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~iee iee $t e tormL Official Journal of Jefferson Davis Parish XII. WXELSH, JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH, LOUISIANA. FEBRUARY 7, 1913. NiUMBER ~ e Theatre ~CIARLES FEB. 16 gSOUTH A FIELDS VES) s R CAST) OF 100 ,POKEY" ORCGiESTRA1 SECIAL TRAIN rved Now aled By Cash 19 $1.50 $2.00 $2.50 11 .1e River" Arcade Wiles Monday .comedian, with a .re will appear in s new musical iivea" on next Mon iatre Feb. 10, Lake er acts and is of an scenes calling for t sabstantial stag role of a married arrested while show of friends. The as the wealthy of a detective I him to his home e forced visit of 's Island. One growing out of that follow his ws from his wife to music that has tfor its rhythmic T tof comedians and with the accus S I Eddie Foy pro IEATRE LES eb. - 9th * S I '. c to $2. GREAT REDUCTION SALE OF SHOE S BEGINNIN'G SSaturday, February 8, and Continuing for One Week A SWELL LOW CUT Men's, Ladies' Misses' and We will othat individualisee Si8 wearer Childrens' Shoes .as being shoe oui Ensile Stock of . LESS AT '-"-- THAN COST he Signal Clothing Store Deputy Sherriff M. Fuselier Passed Through Welsh Monday With Prisoner. Deputy Sheriff Marius Fuselier passed through Welsh on the after. noon train Monday conveying Roy William Montgomery to Lake Charles for safe keeping until the next meeting of the grand jury, or until such times as the parish prison in this parish shall be made adequet for retaining prisoners Montgomery is charged with attempt. ing to hold up two Jennings citizens, about midnight Saturday. As Roy Miller, of the moving picture show, and Roy Alcock were proceeding homeward a masked man thrust a re volver in their faces and demanded "There money or their lives." As these gentlemen were not ready to part with either of these essentials, they knocked the revolver outiof the hold-up's hands, where upon he immediately took to his heels. Both young men stated positively that they recognized the man who held them up, and upon information filed by them officers, Jim Mercer and Charles Barker arrested Montgomery. When brought before Judge Lump. kins, Montgomery plead "Not guilty" to the charges of "laying in wait and attempting robbery" and of carrying concealed weapons. After hearing the evidence His Honor committed the prisoner to await the action of the Grand Jury. Welsh Basket Ball Team Gain Second Victory This Season. The Welsh Basket Ball Team gained it second victory Saturday Feb. 1st at Sulphur. The game started at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and proved to be very interesting to the spectators as well as the players. The game had been in progress just three and one half minutes, when one of the Welsh teams best players was "knocked out," but that made little difference as they had a substitute who took his place. Both teams played hard but the Sul phur team was unable to cope with the Welsh team and at the end of the forty minutes the score stood 18 to 18 in favor of Welsh, Welsh having 8 field goals and 2 foul goals, Slulphur 8 field goals and no foul goals. We can congratulate our team on their good playing as there was only one foul made on their side, while Sul phur made 6. The members of the Welsh team were Arthur Romero, Captai n: .Ernest Wright, Mgr.: Stuart Robinson, Clifton Carr, Columbus Prudhomne, A t ia n Benoit and Alton Fontenot. A return game will be played on the Welsh field Saturday Feb. 8. This will doubtless' be a hotly contested game and should be well attended by all lovers of the sport, Jos, Villien has just installed a Giant Wonder Disc Sharpener, that will sharpen a whole section of discs at one time without removing them from the axle shaft. This will enable plant ers to have their discs sharpened in less time than it usually takes to take the discs off the shaft, and do it better than it could be done in the old way. Mr, Villien has also secured a competent horse sheer for his shop. 37-42 ONLY ONE TERM FOR PRESIDENT, Works Bill Won By A Bare Majority House Certain to Adopt it. Washington, Feb. 4-To the surprise of many of its own members and of outsiders generally, the senate Satur day afternoon gave just one vote more than the necessary Itwo-thirds in favor of the Works' constitutional amend ment, limiting the period of president and vice-president to one term of six years, thereby insuring that, if three fourths of the states ratify the proposed change of the next four years, the presidential term of Woodrow Wilson will be automatically extended two years, and he will be ineligible for re election, as will Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft. \There seems to be no doubt that the house of representatives will adopt the Works resolution or one practically identical with it. It is also expected that three-fourths of the state legisla tures will be found to be in favor of the iconstitutional change when it is submitted to them for ratification. The language which it's proposed to insert in the constitution in place of the first paragraph of article 2 in as follows: "The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America. The term of the office of president shall be six years, and no person who has held the office by election ' or discharged it powers or duties, or acted as president under the constitution and laws made in pursu ance thereof, shall be aligible to hold again the office by election." * Able Is Ambitious. In one of the Philadelphia settle ments the chief worker was telling the urchins of the right of every American youngster to aspire to the presidency of the United States. Little Able Eipk stein didn't take kindly to the sugges tion. "Why, Able, you are not a bit am bitious," said the worker. "Oh, yes, teacher, but not to be pres Ident," the lad replied. "I'd just like to be secretary of the navy so that I could ride In the boats whenever I waited to." Arcade Theatre Lake Charles, La., Monday, Feb. 10th America's Prize Laugh.Maker FFOY In the Smashing Musical Success "OVER THlE RIVER" With Original "Cabarat'" Show New York Company of loo And Gloe Theatre Beauty Chorus Seats Reserved Now PRICES -:- 50c to $S.oo INCOME TAX PART OF CONSTITUTION, Action by Deleware, Wyoming and New Mexico Finally Ratified the 16th Amendment.-Law May Pass in the Extra Session. Washington. February 3.-Direct taxes upon the incoming of citizens of the United States, whether derived from idle capital or from the conduct of business, were made possible today by the ratification of the sixteenth amend ment to the Federal constitution. Delaware, Wyoming and New Mexico, indorsing the income tax amendment through their respective Legislatures, completed a list of 38 States that have approved it, two (more than the three fourths necessary for its final adoption Leaders in Congress predicted to night that through this authorization the law, which will be passed to levy the tax upon American incomes, will be introduced as soon as the extra session opens. Its exact terms have not been decided upon, but it is believed will ex empt all incomes below $4000 or $5000; and will provide a tax of 1 per cent up on a majority of personal incomes that do not run to an excessive figure. The income tax will be designed to supplant the present corporation tax and Will apply to the incomes of indi viduals, firms and corporations. In a statement tonight, Representative Hull declared he' favored making the next tax an integral part of the financial system of the United States, to remain in full force without regard to the character of tariff bills that Congress may enact from time to time. A Universal Habit. The habit of reading the newspaper advertising is so universal that few people need to be urged to note what the merchants are saying about their stocks. Here and there is a merchant who has not realized ho v hopeless a process it is to clean out an old stock without the help of the newspaper. Nothing comes nowadays unless you get out and go after it. The public is listening, but it expects' the merchant to take the initiative. A dealer who does not advertise is looked at as not having enterprise enough to protect the interests of the public and to give them goods at bottom peices. "It pays to advertise," is a saying as common as can be. The press has done as much to develop successful business men as any one other agent in exis. tence. The story is told about the man who wanted to invest his money in some manufacturing enterprise. Even before he decided what he would manu. facture he had closed a big contract for spacelin the newspapers and maga. zines. And he prospered. It is the same at any point on the scale. The merchant in the small city reaps pro. portional bene~ts from advertising with the large department store in the leading cities in the country. People read advertisments; when the "ad" is changed regularly they get the habit and look at the accustomed space for something new. There's psychology in it, and the merchant who realizes this and plays up his wares is the one who keeps his stock moving.-Beau mont Enterprise. W. H. Walton, of Elton, Accidentally Kills Himself. Meager reports were received here Wednesday mot nng of the accidental killing of Wm. Henry Walton, one of the prominent young men of the Elton community whose death was caused by the accidental discharge of a shot gun in his own hands. Hearing a commotion in the yard; Walton got out of bed and taking his gun went out to ascertain the cause of the trouble, A shot was soon fired, and after Walton's failure to return to the house, his folk went out and found him dying in a pool of;his own blood flowing from a fatal wound in his side, occasioned by the accidental discharge of the gun he was carrying. Mr. Walton was one of the prominent young men of the Elton community, and was married but two weeks pre. vious to his death to Miss Emma Gossenbacher, of Elton. "The Merry Widow" "The Merry Widow" the sensational operetta of all the nations will be the attraction at the Arcade Theatre Lake Charles on Sunday Feb. i9th. A mag. nificent new production has been pre pared for the event by Henry W. Savage "The Merry Widow" has not yet been superceded as the queen of the,Vien ness operettas. It was the first to come to this country and it immediately set new standards in the entire field of musical comedy production. It has no rival. In the cast assembled for the new production, Mr. Savage has spared no expense and has succeeded in getting many of the originals together. Mabel Wilber will again sing Sonia. She has rested a season, after several arduous years in "The Merry Widow," and after studying several months is now better equipped than ever for the proper interpretation of the delightful Lehar music. Others of the originals who will be here are Charles Meakins, Oscar Figman, Arthur Wooley, F. J. McCarthy. Then there will be new and attractive Maxim girls. As usual, Mr. Savage will have with the company, the special "Merry Widow" orchestra. selected from the grand opera organi zations which be has trained for the past seasons. MMMXMXEMNXXMAX!MM !K j FOR SALE OR RENT 1 IA BARGAIN x On account of winding up an estate I will K SELL or RENT the 123 1-2 acres of land near the pumping station 12 miles from Welsh, on FRIDAY, FEB. 21,1913. 1 will be in Welsh on that day, at Mr. Smith's store. Don't miss this opportunity. Terms reasonable. J. STERNBERG. .... .....xx ,x,,xE x-r A Little Story I With a Big Point.... To the Editor of the New York Sun: Sir:-Twenty years ago on jSeptember 12 I gave up smoking two cigars a day at a co.t of 10 cents for both and took out a twenty year life insurance policy at a cost of $28,50 a 'ear, rather less than my two cigars cost, so I could still have an occasional smoke. I now find that the cash value of this policy is $711,32 which points a moral and adorns t ale, and I can prove it. Here is cold clam my cash enough to pay the " first inst::l;l:'nt on a ho1,usU or to uýe for many other purposes when the shadows fall to the eastward, as they are now doing. There are 200,000 young men in this city who can duplicate this experience. Needn't give up the cigars, but in some way or another they can save eight cents a day every day in the year. R. A. DIX. New York, August 14. WADE E. PLAUCHE Will write you in the Pittsburg Life the BEST Man Has No Choice. The reason a man should marry a woman who is his superior is because he will have to It he marries at al- Galveston News.