The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1898-06-04

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Correspondence Poplaryille Free Press
| pleasantly spent about five
days, beginning May 9Th, in and
around the beautiful and progress
sive little village of Logtown,
Miss, and / was 50 forcibly and
favorably impressed with its loca-
ton, It's school, and above all its
people that beg the indulgence
IF the patience Of the readers of
the Free Press while | tell you
what | saw and heard.
Logtown is situated on the east
bank Of Pearl river about twelve
miles from its mouth. The resi-
dent part of the town is set back
from the river 800 or 400 yards,
in magnificent oak grove about
one half mile in length and one
fourth IN width. Nature has lined
either side of the main street with
large and beautiful oaks as though
they were planted by hands. Not
withstanding the fact that the
town is near the gulf and on the
river, it is not built on low and
marshy tract of land as a great
many people suppose. 1t is built
on an old piney-woods hill. This
IS fact for ] was very forcibly
reminded of it BY stumbling over
pine root IN going down u hill
in the Suburbs" The good
people of Logtown are constantly
reminded of the fact that they
Hive ina manufacturing town 0y
the sweet buzz and hustle Of one
of the largept saw mills of south
Mississippi, owned and operated
by the well known firm of II. S.
Weston & Co.
had the pleasure of attending
Sunday School and church on
Sunday morning. There was a
good attendance at Sunday School
and the exercises were very ably
superintended by Mr.. Sidney Otis.
We enjoyed an able and eloquent
sermon by the pastor, Rev. For
sythe. While the Methodist is
the only denomination that own
house of worship and have an
organized church. yet the Baptist
have monthly services conducted
by Rev. James-G. Sibley.
expected to return home Mon
day morning but by request of
Prof. Summer, the popular prin-
cipal of the Logtown High School
| renamed until Tuesday night
to make "little speech" at the
school concert. The Logtown
High School is only a year old
and it ceased crawling six months
rago and now it is walking "right
off" Z" / think it just question
of time when it will rank with the
best institutions of It's class in
south Mississippi. Despite the
fact that the school labored under
several difficulties, such as age,
yellow fever excitement. etc., the
concert on Tuesday night ended
a very successful term under
the management of the able facul-
ty composed of Prof. A. l.. Sum
mer and Miss Carrie Magness.
The school had good local atten-
dance and several boarders.
The concert was q grand SUCCESS
The exercises opened by the sing
ing of "My Country 'Tis Of Thee"
and closed by as equally patriotic
song "Red, White and Blue" /.
inferred from these songs that the
people of Logtown are very patri-
otto although none have gone to
Cuba yet.
After first song Prof. Summer
introduced ''your humble scribe,
and with my patriotism aroused
by the opening song, 81 deluged
the tall cliff under a flood of
'piney- wood eloquence which
poured from my patriotic lips
like molasses pouring from the
bunghole of the universe. /
mounted the American eagle and
scared among the stars. / scraped
the skies and cut the black illimi-
table far out beyond the orbit of
Uranas, and | reached the climax
of my eloquent flight with d hy-
perbole that eclipsed Goldsmith's
metaphor ''cussed" Spain and
closed with a free school educa-
tional harangue.
This was followed by songs,
dialogues, recitations, tableaux.
etc, which were executed with
credit 10 both students and teach
ers. Before the last6 Song Prof.
Summer came forVard and in
we'll chosen. words kdelivered an
encouraging address TO the friends
and patrons Of the 4hool.
The people Of La flown are yory
ion . make sejs schssl )
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