17 Jun 1869
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Newspaper
The Weekly Echo
Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1869
Page
1
The Weekly Echo is published each Thursday by George W Wrigley. It serves as a local community paper delivering news, notices, and notes of interest to residents.
The notice outlines annual and quarterly advertising rates, language insertion rules, and payment terms. It states three dollars per year in advance, twelve dollars per annum for card listings, and that judicial ads must be paid by sale day or publication day. It mentions bilingual English and French insertions when no time limit exists and discounts for yearly or quarterly advertisers.
Parish of Calcasieu announces the Parish Court regular term begins January 1869 at Lake Charles Court House, to try all cases within jurisdiction every second month, plus monthly probate terms on the third Monday. Judge David J. Read signs the notice dated November 14, 1868.
The Police Jury met June 17 with members James Cole Franklin Bilbo J L Bilbo Johnathan Wing Thomas Lyons and others. They appointed sellers of unbranded stock in wards three and four for two years, designated gully overseers and road surveyors, repealed an earlier stock advertising rule, authorized bridge repairs, provided pauper aid, divided the 4th Ward, set stock sale penalties, and planned court and treasury actions.
Fragmentary notes describe a strange creature seen off Cumberland Sound with a keeper at Cumberland Island confirming a reported floatation. Accounts mention Captain Gar P Snry EL Bilbo and a reward offer, but details are unclear and heavily garbled.
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