The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-10-28

on Sundays he keeps all kinds OF
fruits for sale. ---.
That popular merchant. Mr..
Leon Plonsky, has returned from
New Orleans, where he purchased
for spot cash, a large stock. These
goods, he claims, were bought at
inside figures, and he will be in a
position to give buyers better and
bigger bargains than ever. If you
need anything in his line he will be
pleased to see you. ~.
The Gazette calls attention to the
card, in another part of this issue,
so we'll known, and his stock always
of the best, that it is almost super
f1uous to mention the fact. But Mr..
Manade wants the readers of The
a standing invitation to call on him
his prices will do the rest.
The Gazette has received the
prospectus announcing the early
publication of a newspaper at the
town of Cheneyville which will be
called the "Theoda Menora." We
noticed that our friend, M. S. Alex
ander is the business manager, and
if energy and hustling will make the
paper a success, why, it will get
there with both feet. This enter
prise has The Gazette's best wishes
for prosperous future.
Messrs. Jos. Plonsky & Son, hav-
ing made surrender of all their
property to their creditors, have
been, by law, released from all fu-
ture obligations in SO far as the
present creditors are concerned.
The Gazette hopes that these gen.
tlemen will soon be able to re-es-
tablish a mercantile business, in
which the senior of the firm has
been engaged for long number of
years, with fair success, until over
come by the late stringency in the
for them to make any collections.
Fashion has decreed that the
t'plainer and more unostenatious
wedding card, the more becoming
and appropriate it will be- Mrs.
Sherwood notes that ''engraved
script on pure white wove," fulfills
to the letter the requirements. But
when the party cannot go the ex-
cfri~
to the rules of etiquette is found in
the use of copper plate script on
white wove, and the printing should
be only in black ink. To those
who may desire any of the latter
kind, The Gazette would be pleased
to quote prices.
Mr.. VIM. Clegg showed us some
boxes of fine linen papetries, and
to match. We feel con-
WINGED that they are the finest goods
II town; and sold at very moderate
prices. This gentleman has full
line of stationery that he claims to
sell cheaper than any other store in
town. He buys direct from the
factory, is the reason. Some days
since a drummer offered him some
goods at certain price, Mr.. Clegg
the drummer silly by Offer
ing to sell him the same goods in
his store cheaper than the drum
mer offered them at.
Having been delegated by the
School Board to go to Cheneyville
to visit the appointments and ap-
purtenances of the High School of
that place, for the purpose of gath
ering information as to the needs
of our High School, Mr.. c. O.
Mouton, having complied with his
instructions returned Thursday and
reports the school in very -four
ishing condition with four profess
sors in charge, and is supplied with
all necessary appliances. The
school is aided by private contri-
buttons. Cheneyville has a popu-
lation of about two hundred and
fifty souls.
A special to the TimesDemocrat
from this town under date of the
24th instant, says: "l.ast night at
9 O'Clock the rice stack in one of