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Planters Bank &Trust o. LOCATED AT OPELOUSAS, PARISH OF ST. LANDRY, LOUISIANA. Report furnished to the Examiner of State Banks by the above Bank at the close .of business on February 21, 1921. ROBERT CHACHERE, President. J. A. PERKINS, Cashier. DR. J. P. SAIZAN, Vice-President. FRED GUIDRY, Assistant Cashier. RESOURCES: LABILITIES: Demand loans ------ - - - --$-- - . - - - - - - - _ $ 17,383.40 Capital stock paid in ------------ ----- . .100,000.00 Loans secured by\mortgage---.. ----------------- 325,671.11 Surplus -__ - -- 20,000.00 Other loans and discounts_ -------------- 627,410.11 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid -- 31,749.84 - Overdrafts unsecured 5,435.70 Due to other banks and bankers - - _$ 67,050.00 United State bonds ------------- - -- - -_ _ 43,750.00 Dividends unpaid ___--------------- 340.00 Other bonds, stocks, securities, etc. -------------- 81,851.65 Certified checks 5,026.45 Banking house, furniture and fixtures --- -------- .22,000.00 Cashiers' checks outstanding _.. - --- --- 100.00 Cash items------ - _ _-. .. _ _ _ _ _ - 7,280.45 .Individual deposits subject to.check _ __ 322,428.20 Due from banks and bankers !(other than Demand certificates of deposit- - ---. 11,000.00 above) - -- ---- ------------------ .$83,120.32 Individual savings deposits --.. -. 331,147.98 Checks on other banks---------__ 2,166.18-- 85,286.50 Time certificates of deposit - - --- 64,611.06-- 801,703.69 Gold coin ----------_----- - --- $ 5,652.50 Bills payable _ ___ _----... - - --- .----. . 305845.82 Gold certificates--- .---------_ _ 3,100.00 Notes and bills rediscounted _ _-- _ - - - 5,026.85 Silver, nickel and copper coin- - - - 3,784.78 Sle' National bank notes and all issues U. S. TOTAL -----------------. $1,264,326.20 government (except gold cert.) - .- 14,470.00-- 27,007.28 Suspense account - - ------------ _----- 21,250.0p TOTAL ------------------- - -. r ...-. -..$1,264,326.20 STATE OF LOUISIANA, PARISH OF ST. LANDRY. I Robert Chachere President, and I, J. A. Perkins Cashier, of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. ROBERT CHACHERE, President. J. A. PERKINS, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to befor me, this 1st day of March, 1921. ARCHIE DUNBAR, Notary Public. " (0ME AGENTS REPORT BUSY WEEK Xia Slla Shows, , d well Parish. : i. f my clubs has sixty members sd i4 doing excellent work. One-half of .tb club is enrolled for garden wort tb ieer half for poultry. The gar ý4eStlb members have selected their . ) for their spring gardens and l.eideclded what they will plant this ggeX. The poultry club members kt .isering eggs for hatching pur Mtilj'Nartha Crouse, S.thington Parish. Teguqmtry agent and I spent one iIrranging an exhibit of club in one of the banks in town. rs of, the bank were very for the exhibit and seemed to e our efforts. We have also the winnings at the state Llan Stullo. l 1Qto Parish. necubators and selecting Shas kept me busy thIs e tested three incubators. T breeders are busy getting l~ mated and culled and are better poultry. ne Boudreaux, aptte Parish. three meat canning and car rr.ions this week. We -40 cans of pork sausage, hogs - , liver paste and roast, anti Sr six hundred pounds of ham i a seed judging contest, 5s-! different kinds of seeds. One Ziie named sixteen out of the .arieties. After the contest! bers were asked to :e!l how lant each kind of seed. Lily, se Parish. one eight month old beef this -t a demons-ration. We canned .tns %' steak, soup stock, loat, tongue, chili, ham .:id roast. This makes the -beef to be put up in the' tmonths In this parish. Y AGENT REPORTS FOR 1920 Uttanding feature of poultr: mplished this year was ti. poultry drive conducted 12. in the state in 'hw!. tfarm or home demonst( "e tion agents. The state's quota which was set 8a 1,000 pens was exceeded by 95 pens, as 1,095 pens; or a total of 5,475 birds, were sold. Since the close of the drive 300 pens of birds were sold. In order to bring about a greater production of standard bred poultry in Louisiana the poultry specialist worked actively with the farm and home demonstration agents through out the year. Good co-opersitios from civic clubs, superintendents, and edi tors was received which rhdod in mak ing farmers realize that raising poul try is a successful agricultural side line. During the year the poultry spe cialist attended 101 meetings with ap proximated total attendance of 8,522. Sold $7,000 breeding stock at the state fair. Visited 54 parishes and 47 agents, gave 50 demonstrations and 85 lectures in the interest of poultry work. Organized 9 associations; wrote 104 circular leters, with a total circulation of 71,114 and distributed 16,668 farmers bulletins on poultry. Furnished 631 farmers and poultry raisers with plans and gave personal ipetructions relative to iL zpr'Vit poultry houses and building new uxod el houses. State Methodists to Have Big Meeting An important meeting of Lorlaei ana Southern Methodists will be held March 4, in 4hreveport, to discuss further plans for carrying out the ob jectives of the Christian education .movement. Bishop W. F. McMurry, of Louis ville, Ky., Dr. J. H. Reynolds, director geenral of the moveinent with head quarters in Nashville, Tenn., and oth er prominent speakers will be pr-sent. Among those who will attend a:e the presiding elders of the seven dis tricts of the Louisiana annual con ference, the educational commission and the chairmen of the various boards. President R. C. Smith, of Centenary college; R. E. i3obbitt, pres ident of Mansfield Female colleg., and Rev. W. H. Van Hook, of seashore camp grounds school will be interest ed visitors due to tih, fact that their schools are to participate in the quota vocate; Rev. A. S. Lutz, conference seCretary of education; Ranudle T. Moore, conference financial dircecor, and T. W. Holloman. Conferene' lay leader. At a meeting recently held in Mem phis, Tenn., the question of postpon ing the campaign fo' funds for. schools in Louisiana and -in other states was discussed, but based upon the opinion of leading business men in the south, it was decided that the week of May 29 June 5, be the time for the collec tion oc $33,000,000 for educational pur poses in the south. Leaders in the of $1.027,500 Which was assigned by the churCh as the sum to be raised by Louisiana'Methodists. Others who, will attend are Rev. H. T. Carley, edi tor of the New Orleans Christian Ad movement believe that this sum and perhaps more will be realized. ALL WORN OUT Does morning find you with a lame, stiff and 'aching back? Are you tired all the time-find wo.k a burden? Have you suspected your kidneys? Opelousas people endorse Doan's Kid ney Pills. You can rely on their statements. Mrs. F. L. Chachere, 314 W. Vine St., Opelousas, Says: "I was suffering with weak kidneys which acted very irregularly and caused me at whole lot of annoyange. I d intense pains jl through my bati "and sides andi my feet, ankles and hands swelled and felt numb and stiff. I suffered from awful dizzy headaches add of-' ten times, my sight blurred and I be 'came real nervous! I didn't rest properly, either and got up mornings feeling more tired than before going' to bed. Learning of Doan's Kidney; Pills, I got a supply at Littell's Drug Store and they helped me in a short time. I was soon cured of these all ments and for several years, I have had no recurrence of the trouble." 60c, at all dealers. FosterMilburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. MAKING ROAD IEDSW OF WORN OUT TIRES New York City, Feb. 4.--Utilizing down-atthe-heel and worn-out auto mobile tires as an aid to good road building is a new contribution to this vital subject in a statement given forth by John Kearns, one of the deans of the tire industry, chairman of the tire division of the Ribber As sociation bf America and vice presi dent of the Lee .Tire & Rubber Co. "In the world • of manufacture. scrap heaps have become taboo" avs M'r. Kearns. "Nothing is wasted. Gold filings are salvaged from gold work ers' clothes by suction. The modern frcto.y guards its waste as a, miser4 treasures his pennies. New uses are discovered hourly for the residue of manufacture. We know that the jag man thrives at his trade and that the unclean individual who collects en trails from the butcher often sports diamonds. Every by-product is a tri bute to the men who waste not. "I have been handling rubber: moulding rubber and fabricating it for a good many years but I have nev er yet had any one tell me just what becomes of the one-milliobn-and4a-half tons of old vulcanized r1bber scrap, the yearly remains of deceased auto mobile tires. Nobody has ever found any real use for it. This ever-increas ing surplus of dead rubber will con tinue tQ pile up as long as people con tinue to wear out tires. -. "At a meeting of the tire division of the ruber association it was re commended that the tire manufactur ers discontinue their present practice of selling to rebuilders scrap casings which have been returned to the fac tory for adjustment and that they so mutilate and destroy them as to nake them unavailable for use as so oalleid "re-built tires.' "I am of the opinion -that pld scrap rubber could be profitably used in the making of sub-gr~des for highways. Roughly ground old rubber, say to about the size of a cubic inch, laid down to a thickness of four or five inches, I believe could be used as an excellent base for highway builddng. The surfacing could be of either maca dam or concrete. Recent investlga-1 tion of .road sub-grades indicate that 70 per cent of road failures are duo to faulty foundation and not to the wearing surface. "A subgrade of rubber scrap wouldi not be expensive. It would, I believe/ afford great cushionirg power to th d 5cad to absorb the heaviest ' blows,° and would not resist the expansion of the road surfacing due to frost. It Isi the resi:;tance of the roadbed, as ati .res.nt constructed, to surface ex-i pansion which is responsible for crack.s. A rubber subgrade wouUl give the necessary play when frost is di'.tenr"ng the road. "Rubber slabs have been used for many years in road maktng abbroad.-j Aeyone who has ever visited lerlix. Ge-rmany, will remember stretches ofI such roal: in that city. When I was with the Dunlop compax y in Mel bourne, Australia, I remember experi-i mentitng with success with this form! of road eonstruction: But this is" an' Expeysive job, an almost- prohibitive one, and would never answer for high way building. "The failure of 'gip' tires to give service to the purchaser should rele gate such worn out c4sings to a timely -grave. Bury them under a highway for good tires to roll over.". MILD WINTER NOT FAVORABLE TO BEES Beekeepers of Louisiana are now experiencing one of the worst win ters on bees, .which we have had for a number of years. An inexperienced beekeeper would dmagine that the bright open wint-r would be the very thing for "lis bees. as this would insure safety from free? flig, But, according .to E. C. Davis, of the Extension Division, Louisiana State University, a mild winter as we. are now .having is against bee kpeplug. Where the winters are mod erately cold, the bees cluster in the hive, and consume very little honey, and as they rhave to generate 'very lit tle heat, do not wear themselves out ',by°' cortlllnt jnueoi? :rt .Y :and; are in fine shape .fo the early eOne' flow. The warm winter We are :now hav: lug has caused the bees to take flight almost every day, and while the sun shines on the hive body and heats it of nectar, wear themselves out, and are in an unfit condition to gather up inside, the bees flying out in search nectar when it does 'apear later on in the spring. The bees not only wear themselves out, but consume a great deal-of honey, and at the same time under these conditions, the queen be ginslaying eggs, and a great deal of brood .Is raised which have to be fed, and' the result is, unless your bees have had an over abundance of honey, left from the season before, they wild starve before the spring blossoms come. Mr. Davis advises that beekeapers' go into their ,hives and find out deb. ditions of same, and if they need food give it to them. A little help at the present time wi!ll save the bees and insure you a large honey surplus the coming season. "Velvet beans have been grown in Avoyelles lparish to a small extent for a number of years, until 1920 they jumped to 1000 per cent increase in acreage, and now that they have4 proved their -value beyond a doubt farmers do not besitate to tell their value," writes P. A. Swann agent in Avoyebes parish. "Daily I bear some thing good about velvet ebans and will give a few of the stories. "Mr. H. Sayes, Vick, La., stated to me today that he had planted 26 acres of velvet Abens in - 1920 and made an enormous crop of vines and beans. From a few acres he picked 2,000 lbs of beans in hul for ,feed, grazed about 100 head of livestock on MANY HOMEBUIEJES . SHave Put Their. STAMP OID Ap-L . PROVAL ON OUR SERVICE The many homes that we have helpe to S plan and build in Opelousas are evidence of the faith builders have in us and the :at traction of many of these ,buildings is a :; source of much satisfaction to us, in that they stand as monuments of our efforts, re fleeting our usefulness to this community. If you are thinking of building you will find our display of photos and plans botl interesting and helpful. It is always a pleasure to serve you. The, A. C. Skiles Lumber Co. Ltd. PHONE 286 OPELOUSAS, LA. S The Bureau of Brilding Information" this field.of beans all w1iater, h not fed any fed from his bbar.n ye has gotten his meert fran hogs gra on these beans, has Inmrkbted lbap fed steers, has his live.steo in condition for the summet range, a4: Instead of having to help ol poor caws he is letting them help hi"m 'y taking care of the calves 'and furtsl ng, him a good supply of milk. *Mr 'gSays is only one of the many that chave benusuccesetul with these bee~as . . . · m m mr