From the Files ... November 1930

November 1930

Excavation work on Second street, preparatory to paving the thoroughfare its entire length from Vine to Park is completed, according to R.L. Young, superintendent of construction and hard-surfacing is beginning.

The Seils Sterling Circus will establish winter quarters in Eunice. It has 150 employes in addition to animals and equipment. The fair grounds will be used for the wintering site.

Otere LaHaye, dealer here, has received what he said is definite assurance that Chevrolet will introduce a new car for 1931.

Fire caused by explosion of an oil stove destroyed the Martin McGee home on South Third. He and his sons barely had time to escape the middle-of-night fire.
Sam McManus has purchased for $250 the old Baptist church formerly located on Park Avenue and is tearing it down, using the lumber to build a tenant home on his farm. The building was replaced by a new $15,000 church.

Hollis Darbonne lost his right arm after his shotgun accidentally discharged, striking him below the shoulder. He had killed a squirrel, which lodged in the lower limbs of a tree. He reloaded, then held the gun by the barrel, using it as a stick to dislodge his quarry. The gun fired.

The Southern Banking Co. of this city merged with Eunice Bank and Trust with total resources of about $630,000. M.M. Milburn is Southern Banking cashier. Didier Ardoin is board president.

George Joubert has a new $2,000 barn on his Jersey dairy northwest of the city. His 85 head provide milk and cream to the Riceland Creamery in Crowley.

Eunice Insurance Agency and the Southwestern Company have purchased the former building of the late Dr. J.W. Bacon adjoining Picou’s Drug Store.

The feasibility of growing new forests in Louisiana to perpetuate operations of sawmills has been demonstrated in experiments at Urania by Henry E. Hardtner, who began his work in 1905.

Bids are scheduled to be received by Gov. and Sen.-Elect Huey P. Long for the new state capitol building, which will be tallest structure in the South. Cost is estimated at $5 million for the structure to be located on the old LSU campus.