The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1899-10-14

added to in the next few days
Logtown is one of the prcttres
= and busiest little towns in tht
State. The Weston Lumber Go
: have spent considerable money II
building up and beautifying this
burg.
. At meeting held by the Gulf
Coast Lumber Association in Mo-
bile last week, the price of lumber
was raised s1.00 per NJ feet, cX-
cept Rio Deals which jumped up
to $3.50 per NJ.
When you want sympathy and
truth, don't apply to a telegraph
operator or railroad man, they are
as hcartlcss us Il bamboo-cane and
know nothing about handling
veracity with care.
Mr.. Oscar Combel, formerly of
Bay st. Louis, informs us that in
the very near future he will open
first-class oyster saloon and res
taurant.which our town has never
had and sadly in need of.
The steamer Daisy Of New Or
leans has been chartered by Mes
srs. Poitevent & Favre, to run
the mail between Lookout, La,
and Pearlington while the steamer
Pcarlington is undergoing repairs.
Mrs. DR.. A. P. Baldwin, of
Tyler, Texas, who has been in our
midst for the past two months,
left for her home Wednesday
morning, which her host of friends
and relatives here sincerely re-
gret.
Mr.. r. 7. Raby, one of Scran-
tons most jolly fellows, arrived
Thursday from where he comes to
superinteud shipping Il very large
cargo of lumber to the steamer
Wildcroft, which is now at Ship
Island loading.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Favre went
out Tuesday evening on their
beautiful Naptha launch in search
of the finny tribe, and were very
successful in making a fine catch
of green trout, the largest being
caught by Mrs. Favre, which
weighed an even four pounds.
Mr.. Simon Favre, was in town
Saturday and brought a beautiful
hammerless Parker gun. with
which to while away his leisure
moments and supply his bachelor
home with the choicest of game,
which can be readily found in his
neighborhood, without the least
eXertion.
Mrs. w. c. Wiley, of Tyler,
Texas, who has been spending the
summer months with her parents,
Capt. and Mrs. j. a. Favre. will
leave within the next few days for
Pine Bluff, Ark, where she goes
to visit her sister Mrs. Fred. Dill
ley, before returning to her home
home at Tyler.
| Messrs. K. Johnston and J.
Krebs, of Biloxi, Miss, reached
| here Thursday, and will inspect
large cargo of lumber now being
cut by Poitevent & Favre for
Messrs. w. S. Kevser & Co., who
do an immense export business
and keep a number of mills un-
der full strain continually.
! Dr.. r. L. Lloyd, Pcarlington's
| handsome NJ. ID. who is as affable
and pleasant as an up to-date can
didate, paid Il flying visit to the
Crescent City "Wednesday, in re-
sponse to a telegram from his
mother and sister, who have been
spending the past six weeks at
Columbia, Miss, and who are
again at their home at LOgtOWn,
to the satisfaction of their many
friends.
We are glad indeed to see Mrs.
D. B. Favre, up again, after be-
ing confined to bed with chills and
fever during the past week. But
sincerely;regret to chroniclc.the Sc
rious illness Of her husband Mr..
d. b. Favre, one of the most es-
timabIe young men Of our town,
and devoted son of Hon. and I.
VI. .Favre NAV the near future res
tore him to good health, is the
earnest wish Of THE HERALD.
Our repeated agitation in these
columns for a municipality for
our town does not signify that we
are showing the matter forward
with view of benefitting our
selves. We are doing it for the
good of the town, and the people
in it, and with a view of dispens-
ing with the dirty, miserable
vagrants that is disgrace to any
community. If our property hold
ers are afraid of the extra expense
of city and corporation tax neces-
sary to run municipality we will
venture to say to them that the
Offices could be filled by men who
would offer their services gratis
and the only additional expense
would amount to about $4,000 per
month for a marshal. There is
not a town in the State of Misslss-
ippi that is so badly In need of a
municipality as Pearlington and
if a few of our public. spirited
citizens were to put their heads
together we would have it. We
are not trying to ride this matter
over the heads of our heaviest tax
payers but simply want to impress
them with the necessity of having
an incorporated town and we feel
satisfied that they would reap the
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