Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-07-05
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Mr.. X. II. Tweddle of Tallulah wa
a visitor to st. Joseph this week.
Judge Calhoun came up to st. 10
seph, Wednesday, on official business
Miss Pauline Abrahm spent severa
days this week with relatives at New
elton.
Master Lanius Durbin spent the pas
week with his cousin, Master Georgt
Clarke.
Mrs. JOS Whitaker and son, Master
Joe, have returned from a visit to rel.
atives at Canton, Miss.
Mrs. j. w. Losev has returned from
a delightful visit to her daughter, Mrs
j. f. Bryan, at Alexandria.
Mrs. Herman Goldberg and children
of Waterproof are visiting her old
home at Newellton.
Hon. Duncan Buie, State Highway
Engineer, was the week lend guest OF
Hon. ID. F. Ashford.
Messrs. A. j. Gibson and 8. ID. Wat
son were business visitors to st. JO-
seph on Wednesday.
Hon. jeff b. Snyder OF Tallulah was
a visitor to st. Joseph this week on
professional business.
Master Charles Ehlert, OF Water
proof, is visiting st. Joseph az the
guest of Master Hughes Bondurant.
Mr.. Jake Mayer ia among the latest
Tensas boys to join the colOrs. Jake
went to Camp Pike from New Orleans
last week.
Methodist service. will he conducted
at Wesley Chapel on Sunday morning
and at st. Joseph at night by Rev. r.
F. Harrell.
Mr.. Peter Vizzini, of New Orleans,
is visiting his brother in law and sis
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank LombardO, at
NewelltOn.
Miss Mamie Bondurant has returned
from a pleasant visit to her sister,
Mrs. W. A. Bnrkhalter, at Green
WOOD, Miss.
Messrs. JnO. +. Richardson of Fall
Ion, Nevada, and Henry Richardson of
Hammond, La, were visitors to st.
Joseph and Tensas parish this week.
Mrs. Turner X. Butler with her
daughter, Miss Christine, and son,
Master Will Ed, OF Ponchatoula, La,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Fred Skin
ner.
Mrs. G. d. Fish with her little girl
has joined her husband, the new depot
agent at st. Joseph, and for the
present are stopping at the Losey
House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. F. Gibson, of Dick
ard, left last week on an automobile
trip to points in South Louisiana and
South Mississippi. They expect to be
absent several weeks.
A number of our people went out to
the Tensss on the Fourth to enjoy
days sport in quest Of the finny tribe,
while several others went up to Lake
Bruen for the same purpose.
Reports from the lower part of the
parish are very discouraging as relates
to boil weeviI, as the pest is said to
have appeared in great numbers des-
pite the warm weather we have had.
On account Of scarcity of rousters
the steamer Percy Swain was unable
to leave Natchez at her usual hour Oh
and did not get away until
Monday afternoon, causing her to run
of schedule the balance of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. A. RECTOR and
little son, OF CovingtOn, KY, were
visitors to Tensas parish this week,
having been called here by the death
Of Mrs. Rictor's uncle, the late Mr.. |
Joseph GlSer.
The demand for cottages In st. Jo-
seph is great and certainly half dozen
houses could be rented were they
built. The opportunity is good for in
vestment for anybody who may have
The idle capital.
Miss Grace Peterson, late of Kinder,
Ia, has accepted position as sales
ady with Baker & Son. Miss Peter
'on is well known in st. Joseph, Esv-
ng lived with Mrs. Wimberly ut
'Osceola" several years ago.
Mr.. Byron Mayer is visiting his
ather, Mr.. Emile Mayer, for few
lays. he was met at Ferridsy by
Messrs. Abe Love, Riley Parr and
Bernard kaufman, all returning Mon
lay night by automobile.
The intensely warm weather that
las prevailed of late was modified con-
'iderably on Monday night by a cool
wave which swept over the country
md gave the appearance of fall, max
ng comforts necessary to sleeping.
The Cumberland Telephone Co. has
/ force engaged in moving telephons
poles from OF the plank road to the