The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-06-20
This Great State.

Ascension parish has donated al
most $1,000 to the Conemaugh fund.
Richland Beacon: ''The Farmers
Alliance seems to growing stronger
every day"
Two bridges in Avoyelles parish
are to cost 1927, 300, to be paid in ten
annual installments.
Houma Courier: Louisiana gets
$4,000 from Congress for its Expert
mental Station at Kenner."
The annual reunion of the ex-Con-
federate veterans of BienYille will
meet at Dubberly on July Is.
A. H. Nelson, of this State, clerk
in the Land Office at Washington, at
$1,000 per annum, has resigned.
The Police Jury of Assumption has
contracted with a vault company for
$4,000 vault for parish records.
Shreveport Democrat, 18th: "The
dog tax continues to grow Some
thing over $1,000 has been paid into
the city treasury"
New Iberia Enterprise, 18th: The
new masonic building is very nearly
completed and is the most ornamental
building in the town.
There are Ats pupils in private
colored schools in the City of Baton
Rouge. One dollar per month is the
rate of tuition charged.
Times-Democrat: Carroll Jones, a
colored man, is said to have the pref.
test piece of cotton, of 200 acres in
extent, in Natchitoches parish. Much
of it is more than knee high.
Well said by the Shreveport Times:
"The Judiciary system in Louisiana
is too expensive Fewer judges and
more teachers is what the people
want"
The st. Paul colored church, near
the railroad depot, in the town of
New Iberia, was struck by lightning
and damaged to the extent Of about
$3.50 on the 18th inst.
N. o. Times-Democrat: D. Wisch-
husen, of Grand Prairie, Plaquemines
parish, will ship a large quantity of
grapes this season. This is something
unusual for Plaquemines.
The Ouachita Parish Medical Soci,
ty will meet every Saturday in each
month before the full moon, at 3 p.
m, at the Court house, in Monroe.
They invite the public to attend their
meetings.
Ouachita Telegraph: "Some of
our exchanges keep on talking about
constitutional convention. 1t is all
bosh. Nobody is thinking about a
constitutional convention and there
will be no constitutional convention. :"
Morehouse parish recently voted a
5.mill tax for ten years in aid of the
Union and Northwestern Railroad
Company, which is expected to CO.
operate and aid in the construction
of the New Orleans, Natchez and
Fort Scott road.
Times-Democrat: Captain Allen
Jumel, of Iberville, formerly State
Auditor, has been brought to New
Orleans to be treated for infamma-
ton of the throat, caused by the
Judgment of grain of rough oats
just below the roof of the tongue.
Colfax Chronicle: Chow about
the Sunday law? We notice mum
Der of convictions have lately been
made in various portions of the State
for it's violation, and we imagine it
would benefit the youths of this com
munity to invoke its aid to suppress
the Sunday rowdying and gambling
that has prevailed of late"
Times-Democrat: "The City of
Monroe has made as rapid strides in
prosperity during the past few years
as any city of its size in the South
west A compress, electric light
works, two banks, and host of other
enterprises are accomplished facts,
and now there is talk of local in
surance company and a merchants
exchange"