The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-01-31
This Great State.

The Covington Pottery and Fur
mace works is now in full operation.
Crowley Signal: Our merchants
are selling an immense amount of
balbed wire.
It ia intended to repair and reno
vate the old Masonic hall in New Or
leans next summer.
Arrangements have been made to
build railroad from Columbia to
Bastrop via Monroe.
The barbed wire fence is rapidly
taking the place of the rail fence in
East Feliciana parish.
Teche Pilot: Quite number of
immigrants have arrived here lately
| and many more are expected next
month.
The two foundries In Thibodaux
have commenced work and have or
ders to keep them going for several
months.
East Carroll Banner: The crop
was not SO bad after all. Those who
worked made, in many instances, a
bale to the acre.
The planters of the Oak Ridge
neighborhood, in Morehouse parish,
viii send an agent to South Carolina
to obtain more labor.
Geren & Moreland, commercial
firm of Minden, have fled anapplica-
ton asking for a respite. Liabilities,
$4,000; assets, $4,000.
The necessary funds have been
subscribed to establish a national
bank at Natchitoches. A movement
is also on foot to build compress.
The streets of Baton Rouge are
to be lighted, beginning March 18th
next. with 20 arc lamps, at cost of
$500 per year for period Of three
Yeas.
Morgan City Press: Let US have
good work towards securing immi-
grafton, but not lose sight of the fact
that we should better our own con-
dition.
The records in the Court house at
Natchitoches date back some 10
years and are connected with the
early history of Louisiana under
Spanish and French rule.
Morehouse Clarion: Gov. Mich.
oils selection out of the long list of
applicants for the Assessorship, will
come as near giving general satisfac-
ton as any he could have made.
There are % Lodges of the order of
Odd Fellows in the State. Two new
Lodges were organized during the
past year, and an increase of more
than 10 per cent in membership is
reported.
New Orleans City Item: The Item
is glad to learn that the Commercial
Soap, Candle and Starch Mandatory
Nimited)," has completed the pur-
chase for the site for its factory, and
will commence operations at once.
Louisiana Review, New Orleans /:
An enterprise of considerable inn
portance will soon be put in opera
ton here in the shape of the South
ern Furniture Manufacturing Com
pany, capital stock $3.50, 900, and
which viii employ soc men. The
work viii be in operation by July 1.
Farmersville Gazette: Ten wagon
loads of immigrants from Georgia,
recently landed near Shiloh, in the
9TH ward, aud will henceforth make
their future home in Union parish
they are said to be delighted with
their surroundings. We say let them
come for many of our best citizens
are from Georgia.
i Louisiana Review: Northern cap.
;talists have purchased 1000 acres OF
land in DeSoto parish and viii soon
put force of hands to work on it to
cut all the oak, ash and hickory tim
Der thereon and ship the product
North. ''Thus," comments the DeSoto
Democrat, "our people can soon en-
| Joy the luxury of an ak or hoe handle
made in Cincinnati out Of timber
grown in DeSoto."
C. B. Maynard, ex-District Clcrk OF
Morehouse parish, aged SO years,
was burned to death at Bastrop on
last Sunday morning in the residence
of Mrs. Sherman Reynolds. Mrs.
Reynolds and her children slept on
the first floor and awakened about
o'clock to find the house in flames -
They escaped in their night clothes.
Maynard slept on the second floor
and was suffocated before he could
escape.
The 25th anniversary of the insti-
tuition of the order of Knights OF
Pythias viii be celebrated in New
Orleans on Tuesday, Feb. 10. The
Times-Democrat says: Reports, sc
far received, indicate substantial
increase in membership and Aatter-
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