Prairie Hayes October 12, 1901
1. Everyone is busy picking cotton.
2. J.B. Young had several negroes picking cotton Monday.
3. Bro. Kelly has been around this neighborhood and is
holding meetings every night in Church Point.
4. Rice threshing is going on vigorously in Prud’homme
neighborhood.
5. Charley Andrus visited his sister, Mrs. Oscar Way
Thursday of last week.
6. Brighton Young is working at the thresher in Prud’homme
this week.
7. Thomas Young, son of Lastie Young, visited in Opelousas this
week.
8. Another son arrived in the home of Mr/Mrs. John Childs a
few days ago.
9. Mrs. Jasper Morris visited her niece, Mrs. Oscar Way, on
Wednesday afternoon.
10. Frank Brinkman has ginned over one hundred bales of
cotton this season already.
11. A little son arrived at the home of Mr./Mrs. Jesse
Andrus, near Prudhomme a few days ago.
12. Mrs. J.B. Young and baby, Stella, and Mrs. Lonnie Morgan
and two children visited their parents, Mr.?Mrs. N.H. Way, Monday.
13. The doctor is still in attendance on Mrs. Oscar Way, and
she still has fever, and a chill every evening followed by fever at night.
14. Mrs. Jim Arnaud and daughter, Mrs. Tom Miles, visited
Mrs. J.D. Young on Friday, on their return home stopped in to see Mrs. Oscar
Way.
15. Miss Odelia Andrus is at the home of her brother, Jesse
Andrus, for the present, but will probably return to the parsonage in a short
time again.
16. N.H. Way, Wm. Mahar and Allen McCoy attended the
ceremony of laying the corner stone of Humble Cottage Lodge F.A.M. in Opelousas
on Wednesay 18th inst.