Tensas Parish History
Submitted to the USGENWEB Archives Project by 
Edith Ziegler JAN 2001

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Early Newspapers in Tensas  

North Louisiana Journal
Published at St.Joseph, Louisiana
September 5, 1874

Parish Directory
Wade H. Hough          Judge 13th District
Hiram R. Steele        District Attorney
Charles C. Cordill     Parish Judge
Jas. W. Clinton        Parish Attorney
Charles E. Steele      Clerk of Court
A. J. Bryant           Sheriff
Wesley Dixon           Coroner
Solomon Shaifer        Recorder
C. C. Cordill          President of Police Jury
John Smyth             Parish Treasurer
E. P. Snodgrass        Tax Collector
R. S. Emerson          Clerk, Police Jury
Stephen M. Routh       Public Administrator
John Johnson           Parish Surveyor

Parish Court holds its sessions commencing as follows: On the fourth
Monday in January, March, May, July, September and November for the
trial of all class as of causes.
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On the fourth Monday in February, April, June, August, October, and
December for the trial of Probate Causes exclusively
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13th District Court holds its regular sessions on the 3rd Monday in 
April and October.

The Police Jury holds its regular sessions on the first Monday in
March, June, October and December.

Notice:
Notice for St. Joseph High School for boys and girls will open again
on the first of October 1874. Newcomers must come recommended by one
of the patrons of the school.  Tuition fee-Five Dollars for such as do
not wish to study foreign languages, for the full course Eight Dollars
per month-payable in advance.
Eberhardt Wuth

Annoucement:
We congratulate the parents of this vicinity, who have children to 
educate, upon the prospect of having Capt. T. Jeff Adams to take charge
of the St. Joseph School #1, October 5th. Capt. Adams is an accom-
plished teacher, having graduated from the University of Virginia, and
having been a professor at Oakland College, Miss for some years after
the war. The school board, in making this appointment, have consulted
the wishes of the parents of the children in town and given general 
satisfaction by their action.

Articles of interest:
We are glad to learn that our friends of Lake St. Joseph are making
such improvements in their midst. Dr. D. S. Newell has sold twenty 
acres of his land, part of Verona Plantation, fronting on Lake St. 
Joseph, to his neighbors, Capt. JDS Newell and E. H. Newell, and 
they propose building residences on the land thus purchased. They 
contemplate having quite a village, as they talk of a butcher shop, 
carpenter shop, drug store, etc.being put up. Esquire Octo Routh, J.P. 
of the 2d ward, will have his office for the dispension of justice, 
there also.
Who knows but that in a few years the Town of Verona will be asking
for an act of incorporation at the hands of the Legislature. We trust 
they will, so they are content for St. Joseph to remain the seat of
Empire. (Submitter's note: This must be the beginning of what later
became the Town of Newellton.)

Moses Dreyfus has opened a store at Avondale, and we suppose will 
pitch in for a share of patronage with his usual pluck and energy.

Nearly everyone who has been away this summer have returned to their
labors. Whenever cotton comes into town business looks up, and every-
body seems on the alert for the money to be realized out of it.

Mr. Frank Watson has enjoyed the distinction of having shipped the 
first bale of cotton from an overflowed plantation in Tensas this year,
as he sent forward a bale on the Natchez, Wednesday from Duck Pond 
Plantation.
It speaks well for our enterprising young planter, this being his first 
year as an agriculturist.

ADVERTISING:

A S Davidson advertised as a General Builder and House Mover--Has also
on hand an assortment of Rosewood Walnut and Metallic coffins. Waterproof


         NEW STORE         NEW GOODS          NEW PRICES
                          B. Dreyfus
                     Announces to the Public
                     That he has opened his
                     NEW STORE AT ST JOSEPH
                     WHERE HE NOW OFFERS
                        BOOTS AND SHOES
                         HATS AND CAPS
                       CROCKERY, SADDLERY
                GROCERIES AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES
                 AT PRICES WHICH DEFY COMPETITION
                     LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE
                              AND
                HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR COTTON
                      HIDES AND FURS BOUGHT
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