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OFFICIAL JOURNAL BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HANCOCK COUNTY
ESTABLISHED 1949 LARGEST PAID CIRCULATION IN HANCOCK COUNTY
August, 1958
SOUVENIR CENTENNIAL, EDITION - BAY ST. LOUIS, MSS.
August, 1958
City's History Both Romantic And Intriguing
Many years before the coming-of the French explorers, to this section, what is now the City of Bay St. Louis was but an Indian village bearing the name of Chica-poula. Here the primitive children of the Choctaw-Muskhogean families lived in a veritable happy hunting ground, for, as is more than evident today, the Divine Designer gave this Gulf Coast an extra special touch of beauty, or so it mjist have seemed. To fill the needs of His people He abundantly filled the waters with generous supply of fish and the forests with plenteous game.
As far as can be determined, Robert Cavalier de la Salle was the first white mian to explore this part of the Coast. According to Jacques de la Metairie, the official historian of this expedition, LaSalle descended to the mouth of the Mississippi River; and on April 7, 1682 he Went to recon-noiter the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. In 1688, Tonti the Faithful friends of LaSalle , came as far as the Gulf to seek tidings of his lost leader. On this trip Tonti examined the coast thirty leagues towards Mexico, and twenty-five leagues toward Florida.
When Pierre le Moyne d’lber-ville came to plant the Fleur de Lis of France on the Gulf Coast the historian tells us: “On the 12th of April, 1699, d’lberville set out to visit a bay about nine leagues from Ship Island, to which he gave the name of St Louis. But finding the water very shallow there, he decided to fix his settlement at Biloxi.”
This, however, was just a casual visit to sound the depths of the water and it remained for his brother, Jean Baptiste le Moyne Bienville, to set foot on the land and give it the present name. An exact account of this event, as described by Penicault, journalist from the frigate Le Marin, follows: “We shortly afterwards found a beautiful Bay, about one league in width by four in circumference, which was named Bay of St. Louis, because it was the feast day of St. Louis that we arrived there We hunted for three days and killed fifty deer.” . . . The writer described a trip up the Mississippi River, and on returning, he writes: “Next day we camped at the entrance to the Bay of St. Louis, near a fountain of water that flowed down from the hills, which Moyne Bienville called Belle Fontaine. (Belle Fontaine is what is now called Pine Hills). We hunted several days around this bay and filled our boats with venison, buffalo and other game.” Thus, according to these excerpts from history, it is safe to say that Bay St. Louis was discovered and named by Bienville on the Feast day of St. Louis, August 25, 1699.
From all indications, these visits of d’lberville and Bienville established a happy precedent and soon colonists from Biloxi found their way to this land of plenty. The Honorable J. H. F. Claiborne, author of Mississippi, as a Province, Territory and State, was well acquainted with the history of Bay St. Louis, since he lived for many years, on a plantation a few miles South of the Bay, now called Claiborne, Miss. In an address delivered at Bay St. Louis, July 4, 1876, to commemorate the Centenary of the Declaration of Independence, Mr. Claiborne said: “In December of the same year, 1699, d’lberville placed a few families here (Bay St. Louis) with a sergeant and fifteen men, in a small fort, near where the Toulme mansion then stood on the Beach between Carroll Avenue and deMontluzin Street,
Our Present City Officials
Finance Commissioner Warren J, Traub first came to Bay St. Louis as a small child of four or five years. Natives of New Orleans, Police Captain and Mrs. Charles Traub spent their summers in Bay St. Louis.
After the retirement of Captain Traub from the New Orleans Police Force, the famly moved to Bay St. Louis and established thieir permanent residence here.
In 1926 Captain Traub • was elected Mayor of Bay St. Louis, and served for five years, one year of an unexpired term of his predecessor, and four years as an electee.
Warren was/schooled by his father in public administration. He attended public schools of this city, and was appointed to serve for a fifteen month period as City Commissioner of Finance when Sylvan J. Ladner vacated that post to assume his duties as Sheriff of Hancock County.
During the 1955 city election, Traub was voted into office by a large majority.
He is married to the former Miss Edith Russ, a native of Log-town. They have three children, one daughter and two sons. The family make their home on Dunbar Avenue.
Mayor John Scafide, native of Bay St. Louis was elected to this office in 1953" and is serving his second term as executive head of the City Council.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Scafide, the Mayor is married to the former Miss Alice Blaize, and they are the parents of a daughter, Alice, student at the University of Michigan and a son, John, Jr., a student at St. Stanislaus school.
Graduating from St. Stanislaus high school, Mayor Scafide received his B. A. degree from Tulane University He was an outstanding college football player, and was named on several of the All-American Teams during his junior and senior years He played guard on the famed Tulane Rose Bowl Team in 1931.
Before taking an active interest in the government of his community Mayor Scafide taught schoool and served as athletic coach at Kiln, Bay High and St. Stanislaus. He was employed in this capacity at Pearl River Junior College, and was assistant line coach at the University of Minnesota.
During World War n he served with the United States Navy. In 1949 he was namted to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Bay St. Louis Public Schools, and was appointed Hancock County Youth Referee in 1951 by Judge D. M. Russell, Sr.
J. Cyril Glover, Public Utilities Commissioner is the son of the late Postmaster, Hairy C. Glover, and Mrs. Glover.
A native of Bay S’t. Louis, Commissioner Glover attended St Stanislaus School and after graduation from high school enrolled in the College of Engineering at Misssissippi State University, at Starkville.
He is one of five brothers. His first wife the late Hermie Perkins Glover died shortly after the birth of their son, John, who is currently stationed at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina. He is a member of the United States Marine Corps.
Glover is married to the former Miss Marjorie Thriffley, of New Orleans. They have a son Patrick Joseph, who is in Washington, D. C., where he is under the tutelage of Senator James Eastland.
Before becoming interested in municipal government. Glover was connected in the construction business. During World War 11, he was a Property and Supply Officer for the U. S. Government and traveled extensively throughout south Louisiana and Mississippi.
Glover first took office in the City Administration on his birthday, June 4, 1949. Since then he has been elected three consecutive times, and is serving the 10th year of his administration.
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1958 THE HONORABLE JOHN A SCAFIDE, MAYOR OF BAY ST. LOUIS
CARE MRS. FRANK KIEFER 800 DUNBAR AVE BAY ST. LOUIS MISS.
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF BAY ST. LOUIS JOINED IN THE CELEBRATION OF THEIR 100TH ANNIVERSARY, I SEND GREETINGS. IN THE STORIED PAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST, YOUR CITY HAS PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART. STRENGTHENED BY TRADITION OF ENTERPRISE AND COMMUNITY ACHIEVEMENT, BAY ST. LOUIS CAN ENTER ITS SECOND CENTURY WITH CONFIDENCE AND THANKSGIVING.
CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
(The Toulme Mansion was located where the Horton home stands).
On Januafry 3, 1721, two ships, La Gironde and La Volage, arrived with about 300 persons for
concessions of M. LeBlanc and now Court Bellville on the Yazoo River, and Madame Mezieres on the Bay of St. Louis, and Madame Chaumont on Pascagoula Bay. From the records of land grants,
it would appear that the colony of Madame Mezieres settled on a 17,-084 acre grant North of what is now Felicity Street. The colonists sent over by d’lberville and (Continued on Page Four)
Know Your County Board Of Supervisors
BEAT ONE
Within the past several years mineral rights in Hancock County are paying off handsomely for holders.
Greatest development area is located in Beat One of the County.
Charles Russ, Supervisor of this Beat advised that gas and oil fields are being developed in his Beat with the price of acreage considerably increased about four years ago when the first oil well was brought into this county in the Ansley Field. Officially termed Gas Fields by the State, substantial amounts of natural gas are piped out of the county by some of the larger pipe line companies of the country. Minerals will undoubtedly be an important factor among developments of potentials of the county.
Also to be found in Beat One are large tracts of timber lands. Pulpwood is cut and shipped from this section.
Agriculture provides good livli-hood for farmers, and hunting and fishing grounds offer year round recreation for sportsmen, with salt water and fresh water abundant with game and comr mercial fish.
BEAT TWO
Placed on the Board by the untimely death of her husband, the late Frank Keller, who was killed in a hunting accident, Mrs. Samantha Keller is the only woman member of the Hancock Board of Supervisors.
She served the unexpired term of her late husband, and was so highly esteemed by the people of Beat Two, whom she represents, that when elections were held she was voted back into the office by a large majority vote.
In Beat Two, animal breeding provides income for many families. It is in this Beat that large and prosperous farms are found. Dairy cattle, range cattle, turkeys, chickens, pigs, in fact all manner of stock do well in this area.
The streams and bayous also abound in fresh water fish, and trapping is another means of livelihood, as many fur bearing animals whose pelts are used in the fur industry are found in this region of the county.
Again timber plays a major role. Reforestation is doing the work of providing potentials here, as good forestry practices mean sound economy for the county for as many years as they are practiced.
BEAT THREE
Beat Three of Hancock County, located in the northern section is probably the finest dairy area of the entire community. Here the finely bred dairy cattle graze among the lush green grasses which provide most of the fodder needed to keep them the year round.
Here also are bred range cattle which are shipped to markets for meat consumption.
As in all sections of the county, timber plays an important role in Beat Three. Pulpwood and hardwood provide incomes for many families.
Altho’ hunting and fishing in this area are not done for commercial purposes, it is none-the-less filled with game and fresh (Continued on Page Eight