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Beginning flonday Morning EOery Saturday
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and turn it in at 8 o'clock
will give away p. m., Saturday, with
name and address.
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wnill be given to each purchaser and the Jacobs' and Lowney's
Prize will be awarded at Candies.
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AUGUST BARGAINS
30 Per Cent Discount 30 Per Cent Discount
30 per cent from regular retail orices, good during the month of
August. I912. on the entire stock of the Oil City Iron Works, Ltd.
Evervthing you need to tit up your Boiler, Engainea and Pumps, and
revair your steam or water lines, shafting, steel and iron, brass and
iron body valves; a large supply of steam and water packings, iron
and brass gate valves; pipe and fittings; bolts: drill bits; whistles;
Smud mixers; well driilers supplies; ejectors; jet pumps: and other
articles too numerous to mention. Come and let me show you the
stock. Get my prices. I can and will save you money, Don't for
get I am selling the itock of the Oil City Iron Works, Ltd.
H. FLOYD fIIDKIFF, Agent,
JENNINGS, LA., Market and Church Sts. L. D. Phone 236
PLANTERS
We are still in the WELL DRILLING BUSI
NESS, We will continue to carry at our ware
house and yards in Welsh, La., a full line of (
LA'YNE PATENT PUMPS, steel pits, pump
parts, and repairs and a full supply of all size 4
Layne Patent Wire and Shutter Screens and
well casing. You know our class of materials
and drillers. You know that we make all of our
guarantees good.
LET US BID ON YOUR WORK
Our unlimited resources place us in a position to 4
give you prompt service at the right prices. It
will pay you to investigate the Layne Shutter
Screen which is recognized as the biggest and
best water getter in the world, made in sizes
of from 13 up tp to 24 inches in diameter. 4
LAYNE & BOWLER CO.
S. 0. SCOGGINS. MANAGER
WELSH. LA.
P. .--If our Mr. Scoggins should be out of town when
you call. lay your well propositioa before Mr. John Armstrong
of the Armstrong Machine and Well Works Co., Welsh, La.
REGISTRATION IN
GOSSETT'S CHARGE,
Selection of Disinterested Parties in
Factional Troubles Meets With
Approval.
(Lake Charles American Press.)
Clerk of Court Andrew S. Gosset
this morning took charge of the regis
tratiow in the newly created parishes
of Allen, Jeff Davis and lBeauregard.
Lucius Moss was sent to Beauregard
to attend to the work there. D. J.
Leveque to Jeff Davis, and P. D.
Leileu to Allen.
The registration in Jeff Davis and
Allen parishes will close next Satur
day, August 24. Registration in
Beauregard will not finally close until
September 15.
Registration in Beauregard parish
proper will be finished up September
4, but the books will be left open for
recistration at DeRidder until the
other date mentioned.
The election will be held in Allen
and Jeff Davis September 24, and the
registration must close 30 days there
before. Due to an oversight of the
Beauregard police jury at its original
meeting, when it failed to fix a date
for the election, another meeting was
necessary, and to allow time for pro
per registration, the date for election
had to be pushed forward. The regis
tration then closes 30 days before the
election.
In order to complete the work of
registration in Jeff l)avis parish, it
will be necessary to double up (on
some of the precincts. It was a choice
between calling the police jury to
gether to decide on another date for
the election, overlapping the 30-day
limit, or making more than one ore
cinct per day in a few instances, so
the latter was chosen.
The registrars of voters appointed
for the new parishes by Governor
Hall nave already done much of this
work. The citizens of the new parishes
have expressed entire satisfaction of
IMr. Gossett in sending deputies from
Lake Charles who would be disinter
ested in the factional differences that
might impel favors from a deputy
selected from the parish in which be
would be employed.
WELSH CIVIC LEAGUE
GOING AFTER THE RATS.
League Clean Up Committee Has
Received Excellent Support, The
Town in Fine Condition.
"This is a clean town" said a man
from a neighboring city the other day.
This same mao spoke very highly of
our hitching post system. Said it was
one of the first things he noticed on
entering the town. Then words of
commendation were spoken for the
Civic League.
We appreciate these remarks, but
wish to say that had it not been for
the progressive spirit of the people of
Welsh the Civic League could not
have succeeded as it has, In what ever
move we have made the majority of
the citizens of the town have stood by
us, as they are doing today in the
extra effort which we are making to
cleanse and beautify our little city.
Within the last two weeks the"clean
up" committee has made a most
thorough canvass of the property
owners of the town, speaking person
ally, or phoning to those in town, and
writing to those who reside elsewhere.
The response has been very encourag
ing, There has been little or no
remonstrance to the requests made.
As a result the grass is being cut on
the streets and vacant lots, while the
lawns around the hbomesarestill msin
taining their ustial beautiful appear.
ance.
Another subject that is being dis
cussed by the League is the rat
question. While we do not consider
that there is any immediate danger of
bubonic plaque, vet it is an under.
stood'fact that the rodent, not on] v is
a nuisance and a post, but that he
really is a germ carrier and an offense
generally in a sanitary way.
It is practically of no use for a
single family to try to exterminate the
pests from a place unless the whole
communoity loins in an effort to put
them out of existence. Lets think the
matter over and see what can be
done. What is the use of harboring
the pests if it is not necessarv?
Press Committee.
Constable Sale.
Third ward City Court, Parish of
Calcasieu, State of Louislana,
City of Lake Charles.-p. I,.
Goodrean vs. No. 1516
Andrew Louviere.
Br virtue ofa writ of fr dcire issued and
to me directed br the Hoorable Curt ore
said, I have eizbLed and will fer for ale at
onblie auieon to the luat and highest bidder
wth the beMet o ramen, in front o
the town of Welsh, La., parish of Oslcasieu, on
Saturday. September 28. 1912,
between l~ sale hours, the following de.
Lo ¶ a, oC 13w Wt W t sub. (a
poe tmats tereWo, toaether with all im.
,tremasae thelday oelf[ under said writ.
Coastable Besond Wad, WeIa.
"THE GREATEST GOOD TO
THE GREATEST NUMBER"
Will Best be Subseryed by Locating
the Parish Seat at Welsh
Rather than at Jennings.
Hon. S. L. Carv, who is spoken of
as the Brains of the Jennings parish
seat fight, has an article in Tuesday's
issue of the Jenuings Times-Record
which at first blush seems to have
some semblance of ground for argu*
ment in it, but a better study of the
propositions that are set forth indi
cates that the author was not as fa
miliar with the map of Jefferson
Davis parish as he ought to be.
In making his plea for the location
of the parish seat at Jennings, as
being nearer the center of population.
he says, "Jennings has 3925; Welsh
1250; Lake Arthur 1093; the only
towns noted in Jefferson Davis parish
in the census of 1910. Then locate
the parish seat at Jennings, where
3926 people have no traveling expense,
Welsh, 1250 have 10 miles: Lake
Arthur. 1093, 10 miles. Locate at
Welsh, 3925 travel 10 miles, 1093
travel to Jeunings 10 miles and on to
Welsh 10 miles, or 20 miles, and only
Welsh 1250 are at home. With parish
seat at Jennings 1000 people in Ward
3 (Raymond) travel 10 miles to Jen
nings, and Ward 4 (Elton) 2000 people
travel 20 miles to Jennings as against
30 miles to Welsh."
There are several points in the
above article that are worthy a little
consideration before being accepted
at face value.
In the first place you will notice
from the following sentence, "Jen
ninas has 3925, Welsh has 1250, Lake
Arthur 1093, the only TOWNS noted
in Jefferson Davis parish, in the
census of 1910," that the author has
followed the tactics customarily fol
lowed by Jenuings in the parish
division fight, of ignoring the country
districts, and is considering only the
TOWNS, Just why all the outlaying
territory of wards 5, 7, 8 and 9 should
have been utterly ignored in this
computation is a matter that we leave
with our readers to solve.
Again the author says, "With the
parish seat at Welsh 1000 people in
Ward Three (Raymond) travel 10
miles to Jennings, and Ward Four
(Elton) 2,000 people travel 20 miles
to Jennings as against 20 or 30 miles
to Welsh." Now if the author of the
above statement will give a little time
to the study of the map on the first
page of the Journal, he will see that
at least one fifth of Ward Three is
ACTUALLY NEARE Welsh than it
is to Jennings, and that Raymond is
not to exceed four miles farther from
Welsh than it is from Jennings.
Thus instead of Ward Three being
TEN miles farther from Welsh than
Jennings, a goodly portion of It is
ACTUALLY NEARER Welsh than it
is Jennings, and Raymond, the voting
place is but four miles farther from
Welsh than it is from Jennings.
The same thing is true in regard to
Ward Four. A portion at least of
Ward Four is ACTUALLY NEARER
Welsh than ANY portion of the ward
is to Jennings, since a 11 mile circle
urawn around the center of welsh
will cut ward 4, while a similar
circle drawn with Jennings as a
center will NOT touch ward 4, and
the towns of China and Elton are but
four miles farther from Welsh than
they are from Jennings, and the town
of Lauderdale, also in ward 4, is at
least two miles NEARER to welsh
than it is to Jennings.
Again, why ignore the 1000 people
living in ward 5 who are all much
nearer welsh than they are Jennings.
Why ignore the people livlng in ward
Nine, who are all TEN miles nearer
welsh than Jennings. Why ignore
the 2,000 people living In ward Eight
who are at least 'I'EN miles nearer
welsh than Jennings? Why ignore
the greater part of ward Seven, wbose
people are nearer welsh than Jen
nioprs?
The fact of the case is, as will be
seen from a study of the map, that
Jennings is so near the very edge of
the parish that outside of a strip
SEVEN miles wide extending along
he eastern sidd of the parish, every
other point in the ENT''IRE PARISU
is NEARER to WELSH than it is
Jennings.
And while the author insinuates in
his article that the western portion of
tne parish of Jeff Davis is "a cattle
pasture" we opine that he will mnd
that there are more voters there
than he ever dreamed of. who will re
sent by hundreds of ballots, the plac
ing of the parish seat in the extreme
edFe of the parish in order to accomo.
date the 3925 people of the tows of
Jenulogs.
Protect your wife and
children by having your
life Insured. Wade E.
Plauche, of the Calcasieu
Trust and Savlngs Bank
will write It right.
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