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GOLDEN JUBILEE EDITION, THE SEA COAST'ECHO.
r...uM5VI!SC2r'C:Z.5 3Y a ! served the echo
.TftlSUD C7 THE ECHO FROM'EG YEARS AGO
was the-old ''Treaty’* oak which, was ! TT rr»nP T A ^PPATU
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Scicn of.Nchl" and Pioneer .'F'auiily Y/ritas of Toulme And Saucier Families— Irxic’ents and Travel.
' STAFF WELL NIGH ! nearly opposite the present Catholic
Tnnn nn-v vrAnci^101?' ^ was easily over six feet
. THRU FIFTY YEARS in diarTietei. and a roadway ran be_
liY HARRY STUART SAUCIER
’ S a man treads his way down \ the valley and into the twi-of life, that which sustains him n:t. st rmd often wreathes his wrinkled cfii'iiU-nance into a merry smile, his tired old eyes glitter withj 1., re-caught glow of youth, ,andj : the moment his step gets springy! light . . . that i:; retrospection, j 7: i the panorama of the past lie sees i r.i<d hears things that live with him j ;>jv.n thru	the dusk; some sad, which j
j	-f been	assuaged by time, others;
••••;■ vhich time intensifies. ' , . '.i1 old	Bay! What food you give j
:;la:n	:ne thru tiie twilight. I
■...ms them I first saw the light) ■	■	score and tjn’ a^o. My fath-’
c r o ’.. as bom thorn nearly a cen- I ■ v\	in	the	house	next	to	the
I in uiaiut.ci, auu it ioadway tween it and .the bluff. Many people used to stand there to witness the trotting races between Bob Ogden, Eugene Dupre and other sports. Many sportsmen loved the Bay and made it their summer headquarters —racing boats as well- as Worses. The | writer well remembers the Cata- j maran races (double-hulled) of: Boardman, ...Sadler and others.
In those days the Indians would come into town on Saturday evenings in their picturesque costumes, peddling their beautifully woven bas- j kets, Sassafras roots and Gumbo file, with the squaws carrying their little) papooses in gaskets on their backs. |
| There was no law against it and | j the cattle roamed the streets, at will, i ! it seemed that by common cohsent j ! they made a rendevous at the court-! house square ... . we boys used to call ■ it Hugo Hoffmann’s corral.
I The “Gay Nineties” ushered in and j with them came a cfuiet, unpreten- j
GENTLEMAN OF OLD SCHOOL AND SCHOLAR
HARRY STUART SAUCIER
Hotel. My r’rand
year of n\v father’s birth.
tious soft-spoken young man who1 declared that he liked the Bay	and j
Harry	Stuart	Saucier, native, and ,was g°in§ t° rcake it his home,	fur- j
_n)L."' a scion	of	oldest and representative ! thermcre he was a reporter	and (	known
families	of	Bay	St. Louis, including: intended doing something about it. j
the Toulme families, pioneer
JOHN A. BREATH
Judge John A. Brtv.K was or.o of men of Hancock
-1 a white cainflia there in,	YamilTcs.^necrsetUers ' Fact was he- was going to start a | county, a resident of Bay St. I.
v.Mite -am-lin bush is on the end builders. Was one of the earliest. newspaper. Word tiuickly got around | He served as a justice. Beat 5
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ri - M tr> ’w	rnci	writers for The Sea Coast Echo and nnc* *he w*se acres stated: “What do i over a quarter of a century, coiKtrii-
'' or D C L 1'nrton d [Z- continued on down thru the half cen- nccd with a newspaper, can’t we ()ve, re_elpctcd cverv f(,r .	7,	’	lntlon	Jllr1	lam	! lur .	_	fe „	_	ft ov.; ell each other, all the news between'
I ill alter Oa years survives and j .ury only a lew years ag0 aucr m0 !hrrf> nnH Rivon finllere qhnrks it l lerm. and time and again lie was
_ iinc to Lafayette, La., where he re- jhcre an, Bay°u Sphere. bnucks, it | n 1 • -	won’t	do.”
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annually. It certainly ■.y	beauty and	joy	forever.”
; *	Settled	oil" Coast	Lat-
/.■ it ol' Eighteenth Century.
■ I'randfather. was	born	in	New
in	1;;()(} because of	the	lack
sides.
Mr. Saucier, in addition to writing I 3ut our new friend and citizen, news, was perhaps better known to Charles G. Moreau, would not be dis-
heartened, h^’d made up his mind and no high wind, salt water or blitz could deter him. So there in, that
older readers of The Echo as the author of the famous Jacques Pistache Letters, all of which ran in serial i:'.odical facilities at the Bay. His j form for over a long period of years, j little fisher-village that could not was an officer under Gen’l. | so great were their popularity. In (boast of anything modern was bom !r?-,v Jackson at the battle of New this edition The Echo carries two of I THE SEA COAST EXTHO, a weekly
‘-'l.i in 1015, his sword was lost ■ic St. Stanislaus fire. The Sau-
such letters written, original, and are edition that promised the people all Dublished in reminiscence of nthprlthe news all'the time—and hrnther.
I commended by the Grand Jury for f: his fcplendid administration and the c decisions of his court were always j sustained on appeal to higher court. ( Julge Breath was well known as secretary-manager of People Bide:. & 11. Loan Association, a trust he hold C(\ for over thirty years and up to his rv passing in recent years, aged 85 nn years.	w,
He - was highly connectcd in his ti: