: $10 $11 $20 any amount-every pay day in the interest bearing Certificates ofDsposit of this bank. i 'ssYour money will earn Four per cent. interest from date of As time goes on and your Certificates increase in number and amount, you will become the happy possessor of a grow. lng fortune. 1 If you cannot call conveniently to make your deposits, mail tbem to us and Certificates will be forwarded to you promptly. THE PEOPLES BANK & TRUST CO. Capitl :s0,ooo. I PISCAL A DNT P.O IAPYA&TTB PARISH. IAFAYLTIE MOTORIAB CO, Ovwi1*l Atttitmdilles GM4:Alear384 And haei0C.statia I~ats Bastr R s "AGD.-2 +a AG E D All ofP e latest Ite iof a schsarle* .and a hspiel linie bf I.393, Lafayette, Loa, 1i A "-a 1 POLICE JURY AUTHORIZES BRIDGE Contracts With Sheriff-Adjourns to April 16 to Consider Court House Election Ordinance. The Lafayette Police Jury, in reg ular session, with President M. Bil leaud, Jr., and all members present, awarded the contract to install three ceiling fans in the court house to E. A. Schumacher for $108. F. V. Mou ton and J. P. Colonib, committee, from the Lafayette Chamber of Com merce, asked that $150 be set aside to clean Bayou Vermilion, which was granted, and Whittington and Lan dry were appointed to act in con junction with the Chamber of Com merce. Jurors Whittington and Spell were authorized to build a bridge 200 feet long over Coulee Isle des Cannes. Secretary Crouchet and Jurors Whit tington and Broussard were appoint ed to check the accounts of the treasurer and collector. Harold Ray ilond and Livaudais of Livaudals & Favrot of New Orleans discussed the proposition of erecting a new jail and courthouse for the parish. The jury adjourned to' April 16 to consid er an ordinancd calling a special elec tion to vote a tax to build the jail and courthouse. I The jusy contracted with Sheriff Lacoste for $6000, covering all crim inal fees and the feeding of prison ers. For Rent. A five room house on Monroe St. Apply to Dr. T. B. Hopkins. NEW :IBERIA LAUNDRY SOLICITS BUSINESS HERE. J. L. Pupuls, of the New Iberia Sanitary Laundry was in town Fri day and Saturday arranging to put a wagon In service here to solicit laun dry as the Lafayette Laundry had shipped Its plant to New Orleans. He put his wagon in service yester day and has arranged for an office with A. L. Preager, the tailor, on Jef ferson street. Mr. Dupuis stated that he was very mush pleased with Lafayette I and was considering the advisability of moving their plant. to this city, 1 and thought It more than likely they would If the proper inducements were offered. Notice. The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Florence Planting Company will be held at the store of C Sig Kahn, on Monday, April 13, 1914, 1 at 7 p. in., for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors to serve for the ensuing year. SIG KAHN, Secretary. i' FOR SALE-Indian Runner duck t eggs at 25c. a dozen. Seward Phil- t lips, R. F. D. 1, 3-31-3t. f ' OR. CLARK TALKS ON SANITATION Announces Proposed Campaign of Health Board Against Flies and Asks Help of Citizens. Dr. L. 0. Clark, president of thy' city board of health, was the speaker at the Forum Sunday and gave a pra tical talk along sanitary Ines. He began by expressing his pleasure at having an opportunity to address the Forum as it gave him the chance to ask the co-operation of the audi ence in the proposed campaign of the board of health against flies and for better health conditions to be begun at once. They expected to be active in the matter, but some things would no doubt escape them and he would be glad if people would phone him in such cases and he would give his immediate attention. He stated that the discovery of germs lifted the veil and laid the foundation of present day sanitation! Up to that time many diseases were mysterious and baffled the efforts of the medical world to solve the causes. Now, how ever, with the knowledge of germs yellow fever and small pox, the bu bonic plague and other diseases can be fought successfully with prevent ive measures. Sickness, he declared. Is a waste, and sixty per cent of it is preventa ble. Germany leads the world in sanitation, he said, and then quoted some enlightening figures to show the difference in the death rate in that country and ours, much to our own disadvantage. He cited Panama to show what scientific sanitation could accomplish. Panama, when the United States went there to dig the canal, was a death trapof hnala- I ria and yellow fever. In 1910 the death rate was 3.3 as compared with 8.5 in Orange, N. J., which had the lowest death rate in the United States that year. Sanitation increas es the average length of life and de creases the death rate, a statement he backed up with quotations of of ficial figures. He then spoke of the money value of people, a viewpoint, he said, we seldom take. People's lives would average in value $1700. The average death rate per thousand is ten, allowing only eight for Lafa yette, that meant an annual money lols to this city of $13,600. If the town was sanitary as it should be, the loss would be i educed one-half, effecting a saving of $6,800 yearly in earning values. The cost of tuber culosis to this country was one bil lion dollars yeady in life values. We figure forest and mine and land val ues, but we omit to figure life values. We have not considered health as an asset to the community. When plagues like yellow fever, the bubonic plague and such threaten us, we pour out money in rapid defense, but we do not realize that the ordinary diseases are daily taking their toll of pretious lives-the danger is not so apparent. Typhoid Is a terrible menace* always and 40 per cent of it is carried by water; of the other 60, per cent flies are the principal dis tributors. This fact is not generally believed, indeqi, it took the success ful fight against the yellow fever in New Orleans and against the bubon ic plague in San Francisco to make people begin to thoroughly accept the germ theory and the possibility of prevention knd destruction of dis eases.' But the germ theory is a fact and the typhoid fly a stern reality. Sprong is now here and this Is the time to destroy the flies and their bleeding places. If left to propagate their in ease will reach uncountable numbers. It is easy to destroy the few now before the breering goes on. And that it is worth while we have only to know that on a fly's leg 10, 000 bacteria have been found, includ ing the frightful number of 1,500 ty phoid germs. If one could see these horrible things it would frighten him, but not being visible we treat them with indifference and disbelief. But they are there Just the same as if they were big as snakes. It has been noticed that as the temperature rises summer com plaints begin and increase, the death rate, especially of babies, gross and flies hatch and breed in larger and larger numbers. This is a significant tact : of itself and evidences a close connection between the flies and the diseases. For the ''nxt month- or month mnd a half the board of health Lgnsts tomakse- .s4Kesen wibs paigs against the fly, going after its br ing places especiall.%and they want the help of the citizens to ide" - 7 New Accotunts opened in the "FIRST NATIONAL" during the of March, making a total of 128 New Accounts for the first quarter of the year 1914. It is our purpose to handle all business entrusted to us in such a fair and liberal manner as to make the customer's relation with this bank satis factory and profitable. If you are not already a customer of the "FIRST NATIONAL" we invite you to become one. N. P. Moss, President DIRECTORS: F. Demanade, Vice-Pres. F. Demanade, J Whittington S. R. Parkerson, Cashier M. Billeaud, Jr. C. D. Caffery F. V. Mouton, Ass't. Cashier. J. A. Roy. Judge O. C. Mouton Joe. E. Mouton, Ass't. Cashier. N. P. Moss P. B. Roy e t, stroy the pest. Let everybody lool 's after his own premises and urge hi ), neighbor to do likewise. Flies fly on d ly 200 to 300 feet and if one cleans uj - and has his neighbor do the same y then he will be free of the disgusting e disease-carrying Insect. To hell s, along the board had ordered severa f, barrels of a sanitary powder t4 a sprinkle on the breeding places o the fly. Inspector Veazey would at L. tend to this, but anyone could rind e him up and get the 4owder ;ree ti use himself. 1. Flies, he declared, were fllthiei n than the bed bug and the time wounc n come when people would be as hu e millated to have flies In their homes s as to have bedbugs and fleas. t He closed by telling - the ladies how to beautify their complexions He suggested that they buy as pot ol rouge, very red, and a rabbit't foot, a very soft one, then bury them two miles from home and walk out to the spot every day. Dr. Stephens announced that Miss Jean Gordon would speak on Chil1 Labor next Sunday, and on April 19; Arthur D. Call, Secretary of the In national Peace Association who was to address the State Teachers' Association at Shreveport, would return home by way of Lafay ette and favor the Forum with a talk on Peace. He also urged those able to do so to subscribe to the Fo rum to keep up its good work. The following most entertaining musical program was rendered: Pi ano solo, Miss Jeanne Domengeaux; vocal solo. Miss Aurore Labbe; pi ano solo. Miss Edna Auooin. SUFFRAGETTE MEETING IN MUSIC HALL APRIL 13. .We have been requested to an nounce that Miss Jean Gordon who will address the Forum next Sunday on Child Labor, will remain over and address a suffragette meeting in Music Hall Monday night at 7:45 p. m. Miss Gordon is an ardent and able advocate cf vowss for women and a forceful talker. Everybody is extended a free and cordial invitation to attend. Planting Cotton Seed, Improved, Va riety. Genuine Simpkins Prolific Cotton a fream North. Gablina. -=eples Cotton Oil Co., Lafayette Louisiana. Subscribe for The Advertiser. SOU'WESTERN REFLECTIONS P Development Bureau Press Service, If your potato beds were proper ly fertilized and prepared your slips will be ready for planting before the end of April. Have you prepared your :ground for planting them? The ridges should not be more than three and a half feet wide and the ground should be thoroughly pulver r ized and fertilized ten days before I planting the slips. You will waste - land and reduce the yield per acre I if your ridges are wider. than three and a half feet. Rows that are too wide cause many a farmer to wonder why his yield per acre is so small. Think about this. When you set out your pumpkin yam slips write to the Bureau tell ing how much you have planted, so that definite information may be had for the information of prospective buyers. Those who didn't get seed in the ground in time or who were unable to secure seed, may be able to buy lips from farmers who planted them, for sale, and every acre intended for the early market should be planted before May 1st. This attended to, let's talk about something else-your boy, for in stance. What do you propose to do with him? Make a professional man of him? Agricultural is the greatest of all the professions. So, make a farmer out of him. It requires finer brain texture, more acute perception, greater faculty of initiation and stronger power of de duction to become a big farmer than it does to become a big lawyer, a big doctor or a big preacher. Then you owe it to your boys or girls to give them the best. that can be had. Get behind your representatives in the General Assembly and pledge them to support an appropriation of $258,000 to make your State Agricul tural College what it ought to be. We are educating too many profes sional men; let us turn a part of our attention to educating farmers for a while. The educated farmer boy or girl is the finest product of our State., Let us Increase' the output and build up an agricultural college that will take the raw material and add a thousand per cent to Its value. MS JEFFERSON THEATRE ice. (Safest and Most Comfortable Place In Town.) )er ips TUESDAY, APRIL 7-"A Change the in Baggage Checks," comedy, Vita.;i red "Her Fallen Hero" and Looking for m? a Fortune, comedies, Kalem; "A ian Friend of the. District Attorney; "A the' Bio. 'er- WElSNESDAY, APRIL 8-4"Better ore Way," a Selig drama in two reels; ste "Mr. Sniffkins' Widow," comedy, Ed are ison. ree THURSDAY, APRIL 9-"Against Heavy Odds," Pathe feature in two ny reels; "Sophie's Birthday Party," eld comedy, S. & A. 'ut FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1914-NO SHOW. tin SATURDAY, APRIL 11-"Oh! Doc ,I,- tor," comedy, S & A.; "The Mexican's so Gratitude," drama, Edison; "Just a ad Note," comedy, Lubin. ve SUNDAY, APRIL 12-"A Leap for Life" drama, Kalem; "A Night Out," he comedy, Edison; "Old Reliable." )le This is an excellent two-reel picture uy by the vitagraph company. First show at 5 p. m. or "INTERCOASTAL CANAL. *ut In- The Lake Charles American-Press do says: in A telegram here Thursday from ist Senator J. E. Ransdell in Washing ton has caused great elation among It the intercoastal Canal boosters. Sen re ator Ransdall stated that the dele of gation of Louisianians that appeared/ le- before the commerce committee of in the senate Monday made a strong ig presentation of their case and that he believes the sections of the canal or now unprovided for will receive at in tention in the appropriation bill when it leaves the committee. The as sections for which the committee ;e made a special plea are between New of Orleans and Morgan City and be il- tween Franklin' and the Mermentau e. river, inland around Cote Blanche s- and Vermilion bays. ir a Notice. There will be a regular meeting of' rl the. Lafayette Building Association e., oa, April 8, 1914, at 7:30 p. m. d MONEY TO LOAN.. Members wish 11 ing to borrow should attend. a FELIX H. MOUTON, Secretary.