The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16

business plant an advertisement in
The Gazette. 1t will prove a fertile
field
At least double this years accre-
age in corn will be planted next
year in this parish. Our farmers have
realized that it is just as easy to
make $40 to $50 on an acre as it is
to get SIS or $40 which latter sum
is about all that cotton cultivation
will bring.
Mr.. Alfred Hebert received Sun
day by express from Morgansville,
Kansas, two fine shoats. With the
express rates at 500, the pair has
cost about $40, but Mr.. Hebert
considers this money we'll invested
and The Gazette agrees with him.
He intends to demonstrate the fact
that it is possible to raise pork in
this country, with the same success
that attends the efforts of the people
of the Western States. And there
is no reason why he should not.
Did you sec the new style gold
filled spectacles and eyeglasses at
Biossat's, the jeweler.
The many friends in this parish of
Mr.. J. H. Humble, the genial man
ager of the Ferris Sugar Refinery at
Barbreck, will be panied to learn
that this gentleman met with a quite
serious accident last week. While
standing on platform. leaning
against railing, which giving away,
he fell a distance of ten feet his
head striking an old cog wheel sus-
tanning severe fracture of the skull.
A Gazette man took ride over
to Creighton's switch the fore part of
| the week, and viewed with some
surprise the big stacks of sugar cane
waiting transportation to the mills,
but when informed that for the past
month or more just such quantity
was in the yard all the time, the con-
clusion irresistibly forced itself upon
the mind that if at this point such
quantities of cane are shipped,
without considering other shipping
points. the urgent need of refinery
is manifest. With a refinery near
this town the acreage in cane would
be doubled in year. We must
have it.
BY inadvertance we failed to
mention in our compte-rendu of the
Carenero Amateurs entertainment
last week, the rendition, for the first
time in public, of a fine piece of
music, composed by Mr.. H. Van
der Cruysen, which received very
favorable mention by those qualified
to judge. At the request of many
friends the composer will have it
printed and place on sale, and will
call it the ttCreole March," 1t is
to be hoped that it Will meet with
! re :dy sale.
Did you see the new style gold
filed spectacles and eyeglasses at
Biossat's, the jeweler.
Thinking that change of air
would improve her failing health,
Mrs Marguerite Tiernay, left some
| ten days ago for Galveston, Texas,
only to ma SufCeaSe OF neI OOOlly
sufferings in death. The mortal re-
| mains were brought to Lafayette
| and consigned to their last resting
place in the Catholic cemetery last
| Tuesday. Mrs. Tiernay had reached
the ripe age of 10 years, and was
the mother of Messrs. p. J. and J.
+. Tiernay of this town. The
Gazette joins with the friends of the
family, in extending its sympathy in
| their bereavement.
In another part of this paper will
be found the advert sement Of
Messrs. Trahan s. Doucet, drug
gists and dealers in fancy and toilet
! articles, tobacco, cigars, etc. Mr.. J
f. Trahan, the senior member of the
firm, has sold half interest of his
business to Mr.. George Doucet, who
is we'll and favorably known by our
people. His affable manners at the
Trahan drugstore have made him a
host of friends who will be happy to
learn of his promotion. 1t goes
without saying that under its new
name this sterling firm will sustain