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Motorcycle enthusiasts pour into city for festival

JENNINGS DAILY NEWS
May 11, 1999

The 1999 Inaugural Cajun Prairie Festival of Wheels was hosted Saturday by the Jeff Davis Festival Association and Jeff Davis Tourist Commission in conjunction with several cycle shops across southwest Louisiana.

The event held at the Louisiana Oil and Gas Park near I-10 offered bike lovers from across the state and beyond an opportunity to show off their rides and sample some of the cuisine and sights that Jeff Davis Parish has to offer.

‘No more sympathy,’ Peters says

THE JENNINGS DAILY NEWS
April 9, 1980

Judge Walter Peters said in 31st Judicial District Court yesterday that there would be "no more sympathy or leniency" from the bench for lawbreakers.

"When I took this bench eleven years ago, I said I would be as lenient as I could but things have gotten out of hand. There are too many burglaries, robberies and thefts in the community. From now on, people who commit these crimes are going to the penitentiary.

AN OLD CASE

THE JENNINGS TIMES
July 5, 1900

In the celebrated case GW. Spencer vs. Mrs. Clara Barbe, judgment was rendered Monday in favor of the plaintiff. This case has been in courts three years and a number of suits have grown from it. It involved the location of Spanish grant lines on Lake Arthur and was brought to locate a starting point of a survey of Mr. Jackson, U.S. surveyor, in 1811 and 1826. The case concerns all property in and about Lake Arthur, in fact all of township 11 south, range 3 west.

Electricity In Rural Areas To Come Soon

JEFF DAVIS PARISH NEWS
June 18, 1935

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration at Washington has recently launched, as part of the great recovery program, a rural electrification project which, in keeping with the President's desires, is part of a plan to bring the greatest amount of good to the rural inhabitants of this country in the shortest possible time. The sum of $100,000,000 has been earmarked to make the start toward farm electrification in the United States.

THE SALOON MUST GO!

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JENNINGS DAILY TIMES RECORD
July 31, 1907

While the lecture by Rev. G.F. Bradford, pastor of the Christian church at Lake Charles, was not as well attended as it should have been, it was voted very interesting and instructive by those who went to the Congregational church last night to hear the well known lecturer talk in favor of the temperance cause.

Caution To The Users of Gasoline

JENNINGS DAILY TIMES RECORD
April 16, 1913

It should be borne in mind that a pert attached to your insurance policy allowing the use of gasoline stoves does not apply to the use of gasoline in a flat iron for ironing — or for any other accessories. The insurance companies will not be responsible for fires or explosions resulting from the use other than specifically given in the permit.

WELSH POWER AND LIGHT

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Pictured is the Welsh power and light plant in 1947.

 

Red Cross asks for funds to assist in relief

THE JENNINGS DAILY NEWS
Aug. 21, 1969

The local American Red Cross chapter has issued an appeal for disaster funds to assist in relief operations along the Gulf Coast area, devastated earlier this week by Hurricane Camille.

Bill Howard, chapter chairman, said the local Red Cross operation had been asked to raise $523 to aid in rehabilitation of the stricken area.

Howard said anyone wishing to help could mail contributions to the American Red Cross, P.O. Box 663, Jennings.

SOUTHERN PRESIDENT TO SPEAK AT JEFF DAVIS SCHOOL DEDICATION

Dr. Felton G. Clark, president of Southern University, Scotlandville, will deliver the main address at dedication ceremonies at the new $366,000 Jeff Davis High School here Sunday.

The dedication and open house program will get underway at 3 p.m. in the school gym-auditorium.

The modern building, located on South Cutting Avenue here, was opened for the first time in September. It has a student body of 320 youngsters in grades 8 through 12 and a faculty of 15 including principal, Wilbert D. Rochelle.

A DAY AT CENTRAL SCHOOL.

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Students are pictured in science class at Central School in Jennings in this undated photo taken in the early 1900's.