Back in 1915 when I.F. Banderet was Bay St. Louis city Marshall, F.H. Egloff was tax collector and L.B. Capdepon was mayor, these men and municipal officers got together and came up with the following list of pluses. The list was printed as an advertisement in support of a Catalog of the City Schools of Bay St. Louis.
Bay St. Louis,
Hancock County
Has:
1 – Fifteen miles of Gulf Coast
2 – Large flourishing public schools.
3 – Large cannery for fish, oysters, etc.
4 – Very close proximity to largest sawmills in the world.
5 – Domicile of imperial naval stores co.
6 – Center of splendid graded rural roads.
7 – Up to date merchants
8 – Masonic Lodge, k. of P., Woodmen Camp, K . Of H. Maccabees.
9 – Largest Council of K. of C. building a $10,000 Council House.
10 – Largest candy factory in Mississippi.
11 – Only concrete seawall on Gulf Coast/
12 – Two strongest banks in Mississippi, aggregate deposits $1,000.00.
13 – Purest artesian water on earth.
14 – Largest mileage of shell roads.
15 – St. Stanislaus College, St. Joseph Academy.
16 – Modern electric light plant.
17 – Two large refrigerating plants—50 ton capacity.
18 – Five modern bakeries.
19 – Two up to date pictoriums.
20 – Modern city hall and artistic city park and fountains.
21 – Largest and best equipped auditorium.
22 – Three modern garages.
23 – Finest courthouse in South Mississippi.
24 – Best fishing grounds in the world.
25 – Enthusiastic baseball fans.
26 – A wholesale grocery and two large wholesale grain houses.
