Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-20

| vices at Clayton, Ia.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. White have re-
turned to McNary, La, after . pleas
ant visit to her parents, DR.. and Mrs.
L. A. Murdoch.
Miss Bessie Guthrie has returned to
her home ct Botany Bay from visit of
several days with relatives and friends
at Nstchez and Waterproof.
Hon. Thos. NJ. Wade visited his
brother, Mr.. B, 7. Wade, ct Frogmore,
last Sunday. ana returning went to
Baton Rouge on School matters.
Mira. J. 8. Ages OF Taliulah 10 visiting
her sister, Mrs. w. J. Ward, having
come down to look after her sisters
house while she and Mr.. Ward are
in Natchez this week.
Quarterly Conference OF the M. E.
Church, South, will be conducted ct
Wesley Chapel on the first Sunday In
August, by Rev. A. 8. Lutz, presiding
elder for the Monroe district.
Mr.. Jos. Nj. Harper. who recently
underwent operation for appendicitis,
has improved so greatly that he il
now able to come to town, which his
friends are delighted to know.
Mrs. Oscar Levy and son, Master
Loris, and daughter, little Miss Elaine,
h.uo -okc.coI fvorv, q ,,i.gk - Man
Orleans. They were accompanied
home by her niece, Miss Beatrice
Levy, who will spend the remainder
of her vacation here.
Mrs. Lena Henderson left last Sat-
urday for her home at Knoxville,
Tenn, after visit to her mother and
relatives at st. Joseph. She was &C.
companied to Vicksburg by her niece,
Miss Margaret Beaubien, who will
visit with friends in that city.
DR.. and Mrs. L. A. Murdoch and
son in-lsw and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. H. White of McNary, La,
motored to Natchez this week to
visit DR.. and Mrs. Med. Watkins. They
were accompanied home by Mrs.
Watkins for several days visit.
Miss Flame Irish of Vsndalis, I'LL
nois, who has been visiting Miss
Annie Bell Stout at "Vills Clara,
left, Wednesday, for Nstchez for .
short visit and from there to Mem.
phis, where she will also visit friends
before returning to her western home.
Mr.. Steve Triche, member of WASH
ington Artillery, is ct home on ten
day furlough. Steve looks well and
army life seems to agree with him.
He reports the other Tensss boys,
Fred Richardson, and Richard Wilds,
who also are members of Washington
Artillery, % doing we'll.
Mr.. Henry g. Chsvers of Memphis,
is visiting his sister, Mrs. H. L.
Smiths. Mr.. Chsvers lived here some
years ago and has many friends
among our people, who are delighted
to see him. He is connected with the
Rock Island Rail Road and 10 spend
ing his vacation here.
Rev. r. w. Vaughn, Superintendent
Of the Louisiana Orphsnsge, ct Rus.
ton, was to hsve preached ct the
Union Church, st. Joseph, last Sum-
day morning. and ct Waterproof at
night, but for some unexplained
reason failed to keep his appointment.
We hope to have . visit from him ut
Q later date.
Mr.. VIM. DIX. Baker and family,
of Beaumont, Texas, visited his
father, Mr.. w. r. Baker, this week,
having made the trip from Beaumont
by automobile. They stopped at
West Monroe for . day or two to visit
his sister, Mrs. w. M. Hunt and
brought Miss Helen Hunt with them
for visit to her grandfather and
other relatives here.
mosSrs. Wlluo ouO m8rIOu dubuTIo
who are In military camp ct Fort Sam
Houston in Texas are reported not to
be enjoying very good health, the
former having lost twenty pounds In
weight, and the latter after . severe
attack of measles is now suffering with
pleurisy. The young mems many
friends in this community hope they
will soon be restored to their usual
good health.
The Gazette ONCE received this week
from Botany Bay plantation branch
OF Japanese plum tree about two
feet long containing thirty ripe and
delicious plums, all free from insect
or disease of any kind. We under
stand Mr.. Guthrie has . very fine
orchard on Botany Bay and has IN
abundance Of fruit now ripening, which
proves conclusively that Louisiana soil
Is adapted to grow anything - good
a. any where else In the world.
st. Joseph had visit last Saturday
and Sunday from Rev. U. B. Curris,
President Of Siliman College, Clinton,
La. Mr.. Currie 10 not unknown here,