Yesterday's News

FERRIS DAY OFF

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Youngsters from all across Jeff Davis Parish had Friday off from school and converged on Jennings to enjoy the carnival rides and games at the Jeff Davis Parish Fair. Brayden (front left), the son of Brandy and LIonel LeJeune, and Ashlyn, the daughter of Winter and Charles Fontenot, of Jennings, took great pleasure in the Mini Ferris Wheel ride. Photo: Jennings Daily News 1996

Young ladies to vie for pageant crowns

THE JENNINGS DAILY NEWS

THREE PRISONERS MAKE THEIR ESCAPE FROM PARISH JAIL

At 11 o'clock last night Louis Alexander and Frank Broussard and Albert Landry escaped from the parish jail by sawing and breaking out an iron bar from the lower south window. The instrument used was a case knife which they left on the sill. Where the iron entered the casement it was badly eroded and easily broken off, when the other part of the bar was sawn through. The night was stormy and the men met with no interruption.

FIRST FAIR STAGED IN JENNINGS DEPOT

Staging a fair in a town of 150 population, with no meeting place other than the waiting room of a small railway depot — and making it a howling success is credited to E.R. Shankland and his loyal aides, who put on the first fair in Southwest Louisiana at Jennings in the year 1885. On August 8th, to be exact, according to records in the possession of Mrs. Laura Remage.

DAILY FAIR PROGRAM

October 16

EXPANDED PROGRAM TO INCLUDE PIERCE, DANCING

The rapidly expanding program for the Jeff Davis parish fair and oil exposition here Wednesday through Saturday of next week will include an address by Commissioner of Agriculture Dave Pierce at 10 a.m. Friday at the fair grounds.

Bear-roping plans nixed

When Jennings planned a bear-roping event as part of its Parish Fair in the 1930’s, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals stepped in and said that they had no objection to the roping of “cow brutes and horses” but the roping of a bear, in their view, was both inhumane and unnecessary.

Duo arrives for parade

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"Don't be a dummy. Buckle up." Larry and Vince, the duo that made that phrase famous in television commercial spots, are in Jennings to promote driving awareness and safety belt use, said Jennings Fire Chief Tommy Deshotel.

FREE SHOW ON MIDWAY

A man-and-wife high wire act, featuring the Weingards, is being offered free to the public in the midway of the Jefferson Davis Parish Fair, it is announced.

Many will see champion football game

JENNINGS DAILY TIMES RECORD