The star-progress., December 06, 1919, Page 2, Image 2

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NOW'S the TIME TO DO Your
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There's still nearly two weeks to Christmas, but the person who desires to
get "first pick" had better buy their gifts early. You'll avoid the Christmas
rush and have more time to pick your gifts tastefully. Our salesmen, also,
will be able to give more attention and see that you buy the appropriate
thing. -
If you asked the men in your family what they preferred for Christmas,
they'd probably say "something to wear." And it's only logical that the
most appropriate man's gift should come from an exclusive man's store—
for instance, ours.
These gifts listed below will be sure to reflect the good taste of the giver:
HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING NOTASEME HOSIERY
KNOX HATS CHENEY CRAVATS
HOWARD & FOSTER SHOES \ CHENEY MUFFLERS
MANHATTAN SHIRTS NOVELTIES, ETC.
SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY
FOR ADVANCED CHRISTMAS
SHOWING OF SILK SHIRTS
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OPELOUSAS, — — — — —
"The Quality Shop"
— — — — - LOUISIANA
" The Store of the Christmas Spirit
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STATE NEARLY FREE
FROM THE CATTLE
FEVER TICK
Six Perishes Remain Under the
Federal Quarantine;Much
Territory Now Clear
ST. LANDRY STILL IN
THE INFECTED AREA
Hoped That Work in 1920 Will
Release Entire State end
Benefit Cattlemen
Washington, Nov. 30.—Louisiana
failed to win complete freedom from
the cattle fever tick this year, but it
made remarkable strides toward that
goal. Only seven parishes are left
under the federal cattle tick quaran
tine. They are: Acadia, Bossier,
Evangeline, St. Landry, St.Tammany,
Vernon and Winn.
The following parishes are releas
ed from the federal quarantine, ef
fectivce December 1: Assumption,
Iberia, Lafayette, Livingston, Natchi
toches, Plaquemines, Rapides, St.Mar
tin, St. Mary, Vermilion and West
Carroll; and the remainder of Ascen
cion, Iberville, St. James and St.
John.
Federal officials had hoped that all
of Louisiana would be placed in the
free-from-quarantine area this year,
thus widening the tick-free highway
to the Gulf of Mexico made when
Mississippi drove out the tick. The
greatest reason why complete suc
cess has not been obtained is ascribed
to failure of local officials to enforce
the local quarantine and dipping laws.
It is expected, however, that 1920
will see all remaining areas cleaned
up. At least, that is the confident
hope of the federal officials, who
place thier reliance on the over
whelming sentiment in favor of tick
eradication in the parishes that al
ready have driven out the parasite.
Only 5033 square miles, or 7 per
cent of the state, remain under fed
eral quarantine. All of the quaran
tined area can be completely cleaned
up next year if the parish officials
will co-operate with the state and
federal authorities.
This is both good and bad news to
St. Landry cattlegrowers, as it was
hoped that the work of tick eradica
tion would be finished this year and
thus relieve the parish from the
heavy expense incurred in dipping,
for salaries of inspectors, assistants,
the cost of "dope" and the mainte
nance of vats. However, as the fed
eral officials say that we are still in
infetced territory, there is nothing
else to do but again wage war on the
parasite in 1920, not counting the ex
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pense of getting rid of it forever.
Whatever the cost of the work, it
will be cheap after all, for the future
success of the growing of cattle in
this parish and state depend on the
waging of a successful fight on the
tick, and that must be done at any
cost for cattle growing will soon be
one of the chief industries of this
parish and state.
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THE PARKER SIX
(From the St. Tammany Farmer,
Covington, La.)
I have heard of lots of racers,
And thought I knew the best,
But a new one of these chasers
Now outclasses all the rest.
It's entered in the gov'nor race—
Been geared to highest speed;
The Stubbsmobile can't keep the pace
.......feed.
With all its big GAS
They call this car the Parker Six,
It's built in highest rat;
The speed's so great it needs no tricks
But leads right from the start.
The Stubbsmobile no record has
To urge the thought, 'twill win—
It's running crooked like a pazz,
And traveling on a rim.
If its funny little antics >
Didn't make the people grin
Didn't drive them nearly frantic,
Why, sure, it would be a sin.
For the Parker Six outlasses
(It was built to last and serve)
Just as bees outclass molasses;
While the Stubbs runs on its nerve.
It has carburetor trouble ;
Its ignition won't ignite;
Its starter's just a bubble,
And transmission—it's a fright.
While it knows it can not win it,
It will not take a rest,
For as two of them are in it—
It may come out second best.
Also, we'll state, the Parker Six
With ease can climb a hill,
E'en though it be in slippery fix,
The ParkerTl fill the bill.
The Stubbsmobile has sprung a leak,
Its 'celerator's gone;
1 1ts generator's getting weak—
'ilow its horn.
Can hardly bl
Its driver's getting scared and 'fused,
Sees double when he counts—
Says Ring Machines shouldn't be used
'Gainst country racing mounts.
AMERICANIZATION
Until a short year or two ago we
had scarcely heard of the word Amer
icanization. It has been practically
coined to fit the meaning to which it
has been set since the world war. Now
we hear it on every side.
Yet we wonder if we know what
Americanization in its deepest sense
really means.
A few days ago we sat beside a boy
of fourteen or fifteen years at the
picture show. He was shabbily dress
ed. His pallor and his nervous excit
ability over the pictures showed that
he was a poorly nourished child. We
had gone with the little girl we love
best to see a picture of pioneer days,
but before that was shown an adven
ture picture was flashed on the
screen. The boy was attention and
all eagerness. He grew so excited
over the adventure picture that he
followed with his hands and his body
every movement of the actors on the
screen.
Bat when an educational film was
shown the boy beside me lost interest.
He put his eap over his face and
dozed. It was plain that only the lure
of the pictured adventure held him.
He was interested in the picture of
pioneer days, especially the thrills.
And presently he leaned toward me.
"Will you read me what it tells
about?' *
"Why don't you read the titles
yoseself V* we asked him.
"I can't read—no ma'm," he re
plied.
"Do you mean that you can not
read at all? Don't you go to school?''
"No, m'am, I have to work," he an
swered.
We asked his name. And next
day we asked about the boy. He is
about fourteen years old. It is true
that he has had so little schooling
that he can not read. His parents
are not objects of charity, but they
need the money that the boy earns.
He has a place where he works every
day and he is "making good on the
job."
He is an American boy born of
American parente. Bom in a coun
try that boasts of its public schools
and of the advantages of free educa
tion ; living in a state that has a com
pulsory education law. Yet he can
not even read.
The school authorities are not to
blame because this boy is out of
school. They know him. They have
kept in touch with his case. Neither
are his parents to blame, perhaps, be
cause the boy has not been kept in
school.
Yet the fact remains that we talk
of Americanizing aliens ; of assimilat
ing our foreign population, when in
our midst, with American blood in his
veins and able to say, "I am an Amer
ican," are boys who can not read—
not the news of the stirring events
that are sweeping the world—not the
constitution of the United States; not
the laws of the land and of the state
in which fhey live.
The boy is a quiet boy, humble be
fore authority. He has never been
guilty of even trivial misdemeanors
against the law. But suppose he
were? Evidently the only thrills he
gets from life are the thrills that the
picture show gives him. And only the
excitement of gun fights and battles
appeals to him on the screen. Sup
pose for a moment that in time his
mind ,excited by what he sees in the
pictures, plans to stage a drama with
the boy himself as the central figure.
Many boys do that, you know. And
suppose .staging that drama, he sins
against the law and the laws calls
him to account for the sin.
Will motives and extenuating cir
cumstances be considered? The law
does not consider them. We say in
effect to such a boy as this one: "We
are too busy, too selfish, too heedless
to see that you have your chance in
life. But we have established courts
and if in your ignorance you sin
against the law, we will see that you
are punished."
What does such a boy as this need?
Short periods of instruction, practi
cal, adapted to his understanding. At
least, instruction in the elements of
education, teaching that will enable
him to read and write, to know some
thing of figures and something of the
government of which he is a part. We
need a school for just such boys, a
school conducted in hours convenient
for them with a soup kitchen in con
nection so that the boys' minds and
bodies' may be both better
nourished. It is the plea
that we can not afford
such schools. We can afford them as
well as we can afford jails and courts
and reform schools and penitenti
aries. And the need for criminal in
stitutions would be far less in a com
ing generation if we would under
stand and help the boys of today.
We are planning schools for aliens.
We preach of Americatiiaztion for the
foreigners in our midst. The plan is
a wonderful one; the ideal beautiful.
But first of all we need to American
ize those of our own blood, the neg
lected, the forlorn ,the hopeless ,the
helpless ones in our midst ,born under
the dark star of misfortune perhaps,
but morn, too, under the starry glory
of our flag.—Selected.
WHY I AM FOR JNO. M. PARKER
By A. C. BOYER,
Senator from Avoyelles end Pointe
Coupee
I speak knowingly. I know Mr.
Parker personally. From observation
and study I find in Mr. Parker a man
in full sympathy with the great mass
es of his people. He understands
them; he feels with them; he knows
their needs. He has that practical
knowledge, untiring energy and skill
ful ability which, in my opinion,
qualify him above any man I know
in Louisiana to be the governor we
need in these post-war times.
Mr. Parker has vision backed by
sound practical judgment. His per
sonal experience as a farmer, a stock
raiser and successful business man is
concrete proof of his comprehensive
grasp of our educational, industrial
and agricultural problems, with the
sure key to their unmistakable solu
tion. „ He is a great organizer, a
master administrator, a perfect man
ager, irreproachably honest, fair and
just in his dealings with men of all
classes.
Some choose lightly to call him a
destroyer. Not only he is not a de
stroyer, but on the contrary he iB in
fact a wonderful constructor, an un
excelled progressor, a prolific pro
ducer.
These troublous times require a
powerful constructive hand; the set
backs of war demand the push of a
progressive man; high cost of living
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and general scarcity clamor for such
tuaity of having an illustrious gover
a producer as Hon. John M. Parker.
Let us set aside^ petty personal
views, passions and interests, in or
der to unite in electing the man who,
in my honest opinion, will make one
of the greatest, if not the greatest,
governors Louisiana ever could have.
Let us elect Mr. Parker as chief ex
ecutive and thus not lose the oppor
nor, a leader with an incomparable
record.
T respass notice—N otice ia
hereby given that trespassing and
hunting is positively forbidden on any
or all of my properties. Violators
will be prosecuted. HYPO LITE MIL
LER, Sunset, La. nov22-6t
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MALL FARM—Any one desiring to
purchase a samll farm, near Op
elousas, may see H. D. LARCADE,
JR., Opelousas,, La. novS-tf
L
OST —Pocketbook, containing $36
or $40 and six cents in coppers.
Also city license. Return to this of
fice and receive liberal reward.
novl5-tf
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UCCESSION SALE.
ESTATE OF
JULIETTE
SON
THOMP
No. 6811, Probate Docket, Sixteenth
Judicial District Court, Pariah
of St. Landry, Louisiana
By virtue of an order of Hon. B. H.
Pavy, Judge of the Sixteenth Judi
cial District Court of the State of
Louisiana, in and for the parish of
St. Landry, and pursuant to a com
mision of said court issued thereun
der, directed to the undersigned ad
ministrator, or any duly qualified
auctioneer of St Landry parish, there
will be sold at public auction, to the
last and highest bidder, for cash, at
the principal front door of the court
house of the pariah of St. Landry ,at
Opelousas, La., on
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1919,
at 11 o'clock a. m., the following de
scribed property, to-wit :
A lot of ground, with all the build
ings and improvements thereon, sit
luated in the City of Opelousas, La.,
and bounded on the north
y property
of Dr. Charles F. Boagni; south by
the property of Mrs. E. P. Veazie; on
the east by Main street ,and on the
west by property of Mrs. S. Lambert.
1RMS—CASH.
TEI
SOTHENE MÀLVEAU,
nov22-6t Testamentary Executor.
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RTITION SALE
CHARLES L. CLAY ET ALS
CONSTANCE GUHJBEAU, WIDOW,
ET ALS.
No. 21,3SO, Civil Docket, Sixteenth
Judicial District Court, Parish
of St. Landry, Louisiana
By virtue of an order of the Hon
orable the Sixteenth Judicial District
Court, in and for the Parish of St.
Landry, La., granted by Hon. B. H.
Pavy, Judge of said Court, on peti
tion of Charles L. Clay et als, and
hearing date October 20, 1919, and
addressed to the undersigned auc
tioneer, I will sell at public auction,
at the principal front door of the
Court House of the Parish of St. Lan
dry, Louisiana, at Opelousas, La., at
s
11 o'clock a. m., on
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1919,
the following described property, to
wit:
A certain plantation, situated at
Sunset, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana,
together with all buildings and im
provements theeron, containing sixty
five (65) acres, bounded on the north
by property now or formerly belong
ing to Richard; on the south by prop
erty now or formerly belonging to J.
B. Sibille; on the west by property
now or formerly belonging to J. B.
Bourque; and on the east by proper
ty now or formerly belonging to St.
Landry Cotton Oil Company, Simon
Levy end others.
TERMS—CASH, on ths day of
L, L. PERRAULT,
novl-6t Auctioneer.
L
OST —Three twenty-doller bills, be
tween Shute's Drug Store end my
hesidence at 516 South Union street.
Finder will please return to me and
receive reward. JOHN CLARK, Ope
lousas, La. nov22-tf
J JST RECEIVED—A carload of
six-inch "Economy Shingles and
six-inch "Clippers." Place your or
der early as they won't last long. ST.
LANDRY LUMBER CO. nov8tf
EALED BIDS.
$75,000.00
ST. LANDRY PARISH. LOUISIANA,
Read District No. 12 Bonds
Sealed bids will be received by the
undersigned, at Opelousas, La., until
JANUARY 5, 1920,
at 11 o'clock a. m., for the purchase
of $75,000.00 five per cent Twelfth
Road District bonds of the Second
Police Jury Ward of the Parish of
St Landry, La., dated July 1, 1919.
Bonds will mature as follows:
Seventy-five bonds of the denom
ination of $1,000.00 each; one bond
payable July 1, 1920, and one each
year thereafter up to and including
July 1, 1929; two bonds payable July
1, 1930, and two each year thereaf
ter up to and including July 1, 1954;
three bonds payable July 1, 1955, and
three each_ year thereafter up to and
including July 1, 1959.
Interest payable semi-annually on
the first day of January and July of
each year, and being at the rate of
5 per cent per annum from date ot
issuance. The principal and interest
of said bonds shall be payable at the
office of the Parish Treasurer ,or at
any bank at the option of the pur
chasers..
Each bid shall be accompanied by a
certified check for 2 1-2 per cent of
the face value of said bonds. All bids
must be superscribed with the words.
"Bids for Road Bonds of the Twelfth
Road District, Second Police Jury
Ward, St. Landry Parish, La."
The purchaser will be required to
defray the cost of any legal examin
ation or investigation in connection
therewith that may be required by
him.
The Police Jury shall have the right
to reject any or all bids.
F. OCTAVE PAVY,
President Police Jury, St. Landry
Parish, La. nov22-5t
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EALED BIDS.
$500,000.00
ST. LANDRY PARISH, LOUISIANA
Road District No. 11 Bonds
Sealed bids will be received by the
undersigned at Opelousas, La., until
JANUARY 5, 1920,
at 11 o'clock a. m., for the purchase
of $500,000.00 five per <
Road District bonds of ths |
St.Landry, La., dated Job 1, ]
as folios*:
Bonds will mature i ______
Five hundred bonds of th* i
nation of One Thousand L "__
8 on July 1, 1920; 9 on July 1,1
10 on July 1, 1922; and 10 «stk
thereafter up to and i w India» M
' »80; 14 Ml
1929; 12 on July 1, 1980; 14 i
1, 1981; 14 on July 1, 1931; i
on July 1, 198$; 15 «a Juif i
and 15 on July 1, 1985:14 os
1936; 17 on July 1, 1987; If*
1, 1988 ; and 18 on July 1,
on July 1, 1940 and 19 II
1, 1988 ; and 1 / on J
1941; 22 on July 1, 1942;
1, 1948; 24 on July
July 1, 1945; 26 on J
on July 1, 1947; SOjsn
and 39 on July 1, 194».
Interest payable semi
Hie first day of January and
day of July of each year and
at the rate of 5 per cent per'
from date of issuance, las
and interest of said *Mids
payable at the office of the
Treasurer, or at any bank a* » *
tion of the purchasers.
Each bid shall be accompanies
certified check for 2 1-2 per <■*?'
the face value of said bondis AH
must be superscribed with tbs
"Bids for Road Bonds of the E
Road District of the Pari«* «
Landry, La."
The purchaser will be
defray the cost of any legal
aiion or investigation In Cfl~ , -,
therewith that may be requim W
him.
The Police Jury shall have
to reject any or all bids.
F. OCTAVE PAVY.
President Police Jury, St.
Parish, La.
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EALED BIDS.
924,090.90
ST. LANDRY PARISH, LOtUM^ J
Road District No. 9 Bu*
Sealed bids will be recefvid ' ,
undersigned at Opelousas, la*
JANUARY 5, 19*9.
JA13UAIV 1 swet T ___ I
at 11 o'clock a. m., for tie
of $24,000.00 five per cent*»"
Road District bonds of tbs Fo*«» J
Pariij
: and i
lice Jury Ward of the
Landry, La., dated August L.
Bonds will mature as folio*?:
Forty-eight bonds of the
nation of $500.00 each;
payable August 1, 1924 ;|
each year thereafter up to ai
ing August 1, 1947; and W«
payable August 1, 1^48., »ad
bonds payable each yearJM*
up to and including August 1.
Interest payable semi-aannr
the first day of February ana .
of each year, and being at ths
5 per cent per annum from
issuance. The principal and
of said bonds shall be payable
office of the Parish Treasure? 0
the National Park Bank isi»
and State of New York, at »•
of the purchasers.
Each bid shall be aceomjl
a certified check for 2 _l-°JPW
of the face value of said bafl u .
bids most be superscribed n* |
words: "Bids for Road Bon»
Ninth Road District, Fourth
Jury Ward, St. Landry Fan*®«, |
The purchaser will be
defray the cost of any legw j
ation or investigation in
therewith that may be r
him. . „1
■ The Police Jury shall
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President Police Jury,
Parish, La.