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200 Per Year. Official Journal of Washington Parish and the Town of Franklinton. $2.00 Per Year. $0LUME 1. 0" m ,; Ti ,^,";"" _ FeRANKI4NTON, LA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1921. NUMBER 41. F,;LUNIE 11. ko~rrs Favor Cotton Acre- So age Redulction. President Ben Johnson of the :toisiana Bankers Association W as oalled a conference of bank. in( rs in New Orleans on January ha $,atthe Hotel Grunewald, to car. lat rythe plan of the Memphis Cot- pa on Convention to reduce produc* inl gion next year fifty percent by E. limitiog the cotton acreage to one de tird of the lands placed in culti- an .1tion in 1921. Su Mr, Johnson has already named tie techairman of each parish com- 194 ittee, who under the Memphis the peistobe a banker, and who So illo ame his committee of ten, 32 ebankers, three merchants oo p four farmers. Mr. Johnson be acting with the Louisiana Divi- pe on of the American Cotton As. cep odiation, which already has com- mi ete organizations in the cotton of * es. Chairman W. B. Thomp. Shas called a meeting of the po *isna Division State Com- BE and the parish chairman wi the same time and place, to of Brate with the bankers. WE Hile the financial situation is ha that there will necessarily da Sgreat restriction of credit, the St phis plan contemplates utilis- ar this condition in such a way 82 to apply such credit as can be sc pded fairily and evenly, and 98 the same time reap for the A e cotton industry, the bene. be hfoh can be derived from a 32 ilment in production, result. cr restricted credit. Bank-. ac merchants are asked to ce these restrictions fairly and to t accordance with the plan, O( would give every farmer a hi * and at the same time a( the present emergency and vi on the road to sane farm. I1 the future, 11 ootton factors of New Or- tc who handle approximately pl _ bales of cotton a year, binmake extensive advan- ti itheir customers, have seen tl om of the plan, and at a Sheld in the cotton ex- d recently unanimously en- 1' it, 8 QaMANGAN s 1WIL HELP FIGHT COLDS 4 Up Tour Mind to Keep Free Colds. Get Yoer Blood In Good Condition ART TAKING PEPTO-MANGAN Is the Time to Build Up. Yeo Will Be Strong This Winter very house has a supply of for winter, People know weather is coming. They ready,for it. w many people get their own ready for winter? Most go around all summeir in use heat burning up ener'. 4orking hard all day and mes lying awake nights in the heat, comes along. It catches ple totally unprepared * Few of us take stock ealtb. Whether we will y and strong, we often much to chance. ot everybody. Nowadays ke learning. They know tor of enjoying good a thing they can help If you live right, eat plenty of sleep, breathe and keep your blood in ition, you will be all sfmple. If you feel a bealth-perbaps worn o't take chances. Peed of it. Buy some n of your druggist. it today. You can u d or tablet form. ruggist which you certain that you li Pepto Mangan; F the fall name Mangan." Look adb on the 'S~ South's Baptists increase 84 .J. Percent, Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 30- White Baptists of the South have increased more than two and a mi half times as rapidly as the popu- pa lation of this section during the of past twenty years, according to Ar information just complied by Dr. the E.P. Alldredge, secretary of the Le department of survey, statistics the and information of the Baptist ele Sunday School Board. 'he Bap. Ac tist increase in membership since co+ 1900 has been 84.1 percent, while sec the gain in population for the S. South during that time has been Pc 32 percent. The gain in annual M. contributions to missions and wa benevolences during the same ey, period has been nearly 100 per- ch cent, These tabulations are re. made up from the annual reports T. of only their local churches. , uff By way of comparison the re- Cu port shows that in 1900 Southeri, sei Baptists had 737 associations while today there are 925, a gain n of 25,5 per cent; in 1900 there to were 18,963 local churches which in has been increased to 25,305 to- by day a gain of 33.4 per cent; 9,711 Sunday Schools twenty years ago, ell and 17,686 today, an increase of th 82.1 percent; 639,944 Sunday as school pupils in 1900 and 1,835,- tic 986 today, a gain of 187 percent. de Annual gifts to missions and m benevolences in 1900 were $701,. be 323,38 while this sum has in- sl creased to $7,331,226.85 today, an st. advance in twenty of 945.3 per it cent; total contributions per year e to all purposes in 1900 were $83, t 069,506.52, while by 1920 they w had climbed to $21,327,446.67 an ti advance of 594 peroent; and the c value of local church property in sa 1900 was $19,437,323, while in et 1920 that valuation had, climbed nu to $74,273,728, an increase of 282 , percent. ul Should Southern Baptists con tinue at this rate of growth for I f the next twenty years. Dr. All dredge finds that they will by d S1940, have 1,156 associations, 33,740 local churches, 5,451,841 i members, 32,206 Sunday schools, l J 5,267,136 pupils,annual contribu tions of $77,633,723 to missions t and benevolences, and $148,012,,, ' 474 to all purposes, and local church property valued at $283, , 725, 689. ii Notice For Publication. Notice is hereby given that .there will be held a stockholders' f , meetiun of the MoCreary Lumber a Company, at its ofice at Frank. c Slinton, Washington Parish, Louis- r w iana, on Friday, February 11th, d 7Y 1921, for the purpose of appoint. k ing commissioners to liquidate t 'D theaffaira of the said Company, r M. M. Moore, t .. 41-6t Secretary. i s For Sale., t s Improved Mississippi Farm a r 160 sores, located in Pearl Ri- 'j 11 ver County,Mise.,near church and l school and five miles to town. There are 35 aores ip cultivation, and some out over timber and id open wood pasture. Has orchard p of about 100 trees, Soil is sandy "t loam with clay subsoil. Corn, po e tatoes, ootton and etc., are prin. w1 cipal crops. Improvements con sists of six room house, newly a built, large barn, and other out rn buildings. Fenoed all wire. Price -* is $75 per acre with possession in the Spring. For further informa. n tion write or see, n. Mrs. J. J. Fornea, m Picayune, Mise. n; IRtb-My-Tism is a powerful satise tic; it kills te peison causea fram ing he Iestd cats, cares old sores tetter, etc. .......... S.J. Adolph Pierce Elected Vice- U. Comnmanduler of Wiashi ngton Parish Legion. L. F. Guerre, formerly com- ta) Smander of Bugalusa's old Com- col - pany G, was elected commander an of the Mdgic City Post of The thf American Legion at a meeting of col the post Tuesday night. Paul 0 bu LeBlane, who went overseas with the company as captain, was anm telected fir'st vice-cownuander; J. ma Adolph Pierce, deputy clerk of lat court at Franklinton, was elected no second vice-commander; James S. (Poppa) Harrison succeeded to tPercy Lindeley as adjutant; W. tio I M. Babington, finance officer, wit I was re-elected; Albert F. DeLon- pla Sey, acting postmaster, was elected blE chaplain; S. Laoy Dickerson was pa 3re. lected insurance officer; Dr. liRe T. M. Brister re.elected medical ble ufficer, and Ansel Ard, foimer an Company G sergeant, was made ly serg-ant*at-arws. su Jules LeBlano, the retiring fil coummander, pledged his support th, to his suooessor in a short address of Sin which he told of the work done IloE by the post in its first year. Commander-elect Guerre thank wr ed the members of the post for le( the honor bestowed upon him and o V asked Ihe support and co-opera- th tion of every member of the post pl aduring the coming year. "The an members of the post have not 19 been attending meetings as they Sshould," said Major Guerre, "and is n starting with the first of the year a it will be my duty to see that every membdr in the post attends1 of Sthe monthly miettings. If they y won't come over to talk over old M n times and swap yarns, they will to ce come to a big qiilil supper or a fo n smoker, and to hear some influ- hi d national importance, and I'll see t 2 which method works the best and fc use that.'' i. ol S. Lacy Dickerson, war risk 01 >r rti insurance officer, in a brief ad- M dress, stated that it was his in- be y tention to make a trip to Washing- ai sI at ton about the middle of January in the interest of insuranoe for 'the men of Washington parish, : KMr Dickerson is now working on the settlement of Comrade Lowell q p 'Whittenhall and it is expected al re that adequate settlement will be b ' made shortly. Mr. Whittenhall is now In a sanitarium in New Mexico recuperating from injuries , sustained while in service. ti Lat The poet has just closed its s' first year in the American Legion er and it has been an unusually suo. k- cessful one. There are some 250 is. members of Magic City Post and S ;h, during the past year over $1500 I Lt- has been raised and spent to fur .te ther the aims of the organization. Many dances, stags, smokers and two banquets were given by the post during the year. In August the post sent their delegatee to the state convention and, not d content with having one of the ~ ablest speakers on the floor in j Gi- Jess Johnson, they put up such a nd fight that the convention in 1921 , will be held in Bogalusa instead l on Shreveport. P. W. Lindsley, nd former adjutant of the post, also Lrd attended the National Convention 1 dy in Cleveland, Ohio, as delegate from this district, )o in. Starting'with 1921, the annual in- dues for membdrehip in the organ vly isation will be $3, which includes ,ut ayear's subesription to the Amer* ice ican Legion Weekly and to ''The in Pelicanaire, the weekly paper of na. the Louisiana Department. The long delayed quail supper will be held about the middle of , January. ep. Rtb. My-Titan isa grea pain killer in. It relieves pain and sordness ceased by etch Rheuuatisia, Neuralgia, Sprains, etc. -Adyvtiuumut, U. S. Tax BIlanks Mailed Mon - day. Corporation income and profit - tax blanks were mailed to the 5000 corporations throughout. Louisi- ties ana Monday. it was announced at chi the office of the internal revenue ,w collector, in the customhouse building. Individual income tax blanks So and information returns will be 'ta mailed out during the middle and chi latter part of January, it was an nounced. vo The collector's force endeavors na to reach all persons and corpora- tin tions subject to an income tax be with these blanks, but it was made plain that failure to receive the kil blank is no excuse for failure to gel pay the tax nor even fur delay, tec Responsibility for getting the blanks,4lling them out properly and paying the tax. rests ultimate ly upon the sholders of persons N. subject to it. Returns imust be P9 filed in some cases, even when 11 there will be no tax, as in the cass of corporations reporting greater t,, losses than gains. Iu, Blanks may be procured by pr writing Rufus W. Fontenot, col lector of internal revenue, custom ur house building, New Orleans. On wi them must be recorded a com plete statement of the incomes St and expenditures for the year 1920, th Payment of the 1920 income tax W' is due as soon as the blanks are available at the collector's office. bi Payment of the first quarter of cu 1920 must accompany the filing lo of the returns for the year. j March 15 is the time limit set on this, The remainder of the taxes la for 1920 may be paid in three o 1t her inetallments, but internal rev. enue officials urge payment forf the entire year in a lump sum be fore March 15, As a strong argument in faver of prompt payment they cite the record of the year just closed. Many persons and a large numi ber of corporations in Louisiana as elsewhere paid only the first quarter of their income tax dur ing the reign of plenty existing through March 15, when the first quarter fell due, deferring other Spayments until the time limit w as reached in each, The payment falling due Deceufber 15 caught many in a bad way and, accord ing to reports reaching the col- a B lector's office, meeting the obliga- 4 tion was diffioult in many cases. For Sale. 0 Full Blood Hampshire Pigs, i six months old. Cholera immune. If interested call at my farm at q Spring Hill. J. T. Magee, d Route 2. Franklinton, La. e Farmi For Sale. 0 Sixty-acre farm, 40 acres un )t der cultivation, good house and .e barn, eight miles north of Frank a linton on public highway for a $1,000 cash. . ~1 Mrs. W. L, Parker, d 40*2t, R. 2, Warnerton, La. Notio For Publication. Department-of the Interior, ifI .* S. Land Office at Baton Rouge, La. e November 24, 1920, Notice is hereby given that Esco al Butler, of Hackley, La., who on the 23rd of December, 1918, made Home. " stead, No. 08805, for NW f of NW t, SSection 8, and NE & of NE a, Section 'r* 4, Township 1 South, Range 11 East, ie La. Meridian has filed notice of inten of tion to make Commutation Proof, to establish claim to the land above de soribed, before Clerk of Court, Wash ington Parish, at Franklinton, La., Of on the 21st day of January, 1921. Claimant names as witnesses: .Jj Ira Warren, of Hackley, La. lr Hosia Dyson, of Hackley, La. Pearl Gray, of Hackley, La. hi Flpteher drown, of Hackley, La. (Si E. D. Gianelloni, General News In Brief. The French Chamber of Depu ties answered a revolutionary t challenge of the Communist Party Swith a 451 to 54 vote of confidence. At the reappointment hearing · Southern congressman resfuted B statements alleging the disfran j chisement of negroes. SThe House banking committee voted to report favorably the Se e nate bill giving farmers more Stime to pay for United State Kbonds, e A negro iear Mo r'(m, La., killed four mermb'rs of his family 0 et fire to his hnuse and commit. Sted suicide, all being burned, cir. onuustancs indicated, Nathian L. Miller if Syracuse, a N. Y. was formally innugurated e !s governor of New York state's u 11,000,000 people. " The outlook of Great Britian r for 1921 is a bleak one, with tre. imendious domestio and foreign Y problems facing the empire. Franrice, despite (.iarmtny's fail Sure to indemnity her for invasion, will continue to pay the United States debt. . One of two bandits who held up the New Orleans'Chieago Flyer x was killed, the other surrendering. 'e The sundry nivil appropriations e. bill was reported out of thie House 3f committee without mention of 8 lower Misisesippi waterway pro r. j cts. "' Dry agent, planned to make the Sland more nearly "bone dry" in 1921 than it was in 1920 when V. 28,000,000 gallons were taken 0? frodi bond. IC CONNELL & SMITH DENTISTS Office Over Washington Bank HOURS 8:00 A. M. to 6:00 P. M. Franklinton, Louisiana. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $· $ $ Start the New Year $ $ RIGHT! $ $ $ $ $ $ BANK ACCOUNT is the Bank $ A one sure friend to whom wit $ $ you can go when you are $ are in need of ready cash. Us $ $ The man with money in bank and $ has confidence in himself, and that $ self confidence spurs him on to SAVE 'greater successes in life. our $ Start the New Year RIGHT. Money. $ $ Open an account with us. $ $ g J Washington Bank & Trust Co. S- - $ j$ $ $I $ FRANKIINTON, BOGCALUSA, ANGIE, LA. $ Capita, Surplus and Undivided Profits $ Over Eighty Thousand Dollars. $ $ $$$$$$$$$8$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ IT PAYd To ADOVanTRa IN T8$ sRa-LSAD$Eia Lord Chalmers was named to confer with American treasury officials on the refund of the British war debt. Giovanni Costello, an Italian radical ex-convict, was named as the probable Wall street bomber by a Wisconsin prisoner. A Red revolution in Norway was nipped when details of the plot reached the authorities. Governor Parker announced that change in the Dock Board was impossible at present, and asked continuation of the board in office now. A financi1 review of the last year by a New Orleans expert showed that the price of cotton has declined to the pre-war level. Disarmament was expected to bind the United States closer to South America for defense and development of trade relations. Senator-elect Watson of Geor gia, announced legislative plans of his to make legal tender of Liberty bonds. Notice. To the Stockholders of the Citizens Bank of Franklinton, La. Notice is hereby given in ac cordance with the charter, that the annual meeting of the share holders of this Bank for the elec tion of directors for the year 1921, will be Ield at its Banking House at 2 o'clock P. M., on Mon day, January 10th, 1921. Louis M. Bourgeoi% Cashier. Republican newspapers now are urging everybody to aid Presi dent-elect Harding in solving "the grove problems" with which he.will have to deal. Being a third-rate statesman he will need all the aid he can get, but there wouldn't have been any grave problems had a Republican Sen ate been less partisan and more patriotic.-J. C. Aby in Daily States.