From the Files ... January 1926

From files of The Eunice News:
January 1926

A power plant for Eunice, which will supply electricity to Ville Platte, Mamou and Iota, is likely, at a construction cost of $500,000.

Installation of a modern pickling operation will occur in Eunice soon. The Chamber of Commerce is negotiating with a Texas firm immediate erection of a pickling vat.

C.A. Ives, dean of the Teachers’ College at LSU, has praised the “Prairie Breeze” newspaper published by Eunice High students. Lucille Jackson is editor.

City Baking Co., under management of Arthur Mayer, has opened with a $10,000 bakery system here and in Crowley. Over 2,000 loaves of bread a day will be baked in Eunice.

The “Charleston”, with its spasmodic writhing, wryness and contortions, invaded the Back Fence Prowlers dance at Abe’s Palace.

Completion of the Eunice-Crowley highway, which now has a gap of 6.5 miles of dirt road (the other 13 miles is gravel), and the immediate graveling of the Eunice-Elton project are on the near-term work schedule of the State Highway Commission.

A 13-year-old Eunice sixth-grader died from blood poisoning contracted from a pimple on the side of his face which became infected, physicians said.

Stewart Stage Lines has put a big new bus in service between Lafayette and Lake Charles. It replaces Southern Pacific Railroad Trains No. 3 and 4 daily.

The City Council voted to purchase a $12,500 American LaFrance fire truck, with 1,200 feet of hose and a 750 gpm pump.

Theophile Moosa and Oliver Reed are now taking delivery of the four- and six-cylinder Star Automobiles.

Eunice Baptists announced plans to erect a new $20,000 brick church building on the corner where the W.O.W. is located. The Rev. N.S. Jackson is pastor.