Newspaper Article in Crowley Newspaper. Written about Mrs. E. C. Favre nee Elizabeth Cosslett.1916, Crowley, Louisiana
SERVED FIRST CUP OF COFFEE HERE
Mrs. E. C. Favre, Pioneer Crowley Lady, Celebrating Seventy-Eigth Birthday Today
Mrs. E. C. Farve, one of the pioneer ladies of Crowley, and one who is among the most popular women in the city, is today celebrating her seventy-eighth birthday by entertaining a number of her friends at her home on Third Street between Parkerson avenue and Avenue F.
Mrs. Favre, who in spite of her great age, is well preserved and enjoys the best of health, has the distinction of being the first lady to serve a cup of coffee in Crowley.
When the city of Crowley was founded thirty years ago by Mr. W. W. Duson, Mrs. Favre was the first to realize the need of a coffee house here, and she established a small coffee house and lunch counter on Parkerson Avenue on the site now occupied by the People's Restaurant. Here she served the first cup of coffee ever sold in Crowley. Parkerson avenue at that time was little more than a mud hole, with few buildings, no sidewalks and with but little traffic, yet Mrs. Farve did a thriving business, for in those days many strangers visited the town, and none were long in learning of the excellent refreshment provided at the little coffee stand conducted by the charming Welsh Lady who had pre-empted the coffee business of the then frontier town.---- Mrs. Farve, a native of Wales, lives alone in her fine residence on Third street, having no children and no relatives in the United States. She has, however, a host of friends in the city, many of whom are her guest this evening, and she has been the recipient of many beautiful gifts in token of the esteem in which she is held by the people of this city, who hope that she may live to enjoy many more anniversaries of her birth.