The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-12-04
This Great State.
Very little litigation in Lincoln
parish, says the Age.

very HUE llClSaClOu III AsuCOlu
parish, says the Age.
Summerfeld, Claiborne parish,
now has daily mail.
4 sawmill recently built at LO-
gansport will cut about $4,000 feet
of lumber daily.
Within the last five months 500
Western aud $500 foreign immi-
grants have entered Louisiana.
W. B. Malone, perhaps the oldest
man in Claiborne parish, died near
Lisbon recently, aged SO years.
Last Thursday seven business
houses in Rayville were destroyed
by fire. Total loss about $4,000.
Grand Marais, in Calcasieu parish,
will be drained, by which large
tract of fine land will be reclaimed.
Sixty barrels of oil were shipped
from the Natchitoches oil mill to
New Orleans Tuesday of last week.
The following postOffices have
been established in Louisiana: Mil
ton, Vermillion parish; Beach, Cad. i
do parish.
The total receipts of cotton at the !
compress at Monroe up to Nov. II,
were 10000 bales-a decided in
crease over last year.
In 1889 there were 10 business
houses in BayvIle, and in 1890, be-
fore the fire last Thursday, there
were Is business houses.
Progressive Age: The hammer
and saw is never still in Ruston.-
Real estate is still changing hands,
and prices are increasing.
The Police Jury of Union parish
has subscribed $4,000 to the Monroe
and Arkansas railroad, on condition
that it is built through Farmerville.
New Iberia was visited by dis
trous fire Wednesday night of last
week, which destroyed $4,000
worth of property, insured at S1O,-
100.
The wool industry of Calcasieu
parish is constantly growing. One
! buyer at Lake Charles has purchas-
ed $4,000 pounds this season, for
which be paid $4,000.
"Claiborne must be improving"
D says the Guardian Journal. ut
: has been two or three weeks since
. we have had a murder or serious
shooting or cutting scrape."
> The Guardian-Journal of Nov. 26
]. says there is still considerable cot
Y ton in the patch, but with favorable
weather the crop in Claiborne parish
will very soon all be harvested.
Progressive Age: Two gentlemen
e from Iowa were in Ruston this week
: looking up large tracts of timbered
lands. They inquired for the long
leaf pine. Mill men, we presume.
The steamboat 7. P. feathers
was burned to the waters edge, OPP
posite Fort Adams, Miss, a few
y miles above Bayou Sara, La, on
is last Thursday, involving loss of II
= lives and S165,000 worth of property
: Webster Signal, Nov. %: Judge
. j. d. Watkins, who has been con
II fined to bis room for several years,
: was out on the street Tuesday Shak.
: ing hands with his numerous friends,
~ who were delighted to see the Judge
q up again.
IS st. Landry Clarion: There is still
70 much cotton in the fields. The
surplus has mostly gone below te
the sugar region, and the cotton
crop being much larger than usua
+ will hardly be picked. Next year
IS there should be more laborerS OF
- less cotton planted.
= Rev. j. L. Pierce, pastorin charge
'e at Greenville, Tex, has been trans
Is ferred from the North Texas Confer
- ence to the Louisiana Conference
% and will fill the pulpit of the Meth
y odist church in Shreveport, recently
made vacant by Rev. j. Fl. Scruggs
who was transferred to the Missouri
S, Conference.
70 Last Monday morning about 4:3(
- the residence of Mr.. w. A. LeRosen
g on Texas avenue, Shreveport, and
= the store occupied by J. A. Ander
70 son adjoining it were burned. The
store and contents were a total less
4 The residence of Mr.. LeRosen wal
g. valued at $4,000, insured for 50, 200
furniture, &C., valued at $4,000, in
sured for $3.50. The building &C
40 cupled by Mr.. Anderson, owned by
w. A. ReRosen, was insured TO
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