St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-09-17
BAYOU LACOMBE NOTES.


Last Saturday the Deep Well
Company brought in a splendid fou
inch we'll of beautifully clear an
pure water for the Oaklawn Ian,
and Improvement Company of thi
place. The wei is located Just bacl
of the railroad depot, is $50 fee
deep, supplies 200 gallons per minut,
and with a two inch reducer throws
stream eight feet high. 1t is a,
good as the best in the State, ant
is the initial step towards water
works and sewerage for the town
Mr.. John Todd and family hav,
moved into their new house on Davi,
Avenue. 1t is modern and attrac
tive in design, we'll located and al
ornament to the neighborhood.
The new hotel is complete and al
right, as far as the carpenters and
painters can make it so. 1t only
lacks necessary furniture and fix.
lures to make it going concern. II
is badly needed and should be a
financial success. Open up, open up
gentlemen; get bus; don't dilly-
daily till some one comes along and
SKINS the cream off your opportuni-
ties, then sit on your launches and
howl against strangers buttin' in
Miss Irene and Winnie Davis spent
Sunday, very enJoyably, with rela-
tives in Mandevile.
Miss Media and Selma Villarrubia
are guests of Mrs. Ed L. Valloft.
1som Keller and John Miller spent
a very satisfactory day with friends
in Vaudeville last Sunday. No, they
did not go fishing, they find just as
good fish in Bayou Lacombe" as
they want to catch.
b. r. Moses, representing A. Adler
& Company, of New Orleans, was
here Thursday supplying the wants
of his customers.
c. Jaufroid, travelling for the H.
T. Gotham Company, spent part of
Thursday in Bayou Lacombe looking
after the interests of that company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Glover spent
the weekend in the Crescent City.
DIR. Ed. L. and C. G. McGhee, from
the Logical Point" were business
visitors here last week. The Doctor
Is enthusiastic over the possibilities
OF Bayou Lacombe, in general, and
about the new well, in particular.
With such an abundance of pure
water for drinking and other pur-
poses, he says, there is no excuse
for germs, microbes, animalcule,
hookworms or other uncanny things
finding Judgment in the mental,
moral, physical or social constitu-
lions Of Bayou Lacombe. Amt that
DR.. Webb McGehee, of Gareyville.
La, came over to look after the
orange grove he planted here last
all. All the trees were planted in
shallow holes dug among the pine
'tumps and no attention given them
since planting, he found that about
,ighty-five per cent of the trees had
survived the drouth, excessive rains,
grass weeds and other unfavorable
and were growing nice
y. This surely speaks well for the
treat adaptibility of the soil and eli
nate of this section for orange grow
ng.
Mr.. R. T. Shell, section forman of
7. O. G. N. railroad at this place, is
e2airing the track and replacing
lecayed cross ties with new ones.
The road bed and track of his section
re always in first class condition.
rains lose no thine on it.
The automobile is no longer a |
hing of wonder and mystery on our
treets, and highways; the children
[on't hunt cover" at it's approach |
Tor do the older folk quit work to |
,aze after it. 1t is to be hoped that |
he roads of this end of the parish |
will be put and kept in such condi- !
ion that the run from Covin~ton,
ia Vaudeville and Lacombe, about |
hirty-fiveI miles, will become a popu-
ar and attractive one to motorists. |
a leafiet exploiting Covington as |
winter resort, beautiful drives
through virgin forests, over some Uf |
he best roads in Louisiana" are |
lentioned among it's other various |
ttractions.. This is true of some of |
he roads of the parish, but is up |
o the Police Jurors of the several |
Yards (and behind them the tax
ayers), to make good" that asser-
ion as regards all the roads of st. |
'ammany parish. Visitors should |
nd conditions as advertised, else |
heir disappointment and knocking"
1ill be the keener and louder,
Police Juror J. ]. Cussachs has |
gently done some good work for |
is ward. and has just completed
ONE three miles of excellent road |
rom Bayou Lacombe to the ward
ne, towards Vaudeville. 1t is
traight, smooth and well drained-
1 beautiful contrast to the Mande-
lille end of that road, which, from
he 7th Ward line to the Phillips
lace, is about as crooked and dis
reditable bit OF public road as
cam or smashed spring.
yer offended the eye, worried a
Clearing up the town and opening
.reets, work that has been too long
elayed, will begin next Monday, and
e look to Messrs. Cussachs and Nc
ehee who have the matter in charge
} make the tdirt fly during the |
ext thirty days. If they don't
ell, they'll hear about it. ]