Officials for the Town of Sikes, Dec. 1946. Winn Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483


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Officials For Sikes Elected Last Week


W. S. Emmons, scholar of Sikes, was elected mayor of the Village of Sikes at a
meeting in the Baptist church Wednesday night, November 27, at which time
citizens of the town made their selection of officials to be submitted for
approval with a petition for a town charter to the governor of the State of
Louisiana.

Other officials selected were:  Arshal Lee Brister, marshal, who is also
serving as deputy sheriff; Aldermen, S. J. Smith, H. P. Parker, Clarence
Thompson, O. H. McMurry and Mrs. E. C. Willis.
All officials are pictured above.

The first meeting for the organization of Sikes into a town was held in
September, when a petition was drawn for a town charter.  Boundaries, subject
to change, began 220 yards south of the southwest corner of the Dr. J. B.
Parker property, north one mile to the property of 
Mrs. W. R. Sikes, east a mile and a quarter, sough one mile and west to the
beginning.

Sikes has an estimated population of 300 people.  A census is being conducted
at this time by a committee, Chester Erskins, chairman; Monroe Erskins and
Mrs. John F. Zenter.


(The above article appeared in the December 5, 1946 edition of the Winn Parish
Enterprise, published at Winnfield, LA. and furnished to submitter by Winn
Parish Deputy Sheriff Byron Curry, a descendant of H. C. Thompson, mentioned
above.  Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)