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Tile DonaIlsonvillie e l A Wide= Awake tome Newspaper Published Every Saturday at DONALDSONVILLE, ASCENSION PARISH, LA. -BY- L. E. BENTLEY, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy, one year ..-------.........------------ $2 00 One copy, six months ..-------------------- 1 00 One copy, three months _-----------------.. 50 ADVERTISING RATES: SPA .E 1 m11O Z0 l lo most6 umos t yesr One inch .__. 2 50( , 4 00:$ 5 0 $ 8 Oui$ 12 00 Two inches.... 4 501 6 Oi) 8 12 0I 18 0u Three incites.__ 6 i') 8 00 11 0; 15 00 23 00 Four inches. 7 0 001 13 St 18 IUt 28 0, Vi column . .. . 8 Oi 12 0(8 16 It' 21 00 33 00 8-4 columnn ... 15 00{ 2000 25 00 35 00 60 00 1 column ..... ( 25 00i 35 001 45 0( 6000 10000 Transient, official or legal advertisements. $1 per inch first insertion; each subsequent inser- tion, 50 cents per inch. Reading notices, first insertion. 15 cents per line; subsequently, 10tcents per line. Brief communications upon subjects of publiC interest solicited. 1No attention paid to annoymous letters. The editor is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Local Business Directory IO 'r: sL AND SALOONS. Nicholls Hotel P:L.E a) li House . ROGG(E. *r Proprietor. Headquarters for Commercial Travelers. 'Bus and Porter to and From all Trains. Mississippi Street, Near Wharf, DONALDSONVILLE, LOUIJIANA. P. O. Box 76. Telephone O. DRtY (OODS, GROCERIES, Etc. r' KLINE, corner Crescent Place and How . mas street, dealer in Dry Goods. Nouons. Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, Cuwu, Oats and Bran. LODGES Kenneth Lodge No. 41, Knights of Pythias. CONVENES in Masonic Temple the second and fourth Thursday evenings of cu month at 8 o'clock. Visiting brethren cordially welcomed. Sick benefits, funeral tax and all Lthe fraternal features. Members have option uo joining endowment or insurance rank. C•au- cellor Commander. E. Langbecker; Vice Cuan- cellor Commander, Jules Leumnas; Master of Work. Dr. D. C. Brumfield; Prelate, Fred ,.- dry; Keeper of Records and Seal, J. E. BlEuw: Master of Finance, Winm. Pforzheimer; Mawer of Exchequer, Jacob Blum. DktlUUASta. J. LECUE, AVENUE PHARMACY, Corner Railroad and Nicholls avenues, DONALJDSONVILLE. LA. Purest and freshest of Drugs, Chemicals and Patent Medicines always in ttozk. Trusses, Bandages, Soaps, Perfumery, Brushes, Cumus, Smokers' materials, etc. Physicians' prescrip- tions carefully compounde at all hours, day or night. Telephone 95.2 PIYSICIANS. E. L. SIMS, PHYSICLAN AND SURGEON Office in Houmas street, adjoining the Ascension Club. Telephone 90. DR. T. H. HANSON. OFFICO: Railroad avenue, between Claiborne and Oi e- lousas streets. Telephone 241 DB. J. D. HANSON, OFFICE AND S~EIDENIO Lessard street, between Nicholls avenue and Iberville street. Telephone 54. ]RU. PAUL T. THIBODAUX OFFICE AND BBsIDENCE, Mississippi street, near Catholic Church. Office Hours: 11 a. m. to 2 p. n. Telephone 247. DENTISTRY. R. CLARENCE GOETTE, DENTIST. Office in Railroad avenue, adjoining ioette's Shoe Store. Telephone 3r R. JAMES P. FORTIER, postoffice. AROUND THE STATE. Items of interest Culled From the Louisiana Press. Federal Building to be Erected at Alexan- andria-Saloons Out of Business in Calcasieu Parish-Special Tax to be Voted by Citizens of Thibodaux. Fire at Slidell caused a property I loss of $1000. Plans are being made to erect a rice mill at Ferriday. The Calcasieu police jury has fixed the parish tax at 5 mills. Jere M. Gleason has been appointed registrar of voters in Orleans parish. High license at Baton Rouge will cause several saloons to suspend busi- WVill Sorsby, who killed Postoffice Inspector Fitzgerald, was captured at Clinton, Miss. The federal government will erect a handsome building at Alexandria at a cost of $50,000. Ernest Rhorer, a 14 year-old boy, was killed by falling from a wagon nea- Alexandria. Forty-five saloons went out of busi- ness in Calcasieu parish on Jan. 1 as a result of prohibition. A special tax will be voted by the citizens of Thibodaux for the rebuild- ing of the electric light plant. A teachers' summer school of four- teen weeks will be held at the State Normal School, beginning June 1. E. L. Wright, aged twenty-three years, was elected superintendent of education of Lafayette parish over two competitors. The new school board of Catahoula parish will ele-t a superintendent for four years, rejecting the official named by the retiring board. The Richardson oil well near Oil City was brought in successfully, and work on the pipe line to New Orleans has been commenced. Following a disagreement, three members of the St. Martin parish school board resigned, leaving the body without a quorum. A terrific wind, rain and hail storm swept a number of points in Minsis sippi and Louisiana and caused seri- ous damage to property. A negro at Covington confessed to participating in numerous store and postotfice robberies recently in St. Tammany parish, and involved eight white men. While stealing a ride from Lafayette on a Southern Pacific passenger train, Walter Patin, a 16 year-old Crowley youth, fell from the train and was mangled to death. Dan Brooks, a negro horse thief, who burned his way out of jail at Zachary, (the flames endangering the town), was saved from possible vio- lence after being recaptured by the prompt work of an officer, who trans- ferred the prisoner to Batoln Rouge. Jack London's Latest Novel. Uncle Remus's-The Home Maga- zine makes the important announce- ment that it has secured the serial rights of Jack London's latest novel, "Martin Eden." The story will begin in the February issue of that popular magazine. Critics who have read "Martin Eden" state that it is gripping, vivid and picturesque, and is such a story as cnly Jack London could write. It contains a big lesson, and in its ar- raignment of false ideals is both noble and notable. Martin Eden, the character who is really the book, is so keenly true that he seems lurid with life. He is intense, hig in his ideas and ideals, and with- out faltering, yet unselfishly, strives ceaselessly and courageously "for the genuinely best in life. Send 50 cents in stamps to the Sunny uth Publishing Company, and they end you Uncle Remus's-The e eight months, begin- uary issue, which Ilment of "Mar- the But LICENSED HUNTERS. List of NImrods Who Have Taken Out Oicial Hunting Licenses in As- sension Parish. Since our last report the sheriff's office has issued hunting licenses to the following persons: Joseph Jumonville James Mullet Oliver LeBlanc E M Robinson Morris Carter Vincent Savariste Ingam Godfrey O'Neal Babin Lydien Babin Monroe Nicholls Manuel Johnson Lastie Hebert Jeff Mason Elmer B Delaune Desire Falcon Henry Hilton John D Bruns Davey Syho Joseph Robertson Maurice Landry John Heath Painchaud Leroy Charley Weiss Baptiste Bowman Vincent Guedry Norah Rufnin Oscar Babin Edward Lark Jos Harris Leon Babin Sam Smith William Hawkins Sam Carter George Hebert Isaiah Wilson Nolan Larks Henry Minor Charles Boudreau E D Dixon W, m Brody Joseph Boudreaux Moses Francis John Marsh Alfred.Lanoux Mederick Blanchard Alfred Joseph Bourgeois Henry Schaff, Jr Joseph Less is Thomas Wilson Antoine Ourso, Jr David Isom Jos Tolbert Albert Davis Steve Terry Wilfred LeBlanc Frank Mandle Howard Babin Hector Young Simon Landry Armand Braud Sidney Bercegeais Theophile Gautreau Victorin Sanchez Silvey Daniels Robert Lessard Ozeme Bourgeois Ely Braud Moise Landry E T Trahan Adam Duplessis Joseph Tanner W M Pollock Dawson Martin L Mayer Simon Taylor Anderson Brandis Harvey Johnson - Nick Patterson Adery Gabriel Clarence Brown Adlard Braud R L Braud Tom Moran Henry Mullet Joseph LeBlanc Leonard Harrison Numa Aucoin Jack Hunley Thomas Bradford Duffosard Gregoire Desire LeBlanc Ananias Vaughn Wade Roberts Alphonse Bercegeais Solomon Jenkins Numa Dalferes Westley Rose Claiborne Medine Joseph Falcon Antoine Gonzales Willie Brody Zenon Melancon Frank Martinez Willie Richardson Marville Parr Leonce Lanoux Alex Martinez Winnfield Pearson Alexis Plaisance Manuel Dominique Joseph Corbo, Jr Willie Henry F Edward Babin Leander Riley Tolbert Etienne George Carter John Campbell, Jr Sidney LeBlano Tom Jacobs Charles Patterson Henry Gregoire Allen Napoleon Marks Emmerson Sam Jones Ernest Gordon Jimmy Harvey Gilbert Landry Howard Johnson Albert Braud Christophe Falcon Albert Falcon Omer Sanchez J Camille Sanehez Oscar Thompson CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS. Opportunities Offered for Obtaining Em- ployment Under the Federal Government. The United States Civil Service Commission announces the following examinations to take place on the dates given below, and circulars con- taining further information relative thereto may be seen at the office of this paper: January 20 - Expert freight rate clerk, to fill two vacancies in the re- clamation service, at Chicago, Ill., at salaries of $80 to $100 a month, and vacancies requiring similar qualiflca tions as they may occur in any branch of the service. Age limit, 20 years or over. Application form 1312. January 26-Stenographer an d typewriter, departmental, Isthmian Canal and Philippine services. Age limit, 18 years or over. Application form 304 and form 1424. Examinations for the postal and customs services will be held in May, 1909, applications for which may now be filed. Age limit, customs ser- vice, 21 to 55 years; age limit, postal service, 18 to 45 years. Application form 1371 and form 1372. o pportunities for Ycu•g Women. The Philadelphia School for Nurses, 2219 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa , offers free scholarships in trained nursing to young women in every state in the Union. The scholarships cover Che full two years' course, with room, board, uniforms, laundering, etc., included, and railroad fare paid to home town or district upon the com- pletion of the course. A home study course and .a short resident course are also provided, which quickly open the door to oppor- tunity and enable progressive students to render a noble service to humanity and at the same time acquire for themselves a substantial income from the best paid occupation now open to women; besides qualifying every student to deal with emergencies in the home that may mean the saving of loved one's life. ar-seeing philanthropists are add- to the resources of this school, he view of ultimately extending nefits to earnest, energetic omen in all country districts the smaller towns and cities. tution is approved and en- eading physicians and edu- entire country. Some of en of this state are its rters and endorsers, as y the catalogue which y one who writes for it. LETTERS toffice at Donaldsonville, .January 9. 1909. LeBlanc, Viola Lush, John IM'rtin. Joe Ramirez, Lacy Reese. General Shallowhorne, Calvin Shallas, Wade Vives, Eddie Williams. Luella Winder, Amy ese letters say advertised. weeks they will be sent ce at Washington, D. C. ister this year you at party you desire to h. Your party affilia- gistered and you will be ote in the primaries held ty and no other primaries. not register your party affil- d it is not obligatory for you you will be registered as and will not be allowed to par- in any primary. The regis n of aflliation does not affect ral election.-Crowley Signal. THE WORLD'S NEW S. Flashes of the Telegraph Wires From Near and Far. Typhoid Fever Oroke Out in the Earth- quake-Stricken Cities of Italy -Cath- olic Priest of Newark, N. J., Elopes and Marries a 15-Year Old GirL Bubonic plague has reappeared at Guayaquil, Ecuador. Fire at Rome, Ga., destroyed prop- erty valued at $109,000. Father John of Cronstadt, a noted Russian priest, is dead. The situation in China is serious, and a revolution is threatened. Fifty men were killed in a mine disaster near Bluefields, W. Va. The United States navy is planning to build a new 25,000-ton battleship. Petrified whales were discovered on the hilltops overlooking San Pedro, Cal. The American battleship fleet ar- rived at Suez two days ahead of its schedule. Two cyclones swept through the country near Batson, Tex., destroying much property. A two-cent postage rate between the United States and Germany went into effect on Jan. 1. A port for the landing of airships was opened at Juvisy-Sur Orge, near Paris, France. While fording a swollen stream near Roanoke, Va., Clarence and Luther Dent were drowned. The National Democratic Associa- tion will establish a weekly newspaper in Washington, D. C. Jesse Schottland, a seaman of the United States battleship Illinois, was drowned in the Red Sea. Three thousand bales of cotton on the Spanish steamer Marte were dam- aged by fire at Havre, France. The American Red Cross Society has sent $270,000 for the relief of the Italian earthquake sufferers. Over 6000 people attended the New Year reception given by President Roosevelt at the Waite House. Rioting followed the prohibition of Mohammedan sacrifices of cows at Titteghun, near Calcutta, India. Two persons were killed and a score injured when the Frisco "Mleteor" and a freight train collided near Fisher, Okla. Typhoid fever has broken out in the earthquake-stricken cities of Italy and it is feared the result will be se- rious. E. B. Fitzgerald, a planter, shot and killed O. H. McGuire, a lawyer, in a street duel with pistols at Rosedale, Miss. Three regro laborers are believed to have been killed when a cotton seed house collapsed at Aberdeeen, Miss. The suit of Count Boni de Castel- lane for the custody of his children was decided against him by the French court. Aaron Doas, aged ninety, and his wife, aged eighty-five, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary in New York city. Methodists in the United States and Canada will erect a monument to Bar- bara Heck, the founder of Methodism in America. Four men were killed as the result of a collision between a steamer and a lumber raft in the Green river, near Rockport, Ky. In the Bronx zoological park at New York there are nearly twice the number of animals that there are in the London zoo. Rev. Filomena Sianif a Catholic prient of Newark, N. J., eloped with a fifteen-year-old girl, whom he mar- ried in New York city. Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, will attempt to prohibit the importation of absinthe into the United States. During 1908 Andrew Carnegie do- nated $7,437,000 to libraries, colleges, the hero fund of Great Britain and industrial organizations. A third attempt to secure the release of Harry K. Thaw from the Matteawan asylum for the criminal insane was be- gun at White Plains, N. Y. Yuam Shi Kai, the deposed grand councillor of China, escaped from Pe- king, and is under the protection of Great Britain in Tien Tsin, a treaty port. An attempt was made to assassinate Attorney General Caldwell, who is prosecuting the alleged night riders at Union City, Tenn., but he escaped un- harmed. The Corean who assassinated Dur- ham White Stevens in San Francisco some time ago, has been sentenced to serve a term.of twenty five years in the penitentiary. The supreme court of the United States has denied the petition of the government for a writ of certiorari in the $29,000,000 fine case of the Stand- ard Oil Company. Colombia has granted a concession to a number of its citizens, conveying the exclusive privilege of the manu- facture of denatured alcohol in the District of Bogota. An unidentified white man was killed and his body thrown from a freight train near New Albany, Miss., by John McDaniel, a negro brakeman, because the victim had informed on him. Because" she has such excellent influ ence over them, Mrs. Mary Weaver has been appointed in one of the neighbor hoods of Chicago, Ill., to take the place of a police officer who is unable to control the small boys of the dis- trict. Look over the "For Sale" ads in today's Chief. Somebody may wish i to sell just what you wish to buy. Doctors say take Cod Liver Oil-they undoubtedly mean Scott's Emulsion. It would be just as sensible for fhem to prescribe Quinine in its crude form as to pre- scribe Cod Liver Oil in its natural state. In Scott's Emulsion the oil is emulsified and made easy to take--easy to digest and easy to be absorbed in to the body-and is the most natural and useful fatty food to feed and nourish the wasted body that is known in medicine today. Nothing can be found to take its place. If you are run-down you should take it. Send this advertisement, together with name of paper in which it appears, your address and four cents to cover postage, and we will send you a "Complete Handy Atlas of the World." SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St. New York The first consideration in Life Insurance is Security The Equitable Life occupies a PRE- EMINENT POSITION as to Financial strength Henry A. Terrio Special Agent P. O, Box 128 Donaldsonville Shakspeare Iron Works JULIAN M. SWOOP, PROPRIETOR -:- 913 Girod Street -:- New Orleans, Louisiana Phone, Main 541 To Sugar Planters! We Make a Specialty of Sugar Machinery Repairs We have patterns of plates for all filter presses. Brass and gun metal castings. Light and heavy forgings. Write, phone or call on us before placing your order elsewhere. C. PONS .. Dealer in.. " Old Scrap Iron Highest Prices Paid for Brass, Lopper Lead, Old Rope and Sack For Sale: Complete 5-foot Mill Good as New Four Clarifiers, 7'xy' S Evaporators, 7' Copper Strike Pans, 7 very thick Steam Condnesers Pumps, Pulleys, Pipes Ever Want Anything in a hurry and get disappointed? Not through me. Ask me next time; Send me that Panama hat to be cleaned and blocked. Ben. F. Katz Mail Orders Exclusively Postoffice Box 1380, New Orleans, La. Seventeen and one-third years' experience. Ask your friends. one Welcome Saloon George Landry Proprietor 'a he place that made lOc Budweiser Famous! Finest Wines, Liquors. Cigars. Etc. IF YOU NEED ANYTHING QUICK, 'PHONE We have Long Distance Service and are open DAY AND NIGHT 365 days in the year. ?4 hours out of 24 We can supply you from our stock with anything in MILL SUPPLIES MACHINERY STEAM GOODS HARDWARE, ETC. and our Hobby is Prompt Shipment WOODWARD, WIGHT & 00., I NEW LIMITED NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA . e.OVOO0 0 e osGONMNSOMu-Y--r- Kentucky MULES We beg to inform the public that we f are now prepared to furnish first-class Kentucky and Missouri mules at all times, with the same guarantee and protection we have always offered. We may be found at the Palace sta- bles in Railroad avenue. Our man- ager, Mr. Mattingly, will make it to your interest to see him before buying elsewhere. Remember the place-the PALACE STABLES, DONALDSONVILLE. Tel. ephone 237. Sparks Bros. & McGee MURPHY'S IRON WORKS Corner Magazine and 1i74, Street, , NEW jORLEANS, LA. 1ostoaoe .oL ,l, EWi ORLEANTS, LA. Enginee rs andt Contractors Builders of Complete anu Reliable Machinery for Cane and JBeet Sugar Factories. SELLING AGENTS FOR LOUISIANA: Gee. F. Blake MannfactnringCompany eSteam Pumps for all purposes. Largest stoc k l. pumps carried in the south. Eclipse Filter Presses, Kilby Filter Presses, Kilby Gravity Prenes, Mason Steam Traps, Mason Regulators, McConnell Asbestos Pipe Covering. New Orleans Boiler Manufacturing Companv, Ltd. Manufacturerts of All Types of Boilers A large stock of Wrought iron Pines, Fittings. Valves, Gauges, Packing, Mill and Sugar- house Supplies on hand. Will make plans and contract for the erection cf complete plants of modern design. Address, JOHN H. MURPHY. . . . . . . . . . .. . .. - -- 8. GOETTE, PRESIDENT-MANAGER. JAB. FORTIER, SECEETA•a-TREAURERU, DONALDSONVILLE ICE COMPANY, LIMITED. DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA. ICE, BEER, COLD STORAGE._. E•.CAPACITY, 30 TONS DAILY. MISSISsIPPI STREET, OPFOSITE MIARET. TELEPHONE No. 73. Purest And Best Qual;ty IC E At Lowest Market Rates SUPPLIED IN ANY QUANTITY AT FACTORY OR SHIPPED WHEREVER ORDERED. Local agenoe for the mammoth ANHEUSE•-BUbCH BREWING ASSOCIATION'S celebrated KEG and B )TTLE BEERS, iFASuT, ANBEUSER, BOCK AND PALE IN KEGS, ExQUISITZ, BoD- WEISERl.AN iHESER AND BAVARIAN IN BOTTLES), which can be furnrished in anuantities tosnit. Orders left at the factory or addressed through the Donaldsonville postofice, will receive oromvt ard careful attention. Satisfaction always fully guaranteed. Ascension Coal Co., lLtd. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in PITTSBURG COAL J. J. LAFARGUE. Agent I Tele"o'd.. pL"o Telephone No. 4b3-2 OFFICE AND RETAIL YARD, Mississippi street, Donaldsonville. Orders by mail telegraph or telephone promptly and carefully executed. Delivery by rail or barge to any station or landing where railroad or navigation facilities will permit. Special attention4o sugar and rice planters' trade. Tugs in attendance at all times for hire. Contracts taken for towing. Courteous treatment. Satisfaction assured. No trouble to answer questions S_ o . T. Oa 1 fi ro Donaldsonville, La. CLEANS, PAINTS, REPAIRS, PUTS UP AND TAKEas DowN SMOKESTACKS Sugaihouse Chimneys, Heavy 11a- chinery, Etc. Satisfaction guaranteed and charges low. Also maker of best and cheapest tarpaulins. HORSE and STEAMPOWER DERRICKS ROPE SPLICING A SPECIALTY WHITNE IRO ORKS COMPANY 861 TchoupitOUlas St., New Orleans. Sole Manufacturers of the MARSHALL CANE CRUSHER and CRYSTALLIZERS :: :: :: :: :: Manufacturing of SUGAR MACHINERY a Specialty...... Most approved FILTER PRESSES of all sizes for Cane Juice and Skimmings. Will furnish estimates and contract for the construction of All kinds of MACHINERY and IRON WORK. r The KING• Fit Better! The 1 r Wear Better! Last Longer! floss Collars Mlade by Hand'from Seected:rloss Orders Filled Promptly on Short Notice made by DENNIS CASSARD, Barton, La.
