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I "How to save," is the important ques
tion. That's why we want your busi
iness.
NOW
IS '
THE
TIME
TO
SELECT
YOUR
GIFTS
PER
FUMES
RAZORS
CONKLIN'S
PENS
(You should see our Xmas packages of
iWiley's and Norris' candies; and our
Stationery.
OUR XMAS CARDS AND CAL
ENDARS ARE NOW ON DIS
PLAY.
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(THE QUALITY STORE)
Inc.
i Day Phone 300 Night Phone 329
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IT COSTS NOTHING
To have your New Home attractive in
place of unsightly and box-like.
If your home is planned by men who
know how to add little touches that
cost little but mean much, then you
will really save money and get more
Home value.
That's why we furnish our customers
with plans to build from. Then to make
it easy, we have a large selection of ac
tual photos of homes and plans to
choose from.
We can tell you the cost to build and of
course furnish you with the best in ma
terials, from foundation to roof.
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;; OPELOUSAS, — — LOUISIANA
OH, YES! REMEMBER WE HAVE
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Window Lettering
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Main Street, Opelousas, La.
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AMERICAN AVIATORS IN POLAND
Premier Ignace Jan Paderewski of Poland greeting in Paris members of the
Kosciusko Squadron, a unit composed of American aviators who have
volunteered their services to Poland and are now wearing the uniform
of officers in the Polish army.
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
OF THE POLICE JURY
(Continued from Page Three)
12.50
1.27
11.68
5.70
Coupee and Caleasjeu par
ishes .................. 26.30
St. Landry Lbr. Co., furnish
ing and repairing Beard
vat ......... ». ........ 144.80
N. L. White, on« mas for as
sessor's Ollaco ..........
Hy. Laatrapes, Jr., freight pd
on one crate filing cases ..
Hy. Lastrapes, Jr., freight pd
on 5 boxes filing cabinets
J. J. Healey, freight paid on
disinfectant, etc.........
Chas. Borchers, Bix grate
blowers ............... 10.00
Jonas Roos, various state
ment December 1 ....... 116.45
R. E. Budd, assisting clerk
month of November — 50.00
E. M. Boagni, rent ware
house August 1 to Novem
ber 1, 1919............ 22.50
J. A. Dejean, two brooms . . 2.20
Star-Progress, publishing pro
ceedings, etc., November.. 194.75
Star-Progress, miscellaneous
printing, November . — .
Star-Progress, publishing pro
ceedings, etc., October .. .
D. M. Fontenot, feeding and
maintaining prisoners for
November .............. 194.50
PUBLIC ROAD CLAIMS
Albert'\Burleigh, road work, 1
ward.......... 30.00
Sidney Guidry, road work, 1
ward ............ 10.00
Willie Peck, road work, 1 wd
Oily Arnold, rod work, 1 wd
Hugh Blacksher, road work
1 ward ................
Ernest Savoie, road work, 2
ward ..................
Alcide Leger, road work, 2
ward Tr.-. . —
Sylvester Miller, road work, 2
ward ... —............
Earl Vautrot, road work, 2
ward................
Hopkins Bros. Co., lumber, 2
ward..................
Alcide Leger, hauling, 2 wd
Thibod
276.75
206.80
5.00
5.00
10.00
7.00
$.00
20.00
5.00
Sidney Thibodeaux,road work
2 ward .............I-.
27.30
2.60
6.00
8.00
40.00
12.00
40.75
17.50
25.00
26.25
f
70.00
'3.60
25.42
1.80
4.14
Ignace Meche, road and bdge
work, 2 ward ..........
Onezime Castille, road work
2 ward.......... /.••••
Henry King, bridge work, 5
ward ..................
J, E. Duffel, road work, 6
ward..................
Albert Burleigh, road work,
6 ward ................
Orner La fleur, road work, 6
ward..................
C. N. Bertrand, road work, 6
ward ..................
Albert Bourgeois, road work
6 ward ................ 13.70
Joe Boone, road work, 6 wd % 4.50
Leandre Labbe, road work, 6
ward .................. 44.85
Ernest Bihm, road work, 6
ward..... *.....».»««•• 54.00
Andrus Fontenot, road work,
6 ward ................ 36.00
J. B. Hidalgo, road work, 6
ward .................. 63.00
Soniat & Deblieux, lumber, 6
ward .................. 36.04
Soniat & Deblieux, lumber, 6
ward . *................ 20.37
Soniat & Deblieux, lumber, 6
ward .................. 14.40
St. Landry Lumber Co.,
lumber, 6 ward ........ 18.94
MAINTENANCE GRAVEL ROADS
St. Landry State Bank, cash
advanced for labor......
Jos. Bordelon & Son, sundries
Soniat & Deblieux, lumber. .
Albert Clary, sundries ----
L. V. Me gin ley, cash paid for
express and labor ......
Texas Oil Co., gasoline, in
voice L-7 .............. 13.20
St. Landry State Bk, cash ad
vanced for express on
bonds of 1st sub-road dist
2nd ward . .w,........ 23.10
St. Landry State Bank, cash
advanced account sale of
bonds of 1st sub-road dist
2nd ward ....... ». ......4,975.00
W. J. Sandoz, services in
appeal of suit T. & P. Ry
vs. Parish of St. Landry
acct 1st road dist, 6 w..
R. M. Hollier, engineer's es
timate No. 6, account of
1st road dist 4th ward. . 2,643.78
Motion by Dr. Pavy—
Resolved, that the claim- of R. M.
Hollier, contractor on the Kroti
Springs road, amounting to $2,643.
78, net, be paid by this body, as per
contract on file.
Mr. Brown moved as a substitute
that the claim remain unpaid until the
same is approved by the Board of Su
pervisors of said road district.
I Substitute lost for want of a sec
ond. 4
Voting for original resolution as
follows : •
Messrs. Larcade, Mills, Cummings,
Pavy, Catlett, Rushing, Martin, Syl
vestre, Dejean, McCoy—10 yeas.
Against—Messrs. Dailey, W. F.
Brown—2 nays.
Motion carried.
Motion by Mr. Catlett—
Resolved, that the committee on
claims resolve itself into regular ses
sion of Police Jury.
(Continued on Last Page)
150.00
FARMERS MEET
PRAIRIE RONDE
Quarterly Session of St. Landry
Farmers' Union Will Be
Held Today
Weather conditions permitting,
there will be a large crowd of farm
ers and their lady folks in attendance
at the regular quarterly session of the
St. Landry Farmers' Union at Prai
rie Ronde today. A large number of
invited guests will also be in attend
ance, and it is understood that some
of the candidates for parochial office
have been asked to mingle with the
farmers on that occasion.
An interesting program has been
arranged, and unless bad weather sets
in, the Prairie Ronde farmers are in
for a day of entertainment, as the
largest meeting of the year is plan
ned. An old fashioned baskèt picnic
will be the feature of the meeting.
Interesting discourses on subjects
close to the farmers' hearts will be
delivered by good speakers.
BAYOU BOEUF AND WAXIA
DRAINAGE DISTRICT
Mr. Beall offered the following or
dinance, which ordinance is in words
and figures as follows:
ORDINANCE
An ordinance ordering and calling a
special election in the Bayou
Boeuf and Waxia Drainage Dis
trict of the Parish of St. Landry,
Louisiana, for the purpose of
subiiiittmg to the qualified prop
erty taxpayers of said 'district
the propositions to incur debt
and issue bonds of said drainage
district, to the amount as here
inafter stipulated and for the
purpose of creating, constructing
and improving a system of grav
ity drainage in and for said
drainage district, by the clean
ing with dredges or otherwise,
the bayous, laterals and ditches
connected therewith ,ae herein
after named and outlined in red
on the map of the said drainage
district.
Section 1—Be it ordained by the
Board of Commissioners of the Ba
you Boeuf and Waxia Drainage Dis
trict of the Pariah of St. Landry,
State of Louisian«, that it is advis
able and expedient to incur indebted
ness in said Bayou Boeuf and Waxia
Drainage District, in the amount and
for the purposes herenafter mention
ed, and appearing in the propositions,
as follows:
Section 2—Be it further ordained,
that a special election be and the
same is hereby called and ordered to
be held in the Bayou Boeuf and Wax
ia Drainage District of the Pariah of
St. Landry, State of Louisiana, on
Monday, the 12th day of January, A.
D. 1920, between the hours of 7 a.
m. and 5 p. m.
Section 3—Be it further ordained,
etc., that at said special election there
will be submitted to the taxpaying
electors, qualified to vote under the
constitution and law's of the State of
Louisiana, the following propositions:
(a) To incur debt to the amount of
two hundred thousand dollars ($200,
000), and issue and sell serial nego
tiable semi-annual interest bearing
coupon bonds of the said Bayou
Boeuf and Waxia Drainage District,
representing the said indebtedness;
the amount of saild bonds being less
than ten per cent (10 per cent) of
the assessed valuation of the proper
ty within the boundary of said drain
age district, as shown by the assess
id drainage dia
ment rolls of the said
trict last completed, said bonds to
bear interest at the rate of five per
centum (5 per centum )per annum
from their date, payable semi-annual
ly, which bonds are to run for a pe
riod of from one to not exceeding
thirty-five (35) years from their
date. Said bonds to be of such de
nomination and the interest and
principal thereof to be payable at
such time and place as shall be deter
mined by the Board of Drainage Com
missioners and both principal and in
terest of said bonds to be secured and
? >aid by a sufficient ad valorem tax
e ' ' " - -
evied and collected in each year that
any ofieaid bonds are unpaid and out
standing in accordance with the pro
visions in that respect contained in
Article 281 of the constitution and
laws of the State of Louisiana, and
amendments thereto.
The proceeds of said bonds to be
used for the purposes of providing
and creating a system of gravity
drainage in and for said drainage dis
trict, by cleaning with dredges or
otherwise the Bayou Waxia, Cow bo
you, Little Waxia bayou, and the lat
erals and ditches conected with said
bayous, as outlined in red on the map
of said , district, and the maintenance
and improvement thereof, and the in
habitants thereof, the title to whieh
shall vest in said drainage district.
PROPOSITION FOR THE ASSESS
MENT AND LEVYING OF AN
ACREAGE TAX OR FORCED
CONTRIBUTION
THE TIME HAS COME TO PREPi
For Winter, but a few weeks ahead—the bleak, cold wig
ter days will soon be upon us before we know it. It
be a source of comfort if you know that your new 0'Coj t
is ready when the time comes.
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$35.00 Up
Trench, Pinch Back and Belted Coats are the Stylish
Things This Season. Hundreds of Patterns to select from.
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weather.
L. LEVINE
Landry Street Phone 395
STEAM GLEANIN6 AND PRESSING
(b) To levy and collect an acreage
tax or forced contribution of sixteen
(16 cents) cents per acre per annum
upon each and every acre of land sub
ject to state taxation, situated within
the said Bayou Boeuf and Waxia
Drainage District, Parish of St. Lan
dry, State of Louisiana, for a period
of thirty-five (35) years, for the pur
pose of providing and creating a sys
tem of gravity drainage in and for
said drainage district and the mainte
nance and improvemen thereof.
FOR THE FUNDING OF THE
AVAILS OF SAID ACREAGE
TAX INTO BONDS
(c) To incur debt in the sum of one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
($150,000.00), and to issue and sell
serial negotiable semi-annual interest
bearing coupon bonds of the said
Bayou Boeuf and Waxia Drainage
District to reperesent same. Said
debt to be secured and paid by the
avails of the aforesaid acreage tax or
forced contribution of sixteen (16
cents) cents per acre per annum.
Submitted in the proposition for
the assessment and levying of an
acreage tax or forced contribution as
hereinafter set forth and to be voted
upon by the taxpaying electors of
said Bayou Boeuf and Waxia Drain
age District of the Parish of St. Lan
dry, State of Louisiana, qualified to
vote under the constitution and laws
of the State of Louisiana and to rep
resent the funding of the avails of the
said taxes into bonds, to run for a pe
riod of from one to not exceeding
thirty-five (35) years from their date
and bearing five per cent (5 per
cent) »er annum interest from their
date, payable semi-annually, said
bonds to be of such denomination
and both the principal and the inter
est thereof to be payable at such time
and place as shall be determined by
the said board of drainage commis
sioners, the proceeds of said bonds to
be used for the purpose of providing
and creating a system of gravity
drainage in and for the said drainage
district by cleaning with dredges or
otherwise the Bayou Waxia, Cow ba
you, Little Bayou Waxia and the lat
erals and ditches connected with said
bayous, as outlined in red on the map
of said district, and the maintenance
end improvement thereof, as herein
before stated, and the inhabitants
thereof, the title to which shall vest
in said drainage district.
Section 4—Be it further ordained,
ate., ttet a notice «f said special elec
tion be duly published'for thirty (SO)
days prior to the date of «aid election,
according to law,in the Star-Progress,
...... - Pariah of
the official journal of the
St. Landry, State of Louisiana, a
newspapaper of general circulation
therein; the notice of the election to
embrace substantially all things set
forth herein, and to further state
that the said board of drainage com
missioners will meet in open session
at the office of the said board in the
City of Opelousas, Parish of St. Lan
dry, State of Louisiana, at 10 o'clock
a. m., on the 14th day of January,
1920, and then and there proceed to
open the ballot box, examine and
count the ballots in numbers and
amount, examine and canvass the re
turns and declare the result of such
election and make, file, publish and
record a procès verbal of their pro
ceedings.
Section 5—Be it further ordained,
etc., that the proposition to be sub
mitted at said special election shall
be as follows and the ballots to be
used shall be in the following form:
BALLOT
For tho Issuance of Bonds
Proposition to incur debt
and issue and sell serial cou
pon bonds of the Bayou
Boeuf and Waxia Drainage
District, Parish of St. Lan
dry, State of Louisiana, to
the amount of two hundred
thousand dollars ($200,000.
000 ), to run for a period of
from one to not exceeding
thirty-five (35) years
from their date and bearing
interest at the rate of five
per cent (5 per cent) per
annum payable semi-annual
ly, for the^purpose of provid
ing and creating a system of
gravity drainage in and for
said drainage district, by
cleaning with dredges or
otherwise the Bayou Waxia,
Cow bayou, Little Waxia,
and the laterals and ditches
connected with said bayous, |
as outlined in red on the map
of said district and the main
tenance and improvements
thereof and the inhabitants
thereof, the title to which
shall vest in said drainage
district.
Taxable valuation ....$
YES
NO
Signature of Voter.
Notice to Voters—To vote in favor
of the proposition submitted upon
this ballot, place a cross (X) mark
in the square after the word "YES,"
and to vote against, place a similar
mark after the word "NO."
FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND
LEVYING OF ACREAGE TAX
OR FORCED CONTRIBU
TION
Proposition to levy an
acreage tax or forced contri
bution of sixteen cents (16
cents)per acre per annum on
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a gallon of Stanocola
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each and every acre of land
subject to State taxation in
said
YES
Bayou Beouf and Wax- |
ia Drainage District, Par- {
ish of St. Landry, State of j
Louisiana, for a period of |
thirty-five (35) years, for ;
the purpose of providing |
and creating a system of j
gravity drainage in and for)
said drainage district tfcwid ]
the maintenance and im- j
provement thereof. |
Taxable valuation .... $—
NO
YES
Signature of Voter.
Notice to Voters—To vote in favor
of the proposition submitted upon
the ballot, place a cross (X) mark in
the square after the word "YES;" to
vote against it, place a similar mark
after the word "NO."
FOR THE FUNDING OF THE
AVAILS OF SAID ACREAGE
TAX INTO BONDS
Proposition to incur debt
in the sum of one hundred
and fifty thousand ($150,~
000.00) dollars, and to issue
serial negotiable coupon
bonds to represent the
same, the said debt to be se
cured and paid by the avails
of the acreage taiaor forced
contribution or sixteen
cents (16 cents) per acre per
annum, submitted in the
proposition for levying and
collecting of acreage taxes
or forced contributions, as
hereinbefore mentioned and
voted upon this day by the
taxpaying electors of said
Bayou Boeuf and Waxia
Drainage District, Parish of
Si. Landry, State of Louisi
ana, qualified to vote under
the constitution and laws of
the State of Louisiana, and
to represent the funding of
the avails of said tax into
bonds to run for a period of
from one to not exceeding
thirty-five (35) years from
their date, bearing five per
cent (5 per cent) per annum
interest from their date pay
able semi-annually, and to be
issued for the purpose of
providing and creating a sys
tem of gravity drainage in
and for the said drainage
district, by cleaning with
dredges or otherwise the Ba
you Waxia, Cow bayou, Lit
tle Waxia and the laterals
and ditches connected with
said bayous, as outlined in
red on the map of said dis
trict, and the maintenance
and improvement thereof
and the inhabitants thereof,
the title to which shall vest
in said drainage district.
Taxable valuation .,..$
NO
Signature of Voter.
Notice to Voters—To vote in fav
or of the propositon submitted upon
this ballot, place a cross (X) mark
in the square after the word "YES;"
and to vote against it, place a simi
lar mark after thé word "NO."
Section 6—Be it further ordained,
etc., that the president of the Board
of Drainage Commissioners of the
said drainage district of St. Landry
parish, State of Louisiana, be and he
is hereby authorized and directed to
have the necessary ballots
for the said election in ace
with law and the provisions «I
ordinance; he shall also provide
ballot boxes and the
blanks and tellers' sheets and
paraphernalia for the holding sf i
election.
Section 7—Be it further
etc., that the clerk of court and j
officio registrar of voters for «
parish shall furnish the elect io«
ficers herein mentioned with a liât \
the taxpayers entitled to vote in :
son or by written proxy at said :
cial election, together with the :
ed valuation of each of thp said
payers' property as shown by tkej
sessment rolls last made and
prior to said election.
Section 8—Be it further or
etc., that the election shall be held _
Whiteville, La., at J, P. Savant"»
store; Beggs, La., at Jack Cassini
store; Rosa, La., at E. V. Hudspeth 1 »
store, in said drainage district, and
the following persons are hereby ap
pointed and empowered to act as con»
-miasioners and clerks at said election,
Rosa, at E. V. Hudspeth's stare-
Commissioners : R. C. Andres, W. B» ,
Baker, Arthur Fogleman; clerk, E. V..
Hudspeth.
Whitevilie, at J. P. Savant's etorr
—Commissioners : James Milbtash
J. H. Baldridge, Adam Stagg; clerk:
E. E. Singleton.
Beggs, at Jack Cason's store—
Commissioiners: J. C. Whitley,CUun*
Stevenson, Joe Reeves; clerk: W, K
Peckham.
The officers of election abovt
named shall hold said election to con
form with Act No. 256 of 191Ü
all acts amendatory and supplemen
tary thereto, and shall make due re
turns of said election to the Board ol
Commissioners of said drainage dis
trict at the said meeting to be
at the said office of the said board in
the City of Opelousas, Parish of St
Landry, State of Louisiana, on toe
14th day of January, 1920, and the 1
said officers of election shall be com
pensated in accordance with law . t
Section 9—-Be it further ordained,
etc., that the Board of Drainage Com
missioners of the said drainage dis
trict shall if the majority of the tax
payers in numbers and amount of as
sessed valuation voting at said spe
cial election vote in favor of theprijP'
ositions herein submitted, annuMv
levy and collect, beginning with the
year 1920, while any or all or
said bonds are#unpaid and outstand
ing in excess of all other taxes, a sar
i fieient ad valorem tax and the acre
of ei
afl
Inum as hereinabove mentioned to pW
[the semi-annual interest and the p?W'
cipal of said bonds at their respecBV*
maturities.
- The foregoing ordinance after b*
ing duly seconded by Mr. Savant, tow
read to the board and adopted by to®
following votes: _ _ ...
For the Ordinance—J. P. Savan >
J. E. Beall, A. J. Richard, C, E.Do<*
worth, Allotes Thistlethwaite.
Againät the Ordinance-—None.
Adopted December 4, 1919
ALLOTES THISTLETHWAITE.
President Board of Drainage
missionera Bayou Boeuf *■?*
Waxia Drainage District.
L. A. ANDREPONT, __
Secretary.
iicieni an valorem ibjc hhu ->
age tax or forced contribution of i
teen (16 cts) cents per acre per
mim as hereinabove mentioned to ]