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THIE ST. TAMMDANY FARMER
On Sale EFery Saturday at
SO)NIAI'S and WATKINS DRUG
STORE. CovingtonO
IDEAL PHAtRMACI, Madison
ville. Five Cents Per Cop. he St. Tamm Fam er SECTION ONE
D. 1H. MASON, Editor COVINGTON, LA., SATURDAY, IDECEMBER 21, 1918 VOL. 45 No. 5
SCHONBERG'S IS
BROKEN INTO
SECOND TIME
IN MONTH
Door In Rear of Premises
Cut Into and Hand Put
Through Hole.
LITTLE MONEY IS
FOUND BY THIEVES
Supposed To Be The Work
of Juveniles-Second
Robbery of Store.
Thieves entered Schonberg's Phar
macy, in the Southern Ilotel build
ing, Monday night. A Large window
was removed from a room at the rear
of the store, which admitted the
thief into a storeroom. There a
brace and bit was obtained and an
attempt was made to bore a hole in
the rear door beside a bolt, but the
job was completed with a shart knife.
A hole was cut, through which the
hand was thrust and the bolt drawn.
It is not known just what was
taken. Seventy cents in cash was
got from the register. When goods
are checked over, it may be found
that cigars and other things were
taken.
This is the second time this place
has been robbed, and evidently the
thievery is (lone by juveniles, for the
hole cut in the door will not admit
the hand of a full grown person. It
is also evident that the robbery was
committed by some one who is
familiar with the premises.
DISTRICT COURT
BUSINESS.
(Continued from last week)
Dr. Ily. S. Cochran vs. Heirs of
Porter. Judgment by default.
State vs. Jas. Jolly, charged with
murder; mis-trial.
State vs. Walter LyruCz. charged
with murder. Verdict of guilty of
manslaughter, and the Court impos
ed sentence of imprisonment in peni
tentiary at hard labor for period of
not less than 15. nor more than 20
years.
There were lif een parties found
guilty of failure to dip cattle and the
Court imposed a fine of .$ I u.o0 and
costa or imprisonment in parish jail
for 10 days. In all these cases the
Court suspended the payment of the
fine upon payment of the cost;.
Lorie Haynes vs. Henry Luckee.
Judgment for plaintiff as prayed for.
Mrs. Hiram Gaines, Jr., vs. Hiram
Gaines, Jr. Judgment by default.
Covington Bank & Trust Co. vs.
Jacob Rosenthal. Judgment by de
fault.
State vs .John Elliott, convicted of
crippling a horse. The Court impos
ed a fine of $100 and cost:;, and in
default 60 days in jail.
State vs. Hernard Delpit. Plead
guilty to violating the Sunday Law.
.The Court imposed a fine of $25.00
and costs and in default 60 days in
parish jail.
State vs. Gen. Owens. Plead guil
ty to murder of his wife. The Court
sentenced him to the state peniten
tiary for the period of his natural
life.
State vs. Sol Calahan. Plead guil
ty to carnal knowledge and Court
sentenced himn to penitentiary for a
period of not less than one nor more
than two years.
State vs. David .iones. Plead guil
ty to carrying concealed weapons.
Court imposed tine of $25.) and costs
and in default to two years in jail.
State vs. Willie Miller. Ple:ad guil
ty to carrying concealed weap.ons.
Court imposed fine of $250) and costs
and in default two year; in parish
Jail.
State vs. Frank Piervy. convicted
of cutting with intent to ki.l. Court
sentenced him to impr:sonment in
the penitentiary for 12 months and
to pay costs. Sentence suspended
upon payment of costs.
A. Adler & Co. vs. G. A. and H. H..
Bourgeois. Judgment by default as
to G. A. Bourgeois.
Eliza Maxin vs. Yorick Maxin.
Judgment by default.
Morgan Wallace vs. Daisy Dixon
Wallace. Judgment by default.
State vs. E. H. Nail. Plead guilty
to violating Sunday Law. Court im
posed a fine of $25 and costs and in
default 60 days in jail.
Crandall-Brown Lbr. Co. vs. K'ein
Rogers Co. Judgment for plaintiff.
Rev. H. G. Randle vs. Alice Tate.
Judgment by default.
State vs. Emma Moody, convicted
-f cutting and wounding. The Court
sentenced her to six months in jail.
Sentence suspended.
Caroline McDearby vs. Richard Mc
Dearby. Judgment by default.
The ca e of Buck Tyrner, charged I
lith murder, consumed several days I
f .the court's time. The jury re
lurned a verdict of guilty of man
ouaghter, Monday night.
WHOLESALE AND
RETAIL MEN
MUST COMPLY
SAYS PARKER
Food Control Rule Will Be
Strictly Construed
From Now On.
CLOSE UP PENALTY
INSTEAD OF FINES
Wilson, Hoover May Send
Messages from Europe
As To Food.
Recent talxs to wholesalers and
brokers by John M. Parker, Food
Adminis:rator for Louisiana, and J.
M. Wi:zen, assistant food adminis
trator, intimated a spectacular finish
for th% department which has been
performing broad public service
since the beginning of the great war.
The addresses were more signifi
cant because they followed immedi
ately upon the visit of United States
Food Administration inspection par
ties from Washington. These went
over the records and transactions of
a number of concerns, and while
they gave a gratifying general bill of
health they raised questions regard
ing a number of practices which are
being passed upon at Washington,
and which may result in penalties
being imposed in high places.
Mr. Parker struck the keynote of
the new order when he warned
wholesalers and retailers alike that
the Food Control rules would be
strictly construed ,,'om*now on. In
stead of the payment of fines being
permitted, the sole and only punish
ment would-be the elosing of the ion
cerns for the remainder of the inter
val of the signing of peace with Ger
many, by revoking the licenses of the
wholesalers or placing the retailers
on the unfair list which would pro
hibit them from obtaining supplies.
The Food Administration has al
ready begun the dismantling of its
machinery and there will soon be
very little of the paraphernalia kept.
Food control proper, however, will
continue until the very last moment
and probably for some time there
after. The district and parish food
administrators, as well as the nation
al and state chiefs, have pledged
themselves to serve until the receive
their honorable discharges from Her
bert Hoover, United States Food Ad
ministrator, and Woodrow Wilson,
Presdent of the Uniteed States, and'
both these leaders intimate that
these discharges will not be granted
until the work is entirely at an end.
President Wilson and Mr. Hoover are
both in Europe and may send mes
sagesefrom there as to the food con
tribution and conservation required
of America in order to assure the
permanent peace'which the chief ex
ecutive has broken precedents by
crossing the ocean in order to facili
tate and guarantee.
One of the last local performances
promises to be as striking and las'
ing in its effect as the National Food
Administration finale. The women's
committee appointed by Mr. Parker
to recommend fair milk prices and
reforms connected with the supply,
may soon be ready to report. The
committee has sifted the matter more
thoroughly than any previous volun
teer body and is striving for some
permanent plane of public protection
as well as the encouragement and
iniprovement of production. It has
already announced that it regards
the purity and wholesomeness of the
supply and its effective safeguarding
as of equal importance with the fix
ing of a price which will make pro
ducers content to remain in business.
It is very likely that after the main
features of the report are agreed up
on, official and othler interests will be
consulted and asked to concur both
in the findings and their enforce
memnt. It is thought that this course
will quickly lead to the betterment
which has been the goal of long dis
cussion witho achieving the very
valuab:le results.
lhIRTHS, IJEATiS ANDI) MARRIAG
FS MUST RE RECORDED.
Under the law all 'births, deaths
and marriages must be recorded. I
will be found at my office in the
courthouse, in Covington. and re
quest that the law be complied with,
in order that my reports to the -nv
ernment may give accurate statisti
cal information.
KARL KQHNKE,
Registrar
MRS. H. KOTT ITZ.
Mrs. An'onia Alexander, beloved
wife of Herman Kottzwit, mother of
A rnn Kottzwitz, died VWdnesday. De
cember 4, 1918, at 3:34 a. m. Fun
eral took place Thursday morning,
Dec. 5. She was 68 years of age.
Re'ident of New Orl ns for fifty
years. She also resid~d in Coving
ton and Abita Sprin She was .a
very 'ist and charltabI.woman, and
left $500 for the poor.
,CAMP HOSPITAL BEING BUILT BY
RED CROSS IN ENGLISH REST CAMP
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THE BIG BANK
MAKES 17 PER
CENT DIVY
The board of directors of the Cov
;ngton Bank & Trust Company met
last Tuesday and reviewed the busi
ness of the bank for the year. Out
of the profits of the past six months
they declared the regular semi-an
nual dividend of live per cent and an
extra dividend of two per cent, both
payable on January 1st. Together
with the regular and extra dividends
paid last July, this makes 1 7 per cent
paid in dividends for the year, be
sides a good -amount to the reserve
account.
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SWEET' POTATO STORAGE.
Are your potatoes rotting? Most
peoples potatoes ha've already begun
rotting unusually bad. If rushed
onto the market now the price will
fall. There is but one solution of
the problem and that is to store them
in a storage house. Now do not
condemn this advice because of what
you heard about a storage house in
Covington last year. That house
was not properly arranged. But
judge this advice by the millions of
bushels of potatoes successfully kept
and the thousands of pleased farm
ers last year in this state because of
the storage houses;. Some' potatoes
were lost last year on account of
the following conditions: Shelves
too near heaters, bottom shelf too
near ground, no partitions in shelv
ing, no floor, no veiling, but mainly
no ventilators near ground.
The house is being remodeled and
made safe for curing potatoes now.
When it was made known to the
Great Southern Lumber Company at
Fogalusa, who donated the house to
the farmers of St. Tammany parish.
that the house did not give satisfac
tion last year, and that it was not
built according to Government plans,
our good neighbor of Washington
parish said to have the house put in
good shape at their expense.
All faults are being corrected.
Steam heat from the power house
will furnish a constant and reliable
temperature.
Potatoes should be handled care
fuly in bring to the house. They
should all be sound, apd brought in
boxes a foot deep rather than in
sacks as they wont bruise so easily
this way. Put straw in wagon body
before loading.
The house will receive potatoes
from Friday until Tuesday. unless
filled sooner. It will hold 2000
bushels. The charges will be for
actual expepse-from 2c to 10 c per
bushel, most likely. The more stor
ed the cheaper the cost per bushel.
These potatoes shoultd be worth
$1.50 to $2.00 per bushel in four
months. They are likely to rot this
year unless you cure in a house
where some of the surplus sap, due
to wet fall, can be taken out.
Every farmer near by is urged to
try a load in this house this year.
The house is yours. Use it.
KARL TREEN,
Club Agent.
MISS LULIU E. PHARIS.
Miss Lulu E. Pharis died at her
residence in Covington, Friday, De
cember 20, 19.18, shortly after nood.
The funeral will take place at 2:00
p. m. to-day, unles; the arrival of
her sister, Mrs. Wallis, f Liberty,
Miss., is delayed. The funeral ser
vices will be preached by Rev. Jas. E.
Selfe of the Methodist Church.
TO OUR READERS.
Delayed Christmas material, by ex
press, prevented such -a Christmas
editmon of The Farmer as had been
planned. However; there will be
found some Christmas reading that
'we hope -will be entertaining.
We wish our readers a Merry
Christmas and good luck for the
coming year.
Under the
Mistletoe
By RALPH HAMILTON
(Copyright, 118. Westem Newspae. Usrha.)
s T LACKED a week to
Christmas, but Ted
-4 JR 4 Newton, office boy for
Willis & Co., had been
In holiday humor since
the first of the month
and just now was
caught by the full in
fluence of Yuletide.
His eyes sparkled as
he lifted various pack
ages from a box that
had just arrived by ex
press. Amid his chuckling and gloat
ing smiles there came a check.
"What you got there, Ted?' sounded
a sudden voice, and Ted turned to be
confronted by his "boss."
"If you please, sir," he stammered,
"It's my regular Christmas box from
the folks home on the farm."
"Let's see what you've got, Ted,"
suggested John Willis, and he fished
out a cake of maple sugar, bit. off a
fragment and smacked his lips.
"Genuine stuff, eh?" he laughed
jovially.
"You're a lucky lad, Ted," stoke Mr.
Willis, his voice a trifle husky. Then
he went into his private office and for
ten minutes sat idly in his swivelchalr,
a dreamy, far away expression upon
his face.
"I can taste that maple sugar yet!"
he sighed finally. "Let me see, it's
two years since I've visited the old
home town. I'm ashamed of it, for
we've run down to Nellie's folks only
twice since we were married. Maybe
she's longing for a sight of the coun
try, too. Hello!"
He had picked up his mail and be
gan to rifle the slitted envelopes. The
frst lines of the letter he opened read:
"My dear daughter Nellie: We are
so hopeful that you may give us a
Christmas visit this year, and you
and Mr. Willis would be so welcome!"
"Why, this won't doI" ejaculated
John Willis, replacing the letter that
had been carelessly opened by the of
fice mail clerk. "Dear old peop'e-and
Nellie !"
His heart suddenly smote him. Nel
lie never murmured at the exactions
of business. Faithfully she seccom
panied him to social functions, and all
the time a conception of their hollow.
superficiality had ended in a dream of
the dear old life, where true hearts
and quiet, humble pleasures seemed to
beckon longingly.
"I'm going to take a run down to
the country to look after my old
home," John Willis told Nellie that
evening. "The tenant has left and I
want to see what can be done with It."
He returned two days later. "Saw
your folks, dear," he said, and Nellie's
famished soul greeted the tender word
like a cooling draught to a thirsting
spirit. "Look here, Tuesday is Christ
mas eve. Those snowclad hills at
home have made me hungry for a
sleigh ride. Be ready to take a rega
ar old-fashioned frolle." And there
awoke in Nellie the most extravagant
soul of hove.'
"Bundle up good," directed her hobu
band the next evening, as a double
team attahed to a- romoy eutter -
DOWLING GIVESI
ADVICE ON FLU_
INCREASE AND
PROTECTION
Warm, Impure Air, Close
Rooms Responsible for
Much Increase.
SCHOOLS MAY BE
EASILY CONTROLLED
Vitiated Air In Rooms Is
Not Fit To Breathe
Over Again.
The notable increase of gripp,
colds and other respiratory diseases
during the winter is not due to cold
weather, but to the artificial condi
tions under which people live. With
closed doors and windows tflere is de
fective ventilation; rooms are too hot
or too cold. Close, warm rooms, un
ventilated cars or other places where
people congregate, produce an en
feebled condition. Warmth and im
pure *air increase susceptibility to
disease. It is especially important at
all times not to breathe air that has
been vitiated by persons suffering
from diseases of the air passages.
Colds are contracted from persons
who are coughing, sneezing and spit
ting; they should be avoided. Child
ren with these symptoms should be
excluded from school. If there were
no colds to catch, they would not be
caught.
The recrudescence of influenza in
many sections is due largely to the
lack of co-operation. 'Information
has been widely published that the
influenza germ is transmitted by
means of the minute droplets, prin
cipally from the nose and throat of
an individual suffering from the dis
ease. Sneezing or coughing into the
air is particularly the method by
which the germ is given off. The
organisms may float in the atmos
phere for hours, but unless the in
fected material is kept warm and
moist the infection does not live long
dutside the body. Overcrowding
means its spread. The warning has
not been taken seriously.
Advice To Schools.
The incubation period of influenza,
it is conceded, is from one to four
days. This fact can be helpful to the
schools. If on the opening the pupils
could be examined, and those show
ing characteristics of cold be sent
home, with the same procedure for
several days, many, if not all, affect
ed, would be weeded out. A con-|
a'ant watch on those in attendance I
would keep the schools practically[
free from the disease.
The schools are more easily con
trolled than other places where peo-I
pie congregate.
Every one should try to remember
and put into effect in the home and[
office a few simple rules:
(Continued on page 4) 1
rived in front of the house. "Now,
then, snuggle under those robes and
let us see if I have forgotten how to
drive. Thirty miles--do you think
you can stand it?"
"Oh, John !" she almost gasped.
"That would be our home town. You
don't mean-"
"That I am going to take you to
your folks? Yes, dear, and stay there
with you over the holidays. I say,"
bracing and thrilling as they started
down a clear smooth road full speed,
"this is fike the old times, when I used
to steal a kiss from you, and- I'll
take one now !"
She was crying for joy. Her trem
bling hand stole to his arm and lightly
rested there. Her heart was singing
amid a newly awakened happiness.
"The river, hill and old bridge!"
shouted John an hour later, alive with
enthusiasm. "Bonfire on the skating
patch and-whoa! Nellie, this is my
Christmas present to you."
He had halted in front of the old
Willis homestead, pretentious in its
mansionlike beauty. "I've decided to
give up the crowded city. Well, what
is it?"
She could not tell him at that su
preme moment.
The merry sleigh bells rang out a
gay song of renewed youth and con
tentment in a dash for Nellie's old
home. She ran up the steps to greet
loving outstretched arms and fond
cries of heartsome welcome.
"Home at last!" cried John Willis,
bursting into the brightly decorated
parlor radiant with evergreen and
.hlly. "Why I you look like a girl
again, Nellie! Merry Christmas!" And
he kissed her under the mistletoe.
One
Christmas Eve
By OTILLIA F. PFBIFPER
(Oswpisgt, 11. Westers Newspaper Uass.)
LDEN REVERE loved
everybody, all the
world over, and all of
the time. It was natur
al, therefore, that he
should expand beyontd
all limit when Yule
tide came aMond.
There was a hidden
sorrow in his life, but
he had hot allowed it
to shadow the sunshine
of his nature. He had
saved up a tidy sum to marry win
some Viola >)eane. Without warning
she and her father had vanished, and
a week later it was learned by' the
city papers she had wedded a man
Revere had never heard of before.
A tear-stained note had come to
him In the handwriting of the being
he had loved and lost. It bore only
five words: "It had to be-forgive."
Revere had kissed Viola as his,
chosen bride under the mistletoe on
just such a snowy
moonlit occasion
as this Christmas
eve, ,and in the
loneliness of his
room he now sat,
wistfully, longing
ly, one by one
looking over the
mementoes of his
old love experl
ence. Finally he
put them away
and went down
stairs.
"Get your
skates, sister," he
h aIled briskly.
"We mustn't miss
a glorious night like this. The ice is
smooth and hard as glass. They're go
ing to have the town band and we'll
help the crowd keep happy. There;
go the chimes. Muffle up good and
warm, for it's snappy outside."
"Poor soul !" murmured Ruth, "think
ing only of others, when his heart may
be breaking.
They returned home two hours later,
lushed and enthusiastic over the raro
sport.
"Why, brother il"
At the doorstep Ruth paused, astare.
Her brother's eyes followed her own.
Upon the doorstep lay a basket. From
a swaddling mass of pillow and coun
terpane a tiny cry issued.
"Alden, it's a baby ! Oh, the cherub I
Quick Get it into the house. Yoq
angel! you treasure!" and under the
hanging lamp Ruth went into ecsta
sies while Alden whispered awe
Tsomely:
"What are we going to do with it?"
"Keep it, cherish it, love it, of
ourse!" cried Ruth. "Heaven has
sent it to bless our lonely lives. See,
there is a scrap of paper," and Ruth
snatched it up and read: "Becausq
Alden Revere is a man with a heart
lof gold, a poor mother leaves to him
the care of her child."
"I suppose I'd better hustle down
town and get a couple of gallons at
milk," suggested Alden.
"Oh, you men!" mildly scolded Ruth.
"There's plenty of milk in the house,
Alden!" she abruptly cried. "'My for
collar! It's gone! I lost it on the
river. Your presept last Christmas,
too. Oh, I remember now-I loosened
it In thoe old boat house and it must
,ave slipped off. Hurry and see."
Alden fairly skimmed the ground.
As he entered the shadowy boat house
his foot touched the missing collar.
_A iUh moan echoed et
XMAS ROLL CALL
A. R. C. IS GOING
ON NICELY, ALL
IN FIRING LINE
Figures Will Not Be Pub
lished Until Late
In the Drive
MAJOR MARKLEY
MAKES FINE TAL
"I'm Thru-enza" Is a New
Disease To Be Down
ed by Red Cross.
The Red Cross Christmas Roll Call
is progressing nicely, with every one
of the known workers on the firing
line. There will be few who will not
give up one dollar to help carry on
such work as is being done by this
noble order.
The weather interferes some with
the getting round and figures will
not be published until the canvass
has progressed further.
Ladies in charge of the Red Cross
booths stationed on the streets took
in $34.00 in one afternooA and 'be
fore the drive is over it is anticipated
that quite a sum will be added to the
fund in this way.
"I'm Thru-enza" has not attacked
many in this parish, that we have
heard of.' Following is a descrip
tion of the disease:
"With the cessation of hostilities
the Red Cross is called upon to Oom
bat a naw epidemic, originating this
time within its town ranks. The af
fliction is known as "I'm thru-ensa."
"The initial symptom is a sense ot
lassitude-a feeling of 'What's the
use? It's all over. Why should I
work?' Steps are being taken to
isolate the germ-also those who are
cprrying it.
"The epidemic is not widespread;
nevertheless an effort is being made
to stem its advance.
" 'Cold feet' is a marked symptom.
"Another indication of the pres
ence of the germ is forgetfulness
(that the boys are still over there.)
"The victim, as a rule, cannot con
centrate the mind (on kn'tting).
"The eyesight becomes impaired
(can't see to sew).
"The ears become affected 'can't
hear the appeals of hundreds of
thousands of refugees who must be
clothed, fed and housed).
"Heart doesn't beat as it used to,
and in advanced stage that organ ap
parently turns to stone.
"A vaccine consisting of equal
parts of tincture of I-wont-quit and
Red Cross spirits, a dash of patriot
ism and a peck of pep is effective.
"Answer the Red Cross Christmas
Roll Call, Dec. 16 to 23."
Speaking By Major Markley.
Chairman of Speakers' Commttee,
H. E. Ellis, gave the people a treat
(Continued on page 4)
strained-Zhis sight to make out a fe
inine form
crouched upon a
bench.
"Who is It," he
questioned'
quickly.
"I-I am just
resting," pulpated
a feeble voice.
"In this cold.
damp placet
Why, you will
treeze l Who are
you? Come with:
me, if you need;
shelter and help.,
Why-'Viola "
He gathered
her up in bh
strong arms.
Breathless, reeling, exhausted, he
reached home to stagger into the room
where Ruth was cooing to the little
one, entranced with the rare bright
ness and comfort of the place.
"Poor soul I" was all that Ruth aid.
"I-I must go," faltered their latest
guest, arousing, but Ruth's arms wer
around her nedk.
"Tell me all, dear," she maid tender`
ly, and amid tears and sobs Viola re
cited the tragie story of her life;
forced to wed, a man who held a
secret over her weak and vacillating.
father, a man who squandered her
fortune, deserted her and was killed
io a drunken brawl. Meantime hen
father had died, she was left alone
in the world, al alone e
"Not while two loyal hearts that
love you are here!" cried Alden
Revere, roused out of himself. "Oh
Viola, if all them weary years the old
love was ia your soul as in mine--S
no further. For you and this dear lit
tle one let this be-home !"
And the holy stars of Christmastide
qhone softly down upon the humble
home, destined to be the abiding place
of perfect love ged peace.
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