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COMMERCIAL JOURNAL
Think not lightly of never so weak an arm which strikes with the Sword of Justice.
VOL. 7.
THIBODAUX, LA. OCT. 12th, igio.
NO. 36
Father Rousseau
Receives Reward.
Bfev. Father Ronsseau was last Sunday
presented with a gold headed umbrel
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the colored Catholics of this
town.
The Catholic Progressive Association
shows its appreciation of spiritual ser
vices rendered it.
The zealous minister of the gospel has
been doing good work among the color
ed Catholics.
Last Sunday the Catholic Progrès
sive Benevolent Association, an or
ganization composed of colored
Catholics, as the name indicates,
gave Rev. Father J. J. Rousseau a
surprise. This association has
been in existence for a number of
years, in fact owns its own hall
together with a large tract of land.
Father Rousseau, since he has been
stationed here took it upon himself
to pay visits to this association and
work among the other people of
that race who had been estrayed
from their religion, and his work,
it is said,is bearing fruit. He paid
the association regular visits at
their meetings and addressed them
on religious subjects.
To show their appreciation the
association purchased a gold hea
ded umbrella and last Sunday
when he made his regular visit
lie was presented with the same.
Although taken completely by
surprise he expressed his appre
ciation of the same and assured
the association he would always
be ready to assist it in its
good and creditable work for the
salvation of souls and the better
ment of themselves, as well as
the mutual aid extended to one
another.
Your cough annoys you. Keep
ou backing and tearing the deli
cate membranes of your throat if
you want to be annoyed. But if
you want relief, want to be cured,
take Chamberlain's Cough iteiue
dy. Sold by all dealers
For Sale."
Choice Bayou Blue Split Shingles.
Apply to L. L. TOUPS,
Schriever, La,
For Sale.
A number of good residence pro -
psrties centrally located, good in
vestment for renting purposes and
good properties, All who mean
business, m ne other, apply to
GLOBE INSURANCE AGCY.
T hibodaux, LA;
Dental Notice
Dr.M.V.Smith,
The Denial Specialist
Is now at
The Sliangers Hote
Will remain until
Saturday Oct. 22.
All his old friends and patients
are invited to call. Work needing
adjusting will be gladly attended
to.
PRICES REASONABLE.
You can now buy Taffy Candy
at the Lafourche Drug Store.
Hoarseness in a child subject to
croup is a saie indication of the
approach of tbe disease. If Cham
berlaiu's Cough Remedy is given
at ouce or even after the croupy;
cough has appeared, it will . pr.e*
veut the attack. Coutaius no [»oi
son. Sohl by all dealers.
Grand Fair
A committee of gentlemen, head
ed by Dr. G. A. Trosclair, are mak
ing arrangements to give a fair next
Sunday for the benefit of St. John
Catholic Chapel. The fair will be
given at St. Anna School. No ex
pense will be spared to make the
affair a grand success. All are in
vited. See that you get a me al at
the Creole Kitchen, under the su
pervision of a committee of ladies.
ÏÔIEYSOWNOiAXATTïï
F ob S tomach „. T rouble and C onstipation
> S.enator Lafollette of Wiscon
sin is being boosted by the Re
publican Progressives as a candi
date for President in J912. Prom
all reports the Senator would get
many Democratic votes, unless
the party put up one equal tofihë
Wisconsin reformer.
Leper's Home
In Need Of Money
Last Legislature did not find the money
to turn over to board to make necessa
ry repairs and improvements.
White and colored folks obliged to eat
in same dinning room and inmates put
to other inconveniences By unsanitary
conditions.
The public is appealed to for aid, in other
words the board is begging because the
need is urgent.
The last Legislature seems to
have turned a deaf ear to the needs
of the Leper's Home and now the
board finds it necessary to make an
appeal to the charitably inclined to
help them in their good work.
Conditions from the reports given
by the board to the press, after a
meeting held last Saturday, are
fierce. Much is needed to treat the
dreaded disease in the proper
way and more sanitary conditions
would obtain with more money.
In its mad endeavor to create
new offices at the dictation of the
Governor and raising salaries
the inmates of this institution
were entirely overlooked and
they were given little or nothing,
save the biannual appropriation
made for tbeir use. The board
says that the white and colored
inmates are bound to eat in the
same dining room, and that both
meu and women are crowded in
the same place. This is a state
of affairs that should be repul
sive to every rigtjt thinking and
self respecting individual, parti
cularly in a state where the peo
ple rightfully believe in drawing
the line and separating the races.
The menbers of the board are
serving for nothing and paying
their own expenses to and from
board meetings, so they have a
right-to appeal to the public since
they find that the state is not
giving them the wherewith to
properly conduct an institution
that means so much to the
state.
Be sure to try our
Taffy Candy, made
fourche Drug Store.
old fashion
daily at La
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pu blic her beautiful line of
FALL HATS
A Reliable Medicine—Not A Narcotic.
Get th* genuine Foley's Honey
and Tar in yellow package. It is
safe and effective. Contains no
opiates. Refuse substitutes.^La
fourche Store.
BORN.
To Mrs. Eugene Knobloch. a
boy,
To Mrs. Pave Babin, a boy.
New Store
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Mr. Joseph Musso and brothers
on the 1st inst. opened a shoe store
in their building in Main Street,
which they but recently had entire
; ly renovated and overhauled. There
j are two street show windows and a
large assortment of shoes of all
kinds,'just shoes,are carried in stock.
The place presents well and is quite
an improvement on the old place
; as it presented before.
I Ilite, a condemned negro from
i the Parish of Terrebonne,was trans
ferred to the penitentiary last week,
where he will be hanged for murder.
I He was granted a leave or exten"
sion of time twice and if there is
no interference by the Board of
: Pardons r >'r commutation of eenten
! ce he will hang Friday and will be
! the first to be executed at the capi
j tal, as required under the new state
law.
'Much Ado
About Ming,'
Aswell investigation made public and
shows absolutely nothing else but a
bit of negligence, if you will, and lack
of system.
The noise made over same baa been an
injustice to Mr. Aswell and should -be
warning for the future.
If this maUer is calmly allowed to drop,
the Governor with his Travelling Auditor
is capablo of rendering the most honest
citizen suspicious of dishonesty for an
indefinite period.
The report on the condition of
affairs when the office of State
Superintendent was in the hands
jof Mr. J. B. Aswell has at last
been made putilic. There is ab
solutely nothing to it. Much
noise was made about it and it
was expected that the result
would be an investigation, the re
port on which would be rife and
teeming with sensations from be
ginning to end. The advance
and press agents for the State
political machine had bill boar
ded the event in such a notorious
and flashy manner that we were
under the impression that of all
the scandals handed out by the
present administration the As
well affair would cap the climax.
The result we are giad to state
however is entirely different, the
report if anything exoûorates
Mr. Aswell. It goes to show
some negligence and lack of sys
tem, but absolutely no criminal
intent or intention of misappro
priating. The report shows mat
ters pretty well mixed, in that
state or school I money had be.en
deposited to his personal account
and personal money had been
deposited to the state account,
state debt had been paid with
personal checks and personal
debts had been paid with state
checks. There is no evidence,in
so far as the report goes, that
tenais to iucriminate him or
which could have warranted the
shameful accusations and sus
picions cast upon him, when the
noise was first made public.
The administration has done
him a grave injustice in having
circulated or reported shortages
before the report was completed
jand a double injustice in having
resorted to all excuses in a play
for time and delay in making a
report that did not substantiate
calumnious charges, so that the
suspicion might rest upon him
longer. If the same thing had
been done one private citizen by
another,there would now be pen
ding a damage suit for libel. The
precedent established in this
case is an extremely dangerous
oi>e, as any honest citizen can
have the finger of suspicion poin
ted at him,if the Governor has a
fancy that this would be a good
way to take him out of the list of
eligibles for approval,for any citi
zen is entitled to public office, or
will be after the next election.
Try our fresh Taffy Candy "made
this morning."—Lafourche Drug
Store.
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
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The grinding season will soou be
on,8ome of the factories in tili« pa
rish will start week alter uext and
some will start cutting cane next
week. The recent weather has had
a tendency to check the growth
of the cane and it has been matu
ring. While some reports state
that the crops will be ten per cent
.short,it is the opinion of many that
the crop this year will be as good
as the average.
The refinery of the Adeline Sugar
Refining Company in the Parish of
St. Mary was completely destroyed
by fire last week. The loss is esti
mated at over five hundred thou
sand dollars, with a little over one
half insured.
What Are
The Facts,
Will Governor Sanders again play quit,
as Governor, and will he go to Wash
ington after the election.
Press reports say that Senator Foster
stated that Judge Thornton can not b«
tor, and 8enatoi>S^ster
Will Sanders go to Washington if the
amendment for exposition is lost and
will he not go if it should carry.
Will Governor Sanders again
play quit, in so far as the governor
ship is concerned and will he call in
to requisition his thirty friends from
the exposition committee to once
more transfer him, this time from
the position to which he asked
them to shift him to the position
from which they took him J 1 It
looks very funny and nobody is
talking just now, but everybody is
sitting up and taking notice.
Senator Foster is charged, ac
cording to a press report, with
having stated that he had inter
viewed the different members of the
Senate committee as to their opin
ion regarding the seating of Judge
Thornton and the report says the
committee is almost unanimous
that the Senator-elect (perhaps)
can not be seated. Senator Foster
afterwards came out with a report
that he had not made any such
statement. Now who is right?
We are under the impression
that Governor Sanders is going
to Washington. He is holding a
doubled edge ax up in the *ir
and it will fall after the approach
ing election. The conditions are
as follows: If the amendments
are carried for the exposition he
will be needed in VVashington
and will go, if they are defeated
he will have ended his activity
here and his field of useful
ness (?) will then be transferred
to Washington. It is a case of
heads I win, tails you lose. The
Governor is most interested in
his own future now and not the
future of the state. Of course
if the amendments are carried
he will appropriate to himself all
the credit and if lost, and it look-»
like such will be their fate, the
Good Government League will Ue
too blame. Watch Jared in Was
hington in December.
Our Taffy Candy is always fresh
made daily at Lafourche Drug
Store.
Mrs. Orville Daigle.
Mrs. Orville Daiglei a resident of
Terrebonne, died at her home
between here and Schriever last
Thursday, at the age of 50 years
Her death was sudden and occured
while she was at the supper table
with her family. She was before
marriage Miss Elmire Boye. Her
remains were interred in St- Joseph
Catholic Cemetery Friday after
noon.
T ro u ble and C onstipation
The new bank building at Lock
port is almost completed and will
soon be ready for occupancy.
Our good friend, Mr. Paul P. De
laune, will officiate as cashier.
While we regret to see Paul leave
us, we feel that il is promotion
for him and rejoice at his good
luck. Lock port receives in Mr.
Delaune an excellent, ideal, hono
rable citizen of character and
standing, and is to be congratu
lated. Mr. Davis Foret will be
president and friend Fernand
Foret will act as assistant cash
ier in the same institution.
FOLEYSKIMEVPUIS
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Brings Forth
Much Criticism,
Lafourche following Terrebonne, after
having compromised, placed itself in a
very peculiar position.
The suits to be brought in this and Ter
rebonne parish it is stated will retard
developmental unclaimed lands in this
Mr. Wisner about to float three million
dollars, the issue will be interfered with
as well as the flow of immigration
checked.
The action of the parishes of La
fourche and Terrebonne in bringing
suit to recover lands after having
allowed the owner Mr. Wisner and
his associates to make considerable
expense in improving heretofore
useless and worthless
lands is causing much criticism.
The New Orleans Item last Satur
day discussed the matter from a
general view point and brought
forth some very strong facts.
The parishes should have looked
into their rights long ere this and
Lafourche should have looked fur
ther before effecting a compromise
and "then backing out. Another
point that rise« is that the answer
of the defendnats in this case may
be a boomerang and the parishes
may be a bit sorry for having deci
ded to sue for the recovery of the
lands. It is stated that bonds to
the amount of three million dollars
were about to be taken up and this
suit being brought has knocked the
deal out> immigration has been
checked and other losses and dam
ages are being eaused the owners
of these lands. It looks eheap to
wait until an individual makes a
success of anything before trying
to put him out of business. Before
Mr. Wisner took hold of these lands
neither Terrebone nor Lafourche
gave the matter a second thought.
Neither parish know however just
how much these suits will cost them
as it is not known just what the de
fendants will seek to recover in dam
ages. Mr. Wisner ha« entered suit
against this parish already for $100,
000 damages, for slander of title.
The move is checking the deve
lopment of forgotten territory and
is certainly doing no good to
either parish.
Eat the best Taffy Candy made.
For sale by Lafourche Drug Store
Report to the State Bank Examiner of
the financial condition of the
lank of Shiliobattx.
THIBODAUX, LA.
At close of business Sept. 27tli, 1910.
Kesochoes:
Demand loans,
Loans secured by mortgage
Other loans and discounts
Overdrafts secured and unsecured
Other bonds, stocks, securities.
etc.,
Banking house, furni
ture and fixtures...
Due from banks and bankers
Checks and other cash items
Gold coin
Silver, nickel and copper coin
National bank notes
and all issues U. S. Govt
$6,628.14
31.819.78
320,70«.42
2,77?.13
14,316.16
15,744.88
64.7 ID.4!)
1,745 74
10.00
4,523.84
20,773.00
Total. 1483.766.58
Liabilities:
Capital stock, $50,000.00
Surplus, 50,000.00
Undivided profits, less expenses
and taxes paid 34,150.*3
Dividends unpaid 35.00
Individual deposits subject to
check 264.917.22
Time certificates of deposit 21,819.71
Demand certificates of deposit 2,353.32
Bills Payable 50,000,00
Notes and bills rediscounted 10,000.00
Amount due to persons not
included in foregoing 490.50
Total, 483,766.58
I, E. G. Itobieliaux, President and I, C.
P. Shaver, Cashier of the above named
bank do solemnly swear that the forego
ing statement is* true and correct to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
(L.S.) Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 1st day of October, 1910.
J. A. O. Coign et ,
Notary Public.
OFFICERS:
E. G. Robichaux, President.
O. Naquin, E. U. Morvant,
V-President. V-Presidcnt.
C. P. Shaver, Cashier.
P. L. Braud, S. E. Peltier,
Asst. Cashier. Asst. Cashier.
DIRECTORS:
E. G. Robichaux, L. A. Trosclair,
Albert J. Lagarde, E. U. Morvant,
O. Naquin, C. P. Shaver,
P. L. Braud, O. E. Peltier,
E. Roger, Thos. Beary,
J. W. Lepine.
) Bob Taylor was nominated by the
! "Harmony Democrats" as candi
j date for Governor. It is hoped he
! will bring many of the opposition
! who have endorsed the Republican
j candidates back into the f®ld.
To-day is Columbus day, and un
i der the law exercises should be
• held in all schools. The local coun
I cil Knights cf Columbus were to
i celebrate the day but for some rea
! son or other the celebration was
* abandoned at the last minute.
Lockport has taken steps to
protect itself from any possibili
ty of being wiped out by fire by
erecting a 20,000 gallon water
tank and laying water mains on
two streets.
Demonstration Of
What We Can Do
Southern Pacific receiving praise on all
sides and its good educational woru
will have a telling effe«t.
Farmers and agriculturists should only
be too glad to avail themselves of any
scientific experiences thit will better
conditions.
Nothing so good that it can not be bet
ter and we are too slow in becoming
familiar with the' possiblities of our owu
commonwealth.
The Southern Pacific Demon
stration train was greeted with
a tremendousovation on its trium
phant tour through the southern
section of Louisiana, in fact all
over its lines in this state. The
train as is known was composed
of six cars, in charge of expe
rienced and trained men of the
faculty of the Louisiana State
University, The demonstrations
on the cur were of all kinds. Ag
riculture was given more pro
minence in that all sorts of
crops were referred to,cane,corn,
truck,rice, fruit and everything,
in fact almost anything was
touched upon, because almost
anything can be grown in this
greatest of all commonwealths.
Attention was alsogiven to the
raising of cattle and poultry and
the disadvantages we are now
laboring under and the mistakes
we are making ware delicately
but forceablv pointed out to us,
a fact which every mau should
appreciate,for no man should ob
ject to having his short comings
made known to him so that he
might correct them and thus as
sist himself.
The ovations given the car in
this parish were duplicated all
along the line. The newspapers
had done their share, the local
agents had used all their know
ledge and schemes to give the
matter sufficient publicity. At
Lockport there were several bun
dred people and Rac-land recei
ved ttie exhibit with as large
a crowd. Lafourche Crossing
stands out preeminently head
and shoulders above all other
places in that in a settlement of
about 100 souls there were over
one thousand people present to
hear the gospel of progressive
ness and goforwardness. While
Thibodaux turned out about fif
teen hundred or more, consider
ing what Lafourche Crossing did
do, we should have done better.
The weather however was
against us and we are delighted
that the affair was so successful.
The speakers here were intro
duced by Superintendent W. S.
Lafargue and he deserves much
of the credit for the crowds at
the different stops in this parish
as he got his teachers busy and
interested himself personally.
All the stores in town closed du
ring the stay of the train in our
midst Wa regret that we mis
sed the demonstration, but while
on our wa} to the train a sad mes
sage, a message of death, called
us back. _
ÎOm^aDNEYHttS
F ob B ackache K ioncis and B laodcb
If you have a home to paint or
room to wall paper see Oliver J.
Bourgeois. 5
Disbursements for educational
purposes for year from July J.,
1909 to July 1,1910 in this state
amounted to $4,270,883.18 and
the receipts for the same purpose
were $4,936,300 34, according to
an official despatch reported in
the daily papers.
District Attorney Hubert Wax of
Baton Riuge died in New Orleans
last Saturday after a short illness.
He was interred in Baton Rouge
Sunday afternoon.
Boudreaux--Ledet.
Mr. Leonard Boudreaux and Miss
Agues Ledet were quietly married
St. Joseph Catholic Church last
afternoon in the presence of a large
crowd of friend* aud relatives. The
bride is a daughter of Mr. Philip
Ledet and has a host of frieuds,
she is a native of this parish, pre
possessing ami accomplished. The
groom is the junior member of the
firm ot L. & L. Boudreaux and
stands well in the community, be
iug of exemplary habits, very ener
geticaud progressive. His friends
are legion, lie is affiliated with
the Woodmeu of the World, the
Knights of th« Maccabees, the
Eagles aud other kcal organiza
tions. He is also a native of this
parish. Lafourche will be their
home. Although no cards were is
sued and the wedding was a quiet
affair there were many of their
friends who remembered them with
neat and pretty preseents, and
whose best wishes are showered up
on them.
Exposition Funds
Dished Out
Already big salaries are being paid sad
the exposition is not secured, what wMl
it bo when the real work starts.
Sixteen Thousand Dollars per month the
pay roll already and the politicians are
taking car? of tbeir tri
With the seven and a half Billion the ad
ministration will hare a healthy cam
paign fund to remain in the graft hol«.
According to a statement pub
lished in the New Orleans press the
Exposition Committee is already
passing the pie and the do nothings
and salary drawers are already
lined up at the crib feeding off ol
pap in the shape of remunerative
salaries. When the good work
started we were told haw many of
the officials were working for noth
ing and how little money was being
spent, recently statements of what
is being expended has not been
given out to the public.
The latest statement shows that
the pay roll is already sixteen thon
sand dollars per month. The line
is like a bread line, and others are
waiting to receive tbeir «bare of
the pap from the political erib.
When the tax is carried, if it is
carricd, the bars wild be let dowa
aud the faithful will be driven in
aud permitted to help themselves
to their heart 's conteut,with draw
iug a salary as their hardest task.
If it inquires sixteen thousand per
mouth before the exposition ia se
cured how much expense money
will be required to maintain tbe
big fair. Are we going to disgraoe
Louisiaua by inviting people here
to see us spend money or are we
going to have a deceut exhibit.
The manipulation and disposition
of the funds, dished ont at this
rate before meuring tbe prizf, cer
tainly dona not appeal to us and
we are becoming more and morn
disgusted with the whole a(f*ir
aud cau readily understand why
opposition to the exposition and
the amendment proposing the tax
is so pronounced throughout tbe
state.
The young men of town will give
a dance at Odd Fellows Hall on
next Wednesday, 19th, inst. The
proceeds will be turned over to a
worthy cause.
Those Who Come and do
Dr. Felix V. Riviere has returned
hare and resumed his dental pratice
after an absence of eighteeh months
in Ohio.
Misses Nany and Nora Braud are
visiting reletivesand friends at New
Roads, La.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Chenet of
Bush Grove spent a portion of the
day in our midst last Sunday.
Messrs. Thomas D- Kent and
Max Dupre were in Baton Rouge
last week having conveyed a num
ber of prisoners to the State Peniten
tiary to serve for varied terms.
Death Of An Honored Citizen.
Died in this city at 2:50 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon, October 5.
1910, J. J. Capdevielle, a native
of Loucroupe, Haute Pyrenees,
France, born May 8, 1836. Tbe
funeral took place from tbe fam
ily residence, 236 Laural street,
this (Thursday) afternoon at 4
o'clock. IntermentCathoiic cem
etery. Mr. Capdevielle came to
Baton Rouge from France in
1858 and has resided for more
than 50 years in town. Ee bas
been prominently identified with
all the principal public events
since that time and was known
by all of his associates for bis
high ideals and honorable deal
ings. He was for a number of
years one of the largest whole
sale grocers and commission
merchants of the city, having a
large place of business in Front
street. Mr. Capdeville married
Miss Emma Lindes and bas bad
the pleasure of seeing bis large
family of girls and boys grow to
honorable and useful lives. His
married life was an idealy hap
py one and his wife and children
most devoted, especially during
his last illness of several months.
He has always been loyal to his
native coun i ry and his home was a
noted rendezvous for the French
residents of the community ahd
the prominent French visitors
who came from time to time .to
converse with this intelligent and
interesting gentleman. Mr.Cap
deville is survived by his wife,
five daughters, Mrs. J. Segura,
of New Iberia; 'Mrs. Francis
Knobloch, of Thibodaux; Misses
Julliet, Blanche and Alice Capde.
ville, and three sons, Clarence,
Alfred and Faure Capdeville and
a host of friends, who will deep
ly regret his de ath.—The New
Advocate, Baton Bouge.