The St. Mary Banner from Franklin, Louisiana • 3

THE ST. MARY BANNER. WEEKLY. Franklin, St. Mary Parish.

La SATURDAY, DEC. 28. 1918. A happy prosperous New Year to all. Remember the Banner and sec that your subscription is paid.

Miss Caro Lyman, ol Shreveport, is visiting relatives and friends in Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Collins, of New Orleans, spent Christmas in Franklin with relatives.

Now that we can have more sugar again we don't seem to care so awful much about it. Make good your W. S.S. pledge your share. Don't be a your quota.

Mr. and Mrs. Faul Kramer spent Christmas in New Orleans with Dr. and Mrs. S.

F. Miotoo. Misses Annie and Winnie Rogers, who are attending L. S. are at home for the holidays.

Mr. and Mrs. John A. O'Niell, of Port Arthur, Texas, spent the holidays in Franklin with relatives. Miss Lydia Gourdain.

of New Orleans, is visiting Franklin, guest of her sister, Mrs. E. A. Remember you disfranchise yourself for two years if you do not pay your poll tax before Jan. 1st, 1919.

We with pleasure welcome back home Mr. L. A. Loustalot, who had enlisted in the U. S.

Navy during the war. Mrs. Marcus Walker and daughter, of New Orleans, 6pent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Adam Short at Belleview.

Judge Thos. M. Milling, wife and children, of Baton Rouge, spent the holidays at the home of Senator Murphy J. Foster. Mr.

Theodore Mayer, of New Orleans, is spending the holidays in Franklin with his parents, Judge and Mrs. Isaac Mayer. We have bad very cold weather this week. Thera was a heavy white frost and ice one-half inch thick last Thursday morning. Mrs.

Sarah Chadwick left yesterday for Plaquemioe, where she was called to the bedside of her mother who is aeriously i l. 6 If you have not paid your poll lax, it is high time that' yuu do; four more days in to perform this important duty. Misset Gladys Latham and Ethel Bailey, who are teaching in the high school at Lecompte, are spending the holidays with their parents. Miss Alioe Kemper, who is teach ing in the high school at Walker, is spending the holidays home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Will Kemper. We are sorry to learn that Mr, J. Henry McCardell has been sick the past week at his home on "Oak bluff" but glad to state at thia writing he is better. Mr. W.

H. Latham, left yesterday for Houston, Texas, thence to Charleston, 8. where he has accepted apoeition with the Texas Oil Company at that place. Congressman J. Y.

Sanders via ited his old home this week. He came to take Christmas dinner with his mother and sisters at their residence In Franklin. Mr. Roy Delahoussaye, who Is a Studentin the medical department Rt Tnlanc University, is spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. nad Mrs.

E. A. Delahoussaye. The property tax notices will be sent out until the last of the month. There will be-no penalty for ooo-paymeot within a time after the receipt the notice.

Daisy Beile Smith and Frances Peterman, who are etadente et the Bopkie-Newcomb College, ere spending the holidays With their respective parents. Dr. Mrs. B. W.

Smith and Mr. hhd Mrs. James A. Peterman. Mre.

Lop Smardon was ed this week by receiving a er from her eon, Mr Will Smardon, to France. He had on the battle line there behnsttlitlee ended. She had nnthing from him until days ego, when the letter ae informing her of his safety hndthnthe will soon bn to ae do Red Cross Benefit. Our local chapter of the Red Cross has provided for the delivery in the near future of a series of addresses by eloquent men and women, participants in the awful experiences of the war with Germany. The addresses will be delivered at the opera house, price of admission 50 cents.

The proceeds are for the benefit of the lied Cross war fund. The first of these addresses will be delivered Monday night, December 30th, by Miss Marie Rose Lauler, a young maid of France. Marie Rose Lauler was a French school girl in a Belgian convent when the war broke out and she tells from a woman's standpoint the story of the German advance through Belgium, tells of the barbaric atrocities committed upon women, old men and children and recounts al so the story of her own imprisonment by the Germans, her escape and recapture, and finally how she came to the United States, of which she was and is a citizen, although at the beginning of the war she had never been to America and could not speak English. The story of Marie Rose Lauler is one of the great narratives of the great war. Mr.

John Lund spent Christmas in Franklin with relatives and friends. Mr. Lund is now located at Clinton, having charge of the Watchman at that place. Better tnan money because they earn money; buy a War Savings Stamp today. Our army cannot be disbanded until the fruits of victory are assured.

Continue to buy W. S. all you can. The Third Aunual Conference of the Assessors of the State of with the of State Affaira, will be on January 6 th and 7 at the State Cspuo. in Baton Rouge.

On the 22od of this month the home of Mr. and Mrs. of New Orleans, was gladdened by the presence of a fiue baby boy. Mrs. Moise is the sister of Mr.

O'. J. Boatner of this place. The news items in the Banner this week must necessarily be meagre. This is Christmas week, and this paper following the usual custom, gave the working force an opportunity to enjoy the pleasures of The Christmas season has brought back home a good many of our young ladies who are teaching and attending echool away.

ThBanner joins in welcoming them all and wishing them a happy New Year. Last Tuesday night there was a Christmas tree, laden with presents, given at the Methodist Church for the childrco of the Sunday School. On Christmas night a Christmas tree was given at the Episcopal Church for the children of the Sunday School. Both trees were beautiful and richly laden with presents for the young and old, and the hearts of the little children specially were made glad by the beautiful presentsthatc une to them on the joyous Christmas tide. Several months ago nur local columns were Ailed weekly with mentioning the names of our soldier boys who were going seas to fight for the life ot the civilised world Now this order is reversed.

The fight is won and our brave soldier are coming back Every day we greet them ae they come bock, every one ot them we greet and honor as a hero. Below we publish a list of those who have returaed ia the past week: Liest. Wilbur Kramer. Lieut. H.

N. Levy, James Albares, WalUc- Pugh, Clarence Lawless. Edwin Bailey, Hugh J. Boudreaux. George Black, Willie Anderson, Earl and Frank Brenn.

"Is de ft hied foot of a rabbit a sign of tuck?" "Tis," remark Mr. Erastus Pinkley, "if you owns de test of do tab There are onty four more days in which you can buy the 1918 series of War-Savings Stamps due in 1923. In January 1919 stamps go on sale for 1924. You save a year in time by buying now. War-Savings Stamps are the most liberal, the most useful and most convenient method of investment ever offered the public.

You are lending your money to the government, getting the best security in the world at a liberal rate of interest. Remember that you can always cash your stamps at any time by giving your local, office ten days' notice. Any incomplete cards or thrift stamps can be converted into the new series of stamps to be issued in 1919. In the meantime save all the money you can in 1918 and let 1919 take care of itself. Death of Jennie Royster Fasset.

Mrs. Charles Fasset died in Centreville, on last Saturday at the age of 82 years Before her marriage shs was Miss Jennie Royster, and. at the of her she wa9 last of the original Royster family who settled in St. Mary Parish many years ago She was related to and connected with many of the prominent families of our parish, the the Todds, and the Kempers. In, the year 1870 -he -ne Dr.

Charles Fasset, a noted physician of St. Mary, whom she survived for many years. She a lady of refinement and possessed and practiced those' persona! charms that distinguished and made the generation of which was a part, and which made the womanhood Episcopal Church. Sunday, Dec. 29.

1918. Sunday School. 9:45 a. m. Service wita Sermon W.

11 a m. Service with Litany. 5 d. in. Wednesday.

Jan. 1. 1919: Holy Communion 10 a. No service Thu-sdoy morning day passed isetly yet it was full of merriment ar.d befitting me hallowed of th- day The weather was bright. Th clouds and rain, which nad prevailed fir days, passed away with the night of! Christmas Eve, and on Christmas' morn the homes were brig at and the sun ou peaceful world ae its people rej licod.

In our little commaany, the spirit of good-will aud order was present everywhere, and this Christmas festival will long be remembered as the most pleasant the people of Franklin have enjoyed lor a number of years. The German stat-scu-n are sccasing each other of being partly responsible for the war. It is not the first time tnat the pot haa made scathing remarks upoa the color ol the kettle, VVe have received a i innrer of calendars -r th- 1919, but the one, ceived from the Franklin Ice Works this week, is the most beautiful and appropriate in design that we seen for a long time. The design is a picture of a lovely woman, dr in the uniform of the Red Cross, tiding in her arms the starrv banner of nu- country whose folds nartlv pncircle her grse fal form, typical, as it were, of the beauty and glory of peace on earth. The extentto which the m-nt cancelling orders for war materials mav not be surprising, but it is bringing a lot of heart to manufacturers througout the country The United States Chamber cf Commerce has entered formal prote-t against the manner in which the me has fal eo upon the necks of manufactu rers, and the Chamber declared that in its opinion contracts not be cancelled until vision is made for the absorption of the materials." Women Give Out Housework is hard enough when healthy.

Every woman is having hack ache, blue and nervous spells, (luiv headaches and kiduev or bladder troubles. should be glad to heed this Duoaldsonvile wotnau's Mrs P. Acosta, 314 Claiborne Si lion aids invilie. La says: a ago stiff red a great deal misery warn my This 'trouble came on me sndcetly and 1 can't say whitit broug'n it oti. naless i ovrHifted with oat nota the'effect of it right eWrin't remain on ay feet any length of time without pains going through the small of my baci and into my lower I had frequent nervous and they often caused my sight to blur and made me dizzy.

My kidenyg! didn't act right, either. I began toj use Doan's K.dney Pills and they helped me in a few days and three boxes affecte i a pesmanent cure. Doan's are a line medicine." Price at ail dealers. Milburu Buffalo. N.

Y. Fay your poll Our Efforts Appreciated. Mr. W. H.

Latham, Editor St. Mary Banner, Franklin, La. Dear Sir In behalf of the Fond Administration In Washington, and especially for Louisiana, thia office is under grateful for the invaluable assistance you have rendered it in the criaia the world war. The Whole-soul patriotism of the peoole of Louisiana and newspap-r in the Stake is reflected in the splendid record which been made, and which due to team work in posting our people on saving food, materially assisting in the peaou and feeding a starving world. We have produced more consumed than any in the nation, and the patriotism our people is a magnificent heritage to future generations.

With deep appreciation and heartfelc season's greetings, in which our staff unitedly join. Very sincerely Jno M. Parker, Food Administrator for La. More or W. 8.

8. A $5 00 War Savings Stamp cun bn bought no for $1.23. The refrain, 'The Yankt are is now a for mu-ketiy, but a reuiu of the dishes. to ten veare; annual i AMKrtlCaN 0 PAR i. Inc Orle-tus.

Wi.Bo» NOTICE. regular annual meeting of the stocstiuicui of the Oak Bluff plum. Manufacturing Company, Lui i' be belli ou Jan. 1th, 1919. at their the- for purple w-iing of.

and transacting other busineaa J. U. McCai-pru, Seminary. 'ay your yoii tax HQfiu.