September 2023

Another Man Wants A Wife

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1916 - This may be a good chance for a local girl to wed.

NOTICE

I have empounded one small red mule, branded on right hip will be sold on May 22, 1916 if not redeemed on or before that date.

Spectacular Spider

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Spectacular Spider

Parish schools to soon see added security

Jeff Davis Parish School Board (JDSB) voted in favor of moving forward with its plans to add weapon detectors to all parish schools after the finance committee approved a bid for the project at Tuesday’s meeting.

LAHS highlights senior maids

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LAKE ARTHUR — This week begins Lake Arthur High School’s (LAHS) Homecoming season by giving a spotlight to feature each of this year’s homecoming court maids.

New scams circulating

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State officials are warning residents of Jeff Davis Parish and throughout the state to be aware of scams currently making their rounds.

JDSB seeks input on four-day school week

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Parents, teachers, students and various other community stakeholders and school staff will soon have the opportunity to voice their opinions on the parish school system moving to a shortened week.

JUDGE BLOCKS PLAN TO SCALE BACK GULF OIL LEASE SALE TO PROTECT WHALE SPECIES

NEWORLEANS(AP)— The Biden administration is appealing a federal judge's order requiring the Interior Department to expand next week’s scheduled sale of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases by millions of acres. The Thursday night ruling rejected a scaled-back plan announced last month by the Biden administration as part of an effort to protect an endangered whale species. As originally proposed in March, the Sept. 27 sale was would have made 73 acres (30 hectares) of offshore tracts available for drilling leases. In August, the administration reduced the area to 67 acres (27 hectares) as part of an effort to protect the Rice's whale species. The new order restores the original plan.

Vision of Titanic

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Great Disaster Pictured by W.T. Stead in 1886 Enormous loss of life predicted by the distinguished English journalist in his own newspaper.

TEXAS PACIFIC TRAIN ROBBED

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1916, Mail car on Texas & Pacific train enroute from New Orleans to Fort Worth was entered by a lone masked man shortly after 10 o’clock last night as the train was leaving Grand Cane. The robber, at the point of a pistol, placed empty mail sacks over the heads of the postal clerks after which he leisurly rifled the registered mail in the car.