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PERSONAL BUT POLITE. iirs. Eva Hanilton canme in for entertainment. i Maggie S, cling of Wake. is making a ;t.y in town. B s Pearl M, \'ea of Baton is a guest at Wakefield. !g H. Forrester 'was here Sun AT Gastrell ,)f New Orleans up Sunday for a short stay. ° , Jas. Kilbourne was here T7th. gsLeila Golsi: is expected next week. Vles Annie hilourne is the tof Mrs. Esk ridge. pllie, Stringti'ell of L. S. U. last Thur.,d;ay with rela at Freeland. Miss Susie l'Prey was the - other aunt, Mrs. Sargent over Wednesday night. Miss May Belle Yunkes, who gof typhoid fever, is getting ( very well. a Miss Isabell Stevens was the j t of Mrs. . W . T. orrester 1 theentertainullnt. t be children of J.. M. Austen Angola were here for Wednes- I1 s frolic. Misses Anne and Belle Lobdell ' the guests of friends in g for Wednesday. h Kis Augusta Sherard had p i amie Butler for her guest m ieek-end. tmaster E. J. Harrow spent cl days in New Orleans in a: ree of the week. ti J.A, Thorns was serious- L I, last week, but has re- fi Annie Gilmore spent a t. days at Fairview with the tl Folkes. Carmel Davis of Wood- w is the guest of Mrs. S. K. tl al Matta Fuqua has re- T to her home in Baton B C Miss Myrtle Haile is di awhile with her aunt, hr eyv Powell. y Buquol was here for vi ties on Wednesday af vi and evening. L Almena Kilbourne will as apart of next week with tl Mamie Butler, t Adiger Slpent the week s li Robinson, antd was also p edby other frientls. i J, Bradley spent Sunday in Bis visit was not exlpect- A whas a pleasant surprise. n A. R. Holconlmbe and chil- e. were guests of West Felici ds Wednesday, SFred Converse of St. - was with .ackson this week. of Ollie Brown entertained W of friends at her home li evening. so Harvey Marks of Bayout la been ab.sent for some her eldest daughter's, at ar ta, M Mary Williams and Evie th were nmembers of a l onUse-party at MIrs. IIar- . SBell's Store. M Hamilton left several M to visit his mother, who in New Orleans. Ie ite Aote eioe time. n lthelyn Perkins, Annie ui na Kilbourne c('ame te SMississippi in time fr trtainiment. to *Draey of Meadville, W he1 with herl little baby A1 her mother, Mrs Cur- dE a t Martin and sweetW 4Uaghte.r, Alice, were ar -t Judge Lawrason's the n days of last wek. in SN. o)W.rey and family C ourse of the month to Mrs. Lowrey's rela •tonewall, La.. fe 1ilp Asher, ald Mrs. - and the latter's two ki ,bave arrived to visit ,Mrs. Beln I'opold. in C. Levy and little lit Jeannette, returned ] 4 from a delighltful E. R. Moses at 'taret Stirling of i theguest of Mris. aon. Her little fo Rling, is visiting ds Joe and Edward Newsham are spending the week.end at Como to enjoy some fishing. 'r Miss Amy Leake will have a house party of a few girls of her age in honor of her birthday, next week. n Mr. and Mrs. Jake Marks are enjoying a visit from his cousin, '' Miss Florence Zadik of Dallas, Texas. They entertained in her s honor at a Dutch supper Monday evening. e Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Eskridge came home Monday afternoon, after an absence of six weeks or more. Their nephew, Trimble Garner also returned from a stay at Forest plantation. Mrs. Nonie Richardson and daughters are now staying at Miss Sallie Raynham's. Miss Nellie Richardson teaches a few pupils several hours each morn ing. Mrs. W. S. Stringfield and E. C. Harvey of Franklinton made a visit to their aged father, A. A. Harvey, at Freeland. Finding him better than they expected, they returned Monday. Misses Effie and Edith Bick ham returned Friday, after a pleasant stay with their relatives. R They were accoml)anied by their grand-father, Mr. Charley Bick ham, of Hackley, La., who will b probably spend several days witl his son, W. D. Bickham. M Louie Stirling has been made a clerk at the L. R. & N. station, ts after serving a diligent appren- t ticeship at the Y. & M. V. under L. W. Rogers, who is a success ful teacher of telegral)hy and a railroading. Mercer Barrow has taken young Stirling's place at the Y. & M. V. u A lost page of "copy" last week caused us to fail to record the arrival of Fred Converse Jr., L after some months spent in Texas, and the departure of Sam tip Butler and Edward Percy for California, The error was not discovered till after the paper he had gone to press. Mrs. Arthur Coco of Moreau ville is expected this week to visit her mother, Mrs. Charles Leet. She is best known here as Miss Sadie Leet, being one of the youngest of the young girl teachers which this parish has sent out, but at the close of the past session she decided to relin quish teaching for house-keep ing, becoming the bride of Mr. in Arthur Coco of Avoyelles, a nephew of Judge Coco and an excellent young man. Absent Friends. It is pleasant to record that Miss Amelia Robinson Mumford of Saratoga Springs, New York, was recently graduated from the high school at that place, the salutatorian in a class of sixty. two young women. She also took honors in Latin and English, and her sister, Miss Mary Battle Mumford, who was graduated at the same time, also received scholarship honors. Both are 6aughters of the late William Mumford, and nieces of Dr. F. M. Mumford of this place. Laurel Chapter O,. E. S. holds its regular meeting Thursday next at 7:30 p. m. Members are urged to be present. The Chap ter is in receipt of an invitation from the Chapter at New Roads to be present at a meeting there, Wednesday, July 14, 10 a. inm. Any member of Laurel Chapter desirous of attending is request ed to notify the secretary, Mrs. Wm. Kahn, that the necessary arrangements for transportation may be made. All members are invited. A Card of Thanks. We wish to express our heart felt thanks to our numerous friends and acquaintances for the kind assistance rendered us dur ing the illness and death of our little son, Wills. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Patterson. There will be service at St. John's next Sunday. ''The Rector will probably leave for vacation after the third Sun day in July. His address will be Max Meadows, Va. ~.h ~W. Riggs.Marks Marriage. j pleasing surprise was the marriage of David A. Riggs and e Miss Ethel Marks on Friday af- e ternoon, July 2. at the Methodist v parsonage in Baton Rouge, the c Rev. Mr. Henry officiating. It v was a very quiet wedding indeed p the only witnesses being the E bride's brother and sister, Mr. V Frank Marks and Miss Belle h Marks, and the bridegroom's cou sin, Hon. Fred Grace, state regis- T trar. The bride was simply at tired in a blue lingerie gown, but as she is a very handsome girl, a illustrated the fact that "beauty s, unadorned is adorned the most." n After the ceremony, they came it up to Bayou Sara, remaining un til Sunday afternoon, when they o1 returned to the capital, where they are guests of his family. ai Later, they will go to Mandeville w where he expects to get a posi tion. Mr. Riggs is well-known and al very popular here at the bride's o0 home, being long in the employ 11l of the Cumberland Telephone Co., and more recently that of t the Jno. F. Irvine Co. He is a lli fine young man, and hosts of ti friends join us in wishing him d' and his fair bride all happiness. r 1 Dr. A. S. Winn and N. P. Hob good of the Tunica neighborhood were in town Wednesday, and appeared before the Police Jury in an effort to secure relief in the way of bridges over Bayou Tuni ca. The bridges recently put in by the Missouri Valley Bridge Co. were carried away by the freshets, and the unsafe cross ings work untold hardships to the people of the seventh and eighth wards. The Police Jury appointed a committee to visit that locality, with a representa tive of the Missouri Valley Bridge Co., and it is to be hoped substantial relief will be forth coming. Public Speaking. Hon. Frank N. Miller, presi dent of the State Game Commis sion, and Hon. Amos L. Ponder, the Commission's attorney, will speak at the Court House in St. Francisville, on Tuesday evening, 8:15 o'clock, The ob ject of their visit is to acquaint the people of the parish with the work of the State Game Com mission. Every body is cordial ly invited to attend. The lec tures will be illustrated with stereopticon pictures which will be of especial interest to the children. Rev. F. C. Flowers left on Wednesday for New Orleans to fill the pulpit of Rev. C. V. Ed wards for two months. He ten dered his resignation as Pastor of the Jackson Baptist Church on Sunday last. The Church will act on his resignation later during the summer.-Feliciana Record. Mr. Flowers has been preach ing here every fourth Sunday and his services will be much missed. The Wakefield dancing school entertain at a hop, this afternoon at the Pavilion. In Memory of Wills Patterson. By one of the sharp antith eses of which life affords so many examples, Wednesday evening, while the majority of the happy children of the two towns and vicinity were gathered with their parents at a play at the Pythian Hall, in a saddened home, little Wills Patterson was breathing his short life away, "And softly from that hushed and darkened room Two angels issued where but one went In.' Little Wills was taken ill on Saturday with what seemed but a simple form of summer fever, so that the family physician was not called in until Tuesday when it was found to be a malignant type of malarial fever, which later developed into congestion of the brain. Little Wills was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D). Patterson. and was a remarkably handsonme and intelligent child, full of childish manliness and charm. He seem ed destined to more than average ability, but after only five years, one month and nine days, the light and life of his parents' and grandparents' homes, he was taken away. Oh, when such thilP1happen, if we did not be lieve in a happier, better land than this to which our cherished darlings go, our own lives would dry up like a stifled fountain, our very lives would snap even as our hearts are breaking. Hut we do believe. We must believe. Not all of little Wills lies in the grave, over which the flowers as white as his own child soul, are laid. His immortal self has gone far hence to grow to a grand spiritual manhood in Para dise. M. E. R. Soiree every Thursday evening under the management of Mrs. E. S. Bates. Admission grown people 15 cents, children 10 cts. Lorraine Temple of Pythian Sisters enjoyed last Friday night a visitation from two of the offi cers of the Grand Temple, viz: Mrs. Maggie Bourgeois, grand seignor, and Mrs. Ella Gleason, grand mistress of finance. Their presence in the temple was very inspiring and instructive. After wards, the membership repaired to the Royal Hotel, where cooling refreshments and dainty sweets were served. The ladies were entertaiped at the Royal. Labor is leaving to seek day work at Baton Rouge and other points, as the tield work is about over for the present. Hot weather, yes, and some rain. But it always rains when figs are rilpe. The Junior Auxiliary will meet at Mrs. Lawrason's. Tlhursday at 4 p. m. In the Catholic Church there will be Mass and Benediction on Sunday the llth of July, at 10 o'clock a. nm. Quarterly conference will he held at Starhill Methodist Church, next Saturday and Sun day. Rev. C. C. Miller, presid ingelder, will preach at eleven o'clock, both days. Business session Saturday afternoon. Regular services at Methodist C'hurch tomorrow. Mrs. L. P. Kilbourne enter tained the whist club Friday af. ternoon. Wakeficld and Bain Schools Discuss Consolidation At the call of the Wakefieic School Imllprovenent League, imeelting wvas held at the Wake tield school, Thursday afternoon to discuss the proiposed consoli dation of the Ilains and Waketield schools. M rs. Jackson, the president, being absent on account of sick ness, the' vice-plresident, Mrs, Wim. Stirling called the mleeting to order and stated its object. A majority of the )patrons of both schools were Ilresent, also Supt. A. M. Hendon. M1r r. Wade Richardson alsked Mr. Henlldon what objection he had heard to the plan. .Mr. Hien don replied that only one patron had spoken to him and lie said that, after learning how far the now schll would be from hllim, Ihe could just as easily' send his children to the high school in town; and very much preferred to do so. A general discussion followed in which it was seen that the following l)atrons were olPix)sed to the proposed change: Edward Butler, M. (;ilmore, Win. Stirling, H. A. Spillinan, S. ('. Roberts, Sain Decker, and others who coull not l)e present, soime of these stating that it would be inm lossible to get their children to any sch(ool, if the change should be made. The following seemed to favor, or be willing for. the change: Messrs. Robt. and J. M. Barrow, Richardson, Fort, Robt. Stirling, Montgomery, and M. R. ,Jackson who was not present. Supt. Hendon stated that a committee fromn both shoolIs ap. ieared before the, Schsl Board last Saturday and asked for this change, stating that they would not ask to have the Ipupils trans ported to the new school; that he as well as every memnbir of the Hloard thought that it was the desire of all the Ixitrons of both schools to have this done; that he had told the, I(ard that, in his opinion, the best thing to be done was for the lRoa1rd to run a van and bring the entire Hains school in to the iligh School and, as lie saw it then, with so little time to consider the matter, the next best thing was the consolidation of the two schools. He also stoat ed that when the resolution of the Board was passed, it was the expectation of the Hoard to have the three mills schlwdl tax imlpos ed by t)le Police Jiury in cornpli ance with the state law; but now that the .Jury ha,l refused to im pose the tax and to indicate lwhethller it wouil do anything fori the schlisls, the lIoard could do nothliing for tllie(, new Ibuilding, and could not even emtlnlloy anoth er tea:wher in the parish, as all tihe funds haIl been contracted for and no Imoret- contracts could be lmmade until mnore funds should e plrovided. HIe further said that thIe Board did not prnopse to consolidate the schools siln ply forl thie sakel of consolidation, but for the bIest intire.,t of the great est numbier of patrons and lIU pils. Those favoring consolidation argued that the main purpose was to get two teacllhers in one school so that the high school classes could be taught therein, thus bringing the high school within reach of all the l'eople. Mr. Richardson nmaintintained that thle School Hoarl' had no right to p)rovide for a great high school in one town of the parish, unless the samne, advantages could be :iven in all the schools and that it was up to the lixoplE' to elect ,n th(, next School Board men wvho would take the mnoney from the town s('hIo(l and spend it on the rural schools. After two Iours of such discussion, the meeting adjourned without tak ing :any definite action. Mr. Knocpfler Coning. Mri. J. L. Knoepftlr, of the blnisiana State Board of Agri aulture and I niln igl;ration, 'Lccomn I)anied Iby Rev. Iuis V'oss, will 'isit iBayou Salral and St. r'an :isville, next Monhday. In a lettc.l to ('l:has. WeyVdert, MI r. Knoeptller says: "Th''l object if tils tripl is to visit all tilhe (;er mnans in and around Iayou Sara. We wish to gain ais miuc:li infor niattion as w, cani a)bout tilhes erlnans sIlid also s, llle phloto Kral)hs of tlheir homet.s, churches, lields, et-. We are, going to coui pile a phaulphlllet aboutl themi in order to encoulraget future GUer man illnmigal'tion Ito Ihuisiana. These gentllemen will wb shown every courtiesy whvilt- here, and will no doubt feel disposed to do something to secure desirable German immigrants for West Feliciana. Base Bal Itefit. T'Phe fruition of several weeks' work was abundantly seen, Wed nesday, when the entertainments I for the benefit of the West I,'eli Scilana Amusement Association came off with eclat. n The afternoon program at 'Fel'L ciana Park consisted of a burt f lesque game of ball between ex e cessively fat and lean men, an e which some of the most promi '" nent citizens participated. The fats wore pink suits and the lean v white, each hue being designed to accentuate their natural pro e portions. Judge Lawrason pre a sided as umpire and wore a .sonu I brero and pistols and sword. In , spite of their handicap the fats scored 4, the leans 13. I The next stunt was a Kgalie, ie I tween the small girls (dressed in I bloomers) and boys of about their 1 age and size. The girls won tby I a score of 13 to . The gate re ' ceipts were over $79. The evening entertain ment as t full of interest and excellently conducted. In spite of the, lh';at, a large audience Iuakedl itself into Pythian hall and standing room meant breathing room Mnly. "Tom Thumb's Wedding"' was presented with an all-child east, I and the charm that attaches to what children do lent its aid on I this occasion. Little Margaret Barrow was the bride, Julius t Yunkes, the groom. Jot New sham was the minister and the I only large boy in the cast. Mem,' r Newsham was maid of honor, Julius Wolf, best man. law rence Mann and Eudolie Mat thews were the bride's parents. Barbara Stern was the bride groom's sister, Ann Bolling ('lai borne was the ring-betrer. r There were six little flowe'r girls, ten bridesmaids and ushers and a large "congregation" and wed ding party. Cleo Vaughan Ilay ed the wedding march, and Em ma Brassedux, during the wed ding supper. The tots all were, grown-up clothes in miniiature. very tastefully fasnhiomned, tihe boys having regulation eve'ning suits. Briefly "it was too, unte for words" to quote the' vvrdi't of all. The program was furthler brightened by songs from little Eloise Stocking, Miss Ethelyn Perkins and Mrs. Philip Asher. Supper and refreshments were, sold, and other moneymaking features were introduced. Dane' ing was a concluding amrusement, the Tom Thumb party olpening the ball. r The net receipts of the entire' affair were about $340. Mr. Chas. Weydert has an au Stomobile, which is iun for hire. SFOR 8ALE--Second hand corn a crusher, in good condition, chberap. t Crushes corn, cob, anO4 shuck. FP. G. HIocunEDEL BARGAINS IN SHOES I am now offering my entire stock of shoes at greatly reduced prices. My stock comprises the latest styles and shapes in black, tan and oxblood shoes and low quarters, for men, women and children. As an incentive to get you to come and look at my stock, 1 am now offering All $3.50 shoes and low quarters 2 965 for men and women, at per pair •e The soldier boys should come here and get a pair of tan shoes to wear with their khaki uniforms at the encampment at Alexandria. Also shirts, sox, ties, belts, underwear, etc. Full and complete lines. D. M. HARTSON, St. Francislle, S. Louisiana. 500 Bushels Cow Peas fOR SALE. W. II. RICHARDSON, Wilcox, P. 0., La. Wells Fargo & Co. EXPRESS Deuble Dally Service Between New OrleuS, Bato Rouge, nd Bayou Sara. Daily service fro. Shreveport and the West. Quickest RouteS. E. O. NANSKER, Agent. hyne Srn, La. The Carlisle Rooms 1016 Canal St.. New Orleams. La. W. L. ELLIS. MRs. LELIA E. WARD Proprietor. Matrcn A rooming house for tran sients, catering to people of good morals and gentle man ners. OYSTERS. Beginning August 1st, I will keep on hand, for sale, fresh oysters. Oyster loaves a specialty. Frank Paul.