-Remember
W hen-from the Teche News files
100 Years Ago
September 25, 1926
A committee composed of Messrs. L. F. Gary, C. T. Bienvenu and Leo Bulliard, have had this week, an iron fence erected around the grave of Evangeline, under the trees and Spanish daggers, just back of the Catholic Church.
The sports of the town surrounded all the radios of the town Thursday night to hear the news of the Dempsey-Tunney fight. The air was full of static, and the radios made much noise and only a few words were heard clearly, but enough to know how the fight stood, and the final result in favor of Tunney.
The iron fence at the Corner of Main and Port street, on the Fournet property is being removed, and a drive in filling station will be built on this ground. This filling station will be operated by the Evangeline Chevrolet Co.
The enrollment at the High School is 431 pupils, this we believe was a disappointment as this number appears small. Wednesday afternoon the eleventh grade elected the following class officers: President, Milton Barras; Vice-President, Abe Delahoussaye; Secretary-Treasurer, Will Gauthier; Class Representative, Earl Bienvenu.
Friday night at about nine o’clock, the fire alarm was sounded, the fire being in a box car at the railroad depot loaded with 29 bales of cotton. When the fire was discovered by the watchman, the flames were shooting out of the car.
Last Friday night about 6:23 Mrs. Frank J. Dauterive experienced a slight shock by lightning. She was in the act of opening the front door of her home when the bolt struck a lightning rod on the top of the home and was carried to the ground. Mrs. Dauterive was completely dazed for at least two minutes, but suffered no other effects.
The sweet potato market is down to the bottom, selling this week at one dollar per barrel, which is proving discouraging to the farmers. Cotton is selling from $30 to $42 per thousand pounds in the seed according to quality.
50 Years Ago
September 23, 1976
Governor Edwin Edwards announced the appointment of J. Burton Angelle of Breaux Bridge as secretary of the Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries.
State approval was obtained by area legislators for preliminary engineering and survey work for a new Bayou Teche bridge at Breaux Bridge that would provide an extension of La 94 to Hwy 328.
Cecilia High 4-H officers included Cheryl Speight, president; Louis LaPorte, vice president; Myra Fruge, secretary; Orida Broussard, treasurer; Mona Dauphine, reporter; Kenneth Melancon and Donna Schexnailder, pledge and song leaders; and Dale Melancon and Norbert Barras, program chairmen.
Officers Trinity Catholic PTA were Al Landry, president; Sandra Solomon, vice president; Lindsey Bourda, secretary; and Cathy Sue Hebert, treasurer.
Breaux Bridge FFA officers were Brent Champagne, president; Blake Champagne, vice president; Jay Broussard, secretary; Carl Frederick, treasurer; Charles Huval, reporter; Rickey LeBlanc, parliamentarian; and Dwain Theriot, sentinel.
40 Years Ago
September 25, 1986
St. Martinville Youth Group officers were Yvonne Lasseigne, president; Stephen Hardy, vice president; Tammi Landry, secretary: Patti Theriot, treasurer; and Dean Douet and Neil Theriot, parliamentarians.
Breaux Bridge native Lt. Cmdr. Albert “Buz” LeBlanc was awarded the Navy’s Meritorious Service Medal for his conduct during naval operations off the coast of Libya.
25 Years Ago
September 26, 2001
Darryl “Demo” Demourelle worked on the giant crawfish painting that adorns the downtown bridge in Breaux Bridge, adding a patriotic stars and stripes ground to the Crawfish Capital landmark. The addition of the flag motif was in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S.
Newly crowned St. Martinville Sr. High homecoming Queen Heidi Poché waved to the crowd after receiving her crown during halftime ceremonies of the SM-Northside football game.
