Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-13

W Ot. JOoCRh S0uSys
Mrs. G. D. Brigham of Waterproof
is visiting relatives at Shreveport.
Mrs. J. w. Losey visited Water
proof this week as guest of Mrs. R. N.
Hunter.
Mrs. Rebeca Lewis has returned
from visit to Mrs. Mary Snodgrass,
at Shreveport.
Hon. s. w. Martin left Waterproof
last Sunday to attend the opening of
the Legislature on Monday.
Mrs. Reeve Lewis and little son
have returned from a visit to her
mother, at Hamburg Miss.
The Tensas Missionary Baptist
Association was in annual session at
st. Joseph on Thursday and Friday.
Miss Elizabeth Gurton has returned
from Troy, Alabama, where she has
been engaged in college work the
past session.
Mr.. s. Chas. Young returned We'd
nesday from New Orleans, where he
went by car with his uncle and aunt,
DIR. and Mrs. John Smyth.
The long yearned-for screens are
now being put in the Union Church
at st. Joseph, which will add greatly
to the comfort of that sacred edifice.
Mr.. d. v. Edwards, Mr.. T. J.
Edwards, Mr.. Fruston Edwards and
Miss Gladys Edwards, Of the 9TH ward'
were visitors to st. Joseph on Wed
nesday.
Mr.. E. A. Buelow and family are
visiting relatives at Pine Rlnff, Ark.
They made the trip up there and to
other points in Arkansas and Louisi-
ana by car.
DR.. J. M. Gorton of Waterproof
has volunteered his services to his
country as surgeon in the U. 3. army,
and recently passed a creditable ex-
animation and has been accepted for
service and awaits call to duty.
Miss Jennie Guthrie passed an ex-
animation at New Orleans this week
for service as Red Cross nurse and
has been notified of her acceptance
by the U. 8. government and Is
holding herself i'm readiness for call,
which may come any day.
We are pleased to learn that the
condition of Mrs. Alex Blanche, who
was so i'll some time since and was
taken to Monroe to a sanitarium, ia
reported greatly improved, though
she is still at the sanitarium. Mr..
Blanche is also in Monroe.
Mrs. Helen Abrahm and daughter,
Miss Pauline, went to New Orleans
this week, where the daughter is to
undergo a slight operation. During
the mothers absence, her daughter,
Mrs. Maurice de Vries, OF Newellton,
is running the Abrahm Hotel.
Mr.. Thompson Lanius, who is at
present located at Monroe, was a
visitor to New Orleans this week to
consult DR.. Smyth, before the latter's
departure for the front. He visited
with friends at Waterproof on Friday
and spent Saturday with his sister at
st. Joseph.
Mr.. j. G. Rucker andDr. and Mrs
Geo. N. Clarke accompanied Mrs
Rucker to New Orleans on Sunday,
where she underwent an operation by
DR.. Smyth at Hotel Deu on We'd
nesdsy. The operation was sue
cessful and the patient has improved
so rapidly that her return home to-
ward the weekend was expected
which was great relief and satisfaction
to her many friends, who felt the
greatest anxiety about her.
Prof. M. A. Walsworth returned
to-day from q visit to relatives a
Jonesboro and other points in Louis
lana. Prof. and Mrs. Walsworth and
little daughter visited around ir
northern Louisiana and southern
Arkansas in their car and covered
nearly Thousand miles. Prof. Walls
worth has accepted the position o
principal of the Eunice (La.) Higl
School, in st. Landry parish, for tn
Forthcoming year with considerable
increase of salary. The Eunice Higl
lSchool has fourteen teachers an
about five hundred pupils.
| We are greatly panied to learn Q
the unfortunate accident that befe
Mr.. Jas. F. Curry, at Mounds
: Madison parish, last Friday. MI
Curry was employed in q saw mill
Mounds and was standing near tn
log litter when one of the heav
chains broke and struck him in tn
face, and his nose was broken and on
arm was badly lacerated and his bod
, was more or less bruised:
He was rushed to Streets San
] tarium, Vicksburg, where his wount
were carefully dressed and the patieI
l. is reported to be doing as we'll as ca
;. be expected. Jim 10 universal
t popular in this his home town ar
n parish and his friends greatly regr
Z to loarn NJ his unfortunate accideu