Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-05-23

Miss Annie O'Kelly and Miss
Frances Rowan made a business
trip to Natchez this week.
DR.. J. G. Lilly left last week on
a visit to his mother at Tupelo,
Miss. Mrs. Lily and Jack are WIS.,
itin at Natchez during the Doctors
absence.
The river having fallen so rapid
", the Cordill has resumed landing
at the lower landing, and the pas
sengers are carried down in the
gasoline launch.
AS will be seen by notice else
where, a meeting OF the stockholders
of the Tensas Cotton Compress Co.
will be held next Monday 29th inst.
at the Office of the President in st.
Joseph.
Miss Mary Bell Murdoch has re-
turned for the summer vacation
from Dodson, La, where she has
been engaged the past winter as
member of the faculty Of the Dod-
son High School.
With the close of school the sew
eral teachers are leaving for their
respective homes. Mr.. Scott went
to Kingston, DeSoto parish; Miss
Duncan to Pollock, La, Miss Flem-
ing to Tallulah, and Miss CouvillonI
to "Elkridge."
The public will bear in mind
that the Union Church at st. Joseph
will be occupied on the first Sunday
in June by Rev. R. A. N. Wilson,
and this being the reverend gentle
mans first engagement at st. Jo-
eph, a large congregation should
} attend.
; Prof. A. NJ. Whipple, principal
of the Newellton High School is
, spending few days with Prof. and
Mrs. Jordan, in St. Joseph. Prof.
. Whipple will leave in few days
: for a visit to his boyhood home at
: gainesville, Ohio, which he has not
seen since leaving there when child
l Mrs. BIB. Young with her daugh-
8 ter, Miss May Young, left Wednes-
b. day for a visit to her sister, Mrs.
; W. A. Burkhalter at Greenwood,
9 Miss. Mrs. Young is en-route to
8 Knoxville, Tenn, where she has
accepted the position of Assistant
8 Matron for the Summer School at
n the University Of Tennessee.
The Grand Lodge, KNIGHTS ct
! Pythias of the Grand Domain OF
! Louisiana, convened at New Orleans
last week and was largely attended
Vidalia Lodge, No. 108, was rer-e
sented by Judge John Dale; TensH'
: No. "a (Waterproof) by Messrs.
1T. Hunter and r. s. Graves, a.
" Lake st. Joseph, No. 102, (Newe'
; toni by Mr.. L. de Vries.
r Five buildings and several lar
w forest trees over at the saw m
t. Just opposite St. Joseph caved in
ce the river and were lost during ar
40 Immediately following the foo''
an Fortunately the mill was sufficient
adj removed from the river as not to
he reached. With the rapid recessic
n of the water the mill hands hav
Ily returned and the millhas resume
'ut operations.
a Miss Laura Bondurant has r
nd turned from Concordia paris
air where she has been engaged
Ike teaching the past session. M
lu- Bondurant narrowly escaped be-
,il- a passenger on the Inflated Steam
the Concordia, which went down in T
nd Tensas River at Clayton Static
be- and her friends are congratulate
the her on her good fortune to ha
escaped that disaster.
=, The Gazette is indebted to
u contemporaries, the Natchez Democ'
Don Don and Natchez News, for an invitati
oen to attend the 48th annual session
en- the Mississippi Press Associatio
which convened in that city
ven Tuesday and adjourned Thursd
W evening. The program was elab'
tn me ate and highly elevating and
Al, have no doubt the members OF !
anu Association enjoyed every minute
:, the time spent in the hospitable q
wen historical old city Of Natchez.