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THE CLARION RAYMOND BIIREAUX, Editor GEORGE BOURDIER, Business Manager RATE OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year ..................................$1.00 Six Months....... ............... .... .75 INVARIABLY CASH IN ADVANCE. ALL I'POSTOFFICE, EXPRESS AND BANK MONEY ORI)ERS, CHECKS. DRAFTS, ETC., FOP SUt'SCRIPTIONS AND AD VEIICTISEMENTS MUST BE MADE PAY ABLE TO THE ORDER OF TIIE ST. LA NDRY CLARION, OR TO THE BUSI NESS MANAGER. TIIE JACOBS NEWS DEPOT CO. IS NOW the sole authorized agents and solicitors for the St. Landry Clarion, with full power to receive, and receipt for, all monies for subscription. Any courtesies extended the representatives of the Company will he duly appreciated by us. Entered at the Post Ofice at Opelousas, La.. as second-class matter. SGHELL CANAL PRO5RESSINi. St. Landry's Big Irrigation Scheme Making Good Headway in Spite of Weather. Mr. T. Franklin Schell, manager of the Union Irrigation Co., was in the city Tuesday night, having come in from the canal work to get some election news. He informed us that over 40,000 cubic feet of the big ditch had been excavated, and that the work was progressing satisfactorily. The rains have interfered with the work con siderably, and had the weather been favorable much more work would have been accomplished. But unless weather conditions forbid, it is ex pected to have a good stretch of it done and ready for the coming rice season. THE BELLEVUE THEATRE. The Tented Opera House Thronged With Pea. pie All Week-Good Shows. The Bellevue Theatre opened the season on last Saturday night, with a house packed to the entrance. Every night since it has had good houses, and the performances are giving entire satisfaction. The interior of the tented play house is neat, comfortable and in viting, and the management is spar ing no pains to improve it as circum stances demand. Several cast performances were given this week, interspersed with vaudeville stunts. This evening a matinee is an nounced, and to-morrow (Sunday) will be awarded the umbrella to the most popular young lady. AUSLET OR5ANIZING MONROE. Ex-Alexandrian Has Taken Charge of the Mon roe Baseball Team. Jack Auslet, last season manager of the Alexandria Baseball team, will :manage for Monroe this season. He is busy signing for men. He has just closed a deal buying from Austin, Texas, first baseman Blan chette, who played with Opelousas last year. He has also closed for Switzer, another Opelousas player. Other men with him are Frickle, Neal, Carroll, Otto Mims, Speedy Relf, Floyd Singleton, Reagan and "'Tex" Jones, . It is proile 'that Monroe will play with the Cotton States League. REMARKABLE ELECTION. State Papers Wonder at the "Landing" of YTres Footenot In the Lower House. Several of the State papers have expressed wonderment at the elec tion of Prof. Yves L. Fontenot as one bf the Representatives from St. Lan dry parish. The feature that excites their astonishment is the fact that Prof. Fontenot made practically no canvass of the parish, maintaining his duties as Principal of the Pollock High School, in Grant parish, during the entire campaign. The (Clarion believes that the ,voter,, of St. Landry selected wisely when they chose Mr. Fontenot. Fright, du!ati'dl, honest, he will mak. a good Representative. Say: I·" Abevi l .Meridional: "tne of the most remarkable elec tints in the r<-cent Staite primary was that of Prof. Y. I. Fontenot as one ,f Ith fu l: :~rres:tatives from: St. S.a::dry parish. .Ir. Fontenot is principal of the Pollock High School, in Grant parish, but maintains his legal domicile in St. Landry. All he did was to put his announcement, as required by law, in the St. Landry papers. and go back to Grant and continue right along with his school, not spending one second of time, or a :red copper in campaigning. When the returns rolled in the young edu cator fountd that he had been made a lwrr:::aker. and wvill take his seat : !!: :e May lo wers bloom." EMP[O RET NOT SCARLE, BIngiut=isa's "Starving Men" Colie Up Want. lug When Offered Work. Ths surprising fact has developed that there is more work than men in this stat' in spite of the hard times scare that some people have ST. LANDRY ELECTION RETURNS. Bailey Lambre- Capde Fra- Cran- Grace Coco Gulon mont vielle zee dall Opelousas ................... 393 27 66 349 97 294 237 170 Plaisance ...................... 38 8 14 32 3 43 19 27 Bellevue ......... ..... 27 4 10 21 6 25 25 6 Grand Coteau....... 79 22 23 78 2 101 -85 17 Coulee Croche........... 126 2 6 122 3 123 124 4 Leonville ........ 79 4 9 74 23 58 49 33 Notleyville . 21 2 3 19 0 22 22 1 Melville .............. 29 23 10 41 2 47 20 29 Waxia ............... 16 0 2 14 4 12 8 8 Palmetto ................... 12 0 1 11 0 12 12 (J Big Cane 20 2 8 14 11 11 8 14 Morrow.... ................. 20' 6 4 22 7 19 7 19 Washington ........... 94 8 30 71 11 90 78 22 Garland ................ 17 4 5 16 11 10 7 14 Whiteville 14 2 5 11 8 8 8 8 Grand Prairie.......... 86 4 78 14 64 26 86 6 Barbreck ........... 22 0 . 4 18 10 12 18 4 Dossmann ..................... 53 1 43 11 17 37 9 45 Lake Cove .................. 15 15 0 30 1 22 19 9 Beaver ....................... 37 0 7 30 11 26 26 11 Chicot ................ 78 7 54 29 64 19 21 62 Pine Prairie .............. 102 2 29 72 57 42 87 16 Lone Pine ............ 28 2 2 26 10 18 22 6 Ville Platte ................ 72 104 131 42 20 148 75 103 Chataignier ................ 29 132 142 18 16 141 14 146 Upper Mamou 35 4 7 32 5 33 8 31 Point Grand Louis..... 22 0 4 18 0 22 7 15 Mamou ....................... 37 0 31 6 1 36 4 33 Faquetaique ................ 102 15 21 93 6 107 36 59 Lower Mamon............ 86 4 7 83 3 87 65 26 Mallet. ...... ......... 68 7 1 75 1 73 71 4 Plaquemine............... 87 12 4 93 3 88 86 10 Eunice .......................... 145 51 68 124 14 117 79 117 Totals ...................2089 474 829 1709 491 1989 1462 1077 Majorities...........1615 880 1498 385 been trying to raise, says the Daily State. Arthur Colmer, head of the for eign department of the big lumber mill at Bogalusa, the man who re cently went to Mayor Behrman at the city hall with the cry that he had 250 starving men appealing to him for work and that he could find them no employment, was asked for thirty men by Reginald Dykers, secretary of the Louisiana Immigration Associa tion. Mr. Dykers wanted these men for plantation .work and naturally sup posed that the starving men would be only too glad to go to work, even if the wage was small. His surprise was something hardly to be described when he received a telegram from Mr. Colmer saying: "Can't furnish men this week." Mr. Colmer made matters worse by following up the telegram with a letter in which he said: "1 expect to put the men at work in this place. I find it quite hard to get men to leave Bogalusa when there are pros pects of work in the near future." "All the same," said Mr. Dykers, "it means that out of 250able bodied, but starving, men I could not get thirty to go to work. In spite of the great howl that went up a short while ago from the workmen of Bogalusa all that I have been able to get as hands for the agricultural district total eighteen." Missionary Notes. BY THE SOCIETT. The reports of our missionaries seem stronger and more intensely in earnest than before. The Davidson Memorial Chapel in Soochon, and the Susan B. Wilson Girls' School, in Sungkong have been completed. But all the school build ings in our China Mission have not been built. A day school building is, needed, tho' not asked for in the es timates for next year. The new building asked for by the hospital in Soochon is the largest called for the year. Another building for Shang hai, in memory of Dr. Young J. Al len, is also to be erected in the near future, and the chapel will bear the name of Miss June Nicholson; who preceded Dr. Allen to the Glory Land only a few months. The hopes of our China missionaries have been gathering about a Central China Woman's College for sometime. Does our faith make this possible? Dr. Griffith John says: "I have seen the gospel work miracles in China. I have seen it make the lying truthful, the dishonest honest, the earthly and s~sual, heaven as piring and God l(.ing. I have seen it strike off the fetters that had bound the opium smoker for years, and set the captive free." The experiment has been made in China, and there, as well as here, Jesus Christ is proving himself to be the Son of God and the Savior of men. A commission has now been engaged in a revision of the laws of China. The old China is passing out, a new China is coming in. A new opium edict has been issued, and farmers have been forbidden to plant new ground in poppies. China is in earnest. What she says, she will do; and the day is dawning when the curse of opium will no longer darken their coming civilization. A wonderful work is be ing done in foreign lands, with com paratively few workers, and compar atively meager resources. It is a great work-approved of God and greatly needed not only that the heathen may hear the gospel and be saved, but that Christian lands may become more Christlike. The Lay man's Missioi ary Movement is one of the most notable enterprises of the beginning of the twentieth century This and the Young People's Mission. ary Movement make the possibilit3 of the evangelization of the world is this generation more real than before I The Laymen's Movement is being i taken up by various evangelical de 1 nominations, and the success of.tht ) Dast year is an earnest of stil greater achievements during the coming year. The coming generation, trained and equipped, will accomplish more-ten fold-than the present. There is much to do-millions have not yet had the opportunity of hearing the gospel. From all our foreign fields come monthly reports of revivals, growth in Christ, need of more mis sionaries, school buildings, hospitals, and larger resources to maintain the work already projected. Join the Woman's Foreign Mission ary Society and help on the good work. Teachers' Meeting at Ville Platte. A very successful Teachers' Insti tute was held at Ville Platte-on Satur day, February 22. Among these present from a dis tance, we noted Misses Dewees, Kaffie and Crawford, and Mr. Launey from Eunice, Miss Maud Kittrell, Louis Guil Guillet and Mr. Johnson of Chataignier, Miss Maud Tatman from Chicot, Mr. Tom Kittrell from Choupique, and Miss Feigel, Mr.. and Mrs. Griffith from Grand Prairie. Mr. John F. Launey, who was the first on the program, gave valuable suggestions for the "Opening Exer cises" in school; and dwelt consider ably on the nesessity of having some thing for the- children which will bring them in harmony and prepare them for the more serious part of their work. On closing his remarks, he called for an. appropriate, song on Miss Crawford, who in her - sweet voice renderedi most charmringly "Our Ovn United States." Miss Henrietta Dewees, of Eunicd, was next call.d upon, her subject be ing "Grammar and Language Work." She handled her subject in a most creditable manner, emphaeizing the necessity of supplementing the pre ,sent text books with more formal grammar. Miss A.. Feigel, of.~and Prairie, being the next on the, program, was called upon, and though her subject, "Principles of Teaching,"' is quite ab stract and difficult, yet she made it plain and interesting. Mr. P. H. Grifith,. of Grand Prairie, spoke on the necessity of supple mentary reading in school and in what way it could be used to the greatest advantage of the children. He was followed by his amiable .wife, who gave many valuable points in regard to school gardens and how they can be made valuable adjuncts to the school. The other teachers, though not on the program, took an active part in discussion of the several topics, and made the institute more interesting. The next Institute will be held on Saturday, March 21, on which date a lively and interesting program is al ready prepared, and much is in store for the teachers. Let all the teachers of the District come. A TEACHER Colonel Alex M. Haas. Bunkie, La., Feb. 25.-Colonel Alex M. Haas, one of the pioneers of this part of the State and one of its lead ing citizens, died last night at 10 o'clock at the home of his son, Dr. W. D. Haas, in Bunkie. Colonel Haas, who was in his seventieth year, had been confined to his bed for about a fortnight, but had been in declining health for a year or more. He had visited several points in the hope of being benefited, but he found no re lief. Colonel Haas served with dis tinction on the Southern side in the Civil War, and was an honored mem ber of the United Confederate Veter ans. He had been largely identified with planting on Bayou Boeuf, and with his sons, W. D. and A. M. Haas, had much farm property along that stream. Two sons, Dr. W. D. Haas, of Bunkie, and Dr. A. M. Haas, of Haasville, and three daughters, Mrs. Clarence B. Strouse, of Virginia; Mrs.! Dave Pokorny, of New Orleans, and Mrs. Alice Dennenbaum, of San Fran cisco, together with the widow, are the surviving members of the famiWl1 Colonel Haas was married twice, hii first wife being Miss Marshall of STOCK TAKING SALE! 25 to 40 Per Cent Discount On All Stock for the next 15 days BENNETT'S BARGAIN HOUSE I STAGG'S STORE V Cut Prices! Ladies, Misses and Children Coats SDrs 40 Per Cent Dress Goods and Flannels, 25 Per Cent. -X Winter, we might say, is just commenced, and those who have not yet made full preparation for the winter will find our stock and prices interesting. Main Street, - - - Opelousas, La. o'. -?" « . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .............. • . ..i.i-.. oS..... o 0sar.- " 6O .o-St Landry Lumber Co OO' O~m.-i...".0 Has on hand arnd will continue to have "" a complete stock of m """ 0S.. .- ..Ne 00....0 Ooe.. OHOOQ. .,"oO0s e... aa complete stc of . . . :::i. Rough and Dressed Cypress and Pine :O e o. . -. ".. . qr o Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mould ing, Brackets, Etc. Also Lime, Cement,SadndBikaloFrBic 0.:Sad and B irick also .. FieBrc »Oee.. Oe--..e - ee.... ...".e Ii.We are Prepared to Furnish Mate- = 50o.x.,;-o~Oo.- .-wee. rial to Build from a Cabin to a Mansion. .... .... ~:". 0 GREGORY, L. L. DANEL, se-...o ""°""Secretary ond Treasurer. President and Sales Manager *e goes.. Yard 'Phone 89 Manager's 'Phone 55. Sooo,*.. ..*o. • ". " o "" " "ii""""-i i . nd k; ii"." o-O-" I..eean..d Firee~s~eo e Clay, ...oe... . .-e.eee~~"O ° ""!.eee"!e!i.ee"e"i.-*.e" g~~ilei~eeli "ee~ " O000,.0 .g .-eel 0:.-.0 • "---"..... Weae rpre o unshM te ..."...' ··ro·~·o· ·oe.. ·.·e. Oroe.S Ln r u b G. ..oiiiiji Oeorr..~. ,a -.- h n In w I c n inu Io I l l'..oe .Ooo- . .oOO. soc .On o. -,cO· O··e-. .-,n, _ oo·r.-: ":;: 2-geSah or, lns Mud ···1ri _0".".. .. .. .. .. .r c k s ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... . .. . --·r eeeeeoe q.~ ~ ~ ~ ....n oe.... . ooeoeeoeeoeeeoeoooooeooeeeeooooo% .- ·· 0m. . ~ .@O.0.@O00.O000OO0.00000000000 • ..6..eoeooooooooeeoeeoeoeoeoooooooo Evergreen. The funeral services and burial were held this afternoon at the family burying grounds at Evergreen. For The Parsonage. On March 17, at 8:30 p. m., Dr. Sam Steel, of Texas, will deliver his famous lecture, "Life in Dixie in War Times." Dr. Steel is a fine platform lecturer. Alexandria had him a few months since, and has him engaged for two lectures in March next. Admission 50 cents, proceeds to go to the Methodist Parsonage fund. Epiphany Guild. There will be a meeting of Epip hany Guild at the Rectory, Monday afternoon, March 2nd, at 3 o'clock. Every member urged to attend, as it is the last meeting before the Lenten season. Judgment. BRIGITTE ROBIN, Wife, versus ANATOLE ALLEMAND, Husband. No, 18,226, 16th Judicial District Court, St. lAndry Parish, La, On motion of Garland & Harry, attorneys for plaintiff, andon producing due proof in support of the plaintiff's demand, the law and the evidence being in favor of said plaintiff, the evidence being in favor of the plaintiff's demand; It is ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the default entered herein on the fourth day of February, A. D.. 19e0, he now confirmed and made final, and that accordingly there be judgment in favor of plaintiff, Brigitte Robin, and against defendant, Anatole Alle mand, her husband, decreeing a dissolu tion of the community of acquets and gains heretofore existing between them, and a separation of property between the said plaintiff and the said defendant, costs to be paid by defendant. plaintiff to resume con trol of her property as a feme sole. Judgment read, rendered and signed, in open court, on this 12th day of February, A. D., One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eight, after making all interlineations. E. T. LEWIS. Judge. Pitled Feb. 12, i9,: A. J. T. LITTELL, Dy. Clert. A true and correct copy,. feibSi2t A, J. T. IJTTKML, DI. OClerk. S UCCESSION SALE. ESTATE OF EVANGELINE PITRtE. No. 6262, Probate Docket, District Court, Parish of St. Landry, La. By virtue of an order of the Hon. E. T. Lewis, Judge of the 16th. Judicial District Court, in and for the Parish of St. Landry, State of Louisiana, there will be sold at public auction, to the last and highest bid der, by the undersigned administrator or any duly qualilold auctioneer, on premises, in the town of Washington, ILa., Wednesday, Mch. 18, 1908 at 11 o'clock a. m.. the following described property, belonging to the above estate. to-wit: One lot, with all improvements thereon, situated In the town of Washington, bounded on the north by Stroade street, on the south by the property of Ralph Bon dreau, on the east by property of Ralph Boudr'eau, and on the west by the Estate of George Stroade. One lot of household furniture and cook Ing utensils. Terms-Cash. PHILIP H. NASA, febl5-2t Administrator. The Best Advertising Medium-THE CLARION--Try it. The Best Assurance of Fresh .0. Goods Is Undeniably A New Store G. C. Dominique & 'Bro's CHEAP CASH STORE offers to the public of Opelousas a well seleeted line of FRESH GROCERIES both Staple and Fancy, and guarantee satisfaction on every article bought there, both as to quality and prices. A trial order is solicited. Goods delivered FREE to any part of the city. Store corner of Landry and Market streets, opp. Lassalle & Desmarais' saloon. nd1 Do You Know This Is Stove Time? ... 9 LEWIS W. CHILDS Has them-all sizes. Miss Hester Fitch MILLINER Is in the millinery business to please. Have you seen her new styles? They will please you. Landry st., near F. L. Sandoz's store. ,20 IMorton H. Thompson Attorney at Law Notary Public General Practice. -0 Special Attention Given to Collections and Claims. Office in Landau Building, up stairs, Landry street, Opelousas. La. otjBI wicll not be responslle for any N0t0. debts contracted by any memberof my family, or anybody else, except myself or my wife, or our s.tgnats. _ . opeo . L , SWOrD. OpelouMSa, IA., Janumf l9II,1107.