The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-02-17
Personal Mention.


vile, was in town Wednesday.
E. Fl. Gueydan, parish assessor
made a trip to New Orleans last week.
Mrs. Robt. F. Ballard returned
home Friday from a visit to her folks
in Houma.
Edouard Guidry of Abbeville spent
several days here this week.-St.
Martinville Messenger.
Napoleon Hebert, an old resident
of the Hebert Cove, 7th ward, died
last Sunday-aged about Sc years.
Judge John Clegg was one of the
yice-presidents of the big Antitrust
Convention which met in Chicago on
Monday.
w. W. Bailey returned Friday last
from New Orleans where he appeared
before the Supreme Court to argue
a case.
Mrs. Quincy, the venerable mother
Of Mrs. Martin Bagley is still quite
i'll, having suffered a fresh invasion
of disease.
Arthur Pipes, of Gueydan, has
been appointed constable of the sth
ward vice Felix Blanchet who failed
TO qualify.
Hon. Iastie Broussard and wife,
of Abbeyille, were the guests of Mayor
Broussard several days last week.
Rayne Tribune.
Ludwig Sokoloski, of Eli Wise &
Co., has returned from a business
trip to Western points, where he
found lots of ice and snow.
DR.. F. F. Young and his assistant
Miss NJ. A. Crazy left saturday MORN
ing for New Orleans, where he will
shortly open a sanitarium.
w. w. DusoE, of Crowley will
ship two or three cars of rice straw
to Dayton, Ohio, and have the PER
mills make some samples of straA
paper. There is every reason for be-
lieving that rice straw will make a
good grade of news paper. II it
does, the rice district will be able to
furnish straw paper by the train load.
-Jenning Times.
DR.. T. T. Tarlton. State medical
inspector of this district, stopped
owe in the city Monday night on his
way to Gueydan, where he has again
been sent for. The doctor informs
us that fourteen new cases have been
reported since he was there last and,
that the people Of that place have
sent for him to advise them what will
be the wisest course to pursue in
stamping out the disease.-Crowley
Signal.
f. S. Broussard, formerly ST Louis
lana, but nov connected with one of
the educational institutions Of Ken
lucky, passed through Washington
tonight on his way to Paris, where
he will be attached to the United
States Exposition of exhibits. Mr..
Broussard is o cousin of Congress
man Broussard of Lonisian. The
above taken from a Washington dis
patch relates the good furtune of a
young man we'll known in this part
Of the country.
Joseph Rosiere, a popular druggist
and citizen of New Orleans, left last
evening for New York, whence he
sails for Paris, France. He goes as
an employee of the United States gov
ernment, to take charge of work at
the Paris exposition.-Sunday's Pic
ayune. Mr.. Rosiere one lived in
Abbeville, and will be remembered
BY the name Of ssBobi,' and who
often Illuminated the bridge and
Madeleine square with candles in
the middle of the night.
Messrs. j. A. Hitter & Co., will
soon have in operation in st. Martin
vile, a collar factory, to manufac-
ture collars under a patent of Mr.
Hitter, which does away with the
names, by a devise Of his own. for
which he has a patent, the traces are
attached to the collar, and this is the
collar they propose to manufacture.
Part of the machinery is already re-
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