Yesterday's News

Eighty-one per cent of the world's motor vehicles are owned In the United States, according to the National Automobile

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Chamber of Commerce, and there are 3,445,642 persons employed in the industry.

The Danger of Over Using Credit

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There appears to be a growing fear among the business men of this country that the public is “going credit mad,” and that we are fast getting into a habit that is sooner or later going to cause a serious state of affairs throughout the entire country. In a talk with a Jennings business man a few days ago he admitted that the tendency to overuse credit is growing in this community and that he understands the same thing prevails all over the country. More and more of them are refusing to realize, as a general rule buying on credit grows into a habit that can easily become dangerous.

GOLD MEDAL IS AWARED TO INMATE FOR HERIOSM

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Louis Miller, the trusty who saved the life of a Jailer J. H. Martin several weeks ago, when two inmates attempted a desperate brake for liberty, knocking Martin down the stairs, breaking his leg and causing other injuries, and whom they would have probably killed after taking his gun from him, had not the inmate come to the jailer’s rescue and held the prisoners at bay until officers from the sheriff’s office came to the rescue. The medal, which was presented to Miller Saturday, bears the following inscription: Presented by Isaac Fontenot, Sheriff Jefferson Davis Parish of Louisiana And Others For Heroic Courage of the Law May 13, 1926.

Election Ordered For Dirt Road UpKeep

An election was ordered in Ward 6, outside the city of Welsh, to vote upon a 5-mill tax levy, to run for five years, for the maintanance of dirt roads. This election will also be held August 3rd 1926

ANTI GAMBLING LAW PASSED BY POLICE JURY

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An ordinance was passed by the police jury, prohibiting gambling with cards within the parish of Jefferson Davis. The ordinance includes any kind of card game and the penalty for violating the law is a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars or imprisonment not to exceed six months or both. The ordinance exempts playing cards in private homes or clubs.

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“City contracts get-it-done fever”

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Tired of watching hundreds of thousands of cars go by each year, in 1953 around 750 Jennings residents got together and put up money to build a modern hotel with 57 air-conditioned rooms, a “basement on the roof” and refrigerated garbage unit to cut down on odors. Today, five-story brick structure remains on East Nezpique Street as the Zigler Tower Apartments. The community hotel was reported as the high point of the “get-it-done fever that has taken hold of Jennings.”

PREPARING TO SHIP ANOTHER CAR CABBAGE Jan. 2, 1910

The marketing department of the chamber of commerce is preparing to ship a car of cabbage within the next week or ten days. It is anxious to have all farmers in the parish who have cabbage for bulk sale to notify the secretary at once. Dr. C. E. Hunter reports he has approximately five tons: J. M. Hoke of Roanoke has an equal amount but a minimum car is 12 and the chamber of commerce is anxious to locate two or three tons of small lots, and it is with this in view it is soliciting all farmers having a surplus of cabbage to notify it at once.

Let’s Go Fish

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The Sportsman’s Corner Malcom Connelly May 12, 1960 Jennings Daily News Would like to cite a couple of examples of the power of advertising, along with the spirit of participation and cooperation.

GARDENING HINTS

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Planting time for most vegetables in July and August is usually determined by weather. “Get the ground ready and wait for rain. You can grow nearlyeverything in the summerand fall that grew in the spring garden. Says country agent, J. C. Barman.