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ßOGALUSA, LA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1918.
Number 48,
USA BOYS'ELKS'
SOON TO BE AT
HOME
__ty-Ninth Division Is In
cluded in New Orders to
Sénd Home Troops Which
Are Now Overseas.
fegftlosa boys in France, or at
-st * Urge majority of them, are
f- M c t cd to arrive from France with
fe « short time. It is estimated that
Eitere are between 500 and 600 in
Thirty-ninth Division, and on Sat
' evening General March included
division, as well as the Thirty
* w ho are to return at once,
division contains the members
dd Company G as well as a large
g «affibsr of selectmen. It may be
I «at the other divisions which are
I gaming will also bring a number
Bogaluéa and Washington parish
The exact date of their ar
ia the United States is not
j, but it is believed that there I
I» probability of them reaching
, by Christmas. Details of mus
the men out of service at the
is just starting, and it is ex
that by the time the boys re
fr«m "overseas" that the plan
be working in perfect condition.
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;s'Dance Tonight;
Proceeds for Poor
locations are that one of the i
crowds that ha\ e attended a j
bis season will be at the Elks j
this evening. The public is in- ;
|o attend. The proceeds will;that
ed to the Elks' Christmas Fund,
hope to raise a fund of several j
dollars again this year in
to send big well-filled baskets j
needy families of the city.
t are going to give special afcten-
,the little folks and see that
pHtndy, nuts and toys are in-
I in each basket,
ou enjoy dancing do not miss
Bg the dance tonight (Wednes-
The program will start at 8:30
Music by good orchestra.
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Accompany
Wilson to France
Fashington, Nov. 25.—Ambassa
J. V J. Jusserand of France and
Jusserand will accompany
at Wilson to France,
ambassador, who has not been
(«nee he rushed back to Amer
i from a vacation trip at the out
of the \sar, goes to join in his
î'b rejoicing over victory, and
Jy to play a part in the peace
ace.
t became known today that he had
invited to make the voyage on
t Aip that carries the presidential
The invitation from the
at is regarded as a special
to France and also as a mark
high esteem which President
entertains personally for the
ador.
J
igary Selects First
Ambassador
ne, Switzerland, Nov. 25.—The
woman to be appointed an am
has been nominated by the
government for the post
und. She is the Hungar
»riter and pacifist, Rosika
. who how resides in
*d. Madame Schwimmer
the nomination and will
opon her duties shortly at
FIRST aid meetings
Rice of the Bogalusa Hospital
S*ve demonstrations of first
» * das* of nine at the Y. W. C.
»y evening and the regu
will hereafter be held at
on Friday evenings, and
aber of the Red Cross is in
attend.
Emmett Hall, the well known
the City Drug Store,
l* New Orleans last week where
the rigid state pharmacy
Son and this week received
in
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t be passed, making one of N.
Percentages of any who ap- ! at
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examination.
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BOYS'ELKS' MEMORIAL
TO BE HELD NEXT
SUNDAY
Foui' Members Have Depart
ed During Year—Memor
ial Address by Governor
Sanders.
The annual memorial services of
the Elks will be observed next Sun
day and a fitting program has been
arranged. Congressman J. Y. San
ders wiir deliver the address. The
eulogies will be delivered by Dr. J. H.
Slaughter for Dr. Claude Dean, W.
S. Gardiner for J. Delyhousse, J. 0.
Ward for W. Q. Harris and G. G.
Timberlake for A. J. Lewis. The
services will start promptly at 3
o'clock, the meeting being held in
the lodge room. A special musical
program has been arranged and it is
also expected the memorial tablet of
the lodge will be unveiled on the
same date. All members afre urged
I to attend and a specia: invitation is
extended the public.
Got Your Winter
Supply of Fuel?
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you ave no your win er ue !
in now you are apt to have some un- j
comfortable days ahead of you, un-
ldfes you take advantage 7 of the next
days of-good weather in getting in a
supply, because the rains or last week
■are liable to leave the roads in such
j s jj ape that they will not be in con-
j dition to allow much hauling between
; now an( j spring. While it is reported
will;that there is a big shortage of coal,
reports from mining districts are that
j they are working only half time on
account of no orders. Coal can be
j secured in Bogalusa at present,
Speaking of Cutting
r\ P Iff
uown expenses i n
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Washington, Noc. 25.—Naval es
timates for 1920 have been reduced
J $1,180,315,000 as the result of the
signing of the armistice, Secretary
McAdoo was informed today by Sec
retary Daniels. The original esti
mate on a war basis was $2,644,307,
000, and this has been reduced to
$1,463,992,000.
Reduction was made in the esti
mate of $600,000,000 for a second,
three-year building program of 156
ships, which has been recommended
to Congress by Se^petarv Daniels.
This program contemplates ten su
per-dreadnoughts, six battle cruisers
and 140 smaller warships and auxil
iary craft.
The largest reduction, $313,421-,
716, was in the estimate for the ord
nance, and the second largest was
$275,324,285 in pay of the navy.
Other deductions were announced as
follows:
Pay, miscellaneous, $5,015,000.
Aviation, navy, $133,750,000.
Bureau of navigation, $4,026,603.
Bureau of yards and docks, in
eluding public works, $9,458,000
Bureau of supplies and accounts,
$224,941,285.
Bureau of construction and repair,
$37,500,000.
Bureau of steam engineering, $28,
000.
Marine Corps, $35,702,954. *
Naval emergency fund, $113,145,
000.
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CASTON TO LEAVE
W. L. Caston, for the past several
years connected with the Great
Southern Lumber Company, has re-
signed his position and leaves for
Stevenson, Miss., where he will be
connected with a mill of which W. B.
Archer, formerly of this city, is su-
perintendent.
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LINDSLEY COMING
J. B. Lindsley, who left Bogalusa
in September for service, has notified
friends that he will spend the week-
end here and a call has been issued
for a special meeting of the Elks'
lodge for Saturday night. Mr. Linds-
ley is the exalted rider of Bogalusa
lodge.
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NELSON ON FURLOUGH
Will Nelson, formerly with .,
N. O. G. N., but who is now located as
at Camp Pike, has been enjoying a
few days furlough with homefolks. of
Citizens Uurged to
Pay Poll Tax Now
Citizens of
Fourth Ward
Bogalusa and
are requested to
their poll tax at once and not wait
until the last minute. Unless you
pay your poll tax between now and j
December 31 you will have no voice j
in saying who shall be next parish
officials, district judge and parish
congressman, senator or the members
of the State Legislature. In order to '
vote in the elections of 1920 it will
necessary for you to have a poll tax
receipt for this year and next.
For the convenience of the voters
Sheriff Bateman has made arrange
ments to have these receipts issued j
by the Washington Bank and Trust
Company and the First State Bank. :
The poll tax receipts can now be se- 1
cured. Get yours now before the
rush starts or before you forget it.
Big Revival at
Baptist Church
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Starting next Sunday morning
there will be an old-fashioned pro
tracted meeting at the First Baptist
Church which will continue for one
week. Reverend Brakefieljl has ar
! ranged for several meetings each j
! ^t 7:30 each evening there will
be devotional services and a well
known citizen will conduct the ser
vice. Special music ha 3 been ar
ranged and a most cordial welcome is
extended every citizen, regardless of
religious belief, to attend these meet-
ings.
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Kaiser and Ticks
Had a Bad Year
If the Kaiser believes that misery :
loves company, he should have a
brötherly feeling for tlie cattle fever
This year has been a bad one
for kaisers and ticks. ■ ;
I This is why it has been a bad one
for the ticks and why December 1,
1918, should be a memorable day in
the Southern states: !
An area greater than ever before
freed in one year from federal quar
antine will be released on that day. !
The drive of the anti-tick forces
will have sent a broad wedge of free j
territory through the tick lines to j
the Atlantic ocean, just as last year,
a wedge was driven to the gulf. j
Of the 728,565 square miles of
infested area in 1906, 63 per cent
will have been pronounced clean.
Farmers will be free to ship their
cattle to the gr eat markets for com
petition on their own merits with
other cattle, and not under the quar
mndicap which requires sale
at buyers' prices for immediate
slaughter.
Cattle will increase in value,
weight» milk production, appearance,
health, productivity and length of
life.
Farmers in the freed areas will be
able to bring to their farms better
stock and thus raise the standard of
yj e jj. herds. The Southern states will
have taken big strides toward their
position as a great cattle-raising
country to 1 which their natural ad
" ntag ' a ent itle them.
Sugar Lid Coes
Off Next Monday
The sugar lid will be off about
December l.^There may not be any
certificates issued for that month, as
dealers, manufacturers and consum
ers probably will be permitted to pur
chase as mueh sugar as they desire.
Sugar and candy will be plentiful,
even if they will not be cheap.
The important news was given out
by Horace C. Earl, assistant chief of
the sugar division of the United
States Food Administration, who ar
rived in New Orleans Monday for a
conference with the Louisiana su
gar control committee and various
branches of the industry in this
state. It was after interviews with
the committee and John M. Parker,
food administrator for Louisiana,
that he ventured the information,-tion
which has not yet been officially is-^
sued from Washington. The sugar j as
situation is not any easier, as far
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as the world's wants are concerned,
but the decision seems to be a case ;
of America first.
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Drops Dead While
Milking the Cow
Alexander Dreyfus, father of Ed
and Emile Dreyfus, well known and
succesrful busiQe88 men of Bo galusa,
dropped dead while milking a cow at
j the home of his son, Emiie, shortly
j before 7 o'clock Saturday morning,
The deceased was 82 years of age
and has resided in Bogalusa for the
past six years. He is survived by a
' widow, three sons and a daughter. It
has been the custom of Mr. Dreyfus
for many years to do the milking,
and when he left the kitchen Satur
day morning he was apparently in his
usual health.
j Remains were shipped to New
0rlean8 where burial was held Sun
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Pershing Boom
for President
Columbus, O., Nov. 25.—A cam-
paign for the election of General
I John J. Pershing, commander-in
chief of the American expeditionary
forces in France, to the presidency in
1920 was formally launched in Ohio
today by the incorporation of "The
Pershing Republican League."
j Former United States Senator
Charles Dick of Alçron, and fourteen
°ther prominent Republicans of
A^ron and Summit county are spon-
sors ^ or mov ®ment. Mr. Dick's
name beads the list of fifteen men
who signed the articles of incorpora
tion which were issued by the secre
tary of state today.
Lightless Nights Are
Thir^g of thé Past
: Lightness nights in Louisiana
were abolished Saturday by an çr
der issued from the office -of John
C. O'Kelley, state fuel administrator.
; Electric lights may now be used for
all purposes every night in the week.
The matter of lifting the lighting ban
was left up to the judgment of in
! dividual administrators by Dr. Han'y
Garfield, United Statese fuel admin
istrator.
! "Louisiana has enough coal for the
present," Mr. O'Kelley
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explaied,
j "but this is no reason why the peo
j pie should waste fuel by burning un
necessary lights. There still is a ne-
j cessity for the conservation of fuel
—a saving that is now up to the peo
ple to enforce without compulsion."
All storage restrictions on bitum
inous coal also have beelt removed. |
This followed the abolition of the
preference list of the War Industries
Board, putting all industrial plants
on the same basis so far as fuel is
concerned. Industrial plants may
now buy and store all the coal they
desire. Mr. O'Kelley cautioned
plants formerly classed as preferred
to buy coal without delay, as the rush I
for fuel by industries which have
been restricted probably will make it
difficult to obtain coal this winter.
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Report German
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Battleships Be bunk
r
to
London, Nov. 25.—After an in
spection of the German battleships
and cruisers held by the Entente and
final statement of their ownership
by the peace conference, all the ves
sels probably will be sunk, as appar
ently there is no disposition on tho
part of the Entente to risk the con
troversies which would likely-arise in
case an attempt at division was made
of them.
Entente naval experts will inspect
{he German craft carefully to learn
whether they contain features un-
known to the Entente.
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JENNINGS HONORED
W. H. Jennings, the popular and
esteemed treasurer of the board of
stewards of the First Methodist
Church, was presented with a gold
watch by the pastor and members ot
of the official board. The présenta- 1 D.
speech was made by the pastor
last Sunday night at church and came
j as a complete surprise to Mr. Jen
nings. He has been the faithful
, .
treasurer of the official board of the j
; First Methodist Church for the past
! seven years.
BUILDING ERA TO
BE GREATEST IN
HISTORY
J.
E. Rhodes, of Southern
Pine Association, Believes
Great Prosperity Will Ar
rive Soon.
Building operations of a magni
tude unparalleled in the history of
the world are promised as a result of
the return of peace, J. E. Rhodes,
secretary-manager of the Southern
Pine Association^ said Monday on his
return to New Orleans from Chi
cago, where last week he attended
conferences of the National Lumber
Manufacturers' Association on post
war trade.
"Much consideration was given at
these conferences," said Mr. Rhodes,
"toward thé best means of handling
the immense export demand for
lumber. The amount which can be
shipped will be limited only by the
boats available.
Mr. 'Rhodes said active domestic
demands will develop immediately.
Retail yards held off buying, pend
ing annulment of builcing and trans
portation restrictions," said Mr.
Rhodes. "Now that these restric
tions have been removed, there is
nothing ahead of the lumber busi
ness except unprecedented prosper
ity." Mr. Rhodes announced that
the lumber industry of the South
would be represented at the commer
cial congress of war service commit
tee? of all industries, to be held in
Atlantic City, N. J., December 4, 5
and 6. He will be among the repre
sentatives of the Southern Pine As
sociation at the congress.
Want to Become
Phone Operator?
Young ladies who desire to en
gage in an occupation with chances
for rapid promotion, and also secure'
a salary while learning the profes
sion, may find such work in Boga- j
lusa. The Cumberland Telephone
Company desires to secure the ser
vices of a limited number of young
ladies who are 18 years of age, or
older. The work is interesting and
affords young women a chance to*im
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pr0V e a bad temper
of
if there are any j
with that sort in this vicinity. Effi- j
dent and courteous operators are al
ways in demand and after the "re
construction days" the young lady
j'who' is a good operator will never
have to worry about employment.
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Boys Expected to
Reach U. S. Friday
iana now are nomewara bound on
«,d or«.,
British liners. The first two shins
Washington, Nov. 25.—First units
of the American expeditionary forces
to return from .overseas are expect
ed to arrive in New York about the
end of the present week.
General March, chief of staff, an
nounced tonight that 382 officers
and 6614 men of the air service and
other detachments training in Eng
land now are homeward bound
British liners. The first two ships
left Liverpool last Friday and the
Orca sailed on Saturday.
This announcement means lHat the
movement yt the American troops
now in England, the majority of
whom are in air service detachments
will-continue steadily until all of
them, some 20,000, have returned.
There are no regiment« or other
unite of line troops in Great Britain.
The first movement of the larger
units, such as brigades anc divisions,
will come from French ports, it is as
sumed, as the British cross-channel
service undoubtedly is completely oc
cupied with the transportation of re
turning British forces.
ATTEI&ÏNG CONFERENCE
The annual conference for State of
Louisiana Methodist Episcopal
Church is. in session this week in'
New Orleans. Bishop John C. Kilgo,
D. D., LL.D., of Charlotte, N. C., is
presiding. This conference is com
posed of all the two hundred Meth
odist ministers of Louisiana and rep
resents a lay membership of 45,000.
Among the Bogalusans in attend
ance on the conference are Rev. A.
a
the
for
er
by
ble
in
for
the
of
Inman Townsley and Mrs. Townsley. .left
NEW CITY COUNCILL
SWORN IN NEXT
TUESDAY
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Cassidy, Mills, Wadsworth
and Regan Are the New
Commission Council for
Bogalusa.
On next Tuesday evening, Decem-
ber 3, the new commission council
will be sworn into office and meet
in the first regular session. The new
council will be composed of Mayor
W. H. Sullivan, who was unanimously
returned to office; E. R. Cassidy,
J. C. Mills, D. M. Wadsworth amt
J. R. Regan Only one old commis-
sioner remains, Commissioner Mills.
Those retiring are J. K. Johnson,
commissioner of finance; H. H. Wil-
cox, commissioner of education, and
E. L. Middleton, commisisoner of
streets and' parks. The organization
of the council will be held at the
first meeting and, while no announce-
ment has been made as to which
departments the new members will
be appointed, it is the concensus of
opinion that Mr. Cassidy will be ap-
pointed commissioner of finance, be-
ing exceptionally well qualified for
that position. Whether Mr. Mills will
retain his present department or be
placed in charge of another is not
known, but his many friends are urg-
ing, him to seek the office of com-
missioner of education.
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Bogalusa to Observe
Thanksgiving Day
Tomorrow. Thursday, November
28, is Thanksgiving Day and practi-
cally every line of business in the city
will be suspended during a half or
the entire day. The banks and the
postoffice will close and most of the
retail establishments will close at
noon. Special Thanksgiving services
will be conducted, there being a union
service at the First M. E. Church.
The sermon will be delivered by Rev.
J. E. Brakefield of the First Baptist
Church.
A THANKSGIVING MESSAGE
I feel like giving thanks, don't you/
Then let's do it. "Let the redeemed
of the Lord say so!" Never lias
there been in the' history of our great
country a Thanksgiving like unto
this- One that called forth so much
joy out of the bereavements of our
sorrow. So much peace, out of such
a cruel war! So much gratitude for
the many blessings from the good
hand of our Heavenly Father.
But words are very poor vehicle»
for our deep and grateful thoughts
and abiding emotions! So let ua
hear the eloquent and momentous
words of our great President, Wood
row Wilson: "On this Thanksgiving
Day a new light shines about us.
The great duties of a new and brightr
er day awaken a new and greater
national spirit within us. We ahall
never again be divided nor wonder
what stuff we are made of. And
while we render thanks for these
things, let us pray Almighty God
that in all humbleness of spirit we
may always look to Him for guidance.
That we may be kept constant in
spirit and purpose of service. That
by His grace our minds may be di
rected and our hands strengthened;
and that in His good time liberty and
security and peace and the comrade
ship of a common justice may be
vouchsafed all the nations of the
earth!"
Bogalusa, the best city on earth,
and composed of some of the best
people in the whole wide world,
should pour out her gratitude and
thanks for the heroic seeds of her
gallant soldiers; for the inspiring de
votion and tireless service of her no
ble women at home! For the enthu
siastic support and generous giving
in .every war work drive of the year!
But above all, we give thanks to God
for our happy homes and loyal and
heroic citizens!
I am ^ours for the greatest
Thanksgiving in the History of the
city of ( Bogalusa.
A. INMAN TOWNSLEY.
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DIRECTORS MEET
The annual directors' meeting of
the Bpgalusa Veneer Company was
held Monday afternoon and was at
tended by several prominent citizens
of Crawfordsville, Indiana. Th*y
.left yesterday afternoon