The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-04-12
4 FAMOUS FEAST OF FROGS.
How an Attakapas Editor Fulfilled
His Promise to Fill Some of His
Contemporaries Full Of Rayne's
Standard DeIicacy.

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/! The following clever chronicle of q
most notable event appeared in a
recent issue of the Beaumont Enter.
prise signed Zone of the Guests"
Jim Craig, editor OF the Rayne
/ Ia.) Tribune, shares with Julius
4 Caesar and Pope Gregory the distinc.
! ton of having reformed the calendar.
/ In southwest Louisiana time is now
reckoned from the Jim Craig frog
feast era, which began on the eve
ming of February q. 1918.
Some Louisiana authorities say the
era began when Jim Craig first be-
gan to promise his frog feast. but
the best opinion is that this would
butt in on the beginning of the
Christian era and might cause confu-
sion. The Craig frog festival having
been epochal, the Enterprise has
commissioned me to make an histori-
cal memorandum of it for publica-
ton.
James L. Craig is a Texan and a
former resident of Beaumont, who
has lived in Louisiana long enough
~ aeq q 1eaote III u u lnhAil6 l6 coliee
III peo IN the morhihs. he pub4lshes
a newspaper IN fsayne, Whlch IS =cele-
brated as the great American frog
leg emporium. Several years ago
Craig began issuing invitations to
the newspaper men of the Louisiana
and Texas rice belt to a frog leg
dinner at Rayne. His original invita-
ton was accented bv Craig's news
paper iflehus. ne country news
paper man is accustomed uis'sstI TO getting
invitations u 70 panaue1s. li lhere is
the annual dlnner @oL-1he local cham-
per OF commerce. me local paper
lia1st l sehefaiiy sets past WlthouI nay
ing 20 pay ms sl6.p1es. fils tWo-co@
ul,iii account OF the speeenes made ny
others pays LOT ms ztlcheL. Inen
every once IN a Wnile some OF the
sponlgtong gets married ana the pest
Ways.lo GET one OF lhose. Ilofld write VIII -
ups eliaI OUT besl. eIllzens 50 na1e 70
gel IS 70 IEViee .sss,s ioeai horace
1lee.ey - Tue NaualAs e D1eahlase, s'@aIa
"nlch 1s 1l puiieu OIL JUST Deis'ie iso. .
leases. Wnen you =. ada tue OCCASION
a ieeos lnaL tne rice pe1t NEWSPAPER pei
aiitet aus iioih one ol, the pes. !.
-, lliloatlleu q Flcs llen N tile business,
"noss5l1as deeuiiiu4d.eo i. solne aeeulaf
lnLoi iIa'lon aDoue Tue SIZE " ehe fice
eiop - iluin ilon 1se0 .oiisssns =, on
= nis - :. s1lli' Nniot 10 Houlu aenel
51s9 y tne e pies snan iiaye up
slosnss eoln ", wv oos.l = lna' LIZ .nu
soay lV epape, lseli - = leesy !" ~
liooAeu D.Ae ~ ~ sne paaquee zllle
as14 oae .eno oun.. pless nen siau1s
49,, 60 e =, - - e.on ~ sae l.os
ts1sa eAe sensla q ~ - e's1on as
tl1s ~ als s,senusu ~ SEW cue "
.nsse so.laple ne' spapel uinnsis
So -.l.e IVY g ouiia e'ie
W. ;o1,aa ~ ~ . aga+e,,, papsi p''st un % ss
w. anu :. nv pueAsaaui eira iaan ilo.n
iss,,aa 49, -. ~ - i.sa..on as s.s
.a seo en.ls a.ony " ene
&c prsnt; - ~ rl.aeons nase
- ~ ~. I:.s .sis. e, ~ ~ .n4 80 %
tha ] ,n+i1 @ fiaa1ll, treu ..I: ,isen io
49, 1na -, ] - saa yini.oi - .lss
Tbe Ahhevfl1a ] Magfdiauo, @ =. 10 "a, ,Jaa 49,
craie was sstba CIV t, that mn NM s,n. .
na,. IN s,,nnasit;on, ead ~ &c ~ ha1t
nanars fran, paa a,,n,o,,t go, -. - pa,.+
tb1r ord paton Rouaa ao+ - lid
di,,a @ 4ba Rsyna Tr,b7,no shont fnae
loo dinners craia a1I fina1lv e sat uash @
ington,s RirtbSap as tha d,nner w data M
and tho fnTifasians e so,d % that | i
would Ias+ crown - : N ~ 70, - - NJ
Inorad1,1o,,s ~ nn+ afraia m - t,,av -, igh+
mice SOM athJno a.yarvhaav n,ba bad
fraa t,ansnort ef;o,, wa,,t - porna
an tho aftarnnon moon - ~ 9ond
The ;n+arstata comm, aroa .ao,,lot;on
. 100 ins+ ~, nassae - aoross s stata ~ 1;noe ~ 1an+
!, nv :o,1r;o,,s and h,,narv ~ nd noe.
rih1T +birst1y Tavan 81 - hnraa 20 p;l1I
rlnops and ~ 4n,o nsansha1,s ~
r a1a rbar1as. rbnnas, - 4ba S c,rou,evI
cs;sr, ~ Ed1yards f ~ - tha 80 thhavi11e
Tetsi Meridion.1. ~ " rhayic ~ ~ - a ~ ~ Gaurtrv ~,
D e1,ia-11 fornor1y a,,itar - 4ha ns;,y
c+atae. n pro.,ssard ,na ~ Wa;1
brotbars - ~ Ravna. ~ rarvof Tho
Rice Growers: with craig himself