The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1894-04-07
OPELOUSAS, PARISH OF ST. LANDRY, La, APRIL Z 1894
Personal.

|. NJ. Lichtenstcin. of New Orleans is
visiting our town.
Aaron Js,:nbS, Of Alexandria, spent IL
couple of days here this week.
Rev. Mr.. S. j. Davies, of Alexandria,
Was in town on Thursday.
Mr. d. Roos, after visit to the Cres-
cent City, returned home Sunday.
Messrs. j. O. Ctachere aud Ike Roos
visited Washington Tuesday.
Miss Bertha RosenthaI, of Alexandria
spent Tuesday and Wednesday here.
Mrs. DR.. B. E. Clark, of Plaquemine
Brulee, spent Wednesday in town.
Miss Julie Bloch has returned home
from visit to relatives in New Orleans.
Yorick Vidrine, leading citizen of
Vile Plate, was in town on Wednesday.
j. B. Davis, editor of the Washington
Argus, gave us a pleasant cali on Tues
day.
Miss Fannie Loeb, after Il stay with
relatives in Crowley, returned home
Monday.
C. W. DuRoy. Esq, returned from a
brief trip to Crowley and Rayne on
Tuesday.
Assessor Swords is still on the sick
list, but we are pleased to learn is on
the mend.
A. Laurent Lacombe. ESQ, is on a
business trip to Lecompte and Alexan-
dria this week.
DR.. Jno. A. Haas, of Vile Plate, after
business trip to Crowley, returned
home on Wednesday.
We are pleased to learn that Mrs. E.
B. Dubuisson, who has been critically
i'll, is much improved.
Theo. Littell returned on Saturday
from New Orleans, where he had been
studying medicine.
L. j. Thompson, Esq, proprietor of
the Opelousas Rice Mill, visited Wash
ington on business Tuesday.
dward L. Lewis, son of Judge E. T.
Lewis, now a resident of New Orleans,
spent several days here this week.
Gussie Kennedy. after spending quite
while with friends and relatives in
Lafayette, returned home on Saturday
last.
A. g. Lewis, publisher of the Acadia
Advocate, and A. B. Delahoussaye, both
of Church Point, were pleasant callers
at our office on Saturday.
Among the Washingtonians in town
pre-, G. r. Baillio. Jr, j. Ehrhardt, Leon
Wolff and VIM. Crawford.
l.. B. Courvile. of Faquetaique. son
of the late David Courville, recent
graduate of the Commercial College of
Bowling Green, KY, was a pleasant
caller at our office on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. NJ. C. Pullam, ac-
companied by Miss Eta Truman, took
their departure on Tuesday last for their
new home in Greenville. ILL.,. much to
the regret of their friends here.
Baton Rouge Notes in N. O. Times
Democrat, April Hon. C. C. Duson,
of Opelousas, visited tie capital on bus
mess during the week He has many
friends here who remember him as the
popular Senator from St. Landry.
Messrs w. nj. Reese and E. R. Crook
CT are still among us working up" the
agencies for the Air Gun Clothes Wash
er, simple and ingenious labor saving
implement which is meeting with a
ready sale and seems to give general
satisfaction.
Marksville Enterprise: 1t will be
gratifying to many of our readers to
know of Mr.. C. d. Stewards arrival; be
is the contractor from Opelousas who is
to rebuild the Marksvile Court House
and has started a force of about twenty
men who are busily engaged tearing
down the front gallery, pounding brick
for concrete, &c. He seems to be what
a man would term real "hustler."
Our fellow townsmaD, Mr.. Maurice
D6pres, leaves next Tuesday for Eu-
rope, where be will visit his parents who
are residents of Lauterbourg, Alsace.
Mr.. Depres has been a resident Of our
town for a number of years. and dur
ing that time has occupied responsible
position in one of our largest mercan
tile firms, aud has made "A host of friends.
We understand that on his return here
Mr.. Depies will go in business for him
self. We wish him Il pleasant voyage.
A letter from Mr.. H. A. Van der
rc,reonp olikor oe tho of RI.