Parish Takes Over Road Machinery From Henry...

.St. TammTaay ,amr.he St. Tammany Farmer St. Tammany Parish$1.00 A YEAR OPP__________

D. H. MASON, Editor COVINGTON, LA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 191'. VOL. XLIII No. 8

JUDGE CARTER TAKES INCENSE FROM SALOOIN MENParish Takes Over Road Machinery From Henry KellerDISTRICT COURT

PROCEEDINGSCREATESEN-

SATION

Judge Carter Makes Good

His Promise to Punish Vi-

olations of Saloon Laws.

DIST. AT'Y BROCK ALSO

BACKS NOTICE.JAN. 1

Proceedings Mark the End

of Violations of Sunday,

Gay-Shattuck Laws

,When Judge Carter and District

Attorney Brock took their places at

the opening of District court thl.

week there seemed to' be a present-

iment that something was going to

happen outside of the ordinary, anI,

it did happen.. Judge Carte", hannounced that if there were viola-tions of the Gay-Shattuck or Sun-day laws and the cases came up inhis court he Would unflinchinglypunish violators in accordance -the terms of the law. This may not4seem.,aEtraordinary, ibecause it 'shouldbe expected that violators of the law,would ,be punished. But there are

degrees of 'punishment. and it wa•snot known just how severe the judgewould 'prove to be. It may be safeto predict that there will not be anydoubt hereafter; and it may also besafe 'to predict that there will s;-dom be any more violations.

District Attorney Brock has alsoshown that he made no idle threa"when he stated that he would prose-cute violators of these laws. In thetwo cases reported below in the court

proceedings it will be noticed th.ithe violators will nJt again come b,.fore the court on similar charges.because besides other penalties, thelicenses have been taken away fromthem and they may not again engagein the business in the parish.

The fololwing cases were tried:Covington Bank & Trust Co. vs.

B. B. Warren and M. Nielsen, judg-ment for plaintiff.

Cazs Talley vs. Alphonse Dutruch,judgment for plaintiff.

St. Tammany Naval Stores Co. vs.St. Tammany Lumuber Mfg. Co. judg-ment for plaintiff.

Sandy Jackson vs. Louis Jenkins,judgment of lower court affirmed.

St. Tammany Bank & Trust Com-pany vs. A. C. McC-ormack, judgmentas prayed for.

Chas. T. Bradley vs. ChefunctaLbr. Co., judgment as prayed for.

E. ,H. Baudot vs. J. J. Paquette,judgment for plaintiff.

Cecil Cousin vs. Salmeni Brick &Lumber Co., judgment for $75.

State vs. Chas. Biggio, sellingliquor to colored woman, found guil-ty by court, fined $300 and costs.and in default of payment to 12months in jail; also license and per-mit to operate saloon in Abit'Springs, parish of St. Tammany, re-voked and annulled. Appeal to Si-

preme Court.State vs. L. Menant, selling liquor

to colored -woman, found guilty bycourt, fined $300 and cost-. and indefault of payment to 12 months in

jail. License and permit to operatesaloon in Mandeville. parish of St.Tammany, revoked and annulled.

MARGUEHITE CLARK

Parkview Theatre.When caught by your lrarents in

a compromising situation with yourschool chum and a strange youngman, introduce the chum and theyouth as husband and wife and thedificulty vanishes into nothingness!Then, adroitly escaping with yourSather and mother, leave the othertwo to recover from their embarrass-Sment as best they may, But before

doing so, it would be just as well tomake sure that the school chum and

DECORATED IN MEMORY OF MRS. INEZ MILOLLAND BOISEVAIN.

Statuary hall in the capitol at Washington, was swathed in the colors of the Congressional Union for WomanSuffrage on Christmas day, when memorial services were held in honor of 'Ines Mllholland Bol•sevaln. Theservices Were preceded by a delegation march through the capitol grounds and a display of banners.- -------------------- " ------- -----------

FEDERAL FARMLOAN ASSOCIA-TION FORMEDFOR PARISH

It has been shown that the rural

credit systems of Europe placed the

farmer on a much surer footing in

these countries than here, and the

United States Government institut-

ed an investigation, sending compe-

tent investigators there to study thesystem. Voluminous reports weremade upon these investigations andthe matter was placed before Con-gress. On May 13, 1916, the Senatepassed this act as reported by thebanking committee, there being onlyfive dissenting votes, and a few dayslater iri the ,House with but ten dis-senting votes. The Federal FarmLoan Act was reported Iby the con-ferees in June and had a pratiacallyunanimous vote in the siouse andSenate and was signed by ['residentWilson July 17, 1916.

The object of the Act is the de-velopment of the agricultural inter-ests of the United States. Its prop-er exercise will give the farmer everyopportunity for success in his call-ing, placing him on *a footing withthe capitalist in obtaining money.Every farmer becomes a sharehold-er in the bank, for he must use fiveSper cent of his loan for the purchaseof stock, abut this stock will be a goodinvestment and will pay dividends.

By this method every farmer be-comes interested in the business ofthe bank and consequently interest-ed in the success of every borrowerof money from the bank. It is a co-

operative concern, with every mem-ber working for the interest of everyother member. A penalty of notmore than $5000 or one year's im-

prisonment, or both, is attached forfraudulently obtaining funds,

Not over 5 per cent interest shallbe charged on loans. It a membershould borrow $1000 for 33 years,he will have paid interest and princi-

pal by paying $35.00 in semi-annualinrtallments. That is, $35.00 everysix months. This includes 1 percent for general expenses.

The least amount of loans thatmust tbe pledged to organize a localFarm Loan Association is $20,000.Such an association was organizedfor St. Tammany parish in CovingtoniWednesday with 31 members, as fol-lows: J. H. Warner, Capt. G. E.

Mi.llar, D. W. Diel, F. M. Bennett,Emile Fuhrmann, J. W. Blackwell,Cleve Blackwell, Henry King, B. A.

Taylor. Alfred Jenkins, Ed. Jenkins.H. C. Kuhn, B. Thompson, W. L.

Thompson, A. M. Jenkins, GeorgeFendlason, Louis Heintz, IM. P.Planche, L. O. Martin, H. N. Fendla-

"on. Geo. Edwards, Arthur Stanga,J. A. Harper, Rich Singletary, Nor-man Core, H. B. Pruden, Joe Schnei-der, Harvey E. Ellis. John Cotton,Charles Green, G. A. Slattery.

The following officers were elect-ed: J. H. Warner, president; G. E.Millar. vice president, E. V. Richard,secretary-treasurer.

There will be a general meetingat the courthouse Saturday, January20, 1917. All who are interestedare invited to attend.

the strange young man agownot goingto arrive at your own homa later asguests, for that is apt t&start somevery serious complications.

That is the unfortunate predic"-metn in which Alice Altwold foundherself after she had iniodfted Ber-niece Somers and Clever fton toher lather and mother W r. andMrs. Gardner" in order-to avoid-ex-

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PROCEEDINGS,OF THE PARISH

SCHOOLBOARD

Covington, La., Jan. 5, 1917.

The St. Tammany Parish School

Board met in regular session on the

above date with N. !H. FitzSimons in

the chair and the following memberspresent: T. J. O'Keefe, second ward;N. H. FitzSimons, third ward; H. H.

Levy, fourth ward; W. 'H. Kahl, fifthward; Dave Evans, sixth ward; C. M.Liddle, ninth ward; G. E. Millar,tenth ward. Absent: G. R. Dutschfirst ward; C. F. Farmer, seventhward, and J. H. Robert, eighth ward,and a quorum was present.

M•oved by Mr. Millar and secondedby Mr. Kahl, that the minutes of thelast regular and special meetings beaccepted as printed in the officialjournal. Carried.

The Superintendent read the fol-lowing report and financial state-ment for the quarter ending Dec. 31,1916, and on motion of Mr. +Millar,seconded by Mr. Kahl, they were ac-cepted as read. The report is as fol-lows:

Covington, La., Jan. 5, 1917.To the Honorable President and

Members of St. Tammany ParishSchool Board:Gentlemen:-This is the middle of

the present school year, and at thistime we should notice how the workhas gone thus far. As three of yournumber are new in the work and arefilling chairs at this meeting todayfor the first time, I may be pardonedfor going more into detail than Iwould naturally do.

The Madisonville school house hasbeen completed and is being occu-pied. I can say without danger ofcontradiction, that they have by farthe best school house in the garish.outside of the towns of Covingtonand Slidell. The two transfers tothis school are in operation. I be-lieve the idea of an auto transfer torun from the Edwards neighborhoodis the plan that will give the mostsatisfaction in the long run.

The contract for the building ofthe Sand Hill school house has beenawarded to Mr. John Gottschalk.He has given the necessary bond.and I suppose he will start worn'right away.

You will regret to learn that theroof of the Folsom school is in a" verybad condition. Before satisfactoryrepairs can be made I feel that t1)entire covering must come off and

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INVITATION TOCOVINGTON TOVISIT TORPEDO

BOATS 16TH")

Chief Pharmacist's Mate E. E.Brooks, of the U. S. Navy, was inCovington, Thursday, his mission be-ing to encourage recognition of thegreat need of .enlistment in the navyand to extend a welcome to all visit-ors'-to the torpedo boat destroyersnow - stationed at Baton RougeThey are the Lamson, the IMonaghan*mnd the Sterritt. The visit to theseboats would be well worth _ while.ahd every courtesy will be\extended.The torpedoes used will be open toinspection.

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REPORT OF IN-SPECTION OFSCHOOLS OF

PARISH

(By C. J. Brown.)St. Tammany parish lies directly

across Lake Pontchartrain north ofthe city of New Orleans, and has(been until recent years entirely cov-ered with pine forests, and there isyet left standing a large area ofvirgin timber. The parish is tra-versed by the main line and a branchof the New Orleans Great NorthernRailroad. Except for three or fourgood sized towns and a number ofscattered country settlements, theparish is thinly populated.

The former inspection of this par-ish was made by Mr. Foote duringthe month of October, more than twoyears ago.

The following schools were viistedon this occasion in the order named:

M•adisonville--This is a new build-ing only recently occupied and re-places an old building of a very un-satisfactory kind. It contains sixclass rooms, library, office, an un-usually fine auditorium, and is mod-ern in every respect. The buildinghas not yet been painted for lack offunds. It is one-story with a basc-ment under its entire area. Patentstoves will shortly replace all thebox stoves now in use. The equip-ment is at present scant, consistingof single and double patent desks, a.Louisiana map, a few old charts anda case containing a few books. Com-plete equipment will be added assoon as funds are available. Thesite of four acres is well drained andevidences the wisdom of the schoolauthorities in thus providing amplespace for play and recreation. Wateris supplied by a splendid artesianwell, children drinking directly fromthe pipe. There are two good pit-type toilets which will later be re-placed by a sanitary flush type whenfunds permit. The session is sevenmonths. One hundred and two ofthe 112 were present, representin%ten grades. The daily programswere satisfactory. The playgroundis given some supervision; gradeItnitation is enforced and the courseof study very well followed. Thetests in reading and'aritsmetic gavefairly satisfactory results. Two ofthe four teachers are graduates ofstate institutions, and three of theteachers have taught more than oneyear at- this school. Conditions at3Madisonville have certainly improvedwonderfully within the past twoyears, and while there are yet manythings lacking, we consider the sit-uation very promising indeed.

Pilgrim Rest-This is a new, mod-ern and attractive two-room build-ing recently constructed. It con.forms to all of the required -stand-ards of architecture. Owing to theincreased enrollment here, however,the school required a third teacher,who is temporarily working in an oldbuilding. The equipment consists ofsingle and double patent desks, agood supply of pulp board, teachers'desks, some adjustable shades and acase containing a few books. Thesite of one acre was clean but aunimproved. Water is procured froma well about seventy-five feet deephaving a force pump, children usingindividual cups at the spout, Tnereare two toilets of the deep-pit type.Of the 113 enrolled in seven grades,,t 1.0 Were present. An example of

what compulsory education is doingin some communities is shown hereby the fact that 6.3 pupils, or morethan halft of the entire school, areenrolled in -the irst grade. Their

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PARISH TAKES IOVER ROAD

WORKINGOUTFIT

Buys From Henry Keller for ]$5000 and Will Plan for

Keeping Up Roads.

ATTORNEYS ASKEDTO DEFEND R'Y SUIT

Case Arose From Application

of Guedry and Others to

Enjoin Collecting Tax.

Covington, La., Jan. 10. 1917.

The poli.e jury met on the above

date with the following members

present: W. A. 'Hood, E. J. Do-

mergue, J. M. Smith, S. R .Cowart, 4Fletcher Crawford, W. Ii. Davis, H.

J. Schneider, Robt. Abney and J. B.Howse.

It was moved by E. J. Domergue,seconded by J. ,M. Smith, that the

president appoint a committee oftwo to confer with John Edgar inthe matter of supervising and con-structing dipping vats.

Carried.The president appointed J. IL.

Smith and R'obt. Abney to conferwith John Edga in the matter ofIbuilding and supervising the con-struction of dipping vats.

Carried.It was moved by J. IM. Smith and

seconded by Robt. Abney, that thetreasurer's report be accepted asread.

Carried.Treasurer's Report.

Covington, La., Jan. 10, 117. 1To the Honorable President and

IMembers of the Police Jury: -I beg to submit this my report as I

treasurer for the month of Decem-Iber, 1916: i

Receipts-- -Received from T. E. Brewster, tax

collector:General fund ........ 12,893.55Road fund .......... 10,225.06(Special road fund .... 6,727.45

Total ....... .... 29,846.06Received from flscal agents, cov-

ering interest on pardsh deposits:St. Tam. Bask & Trust

Co., general fund .. 247.65Cov. Bank & Trust Co.,

Road fund ......... 105.74Cov. Bank & Tpust Co.,

Special road fund .. 96.24

Total .............. 469.6Total Receipts ..... 30,115.69The balances to the cridit of the

several funds on January 1, 1917,were as follows:General fund ........ 10,844.07Road fund .......... 9,050.51Special road fund .... 3,924.78

Total ...... ...... 23,819.36Since January 1, 1917, the follow-

ing moneys were received by me:State of Louisiana, for

account of road main-tenance .......... 597.19

which has 'been deposited to thecredit of Road Fund.

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MRS. J. C. BURNSHONORED BYASSOCIATE

MEMBERSProbably no woman in the parish

has worked as hard for school im-provement as Mrs. 3. C. Burns, andeven with all this work she has-found time to adaist in other organi-zation work, including civic advance-ment and social uplift. It is notsurprising, therefore, that her asso-ciates sh6uld show their apprecia-tion of her efforts by a substantialtoken of esteem.

At the elde~ng of the school forthe holidays, December 22, 1916,Mrs. Burns, who is president of theSchool Improvement !,eague, waspresented by the mendbers of theLeague with a beautWul silver tray,the honor of presentation talling toMrs. Charles Sheffeld, the vice presi-dent, who very prettily and mostheartily voiced the yentiment of themembers and expressed the high re-gard in which the president was

Mrs. Burns was so overeome bythis unexpected expression of esteemthat she for a moment last her usualquickness of speech,. but her ac-knowledgment of the gift was full ofthe delight and pleasure ot broughther.

imr Louise 'Gupsel also preseutedwer with a lovely ouqauet of aowers.

SLIDELL. .NIGHTSCHOOL HASNOW SEEN

OPENED

H. B. Saunders of the Sli-

dell Shipbuilding Company

Behind the Movement.

WOODMEN TAKE INMANY NEW MEMBERS

Slidell News of General In-terest During Week and

Personal Mention

(By Staff Correspondent)An enrollment of twenty scholars

was had at the opening of the publicnight school at the Slidell high schoolbuilding last Monday night underthe auspices of Managing Director1H. B. Saunders of the Siidenl Ship.building Co. The scholarsa will beinstructed by Miss Francid•Srysonand while they range in grades formthe irst to the tenth we feel quitesure that Miss Bryson is fully cap-able to handle this job; and is alsoan enthusiast in her line of work,and we wish her and those associat-ed' every success in the undertaking.

New enrollment since the reopen-ing, after the holidays, to the ex-,pt of thirty sir scholars, has in-

creased the total attendance at theSlidell high school to between 550and 560..

The school authorities are prepar-ing a list of parents of delinquets inschool attendance. This list ofnames will probbably be brought tothe attention of the grand jury whichmeets again early in February.There are not many delinquents here

but there should be none.A. E. Hotard, of New Orleans, has

purchased land and is making ar-rangements to build a veneer andhardwood lumber mill here. Boxhooks will be the principal output,as we understand it.

The monument of John Ciruti willbe unveiled at the Oatholic Ceme-

tery on Sunday, January 14, 1917,on which occasion sixty Woodmen of

the World from New Orleans are ex-pected, as well as a number fromCovington, -Mandeville, Madisonviileand other nearby towns. The Miss-es Smith, of New Orleans, will singthe Ode, and Miss Cronan, also ofNew Orleans, will read the poem.

Cypress Camp No. 26, the localcamp of W. O. W., with Harry Ben-nett, C. C.; F. C. Palmer, P. C. C.;Paul Cornibe. Adviser; J. L. Gelis,Clerk; Geo. Cornibe, Banker, will bein charge of the entertainment andceremonies. There will also 'be alarge number of initiations in themorning of the 14th by a degreeteam from Acorn Camp No. 2. W. OW. of New Orleans. There is con-siderSble activity in local Woodmencircles and we understand that filitnew members will be enrolled at thenext meeting.

The Misses Smith and Cronan willbe entertained by IMr. and Mrs. GeoB. Harrison during their stay here.

Our city council, at their meetingJanuary 2, adopted an ordinance giv-ing our popular City Marshal, Jno.R. Elliott, power to appoint and re-move his assistants, subject to theapproval of Mayor Badon and thecouncil.

We note with pleasure that MrGeo. B. Harrison has accepted andqualified as jury commissioner forthis district, vice C. Lee Green, re-signed.

Our worthymarshal, John Elliot'assisted by Earl Badon, street com-missioner, captured and returned tothe penjentiary at Baton Rouge anescaped convict, for which a substan-tial reward was paid to them.

X. A. Kramer, civil engineer, ofMagnolia, Miss., was to have beenhere to confer with the city officialson January 2d, but was unable to bipresent at that time, and it will bearranged to have a mass meeting'later at which Mr. Kramer will bepresent and advise us in regard teseveral matters, principal of wh

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will be the opening of Front streetstraight through to the Northeast-ern lepot, an old matter of conten-tion among our people which wethink is now in fair way of settle-ment.

We understand that ground ha'been bought and a large new brie'building will be erected by our fellow townsman, O. L. Moran.

Simon Levy, the progressive b-or, is now constructing a fine bunga-low on Teddy avenue. See-more issure one of our hustling citizens.

Cleveland store on Cousin andFltrst streets is nearing completionand will no doubt add its quota tothe life and movement of our main

I street.In response to calls a meeting w,

, 'boheld in the Presbyterian churchMonday evening for the purpose o'orhlasntlg all of the local charitiesunder one heed that there might be

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HIS MENTALITY PERFECT

Thomas J. Abernethy of West Peabroke, Me., Harvard student,':Who Y•W.pronounced 100 per cent ̀ 4 reetImentally by Professor MunsebJust before the latter's death. Aber-nethy •as the pnly one of ProfesUorM'snst abersa e of 8*3 i psycho-logy to display perfection. Mubster-berg put his class through 12 dlfWreattests in order to reach the dis•rentaspects of their nltelligence. hbe atrtention, memory, combinatory, Imagi-nation and similar functions werecalled into play.

WOODMEN GIVEBANQUET AT

SOUTHERNHOTEL

Large Crwod Gathers in theSpacious Dining Hall; La-dies and Members of Bo-galusa Lodge Present.

The annual banquet of the Wood-men of the World took place at theNew Southern Hotel Thursday even-ing after the installation of officersat the Masonic Hall. The follow-ing are the new officers:

Joseph Delery, consul command-er; C. L. Smith, advisor lieutenant;S. D. Balloch, banker; R. H. Dutach,clerk; Archie Herbez, escort; TonyGabriel, watchman; August Coig,sentry; Dr. L. C. Heintz, physician.

The installation took place at 8:00p. m., after which adjournment wasmade to the banquet hall at the NewSouthern, where a fine dinner wasspread to a large number of mem-bers and guests.

There have been new activities inthe ranks of the Woodmen in thepast year, and quite a number ofnew members have been taken in.Aside from the fraternal features ofthe order, its great wealth and mod-erate cost of membership gives it ad-vantages in insurance that makesmembership a good business propo-sition.

Mr. Joseph Delery, consul tom-mander, and iMr. Robt. H. Dutsch,clerk, have devoted considerabletime to the interests of the orderand are enthusiastic in its future.It numbers among its members menof influence and high standing, andit may be predicted with safety thatits growth will continue to be strong.

The Covington lodge was honoredby the presence of a party of elevenmembers of the Bogalusa lodge thatmotored from Bogalusa and attend-ed the installation. At this meet-ing Chas. T. Bradley was initiatedand became a full-fledged member,attending the banquet.

The Bogalusa party composed ofMr..and iMrs. Laurence, Misses Ber-tha and Gordy Laurence, Mrs. Robt.Thompson, Miss Bertha Thompson,Mrs. Van Coleman, F. L. Evans, con-sul commander of the Bogaluaslodge; A. C. Langlois, Z. Richardson,i V. Martin, G. McKean, Gus Levin,menibers. The visit was a delight-ful surprise for the home lodge, andk it was insisted that they-attend the> banquet that was being prepared at

i the New Southern Hotel. A spoelgi

table was prepared for them in thelarge dining hall, where they wrehonored guests. Consul Coer Delery, however, InsConsul Commander Evansa come over and sit by him, -e~

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