TOWNS CLASH OVER HAMMOND HIGHWAY CONTROVERSY BETWEEN CITI. ZENS OF COVINGTON AND MADISONVILLE DISTRICTS. MAY BE A GOVERNMENT ROAD Would Provide Good Road For Town of Goodbee Which It Has Never Had-Say Other Sections of Par ish Are Just as Deserving. New Orleans. The question of bullding a road in St.
Tammany parish between Covington and Hammond tis aroused a warm controversy between citizens of Covington and Madisonville, as is evidecnced in an article which appeared in the St. Tamiany Farmer under date of August it, and a reply from Madisonville of the same date. The question will be taken up soon at a meeting of the Sft. Tammany police jury at Covington. The Covington arguments may be summarized as set forth in the Farmer as follows: The proposition will provide a good road for the town of Coodbee, which it has never had, although taxes have been voted three times for this road, collections have now for the first time reached a sum great enough for the undertaking: the new roa dwill cut in half a seventeen mile stretch on the Tchefunc.ta river which is not bridged, thus providing a direct route in place of a round about one for travelers.
Other arguments set forth are that the road has already been surveyed between Covington and Goodbee, and that the state has offered half the sum for building the road and has already advertised for bids on the work; that Tanglpaboa parish has agreed to build and maintain and has already gone far with preparations Lor the part of the road which runs into the neighboring parish; that the road would open up new valuable farm and truck-raising land and the Toute of the road is laid on the highest ground in the section. Finally Covington supporters of the road say, the promise of the Mississippi Valley Highway' Association has been obtained to bring their drive over this route when the road Is built and the Federal government will probably make that highway a military road refunding some of the building expense, and doubling the width of the road. Aroused by the plan as set forth above by Covington supporters of the pew road movement, Madisonville opponents to the proposal present the following arguments: First, they agree that the Goodbee section has never had a good road, but say that there are other sections of the parish are as deserving. They admit that three attempts to Taise taxes failed, but want to know why other sections of the parish should be asked to help one ward to raise the money. TOLD IN A FEW LINES.
milk cows belonging to Mrs. S. Ebreard of Monroe died rejently, presumably on anthrax. These are the first anthrax cases reported in the city the rigid quarantine maintained having heretofore kept the disease away. Owners of cattle are forhidden to move them from one part of the parish to another without permits from the live stock sanitary inspector and the president of the police jury.
Crawford, alias "Bird Legs," has found a substitute for an automobile horn. Jim, in attempting to explain why a passenger In his automobile "disturbed the peace by frequent yells," declared he had no auto horn and that the passenger was sounding a warning to pedestrians. Judge Samuel fined him $2.50 and costs. Covington Club of the Mississippi Valley Highway Association met recently to discuss the Ijmprovements in roads and method of handling the many tourists coming thirs w'. University Station, Baton is ot too early in the season to begin planning for that home according to U.
Szymoniak, of the i xtension l)ivision, Louisiana Itte University. The louisiana State Normal College' concluded the present summer session August 10, showing the largest attendance for any term since it began to do strictl, collegiate work. Taylor or Batom Rouge, member of the railroad com wission from this district, was here looking after his interest politically. Mr: Taylor seeks re-election to his present ofAfice ni the primary of Sep tember 14th. Welsh baseball team played a two-game series with De Ridder recently on the local diamond.
Jeanerette Boy Scouts No. 1 have just arrived for' a stay at Camp Cudlipp. marble altars for the new St. John the Baptist Church has arrived from Italy and are being erected by competiat Italian marble-workar. Covington.
Engineer Coleman of the N. O. 0. N. railroad agreed with Judge Burns in the benefits to come from drainage from an agricultural standpoint.
rains are damag.iag cotton of this section seriously, esusing the "Torms" to of the boys and girls club who attended the short course in Baton Rouge captured firt prizes in all the contests which they entered except one in which they won the second. Aubrey Box of Marthaville, won first prizes in the poultry, cattle, corn and hog judging contests, his prizes amounting to $77, as follows: A $35 registered Duroc Jersey pig from the Parker Stock Farm In West Feliciana, a $25 puow, a $15 pair of shoes and a $2 check. Angle Sanders won second prize in the third year canning contest an dreceiv ed a Burpe can sealer and for first prize in the first year dairy contest she was given a complete butter making outfit. a meeting of the St. Tammany parish police jury recently of the St.
Tammany parish police jury the subject of drainage was taken up and acted upon. Judge T. M. Burns presented the matter for the drainage committee of seven rep resenting the Parish Progressive League stated that the pollee jury was in need of more revenues from the parish to meet the general expenses of the parish. To get this additional revenue, the lands would have to be made more valuable so the assessments could be increased.
an added attraction at the coming Florida parishes fair there will be the exhibition given by the New Orleans Young Men's Gymnastic Club in front of the erand stand on Saturday of fair week. These young men, fifteen in number, will come under the management of Dr. Soniat and will give the people an idea of what can he done to improve the physical man. They will visit other fairs in the state. Arcadia.
The Arcadia ('hamber or Commerce was successful in conducting a "good roads worK clay" recently. Every place of business in town closed, according to agreement, and every able-bodied man was "on the job" bright and early. the roads leading into Arcadia present a fine appearance. Good work was done by an army truck, now the property of the parish, witn a large road scraper attached. B.
Thompson of New Orleans, chairman of the American Cotton Association, will address the students who will attend the agricultural short course which will be conducted at the State Normal August 16-20. Mr. Thompson will visit Natchitoches August 20. Sherill J. P.
Payne reports 2683 dog licenses collected in Natchitoches parish to date. Arcadia. Arcadia has in the last few years gotten paved sidewalks, electric lights, municipal water works with some of the best water in the country, according to analysis; is soon to have a' laundry and ice plant and other improvements, and has at present more than thirty new homes, completed or under construction. Mrs. Walter Kline of Fluker was driving her car on the model road through Roseland, Jesse Wright, a young negro boy, in attempting to cross the road was struck by the car, knocked down and run over.
Medical aid was summoned and prospects are that he will recover. C. E. Burch, formerly of Jennings, for over a year past in charge of the First Uongregational Church in Roseland, has sent in his resignation, which the membership accepted. A larger field has been offered him, with increased salary.
entered the Benott grocery store here recently by makling entrance through the south aide door, robbed the safe of $55 and took one box of cakes from the store. The robbers entered by breaking the glass 'In the door and unlocking the door which latches from the inside. New first bale of cotton from Pointe Coupee parish was ginned recently by Mix and Jewell the cotton was raised by A. L. Jewell, in the Island of False River at Ventress, and weighed 675 pounds.
It was shipped by express to Norman Meyer, New Orleans, La. an electrical storm here attended by a three-inch rainfall, lightning struck and almost demolished the local negro church and tore out the side of a small residence occupied by a Mrs. Deitz and her two children. Lucikly, no one was in either of the buildinge during the storm. local rice mill and the two warehouses have about completed their overhauling and are ready for the new crop.
With dry weather, threshing will begin in the near future. S. Robertson of this place reported twelve of his sheep nemg killed by dogs a few night ago. Natchitoches. Cotton picking has begun although the rcop is not openi ing rapidl yowing to cool cloudy days.
SBaton Rouge. The police chased a burglar down Main street during the early hours of the mormnng. The chase was from Jackson street down toward the river. Five shots were fired at the fleeing burglars, none are supposed to have taken effect. advices from Mobile, C.
H. Brock, white, who, it is aleged, left that city with a mortgaged car and came to Montrose, this parish, where he got work, was arrested and the car seized and brought to Natchitoches. and Mrs. W. E.
Byerly of Stuttgart, arrived here from their home. Mr. Byerly is here to complete the settlement of hts father's estate. public roa are in bad condition, with little hope of permanent repairs make them safe for travel and hauling this fall. is still epidemic in this section, one farmer reporting a loss of eighteen head of stock in a few days with several others sick.
FIGHT FOR VOTES ISWON BYWOMEN Thirty-Six States Have Ratified Amendment. TENNESSEE FALLS INTO LINE Washington Is the Thirty-Fifth-Seventy Years of Struggle for Equal Suffrage-Features and Some Immortal Names. women have won their fight for votes. Washington and Tennessee have ratified the constitutional amendment, making 36 states out of 48. Upon the opening March 22 of the sessions of the legislatures of Washington and Delaware, the woman suffrage situation in the United States was briefly this: Amendment to the Constitution passed by congress June 4, 1919, as drafted in 1875 by Susan B.
Anthony: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or Lucretia Mott. abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Ratification necessary by legislatures of three-fourths of the 48 states of the Union. Amendment ratified by 34 states, beginning with Wisconsin, June.10, 1919, and ending with West Virginia March 10, 1920. Constitutionality of Ohio ratification before the United States Supreme court. Amendment defeated by six states between September 12, 1919, and February 17, 1920, as follows, in the oder named: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland.
Connecticut and Vermont-No regular sessions until 1921. Governors had refused to call special sessions. Florida and Tennessee-Cannot vote lii 1920 because of constitutional provision requiring election to intervene between submission of amendment and action on it. Louislana-Legislature to meet' in June; small hope of ratifichtion. North Carolina-Legislature to meet in special session in August.
Gov. Thomas W. Bickett had declared his intention to ask for ratification. promptly ratified. Delaware and Louisiana refused.
The governors of Connecticut, Florida and Vermont refused to call special sessions. The United States Supreme court upheld the Ohio ratification on the ground that no state constitution had the authority to change in any detail the method which the United States Constitution itself provides for its amendment. This decision cleared the way for the special session in Tennessee, which began August 9. It is seventy years since the organized movement for woman suffrage was begun in the United States. In 1848 Lucretla Mott and, Elizabeth Cady Stanton called the first Woman's Rights convention at Seneca Falls.
Susan B. Anthony. which launched a "Declaration of Sentiments" and passed a resolution demanding equal suffrage. These are two immortal names in A.merican history. Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) was born in Nantucket, of Qua'tker parents.
After teachinf, she became an "acknowledged minister" of the Friends. She married James Mott, who worked with his wife against slavery. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was born in Johnstown, N. Y. She married in 1840 Henry B.
Stanton, a ournalist and anLo-slavery speanker. CULTIVATED CHESTNUTS. Southern Californians are wondering whether the gbwing of the sweet chestnut is not destined to he one of the coming industries of the state. The appearance of a fine row of chestnut trees on the outskirts of the city of Santa Ana, in Orange county, Callfornia, suggested to a recent eastern visitor the fact that' the chestnut as a future crop for California may rival before many years the enormous walnut output. From 1869 to 1893 she was of the National Woman Suitrage asaddressed congressional committeees on woman suffrage.
She was the joint author of "History of Woman Suffrage" (1881-8) and "Eighty Years or More" (1895) is her autobiography. A third name is that of Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906). She joined with Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in organizing the woman suffrage movement. She became in time the real leader of the movement; certainly she was its first militant suffragist.
Born in Adams, she came of Quaker stock, and early devoted herself to "temperance" (the prohibition of those days) and to the abolition of slavery. In 1875 Miss. Anthony drafted the amendment to the Constitution which has now been ratified. In 1878 the amendment was introduced in the senate by Senator Sargent of California. It was defeated in 1887 and thereafter was not even debated in congress until 1914.
During the years the Constitutional amendment campaign was making no progress the women won many victories in the states, securing full suffrage in 15; presidential suffrage in 12 and partial suffrage in several others. The National American Woman Suffrage association in 1912 opened headquarters in Washington and began an active campaign for the passage of the amendment. In 1916 it established branch headquarters there which were devoted entirely to the amendment campaign. The campaign was educational and social as well as political and attracted worldwide attention. The National Woman's party, organized In 1910 by Alice Paul, established Washington headquarters in 1913 and introduced the militant into the campaign.
Alice Paul-the third Quakeress to immortalize herself-is the spectacular figure of the struggle. She developed the deadliest card index on members of congress that practical politics has ever seen. She served notice through the White House pickets that the president was the "man higher up." The arrest of nearly 500 of these pickets and the imposition of jail sentences followed. Incidentally Miss Paul herself served seven terms in jail. The amendment was beaten three times in the senate and once in the house before it was finally passed by the Sixty-sixth congress June 4, 1919, by the necessary two-thirds majority.
The year 1869 saw the formation of two national organizations: National Woman Suffrage association, with Mrs. Alice Paul. Stanton and Miss Anthony leaders and headquarters in New York; American Woman Suffrage association, with Mary A. Livermore, Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone leaders and headquarters in Boston. The line of division was this: The former wished to concentrate on the passage of a constitutional amendment; the latter was in favor of obtaining the suffrage through amendments to state constitutions.
In 1890 the two organizations were united under the name of National American Woman Suffa*ge Association, and work was pushed along both lines of endeavor. Mrs. Stanton was president until 1892. Miss Anthony sered until 1900, resigning at the age of eighty. Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Catt was its head, 19)00-I1904. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, recently deceased and possibly best loved of all, the leaders-a woman of transcendent gifts and eloquence-was president until 1915. Mrs. Catt was then again chosen.
Mrs. Franlk left a large legacy to Mrs. Catt to be used ii the work. The National association made arrangements at the St. Louis convention of 1910 to dissolve its organization and become the League of Women Voters.
These arrangments, became effective at the Chicago con-entoin in February last. So the League of Women Voters now holds sway over something like 27,000,000 potential American women voters. Mrs. Catt, who is also the heaid of the international Woman Suffrage alliance, which she founded in 1904, is honorary chairman; Mrs. Maud Wood Park is chairman; Mrs.
Richard Edwards of Indiana, treasurer; Mrs. Solon Jacobs of Alabama, secretary, and there is a board of regional dlrectors. THOUGHT. Men fear thought as they fear nothing on earth-mote than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, Indifferent to anthority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages.
Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not Russell. ALL IATEST NEWS FLEEING RED ARMIES News That Is News, When it Is News, for All. STATE, NATIONAL, FOREIGN Happenings the World Over of Important Events Condensed to Good Reading. WASHINGTON NEWS. Letvia has been asked by the United States to recall Alfred Nagel, bear.
ing credentials as Letvian secretary of legation, who is being detained at New York by the immigration authori. ties. It was stated officially Monday that Nagel was regarded by the American government as an undesirable resident, and would not be permitted to enter the country. An appeal to President Wilson to intervene and prevent a threatened lockout of 300 employes of the St. Louis postoffice was made in a telegram received Friday at the White House from Thomas F.
Flaherty, secretary-treasurer of the National Federation of Postal Clerks. The telegram declares Postmaster Colin Selph was attempting to dominate elections of the St. Louis local and asked that a conciliator not connected with the postoffice department be sent there to adjust the differences. Erwin R. Bergdoll of Philadelphia has been found guilty of desertion from the army by evading the draft and sentenced to four years' hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, it was announced Friday at Governors Island.
Lieutenant Colonel C. C. Cresson, trial judge advocate in the Bergdoll case, who made the announcement, said that Bergdoll was also given a dishonorable discharge from the army and forfeited all pay and allowances. Unless the bolshevik. military leaders succeed in quickly organizing a more successful resistance the defeat of the soviet forces before Warsaw will become "a very serious" one, according to a cablegram received by the state department Thursday from the American legation at Trunk line railroads in the United States incurred a deficit of $15,616,328 on June operations, according to a preliminary report issued this week by the interstate commerce commission.
For the six months of 1920, including June, the report fixed net railway operating income at $13,664,120, against $154,930,908 in 1919. STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS. The cotton crop of Texas is being seriously damaged by continued rainfall which for the past three weeks has threatened to cut down the yield to a large extent. A Pennsylvania railroad electric train struck an automobile bus containing 15 passengers here Sunday near Camden, N. killing six of the occupants of the vehicle and injuring at least four others.
A mail pouch believed to contain money and valuables worth $100,000 was stolen Friday in broad daylight by I two men from the One Hundred and Eleventh Street station of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. The robbers escaped in an automobile. Coastwise longshoremefi who voted last week to end the strike in New York, which had prevailed since last April. are slowly returning to their old positions. George Griffin, millionaire Chicago Isportsman, who died recently in CallLornia, left an estate valued at $1,500,000, including $20,000 worth of liquor, was learned Friday when an inventory was filed.
Ben Perry, a negro, who was convicted and has served eight years of a life sentence for criminal assault which Green Hunter, another negro, was hanged in Dallas, Texas, July 9 last for a similar crime, confessed he had committed, has been pardoned, according to an announcement Friday by the prison board of pardons. Perry was sentenced from Brazos County in April, 1912, when he was 23 years old. He always maintained his innocence. Captain J. J.
Hall, 75 years old, life commander of Green's Brigade, died at his home in Houston, Texas, Thurs day. National enfranchisem*nt of women apparently was defeated in North Carolina Tuesday so far as the coming elcction is concerned. Their success wsa measured by two votes, the count being 25 to 23, but it was sufficient to lay on the table a resolution to ratify the federal suffrage amendment. It postponed action until the next regular session in 1921. FOREIGN NEWS.
A series of violent earthquakes visited the southern region of Chile Friday, causing considerable alarm. The breaking of one world's record --by Thomson of Canada-in the 110meter humdles, which has stood for 12 years, and the scoring of points by ten nations in four final events, featured the fourth day in the tlack and field I sports in the Olympic games at Antwerp, Belgium, Thursday. Thomson went over the hurdles in 14 4-5 seconds. The old record, both Olympic and world's, was 15 seconds flat. F.
Smithson established the mark by running for the United States in the Olympic games in London in 1908. The women's battalions in the Polish army have shiwn the most conspicuous bravery in the fighting against the bolsheviki near Warsaw. Reports here declare that the battalion engaged in the region of Thorn Swas largely responsible for the Polish success in that region. The women fighters captured an armored train which the bolsheviki were using In the fighting there and which was relied upon to protect and keep open the railwty line serving as an important link in bolsheviki. ommuanJ tions.
ARE IN BAD PLiGTi Poles Have Captured 35,000 Prisoners in Drive From Warsaw. bolshevik armies northwest of Warsaw, between the Vistula and Prussia, are sending wireless appeals for help. Whether these troops realize that the Polish northern drive threatens their communications is uncertain from the intercepted messages, which repeatedly have asked bolshevik headquarters for ammunition and supplies. The bolsheviki wireless apparently is not functioning properly, as headquarters repeatedly has requested information concerning the location of the troops, the rear of which is endangered by the Polish advances. The vanguard of this red army has reached points about 100 kilometers south of Danzig, in what is known as the corridor.
Military authorities announced Monday that the Poles have captured 35.000 prisoners to date in their counter a ttack against the bolsheviki. Many guns, thousands of rifles, hundreds of machine guns and munitions carts and a great number of horses also have fallen into their hands. Thousands are thought to be cut off in the forests awaiting an opportunity to surrender. Among the 300 bolsheviki soldiers killed in the fighting at Mlawa were found, it is claimed, a German officer and several German soldiers. Warsaw Sunday witnessed a sight which gave the population more confidence than any incident since the Polish counter offensive began.
It was a procession of 3,000 bolsheviki who had been assembled at various parts of the front and marched to the rear across the Vistula River and into the city, headed by a Polish guard, led by a Polish sergeant. Then came six bolsheviki cannon drawn by skinny horses in rope harness. The horses were the size of American Indian ponies. The Russians and their equipment all were taken early Friday in a haul northwest of Warsaw. The prisoners were indifferent.
Some were mirthful. Others gazed curiously upon the crowds which lined the thoroughfares. The allied military observers consider that the Poles already have won a victory in their present offensive, but they say that the danger has not passed entirely by any means. The Poles have advanced rapidly at various points where the reds have retreated. Sometimes the Poles are out of contact with the enemy.
In some sec tors, notably northwest of Warsaw, the bolsheviki are reported to be showing more of an inclination to fight. Pilsudski's army Friday reached the middle Bug River, according to plan, and is marching down the stream to join the army advancing up the fork between the Bug and Narew Rivers toward Ostrolenka, with the object of cutting the Warsaw-Bialystok Road, their enemy's sole avenue of retreat. Down this road the reds are bolting, profiting by the large number of horses in their possession. The fact that they have horses is said to account for the comparatively small number of prisoners being taken by the Poles. Pursuing French airplanesI however, have prevented the enemy from taking with him many guns and much material.
Up to date seven bolsheviki divisions have been cut to pieces and all their guns captured. The Polish right wing, advancing from the south, now before, the forts of Brest Litovsk, and part of it has crossed the Bug River in the direction of Kovel, thus providing a safeguard against flank counter attacks. Polish forces in this region are supported by a Ukrainian division Sand General Balachowicz's Russian, volunteer army, which had remained in Polesela, east of Brest-Litovsk and to the rear of the bolshevikf. This, it is pointed out, leaves the bolsheviki garrison of Brest-Litovsk virtually cut off on all sides, Polish offensive is now in full swing. More than prisoners, 30 cannon, 300 machine guns and thousands of supply carts have been captured from the bolsheviki.
The Poles have occupied Pultusk and Wyskow, through which the reds drove in their sweep toward the capital. Owing to the Polish pressure from ithe northeast, it is reported that the bolsheviki are withdrawing their forces which raided the Vstula, south of the Prussian border and to the northwest of Warsaw. The Warsaw sector is rapidly being cleared of the bolsheviki. Turkey Now At Peace. Savres, the last power to remain in a state of war with the entente, signed the treaty Tuesday and is now officially at peace.
Serbia and Hedjez alone of the nations interested had refused to sign. Salazar Takes Cantu's Place. Mexicall, Lower al Luis M. Salazar succeeded Colonel Estaban Cantu as governor of the northern district of Lower California Wednesday. Corpus Christi, oity'sr rat extermination campaign has resulted in the catching and incineration of 1,943 rats and 561 mice, according to a report made by D.
A. Huddleston to Dr. W. iE. Willis, city health officer.
French garrison at Adana, Asia, Minor, which had been besieged for two months, made a sally Friday nad, accordinga to the foreign oltise, has now virtualrly been relievd. Eight Amerioa relief workers were with the arrsn.Back Lame Do get up mio 'ach Ig find nut ly Your lani, and andl e. ri too much strain the kidney out: you are tired iandt': and dizz. )G easier and help the kid Kidney Pills. Dn, new to thov'b neighbor! -n ATexa, D.
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