Yesterday's News

Classes gearing up for tourney

The streets and baseball diamonds of Jennings belong to Jennings High School alumni for one weekend out of the year, and come Friday the masses of former Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs will invade the city for the annual JHS Alumni Softball Tournament.

Football Friday

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Lake Arthur Tiger coach Dave Lewis listens as junior guard Wayne Hebert gives a first-hand account of some action in the trenches of Friday’s 14-6 victory over Rosepine.

SET JAIL AFIRE, FLEES BUT RECAPTURED

It got mighty hot for a 24-year-old Lake Arthur man Friday night in the lake city jail, after he set fire to the bed clothing and mattress.

Seek more ag students for Roanoke

A committee consisting of three school board members, C.N. Taylor, John Koll and W.M. Fenton, were named at the monthly meeting of the school board last Thursday to bring in additional agricultural students to the Roanoke High School so that course may be given at Roanoke next year.

HELP NUMBER ON PHONE EXPLAINED

The Jeff Davis Parish Police Jury today heard the manner in which an emergency phone number could be implemented for the area at little cost to the parish.

Man lost in Woods found by searchers

A search party from Acadia Parish found Howard Miller of Evangeline marooned in his boat on a small island in Bayou Des Cannes early Saturday morning, after he spent about 10 hours in the woods

7 schools of parish given movie machines

Visual education has been started in this parish with the purchase of seven Victor motion picture machines to conduct the new type of education, L.L. Kilgore, parish superintendent of education, said today.

Muddy Roscoe

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Roscoe, the new Jennings High School mascot, got a not-sopleasant welcome here Friday night at Bulldog Stadium. Long grass, water and mud made things rough for the lowlying English bulldog. Here cheerleader Tammy Daniels shows some of the weather’s effects and the job unofficial mascot curator Blackie Forestier must have had after the game. Despite the mud, the JHS Bulldogs won the game against St. Louis 3-0 in a thrilling overtime period.

Rosebud: Local legend

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One of the many well-known landmarks in Jennings is Rosebud's — owned and operated for over 50 years by Rosebud Young Moses. A remarkable, talented, accomplished and dearly loved Jennings resident, she died in 1983 at the age of 95.

Would open colonization tract here

James F. Drewitt of Montgomery, La., has been in the Jennings community for the past week looking over the country with a view to acquiring five hundred to one thousand acres of land for colonization purposes.