From The Eunice News files

From files of The Eunice News:
May 1929
Flames swept through the Eunice Band Mill, destroying the sawmill plant’s office and threatening more than $500,000 worth of property. Manager T.T. May said the office will be rebuilt.
T.A. Chisolm is chairman of a committee charged with recruiting more Chamber of Commerce members. Other panel members are L.H. Gomer, Willis Johnson, Abe Boudreaux, E.A. Veillon and C.E. Hebert. The Chamber has 80 members.
Mathias Miller is erecting a $2,500 home on Sixth Street. It will have six rooms. He is with Southern Banking Co.
Sixty students received grammar school diplomas in seventh-grade graduation ceremonies. Sixteen graduates received their Eunice High diplomas. St. Edmund’s High has four graduates.
Former Alderman J.B. Lewis was elected mayor, with a 26-vote edge over Leopold Lejeune. Henry Landry, former chief, was returned to the police chief’s post.
Services have been held for John B. Atteberry, prominent farmer who live just south of the city, He was 64 and had farmed here for a decade.
More than 1,000 persons heard Gov. Huey P. Long lambast “big oil” companies in a speech at Church Point. The meeting was held to honor two of the 15 state senators who voted to acquit Long of impeachment charges.