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N. ff I 11 w fil fi« <*( K l' .-' / Â ,ït ,££$ &;<* ataafiB M M m ÉÊaè Think not lightly of never so weak an arm which strikes with the Sword of Justice. VOL. 7. THIBODAUX, LA. AUG. 17th 1910. NO. 28 Keep Home And Make Garden, Two now and useful stunts to be taught children in public schools of this state. All public schools in this state below ' tbo grade of state approved high school shall be placed in the state approved list of approvod elementary schools. The requirements to make school approv ed elementary schools published by re solutions in daily papers. The State Department of Edu cation last Thursday made pub lie the following resolutions: That all puolic schools of the state below the grade of ap proved high schools, meeting certain requirements, should be placed on the list of ?tate ap proved elementary schools and should be under the supervision of Supervis or IT. J t Brown —ano ther fat office created by the present administration. The schools shall be classed as ungraded, grades in slass A. B. and C., the minnimum nnmber of teachers for state recognition shall be one teacher for ungraded, two for graded class C., three for graded Class B., and four for garded Class A. The maximum grade enrollment shall be for un graded live grades, and for the others, seven, nine, and ten grades. Other requirements that must be shown are that the title of property shall be in par ish school board, eight month's session assured; building ade quate in size, comfortable and sanitary; furniture, libraries, laboratories, blackboards etc. shall be sufficient to enable tea chers to do good work; compe tent teechers; course of study carried out in satisfactory man ner. Additional requirements will be added from time to time and schools not comiug up to same will be dropped from list. Household affairs and how to run a home will be luught gir's, as well as practical gardening and the use of tools and farm im plements will be taugiit boys. The privileges and advantages; namesof approved schools will bo published from time to lira ; pu pils in good standing any such schools will be permitted to tn ter same grades in approved high schools without examination j a completion of feuch a course j will entitle pupils to public pre-' sentation of a certificate to that! effect by a representative of j State Department of Education and lastly all such approved schools shall participate in ap propriations that may be m^de by next Gemral Assembly. r . aj . , . . 1 s '- Lo J u '» St :, eel was last week par L chased by Mr Thomas Pierson ,,1 who will in the future own and operate the same- Mr. Jrierson, ie a native and an artist in his line, having held some of the most res ponsible positions in the south. New Proprietor I The tbnsorial parlor owned and | operated by Mr. James Cherault j for the past fifteen yearsor more,and located in the McCuJla building, next to the Bank of Thibodaux in i ; TT . , .... j ,. . His ability, courtesy and excellant i manners and gentlemanly ways «n too well and favorably known to. us to add any hing lurther. We , the " ur ï has , e . a i profitable an d lasting o ne for him. , A . "™" _ T . . . ! Amateur Night. j The Marvel Theatre entertained j an S. R. O. crowd three different tint's last Friday evening,when the j amateurs were on together with an | excellent program of moving pic- ! tures» Every Friday night the j house is crowded to overflowing, j and last Friday was not an excep i tion to the general rule. All pre- ! sent were high in their praises of the numbers offered and compli- , mented the juveniles participating. The following are the amateurB and | tne offerings presented by them Master Henry Pierson, lllus trated song,Misses Lucille Leonard, : Edwina Toups, Mr. Stephen and j Paul Thiberville, acrobats Music Music, that all essentia! fm lilV and linniiDi-nI, Mi;»t without which everything is moribund anil literal ly dead, must be considered by every organization or association at some time or other. You "•»y j need it to day, or to morrow or day after., but you will need ir. The Hiawatha Concert Baud ol Bowie, consisting of twenty five tnusi cia.i8W.il furnish music at any ! time for any pocasioH, whether number string oi' brass, and any of musicians from live to twenty five. See advertisement appearing in this issue. ' What Does It All Mean Now State Auditor Smith is Examining Ex State Superintendent ^swell's accounts, while he was School Superintendent. Time given him to produce vouchers and he tailed and it appears that school funds were used for personal expendi tures. At same time it is rumored that Ur. Harvey Dillion will either resign as President State Board of Health or be made to resign. There seems to be quite a tempest in the tea pot in ihe last few days. Last week the start ling revelation was made that the accounts and books of State Sup erintendent J. B. As well, or ex supreintendent, were a bit, mud died up and thai Travelling "Au ditor Smith was checking them up aud it would be shown where he would report liuding short gages of several thousand dollars due to missing vouchers and to expenditures from school funds made for seemingly personal ex penditures. Press reports also stated that he had been given time tofindthe missing warrants, to account for the several thou sand missing, or make good the amounts, either refusing to do so or being unabie to doso, an in vestigation was started and the results are eagerly awaited and daily expected. Why this stir after Mr. Aswell has left the office for over two years and accepted the position of ano ther whose books had been ex amined and whohad been turned oui because his books were mud dled and because he had opposed Sanders and supported Wilkin son ? Did Mr. Aswell incur the displeasure of J. Y. and is it pos sible that holding him up as a blind candidate has induced hiin toaspire to gubernatorial honors, contrary tothe machine's wishes, and iu order to nipithe aspirations in the buil he will be shown up so as t-u uuuo him forever ? Tnis leads öüeTü believe that if he hao no* demurred nothing ever would have been known of his shortcomings. No condemna tion can be expressed as yet, for being human his error may be easny comprehended and may be excusable. Following in the wi'ke of these startling report's comes the announcement that President D. Harvey Dillon of the State Board of Health has been asked for his resignation, and that he has refused. A fur ther report states that unless he j resigns he will be made to re- ; sign. The governor is not goiug to take any chances he is going to j till anything tiiat might require j ti'li'ig before Lambremont steps j in so as to give him as few ap - pointments as possible.Dr.Dillon since resigned. Another rumor is also alioat ha( (h( . UoV( .,. nol . |)ossib | y i ; lh( , senat or S hip and (ill out | j8 te ,. m „ , "J gome figure head appointed to fill the unexpired term of Senator Mc Enery so as to give Lambre-! ment no chance. Michel would hen bu , , d oul lhe adminis itration caadidM« until the last! . h w won!d be d f J r some nun f eentra , Louisiana man at the last, minute, f(e| . the „ppeoition'» denun-j ciation bad neen turned loose! on Michd . j | ! j The town of St. Martin ville has j contracted for the erection of a i new high school building in that ! town to cost $18,500. The parish also recently elected a new sup , erintendent in the person of Prof, A» (j. Bernard, forniely principal | of the Matthews School in this parish and afterwards head of the Guion Academy. Mr. Ber : nard is reputed one of the most j progressive and best parish su perintendents in the state. Du ring his incumbency in the of In St Martin. tice of Superintendent in S^ John the Baptist Parish, he re volutionized school matters. It was through his efforts that a: Sjjfcial school tax of two mills was voted by the entire parish, There is no school building in! j that parish, according to press! reports, that costs less than! $4000. The fact is the buildings US ed for schools are called to the notice of &u visitors by their ! attractiveness; St. Martin has elected him for one ywar . It is - - • — also rumored that hois a possibil ity for State SjBpcriutjindeut. Legislatures How In Session Special session for Exposition Tax in session at Baton Kouge siuce last Monday. Five other matters will be touched upon during session besides the question of extending time for ta*' Considerable opposition engendered to levy of tax, iu fact more so than had been anticipated. The extraordinary session of the General Assembly called by f°t V h l pfn m» ptn, ht le,m of the Panama Exposition Corn^ mittee for New Orleans has been in session at Baton Rou^e, Mnce last Monday. The pi inci -, pal question comin before the, body will be the extension of the time lot the collection of the ta x> speewl tax proposed, so as torn crease the fund to five and a half millions, making the total fund seven and a half millions. Hie extension of time however will only apply to V'w Orleans lue idea being to modify the already proposed constitutional amend-j ment to be voted upon at the ^o vem Der elections. Five other measui es will be touched upon during the e x ti session, which will adjoui n on the 24th inst., according to the. Cd ■ 1 here seems to be' consider able opposition to the tax already and the feeling of opposition seems to be growing. Tne prin cipal objections are that the good anticipated will never be rea-I lized, and again the people are suffic'ently taxed without being extra taxed throughout the state; thaL this extra tax will only afford the present adminis tration to be more wasteful of public funds in establishing pre cedents of extra taxes for pur poses such as expositions, and that there is too much politics in public affairs in this state, While we believe the parishes will poll a large vote against, we are. inclined to the belief that the t'ix will carry. We favor it. PariaU -«>f Madison in this State w'll sell its parish farm which has proved unprofitable, A Most Cordial Invitation is extended to you and your friends by the Officers and Directors of The Bank of Thibodaux to call, at any time, and see the interior of their banking room, which is now, probably the nicest in the entire Southwest ' i j j j The balance due the newspapers of the state, one in every parish, for publishing the last constitution al amendments, proposed at the November election in 1908, has been paid. The balance sent each one was §104.74. Bourgeois—Rossignol . Mr. Charles Bourgeois and Miss Euphemie Rossignol were quietly married in the holy bonds ofmatrimony at the bride's homo last Thursday afternoon at six o'clock. The nuptial knot was tied by Rev. Father J. J. Rous seau and oniy the immediate families and close relatives of the contracting parties were present, no cards having been issued. Mr. Bourgeois is a well known resident and business man oi this towm and bas a large number of friends here. Heisa widower and of course his friends saw that he received the proper shere varie. The bride is a native and daughter of the late Adolphe Ros signol. She resided with her mother in Canal Street. She is a yo .ung lady possessing many fine qualities and will make an ideal wife for her chosen compan ion. Thibodaux will be their home. Mayor Gaynor Doing Better New York's municipal head reported to ■ be doing better sincj attack of last week. Gallagher who shot him in head after one futile attempt expresses regret over his action. ReiHfcïkûjye n} official and stran ge fact olbullet splltiug when entering head. Mayor Gaynor who was shot in the head while on the deck of an ocean steamer, preparatory , (0 leaving New York for Europe, i is re P° ned ' according to late preg8 despatches, as doing bet | ter . H is condition was never considered s e nous and the vi tality wiLl , which New York's chief head stood the WoUQ( i is . marvellous. The first shot, a s is ; jjuown, missed the mark, butthe eCuud struck him in the throat and ta i£ 1Dg aa upward course spUt and produCed tw0 wounds. T he greatest fear entertained was from blood poisioning, but i t i s believed this will be escaped, and lh(1 physicians hope for his complete recovery. Gallagher, a discgarged em ploye, in one of the city depart ment8> at fl rst expressed regret at not having killed the distin jguit; hed officer, but recently has c , iangtd hi S tone and expresses regret at his acfon. Late reports say that insanity will be the plea offered i n defense. _ — Dance Navajoh Tribe, Improved Order of Redmen, will give another of their very enjoyable dances at La fourche Crossing, at Fraternal Hall, on to-morrow evening, the 18th inst. Invitations have been issued and a large crowd is anticipated, as usual, The committee in charge will have no pains to make the af fair the success all past dances al ways havebeen, when given by this flourishing tribe from Lafourche The following 'constitute the Pub lie School Text Book Commission : Messrs. J- N. Gourdain, Nicholas Bauer, S. A. Alleman, S. 11- Cum mins, T. 0. Brown, V. Leroy, W. B. Prescott. Commission's authori ty is to Select text books for public schools. Picnic and Surprise The pupils and patrons of the Lafourche Academy, located in the neighborhood of Bush Grove Plantation, gave a picnic last Sun day that was a delightful affair. The children together with their parents gathered on the plantation, on the property formerly occupied by I)r. Ducrocq and spent an en joyable day While the rain inter fered, the large and spacious man sion on il.e place sheltered the crowd. While the picnickers were strung an und the festive board Miss Bertha Boudreaux, daughter oî Mr. U. L. Boudreaux, a pupd of the school, delivered a nice talk expressing the feeling and sentiment of patrons and pupils towards the principal of tha Academy, Prof. Guy J. Knobloch, and at its con clusion in the name of the pupils presented him with a pretty gold tie clasp set with a diamond, to which Prof. Knobloch feelingly responded in a talk, after thanking them for the remembrance. The session will start on September5th and he has been secured to teach again. We are in receipt ot the aunual report of the Audit ot Uncle Sam's | Treasnry Department, from our young friend, Mr. Charles J. C. Aucoiu, who is employed in the department al Washington, 1>. i). TOWN PROPERTY SOLD CHEAP, Prominent corner, well located, sold for a small price. Considering high price and values of pro perty here purchase considered a bar gain. Bout'on property to be converted into gents' furnishing store in near future. Considering the high value at which property is placed in this town, one is bound to confess tuvvu wuc Ja that jyjr. j. Winsberg, one of our leadingclothiersand habera s her s , struck good luck good and strong wbeQ £ st Saturday he signed the deed that transferred in per feet title to him the Bouron pro peJ , ty> corne r Main and St. Philip Streets. Many thought the property was not for sale and wou j d make no offer for ft*ar the pr i ce vvas beyond reach, but Mr. Winsberg, who is satisfied with his business h e re and with pros pects,took a chance and dickered w i th the owners landing the property for five thousand dol i ars This is the property ce cu pied by the Club Saloon, on w hich the lease has not y e t ex p i red . Mr yyinsberg will, at the expiration of the lease, im proVe the place considerably in modernizing th e low e r floor and making it an up to date store, w hich h e will occupy growing business 0 0 u Miss Rena Boudreaux of Lafa yette returned home last Thursday after spending several weeks in our midst. F. H, Lymanof Bowie was a business visitor here last week a nd pleasant calier at our office. * Miss Jeauue Betliaucourt, after a| )eli ,iiug two wi-eks iu town, with his Those Who Come and Go guest ot Miss Enola Molaisou, left last Saturday, tor her home, at Bourg, La. Mr, Arseiie Ledet of Lafourche Crossing, paid us a plea«ant visit last Saturday. Mis. J. M. E. Stow, of Napoleon, ville, was the guest of the Misses Fey last week. Mrs. Peter Fey has gone to Biioxi and New orkaus for a while. Hon. Thomas A. Badeaux left yesiertay to spend a lev days at Cooper's Welis, Miss. Messrs. Maurice Patiu, formerly editor and proprietor of tile V r alley of the Teche, aud Mr. L. J. Voor hies of the Southern Pacific, both located in the Lafayette ofli:- * "i the raiiroad are here siuce Mown ay eugagi d in work for the rai loao. Mr. James Cherault, who had beeu engaged in business here foi himself left last Monday for Green I ville Mis.<., where he has purcbaseil | aud will noon operate a tonsorial , pallor. Ills friends here regret losing hiui as a resident but wish him well iu his new place. His family will uotfo'lovv until the lat ter palt of September. Messers. Harry McCulla and Re ginald T. Badeaux, spent Sunday and Monday in New Orleans. Prof. L. L. Broussard of the Guion Academy has been selected as Superintendent of St. John Parish. This will leave the local school without a head, as Prof. Broussard will hardly refuse the appointment,as it means promo tion. Mr. LeoLedet of this town has leased the Bazet Hotel at Houtna from the heirs of the estate and will conduct the estab lishment himself. This means that Thibodaux wili lose a sub stanial citizen. Dr. Oscar Dowling of Shreve port, the handsomest man on the State Board of Health, is men tioned as a possible successor to Dr. Dillon, as President of the Board of Health. John L. Lobdell St. Francisville, La., Aug. 15.—Johu L. Lobdell. a prominent planter of the Third Ward, died last night at his home at Wakefield, aged «5 years, from acute indigestion. He was in the best of health, and his sudden death was a shock to his familv aiii friends. Mr. .Lobdell is sur vived' by Ms wile, two daughters and one son. The remains will be taken to Baton itouge to-morrow for interment. Above taken from yesterday's Picayune was read with no little regret by the manv friends of deceased here. He was a resident and wholesale merchant of this town up to some time last year. Press reports are than an eminent geologist states that there is gold in the soil of the Parish of Sabine to the extent of !$225,000,000. Phis will uudoub tedly cause a stampede for for I tune hunters for that section of [ the state. What else is to be j found in this statu ? Diamonds > should U c Lafourche Wins Hands Down, Local team wins in Houma with a IIou nia umpire. Locals Had regular team aud despite lacic of pratioc played good ball Pitcher did not have to overwork and Knobloch adds another shut out to his credit. Defeated eight days previous by Houma, the local boys with a crip pled team and with an off battery, using their right fielder as pitcher, and not the regular battery, save for the last innings,and with ragged support, allowing four runs on er rors determined to tackle Houma for another game- Houma how" ever not having played a bad game, a side bet was put up, and La fourche took it easy, winning hands down, after an interesting game, wherein the tables were turnedjbut made all the worse for Houma, be cause its defeat was a thick coated wash of calsomine with no decora tions or fringes—in its own town. Lafourche had its regular team. Knobloch and Knobloch handled ; the horse hide as the battery and Sid. did not let himself out, as. it was not necessary, and instead of striking out as many as usual let the losers down with about a dozen strike outs. The support being gilt edge there was no necessity for his overworking, but Derne back of the bat saw that there were no free passes and that no one got beyond second. Howell was in the game, and was there at every turn, pul-^ ling every and any thing from the ground to ten feet up. Tom Ledetjman. played secoud and needed no i coaching for he knows the game, Dr. Frank Scally,graceful and fast j as ever, was in for the first time j this season aud put up a big lea-i gue game at short, Prejeant at | third, a Bayou boy also, and a re- ' gular player, was all to the candy i nailing Howell's mit and with others I liandling the willow for hits that j counted. Albert Boudreaux and j Trosclair in center and left field ! covered themselves with glory and j caught every hit Knobloch allowed i the boys on the losing side to j make- A new recrtiit,an unknown | quantity until last Sunday, wai ! Arthur Lejeune in right field, a town boy, a youngster, yet in his teens, his playing was phenomenal, and although but recentl3 r gradua ted from the juniors showed that in him Thibodaux and Lafourche have the good making of a big leaguer, he is to be depended upon in right garden, or any where else, as well as in the in field. His catches,run ning catches, were startling and marvellous. Houuia was unable to reach the third sack in nine in <iings, either dying at second or be ing tagged on that sack. No run was scored until the seventh inning by either side, but in the seventh Lafourche got five safe bingles on Bonvillain and scored three runs, making a fourth on hits in the eight i. -1 iiima played well, con sideri''g lifact that Lafourche had its strong [t.im, that was out of practice. The boys put up an ex cellent game and it is hoped that Houma will travel to our local lot once more before the end of the sea 8 on- SM. Aikens. Umpire. Miss Cecile Marie Bour geois. Miss Cecile Marie Bourgeois died at her father's home last Sunday morning, after an illness of some duration. She had been indispos ed for some time and her death while not unexpected came somewhat as a surprise to her friends. She had reached the age of 46 years 10 months and 13 days. She was a daughter of Mr. John B. Bourgeois, a life long and respected citizen of the fifth ward,andleaves besides her father and mother to mourn her loss, several brothers and sisters. Her remains were interred in St; Joseph catholic Cemetery on Mon day morning after services at church, followed to their last res ting place by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives. A Fair. Protector Fire Co. No. 2 give a fair and festival here uext Sunday after noon. Tlmre will be execur siou> uiu from New Orleans and LocUport. A number of amnae« uients have been preparnd, as well as au abundaucô of refreshments at moderate prices. A good creole meal can be obtained for fitty cents. There will be music and dancing. Hon. J. C. Briant o L Terre bonne has entered into a law part nership with Mr. Robert A. Guidry, under the firm name of Briant and Guidry, with offices at Houma. Bank Scholarship Completes Course The Bank of Lafourche scholarship given through Commercial Journal to Spen cer Business College won by Mr. Ed ward Achee. Mr Achee completed his course some weeks ago and returned home— has several offers of employment. taking such a course in Such an in Young man made a good record for him self all through generosity of Bank of Lafourche and applying himself to les sons published in this paper. Mr. Edward Achee, one of our most popular, and industrial young men,has just recently returned from New Orleans where he has been in attendance for several month« in the Commercial Department of Spencer's Business jCollege. He was the winner of the scholarahin of fered by the Commerci J Journal, and the Bank of Lafourche to any person who would study the ten lessons of the Spencerian Chartier system of shorthand,then presented in out' columns. While there were a few aspirants for the privilege of . sed an examination that (would be creditable to any stitution of learning, Mr. Achee made the best record, completed the course and stood the prescribed examination, by Profes sor Spencer of Spencer's Business College, making almost a perfect record. A report from Spencer's Business College of New Orleans, is that Mr- Achee made a most ex cellent record, finishing the course in a reasonably short time and pas* indeed young As soon as the course was completed Professor Spencer se* cured him a position in one Of the firms of New Orleans. He returned home on a two week's vacation be* fore returning to accept his posi tion as accountant. This calls to mind what great good that may be done by a little co -operation.About one year ago the Commercial Jour nal agreed to publish ten plates of the Spencerian Chartier shorthand, publishing one plate each week that its readers might have the chan ce of studying shorthand at home, Our stalwart and ever ready friend, the Bank of Lafourche, that Gibral ta»of Finance, agreed to assist in the purchase of the scholarship and donate it to the ambitious young person who would make lhe great"» est progress in the study of this sys tem of shorthand. The Bank of La fourche knows that all the fiction of the woild holds not the interest of one real life, and that imagined happenings can not begin to paral lel the interest of real happenings in respect to any charms, which even though only approxmate, lifts fiction into the very highest places of art.The Commercial Jour nal believes also as does the Bank of Lafourche in the conviction that some ofthe greatest writers have nev er written, and are not now wtiting, some of the greatest poets Dot sing ing, some cf the greatest musiatafts yet mute; some of the greatest pain ters and sculptors are not putting their divine imaginings, with deft skill, on canvas or in clay. It be lieves in the conviction that some of the greatest finan' ciers are yet unknown; that some of the greatest business men whose aims in life are not to hold money for money's sake, but to make it, and spend it in the interest of humanity are undevelop* ed. It has always been their and our aim to do whatever was in our power to discover and help as much as possible to develop the natural talent within all. The first legal execution imder the new law requiring all han gings to take place within the walls of the penitentary at Batoa Rouge is scheduled for October 14th next. The death sentence having been pronounced in this district in the parish of Terre bonne, Governor Sanders signed the death warrant last week and fixed the date. The accused, Joseph Hite, colored, is charged with murder and was convicted of s^n»^ ;1 t the last term of court in our siöUr parish. The special train conveying over one hundred Louisiana Knights of Columbus, together with their lady friends and rela tives,arrived in New Orleans last Sunday, after having attended the National Convention of the order at Quebec, and visited all points of interest in the eastern portion of this great country. Judge L. P, Caillou«t was among the number and returned home Sunday. If you have a home to paint or room to wall paper see Oliver J. Bourgeois. 5