The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-06-24

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for you and your sweetheart.
i Miss Carrie Ulmer and Miss Id;
Peferkorn returned Wednesday from
|Opelousas where they had been OF
a visit to friends.
The public schools throughout thu
parish closed their session last Fri
day, and the teachers will enjoy :
rest until September I.
The Gazette received call from
Hon. A. v. Fleming, Mayor of the
town of St. Martinsville, who was
in attendance to the convention as
a delegate from his parish.
Carencfo is pushing right ahead.
She don't wait for time or tide, but
the people have taken off their coats
and gone to work. and that work is
telling in their favor.
Mrs. G. w. Scranton of Royville.
and Miss Julia Olivier, of this town,
! returned Tuesday from, Houston,
| where they have been on a visit to
| their sister, Mrs. Laura Thompson.
Now, let's all get together and
pull together for the upbuilding of
our town. The opportunities are
here, will the people take hold7
Mr.. Thos. J. Tanner left Thursday
for New Orleans, where he will enter
confectionery, and will return to
Lafayette with his diploma to open
a confectionery and bakery.
To Mother St. Patrick and Sisters
Of Mt. Carmel Convent, The Ga
zette returns its sincere thanks
for an invitation to be pres
ent at the distribution Of school pre-
miums on July I.
The city authorities are having
some filing put in the street in
front of Lisbony's boarding house,
and are, also, having the side of the
bitches cut down, which will facili-
tate draining.
We notice that Jennings and St.
Martinsville are making prepara-
tons to celebrate the glorious 4th
of July in an elaborate manner
Can't Lafayette get up something to
be in line with her n-ighbors. :
The editor of The Gazette has re-
ceived an invitation with compli
ment Of his young friend G. II. de
Clouet, to attend the Annual Com
nencemcnt exercises On Tuesday
June ~, 1893, at Georgetown Col
fcge, District of Columbia, and for
which kind remembrance he wishes
to return his thanks.
a gentleman remarked to The
Gazette that the short, many and
puzzie2ly laid out streets of Lafa-
yctte, reminded him Of ] man who
started to go to saw-lnill situated
some miles from a certain town.
He said the road was SO crooked
that in co..aing back he ran against
himself
The city authorities had five pri-
soners at work Tuesday cut,ing
down the thick hedge in the public
road near DR.. Mouton's residence.
1t had spread out and covered part
Of the road, and threatened to prove
source of Inconvenience, espe-
cially at the corner.
The Gazette wants to see Lafay-
cite go-ahead. and stands ready to
do it's share towards that end. While
the local papers can do a share they
can't do everything. Let the peo-
pie get together, and work in har-
mony In unity Of action, we have
a lever that can do wonders. Let's
all get in line and work for the COM
mon good of all.
Last Friday the people of the I'd.
ward interested in public education
gave a school picnic to which some
$50 persons, grown and children,
attended. A most agreeable day
was spent, and Hon. Julian Mouton,
the President of the Board of School
Directors, delivered addresses in
French and English, and his re-
marks were we'll received. Prof.
Wagner, has every reason to be
proud of his school.