1 TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD ______________________________________________________________________________ 7 OBITUARY _______________________________________________________________________________ 9 This Is The Way It Used To Be ______________________________________________________________ 10 DeQuincy – Early times ___________________________________________________________________ 12 DEPRESSION ____________________________________________________________________________ 14 DAYS OF DEPRESSION ____________________________________________________________________ 16 DAYS OF DEPRESSION AND THE nEW DEAL ___________________________________________________ 18 Then the war came _______________________________________________________________________ 20 Basketball and the Rally __________________________________________________________________ 22 Cattle Industry Story______________________________________________________________________ 24 Fire at School ___________________________________________________________________________ 26 ARMY DAY IN SUMMER OF 1941 ____________________________________________________________ 28 ARMY and maneuvers around Dequincy, summer of 1941 _______________________________________ 30 WARTIME RATIONING AND STAMPS ________________________________________________________ 32 PARISH RALLIES IN EARLY DAY HIGH SCHOOLS _________________________________________________ 34 CONFEDERATE FLAG AND CIVIL WAR DAY ____________________________________________________ 36 Letter to the editor: Charlie tells on T J_______________________________________________________ 38 RAILROADING WITH RATLIFF _______________________________________________________________ 40 WARTIME IN DEQUINCY LOUISIANA _________________________________________________________ 42 SHIPYARD AND OTHER WAR WORK IN WORLD WAR II __________________________________________ 44 SHIPYARD WORK IN 1943 _________________________________________________________________ 46 HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATIONS OF THE PAST ___________________________________________________ 48 BANDS IN DEQUINCY HIGH SCHOOL _________________________________________________________ 50 PINE TREES AND FORESTS IN LOUISIANA _____________________________________________________ 52 OLD IRONSIDES __________________________________________________________________________ 54 NEWPORT DAYS RECALLED ________________________________________________________________ 56 WHIT’S CHAPEL – ONE ROOM SCHOOL, A Texas Teaching Memory ________________________________ 58 BOSQUE VALLEY VISIT: Turn backward, oh time! ______________________________________________ 60 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, FOURTH OF JULY ____________________________________________ 62 MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY HISTORY _______________________________________________________ 64 TOLEDO BEND HISTORY ___________________________________________________________________ 66 VASE FROM LOCAL CLAY __________________________________________________________________ 68 LOS ADAES, LOUISIANA ARTIFACTS NEAR NATCHITOCHES, LOUISIANA _____________________________ 69 2 FOND MEMORIES OF DR. GEORGE LYONS ____________________________________________________ 71 BOOKS – OLD TEXTBOOKS AND FREE TEXT BOOK LAWS _________________________________________ 73 THOUGHTS ON THE FIRE AT SCHOOL ON AUGUST 18, 1970 ______________________________________ 75 OLD MILITARY ROAD _____________________________________________________________________ 77 YELLOW JACK RECALLED __________________________________________________________________ 80 DR. ROBINSON – DENTIST IN DEQUINCY ______________________________________________________ 82 YAMBILEE GAME STORIES _________________________________________________________________ 84 HISTORY OF LUTCHER-MOORE _____________________________________________________________ 86 ART IN THE SCHOOLS _____________________________________________________________________ 88 AIR SHOW AT LAKE CHARLES AND STORY OF EARLY DAY BALLOONISTS ____________________________ 90 GROCERY STORES IN THE EARLY DAYS AND COMPARISON WITH MODERN SUPERMARKET _____________ 92 HORSES – BREEDS, TYPES, AND CHANGES IN BOTH SINCE 1920 ___________________________________ 94 ENGLISH IS IMPORTANT ___________________________________________________________________ 96 ARMISTICE DAY _________________________________________________________________________ 98 A LAST TRAIN TRIP ______________________________________________________________________ 100 THANKSGIVING ORIGINS AND CUSTOMS FOR CELEBRATION ____________________________________ 102 KNUTE ROCKNE RECALLED ________________________________________________________________ 104 LAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL VISIT IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA __________________________________ 106 CHANGES IN CLOTHING STYLES FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY AT HIGH SCHOOLS IN CALCASIEU PARISH, LOUISIANA ____________________________________________________________________________ 108 CHRISTMAS ____________________________________________________________________________ 110 NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION AND OLD FASHIONED CHURCH AND SCHOOL BELLS… ___________________ 112 SABINE RIVER, LOUISIANA – TEXAS BOUNDARY DISPUTE _______________________________________ 114 STETSON HAT __________________________________________________________________________ 116 BLACKSMITH EXPERIENCES _______________________________________________________________ 118 THE PERKINS TRADITION _________________________________________________________________ 120 BANGS DISEASE RECALLED ________________________________________________________________ 122 THE ASTRONAUTS ______________________________________________________________________ 123 WATER REALLY PRECIOUS ________________________________________________________________ 125 FLU EPIDEMIC OF 1918 ___________________________________________________________________ 127 HAMPTON FAMILY OF STARKS AND VINTON _________________________________________________ 129 HOG KILLING ON THE FARM_______________________________________________________________ 131 KROGER FAMILY IN MEXICO ______________________________________________________________ 133 HAYES SCHOOL TO BE ABANDONED ________________________________________________________ 135 RAILROADING IN MEXICO II _______________________________________________________________ 137 3 RABIES STORY __________________________________________________________________________ 139 HATCHERY BUSINESS ____________________________________________________________________ 141 APRIL WEATHER AND MEMORIES OF SECOND STREET IN DEQUINCY, LOUISIANA ____________________ 143 MRS. RISTOM – RETIREMENT PARTY IN STARKS ______________________________________________ 145 HOME LAUNDRY DONE IN THE OLD FASHIONED WAY __________________________________________ 147 IMMIGRATION TO SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA FROM THE MID-WEST BY RAILWAY CARS… ___________ 149 CATTLE BARON, SALES, DRIVES ____________________________________________________________ 151 FAISZT FAMILY _________________________________________________________________________ 153 DRAFT DODGERS, DESERTERS _____________________________________________________________ 155 GRADUATION FOR CLASS OF 1971 _________________________________________________________ 157 PHONOGRAPHS ________________________________________________________________________ 159 TELEPHONES AND THEIR SYSTEMS IN EARLY DAYS ____________________________________________ 161 OLD MAID SCHOOL TEACHERS _____________________________________________________________ 163 TOBACCO _____________________________________________________________________________ 165 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE__________________________________________________________ 167 STORM OF JULY 5, 1971 __________________________________________________________________ 169 REVEREND JOE SHAW ___________________________________________________________________ 171 DR. JOHN R. RICE _______________________________________________________________________ 173 DR. ELEANOR COOKE AND DR. KARAT AND DIPHTHERIA PROGRAM AT HAYES 1927-1928 ____________ 175 REUNION IN WISE COUNTY _______________________________________________________________ 177 THE JOHN D. ALSTON PAPERS AND ALSTON GOLD STORY _______________________________________ 179 MEDICINE SHOWS AND PATENT MEDICINES _________________________________________________ 181 DOG SITUATION IN DEQUINCY ____________________________________________________________ 183 SCHOOL OPENING – SEPTEMBER 1971 ______________________________________________________ 185 SILVERWARE PATTERNS OLD AND NEW FOR TABLES AND BRIDES ________________________________ 187 STARKS, LOUISIANA PEOPLE ______________________________________________________________ 189 THE ALAMO ___________________________________________________________________________ 191 PARISH BOUNDARY LINES ________________________________________________________________ 193 OLD ATLAS (ELMER FAISTZT) ______________________________________________________________ 195 INFLATION_____________________________________________________________________________ 197 SCHOOL HOMECOMING __________________________________________________________________ 199 HAYES, LOUISIANA TRIP __________________________________________________________________ 201 ARMISTICE DAY ________________________________________________________________________ 203 BOREALIS REX STEAMER – MEMORIES AND STORIES ___________________________________________ 205 4 THANKSGIVING _________________________________________________________________________ 207 HISTORICAL NOVELS, MOVIES, AND TELEVISON SHOWS ________________________________________ 209 THANKSGIVING TRIP TO SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA ____________________________________________