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-r. HC B06ACU5A AND AMERICAN VOLUME 4. lY'S ANSWER EXPECTED !Y TONIGHT OR FRIDAY MORNING terms up which Germany may re an armistice reached Berlin yes », and their answer is expected known by Thursday evening or Ulster than Friday morning. When gjmistice was completed it was. over to Marshal Foch and he I notified the German military com in the field that it is ready, stion of details are withheld, signing of the armistice will Mae Quick Dies ter Month's Illness Ada Mae, 15-year-daughter of Mr Mrs. E. A. Quick, succumbed to attack of typhoid rever at 10 Tuesday night. Death was ected, but came as a great to her many friends and the of the family, wno had never up hope, despite the fact that had been unconscious for ten While suffering from an at- t of typhoid fever she also devel- 1 influenza, and later pneumonia, young lady was born at Lum- Miss., on December 9, 1902, lived in Bogatusa for the t ien years and was exceedingly among the Camp Fire Girls, eh she was a hard-working the High School of which» I a member and also among the set. The funeral services conducted from the family ce this (Thursday) morning. Boy Scouts will serve as pall- and the Camp Fire Girls will ( honorary pallbearers. The re- i will be laid to rest in the Bo- Cemetery. -o- Frith and Bride to Eastern Port Un Edwin Frith and bride, Mis« Betty Sullivan, who ar last Thursday Evening for days' visit with friends, have an Eastern port, having re orders the same evening they in Bogalusa. Mrs. Frith ac tied the captain and will re the port until Captain Frith I for France. They left New Or ► Tuesday afternoon. Cotton Crop in This Parish ngton parish farmers are be to have raised the largest cot i crop in the history of the parish i> have received the highest price; ; known. The report of D. W.j ipecial agent, reports that cotton > y ! were 5058 bales of in the parish for the 1918 against 3973 bales ginned inj Th. gioi' reeeints for this cot- j -a be .bout $800,000. ■ -o L. Directors Come Next Week - • Week Bogalusa will enter-| the officers and director» of j t Southern Lumber Co. on ^ f annual visit here, an 'event 1 is always looked forward to by citizens of Bogalusa. Several prises will be shown the vis which have been in operation f their last visit here, the great ag the two-million-dollars I of the Bogalusa Paper Com Thev will be given a warm hereStnd General Manager has mapped out a busy pro Hebron Bank Closed Its Doors bank at New Hebron, Miss . miles from Bogalusa, is re l to have been closed last week state bank examiner of Mis The amount of the failure known here, but is said to heavy, considering the of capital the bank had. Mis 1 has guaranteed banking laws ^depositor will lose as a result tilure. Some Bogalusa money to have been in the bank. is it the his as or he put Germany out of the war, for it is so drastic that, if agreed to, they will be unable to reorganize their army. The contents of the armistice was cabled Berlin and should have reached there Wednesday, and their answer is expected Thursday. Mean while the Allies have the German army on the greatest retreat since the outbreak of the war, as they were reported in full retreat along a 75 mile front Tuesday night. to Only 13 Days to Mail Xmas Gifts November 20th is the last day for you to get your Christmas package ready for fighters overseas. Advices^ from Washington to the Gulf Division of the American Cross, New Orleans, today indicated there is a misunderstanding as to the last day Christmas parcels can be de posited with the Red Cross. One package will be allowed a sol dier, and each soldier overseas has been given a Christmas Parcel label which he has sent to a relative or friend, here. The relative or friend should call at the nearest Red Cross Chapter and obtain free a Christmas parcel carton. After the Christmas gifts have been purchased and placed in the boxes, they should be taken to the Red Cross, which will handle the ship ment. Citizens to Have Charge ol Roads The half a bullion dollars worth of good roads and bridges to be built in Washington parish will be under the supervision of'a citizens' commit- tee. This action was taken at the regular meeting of the police jury, which was held in Franklinton on last Friday. State Engineer Buie, as well as a number of citizens of Bogalusa, were presentto urge the appointment of such a committee. J. H. Cassidy of Bogartfea was made chairman of the committee and D. H. McCreary of Franklinton and Ollie Brock of Mt. Herman were the Other members - of the committee. They will work with the police jury and the state engineer. It is expected that plans and details will be prepared at an early date» so that work can start as" soon as the government will permit. ---o- Ward Takes Charge of City Mercantile J. O. Ward, for the past several > y ears connected with the Great South lern Lumber Co., and homing respon 8lble P osltlons ' has # taken oveg j "»»W" 1 the Cit / (Company and haa purchased consid erable saock in the corporation. O. T. Magee, who hqp been the manager since the store was opened, will go with the Albert Mackie Company of New Orleans. The stock of the City | Mercantile Company will be greatly • increased and several new depart ments opcned> Mr. Ward has moved j hjg faraily here and is located at the ^ Pearce property on Mississippi avenue --- 0 -- Mayor Sullivan Gets His Card Punched! When it comes to having a work; card in Bogalusa there is no one who j is going to escape the law, from the; highest official to the colored laborer. Investigation shows that W. H. Sul livan, mayor and vice-present and general manager of the Great South ern Lumber Co., has his card and gets it punched éach day. There is no space of the card to indicate an over to time punch, but when a friend of. the Mayor asked him jokingly to see j his work card, the Mayor surprised him and pulled his card, which showed that it had been punched for last Friday, Saturday and Monday, the latter being the date when the friend | asked to see the card. Mayor Sulli van is just as proud of his work card, as the most enthusiastit laborer and j employes in the office state that Mr. Sullivan insists upon his card being j punched each day. * * SCHOOLS OPEN NOV. 18 WHEN "FLU" LID GOE S OFF IN T HIS VICINITY ' The city schools of Bogalusa will resume'a week from next Monday, November 18* after being closed for six weeks as a result of the influenza. This action was taken late yesterday afternoon, following a message from Dr. Dowling of the State Board of Health to Mayor Sullivan. Dr. J. H. Slaughter of the City Board of Health attended the meeting in New Orleans and the decision was not reached until 4 o'clock. Only in communities where the influenza is rapidly disappearing will the "flu" lid go off. In Bogalusa the situation has shown a remarkable improvement during the past ten days, and on Tuesday and Wednesday no new cases were reported, and all erf the sick are said to be get ting along splendidly. Howêver, the local situation can not be changed until Dr. Dowling issues orders for the en tire state. Citizens are urged to take precautions so as not to in vite the return of the diseas# here. NOW, ALTOGETHER, PUT BOGALUSA OVER TOP IN WAR WORK DRIVE t The United War Work Campaign, to furnish funds to continue the splendid work of the Seven War Ac tivities, will open Monday, November 11th, and will continue for a period of one week. The allotment for Bo galusa and Washington parish was originally fixed at $15,000, but swift ly changing events have made it nec essary for the President of the United States to appeal to all states to over subscribe their allotments by at least 50 per cent. y Our mayor, W. H. Sullivan, has been made chairman of a territory embracing four parishes, and it is his desire, and the desire of your city committee, jthat Bogalusa should over subscribe her allotment on the first day of the drive. This can be done only by the united effort of all the good citizens of our city. Your committee, after having in vestigated the different plans of rais ing the city'%, quota, has decided that the most feasible and equitable plan presented would be to ask each wage earner to subscribe an amount which would be equivalent to a day's pay, and as this would fall short of fur nishing a sufficient sum to meet our quota, all those who are financially able to do so are respectfully asked to subscribe an amount equivalent to two days' pay. We are sure that this appeal will meet with a generous re sponse. , These committees are composed of both ladies and gentlemen, who will co-operate t.o make the joint drive. V Jail Empty First Time'in 3 Years the)friends back m York state for a week "Shorty" Pierce, jailer, could have been enjoying a vacation with had he known that business was going to be so dull, for there has been rio guests at his hostelry for over a week. This is the first time in throe years that the city jail haé been empty and the first time in the history of the | city that it has been empty so long. When Chief of Police Magee was asked what was the cause, he stated that everyone in Bogalusa was too busily engaged in work to get into mischief. The work or fight order, connected with the working card, has resulted in rounding up all suspicious characters. » ' --o-^ J. S. Bates Victim of Blood Poisoning J. S. Bates, who conducted a meat market in North Bogalusa and who was one of the best known of the older citizens of Bogalusa, succumbed to blood poisoning Monday morning. He had been confined to his bed for the last three weeks and also de veloped influenza, but recovered from the latter disease. Owing to his age and the complications which set in, hope for his^*ecovery was abandoned several days ago. The deceased was 66 years of age and had been a'resident of-Bogalusa for a number of'years. He was the father of W. L. and M. T. Bates, well known business men of city. The funeral services were ht d Tuesday morning and burial was in jk? Adams Cemetery. ^ ^ ! The This will eniminate the necessity of covering the same territory with sep arate committees, and in order to eliminate further duplication it is deemed advisable to let each corpor ation in town handle its own cam paign. For instance, no other com mittee except the committee appoint ed for thq Great Southern Lumber Co. shall solicit subscriptions from j the Great Southern employes. This same rule shall apply to the other cor j f eren t divisions porations of the town; therefore the committees appointed for the differ ent sections of the city shall canvass only those who are not affiliated with the following: Great Southern Lum ber Co., N. O. G. N. R. R. Co., Ve nder Mill, Colonial Creosoting Co., Bogalusa Ice Co., Bogalusa Stores Co., Bogalusa Hospital, Louisiana Fibre Board Co., Bogalusa Paper Co., llardwood Mill and the city officials. All subscription collected should be deposited with the city treasurer, J. A. Spekenhier, and the chairman of each division should get in touch with the city chairman each evening, ad vising the amount that has been sub scribed in his division. This will en able the city committee to post a daily bulletin showing the amounts that have been subscribed in'the dif We desire to appeal to every citi zen, in the city to unite with us in making this drive a grand success. E. R. CASSIDY, Chariman City Committee, Officers Elected for Country Club At a meeting held Monday after old'noon in the office of W. H. Sullivan the Bogalusa Country Club was or ganized and M. L. Wuescher was elected president; G. A. Townsend vice-president; H B. Woodcock, sec retary, and D. T. Cushing, treasurer., A membership committee, of which Mr. Sullivan was made chairman, was organized and a drive will be ma3e shortly for members. The club starts out with about thirty-five mem bers. For the present the initiation fee will be $50 and the monthly dues will be $3.00. Non-resident mem bers can join for $25 and pay a monthly dues of $1. As soon as enough members are secured the plans are to build a modem club house. The Bogalusa Country Club, by which title the organization will be known, took over the property Monday, after it had been placed in perfect condition by the Great South ern Lumber Co. The course is one of the prettiest to. be found in the South and was made from a tract of cut-over pine land.. An expert is m charge of the grounds and will give instructions to members, v B. H. Woodcock is chairman of the grounds and green committee and C. W. Ames is chairman of the rules committee. , SUFFRAGE LOSES Incomplete returns from the Tues day election shows that woman suf frage has been defeated by a major ity ranging between 7,500 and 10, 000. A very light vote was cast in the state. Bogalusa gave the ladies a nice majority, considering the num ber of votes cast. it we as had will In the we as the of a just in enza P. of were BOGALUSA TO GO OVER TOP BY NEXT MONDAY IN GREAT DRIVE Bogalusa must raise $15,000, not a dollar less, and by next Monday morning at 9 o'clock, if she is to go over the top in the United War Work drive, at which time the committee hopes to send the word broadcast To do this it will require every man and woman in Bogalusa to give an amount equal to one or two days work. If each and every person, itfiite and col ored, pledge to give this amount, the amount will be raised, but if a single person does not give this amount, then someone will have to pay the part that was expected of you, or Bogalusa mu3t send out the report that we have "fallen down'' for the first time in any patriotic drive. In the Y. M. C. A. drive last fall Boga lusa raised over $11,000, and. the fact that only $15,000 is asked this time has resulted in the workers deciding to put it over between now and next Monday morning. Then St. Tam many, St. JHelena and Tangipahoa LIEUT. GORE TELLS OF BATTLE AND OF BOGALUSA BOYS OVER IN FRANCE Somewhere in France, American Postoffice 730, October 14th, 1918 Dear Mr. Johnson: Your very interesting letter was received Saturday, aria surely was glad to hear from ^you, also thanks for the news from good old Bogalusa. Your letter was doubly welcome, as it was the first I have received since leaving England, as since that time have been only touching the high spots, having been from the coast to the front line trenches and then some further; in fact, hit the front line just in time to get in the St Mihiel drive, which I know you have read about That was just to show the |Iuns that the Yanks have arrived, and that the good old song, "The YanSs Are Coming," is now a back number. Never had such a time in my young life, though I am forced to admit that Fritz did not put up the fight that we expected of him in that instance. Although for the first time under ac tual war condition, the dose was suf ficient to let me know that when he does fight, the boys will all have one good time, for a fight is what we are looking for. In fact, after riding over France in a box car, which has stamped on same "8 chevaux or 40 hommes," meaning 8 horses or 40 men, is enough to make'a man mad enough to fight his own shadow, and as approaching the front you have to pass through villages, or at least what had once been villages, but are now pharred masses of ruins, a chap just keeps getting madder than ever, so when they say "Forward," you don't have to look around to see if your bunch is with you; in fact, if you don't keep going, and going fast, they, will run over you. There is certainly nothing backward in the good old common everyday American "dough boy, "«s the infantry chaps are called. In kidding the artillery crowd one of the hunch told him the reason they called us- "doughboys" was because we were the flower of the army; but, as a matter of fact, every branch of the service is just for the purpose of assisting the infantrymen to go for ward and what it takes to do it, we have it. I had the extreme pleasure of laying down in a shell hole with a good old automatic rifle, which was working like an eight-<say clock, and just as a bunch of Huns grouped Five Pneumonia Victims in Weèk There was a noticeable falling off in the number of deaths caused by complications following t,he influ enza here for the week ending Tuesday noon. Five deaths were re ported, ^fo of whom were Italian children. Among those who died was P. Foret, an employe of the Great Southern Lumber Co., residing at 112 Michigan avenue. He was 23 years of are and had been married bué about three months. The other deaths were Paul Pearson, aged 3 years, died Thursday of pneumonia; Mrs. Henry Williams, pneumonia, died Saturday; Martin Mighazza, aged • 4 years, pneumonia, Columbia street; Mrs. Mary Piper, aged 23, Columbia, street. parishes are going to try and raise their amount by Sunday and report to District Chairman Sullivan, and it is hoped that this district will be one of the first to report "over the top." Get ready for the solicitors.. See how much you can give and how will ingly and quickly. Fifteen cents a day will furnish much comfort for your son, brother, father and sweet heart over in France, and to think that $4.5® will give him many com forts for an entire month should make every citizen who possibly can raise the amount anxious to give it, and then throw in the other 50 cents for good measure. Boys' and girls* clubs are making a drive and these little folks are going to earn a five dollar bill and give it to the cause. You don't want it known, when the boys come back, that you was not willing to give 15 cents a day for their comforts while fighting for you ! See that each member of your fam ily gives to this great cause. themselves in an opening in the barbed wire we let loose on them, and not one of the bunch will ever get back to Germany—there were about thirty in»the bunch, and thef all went West with our compliments. Wish there had been 30,000 instead of 30, as we had enough automatics, ma chine guns, etc., to do the work. At present am some little distance from the front line, resting and study ing up so as to be in on the final punch, and from the way the Hun is hollering, think he has an idea that we are going to let him off without delivering said punch, but I sincerely hojj« not, as the boys want to end it .how for once and all, and they ail feel that if we are allowed to do it, 4* it will be done proper. Of course, we all realize that when we go up front we are taking a chance, but no risk, no gain, and as we are only doing our duty, there is nothing to be proud of in that, and the boys are doing well. For a long time it looked as if I was doomed to stay in the air service as a commanding officer, training men for other men to lead, but am glad to say that that part is over, and m now a full-fledged doughboy in the fighting branch qf the army. See by this morning's papers that we have l,9OO,O(10)qnen over here and more coming each day. The Liberty Loan drive, I note, is going along fine, and I, for one, certainly appre ciate the fine support given us who are c^ver here by the folks at home, who have not been so fortunate as to be in the expeditionary forces. You people certainly have done your part, and done it nobly and well. * Saw Lieutenant George Lester a few weeks ago. He looked very well and seems to be getting along O. K. He is a first lieutenant. Also saw Lieutenant McCarty when back ir| the S. O. S. He said that Major Guerre, Major Friend, Captain Paul Leblanc, Captain Foust, Lieutenant John Bofg and all the Bogalusa bunch were to gether back there. Saw him just the day before I left for the front. He looked fine. Was sorry to hear that Captain Bert Storm did not get over, having been taken sick in the East. Surely hard luck for Bert, as he had worked hard to prepare himself to do his part, and I feel sorry for him. Always your friend, (Signed) LIEUT. M. B. GORE. You re'Allowed a _ Pound More Sugar If you have not been getting along on that two pounds of sugarj5***.onth, the government is goinsfto make things a little sweeter for you and has announced that hqreafter each person will -be allowed/three pounds of sugar a month. However, Food Administrator Parker has asked you to go as easy with sugar as you pos sibly can until the tenth of the month, as the merchants throughout the state will not receive their allotment until that time. This new ruling does not apply to hotels or restaurant«, where one teaspoon of sugar for each meal will continue to remain in effect. r .. • k m