From the Files ... October 1930

From files of The Eunice News:
October 1930
Thayer May, manager of Eunice Band Mill company, said the mill destroyed by fire in June will be re-built.

A.R. Todd has added two young squirrels to the menagerie he keeps for kiddies who frequent the playgrounds adjacent to City Hall. There are two big-eyed owls “Callise” and “Cannique”.

Services were held for the first time in the new $15,000 Baptist Church building.

Gov. Huey P. Long, also U.S. Senator-elect, spoke to an overflow crowd at the 4th anniversary of the Tri-Parish Fair.

Federal Prohibition officers swept into the city, destroying 3,000 bottles of beer, 75 gallons of whiskey and hugh quantities of mash and beer-making apparatus. Revenue agents seized 1,700 bottles of beer in a raid on a Happy Hill home.

Gravel is being removed from Second Street, five blocks on the Rice Trail, some portions of Maple and Camellia Avenues and Fourth Street in preparation for paving those portions.

The Rev. Father Edmund Daull, former rector of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, has received threats as he wages a clean-up campaign in his new city -- Abbeville.

U.S. Atty. Edmond Talbot is asking for several additional federal game wardens to assure better migratory bird enforcement in the state. The daily limits on ducks has been reduced from 25 to 15.