Table of Contents for Historical News Articles (click here to start reading articles from first to last - use navigation arrows at top of page. These are not in chronological order.) 1850-1899 Evening Delta Newspaper Dated April 30, 1862 Reward for Capture of a Band of Armed Men - 1872 Petition to be released from bond - 1872 Reward for Capture of Guillorys - 1873 Merger of Parish Wards - 1874 Arrest Expense - 1875 Hog Ordinance - 1876 Petition for Transfer - 1876 Various Boundaries of Police Jury Wards - 1876 Surveyor to mark St. Landry and Acadia Parish line - 1886 Acadia parish Tax Roll - Ward 3 - 1887 Letter from a Northern Lady - 1888 First State Reunion of Confederate Veterans - 1899 Criminal Court - 1899 Arceneaux School Picnic - 1899 Succession Sale of Felecia Matt, Deceased - 1899 BAND OF YOUNG REGULATORS - 1899 THE SCHOOL BOARD - 1899 POLICE JURY MINUTES - 1899 STATE TAX SALE OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY - 1899 1900 Gun and Knife Fight near Ville Platte - Early 1900s Proclamation of Election District Court Jury List for 1900 POLICE JURY PROCEEDING POLICE JURY MEETING SHERIFF’S SALE LEDOUX & RUPPERT SHOOTING AT CHURCH POINT SMALL POX 1901 Mary Cormier Badly Beaten Grand Jury List Business Directory and Guide Central Acadia Parish District Court Cases Succession Notice and Sale Grand & Petit Jury List Dr. Geo. E. Brooks, et al Vs. Pierre Bellow & Christopher Gatte Prairie Hayes October 12 Haw Point Notes Haw Point Residents PARTIAL REPORT OF GRAND JURY SMITH – WHITE SHOOTING 1902 Horrible & Gruesome Tragedy Near Welsh Land Claims and Sales Ozane Matte & David Brewer Arrested At Mermentau A Pathetic Trio Grand Jury Report District Court Grand Jury Report Valmant Blanchard Jr. - Notice for Publication State National Guard Mustered Wild Man Captured Man Charged with Slander 1903 Voorhies Calligan Stabbed by Negroes Street Fight in Opelousas Sunday Cofederate Reunion Judge Deballion Puts "Fixens" to Disturbers of the Peace District Court Dorselies Fruge Brought to Jail Wholesale Arrest on Serious Charge 1904 District Court Adjourned Two Men Shot in Cold Blood H.J. Guidry Released on Bond Church Point Notes Death of a Confederate Soldier J.D. Murrel and R. W. David Shooting Transport Prisoners to Pen Succession of Eugene Daigle and his Wife Deceased Wife of Joseph P. Lejeune No. 523 Daughter of Theodule Daigle Burned Mrs. Victorine Murdered in Cold Blood Theogene Daigle DISTRICT COURT ADJOURNED 1906 Death of Mrs. Young and Mrs. Milner 1907 Onezime Meche Death of Mr. Theodule Daigle 1908 Seventh Ward of Acadia Created Guidry Wounds Thibodeaux Old Murder Revived Neel Young Accident Attempt to Wreck Train near Church Point Guidry Surrenders and is let out under $2,000 Bond Essey Higginbotham Shoots Leo Doucet Death of Ulysse Daigle Dr. Frank Savoy Gus Godchaux Lilia Branche Pavy Louise J. Harmon Death Clara Guidry Mrs. M.J. Gardiner Mrs. Louis Vautrot Death of Dan Louis Cherlot Death of Mrs. Jules Miller Mrs. Hertha D. Priest Death Octave Vidrine Placide Thibodeaux Robert Bourque Thieves at work in Church Point Thibodeaux - Guidry Marriage Olivie(r) - Cormier Marriage Leger - Savoy Marriage Barousse - McClelland Wedding Thibodeaux - Guidry Wedding Prohibition Meeting in Church Point 1909 Delmas Colligan Jerry Donovan Mrs. Julia Daigle Lecien Cormier Mrs. Stevens Daigle Mrs. Robert Lavergne Mrs. Elix Cummings Mrs. E. Guidry Mrs. Abraham Richard Noun LeBlue Higginbotham - Daigle Marriage IOTA POST OFFICE ROBBED JULES HARMAN ARRESTED KILLING AT VALERIEN BOURQUE PLANTATION LAURENT THIBODEAUX MAKES VIOLIN MARTIN LEBOEUF ARRESTED Opelousas Gulf and North East Railroad time table RURAL FREE DELIVERY SCHOOL MAY NOT OPEN 1917 Blow on Head with Hoe brings Death to Youth Dr. Dan Robertson, Veternary Surgeon 1921 ARTHUR THIBODEAUX KILLED AT DANCE 1922 36th Birthday of the Crowley Signal Auto - Buggy Accident Police Jury Proceedings PARISH OFFICIALS POLICE JURY MEETING QUALIFIED VOTERS = 2,515 FIRE IN CHURCH POINT JAUBERT BROS. vs J.B. GARDINER Ferris Scott and Ulysse Daniels in Knife Fight MUTILATED BODY OF DEAD NEGRO VOODOOISM TO BE CHIEF CLUE 1923 KU KLUX KLAN Denies Threat to Severin Mire 1925 Guidry Dies - Landry Held Leonce Daigle Killing 1926 Louis M. Richard - Chief of Police Arraigned in District Court Sheriff Stops Shotgun Duel Grand Jurors Report Today in District Court POLICE JURY PROCEEDINGS 1927 Grand Jury Report Three Dead in Murder, Suicide Church Point Youths get Jail Sentence 1928 T.C. Chachere Civil Suit Acadia Parish Vote - Virtually Complete In Parish Races Death of Mrs. Clothilde Lavergne Contested Constable Race in Ward 3 Desire Fontenot and Ambroise Dick Plead Guilty in Assault Case Senators Poll Results - St. Landry Parish Aurelien Thibodeaux Jailed for Assault and Battery SHERIFF’S SALE FARMERS BANK vs EDMOND MECHE WOMAN JAILED ON PRO CHARGE GRAND JURY TO MEET TODAY GRAND JURORS RENDER REPORT 1929 A Fatal Celebration FOWL THIEF HELD IN COTTON ROBBERY ANGELAS LEJEUNE WINS ACCORDIAN CONTEST FAMILIES ADDED TO CHURCH POINT MAIL ROUTE NO. 2 POLICE JURY REPORT Mayhem in Church Point and Pointe Noire Grand Jury Report FERNEST LEDOUX vs AMELIA LEDOUX FARMER’S BANK vs TREVILLE CORMIER CHACHERES ANNUAL REUNION 1930 Lanclos/Cary Shooting Woman is Accidentally Killed FOUR CONFESS TO STEALING GOODS Grand Jury Report POLICE JURY MINUTES MAURICE LeJEUNE CHARGED WITH STRIKING CORMIER FAULK REUNION AT EBENEZER MRS. ROSALIE RICHARD DAIGLE vs. MRS VENANCE DIES RICHARD DAIGLE REUNION 1932 Parish Farmer Dies of Wound 1944 Murder, Suicide Jury's Verdict 1973 China, Texas Woman Tells her Story of 95 Years
