From the November 1931 files of The Eunice News
The Community Chest Fund objective for this winter is $1,500.
The American Legion asked all Eunice businesses to close on Nov. 11 for the veterans observances. About 75 percent did so.
I think I’ve confessed before that I love to read advertisements in old newspapers, perhaps more than most of the stories they contain.
Marlene Harrison and her African spurred tortoise Clairessa. Harrison also owns a 10-year-old male African spurred tortoise named Bubba. (Photo by Claudette Olivier)
A Eunice tortoise ran away.
Sounds like an oxymoron, right? How could something so slow “run” away?
Mary Ellen Donatto, a Eunice area St. Landry Parish School Board, discusses an evaluation form to be used with Superintendent Edward Brown. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
Full-time St. Landry Parish School Board employees may get a $1,000 Christmas bonus this year, which is the same as they received in 2014.
The Board’s Finance Committee ended up a meeting Monday with a $1,000 bonus under the tree about 1,950 full-time employees.
The Eunice mayor and Board of Aldermen are to meet in special session at 9 a.m. Tuesday at City Hall to appoint a Ward 4 alderman.
The Ward 4 seat became open when Scott Fontenot resigned to become interim mayor.
