The editor of the Weekly Messenger begged regularly to have the rutted road between St.South Louisiana was still reeling from the effects of the Civil War in the spring of 1872, and times were tough.
This water meter lid-cover was photographed in Charleston, S.C in the summer of 1996. It shows the white palmetto tree, which is also featured on the state’s flag, with crossed canons at the base of the tree. South Carolina is known as The Palmetto State.
O.K. So this is taking the long way around to find a needle in a haystack, but….. I am looking for a water meter lid, cover, from early Eunice, to photograph. It would (or should) read ‘Gulf Public Service” on the lid.
Home town news was — and still is — the backbone of old time weekly newspapers in south Louisiana, and there were many weeks when lifeBy Jim Butler
