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The new pavement of Third Street u now to far advanced, the gravel having been roliod down, that traffic could be renewed. The meet now at kast loolu like a street in a civilized country,¥ ♦ * •bout 16 years old. She will be tried before Judge Boone during the March term of the 12th Judiciary DistrictCourt, in Leesville.CmLeesville is to have a. packing and cold storage plant, where also waste material, like fat, bones, etc^ is to be transformed into fertilizer. The company to establish the plant will be italized at $20,000.• • ¥ ** »The penalty date for not paying the Parish taxes of the current year has been extended by the auditor of Public Accounts to next Tuesday. February 15th, but after that. Sheriff Turner will attend to them relentlessly, so you had better settle with him at once. * * * *Me mage licenses were issued this week by Parish Clerk Hicks at the .Leetville Court House to: Mr. Whit Jotmaon Mid MU. Blanch* Hillard, both of Dentco: Mr. Del Stanler and Mm BeuU Handy, both of SI. git; Mr. *J. M. Marcus and Mrs. Eula Halford; Mr. EL K. Jarrell, of Evans, and Miss Levadie M. Croft, of Merryville; Mf, James Grant and Mist Myrtle Green both of Leesville; Mr. Elie Hall of Hkb. and Miss Vinnie Huggins, of Folkrtoa.millS. F to I has hadViola Williams, a 32-year-old. good looking negress. is a prisoner in the Vernon Parish jail, accused of murder in the first degree. At the inquest held by Coroner George W. Dennis. at Stille Station, last Monday, the jury found that Steve Cooley, with whom Viola hod been living, near Short Mills, since November last, was stabbed by her in the right chest, causing instant death, the knife with which the deed was done having been given to Viola by her neighbor. Rubin Sanders, who has been arrested with her by Sheriff Turner, as an accessory before the fact. Several witnesses have testified that Viola and Cooley were constantly quarreling and that on February 3rd. she showed an axe to several people, telling them that on the next morning she was going to kill Cooley with that very axe. But as Cooley foiled to come home. she. changing her program, carried out her well meditated plan on the evening between 5 and 6. when Cooley made his appearance. The axe not being handy iust then, she called for a good knife, which Sanders made haste to give her. Laurel Killingworth and several other persons were present, when Cooley fell to the floor, and they say that Viola, exultingly laughing, cried out: *Tve killed him at last, just as 1 intended. Viola has a little home of her own at Short Mills, where also her mother live*. She was married twice before she went to live with Cooley, who was a farm laborer and lumber jack. Viola has one son. aVDeuDrelt; valu to tDreebens' dry goods store was visited by burglars, entering during the night of last Sunday to Monday, thru the back door. They carried away some suits of clothes, shoes, ties, underwear and cash, amounting to several hundred dollar. On their way toward Stables the thieves dropped part of the booty uear the K. C S. roundhouse.¥ ¥ ¥ ¥Mr.J. B. Anderson. Louisiana State Agent of Agriculture, is delivering lectures in the towns of Vernon Parish, and giving demonstration, to shot* the farmers how to raise hogs, keep them healthy and thus add to the wealth and well being of the state's population.¥ ¥ ¥ ¥' N Leei Ellk F.CMrs. Lucy Perkins Williams, who visited Her parents in this city, has returned to her home in Shreveport; Mr, J. P. Drapier is visiting* relatives in jPort Artthur; Miss Ruth Kirby of Ft. j Worth is on a visit to relatives and friends in Lcesvilk; Mrs. S. J. Stidham returned from DeRiddcr. where she had been visiting relatives; Mr. and Mr* A. C. Ellis have returned from a visit to friends in DcQuincy; Miss Pauline Gibson has been visiting relatives and friends in Slagk: Mr. J. A. Cole of the Rouss Store, is on a business trip to New York and other Eastern cities to purchase new spring styles; Mr. Lawson Ferguson and family have returned from a pleasure trip to DeRidder; the office staff of. Attorneys Foster and Wooslcy has been increased by the appointment of Miss Marie Meadows an expert stenographer hailing from Merryville: Mr. W. E. Stephens, chief of the popular cash store* in Leesville has made large pur-on. M. I L ftdersTboGolcMarAlbsM.Dixcr. rPier L. \ CullisJ. E Grc, C I Egrrs. cley.Lgirli|retuingirls | foui pine two of,,seas , tors.ccomMe/wasdealpin.ceivbrotsick
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Leesville Vernon Parish Democrat
Leesville, Louisiana, US
Thu, Feb 10, 1921
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