St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-25
Slidell Notes
Slidell, La, July %. 1908.

Special Correspondence.
Friends and subscribers will
please send local items Of inter-
est, to telephone number So Sill
dell exchange.
Rev. Finch will spend his va
cation in North Carolina.
Who will be the coming mem
Der of the school board? He will
have to be a good official to i'm
prove on the present member.
Mrs. A. Baldwin, of New
Orleans, is visiting Mrs. c. M.
Liddle this week.
Mrs. J. Albert Salmen is in
the cool breezes of the lake this
week at the ''San Souci" club
house.
George C. Aiken will be sixty
years old three years from now.
DR.. Osler says when men be-
come that old they are of no
use to the world, and ought to
be chloroformed.
Capt. John Schneider and his
company of ST. Joe Rifles will
go into summer camp with the
State militia next week. They
are prize winners.
Uncle Henry Macy and Sam
Solberger will not travel this
summer they say. The panic
is on now, and they feel the
financial strain.
Seven armed men came into
town last Saturday night, and
went away before next morn
ing.
J. A. Salmen is figuring on a
new residence dwelling for his
own use.
In order to have the bonds
legal, the property owners will
have to vote authority for the
town council to issue same, and
then the new brick two or three
story school house will be built.
The |. 0. R. M. have elected
the following chiefs to serve
the tribe for the next twelve
moons: Sachem, W. L. Buffet;
Senior Sycamore, C. T. McCul-
logh; Junior Sycamore, Chas.
Mouths; Chief of Records, Will
Weinsbach; Prophet, William
Talley, ST.; Keeper of Wampum,
Chas. Guzman; Guard of For
est, Hood Sadler; Guard of Wig
wan, John Jennings; Trustees,
John Jennings, Frank Bour-
geois, F. P. Quinlan.
The new artesian we'll at the
Salmen brick yard, has the
coolest water of any well in
town.
u. G. Neuhauser will resign
, the railroad and express agency
, when the new drainage canal is
completed. He will then have
charge of the Lake and Cana
electric railroad, and Lake
Shore hotel and resorts,
) The new paper will appear
about the first of next month
) it is said.
Mrs. N. Mcdaniel is with the
Slidell Store Co., in dry goods.
r S. E. Reddin was in New Or
leans a day this week, and OBJ
served the late styles in divided
skirts.
Miss Ethel sojourner is at the
2 great Mississippi Chatauqua il
, the city of Crystal Springs thi'
: week.
Mrs. ]. F. Polk and sol
, Clyde were at Coopers Wei
last week, and will summer il
Tennessee.
5 Ten ladies had charge of thu
: ''San Souci" club house for tel
5 days ending last Monday. They
1 had a merry, merry time, hac
they every, every day. During
: the time there were seventy-si1
4 persons registered at the re
sort. J. Salmen, owner of thu
4 club house was a guest, ant
r had a pleasant time. The fol
$ lowing was composed by tn
girls and sung for his benefi
upon several occasions:
/. Jacobs his name, oh yes,
= He lives at Sans Souci;
- He keeps the club house
AS full as full can be.
r He never had worry,
= He never had wife
Oh me, Oh my, that's why
Jacob leads a single life.
: w. E. Eddins, of Gulfport
q is a guest of the hotel Everit
|. this week.
A party Of young ladies an,
" gentlemen went to look at ic
making a night this week, an
h now know where the cold waite
comes from.
j A teachers training class wa
8 organized in the Babtist churc
Tuesday night.
: Notwithstanding the calamit
hoWlers the town grows RICH
h along, and some of these day
will surprise the natives. Til
optimist sees the doughnut, tn
: pessimist sees the hole.
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