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Opelousas Louisiana

SOCIETY AND PERSONAL-Misses Leonie and Maybel Mistric,

Rose Chachere, Mr. J. Lampton andMrs. Goldman Lassalle motored to La-fayette last Saturday to attend "Ev-erywoman,' played at the JeffersonTheatre.

-Mrs. Oscar Mstrc and baby Shir-ley are spending a few days n Rayne.

-Edmond Deville, former Opelou-sean who moved to Orange, Texas,some months ago, spent the day hereMonday, returning that afternoon.

While here Mr Dei ille gave the Clarion a pleasant call.

-Attorney Robert Harry left onlast Monday evening for New Orleanswhere he went to attend to both stateand federal buaners.

-Dr. R. A. Mayer of Pcat' Island,Vermilion parish, spent several dayshere this week visiting relatives, re-turning to his island home on lastWednesday morning.

-Assistant Secretary of State Chas.F. Bailey was a week-end visitor to(•6lousrs Iwr:t Saturday, returning toBzaton Rouge Monday afternoon.

-- After beng confined to his bed

with illness for several days, Post-master Trosclair 'a up and about hisduties again.

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Opelousas, La.

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Dardeau & FileldsPhone 64

(Effective March 15th.)We close at six-thirty p. m., excepting Satur-

days. Last evening delivery leaves our placeof business at five o'clock.

Please let us have your orders before thathour. All orders received after five o'clockwill be delivered following day.

Thanking the trade in advance for its valuedco-operation in this new order, we are

Yours truly,DARDEAU & FIELDS.

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S-Bernard Reed of Washington, whohas been in the army for more thana year, has pIeen discharged at CampPike and returned home some daysago. He reached the grade of top ser-geant while in the military service.He was in Opelousas last Tuesday andwhile here gave the Clarion a call.

-After spending several days herewith relatives, Dr. Fred J. Mayer leftTuesday to resume hs work with theanti-tuberculosis league.

-Uncle Mitt Wilkins, former St.I.andrian but for many years a res••dent of Crowley, was a visitor here onlast Saturday.

-- H. Bullard Anderson, now wth theCumberland Company and located atAlexandria, speht last Saturday andSun-lay here with homne foulks.

-Chief of Police George Goodloe,after undergoing a surgical nperationin N,.w Orleans, is back home againand able to get about.

-Robert Kleiser, after spending sev.eral months in the army, has receivedhis discharge and returned here. Mrs.Kleiser was in Crowley with her pa-rents while her husband did militaryduty for Uncle Sam

-Hanna Stagg, former Opelousasboy who was one of the first to jointhe marine corps, has returend homeafter hs baptism of fire in France andis now with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.M. P. Stagg, on Bayou Boeuf. He re-ceived c-ne vound in the fighting hiiFrance but has fully recovered.

-Mr. E. K. Eastham, manager ofthe Bennett Stores, spent last Mondayn New Orleans on busness.

-Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Beal of Gar-land visited Opelousas last Thursday.

-After spending several weeks inNew Orleans, Miss Irene Shute hasreturned home.-J. Marcy Gardiner of near Sunset

attended to business here on Thursdayof las, week.

-Mr. and Mrs. Sam Plonsky ofWashngton passed through OpelousasWedensday enroute home from a tripto Nev" Orleans

I -Mr. Collns Cormier and Dr. J.

Raphiel of Port Barre were business

visitors here on Friday of last week.

-Mr. and Mrs. Ttate of Barbreck

w:ere hore last Monday h'siting friends

-Mrs. Arceneaux and Mss Horesky

of Cnurch Point were attending to bus-

iness in Opelousas Friday of last week.

Mrs. F. C. Shute and Miss Neita

Burr spent the day last Sunday withMiss Helen Cain, near Leonville.

--J. L. Seamon and Mr. Godeau of

New Orleans were in Opelousas tie

latte' part of last week.

-Miss Maxie Ewell and Mr. McCaf-

fery were visitors to Opelousas last ]

Sunday and while here attended the Ipicture show.

-Mrs. M. S. Boagni made a brief I

trip to Baton Rouge Wednesday to see (

her son John, who is attending the L.

S. U. this session.-Notwithstanding the incemency of I

'he weather, there were quite a num-

ber of young people from Opelousaswho took n the play "Everywoman" at ]

Lafayette last Saturday night. Those i

vho wei+t were: Mrs. M. S. Boagni,Misses Des Jackson and Gertie Fux, ]Messrs. Steve Durand, Dr. Love, Guy i

Jackson, Ben Aiken, James Saizan,Marion King, Dick Eckart, Miss lone

Joret, Misses Carpenter, Evelyn Lewis,Blanche Guilbeau and Mrs. Alexander tWatkins.

-Miss Nini Ti ard Is visiting friends iIn San Antcnio, Texas. I]

-Prof. Baker, James White, Pender IBarber of Crowley motored to Opelou- asas last Sunday to visit friends here. 1

-Dr. C. A. Gardiner of Coulee I

Croche was mingling with his manyfriends here last Sunday.

-Mr. and Mrs. James I. Shute ofPort Barre spent last Sunday here as `the guests of Mrs. Shute's parents,and planter of Whiteville, transacted 1--. P. Sarant, prominent merchant ,

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chachere.business here last Saturday.

-Mr. nd Mrs. Louis White, former- aly residents of this city but now ofCrowley, were here as the guests of ]friends last Sunday.

-Tony Fux, an Opelousas boy who.s now employed in Alexandria, camedown last Sunday to visit his mother,Mrs. Oscar Fux.

-Nathan Roos, who has been undertreatment n New Orleans for severalweeks, returned ohme last Wednesday,accompaned by his brother Sidney.He was delighted to be home againand we are pleased to state that theyoung man is steadily improving andwe hope to see him up agan and at his 8wrk again in the very near future..

-W. H. Tomlinson, now connect-ed with the Opelousas Motor Car Com- epany, made a business trip to Melville eWednesday.

-Aaron Jacobs and George Going

mnade a business trip to Breaux Bridgelast Thursday.

-Lionel Bienvenu, the popular lo-cal representative of the big hardware yfirm of Stauffer, Eshleman & Co. ofNew Orleans, made a busness trip toBreaux Bridge on Monday. e

-Herschel Stagg, now stationed atCamp Beauregard and awaiting hisdischarge, was on a brief furlough onlast Sunday and came down to visithis father and mother, Mr. and Mrs.A. Laurent Stagg. a

-Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Marsh of thethriving village of Port Barre visitedfriends n this city last Saturday.

-George Roulet, the popular stationagent of the Gulf Coast Lines at Port 0Barre, accompanied by his wife, wereSunday visitors to Opelousas.

-R. LeBourgeois and Steve Durandmade a business trip to Houston, Tex-as, last Monday, returning home onWednesday.

-Assessor Hopkins of Lafayettenpaid a visit to Opelousas last Monday.

-Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Guidry of Cou-lee Croche entertained a few friendsat their beautiful country home onThursday night of last week. Thosepresent were Mrs. Mattye S. Boagni, tiMiss Des Jackson, Miss Gertie Fux, aMiss Jessie Kirby, Ms Goldie Kerr,Mr. and Mrs. Blaise Chappuis, Mr.Steve Durand, Mr. Ben Aiken, Mr. GuyJackson, Dr. Love, Dr. L. J. Baumann,

and Mrs. N. Guidry. Delicious re- Ifreshments were served the guests.

-Hon. E. B. Dubuisson of the localbar spent a day or two in New Or-leans this week on business.

-Ned O'Pry, late of near ChurchPoint but now of Whiteville, was avisitor to the city the first of the pres-ent w.ek.

-Monday, March 17, being St. Pat-rick's Day, the good ladies of this citysold Shamrocks and other mementoesof the Irish saint for the benefit of theKnights of Columbus charity fund.The amount collected was consider-able.

-Dr. O. P. Daly, Jr., of Lafayettewas over Tuesday to perform a surgi-cal operation on young Gilbert Hidal-go, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Hidalgoof near Opelousas.

-Dr. O. P. Daly, Sr., of Shuteston,the popular president of the St. Lan-dry school board, attended to businesshere last Tuesday.

-Miss Waddle Kelley, the popularsteongrapher, spent last Sunday in

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Port Barre visiting Mrs. F. A. Dejeanand Mrs. Joe Coullard.

-Mrs. Remi Mornhinveg spent Sat-

urday and Sunday in Baton Rouge vis-

iting her daughters, Misses Myrtle andHazel, both of whom are attendingschool in the capital city.

-Miss Anna Rogers was here thisweek between trains, enroute for Ba-ton Rouge where she went to resumeher studies at the L. S. U.

-Miss Pellerin and Mrs. Rex Dupreof Port Barre were shopping in Opelou-sas last Saturday.

-Willie G. Rogers of Arnaudvillewas here last Tuesday and left fromhere the same afternoon for New Or-leans.

-Judge J. A. Smith of Grand Coteautransacted business here last Wednes-day.

-Mrs. A. S. Brown is speiding sometime in Baton Rouge as the guest ofher daughter, Mrs. J. B. Francioni.

-John Boagni, only son of Mrs. M.S. Boagni, now attending school at theLouisiana State University, is spend-ing the week-end here.

-Senator Leon S. Haas and" Mrs.Haas left for New Orleans Wednesdayto be absent several days.

-Mrs. W. F. Brown, Mrs. F. C.Shute and Miss Vera Bauman Shutespent several days in Baton Rougethis week.

-Arthur Hidalgo, the young son ofMr. and Mrs. P. P. Hidalgo of WestBellevue, was operated on for an at-tack of appendicitis at the St. Landrysanitarium the first of the week, andfrom last reports he is doing finely.

-James W. Jackson, Jr., who volun-teered for naval service at the timethe United States entered the war,came home yesterday (Friday) morn-ing for a brief visit with home folks.This is his first visit here for aboutfiften months. His ship, the destroy-er "Jarvis," was at Mobile and he se-cured a furlough and came home. Heis now a chief gunner's mate and lastsummer for six months did armedguard duty at the Philadelphia navyyard. He has qualified as an expertmarksman with the service rifle andalso as anexpert with the big guns.

In Honor of Mrs. Stewart

Trenton (Tenn.) Gazette.Mrs. George W. Wade was the ex-

ceedingly lovely hostess of a beautiful-ly arranged luncheon of five courses,given at 1 o'clock on Tuesday, in herhandsome apartment home on Churchstreet, in special honor of Mrs. W. T.Stewart of Opelousas, La. Yellow andSink was the pretty color motif of thecunlheon. The picture table was drap-ed in cluny lace, and was centrally dec-orated, crystal epergne holding yellowspring daffodils, which were gift flow-ers to the popular hostess. From thechandelier hung streamers of pink rib-bons, caught at the four corners withyellow ant pink ribbons, over whichhovered a shower of golden butterflies.The exquisite table was further adorn-ed with white baskets daintily tiedwith pink and yellow ribbons holdingFrench bon-bons. The luncheon per-sonnel was Wesdames Stewart, ElizaRankin, Dee Tyler, Homer Lain, MarcAnthony, Webb Herbert, Earl Greerand W. L. Wade. The honoree of thislovely luncheon, Mrs. Stewart, whowas formerly in her girlhood MissWillie Fielder and who was one ofTrenton's most beloved daughters andone of her most popular society belles,and who after an absence of twelveyeArs, is now a visitor to her holdhome and receiving an overwhelmingovation from her many friends. Mrs.Stewart is the house guest at Rose-dale of Mrs. Rankin, and will be all-night guest at Colonial Court of Mr.and Mrs. Albert S. Elder. Mrs. Stew-art will be entertained on Thursday atDixie, of Mrs. Tyler as hostess.

The ice shortage scare has,"unfor-tunately, a solid basis this year in themild winter.

". •-is That Dues Not Affect the HuedBculsetila tonic and fazative efeet. LAXA-TIXVE BROO QUININE is betterthan odinaryQuinine and doea not cause ne~rvousness notrnllging is head. Remember the full name and Ilook for the signature of E. W. GROV. 0c. i

My idea of an optimist is PresidentHibben of Princeton, who heads amovement for the "intellectual awak-ening of the college frsehman."

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RECIPROCITY QUICKENSTHME BUSINESS LIFEOF EVERY COMMUNITY.

SPEND YOUR MONEY AT HOME.

There are many good reasons why a citizen ofthis community should spend his money at home.Let it circulate where it has a chance of doing yousome good after you part with it. Before you sendaway for any cataloged-buy-it-before-you-see-itgoods let us quote you some prices. Here are a fewsuggestions on goods that you can see.

JUST RECEIVEDOne carload barb wire and hog proof

fencing.Buggies, wagons, furniture and farm im-

plements.

F. L. SANDOZ

SOME FAT JOBS INTHE CIVIL SERVICE

COMMISSION ANNOUNCES EXAM-

INATIONS TO FILL SEVERAL

POSTA LVACANCIES

According to information given out,

there will be held examinations under

the civil service rules to fill vacanciesin a number of lucrative positions in

the postal service. These positions

and the date of examinations for the

same are as follows:

Postmaster at Church Point, the ,sal-

ary being one thousand dollars per

annum; date of examination, to be'held in Opelousas, April 23, 1919.

Position of rural route mail carriers

at both Opelousas and Washington,

examination to be held today, Satur-

day, March 22.Fourth-class postmaster at Krotz

Springs, position pays about $351 per

annum. Examination to be held at

Opelousas on April 12, 1919.

Blank forms for prospective appli- d

cants can be secured from the civil

service commission at Washington,

D. C., and rules governing the examin-

ation can be learned by applying to

the secretary at the federal building

in this city.

NOTICE TO TEACHERS IApril 26 has been selected as the date for

the examinations upon books of the Insti-tute Reading Course for the session 1918-19. These examinations have an important 1value to the teachers as institute credits,earned through offering satisfactory papersupon two books of the Reading Course, maybe applied to the extension of a teacher'scertificate for one year, 2r have the valueof 3.5 per cent in examilations for teach--ers' certificates, and the value of one hourin the rating of high school teachers.

Your attention is directed to the regula-tion of the State Board of Education thatafter January 1, 1921, first grade certifi-cates, whether earned through examinationor issued upon normal or college diplomas,will be renewed only upon application of)summer school or institute credits; (a) threesummer school credits; (b) three institutecredits: (c) one summer school credit andtwo institute credits; (d) two summerschool credits and one institute credit, allearned within five years during the life ofthe certificate. 2

In accordance with the action of theState Board of Education February 10, 1919,the issuance of War Emergency Certificateshas been discontinued. War EmergencyCertificates already issued may be keptalive only through 'the application of sum-mer school credits or institute credits.

Respectfully,W. B. PRESCOTT,

mch22 Superintendent.Whereas, the Silent Angel of Death has

touched the latch string of the homes ofthree of our brothers, and thus has takenfrom our midst Guests Goldman Richard,Edward Briley and Hilliard Carriere, mem-bers of this Household who were esteemedand loved among us; and,

Whereas, whilst bowing in humble sub-mission to the mandate of that great Su-preme Court from which there is no appeal,we desire to record in permanent form oursorrow for their untimely departure fromuseful spheres of effort and endeavor andto solace, as far as we can, the strickenloved ones left behind; therefore,

Be it resolved, this Household, in theirdeaths, has lost three of its ardent, effi-cient and devoted members, and that we 1hereby tender* the families and friends ofour deceased guests our heartfelt condolence.We can but say to them "woFds of consola-tion are too often the instruments that openafresh the heart's wounds," but that in thefullest sense we mingle our tears with theirsand .rust that the assuaging hand of timewill soften their grief, and heal their woundsso that with Christian resignation we may

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Policies may be taken forthree years.

Rates Reasonable.

H. D. LARCADE, JR.Manager.

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all truly say "Thy will be done, not ours."Be it further resolved, that this resolu-

tion be spread on the minutes; copies ofsame be forwarded to the families of ourdeceased brothers, and that they be pub-lished.

A. L. ANDRUS.BEN RISEMANW. R. LASTRAPES

Committee.

-Miss Esther Toler and MissGladys Cornett and Mr. and Mrs.Hinchliffe and baby motored to Ope-lousas Thursday and were the guestsof the Hotel LaCombe.

-Mr. and Mrs. Robert Budd andbaby, after spending several days inCrowley, La., enroute to their home

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OPELOUSAS, LA.

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UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATIONDIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS

Texas & Pacific RailroadChange of Schedule-- Sun-

day, March 23rd, 1913Train No. 448 will leave Crowley 9:30 A.

M.; Rayne 9:55 A. M; Opelousas 11:34 A.M.; arrive Melville 1:00 P. M. Connectionmade at Melville with No. 24, arriving NewOrleans 8:00 P. M.

Train No. 449 will leave Opelousas 4:12P. M.; Rayne 5:37 P. M.; arrive Crowley6:00 P. M.

J. L. LANCASTER,Federal Manager

"MONEY IS POWER"THE LACK OF IT BINDS, RE-

STRAINS YOUNO SCHEME; NOT A CONFIDENCE GAME

We have bundles and stacks of it for YOU,Quanity limited by your earning power. Wantlots of it? Let us have your name, age andaddress, together with references, strictly con-fidential-we are looking for a real man tofill an honorable CALLING, not a job, for theParish of St.'Landry.

Lock Box 636LAFAYETTE LA.

here, stopped over in Lafayette totend the play "Everywoman."

-Miss Fable Gil spent the day.Lafayette last Friday.

-Leon Campbell, one of the Icitizens of Bayou Boeuf, was ahere yesterday.

-M. P. and Isaac Stagg, leadingizens of Bayou Boeuf, were busvisitors to Opelousas last Thurso

-Leo J. Mizzi left OpelouaasThursday for Houston andpoints in Texas.

-Dr. L. E. Landry, one of' the Iing citizens of Sunset and a fomayor of that prosperous village,a business visitor to Opelousas onThursday afternoon.

LUMBER FOR SBridge Plank Oak

Pecan and Cypress,No. 1 and 2. CommonPecky Cypress, 1x2".4x6, 6x8 and other d'sions in Gum, Oak and .press. Prices aThe grades will pleaseSold in carload lots F.Hazelwood, or .will dto wagons in small q

Address all inquiries to

J. A. ANDERSONPhone 282 P. O. Box 1

Opelousas, La.