The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-30
Local News.

Misses ElOdie and HersiHe Gueri-
Mere are visiting relatives in Lafayette.
Judge Theodore Fontelieu of New
Iberia, is out as candidate for Congress
in this district.
Fishing parties are still in vogue,
an | large is the number of people who vi
sit Cstahoula lake every day Of the week.
We are often deceived in the age of
people having beautiful and luyuriant
Fhair, not knowing that they u3c Halls
Hair Renewer to keep gray hair away.
| The soiree given at the school house
wednesday evening. by our yOung folks,
was pleasant and agreeable affair: the
attendance was large, and pleasure re-
igned Supreme.
-Wo direct the attention of those of
our readers of the east side of the bayou,
to the Rules for Collecting the Produce
Tax OF the Atchafalaya Basin Levee Dis
trict, which we publiSh in another col
ufnn.
One Of the Rescue girls of Jeanerette
captared one of our 'Nigilant boys and
mashed him. When he came home he
still had the bouquet pinned to his blue
shirt, faded, but still ne clung to it as a
precious mementO.
Many bodily ills result from habitu-
al constipation, and fine constitution
may be weakened and ruined ty simple
neglect. There is no medicine, for regu-
a:ing the bowels and restoring natur-
alaction TO the digestive organs, equal
to Ayers Pills.
Mr.. P. H. Dumay who has opened
photograph gallery, in the studio of Mr..
William Millot, has showed us some of
his work which is very fine. Those wish.
ing family pictures can 20 to his gal
lery where he will be pleased to show
samples and give his prices.
The repairs and improvements at
the Gil Works are nearing completion,
and about the 18th of September, steam
will be raised to start the machinery
which will run day shd night for the
next ten months, with a capacity dou-
bic of what it was last year. an oil re-
finery was added.
"A little lime properly used has a
effect look at the property of {
Miss Marcelite st. Germain, corner bridge
and main streets, occupied by Mr.. John
Clark, what change; well. your old {
shabby looking property can be made to
oOk nice and cheerful by the applica- |
ion of white-wash. !
-S'he convention which will meet at
BreauX Bridge on Sunday the 14th of I
september, will give US an opportunity !
o judge of the ability Of our friends ,
rom above in handling wires. We do |
lot expect TO see any expert or extraOr- Q
liIary pulling because they are young
n the business yet, but their work at The J
will give fair idea Of what q
hey can do, for on what they can do c
lepen6 the success Of their ambition, to c
It least have one of the officers at the 0
lext election. They are reasonable, they c
'nly ask one, only one, but alas! try half? )
Our confrere of the Breaux Bridge Z
Union misunderstood our remarks in our I,
ssue Of the 10th inst. We know no. ,
hing Of the seventeen dollars he speaks 7
f. What We meant was simply that the a
committee at the last congress r
iOnal election was composed of gentle
nen from BreauX Bridge, who should by
light of their position, have the distri- |;
'utiOn of the campaign funds. but such
vas not the case, the funds were placed n
II the hands of 4 gentleman from this /,
own. The campaign committee should
ave the campaign funds, that is all. q
1T is learned from members of the p
oard ttat considerable opposition has o
eveloped to the imposition Of product
ak; more opposition, really, than was C
Ascension and Iberville .
eOple particularly object to the forced s
claiming that they are
lready required 70 pay burdensome tax v
8. While it is true that the supreme 4
ourt has decided the legality of simi. |
ar levy in the Fifth district, it is equal a
Y a fact that the full support of the &
eople is necessary to facilitate the board
n the prosecution of the important work a