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TIEE UP FLOOD CONTRO RANSDELL AND WILSON DISCUSS PLANS WITH GENERAL BOARD. EXTENSIONS RECOIMEMIED omtoan aR"s0 e anotmher aEnlnsr to Study. Atoafalaya Basin Ca Not aS Undertasn Without Leglse on. Washlugtom.-Steps to put into at tect the eesolatoa. otC the flood con trol conmaenti, -held In New Orleaus, November 15 and 16, were disassed by Senator Raasdeil and Rereseta tire Wilson with General leang H. Beoch, chief ar o maineers. General Beach conceaded that the Missasessi Rietaomission lsresady hasator ity to exrad the ~PFith Dstare wes from Pbalt reae n oa OCuca" pa ish,~ to O1d Lve, a distance at some iveO miles. The matr+ has been be forete -te IMaspl River Omals aiesn sine the scnvenutlc sbt. st a Bae n emet as to its latbose a is *at egard has bee made. That portions o thae resealutson wich mnasW another engkneer study of the tseemeda anne. . n a w bai-r eath l eeaL Repes. a emtivWS * soS wil -ms se & bill iS ts e -t gwssvld .atr a.m .2gail iwas . .ua.4 ea co..is traorman estihes per .memctiSs wsses to s pseaslbitEia, frstei lamtais V yi t I I ý aý seetw~~~~-- epaaahdi s ds t " ,.. w . r ý , ' +rF ý' _._ ,. Ftaia r- tt ot uses .asa . g hdla a. m ,Ma meetIn. hbr "m-g snee the qoe stve work` or rthe smareing a Natchiottol -Tha MasonIte rder ot Netatchitwhees I planai to erect a handsome tbrebstory pli buiding an the site t its present lodge. Obelln.-mravel I bebi Laid eOs Main street from the St. Louis and Irton Mentain depot t the emc&t. house. Natchitoches. - The arqt Iyem number r the winter term Wra a very enjoyable musical reeital gives by th! Harold Proctor Companyr Iaesport.-The Bank .of Deba Springs submitted its quarterly At" met ,to the bank exam~s er, this week. swahqg total reseoresa of$2S3A6 Lookport-- tb~ma In)s Oesm. peany 6 the largest single t.xp tr n theparish, and this week paid to ts tax collector a total ot $fU. ., onroe.-stckholdters of the Ouach Its National Bank of Monroe, in an anal m eeting. have authorised an in crews in the bank's capital stock trom $2N,000 to 600,000. Natchiteches.--hotographers Yaw ey and Rayner of Alexandria are at theporimal making pictures of the fao ulty and students for the Normal an anal, "Potpourri." - etc-ths - Professor George W lllami n of the department of biolo. y addressed the ptndent body recent Sn t he Importance and woerth of our fore t ta es. ekport.-Tkhoe police Jury sold the pblal I*uid s of the partsh at low pries.` TheJifnelacntfeoury brought ft;the cov el Hay an4 Rome terries x;rg dcttreen anctor began wrk & weaks a the larest ronl eagte h Irrever bam . The total ralmUMo ais . 4 a .4 which is about 4 a . I ·~~ eeslq~'~b Yid? # µ 71 WHILHAVETOPAY Allies Agreq onBill to Pte seat Gera~y for Attack On Werld' Paris.-The session of the commit tee of,experts of the allied supreme council ended at 1):30 o'clock Ste. day morning, after having resache a complete agreement on the system -annual payments of reparations b Germany and annuities on Germany's foreign trade. The project in its final form; when approved by the supreme .council, "ill be submitted to. Germany for accept ance as -an agreement outside of article 233 of the peace treaty, which entrusts the reparations committee with the task of fixing the anijgt of the indemnity. Then another con ference will be called to which the Germans will be anvited. The proposed scheme provideas or the payment of annuities of a sliding scale from 2,000,000,000 to 8000,00, 000 gold marks over a period of prob ably 42 years, and also a 12% per cent ad valorem tax on German exports, so that her creditors will be paid ac cading to Germany's increasing pros The supreme council's experts' ten tative agreement on the subjeck of German reparations, reached Friday Gorm ' bDbe reuired to pay $saseoo00M'nnatilY for a eartaipse rlpd; theut wS ,0004 aaually a =over another easrghat d aod; then )L CAssi,00 sanglly- over a thlrp $od& ?ie ai here time, fer toher s uagsrenn y a wr eimae: 42 yeara the st'ologne agreermt proded. Je; W4r on U_ tdh luiuMIS th a1t les w M ldesct 2s per"eent of the ar miel inaa.is .during thea 10 I as 4a1ect ad by 4ho ae 6 e:ottis. waseist na t.s eaC leh~aU 3rase peraol.I~)esU ad *c·QraP ar~iii~e ad c~ljb . tPi~ p aa + L;tbii ~ii osrmm ~fM rD~D2S %gt "Pa ~O - zr ±h,'#51: vx ý"S `cam e Re 41 R# 1 ýy Increase Is Skewn In U. S. Seurities Washington. - Completion of the first count since 1913 of cash and se curities in the treasury has revealed that the vaults of the national govern ment hold a grand total of $13,883, 819,283.36 2/3, of which, $97,410,283, 836.02 Is in cash. More than $10,000,000,000 of the bonds and other securities held in trust by the treasury, which totaled $12,308,849,043.34 2/3, actitg Treasurer Allen announced, consisted of evidence of the indebtidness of the allied na tions. The presence of the two-thirds of a cent in the figures was explained by treasury officials as due to a bond of the state of Tennessee for $1,66666 2/3, held by the treasury for the sec retary of interior, as part of a number of Indian trust bonds, for the benefit of Indians from the proceeds of the sale of government lands to them. The last count of the treasury's cash and securities in 1913 showed a grand total of $1,426,422,051.48 2/3, of which the total cash was $199,231,911.10. TOTAL OF 427,693 AUTOS LICENSED IN TEXAS 1920 Austin Tex.-A total of 42J,693 au tomoblles were licensed in Texas dur ing 1920, or an ticrease of 96,789 ma chines over that of 1919, according to a table of license registrations made public Saturday. The table shows reg istrations by counties. Five counties in Texas have more than 10,000 automobiles registered for licenses within their borders. Dallas leads the entire state in license appli cations with 27,937, Harris County (Houston), Is second, with 23,342, and Bezar County third, with 21,035 ma chines. The two other counties over the 10,000 mark are Tarrant, with 10,. _554 and Wichita Palls with 12,689. According to the table of country reistrations given out, there are five counties In Texas that are antoless, while aaxteen counties boast less than 100 machines eaeh. Tea counties in the state showed decreases in the smber of macles registaered this year as compared with ,191. the big gest decrease being n Starr Conty, where there were 118 less aatemWo i e owers a 15s310 thea In the year revl .oe. WA'tR RATt HEARING TO SE wati - *UA dýi' pS T'?~ tikr a .s ~ a sM Sr t ý 1 ,.. Tha hirli Iate, b~t~ fs - rW I~G m t u r n a s-~ ia .. 0iC L ~ t i~ h . P $ ~ i~ Jrse ~atb - ia~ ~hii ~h atIr ; 4 i ~; k A -~e~ r ·b~r~ ~ ~s Prominent Western Man Praises Tanlac - G..IaguP~mbsbKin Taslace has completely restored my health and I feel aner than In years," was the straightforward statemeut made recertly by Mr. George W. Legan of Peabody, assaeu one of the most pRomIant stock-dealers to the MlQie Wat. "It Bas ot ely made a nnw man of me bdt I have actually gined thirty-re poeuds tn weiht mad aee 6 we as I evr did in my lSe. Ima ltt iln of my fariee about Tane, but they tan see for th.melvs what it has dome In my .as e. 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