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THE WEEKLY MESSENGER. Official Journal of the Town of St. Martinville. . JUSTICE TO ALL. . Subscription si,oo per year in advance. VOL. XIX. ST. MARTINVILLE, LA., SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1904. Nc. 2'4. Where Cleanluaess Is lext To Godlless paint plays an lmortant part A newly painted hboeo is an olen as it looks. especiall· when DEVOE S ready mixed colors are used. Every S9 honuewife should insist that the bet paints should be need in the house. ) T. J. Labbe. )e J - IF YOU WANT FIRST CLASS WORK CENTRAL BARBER SHOP S " "STRICTLY UP-TO-DATE. SHAMPOO . - - - - sCENTB. SEA FOAM - - - - - - - CENTS. HAIR CUT ANY STYLE - - 25 (ENTI" SSHAVING ..- - - - 15 IKNTS. HAIRB BINGEING - - - - 15C ENTS. -_ .-;,, · /, . A"RL WORK QUARRNTHH 'V JULES FRANCOIS, i ST. MARTINVILLE, LA. CHARLES GUIRARD, I 13AKERY 'AKES BEST BREAD WITH BEST FLOUR. LOrders received for any kind of Bread. BREAD DILIVERED AT RESIDENCE SEND IN YOUR ORDER & GET THE BEST. :O.% SoSthern Pacific, f SUNSET O ROUTE m Sunset Route. O M. L. & T. R.R. R. - S. S. Co. W. L. R. R. Unquestionably The Best Route to principal points ....IN..... TEXAS. -NEW & OLD MEXICO, & PACIFIC COAST. PULLMAN STANDARD SLEEPERS. TOURIST EXCURSION SLEEPERS. SUPEROR DINING CAR SERVICE. Through to California without change. For Full Information, Tickets, Sleepers, Reserva tions, apply to any agent of the Company, or W. H. Masters, Traffic Manager, New Orleans, La. F. E. Betters, Ass. Gen. Pass. Agt. New Orleans. C. W. Owen, Div. Pass. Agt. New Iberia, La. . i .IN ALL ITS BRANCHES AT THIS OFFICE. A young man who contemplated matrimony was hesitating about making a choice between two young ladies. One of themuoould play on the piano to beat the , but when it came to cooki a meal or making a cake, she would not grade above 40 per cent. The other didn't know how to play Yankee Dookle, but she could cook a meal that would make a men hungry just to look at it. Finally the young fellow asked the advice of an old man who had been married a at many years and had pickedf a good bit of in formation as he came own the pii. .'Young fellow," said the old man, "my observation is that as a man gets older he gradually losses interest in pianos, but the older he gets the more particular his stomach becomes. If you take my advice you will provide for the future of your stomach and take your chances in getting enough music on the outside to satisfy your taste for melody." There is more Catarrh in this section of the eouqtry than all other diseases put td~ether, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronouesed it a loeal disease and preseribed leeal re medies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treatment. pronouneed it in curable. Science has provesn catarrh to be a coltitulional diseases and there fore requires constitutional treaument. Hall's Catarrb Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional care on the market. It is taken internally In doses, from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It sets directly on the blood and mueons surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any ease it falils to uere. F. J. CHBNKY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggist. 7le Hall's Family Pills are the best. The story is one of a young man who went to a ball with his sister. He was a very enthusiastic dan cer, and in the course of his dan cing on this particular occasion he felt-and possible heard-some thing beginning to rip, under his - coat tails. He caught his sister's eye and they retired to a side room, where she made an investi gation, and said, "Freddy, you'll have to take them off; I will hunt up a needle and thread and I'll sew them up here." go Freddie took them off and sat around in his fgnnels while his devoted sis ter was mending his trousers. They heard a rustling skirts coming toward the room where they were, and they realised at that time that they were in the la dies' dressing room. The young ladies that were coming kept on approaching, and Freddie didn't know what to do, but his sister, being very quick witted, said, "Here, Freddiel you'll have to get into this cupboard!" and she open ed a door just back of him and pushed him through before he knew what was up, turned the key on him, and then turned, to talk to the young ladies as they came in. But there was an awful ham mering on the back of the door, auO Freddie, on the other side, was shoutinK, "Mary! Mary! for goodness' sake, I'm in the ball room!" And be was.--Ez. whst to do Ut the Decer AMave. It it is a case of eoie or eoler mror bus give Chambedarllb Celle, Cholera sa ud DiarMrhoea emedy ad ye wiM have so seed of a docter. For sale a$ Laubu's. -Big Bargains in Mattin this week at L. C. Duchamp. SDRIUGS. DRUGS, If You Want to Savo Money, Buy Your Drugs from , L. C. DUCHAMP, Seing An Old duggist, He Can Talk Drugs to You. ,* AMIERICAN PAINT . Is the oaly pslat for this Clmate, It coves more, is more glossy, sad asigopp ed thne any other palate on the market. . . -. ,, -- --, "r,'"--"-"*." FIRE INSURANCE. I have opened a Fire Insurance Agency, with office at the Bank of St. Martinville building. If you need Fire Insurance a phone message or a postal card will bring me to your place. Give me a chance to talk Fire Insurance to you, P. A. BIENVENU. J. J. BURDIN & BRO., $ RED CYPRESS LUIBER, SHINGLES, CISTERNS, SYRUP BARRELS & BRICIS, . Adl carry a large stock of le Lieaf TOuSw PtNa LAumb Fleuw, MIug u D1e t 0111. . WCALL AND SEE US AND SAVE SORl0 0NBY. TYPEWRITING PAPER OF ALL ..... GRADE....., AT THE MESSENGER OFFICE. Do you ever think how sale your money is in a bank? It has ever), possible protection against fire and theft The money that you carry about with you or that you Sleave at home is not safe. Open an account to-day. 1I,oo starts you. We pay 3 per cent interest, CALL AND GET A STIMEL BANK. Bank of St. Martinville.