The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-05-31

rawm and Parish.
May cherries are beginning to come
in. leo
fine. refreshing shower visited this
.ection Wednesday night.
Congressman Adoiphe Meyer favors
With bis able speech on ''Reeipro-
city with Cuba
LOST Saturday the darkies gave an
escursion down the bayou which was
nrettv we'll attended
Rehearsals are going on at the
Me,hodist church for Chlldren's oay
which will soon be held
onite a big crowd Of excursionists
1oft here Wednesday morning on the
excursion to EstherWood.
Dr. ". C. Mays, the popular Mag
delene Square dentist has favored US
with an order for job printing.
The French Hall has been enclosed
with 4 handsome fence and it has i'm
nroyed the looks of that corner.
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Figs are beginning to ripeD, that Is,
those of the early varieties. The main
crop will not be ripe before the hrst OF
July or thereabouts.
From all indications we will have a
good crop this year. Only a few more
Showers are needed to insure the corn
crop much Of which has been laid by.
Etie Bros. have taken the contract
TODD the brick work OF a new public
school building which is soon to be
erected at Abbeviile.-Crowley News.
English sparroWs are very numerous
about here and they are building
nests around the courthouse capitals
and any crack or Granny they a
find.
Wednesday morning the mercury
was down to 70 degrees and the wealth.
er was superbly delightful, cool and
balmy. Oh for more such delicious
days.
Tone doubts of the rapid growth Of
AbbeYiIle let him make a trip over the
town, and he will see more buildings in
the course of construction than ever
was see1 before at any time.
Crandall Bros, Of Rayne, recently
finished drilling a rice irrigation well
for Dayide j. Meaux, living twelve
miles northwest of Abbeville. The
well is 233 feet deep. NJ. s. Palmer
was the contractor.
As soon as possible after every rain
90 over the garden with the best i'm
PIGMENT at hand for %pulverizing the
surface. 1t map be a hand rake, or q
hand Weeder, or a tool actuated by
horse poWer-anything that Wilde the
Werk.
There will be a moonlight steamboat
excursion from here to Hunters Canal
Oh Friday night, June Is starting at
6o'clock. Music and dancing will be
INDUCED in OF board the boat and the
monstrous pumps at the canal will be
running on arrival there.
Why can't we have an oil gusher in
AbbeViliea We have splendid gas
indications of oil near the residence of
". A. White. Gas indications were all
tbey had to begin on in Jennings and
now they have the real thing. What's
the matter with our oil company?
the work of r~e-indexing the parish
records is proceeding very satisfacto-
my and we learn that Il of the bene-
lelal results of %inaugurating the new
method IS the discovery of a number of
SAFES and other documents which have
peen properly recorded, but never
indexed.
Snlnea chicks. should be Matched
onuef common hens Tor in incubators,l
uu,hea hens are not careful mothers,
aau Ine young ones being inclined. to
nnaness need the best Of motherly
esFe' They should be confined to a
oilaIi run for several weeks and fed
usen, Guineas are valuable for eggs
sloagn finding their nests keeps all
~ cuilQren OF the family nm the HINT