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parts of the United States have paid a visit to Brown’s Vineyard.
For the convenience of visitors to the vineyard, the price for transportation is put at the low figure of fifty cents the round trip. There is telephone connection and the number is 101-2, so that visitors or guests stopping at the cottages or hotels can secure a conveyance at any time to bring them out and back. Hunters are also furnished with conveyances and camping outfits and are guided to places where quail, squirrel, turkey and deer are plentiful.
LOUIS S. BOURGEOIS was born and reared in the Waveland neighborhood; lie received his education at the public schools and St. Stanislaus College, and has followed
Snap Shot of Louis S. Bourgeois.
mercantile life for the past thirty-eight years. For many years in co-partnership with his brother, O. M. Bourgeois, he
conducted the leading general store at Waveland; his present store is a new building, which is filled with a complete line of groceries, dry goods, shoes, hats, clothing, hardware, farming implements, furniture, feed, and a full line of drugs. Besides his local trade, Mr. Bourgeois has developed a very large interior trade, and makes shipments along the L. & N. all the way from Ansley to Gulfport. Besides this business, he has large realty holdings, owning a large farm and valuable lots in Waveland Terrace; he also owns the lot where the store is situated, which is one-quarter mile in length. Mr. Bourgeois takes a very active interest in public affairs, having served as a member of the Board of Supervisors, and for many years, a member of the School Board. It was while he was a member of this Board that the handsome Waveland school house was erected, which was afterwards destroyed by fire, and has since been rebuilt; his store is located corner Coleman and Jeff Davis Avenues; his telephone No. is 52.
A. C. .'BROWN,
REAL ESTATE DEALER.
A. C. BROWN has established a very successful business in handling strictly high grade real estate. These proper, ties are handled at exceedingly low prices; in fact, Mr. Brown aims to make quick sales and small profits; he handles both improved and unimproved property in the limits of Bay St. Louis and Waveland; he has a list of choice well located properties, with free title, asking a small cash payment and the balance on terms to suit the purchaser. By telephoning Long Distance 101-2 at Bay St. Louis, Mr. Brown will call for you in a conveyance and take you out to view his properties. If a sale should be made, he will not charge any hack hire, but 33 if not, the current livery prices is all that he requires.


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