The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-01-06
CITY ECHOES.

Dir. August Keller has returned from
a Visit to relatives in Texas.
Miss Daisy Philips spent part of last
week in New Orleans visiting friends.
, An epidemic of marriages seems 70 have
prevailed al the Bay auring the holidays
Gov. McLaurin's message 70 the Legis
l1ture Is given in full elsewhere in The
Echo.
Master Eaton Bowers lett for Jackson
Wednesday evening called by position
of page in the Legislature.
The Gulfport Land & Improvement Co
have advanced the price of their lots from
$50 to $40, healthy Indication of values.
Mrs. C. GardebIcd was called to Laf-
ayette, La, tins week by the illuess OF
her daughter-ln-law, Mrs. d. V. Garde-
bled.
/ Percy Boyer is night operator at the
telephone exchange, succeeding young
Sherges who has been promoted to out
side work.
/ Cashier II. f. Roberts, of the Hancock
/ County Bank, accompanied By his charm
ing wife, are home from their holiday
/ stay up in Mississippi
] People who have paid their taxes and
survived the expenses incidental to the
season just ended will have good cause
! for self congratulation.
Mrs. Philip j. Scheib and two pretty
| little daughters spent part OF the holidays
! in New Orleans, visiting friends. While
there they were guests of Mrs. Geo. NJ.
! Baker.
| Robert w. Toulme has engaged in the
mercantile business, on Second near Main
streets, severng his connection with his
brother and embarking In business entire
! ly for himself.
Sheriff Cazeneuve, Clerk Hoffman. su-
| pervIsors and all the new officers of the
| county were sworn in Monday and as
sumed their respective roles for the en-
| SUING four Years,
The L. & Mr. Co. has given notice
| to un its first monthly exours on tomor-
| row, the 7th The next will be run T b.
| 1, and March the regular Sunday excnr-
sions will be inaugurated for the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claudius Fayard were the
recipient Christmas eve of little daugh-
| ter at their home in New Orleans. The
/ happy father and mother formerly Miss
HamIton) are receiving the congratula-
! tiOns of their many friends here.
! AT the residence of the brides parents,
! Judge and Mrs. John A. Breath, Mr..
iE.J. Calogne and Miss Urane Victorine
| Breath were married Sunday, December
| 81, 1899, Mayor Toulme officiating. The
couple departed same evening for New
/ Orleans.
A magnificent gift to Our Lady OF the
Gulf church from the Holy Family Society
| (col,) is the crib representing the holy
birth, displayed at the church during the
holidays. The gift is not only generous,
/ but handsome, the representation being
similar to that SO much admired in New
| Orleans at Jesuit's church,
Among the welcome newcomers to our
town we note Mr.. VIM. CrOmiller, Jr.,
and family, comfortably domiciled at one
of The Engman cottages on Union street.
| Mr. Cromiller is engaged i'll the tea and
coffee business. and being a gentleman
of enterprise and worthy of success we
Z 1. a Il
The local fire company held their regular
monthly meeting Tuesday evening, tor the
first time in their new improvised quar-
ters corner Second and Union streets.
Applications for new membership are
being received at each meeting. and the
company prosperng. with considerable
cash to its credit. Many of our leading
citizens are members.
A real estate transaction taking place
during the week was the sale of the one
story frame cottage on Carroll avenne'
owned by Joseph o. Mautfray, to Mrs
Amelia Letten, of New Orleans, for $500
The deal was conducted through the
agency OF Leland J. Henderson. Consid-
ering the impetus given cealty values
throughout the city during the past yea'
bv the introduction of numerous improve
ments. Mrs. Letten secured bargain
and particularly considering location.
A few ladies' of the Bay are going tC
give Il cries Of entertainments for til
heuefit of organlzat ons that need fuan-
cial assistance. The first will be glvef
January -, 4 7:30 y. M, at the crescen
Hotel, for the Baptist Church Society
Admission 10 cents, which includes re
freshments. The next viii be given Jan
%, and another will he given February
9th and the last one will he given before
Lent.a Washington enterta iument for the
benefit of the Library, at the Crescen
Hotel. February % at 1880 p. III. Ever!
one Is invited.
Work on building the electric wlr'
equipment for the city has begun, four
hundred and twenty poles having been
dropped at designated spaces along Sht
route to be traversed. MeSsrs. Braun u
Beecher are alive to the Importance o.
their work aud are pushing matters at {
rate denotug much spirit. Mr Henry
Widmer, whose advertisement appear;
elsewhere IN The Echo, has charge of the
'.wiring" work and does work reasonably
and satisfactorily He is at present en-
gagged at the Dunbar establishment and
has many other similar jobs on hand, IN
GLIDING private residences
A Card ofThanks.-To the Brothers o1
the Sacred Heart who organized the
grand entertainments for the benefit of the