Chronological Table of Contents for Historical Pointe Noire News Articles

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
• Parish Polling Places 1874-1902
• 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
• ACADIA PARISH NON-RESIDENTS TAX ROLLS, WARD 3 - 1890
• 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

• CHARLES FRANCOIS KILLED BY WILL McGEE
• 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
• POLLING PRECINCT COMMISSIONERS

1903

• Voorhies Calligan Stabbed by Negroes
• Street Fight in Opelousas Sunday
• Cofederate Reunion
• Judge Deballion Puts "Fixens" to Disturbers of the Peace
• District Court - Nov. 14, 1903
• District Court - Nov. 21, 1903
• 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

1912

• Musician Alphe Bergeron birth in Pointe Noire

1917

• Blow on Head with Hoe brings Death to Youth
• Dr. Dan Robertson, Veternary Surgeon

1920

• Acadia parish Tax Assessment Roll

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
• GRAND JURY RETURNS
• LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT DECISION
• MAGGIE Ln & SONNIER Dr

1927

• Grand Jury Report
• Three Dead in Murder, Suicide
• Church Point Youths get Jail Sentence
• KILLING OF THE MORINE BROTHERS

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
• Ovellien LeBlanc killed in fight at a dance

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
• DISTRICT COURT CASES
• 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

1947

• RICHARD ELEMENTARY STUDENTS

1949

• Captain John Taylor Was One-Time Writer For Daily Signal
• Iry LeJeune and Revival of the Old Style
• Horseback Trips Over Bare Prairie Was Woman's Job
• Oxen Driving, Drum Majoring Filled Early Years Of Jay Freeland
• M. G. Wilkins Fought Under General Forest
• Native Of France Gives Name To Town of Gueydan
• William C. Chevis Was Editor of One of First Newspapers In Acadia

1950

• Musicians Alphe Bergeron and son Shirley Bergeron

1973-Present

• Floyd Sonnier (1933-2002) "The Artist of the Cajuns"
• China, Texas Woman Tells her Story of 95 Years

Multiple Years

• PARTIAL LIST OF POINTE NOIRE RESIDENT'S PROBATE RECORDS
• NOTES FROM JAY LEDOUX AUDIO TAPE
• GROUP PHOTO POINTE NOIRE
• Family Land on BLACKSMITH, BOULET, NOAH DAIGLE, MAYHAW ROADS
• Family Land on POINTE NOIRE RD