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SPARISH NEWS. The Gc claimed Day for Point,,a-la-Hache. An or, Mr. Walter Andignae visited his New Or] mother here Monday. morated Mrs. L. Rigaud, of New Orleans, was that day the guest of her daughter, Mrs. N. orange, Rigaud the first of the week. the busi Mr. Clarence Faret left this week oranges for Covington to attend St. Paul's girls. T) College. He was accompanied by his through mother, Mrs. G. Favret, and Mr. B. A. ing picta Faret. papers favret. All or Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Favret and little in prov daughter are visiting relativeA in Al- write t glers. Exhibit Mt. D. M. Knight, of Port Eada, was The ( here this week. He left Thursdag for to take New Orleans. free of Mr; and Mrs. F. C. Mevers Jr., and shipped little son spent several days with rel atives here the first of the week. .. Resol Auessmaent of the Parish for 1914 Coast ( V place o Value of $13780.45 7 the offi Lotnd 501.90 a la He Improvements 5420.60 ment t Mules. horses & cattle 622.55 and th Wagas, earts, autos 114.90 M)jav 413e in trade 887.80 S. B ýA1tio m and Corporationf 574834A SteIs and power boats . 701;60 property employed in the oyster industry 740.90 Estate Total Masesment of Whitr $2688.08 Total ,Uessniett of Colored 1646.10 N - -the on Total assment $28014.18 quired Parsh tx $16872 throu State tax 14007.06 Ex-off Lak* Borgle Dist. aereage tax 3208.85 of 14 o~~gU D. 10 mill tax 8491.50 by S G vfririe ). acreagetax 640.60 be G rie D. 10 all tax ' 1.0 AcaJreage tax 2729.55 the le LLo iC 10 mill tax 8279.0 eiast Bara 1t. iI tax 747.43 Forty Plae uletnaS u e. tax .10895.00 and b Con. Vet. tax idu l 2801.41 Goad Road t "x 718.17 Ad, Rcad Dist. No. 1 10 mill tax 7723.80 S eio-Plaqe.t 11630.50 estat V•alse Drainage ac. 'tax. 5185625 was Poll taxes 1006.00 fo 46, I otal ies a10452.4 n This R epetfually submitted as a true andthei rrt . lat .:. "M. COGNEVICH, the Assessor. ' aof Louislana, Parish of "PC I qe's&q nines. The 0-18 "al poyle. No. t ntd Judcial et M. 4 o sale to medirected e B tI g: TwenR3y-Ninlth r oplaquemines, dated the 12th Jud in the above Par hve sised atud will day s W~iell at public auction, atthe ent ~- V tb tPatintO al* BaebbyLA pro ~i~, dy sof tis'dmioth oi gt, *,I .11 o'elock, a. m., on av behaiRe ~t diat, mt by 6 B at jpdo t~ *s withG -arch ~' Orange Day. The Governor of Louisiana has pro claimed Thursday Nov. 19th, as Orange Day for the Louisiana orange Growers. An orange exhibition will be held in New Orleans. Arrangements are be ing made to have all ot the stores dec orated in orange and green colors on da that day. Motor trucks decorated in ,:. orange and green will be moved through - the business district and pyramids of oranges will be given away by pretty to girls. The day will be widely advertised a throughout the country, both by trov ing pictures and publications in news papers and fruit journals. All orange grower3 desiring to assist I in providing funds or oranges please I write to or get in touch with the i Exhibition Committee, New Orleans. The Grand Island Ralroad has agreed i to talke the gift of oranges to the city " free of charge. Branges should be lI shipped on or before Monday the 16th. a' S - Notice. Resolved that a meeting of the Lower i Coast Gazette Co. is called to take place on 21st. day November 1914 at the office of the said company at Pointe a la Hache at noon, to consider amend ment to the charter of said company and the decrease of its capital stock. FRANK C. MEVERS, President. S. B. MEVERS, Secty. Notice. October 1, 1914. 0 Estate of Joseph Doyle, 8 Bertrndville, La. Notice is hetkby given to you that the underdigned, on M~ay 18th, 1912, ac quired from the State of Louisiana, through Frank C. Mevers, Sheriff and Ex-officio Tax Collector for the Parish 5 of Plaquemines, State of Louisiana, Sby Sherlff's deed, the following de scibed propertyJs sel A certain tract of land situated on gty the left Bank of the Mississippi river, to, measuring, One (1) arpent front by an Forty (40) arpents in depth, bounded th above by the lands of Mrs. A. Walker, d. and below by lands of Fanny Planta- br tion. th Advertised and sold for taxes for the year 1911 assessed in the name of the B estate of Joseph Doyle. The Tax deed s~ was registered in the Conveyance Office ;" for the Parish of Plaquemines in book t! 46, No. 179, folio 670, on June 1st, 1912 e~ This notice is given in accordance with n' the provisions of Act 224 of the legis lature of the State of Louisiana for.~ s the year 1910. WM. DYMOND, Wills Point, La. L The State of Louisiana, Parish of Plaquemines. Mt . Pederson Co. Ltd. vs Pine Grove Realty Co. Ltd. No. 1141. Twenty P Ninth Judicial District Court. d By virtue of and in obedience to an h rdei of seizure and sale to me direct , a 'by the Inoerable the T.wenty-Ninth1 h Judicial District Court in and for the e Parish of Plaquemines, dated the 16th l day of September 1914, in the above e entitled.suit, I have seized and will SpoCeeLt4o sell at public auction at the h :Cot Housd-at Pointe a la Hathe, La. i on eiSatuidaY the 21st: day of the month SoNovember, 1914 at 11 o'clock a. m. the following described property to wi RA: -. ' traet or parcel of teg ontid togethe 'lth all the buildings _Ad a'mprovements thereon, and -all the ,I gi- ways, p1rivileges and advant arS thereOn or ini anywise appertain S1iDn eitue te ink the Parish f .Plaque id- inthaw State of Louisiana, on the right d*eendin. bank of the Mississippi o! River at a'distance of about twenty thl two miles below the City of New Or- inc leans, and measuring one half arpent .t, front' on said Mississippi River .by L trty arpents in depth, bounded below of y lands now belopnging unt Albert en Ivant, recibtly conveyed to Nathan Riley by Mr. George Alfred Hero, and of above by remaining property of said of George Alfred Here.., e The herein mortgaged property is e part of the tract or portion wirked "J. di Ws Davis~Wn a plan of ahlawn Plan h tation madi by C. Unfs Lewis, Sur- a iveyr,. under: date of July 29th, 1876, es :'snnked, to ;refreeee to an act passed pI led,;.fr Nathsa Riley R :per act be - fore- Lois A. lhubert, Notary, Public d I in NAew OrleaS, dated February lit, lv 1I913, t1tered In the Cmiweynce of- e, i Book 47, -Folio- 273. t F Termot:of Sise: Cash: ' b Do . fo ANK C. MovERS, I e :.leriff of the Parish of ?S'dla inquemine P- O and Telephone,. 1 i' d.ca E.. tle do not eýýirs~ b~B"i ag ttlpe , " a !M; z ; i-i _ m ý : Charter of the Geraty Wholesale i W Plant Company, Incorporated. P] United States of America, 1 State of Lounislaa, re I Parish of Orleans, it City of New Orleans. t[ 'B IT KNOWN, That on this 13th Sclay of the month of October in the 'year Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen q, (1914. el i. L'O[~& ME, Eraste Vidrine, a no-,n Stary public, duly commissioned, quali- SI ned and sworn, in and for the above: na.med Parish and State, personally 5came and appeared the several per- i Sons, whose names are hereunto sub- I t 1cribed, w:lo each and all declared: i That, availing themselves of the I laws of the State of Louisiana, on the. d subject of the incorporation of corpo- p zatiolns, and especially of Act 267 of e the Legislat:uie of the State of Louisi- I L ana for the year 1914, they have anui do by these presents, organize and con stitute themselves into a corporation and body politic in law under the fol-] r lowing stlpulations and provisionsu e which they hereby adopt, as their Lt ..~tacles of incorporation, or charter, e to-wit: 1 i" ARTICLE I. `y? It name of this Curporation shallI The Geraty Wholesale Plant Company, incorporated, ' A,., ;t d.rnmiceil is hereby declared to and itS comleul' its ar·Cr;; u ijN.ýý be at, Harlem Plantation, in the Par-i ishl of Plaquemines, State of louis!- e: ana. . 'Ths Corporation shall have and en- P joy corporate existence and successionl el for and during a period of Ninety-nine a (99) years, unless sooner dissolved. 1h ARTICLE II. The objects and purposes of this o Corporation and the nature of the busl- C nets to 1e carried on by it are hereby t declared to be, the .cultivation and: selling of vegetable plants and nursery stuck, the owning or leasing of lands bt for this purpose and for the cultivatioa and sale o, truck and farm products, the right to buy and sell farm pro ducts for others on commission or brokerage, including the doing of any- 1 thing that may be incidental to the said purposes ?.nd necessary for their suc(cessful accomplishment. The cor poration shall have the po er to ac quire from James Ray Geraty,. for-I erly of Youge's Island, S. C., the tust ness of raising and selling at whole sale, vegetable plants and nursery stock heretofore carried on by him inii tlhw name of James Ray Geraty, to gBther with the good will of said busi-i iss and mailing lists, and shall, have tIe piowe 'to acquire suchl mules, im Sple,;nepts, farming equipment and sup pites, froin Warren Buckle:, of Haren. Plantation, La.. and Charles W. Buck ley, of Chicago, Ill., as the Board of Directors may desire, and in payment thereof, to issue full paid common. stoqk of this Corporation as herein &!ter pric ided. S .ARTICLE III. Th Tlmc capital stock of this Corpora ve tion is hereby fixed at Ten Thousand i ID )ollars ($I0,00.U.00); of wheh five thou he sand dollars (15,000.00) shall be com moni stock.. and five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) shall be praefered StOCK, Ir which- capital stock shall consist of I fifty (50)1 shares of one hundred dol lars ($100.00) each of common stock, a and two hundred (200) shares of) e twenty-five dollags ($25.00) each o preferred stock. The preferred stock shall have no voting power of any sort whatsoever, and shall not be consider- a ed as affecting the amount of the stock' of the Corporation in .onnection with the amendment of the chatter, or the increase or decrease oft the capital t stock as provided for by Act 267 of the Legislature ct the State of Louisiana of 1914. The preferred stock shall be entitled to receive an annual dividend of Ten Per Cent (10%), payable out of the net profits of the Company for the ;revious year, prior to the hold ers of the common stock receiving any dividend upon their common s;.tock holdings. This ten per Cent (10%) annual dividend on the preferred stnck shall; however, not be cumulative. The preferred stock shall bb subject .to re. demption by the Company at any time l at, pr after. thirty days', notice by the i CdFn by aiLt, addressed to the last % knoft dress of such preferred stockI ih # b shown by the b'ook of thI E dinlany, such notice to contain ad , vice of~"thle intention of the Company so tai odt.em said stock. If. earned, a t pro rata of the annual divideuid up to ithe date' of ridemption shall be paid U thni'of redelptlon.' 'he preferred I .,... a1.,n ,antld by the Board 'of Directors tor not, les the, par to W i paid for on such terms and condi tions as it may determinre. ..The Board of Directorsh of this Cor potatfi is authorized Ito purchase tl fhor Mr. Wa'i h Buckley, of Harlem q Plaidtatkn, t-Lisiana, and Charles W.1 Jluckhly of Ihicago, Illinois, the fol lo wini it' te f6llowing prices, to-wit: o e 23 miule. at two hun S. dred ollars. t$20o0)eaoi.. $400.09:O i1Trwo .(2 disc cultivators at. . ; twenty dollars ($20) each. 40.00 It I-P~3Y ) dise hiarrows at Sfitteei dollars ($) each.. 45 .01 |e Two " e) c,'o "ciuitivatbris at' - 'fl .dillar , ($1i) each.. 3r0.00 1 -o .-a; r ar ow .br.-l '* 10.00" S w~ater ...r cart......... 50. Otn Hl. e tgl IL P. Fair- : . (o) aokr eeoplwa at ' ^ys": :r~o? wihich said property is now at Harlem Plantation, Plaquemines Parish, Loitisi Sna, and to issue, full paid common *t ck of this Corporation to said War rcn Buckley and Charles W. Buckley in payment of the purchase pr:m' thereof. The Board of Directors of this C('r poraticn :lHall have the right to ac quire from .ames Ray Geraty, form erly of Yonge.' Island, S. C., the busi - ness of raising and selling at whole sale, vegetable plants and nurs::y I stock heretofore carried on by him in the name of James Ray Geraty, -fo gether with the good will of said bust ness ai:d Iailing lists, and is author ized to pay therefor the sum of twenty Slive hundred dollars ($2,500.00) in the .full paid comon stock of this cor > poration. The Board of Directors of this Cor i- poration, who are the Incorporators, hereby appraise the property thus to 1 be acquired from Warren Bfuckley and a Charles W. Buckley, and from James i- Ray Geraty at the values herein-above s recited. t ARTICLE IV. r, The capital stock of this Corpora tion may be increased to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,C00.00!, coim .11 posed of fift:en thousand dollars ($15, 000.('0) of preferred stock, and ten , thousand dollars ($10.000.0)) of com mon stock. to ARTICI.E V. All of the eorporrite powers of this c.rporation shall vest in and be e.x er cised by. a Board of Directors corn- i N posed of three (3) common stockhold- IA ers of this Coiporation to be elected at a meeting of the common stock holders 'held for that purpose, which meeting shall be held at the domicile of the Company on the first Monday o of June of each year, beginning with i"th first M'onday of Juue, 1915, notice If" o hf which meeting shall be g:ven to J' 1.each common stockholder at least fif- A ' .teen (15) days prior to such meeting, Seit~her perronally or by depositing said ~notice in the lpoteffice properly ad dressed to the last known address of ' such common stockholder as shown by r the books of the corporation, at least r- 15 days before such meeting. e The first Board ef piroctors of this Corporat!on is declared to be con. 3 r posed of Janies Ray Geraty of Pheonix, A r- a., Wa; ren lniftkle. of .Pheonix. Ia., e- and Charles W." Buckley of 39 Board L: of Trade Building, Chicago. Illinois. The tirst Board of' Dfir ctorz. aes i- hereinabove consti:utod :'hll 'old of e- ee :imtil the first !M.Qncay in June, ry 1915, or until their successors shall i have een duly electsd and cualifted. The Board of Directors of this Cor 1 poration shall, immediately aftt r their s- election and qualification-.for office, se ve lect from among their l umbnib a Presi. - dent, a Vi.,e-I';es'dert and a iEreltar. Treasurer. The first 1?e.idcýit .f th's C'rpora tion shall be James Ray etraty.; -tie ;k. tinrt Vice-President of th's r'o pora of tion shall be Charles W. Buc! ley; the , i rst Secretary-Treasurer of this Co-.i poratin abail he warrent t;Sn y, ian, , they shall continue,in office until their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified, - At 'such electlion,. each common stockholder shall be entitled to cast one vote, either in person or by written proxy for srch Board of Di-. rectors, but voting shall not be camu 'ative. The said Board. of Directors shal! ,have power -to apolnt as'ents fa, employees 'for this .corporation or to remove the samil at pleasure, and the shall also have the power to fill any vacancy in their number aid shall make such By-Laws from time to time, and amend the same as they may deem expedient. . AR. TICLE VI. This charter may be amended, the capital stock increased or de':" ea3t d o. I this Corpbraticn htssolved in accord ance with the provisions of ACt 267 of ' the Legislature of the Stats of Louist- at ana for the'yenr 1914. " t THUS tON'E A.ND SIGNED at my ",', office in New Orleans, Louisiana, 'in In i the presence. of Messrs.. E. Lloyd Po- 1h sey and (has. A. Frieta,. competent h( witnesses, after due reading of the .1 'whole, the subscribers to this ccr'o - I Stipn hereby affixing after their names the amount of each stock respectively P t.subscribed for by- them, and hereby declaring this to constitute their stoc:. r subscription list. - 'Nanie, 'Warrent Buckley; address, , y Pheonix, La.: kind of. stock, common; number of shares, Thirteen (13). Name, James Ray Geraty; address, | Phoenix, La.; kind of stock, common; 9 k number of shares, twenty-five (25). 5 Name, C. W. Bluckley, up. John Dy- . . 'mond, Jr., 39 Bd.cof Trade Pldg., Chi cage, Ill.; kind of stock, common; e number of shares, twelve (12) 1 te Witnesses: ""IRASTTE VIDRINE at LlloYd'Posey, Notary Pul:c. C has. A. .Frietag. [Seal] I certify the -abve and for.going to be, a true copy of the original op file In the archives of my office. ]ERASTE VIDRIN'I, SNotary Public. Recorded in "Charter" Book No. 1, folio' 18, of this Parish on October 2 1. 114. , (8igned) lRNEST ALB]IRTI, i Seal) Clerk, lte. Notice. October 23, 1914. Notice is hereby given to you that the underpigned on May. 20; 1905, ac quired from the State of Louisiana, through Frank C. Meyeis, Sheriff and ºx-Oeicio Tax Collector, for the parish of Plaquemines and the State of Louis isna, by.sherjfs'5 deed, the following d escribed property to-wit: "A certain tract of land situated en 0 the eft'bank of the Mississippi river a d!ignatedas two arpnts front by 0 forty s pents dpt ih boundi d above by lands of Haspel and Davis and be 0 low by ands of Union Benevolent As 1 dvertised and sold fortaxes for the year 1914, assessed in the name of William Brancl ,Sr. The tax deed woa O ' te'ed. in the" conveyance office f o6 trish of Flaq mbines in C. 0. B. io.121, folio'582.. 7j~ The State of Louisiana, Parich of Plaquemines. Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court No. 1067. Succession of Mary Duflmin Notice is hereby given to the credit ors of this estate, and to all other per sons herein interested, to show cause within ten days from the present not ification (if any they have or can) why the account presented by C. C. Le blanc, Executor should not be homol ogated and the funds distributed in ac cordance therewith. By order of the Court. ERNEST ALBERTI, Clerk of Court. Parish of Plaquemines. i L11l PROFESSIONAL CARIS. WALLACE A. NUNEZ, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 314 Godchaux Bldg. Will prac tice in New Orleans, St. Bern ard and Plaquemines. NEw ORLEANS i .......... ------- - e IPEREZ & MEVERS, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Office 718 Hibernia Bank Bldg. Telephone Main. 1670, practic ing in the Parishes of St. Ber nard and Plaquemines. NEw ORLEANS -iN. H. NUNEZ, I ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 407 Morris Bldg. District At torney for the Parishes of St. Bernard & Plaquemines. Phone Si M, 3378. Hours 10to 12 a. m. . NEw ORLEANS c JOHN DYMOND, JR., ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Civil Law a Specialty. Prae d tice in State and Federal Courts. 1 Suite 1005-1009 Maison Blanche NEw ORLEANS t JAS. WILKINSON, , ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. d 137 CaroRdelet Street. Fourth I Floor. Take Elevator :: :: , NEW ORLEANS •r- !: i-r ; STANDARD OIL CO. i of LQUISIANA. Represented by rIW. A. RODRIGUtEZ; Sub-Agt. .L EMPIRE, LA. hei Warehouse at Doallutt'sCimal. Phone °-' I Long Distance, Doullut's Canal. Llr .. " .. - . .. -.~ You Can Paint Your at a small cost if you- use' proper ma terials, but, it is an expensive job if y,' oudon't know how." Write us for n aformation if you intend to Paint your . house, barn or fences; we can tell you t how to do it most economically because e we have bad the experience and we . manufacture the right kind of Paints. s You can get anything you heed in the . Paint line from us. , Home Paint Store, WELlAM P. BRICKELL, MOR. s, New Orleans, L ouisiana LEO UIFFYI Sutoe te APPEL &. lY. Solicits your shipM ments of Louisiana Oranges, Mandarins, ad s- Grape Fruit and yeg ing etables. on ver ,by we be As the }.2% PSt STREET. • ... 8,s Io 5n s - ,,: o , 4 -! A r St. Bernard Cypress Co., Ltd. ARIBI P. O. LA. -MANUFACTURERS Band-Sawed Red Cypress LUMBER, SHINGLES AND LATHS, Rough or Dressed. Special Attention for House Bills. Get Our;Prices. Launch Standard EUG. DE ARMAS. M. 0. BU RAS and M. G. BURAS, Own ers; Eng de Armas, Mas tere: J. C. zE AkMAS, Clerk Leaving Wednesdays and Sat urdays at 6 o'clock a. m. Wed nesdays for Port Eads. Satur days for Venice. Returning Thursdays and Sundays. Freight received Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays foot of Ursuline Street. Murray Hill Club Whiskey SOL LEVI, Agent. - i .. PHONE ALGIERS 22. Funeral P-- and be Cumberland Cnneti . JOHN A. BARRETT, .. Undertaker• CORNER VALLET & PELICAN AVE. oIT' AND OOUNTRY ORDER# ALGIERS, LA. PROMPTLY ATTEINDID TO.. FrFTr DISTrCT of WSW ORLEANI H. F. LOCr, Pres.; VAi.A. FABIAN, Vice-Free.; E.W. LaCHTE,. S.& ,Trbas. The HENRY LOCHTE & CO., Ltd. Wholesale Grocers and I orter WINES and LIQUORS. i3,3t, 321 323 ad 325 TchouitlaS Strut 1a e. 421 ki Wit New Orlean,. Louisiana. bpeoial Attention Will be. iven to Mall Orders Jcob Funeral Dairectors Jacob And Embalmers Schoen .Co Ausjrt BGi And :PfoMIt Attural . N51s- 342 &Itan 1 o~ds Av Ph.one -.e,~iloC 1001. New Orleans, Louislanf, SPhone, Hemlocek 1001 HEADQUARTER FOR LOUISIANA O NG I§ JOHN MEYER, Fruit and Prod ucs awd aQmoral CemmissieA 4 Merchant. 218 Peydras Street, New Orleans, La . SEED POTATOES A SPECIALTY. Special attention givenc to prod c shipneuts "f al "kia. Correspondence solicited, any reference fui~iihed h' appllaes*A The First CoasidcrFtien la Life lsuratibe Is SSECURIrTY iEs The Equitable Life Occupies a Pre-eminent Posti*in as to Fiaail8i STRENGTH . C. ELDE Anr ANK L. L . Special Agent ( eeral AS, N ore US Willianls-Richardson Co., Limited and Men's Furnishing O( 2O9-Zi"m . -8 &-215 Magazine Street. 512 CosOn Street. 5si Otavior Street. nu um w--, :. The Bollwinkle Bea Ce. Ltd. DEALERS IN Flower, Farm and Garden Seeds. S52 DUMAIN ST. NEW ORIEANI. G. V. GROLEAU Hotary Public. I range, Truck, Rice and Wet Lads for Sal. Notarial Work Solicited i :.ai parts of the Parish. ABSTRACTOR OF LANDS AND SEXAMINE oF TITLES. DIAMOND, LA. Q --