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Pointe Noir Table of Contents
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.)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Louis M. Richard - Chief of Police
- Arraigned in District Court
- Sheriff Stops Shotgun Duel
- Grand Jurors Report Today in District Court
- POLICE JURY PROCEEDINGS
- 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
- 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
- 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
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