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Official Journal of Washington Parish and the Town of Franklinton.
VOLUME 3 . AS,;.,,To , ,."o ., M& FRANKLINTON, LA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1912. NUM 3
Pay Your Poll Tax Before January 1st, 19
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Market Day
Celebration.
if You Want to Find Out
How to Sell Your Produce,
Go to Bogalusa Dec. 7th.
Governor Hall will be in Bogalusa
to inaugurate the Market Day on
Saturday, December 7th.
The Market is to be located north
of the Moving Picture Theatre on
Avenue B and the building will be
completed by that day.
Every farmer in Washington and
the surrounding Parishes is invited
to be present.
A special railroad fare of one
fare plus, one-third will be in
effect from all stations on the,
N. O. G. N. Railroad for the
round trip.
It is proposed to have a market'
day once a week. Farmers can bring ;
their produce to Bogalusa, display it
under the market building and sell
tther to the people of Bogalusa or to
Suyers fronm commission houses in
w Orleans, Jackson and Memphis,
Sowill be here.
-The saw mill, paper mill and ,
Sher manufacturing plants will be
o peration on that day, and it will
ea fine time for everybody to visit
alusa.
SMusic will be furnished by the
alusa Cornet Banc.
0ecember 7th will be the celebra-i
day. The market will open for
sale of produce the week follow
thedaythat is agreed upon'
e farmers who will be present,
t day. We are leaving thisL
it can be decided by the peo.
he Parish who offer their stuff
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Items of General Interest Occur
ring Since Our Last Press Day.
Alexandria Wreck Investiga
tion.
t Baton Rouge, La., Nov. 30.
That the system on the Texas
, and Pacific Railroad is "loose;"
that employees are not properly
- examined and do not know their
duties, and that the company's
loose system was primarily re-i
sponsible for the Alexandria
wreck on Nov. 25, when three
1 persons were killed and three
injured, were the findings of the
Louisiana Railroad Commission,
as a result of its investigation
I into the wreck.
The commission finds that the
conductor and flagman of the
.! second section of train No. 51
failed to perform their duty in
taking the necessary precaution
to protect the rear end of their
Strain; that the flagman of the
flagman of the second section of
No. 51 did not go back a suffic
ient distance to protect his train
when the train slowed down,
and that no torpedoes were put
down or fuses burned.
The train dispatcher is also
blamed for not notifying the
passenger train, running as see
tion three of No. 51 that the
speed of the two trains ahead,
sections 1 and2 of No. 51, had c
been reduced from the schedule
of a passenger train runding
forty miles an hour to the ache
dule of a freight train running I
eighteen miles an hour. I
"The engineer on the passen
.ger train was approaching a r
!crossing where the rules require I
him to stop or to have his train t
under control," says the com- a
.mission, "and he had a sufficient a
application of airbrakes for this n
purpose before the markers on ;
the rear end of the second see- 3
tion of train No.51 came to view.
'The collision occured on a
straight track which extends, at ¬
least, as far as Moreland, a dis
tance of between six and seven t
miles."
The commission largely blames ti
the Texas and Pacific system for
the wreck. It says that the a
company's rule No. 99, govern- I
ing the protection of trains in a
case of an unusual stop, is crude, i
lax and obsolete. It leaves the b
flagman too much discretion. a
The flagmen before the commis
sion had never been examined d
on the company's rules, and one b
fsagman was actually observing a
a rule he had learned on another
road.
"The block signal system" is d
the nearest approach to Iperfec.
-ion known in train pro ection, 7
and the wrecks which hlve oc- T
cured recently on this railroad E
and other trunk lines in Lousi- 1
ana will undoubtedly cost the "
companies enough to have equip- t
dmany reiles oa ther Loutisian f
ines with an approved block
uluatl aratem.--Plcuene.
'Battleship Parade la
- IMse f Vit lee.
About a thousand sturdy, man. s
ly repmreentatives of the reat
eata navuearusa*~ere, blue
Jackets and mnaines frim Ad* h
mirai Frank F. Fletcher' specil E
division of the North l antlIl
leo-gave New Orleans 4 naval o
parde yesterday wbic h Iproved
SSbi ~ Wahtbecity. Giij ~ 9
Itwsslr ga y:* o
Sthe St. Charles Hotel, an ex
change of visits between the
governor of Louisiana and the
admiral of the fleet, and a gala
performance at the French
Opera House.
Thousands were out to see the
parade, and every man, woman
and child of the thousands felt a
i thrill of patriotism as the march.
ing battalions passed to the in
spiring strains of martial
e music, rendered faultlessly, and
with stirring effect by the four
ships' bands.
n The bluejackets and marines,
five battalions of 264 each, came
ashore at 9 o'clock in the morn*
ing, in the transfer-boats fur
nished by the Progressive Union
and formed in two solid lines,
extending outas far as Chartress
Street.
The men of the navy are ex
cellently drilled, and when all
were ashore and the hour had
come for the parade to start, it
was an easy matter to form the
battalions into orderly platoons,
ready for the march.-Picayune.
40 Governors to go to Con-'
ference. I
Madison, Wis., Nov. 27.--The
official program for the fifth
governons' conference' to take
Splace at Richman, Vr., Dec. 8 to
7 inclusive, was announced here
SWednesday by Miles C. Riley,
secretary of the conference.
The program deals with pro-'
iposed legislation which will be
considered in the various States
tbhis winter. Last year the pro
gram was devoted entirely to the
administrative side of govern
ment. It was Secretary Riley's
plan to have the conference this
year devoted to legislative topics t
so that laws of a uniform nature !
may be enacted in the different ,
States.
'Mr. Riley said that from let-*
ters he had, received he believed I
about forty executives would at- ,
.tend. t
Gov. McGovern of Wisconsin,
will read a paper on "A State a
Income Tax," and "The Develop
ment of Inland Waterways," td
will be the subject of a discussion jI
by Gov. Foss of Massachuetts, .
and Gov. Deneen of Illinois. R
"Uniformity of marriage and t
divorce laws" will be presented p
-by Governors Oddie of Nevada, i
and Hawley of Idaho.
Governors O'Neal of Alabama -
and Burke of North Dakoto, will a
discuss "Rural Credits, "' which
subject is to be taken up on Dec
7 at a conference with President
Taft at Washington. Governors
Eberhart of Minnesota, and Had-.
ley of Missouri, will speak on
"What the State can do to check
the drift of population from the
farm to the city." l
Financal Reform Greatest le
Need ofAmerian People. E
Washingtan, Nov., 27,--Revi* of
sion of currency on a sound ba- c
s-s will be the chief aim of Presi. s
deat-elect Wilson, according to s
astatement made by him just t
.before he left for his vacation in
Bermuda, and divulged for the' o
first time in the conncils of Dem' ",
ocratic party. . l4
According to tbhis nformati
Ooetitrp Sed~lof tiae c6~ntrj
&iv~sibfLa, RW
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said that he felt that the passage
of such a law should be oneof the
first things undertaken by the
Democratic party.
"There should be no delay
about revising the currency,' the
President.-elect is reported to
have said, "because the prosperi
ty of the country depends on it
to a very large degree. An elas
tic currency- will prevent any
possibility of a panic. The Dem
ocratic party has a vital interest
in this, because, should there by
any chance be a panic during
the coming Democratic ad
ministration it would bx) the last
that would be beard of the party
for many years. Under the
present currency system, a few
men have the thing in their own
hands. The right kind of a cur
rency law would prevent manip
pulation and be a safeguard
to prosperity."
The above quotation is sub
stantially the way Presidrent
elect Wilson expressed himnself
to one of his political advisors
just before he left for Bermu da.
Mr. Wilson indicated that he is
going to make a careful study of
the currency question, and the
probability is thathe will include
it in the first of subjects to be
considered at the special session
which he will be called immedi
ately after his inauguration.
Open Sugar Bowl
Menace to Health.
Washington, Nov. 27.-Loaded
with white squares, heavily
germenurusted, the restaurant =
sugar bowl is as great menace
to health as any anarchistic
bomb ever hurled. Holding this
opinion, Surgeon General Rupert
Blue, of the public health ser.
vice, declares that proprietors of
of public eating places should out
compel their customers to use pt
sugar tongs in removing the ad
sugar and never to remove with
their fingers.
"Persons with tuberciosis .ae
other diseases," said Dr. Bl. ho
"are liable to transmittheirlma'; te
dies to others when thus putting wit:
therifole the bowL If L
the o sugar bowl and loastf
sugar ' are abolished it seems app,
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Haying Tools
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e The way to get fal value for yur hay crop is to use
Deering hay tools. Thousands of farmers can testify to {
the exclent reults obtained from using Deering mowers,
rakes, stackers and tedders. They are reliable machines,
and will do the same work for youetbat.they have done for
other farmers we have sold in your ' smuanity. Come in
and see us about a Deerlg machis mat time you are in
Stown You don't have to buy, but 7I0 may lean some.
Sthing of value to you about raisang bay. You can make our
store your headquarters when you are in town if you de
strer Ask for a Dering catalogues which splsans details
better than we can r
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