Clarion-News from Opelousas, Louisiana • 2

CLARION-PROGRESS Saturday, Feb. 14th, 13 the city poad at fc est bidder, at o'clock m. Value of 1924 old Marie will be left. You will be Cross-Word surprised when you realize that the things that appealed, to you at 'eigh SATURDAY, FEB, 14TH, 193, to pay and. satisfy all east.

4 teen seem positively stupid to ycu at FELIX CHACHERE, Farm Products 54,212,870,000 Puzzle Champ Is Busy Wonfan iasuted on taking me to a baseball game." I haven't the slightest interest in Babe Ruth and his colleague3 No ODe could devise a more devastat ing bore for me than a baseball game-So every Sunday I would sit at the Yankee stadium or the Polo Grounds and work cros-word puzzles while the mob around -1 me! howled and feb 7 zts Chief of Policy Readers desimug a personal reply can address' Must Flo, in ear of this newspaper New cross-word puzzle twenty-five. New experiences and a wider companionship broade your mind and change your viewpoint, and the result is that your mind readjusts itself to the changes. This is even more true of ha boy than the girl. It is generally admitted that a boy of twentyne is ncU fully developed mentally. Billy is going to college.

He will be caught in a new current has now settled down to the institu The value of all agricultural products grown inlheSouthduring 1924 was 14,212,870,000, a slight gain of four million dollars over 1923, which r.think those Sunday afternoons tional prime inister of Creat Britain makes a tpeech about ELOPE OR NOT TO started to work. Mother would not ELOPE, permit me to accept the ring. She taid waa much too. young to be TO thus passed gave me speed In solv ingx puzzles and the ability to solve Insures another substantial year in AT 187 Dear Miss Flo: it without risking a vote of censure. The subway guard gathers up the i and ma was tmply lit geenral business lines during 1925.

them under trying circumstances. So tny husband helped to that extent, the question. She didn't think it The vital Importance of the section to the country at large is shown by I am eighteen years ow, ana ve.v any wav in making me champion, much in love with a young man twen-j for such a long time. I know I'll nev Then the tournament came along, the fact that 40 per cent of total crop ty-one years old. who goes to a urti-j a Wrt er love any one else, and we are plan- I versity in a nearDy wwd.

no fcrtign to you. He will meet new people, brilliant men-r-he will have new experiences his Hfe De colorful and the changes in him will be greater than in you. At the" end of his college days he may regard the love affair as "puppy love. You are much too young to marry. 'nine to eloDe in th We will --'-r tr rew I rnsimj" I hadn't the slightest Idea of winning values In the United States is found it.

I. entered It just to see what I in the sixteen states of the south. The could do under such circumstances. principal Southern agricultural pro-t Vnw I waa fast, for in solvinz puz-iduct. cotton Is 16 per cent of the 'i rugaeemcui I and we wanted i get married at Of course, it would be neces until Billy is able to support me.

Do you think we will be happy? Don't Fire robs every one of us of thmt-ands of thousands of dollars rmk year pick our pockets iafea money that we ought to hav to eIoh with a group of friends I usually country's aggregate crop value. sary fcr me to lire at home while he fir.irhfd his college course, because it wr.uld be impossible for him to support me until aftar he grad dated and you think I am old enough to know my own mind and kow what I want? unfinished word symphonies at the end of a trip with the air of a martyr to an international cause rather than with the impatient snarls of a victim of a franatical wave. The malady has by no means departed, but the fever has subsided and now it is just another chronic complaint except for one person. Mr. Ruth 5 Von Phul, who emerged from the national cross-word puzale tournament last September as champion, finds herself with a fully developed career on her hands.

And she is willing to agree with Benny Leonard, who has just laid aside a title, that among the flora there Is none more cumbrous than the laurel. "Gone are the days" says Mrs. Von spend for other things. ful and insure. finished first.

But I didn't know I could "win a championship. And I didn't know what would happen when I did. "When it was over I was about to enroll for a winter, course of postgraduate college work." I usually do every winter, in the belief that Tm giving myself something constructive in the way of an occupation. Then, after a few lectures, I changed my mind and dropout. You have a lot of good fun coming to you yet before you accept the responsibilities of When you have had years.

of happy girlhood carefree gaiety when you are able mentally and physically to consider the responsibilities of being a wife and mother, then, and not before, are you eld enough to marry. Do you think it is fair or unselfish of Billy to ask you to give up your own youth and sit at home a married woman waiting for The cotton crop of 1924 was three million bales more than In 1923. jpue, however, to lower prices basis the valu of the crop was slightly less. The differential is more than made up In other crops, allowing the year to show a gain. The tendency to crop diversification was increasingly apparent during 1924, with many sections which had previously placed their chief reliance on coiton -turning to other This agency represents the HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE CCtt TYPEWRITERS SoldRented Repaired SPEED ACCURACY DURABILITY SERVICE "That's an Underwood UNDERWOOD Typewriter Inc.

212-13 Com. Bank 6. Trust Bldfl. I most certainly do not think you will be happy. In fact, I am quite sure that your chances for happiness are very small.

I know, Marie, you are positive that you know what you want now, and no doubt you do, but what about five years from That's a long time you know, and you may change so much that you will laugh at the of ever having thought of marrying Billy, That is why I disapprove of long engagements. Every day of the year you change in some way, and at the end of four years very little of the PANY-an Institution that hat Phul, "when I did cross word puzzles lines. A $5,000,000 tobacco crop in "But' I didn't even get a chance to oeen serving property ewian him to graduate and give you a home 1 of your own? And if you do marry him and find at the end of four years that he does not love you then who is to blame? Married life lasts a great for sheer pleasure. Now I do one a day. It's part of my work as champion.

I do it at top speed, "for the object of solving it is to provide a south Georgia was one striking example of this tendency. An augmental acreage devoted to trucking In many sections was also noted. ALEXANDRIA, LA. faithfully since 1810. RichardD.

Lamsca Jan 31 tf 'bogey' for other solvers. Just knowing it's work takes the spirit of-diversion out of almost anything. "And I make at least one crossword, puzzle a day. Some days I MARSHAL'S SALE Notice is hereby given that the city empounder has rounded up and taken into custody two Black Jennies and unless these are claimed by the owner and all costs paid they, will be offered enroll this year. The duties of a champion began to pile op.

There's the result" She pointed to a desk. There was a' dictionary of course and such old volumes of an encyclopedia as "Har to Hur" and 'Shu to Sub." There were letters from housewives and cowpunchers and professional contest And in the center was a cross-word puzzle in the making. "What's a seven-letter word with and in it?" she asked, pointing to a vertical space still to be completed. "Phoenix," she said in answer to herself and filled it in. make three or four.

I've gone 119 BELLEVUE ST. Opelousas, La. 1 Phones 395 heavily for baseball guides and foot IT (EDIT ball handbooks, and the elusive terms of tennis and golf and boxing. for sale at public auctio the high- deal longer than youth. "Why make it longer? '--r Elopments are dangerous, Marie, and as a general thing, are not conducive to happiness, even when those eloping are not impetuous youngsters.

The wedding day belongs to the girl and her memories of the marriage should be bright, cheerful and happy. The wedding should be sacred and beautiful, not merely a lepri form. It should inspire both the, girl and the man with a fuller understanding of the obligations theyT undertake and memories of an ugly little office, 'with an indifferent justice of the peace effi ciatiag, and curious strangers acting as witnesses, are not particularly inspiring. In after years, it has the appearance of being tawdry and furtive. When Bill has completed his educa- "Historians are interested in a puzzle based cm history.

Down comes the old encyclopedia and I steep myself thoroughlyi in annals, archives, "You know, it's inspirational, this No Need To Wait For Your Battery One Large Restaurant Range, Albert Pick Make. Apply, JOHN E. BOAGNI, business of making cross-word puzzles. I don't mean as seriously so as music or poetry. But sometimes you'll think for hours for the right word and then it will pop up just as that one memoirs and chronicles.

Or perhaps it is geographical. Then it's just as; well to know that Cape Girardeau is a town in Missouri and not a peninsula poking its nose into the Atlantic ocean's affairs." Mrs. Von Phul wears her crown at a sly tili. She is young, small, blond. One entrant in the tournament has declared, by way of an alibi, that he was so disconcerted by her attractiveness that he would wear blinders in the nert tournament.

Her husband, William Von. Phul, is an engineer. It cannot be said feb 7 ts OPELOUSAS, LA. NOTICE OF FINAL TABLEAU tion able financially to undertake ithe responsibilities of marriage and 1 the new Billy and Marie still love ESTATE JEAN. B.

BAPTJSTE AND WIFE Noo. 7493. Probate Docket, Thir-; teenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St, Landry, La. Whereas, Arthur Bellard, adminis-' trator of the above numbered and en Our constant Potential Battery Charger does the work while you wait COMPLETELY RECHARGES Absolutely Guaranteed not to Injure your battery. that he had a hand in the making of the champion.

He boasts, and not without that he has never solv titled estate has filed therein his final tableau of classification and prays for tor e-roo: ed a cross-word puzzle and that he nev er wilL But he did play an uncon the homologation of ihe same; now I Th arc fctr a nntfpA la TiAroTi-w von scious part in her victory, Mrs. Van, why the said tableau should not be homologated to file same in writing In this office within ten days from the first publication hereof. HENRY LASTRAPES, feb 7 2ts Clerk of Court. BORDERS WANTED Room and board. Two blocks from Main street.

Apply Mrs. Fannie Barstow, Phone 460. feb 7tf Phul insists. ''I began doing cros-s-word puzzles two or three years she explains "The. early-fascination is almost fanatical, as all puzzlers know, and could hardly wait from puzzle to puzzle.

I devoted my Sundays to them. "My however, would have pone of them. His diversion is base-tali. And every Sunday afternoon he each other then get married, and share your happiness with your parents and your friends. Start your new life without haste or confusion, and it will always -be a beautiful memory.

You are only eighteen, Marie, and it may be that you will be in love several, times before finally marrying. The fact that you wrote for. advice shows that you are not quite sure that ycu are right or' that you are justified in disobeying your parents. Talk it over with Billy and try to make him understand your viewpoint. Second thought never hurt any one.

And in later years when you are happily married memories of a glorious- EATTEKY CHARCia CKiSTAMT FCTemAL Dilapidation PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the OPELOUSAS (JOTTON OIL INC. of OpeIou3as, Louisiana, has been dlj-solved and that J. J. Carriere, George Biehvenu, and J. P.

Barnett, have been appointed lliquidatora. All parties having claims against this corporation are hereby requested to present their claims to the liquidators. Signed at Opelousas, Louisiana, this 2nd day of February. A. 1925.

GEORGE BIENVENU. HENRY, F. MORNHINVEG, JAS. J. CARRIERE, J.

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