December 2019

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Elise Stefanik, a representative from upstate New York, tried to speak at the impeachment inquiry this past week. She tried several times to ask a question, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff kept cutting her off.

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Tucked away in the heart of Jennings is a little secret that not many people know about, unless you happen to be a local recording artist.

For almost a year now, the Murry family has been exploring not only a new business, but a new way of life.

After retiring, Pat and Bob Murry happened upon an opportunity to become the new owners of Lanor Records, which was previously owned by the late Lee Lavergne.

The Murrys, along with their two sons, Doug and Todd, quickly accepted the challenge of owning and operating a recording studio.

The Plans For New Depot in Jennings on Exhibition

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Plans for the new Southern Pacific depot were on exhibition in Jennings yesterday. They were sent here to allow the local contractors to see. The general outline shows a neat building to front on Main Street. It is to be a two-story frame and is to be used only for passenger purposes. The white waiting room will front on Main Street. The offices will be to the east of this room and the black waiting room, the express and baggage rooms still to the east. The old depot will be remodeled and an addition built on it on the west. The whole building will be used as a freight depot and office.

Al Capone goes through city on ‘prison special’

Only one or two persons besides the railroad officials here got a glimplse of the celebrated Al Capone and other notorious federal prisoners when they went through this city about 11 o'clock Sunday on a special Southern Pacific train.

Dry Rot In Jennings

Jennings is suffering from Dry Rot, both commercially and religiously, according to Evangelist W.O. Stephens, who is now holding a revival at the Christian church.

What Jennings needs is a little of the old time "Pep" that was characteristic of the Jennings of ten years ago. The grouch and the knocker have no place in a town of this kind and are a public nuisance. The religious population of the town is deplorably divided in numberless small sects scrambling for mere existence and clustering around trivial sectarian dogmas that are not worth a moment's thought.

Fate of local structure still unknown

At a time when Jennings is losing the few remaining remnants of its historical past, the fate of the Jennings Southern Pacific Railroad depot, one of the oldest and closest ties to the city's origins, is still unknown.

L.J. Armentor, Southern Pacific district manager of real estate, told the Daily News that a policy which originated from a "bad experience the company had concerning liability" mandates that property within a certain distance from rail lines must be removed after their use has expired.

Youth escaped from prison gives self up, ‘tired of dodging police’

"I'm just tired of dodging every policeman about the country and I want to give myself up," said young Lloyd M. Rambo, of Woodberry, New Jersey, as he walked into the police station last night and turned himself over to Officer PW. Miller.

Rambo told the officer, who is working the night beat during the illness of Claud Schultz, that he escaped from the New Jersey reform school at Annandale in December 1936 and that he had been roaming over the country since that time, but had to keep dodging all the police officers wherever he went.

Local girl Wins Praise For Nerve Displayed

Many newspapers over Louisiana have made comments on the wonderful nerve and self-possession shown by Miss Burgeois of this city in frightening a burglar with a toy pistol. One of the best written articles which we have noticed in this connection is the one printed in last week's edition of the Opelousas (La.) Clarion, as follows:

A wee girl, reading to a wee sister and a wee brother in Jennings, last Saturday night heard a noise downstairs.

Thinking that it was the intrusion of a cat she descended the stairs.