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Alderman Stelly offered the follow ing resolution: A Resolution Amending a resolution heretofore adopted on the 21st day of August, 1920, providing for the issuance of $250,000, public improvement bonds of the City of Opelousas, Louisiana, by changing the form of said bonds, adopting a new schedule of maturities for said bonds, and adopting a new form of endorsement thereon. Whereas, a resolution was hereto fore adopted by the mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, Louisiana, on the 21st day of August, 1920, provid ing for the issuance of $250,000 Pub lic Improvement Bonds of said City, authorized at an election held on the 8th day of June, 1920; and, Total Principal Bonds Principal and Year: Oitstanding Interest Payable Interest Bond Nos. 1921 $250,000 $12,500 $ 2,500 $15,000 1- 5 1922 247,500 12,375 3,000 15,375 6-11 1928 244,500 12,225 3,000 15,225 12-17 1924 241,500 12,075 8,500 15,575 18-24 1925 238,000 11,900 3,500 15,400 25-31 1926 234,500 11,725 3,500 15,225 32-38 1927 291,000 11,550 2,500 15,050 39-45 1928 227,500 11,375 4,000 15,375 46-53 1929 223,500 11,175 4,000 15,175 54-61 1930 219,500 10,975 4,500 15,475 62-70 1931 215,000 10,750 4,500 15,250 71-79 1932 210,500 10,525 4,500 15,025 80-88 1933 206,000 10,300 5,000 15,300 89-98 1934 201,000 10,050 5,000 15,050 99-108 1935 196,000 9,800 5,500 15,300 109-119 1936 190,500 9,525 5,500 15,025 120-130 1937 185,000 9,250 6,000 15,250 131-142 1938 179,000 8.950 6.500 15,450 143-155 1939 172,500 8,625 6,500 15,125 156-168 1940 166,000 8,300 7,000 15,300 169-182 1941 159,000 7,950 7,500 15,450 183-197 1942 151,500 7,575 8,000 15,575 198-213 1943 143,500 7.175 8,000 15,175 214-229 1944 135,000 * 6,775 8,500 15,275 230-246 1945 127,000 6,350 9,000 15,350 247-264 1946 118,000 5,900 9.500 15,400 265-283 1947 108,500 5,425 10,000 15,425 284-303 1948 98,500 4,925 10,500 15,425 304-324 1949 88,000 4,400 11,000 15,400 325-346 1950 77,000 3,850 11,600 15,350 347-369 1951 65,500 1,275 12,000 15,275 370-393 1952 53,500 2,675 12,000 14,675 394-417 1953 41,500 2,075 13,500 15.5 418-444 1954 28,000 1,400 14,000 15,400 445-472 1955 14,000 700 14.000 14,700 473-500 Section 2. Be it further resolved, that the form of bond heretofore adopted by said resolution of the 21st dya of August, 1920, be amended so as to read as follows: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF LOUISIANA, Parish of St. Landry. CITY OF OPELOUSAS, LA., PUB LIC IMPROVEMENTS BONDS No. 1 $500.00 Know all men by these presents. That the City of Opelousas, St. Lan dry parish, Louisiana, for value re ceived, is indebted to and hereby promises to pay to bearer the sum of $500.00 on the 1st day of July, 19-, with interest thereon from the date hereof at the rate of five per centum per annum. payable semi-annually on the 1st day of January and July in each and every year, on presentation and surrender of the proper coupons hereto attached, bearing a facsimile of the signature of the clerk of the board of aldermen of said city, as they severally become due. Both prin cipal and Interest of these bonds are payable in gold coin of the United States of America, of the present standard of weight and fineness, at the Chase National Bank, in the City of New York, State of New York, and the said City of Opelousas, St. Lan dry parish, La., is hereby held and firmly bound, and its faith, credit, rev enue and property are hereby pledged for the payment of the principal and Interest hereof at maturity. This bond is one of the Issue of 500 bonds of like date, tenor, and ef fect, except as to time of maturity, is sued by the mayor and board of alder men, as the governing authority of 1 said municipality, for the purpose of purchasing and constructing water works and light systems for said city, and paving and improving the streets of said city, under authority of Sec tion 1, of Article 281 of the Constitu tion of Louisiana, and Act 256 of the year 1910, as amended, and a resolu tion duly and regularly adopted by I the Mayor and 'Board of Aldermen of the City of Opelousas, St. Landry par ish, La., on the 21st day of August, A. 1 D., 1920. It is hereby certified, recited and declared that the propositon to issue said bonds and incur said debt was voted for by the majority in number and amount of the property taxpayers, qualified as electors under the Con stitution and laws of the State of Louisiana, voting at an election duly and regularly held for the purpose, on the 8th day of June. A. D., 1920; that provisions have been made for PLANS FOR THE SECOND WORLD COTTON CONFERENCE Members of the cotton trade in this I country and abroad are looking for- 1 ward to the second world cotton con ference, which is to be held in Eng- I land next June. This great trade con gress will bring together representa tives of every branch of the cotton in- t dustry, from the growers of the raw cotton to the finishers and distribu- t tors of the manufactured goods. It is to be held in accordance with the de- I cision reached at the first world cotton conference at New Orleans in October, i 1919, where it was voted that the cot- a ton trade of the world should assemble I in joint convention once every two r years. The conference next June will hold v part if its sessions in Liverpool and d part in Manchester. The decision to l1 meet first in one city and then the t other was made in deference to the a frinedly rivalry existing between these ft two great centers of the Lancanshire tI cotton industry and in view of the strong claims which each could ad- a vance why it should be honored at the it seat of the congress. The sessions in c: Liverpool will be held on Monday, w June 13, Tuesday June 14, and Wed- u nesday, June 16. The sessions at Man- w chester will be held from Thursday, V June 16, to Wednesday, June 22, in- ft clusive. 0 As at the first conference held In pi New Orleans this congress of the m world's cotton trade will be divided in- fr to definite groups for votoing purposes, pC but the number of these groups has m been Increased from eleven~to thirteen,1 b) Whereas, it is desired to amend said resolution, and the form of bond therein adopted, by changing the statement of the purpose of the is suance of said bonds, by adopting a new schedule of maturities for said bonds, and by adopting a new form of endorsement to be signed by the Sec retary of State. Section 1. Now, therefore, be it resolved, by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Opelousas, Louisiana, that the maturites hereto. fore prescribed by a resolution adopt ed on the 21st day of August, 1920, providing for the issuance of $260,000, Public Improvement Bonds, of the City of Opelousas, La., authorized by an election held on the 8th day of June, 1920, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:, the levying of an ad valorem tax to pay said bonds; that all acts, condi tions and things required to be done precedent to and in the issuing of said bonds have been properly and le gally done, have happened, and have been performed in regular and due form as required by law, and the said indebtedness does not exceed any statutory or constitutional limitation. In testimony whereof, we, the un dersigned Mayor and Clerk of the Board of Aldermen, of the City of Opelousas, St. Landry parish, La., be ing duly authorized to execute this obligation on behalf of said city, have hereunto signed our names -officially, and affixed hereto the corporate seal of said municipality, at the City of Opelousas, St. Landry parish, La., as of the 1st day of the month of July, A. D., 1920. Mayor. Clerk. (Interest Coupon) No. 1 $12.50 On January 1, 1921, the City of Ope lousas, St. Landry parish, La., will pay to bearer $12.50, gold coin of the United States of America of the pres ent standard of weight and fineness, on presentation and surrender of this coupon at the Chase National Bank, in the City of New York, State of New York, being six (6) months in terest then due-on its Public Improve ment Bond, dated July 1, 1920. No. . Clerk. - On the back of said bonds shall be printed the following endorsement: "This bond secured by a tax, reg istered on this , day of 1920. Secretary of State. Section 3. Be it further resolved, because of the desirability of imme diately preparing and disposing of the aforesaid bonds, that this resolu tion shall take effect immediately. The above and foregoing resolution having been read in full in open ses sion and having been duly considered section by section, was adopted as a whole by the following vote: Yeas: Mouret, Dejean, Danel, Stelly and Clark. Nays: None. Absent: None. Approved: E. L. LOEB, Mayor, City of Opelousas, La. Attest:-J. J. PERRODIN, Clerk, Board of Aldermen, Opelousas, La. as follows: growers, 'ginners, seed crushers and manufacturers of seed products, compressers and warehouse' men cotton merchants, transportation, banking and insurance, research and statistics, spinners, manufacturers, finishers (including bleachers, dyers and printers), textile merchants and converters, and manufacturers of tex tile machinery. To American readers, one of the in teresting and perhaps puzzling points in connection with the foregoing list is the distinction drawn between spin ners and manufacturers. In the Amer ican cotton trade the terms "spinner" and "manufacturer" are synonymous. In the English trade however, a spin ner is one who spins the raw cotton into yarn, while a manufacturer is one who weaves the yarn into fabrics. The distinction is more important in Eng land than in this country because of the fact that in England the spinning and weaving branches of the trade are fo rthe most part separate, while in this country they are largely combined. The enormous size of the industry which will be represented at the meet ing next summer was brought out for cibly at the New Orleans conference, where is was stated that the total val ue of the capital invested in the world's cotton trade, based on present values, is about $30,000,O000000. The Industry gives employment to 6.000, 000 people, on whom are directly de pendent 24,000,000 others. This enor mona industry consumes annually from ten billion to fourteen billion, pounds of raw material, from which Is made the only kind of clothing used by hundreds of millions of the world's ad GRAND COTEAU NOTES he~ is- Grand Cotean, La., Nov. 17.-The a athletic program for the R. O. T. C, Id' unit at St. Charles college has been an of nounced and the first events have been run off. it The schedule of events Is as follows: of Thursday, November 4-Senior and junior inter-company football game. Thursday, December 2-Inter-com 0, pany field meet. 0, Thursday, January 6-Senior and junior inter-company basketball game. of Thursday, February 3-Interccom by pany rifle match. Thursday, March 3-Inter-company competitive dril. Thursday, April 7-Senior and junior > interacompany baseball game. 5 Thursday, May 5-Inter-company 1 swimming meet. 24 The company winning the greatest 31 number of points in the competitions 38 during the year will be presented with a silver loving cup suitably engraved. 531 61 The student winning the greatest num 70 her of points for his company during 79 the year will be presented a gold medal 88 and the student winning the next high 98 est number of points will receive a OS 19 silver medal and the student winning 30 the next highest number of points will 42 receive a bronze medal. '8 Company "A" started right in by 32 getting first blood in winning the ge )7 nior inter-company football game by a 13 score of 21 to 0 and secured a five point lead in the race for the cup, but 34 Company "B" came right back and 13 won the junior game by a score of 13 )3 to 0 thereby tying the score. Both com i4 pallies are determined to win the field meet scheduled for December 2 and ob ý3 tain the 25 points which go to the com .7 t pany amassing the greatest number of 4 points in the field events. 0 The events scheduled for the field meet include the 100 and 220 yeards o dashes a relay race, standing and run ning broad and running high jumps, straddle ball race, centipede race com e- pany shuttle race tug-o'-war, obstacle e race and three-legged race. Company e athletes are training hard for the e events and each side is confident of victory. 1 f STATE OF ILLINOIS NOW HAS MODEL PENITENTIARY s e Illinois' big new, strictly modern state penitentiary, put under construc , tion in 1913 and described in Popular s Mechanics Magazine for April of that year, is now finished. Inclosing 64 acres of land within its concrete, wall the new. prison contains eight circular cell houses, each with 240 light and sanitary cells in four tiers all visible 0 from a central watch tower, and the whole roofed with searchlights,saysPo LI pular Mechanic Magazine in an arti e cle with two full pages of illustrations In its December issue, Cell doors and lights may be operated by switches in the tower. The wall, 24-in, thick at f the base and 14 in. at the top, is 33 1-2 ft. high above ground and extends 10 ft. below. The site of this model in stitution is at Statesville just north west of Joilet on the west bank of the Desplaines River, and in the center of e the state farm of 2,200 acres. Convicts themselves did most of the work on "f the big penal stronghold which in cludes workshops and other adjuncts - as modern in their appointments as the cell houses. f population and the principal apparel of t- other hundreds of millione. The cotton trade of this country took -the lead in organizing the first world cicotton conference last year, and it is to have a prominent part in the second conference. Fuller E. Calloway of La Grange, Ga., one of the best known manufacturers of the south, is chair man, and John T. Scott of Houston, Texas, a prominent banker is the vice chairman of the executive committee, which is in charge of the arrangements for the coming conference. It recent ly met and decided on the dates for the sessions and the organization into voting groups as outlined above, sand Sthe number and make-up of the stand ~.ing committees. toThere will be thirteen standing coin I mittees, each representing one of the isthirteen voting groups. The make-up S of these committees has been careful i ly planned so that they will equitably Srepresent the various Interests con cerned. The committees on the produc Stion of cotton, seed crushing and man [unfacture of seed products and coin tpressing and war~ehousing will be head -ed by American chairmen, in view of. Sthe fact that this country leads in these hranches of the industry. The .committees on the purchase and sale -: of cotton, banking and insurance mer Schandising of cotton products and man ufacture of textile machinery, will have joint chairmen from this coun -try and England, in recognition of the fact that both of these countries are~ equally concerned with these divisions ' *of the trade. The committee on trans portation, spinning anid finishing of cotton goods will have English chair men, in consideration of the .vital im portance of transportation problems to the Lancanshire trade and because England leads the world in the produc tion of cotton goods. The committee on research and statistics will be head ed by a chairman from one of the na tions of continental Europe. Mr. John Syz of Switzerland has already been asked to serve at chairman of the last! named committee. It is proposed that five Iessions of the conference shall be devde to dis cusslons of papers, five sessions to the reports of committees, and the final session to the report of the executive 5 committee of the action taken by thi several groups on matters brought be f fore the conference and of the elec tion of officers. The papers to be sub 1 mtited to the conference will be writ n ten by world authorities on- the sub jects in question. These will be dis tributed to the delegates in advance o: 4 the opening of the conference. At the conference itself only brief summaries 1- will be presented by the authors,thes( to be followed by discussions of the d topics with which the papers deal. It this way, it is expected that the bust a. ness of the convention will be transac ted with the greatest economy of time y Prior to the final sessions of the con ference, the voting groups will meet tc r consider and vo'te upon the various propositions laid before them, and alsc to elect representatives on the execu ' tive committee.. The transactions oi it g Y RAIN-proof: SUN.proof; LEAK. proof; TROUBLE-proof; practi. eally FIRE and WEAR-proof. Takes lowebt insurance rates. t Requires no paint; GUARAN. I TEED for 10 yeas. 3 For Barns and farm build ings; also fdr gables and sidings; I Shelcote DOLL Roofing. For Residences-Shelcote Shingles. We Manufacture SLATE - surface Roll - Roofing [ and Shingled and SMOOTH surface roofing; also Shelcote Plastic CEMENT, for leaks in roofs, and cracks in walls; also KNOLEAK semi-liquid, asbestos fibre Roof Coating: Samples and prices from your dealer, or SMELCOTE MFG. Co. Factor, n New Odessa Distributed By St. Landry Lumber Company Opelousas, Louisiana Going home o THANKSGIVING DAY last year. I ATE my chow. , 0 2o ALONE in the big town. AND THE TURKEY was all. NEATLY VARNISHED and had NICE LITTLE paper pants, ON BOTH its legs. AND TASTED strongly. LIKE NOTHING at all. " BUT THIS year. MAN ALIVE, rIm going homey AND THERE will be. A COUNTRY turkey. DONE TO a turn. BROWN AND savory. CRISP AND flaky. SENDING UP little clouds. OF TANTALIZING steam. MAKING NOSTRILS wrinkle. AND PALATES quiver. OH BOY, real turkey. AND THEN afterwards. ABLE TO breathe. BUT NOT to bend. ' I'LL REACH for a smoke. THAT'S THE real turkey, too. COSTLY AROMATIC Turkish. BLENDED WITH the best. In packages of 20 protected by OF MELLOW Domestic leaf speoia mo isu eTIG- T p ir o of p50. AND ONCE again-oh boy. .T'S real Turkish tobacco that CAN'T YOU just he Chesterfields-really grown in TU*# T YU ut hear me. bought on the ground by our own INFORMING THE world. blend it with best Domestic, in th Chesterfield way-leave that to usA "THEY SATISFY." Satisfy?" Well leave that to yoU. CIGARE TITES the conference will be embodied in a world cotton conference book, which is to be edited by John A. Todd of Balliol college, Oxford, who is.a world authority on cotton trade statistics. This book will contain a section de voted to cotton statistics dealing with the broad fundamentals of the produc tion and consumption of the staple from a world standpoint. Those in charge of the coming con ference have arranged a number of tours to various parts of Great Britain and Europe, which many of the dele gates will undoubtedly take after the conclusion of the conference. X-RAY MACHINE FITS SHOES CORRECTLY AND RAPIDLY Radiography, the science to which the most opaque of substances reveal their inmost secrets, has scored anoth er triumph; this time not In the field of pathology, but in that of the very common every-day service of selecting and correctly fitting proper shoes ac cording to an illustrated article in the December Popular Mechanics Maga sine. An X-Ray apparatus has been MEN of sound judg. ment appreciate the true worth of Born Tailored-to-Measure clothys. The Born Label gives them assurance of sen- / 4. sible style; clothes come fort; long wear. And men who like these features find ad ditional satisfaction in the economy afforded by Born prices. FELIX CHACHERE brought out fot use in shoe stores by means of which the purchaser anc the salesperson cas see whether of not the bones of the foot are distorted or restricted by the shoe being tries on. The device will not only settle any controversy which may arise as tc proper size it will also show, withoui leaving chance for argument,, whether a shoe is of the correct design and shape. LIGHTWEIGHT FOLDING DRUM PACKS IN SMALL SPACE The trap arummer is, at last, to be relieved of the burden of a full-size bass drum while on his travels. A Pennsylvania drum manufacturer has evolved the collapsible bass drum which may be packed in two small carriers one of which may be an ordi nary suitcase, the other being of a spe cial shape ,says an illustrated article in the December Popular Mechanics Magazine. The drum when assembled is 28 in. in diameter and weighs only 12 1-2 lb. The manufacturers claim that, despite the light weight and smal size, the instrument gives forth tones of quite satisfactory value and volume. It relieves r by Rheumatsea Setc.-ad. 4 Q' PARTI' SIDONIE PR tr BIIRNADINE No.dicial District Landry, -By virtue of a - orable the Sixt S Court, holding parish of St. IA JHon. B. H. Pavy of date Novembe 3suance to a com 1 under and to me 1 public auction, to bidder for the partition on the* scribed, said salt D premiss, on SATURDAY, D at 11 o'clock a. r scribed property, A certain pl buildings and inm situated near Pitre, I ish, La., and being. I of deceased, and c arpents, more or le follows: North by Guillory; south by from Opelousas to east by lands of MrL aad west by lands of TERMS AND nov13-6t WINDOWS TELEPHONE THE ST. BER CO. A New W FOR YOUR C WE HAVE All Kinds of Quick Service COMPAI You am have durace to wit When ou cosindo ad dms Witer od GROVE'S T Feridss the ba and Ilussm the Blood. It Contagas the artia ofqa te asceptable to the and is pleasant to kaStreag~bdueaa