EAST FAREWELL
NEWS
Thursday, November
1, 1951 Vol. C333
LOCAL
NEWS
HALLOWEEN SCARE IN THE GRAVEYARD
East Farewell – The town graveyard was the center of attention
last week as Halloween approached. Many of the town’s prominent citizens are
buried there as well as some early settlers from around the area. While East Farewell’s
history only goes back to the beginning of the century, some of the first
people to move here are buried in the town cemetery. One of those is a
character from the early days of East Farewell. Edward
Drury came to America around the 1870s according to his own telling, and
roamed around post-Civil War America for several years. He found a job with the
Mighty Keystone railroad when it was still a small, local line. The MKR was
just starting to experience it’s incredible growth at the time and it is told
that Drury, without any real surveying expertise was able to talk his way into
a position of assistant surveyor and went to work with the Lendel brothers, Sid and Lou, and helped lay out the
new cross-state route for the MKR. All along the route the MKR built towns and
they ran through established towns but they were few and far between. Still, it
seems Mr. Drury became very adept at going into a town and finding an
available, or unavailable, young woman and romance her much to the young
woman’s boyfriend, father or husband’s lividity. Luckily for Drury he was never
in any town long enough to feel their wrath. Mr. Drury did not live in East
Farewell proper; it was more where he ended up. There have been rumors that Mr. Drury met his
demise at the hands of an irate fiancé on the shores of Lake Charles. He
was buried in the town graveyard. Over the years a bit of a legend has
developed around Mr. Drury. It evolved into a ghost story that was passed down
and shared, mostly by the seniors in the high school imparting them to the
younger students. Part of the legend is that Mr. Drury’s ghost rises from his
grave on October 28th, the day he was murdered, and he goes looking
for the woman who was his last conquest and her fiancé who did him in.
Last Sunday
was October 28th and keeping with the legend and in the spirit of
the season a group of high schoolers gathered in the graveyard to await Mr.
Drury’s return. Usually this is an anti-climactic event with the youths sitting
around his grave with candles and flashlights telling scary stories and
eventually scattering when a nocturnal animal disrupted the scene. But last
Sunday a strange thing happened. As the clock struck 11:15, the purported time
of Mr. Drury’s untimely death, a large cloud appeared to float over the
graveyard and move towards Lake Charles. Needless to say, the crowd was
frantic. They all ran towards the graveyard exit screaming at the top of their
lungs. All the commotion alerted the police who were coincidentally parked
right around the corner and they were able to corral the gang and calm everyone
down.
“After the
investigation we determined that the “spirit” was really just an unusually well
timed lake fog that had drifted into the graveyard. It is interesting that the
cloud drifted in at the exact time the ghost was supposed to rise but I prefer
to write that off as an amazing coincidence than an actual apparition,” said
Office Ward when asked afterwards at the station house.
An amazing
coincidence indeed.
East Farewell Cemetery
SPORTS
COUGARS HOMECOMING BIG WIN
East Farewell – The Cougars held their Homecoming
game on Saturday when they hosted the Sun City Eagles. There were fun pre-game
festivities and a wonderful halftime show and the Cougars were able to satisfy
the adoring hometown crowd with a convincing 28-14 win. The Cougars seemed
charged up from the start of the game. Perhaps all the hoopla at the beginning
helped. The Cougars won the toss and elected to receive. Joey Fox received the
kickoff and dashed right through the middle and made it all the way to the
Eagles forty-eight. Billy O’Conner came right out and started throwing. He hit
Phil Flynn on the first pass for twelve yards. He screened a pass out to Fox
who gained another eight yards. On the third play he handed off to Shamus O’Donnell
who shot through the line a got another first down. The Eagles were back on
their heels and the Cougars were moving easily. It only took five more plays
for the Cougar’s “Moose” Boyle to ram through the middle on a second and goal
to rumble into the end zone for the first score. The Eagles responded with a
drive in the second quarter that tied the score but the Cougars came right back
before the half with a last minute play to Flynn that gave the Cougars a 14-7
lead at the half.
The
Eagles were able to score again in the third with a long drive that took up
most of third quarter but the Cougars came right back to make it 21- 14 at the
beginning of the fourth. The Cougars game sealing score came from a 35 yard
sweep by Joey Fox, shaking off two tackles and racing into the end zone for the
score. The Cougars celebrated their homecoming with a 28-14 win.
Next
week the Cougars travel to Riverview to battle the Wildcats. Both teams are in
the middle of the league standings so this game could be very important for the
final standings. The game begins on Riverview High’s field at 1:00PM.
NATIONAL NEWS
TRUMAN WELCOMES QUEEN – CHURCHILL SEND
TROOPS TO SUEZ – ALLIES & COMMIES IN BIG DOGFIGHT – SINATRA DIVORCED –
PICKFORD ACTS AGAIN – POP MUSIC THIS WEEK
In
Washington, President Truman welcomed
Princess Elizabeth to the
United States. 550,000 cheered the Princess and Prince Phillip. Said President
Truman - “Margaret tells me that whenever anyone becomes acquainted with you
they immediately fall in love with you.”
The Princess told the President and millions more watching and listening on radio and television that Britain and Canada will “work with all our strength for freedom and for peace.”
Britain Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered another infantry division to the Middle East as Egyptian extremists boasted they are “adequately armed” for an underground war to oust the British from Suez and the Sudan.
Korean War - Allied jets and 113 Communist MIG’s clashed today in the three actions over Northwest Korea. The 5th Air Force said one Red jet was shot down and two were damaged in the sudden renewal of air combat. All Allied planes returned to their bases.
Mrs. Frank Sinatra was granted a divorce from her singer/husband. Mrs. Sinatra, under questioning of her counsel, related that on numerous occasions, her husband stayed out very late or did not come home at all. On numerous occasions when he invited guests to the house, he would go into another room of our house and ignore his company. Ask if he had asked for a divorce, Mrs. Sinatra said he had done so a number of times.
Mary Pickford will resume her acting career after a 19-year hiatus. She is signed by Stanley Kramer for a film titled “The Library.”
Pop music this week:
Because
Of You - Tony Bennett
Sin
- Eddy Howard
Cold
Cold Heart - Tony Bennett
I
Get Ideas - Tony Martin
And
So To Sleep Again - Patti Page
It’s
No Sin - Savannah Churchill
Turn
Back The Hands of Time – Eddie Fisher
Hey,
Good Lookin’ - Frankie Laine-Joe Stafford
Calla
Calla - Vic Damone
Down
Yonder - Freddy Martin
Blue
Velvet - Tony Bennett
Many, many
thanks to www.mrpopculture.com for
contributing to this section of the East Farewell News.
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