The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-01-09
TOWN AND PARISH ITEMS.
prrmsrY 18th.

IAFmIGBB live
never uttered.
psrrys Bridge will nav a 'astremski
-.l,v tsnotrow Sunday.
4 Moreland and Van Lampman Wis
,tad New Iberia this week.
NIB White Of Gueydan made Abb
n.vills a short visit Thursday.
our band boys are making very sweet
r,usie these days. and lots of it.
nav family grocery and saloon COM
A;rsd has been opened up in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. R. McHenry are now
comfortably ensconced in their new resi-
dence.
Nrs. Carrie Pipes went to O~pelousas
Tue,day to place her daughter, Miss Lu-
ellie. in school.
Aftsr o suspension during the holidays
,our scftsels resumed Monday, to the re-
eret Of the small boy.
There is a new bridge tender for the
BAYOU bridge, Eloi Broussard, who held
the Job some years age.
Pretty Miss Carrie Wall, a pup7 of the
High School at Patterson. spent the yule
tide with home folks here.
As m evidence of Abbeville's p~rosperi-
" no resident was too poor to buy Christ
mas cheer for his household.
"Blbi" Trahan, one Of our Oldest resi-
dents, left DC on the 1st and is now run
ming q saloon in New Orleans.
Old papers for sale at this Office at %
cents per hundred They are good for
shelving and underlying carpets.
Hon. P. Dupre Leblanc, the efficient
pole juror from the first ward was in town
Tuesday for the Blanchard meeting.
G~authrcaax and j. N. Colo1nb went
to Lafayette on New Year to be with
friends and enjoy . feast of good things.
Bonlfsce Blgat. our pioneer gardener,
has sold ont to Raymond Ploret and re-
moved to Carepcro several weeks since.
Mrs. John j. Robira of Crowley, accom-
panied by her little son, 10 visiting here
her sister. Mrs. c.. ] Edwards. this week.
We forget to mention last week that
handsome John Ewell, who is attending
school in North Louisiana, spent the holl-
days here with the home folks.
Louis Fallee's little son, Reno, while at
play New Years day was struck In the
face with o base ball bat by a boy play
mate and severely cut. necessitating sew
eral stitches to close the wound,
One day last week a corncrib On Eloi
Bronssards place near Spring Hill, caught
fire and burned with all the contents,
chiefly corn, potatoes, hay and gears, be-
longing to Joe Williams, a negro cropper.
J.E. White, the popular and accommo-
dating clerk in the grocery store of j. S,
Lyons, took . few days off last week and
went to Melville tor . visit with his
uncle and ascending to business. Jim
was entitled to a vacation,
II you want to make a relative or friend
an appropriate gift for the New Year sub
scribe AID pay for the The Meridional and
nave it sent to their address. 1t would
make the receiver think kindly of you
every week for q whole year.
John A. Brookshire, we learn this week.
bought the Sam Weiss residence on st,
Faiery street, and will soon take posses
ston. hr. Weiss will occupy the old Max
we'll cottage on St. Victor street. opposite
GEORGE w. Caldwell's residence.
J. II. Lutgring ia building a neat resi-
dence on the new road between here and
rerry's Bridge. If the building Of a resi-
uence by q bachelor does not meal the
winning Of orange blossoms what does it
meansf We pause for a reply.
Sam Hunley and Robert Henderson, two
young darkies, got into a scrap the other
night at a colored collation. and frolic
uown the bayou, and Henderson was
stabbed in the left chest. Hnnley was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff Huff and lock-
cd up in Jail.
Cel. joel Moody of the Republican Idea
accompanied by his wife, while re turning
from q supper party at Perry's Bridge
Monday night drove off the embanknent
~ tne darkness upsetting the buggy and
breaking the Colonel's collar bone, but
giad to know he is rapidly recovering,
fortunately Mrs. Moody was unhurt.
Aiss Neosha Van Slyke, the efficient
.eaeher of the Cesinade school, got up a
very entaining programe which was sue
essstaily carried out by the pupils on
ehrlstmas Eve. An arch trimmed with
was used from which presents
were suspended. The Rotations, dia-
Aogue and tableaux were well received by
sne audience and enconiums showered on
tae teacher.