1905 Articles from the "Gazette", published in Farmerville, Union Parish Louisiana Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 11/2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== 1905 Articles from the "Gazette", published in Farmerville, Union Parish Louisiana Published in the Farmerville "Gazette", issue dated Wednesday, 21 June 1905, page 3 ================================================================================== The rumor of finding the burried [sic] treasures at the Trimble home in Farmerville, is still retailed in some quarters, the treasure described as three ten-pound tin buckets (lard cans) full of gold coin, and also containing a note dating back 40 years, designating the amount and ownership of the treasure. The people who swallow this myth forgetful that tin lard cans were not common, (if in use) forty years ago, and if such were used this long burial in the earth would leave little of the cans and less of such perishable material as written note. This treasure has been sought for on more than one occasion a couple of citizens at one time following the lead of a divining rod in its quest and removing enough dirt in one night to have started well upon the construction of the Panama canal, all to no purpose as nothing but more dirt was found at the bottom of the hole. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The members of the "Take-It-Easy Club" are now regularly engaged at their "good old summer passtime" of pitching dollars, in which they expend as much (wasted) energy as would dig a ditch or saw a cord of wood. Nevertheless it has its commendable features, for while hard on shoe leather it is saving on the bosoms of their pants, which otherwise would be brought into steady requisition, and it goes without saying that a naked foot would be preferable to the public than a tattered conjunction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The old China tree growing in front of the clerk's office, now occupied by Dr. Love, met with disaster last Friday evening, one of the two large limbs remaining snapped off by the high wind prevailing at the time, and has served to block the door way with its branches and foliage. The old fire-blasted tree on the north side of the Arent lot, also went to earth in the gale of last Sunday evening. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parish Superintendent Hodnett, who was here last Saturday to contract with the public school teachers requests us to state that the regular meeting of the school board, which has been fixed for Tuesday, July 4th, had been refixed for Monday, July 3rd, on account of the former date falling upon a legal holiday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Messrs. Smith and Bass, tobacco drummers, and R. J. Rasbury, representing the Monroe Grocer Co., of Monroe, were here this week interviewing the trade on their various lines. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While good and timely rains have been reported from other sections of this parish, the rainfall in this immediate locality has been limited to showers falling last Sunday and Monday and a considerable precipitation yesterday, barely enough to lay the dust up to that time. However the indications are that we will have plenty and some to spare ere the clouds roll by. #################################################################################