The Morgan City daily review., December 26, 1916, Image 2

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C. E. KING, Manager.
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BERWICK IN DARK
NESS IMPLANT
BREAKDOWN
Engine and Dynamo Damaged
And Residents Will Have
Tollse Lampsfor Sev
eral Days, Other News
The municipal plant in Berwick
went out of commission about nine
o'clock Monday night and the Xmas
card parties had to either call in the
kerosene lamps or disband. The
main driving pulley of the engine
broke and the flying pieces hit the
dynamo and broke the pulley on the
dynamo. It will be a couple of
davs before the plant can furnish
juice again as the necessary parts for
repairs must be secured from New
Orleans.
Xmas was ppent in a quiet man
nerly the people of Berwick. With
the exception of the usual amount* of
drunkeness, there was nothing to
m af the day. There were no exer
cises of any kind at the churches.
This is the first time in years that
the é Methodists missed having a
Christmas celebration at the church,
There was Mass at 7:30 o'clock at
the Catholic Church. There was
quite a bit of community visiting
the day.
Rudolph Thorgeson spent Xmas
at home with his parents.
Miss Elma Smith of New Iberia,
visited friends in Berwick Sunday.
Mr. Roy Woodruff of Ft. Worth,
Texas, visited in Berwick Sunday.
He departed Sunday night for
dßrownsviile, Texas,'
Mr. M. M. Fortin, engineer of
the "Alarm" came down from
Franklin to eat 'Christmas dinner
with his family,
Miss Alice Sutton spent Xmas at
home.' She attends school at the
State University.
Mr. Harold Jacobs came down
from Baton Rouge to spend the
holidays.
There was a public dance Sun
day night at Landry's hall, which
was well attended.
Christmas shipments of oysters
from Berwick were large, and the
trains have to stop here longer than
any point between terminals. Ber
wick is known by the Wells Fargo
people as a dividend paying station.
Capt. Coburn of the "Alarm" de
serted his boat at Franklin to eat
Xmas dinner with his family.
PROTECTION
Avoid damage suits by employing a
builder who carries a Workman's
Compensation Policy. 11 m policy I
hold frees yon from responsibility.
P. B. GH1RARDI
Gene r al Contractor
Heartburn is a symptom of indi
gestion. Take a dose of HERBINE
in such cases. The pain disappears
instantly. The bowels operate speed
ily and you feel fine, vigorou and
cheerful. Price 50c. Sold by Bellan
ger Drug Co.
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Will Be Accompanied by
16 Officers and 336 Men
Figures Shew Tbat The Haralson,
Monlgbau, Tterrett and Smith
Are Boats of Unusual Speed
Figures from the list of mer
chant vessels of the United States
nineteen-fourteen edition give the
following facts concerning the boats
which are to visit Morgan City in
February.
The torpedo boat destroyer Lami
son was built in Philadelphia in 1910
by Cramp and Sons. She has 700
tons displacement, is 289 feet long,
has a 26 foot beam, draws 8 feet of
water, has a horsepower of 11,041
and is capable of a speed of 28:61
knots per hour. She carries 4 officers
and 84 men.
The torpedo boat destroyer
Monaghan was built and re
built in Newport News, Va., in
1909 and 1911. She has 742 tons
displacement, is 289 feet in length,
has a 26 foot beam and draws 8.4
feet of water. The boat has 16608
horsepower and can attain a speed
of 30:35 knots per hour. She has 4
officers and 84 men.
The Smith which is a boat of the
same class has 700 tons displace
ment, and is 289 feet in length. She
was rebuilt in 1909 at Philadelphia
has a 26 foot beam and draws 8 feet
of water. Her horsepower is 10362
and she can do 28.35 knots. Four
officers and 84 men are required.
The Sterett, also a torpedo-boat
boat destroyer has a displacement of
742 tons and is 289 feet in length.
Her beam is 26 1-2 feet and she
draws 8 feet of water. She was built
in 1810 at Quincy, Mass. Her horse
power is 12,789 and her speed is
30.37. Four officers and eighty-four
men accompany her.
These figures are official and it
will be seen that the boats coming
through the ship channel are of no
mean proportions and that they are
without exception capable of great
speed.
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Christmas Is Now A
Thing of the Past
Now that Christmas is over many
of the contestants who are attending
school expect to put in a week of
hard work in vote getting, as this
will be the. only vacation they will
have before the contest closes. The
work done by several students in
the contest has been remarkable,
considering the small amount of
time they have bèen able to devote
i to it. But it would not be surprising
if one of them would win the auto
mobile.
There is just one week left in
which to win the Silver Set for Dec
ember, and the Silver Set which
consists of twenty-six pieces is wor
thy of the best efforts of every con
testant. Go out this week with a de
termination to capture this beautiful
monthly prize. .
There will be many people who
will want to start their subscrip
tions to the Review on the first day
of the year, and if you Will hustle
this week there is no reason why
you should not gather a nice bunch
of votes on these orders. A yearly
subscription to the Review counts
10,000 votes, or if taken in connec
tion with the sale of one of the
guaranteed Fountain Pens, the con
testant receives credit for 25,000
votes. Twenty of these orders would
I mean a half-million votes. Twenty
orders is not difficult to secure in
la weeks time if you will go after
{them. See every one that might be
I interested in your success. Dônt let
them give their votes to someone
else because they did not know that
you were in the contest.
Every contestant has a perfect
record of every vote they are credit
ed with and know just how many
votes they are entitled to at any
time. It is going to take several mil
lion votes to win the contest and the
live contestants are going to make
every c|»y count from this time until
the close of the contest.
RICE IS A NATIONAL FOOD
Special Correspondence.
Speaker Champ Crark's open ad
vocacy of rice as a national food at
a time when flour and corn meal
and other food products are soaring
in price, has given impulse to* the
movement now definitely under way
to advertise Southern rice to the
whole country. The Democratic
speaker in a interview from Wash
ington and published broad cast,
said: "Rice is too generally over
looked in this country. I was surpris
ed to hear the other day that five
per cent worth of rice will serve
as a substitute for bread for an en
tire day in a family of six people."
The rice eaters of Louisiana, Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Geor
gia and South Carolina know this to
be true, but the millions of people
in the north and east know rice only
as a dessert. Now comes the South
ern Rice Growers Association and
the Rice Millers Association with a
definite plan to educate those mill
ions to the virtues of ricé as a cheap
daily diet. At a recent meeting in
Beaumont they resolved to raise
from among the rice growing and
milling interests a large fund for a
continuous campaign for the acade
mic advertising of rice. The growers
and millers will be asked to put up
a small assessment per bag for three
or more years and the aggregate
thus accumulated will enable them
not only to grow and sell rice
larger quantities but for higher
prices. And yet the price will be
lower than that of other foodstuffs.
A committee of the combined inter
ests headed by Jos. Broussard, Presi
dent of the Rice Millers Association
at Beaumont, with Frank Godchaux,
A. Alton Foster, E. A. Eignus and
Dr. Geo. W. Collier are now circula
ting the subscription contract. An
other committee, on organization,
composed of W. B. Dunlap, chair
man, Dr. P. H. Sanders and S. L.
Breaux, is preparing charter and by
laws. Bag manufacturers, rice farm
implement companies, and all direct
ly interested in rice are expected to
contribute and the fund for' making
rice a national food.
SPARKS ELECTRIC
A telephone system is being in
stalled by the Spanish government
to connect up cities on the Canary
Islands.
Electricity automatically awakens
the firemen, releases the horses and
open the doors of a fire station in
England.
Wireless messages has been recei
ved with a detector made of" the lead
of a broken pencil and two safety
razor blades.
More than one thousand electric
ranges were sold to the housekeep
ers in staid old Boston, Mass., dur
ing the year ended October 31st.
An electrically operated coffee
mill so small and light that the
whole outfit could be tucked iq an
overcoat pocket is used to grihd in
the home.
Gongs wil not awaken deaf-mutes
in case of fire so one institution has
installed a fire alarm ' system for
flashing electric lights in the sleep
ing rooms at night.
Electrical goods to the value of
$35,000,000, it is estimated will be
exported during the year 1916, the
most prosperous year in the history
of electrical manufacturing.
THE. NURSERY OF
GREAT LEADERS
A contented rural population is
not only the measure of our nation's
strength and assurance of its peace
when there should be peace, and a
resource of courage when peace
would be a cowardice, but it is the
nursery of the great leaders who
have made .the country what it is.
Washington was born and lived in
the country.
Jefferson was a farmer.
Henry Clay rode his horse to the
mill through the slashes.
Webster dreamed amid the soli
tude of Marshfield.
Lincoln was a rail splitter.
Ben Hill walked between the
handles of the plow.
Brown peddled barefoot the pro
ducts of his patch.
Stephens found immortality un
der the trees of his country home.
Toombs and Cobb and Calhoun
were country gentlemen, and, afar
from cities' maddening strife, estab
lished that greatness that is the heri
tage of their people.
The cities produce very few lead
ers. Almost every great man in our
great history formed his character
in the leisure and deliberations of
our village or country life?- and drew
his strength from the drugs of the
earth even as a child draws his from
his mother's breast.—Henry W.
Grady.
NOTICE
Take nq£ice that I am applying to
the City Council of Morgan City for
permit to open a bar-room, for
white patrons, in what is known as
the "Serville Building" on Block 1st
north side of Railroad Avenue, for
the year 1917.
Sam Caro.
A two hundred dollar diamond
ring is the second prize in the voting
contest.
WE THANK YOU
For the generous patronage with which you have
favored us during the past year, We shall ma ke
it our constant aim to merit your .continued
favors.
Hoping that this may be your happiest Holi
days and that peace and prosperity may attend
you throughout 1917,
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STORE
KEEPS
QUALITY UP
FRONT STREET
'DOING THE DISHES'
If a thousand women were asked
to vote on the distasteful task a
mong the numerous duties of house
keeping it is fair to assume that dish
washing would receive a safe major
ity. Day ip and day out, three times
a day, seven days a week the accu
mulation of'soiled dishes must be
disposed of: Hot, not lukewarm
water is necessary to remove the
particles of food from the plates and
silverware. After the housewife has
kept her hands in soapy dishwater
raised to almost scalding tempera
ture and rinsed and wiped the dishes
and repeated this process over and
over three times a day, it is hardly
to be wondered that so many women
have anything but soft well appear
ing hands fit for doing fine needle
work, or to show at the card table or
club.
With the appearance of the elec
tric dish washing machine, however,
all this is changed. No longer is it
necessary to employ careless hired
help to do the dish washing and
break expensive table ware. Just
screw an attachment plug into the
nearest'electric lamp socket, attach
a connecting hose to the hot water
faucet, scrape and place the d shes
in the washing chamber with wash
ing power or soap and turn on . the
watA' and electricity. The hot water
fills the washing chamber and is
then shut off. In the meantime it
drained out of the washing compart
ment, and it is again filled for rin
sing off the dishes. After thé rinsing
water is drained off it is necessary
to wipe the dishes, for they will dry
quickly from the residual heat re
tained from the wash water.
or chipping them than it is possible
to do with the frequent handling in
volved in the hand washing process. j
After w-ashing, the dish water is j
from every dish, cup and glass. In
fifteen minutes time and at a cost ;
of less than a cent for electricity
the dish washing machine will wach :
the days accumulation of soiled
sprays over the dishes softening the
grease and food and preparing it for
easy removal when the chamber is
full of hot soapy water. The
small motor then starts rocking the
washing chamber, throwing the wat
er rapidly back and forth and allow
ing it to cut the grease and dirt
OYSTERS for CHRISTMAS
THE LOGICAL GIFT
Let us have your orders early, for
particulars ring 281
THE BERWICK BAY FISH & OYSTER
COMPANY, LIMITED
Fresh Oysters Shucked Daily 45c. Per 100
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SOLDIERS TO RECEIVE GIFTS
Washington, D. C. Dec.—Through
the efforts of the American Red
Cross, who recently issued an ap
peals to the Americans to remember
the United States Marines in their
giving, three thousand of the ioldi
ers of the sea now in the field in
Haiti and Santo Domingo, are to re
ceive holiday gifts, acording- to I»
Lelia Montague Barnett, who »
chairman of the special committee»
of the Red Cross in this city,
handkerchiefs and other gifts will be
sent to the men who on account ox
strenuous field services in the i»l«d
republics are forced to dispose with
the comforts and small luxuries en
joyed by their comrades at home.