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Louisiana?s Loss, Mississippi?s Gain
Louis, that had previously occupied by Planchet, and was subsequently used by Spotorno. At any rate, it appears that Jordy?s interest in the Waveland partnership was sold. The new partnership, called the Garvey-Michail Mercantile Company, moved from its Nicholson Avenue location to the beach, opposite the Garvey residence, over a store building built by G. G. Gardebled {Echo, 09/03/04).
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About this time, Middletown, adjoining Waveland, was growing rapidly {Echo, 09/12/03).
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Bay St. Louis was well provided with musical groups. The Bay St. Louis String Band gave a garden party and stage performance for a benefit on Saturday evening, September 5, 1903, at the Gardebled Grounds. A minstrel show by local actors was the hit of the evening {Echo, 08/29/03). Other musical groups of that time were the F. Taconi band {Echo, 12/12/03) and Capdepon?s String Band {Echo, 05/09/04). The Saucier Stock and Amusement Company was organized in 1904 {Echo, 09/17/04), and Pates Military Band was organized May 26, 1907. Pate?s Military Band played at the fashionable Clifton Hotel, said to be one of the prettiest little hotels on the coast {Echo, 1977, 1C).
The Gulf Coast Ice and Manufacturing Company (ice and lights) was owned for four or five years by the firm of (Thomas) Braun and (Charles) Beecher. Braun?s interest was sold in 1903 to T. J. Flanner of New Orleans for $1,300 {Echo, 09/12/03).
The following year, the Gulf Coast Ice & Manufacturing Company was sold at a commissioner?s sale to satisfy a mortgage held by J. H. Miller for $6,436.50. Paul Conrad had been one of the company?s organizers and was its president in the mid-90s. Miller bought it for the amount of the note, then re-sold it privately to A. L. Stokoe of Jeanerette, La. for $6,000 {Echo, 1904).
Stokoe changed the firm?s name to the Bay St. Louis Ice, Light, and Bottling Works. He renovated the plant, adding the manufacture of soda pop and summer drinks. The company turned its lights on about April 1st, 1904, assured of a ten-year contract by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and a 25-year franchise {Echo, 03/26/04). The company?s privately run electric plant was a small oil engine operated generator of 415 kilowatts, but this was sufficient for the needs of that time {Herald, 1958; 16A).
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