Yesterday's News

GRANDMOTHER GETS LETTER FROM BRITISH QUEEN

A story in the Beaumont Enterprise of a 91-year-old greatgreat-grandmother receiving a letter from England's queen was of great interest in Jennings. Mrs. D. R. Weyand, of Dallas, who received the treasured letter is the grandmother of Mrs. O.H. Clary of this city.

Dipping Cattle

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In this undated photograph from the early 1900s, at the A.R. McBurney sale barn in Welsh, cattle was dipped to control ticks and other diseases before the livestock was shipped to buyers. PHOTO: Jefferson Davis Parish: An Oral History

Daly Williams writes of visit to historic Moscow

Master Sergeant Daly Williams is probably the first Jennings soldier to visit Moscow and he has written of a visit to the Russian capital. The weather, he says, is not yet freezing, but not far from it, giving a foretaste of what Russian winters are like.

62 trucks await until 2 a.m. to unload rice, prices stay firm

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The Jeff Davis rice harvest is gradually reaching a peak, and as a result many of the facilities for drying and milling the grain are working at top speed and on 24-hour basis.

Specialist Coming To Sanitarium

The attention of persons suffering from Eye, Ear, Nose or Throat troubles is called tot eh fact that a clinic will be held at the Sanitarium Friday, Feb. 25th, at which all persons suffering from any of the above diseases may have their cases examined by a Specialist.

Local Ford Company does $250,000 business in 1925

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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.

EMUS EVICTED FROM TOWN OF WELSH

WELSH - The emus have been evicted.

FLU HITS SCHOOLS

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

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.

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.