Yesterday's News

The Earthquake

Santa Rosa, April 27

Dear Mother and all,

Well I guess you have received my card and papers before this that we are all alive and well but considerably shaken up and nervous after all the terrible disasters that happened, but don't know that we will ever be able to go to bed and sleep after being tumbled out of a sound sleep by falling brick chimneys and the house shaking and twisting till we thought we would be down and crushed, but we managed to get downstairs.

EMUS EVICTED FROM TOWN OF WELSH

WELSH - The emus have been evicted.

At the regular meeting of the Welsh Mayor and Board of Aldermen, the group approved an amendment which adds emus and other non-flying birds to the town's animal control ordinance. Two aldermen, Joe VanNess and Mary Sue Lyon, voted against the measure.

FLU HITS SCHOOLS

THE JENNINGS DAILY NEWS Feb. 16, 1951

Influenza is taking its toll on school attendance in Jeff Davis Parish.

On a check of four of the 10 parish white schools, 17 percent of the students were absent from the classrooms today because of the flu surge.

At Jennings Central, Southside and high schools and the Hathaway high school there were 338 of the 1,932 students missing this morning.

In one classroom alone at Southside 18 of 37, or almost 50 percent were home.

ROD AND GUN CLUB HOLDS BARBECUE.

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Around 1950, a Rod and Gun Club Barbecue was held at the Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge. Pictured (from left) are Faye Prather, R. McMillan, Curtis Henderson, Mose Dejean, Earl Necessary and Maurice Caraway.

Local Ford Co. does $250,000 business in 1925

The Jeff Davis Motor Company, Incorporated, Ford dealers of Jennings, reports one of its biggest years of its history in 1925. The total business grossed over a quarter million dollars, according to a statement taken out by P.C. Moseley, Secretary-Treasurer and general manager of the company, Monday.

PARISH SEAT CELEBRATION

JENNINGS DAILY TIMES RECORD
Oct. 28, 1912

On Saturday, Jennings celebrated the culmination of the recent parish seat fight by fully carrying out an interesting program of attractive events that were scheduled to entertain and enthuse the large crowd of visitors as well as Jenningsites themselves.

Rush made to buy Defense Stamps-Bonds

Jennings citizens, rich and poor alike, came to the post office this morning to buy Defense Savings Stamps and Bonds following the nation-wide appeal last night by the president and the secretary of the treasury.

OILFIELD LIFE.

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In this undated photo is pictured a wagon used for hauling boilers from Jennings to Evangeline.

The eight-wheel log wagon was purchased from the Fruge Bros. Saw Mill near Hathaway. Mule teams or oxen were used to power these wagons. The boiler on the wagon is one of the old boilers out of the Evangeline oil field. This type of boiler was the first type used in 1901 for drilling shallow wells. Later on, around 1908, a larger boiler, a 45, was used.

Museum dedicated in ceremonies Thursday

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Mrs. Ruth Zigler expresses her appreciation to area residents for their help in making the Zigler Museum, formally dedicated Thursday, a reality. The museum is the result of funds channeled through the Zigler Foundation which she heads. Guest speaker for the dedication was Judge John Hood of Lake Charles, who likened the edifice to a “temple” of learning and culture. A.J.M. “Bubba” Oustalet is on Mrs. Zigler’s left and in the background Robert Broadhurst, a member of the foundations’ board of directors.

Mermentau bridge scarred by fire

The west side of the old Mermentau bridge on Highway 90 East erupted into a blaze of timber early yesterday afternoon when sparks from a cutting torch ignited the creosoted timber structure.

The cutting torch was being used by workmen to remove the iron railing on the south side of the bridge that is no longer in use since the opening of the new steelreinforced cement bridge last fall.

It took twenty men, a pumper and several hundred feet of fire hose to extinguish the fire, the smoke from which could be seen as far away as Crowley.