The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-02-02
This Great State.

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will be greatly decreased.
Enterprising Northern mill
men have secured about IA, 900 acres
of timber land in Jackson parish.
The schooner Robert Ruff, with
219 tons of mahogany from Mexico,
arrived in New Orleans last Thurs
day.
Webster Signal: The Lake
Bistineau Lumber Company billed
out thirteen cars of finished lumber
at one shipment one day last week.
Lake Charles Echo: AS re-
suit of advertising, business man
told US yesterday that a three line
flocal in the Echo had brought him a
country customer to whom he sold
bill of s7S.
| IN. o. States: The Morgan
City Advocate states that seventy
| eight new building are in process OF
erection in the town of Lake Charles.
This is certainly substantial evidence
of prosperity.
| At the next meeting OF the
North Louisiana Agricultural Society,
to be held at Calhoun on Thursday,
Feb. %, the following question will
| be discussed: 'Is fence law desira
BILE for North Louisiana a?"
i Webster Signal: "We think
we are safe in predicting that Web
ster parish will produce more hog
and hominy this year than for num-
Der of years past. Our farmers are
pro6ting by past experiences"
! -- Mer Rouge Vidette: "The
Peerless, Early Rose and Triumph
Irish potatoes are all good for plant
ing. The Triumph is about one week
to ten days earlier than the Rose and
, one of the finest eating potatoes
grown"
Bonita correspondent of the
Mer Rouge Vidette: &c. W. Mont
gomery bought five thousand pounds
of home-raised meat from one man
I this week. How many mere farmers
could sell meat instead of buying it i
they only had the energy?"
- Webster Signal: Good lands
pretty homes, good schools, nea
, church buildings, good roads, indus
trious and frugal men, moral book
and newspapers, are the best adver
). tisement country can have to indnc
immigration of a desirable kind.
d Lake Bistineau extends mort
e and south about thirty miles, follow
ing the bendings, with mean breadt
of about two miles. The Dorchea
Bayou, which rises in Arkansas and
- about 100 miles long, enters the lax
- at the north extremity, and Logg
BAYOU connects it with Red River.
p - Mer Rouge Vidette: An abb
and upright Judge and a watchfl
and earnest prosecutor cannot pul
= ish violations of the law unaide
by the people of the parish
r. Criminals and violators of the la
ls cannot be reached without evident
zee , and the moral support of the COMM
7'fiiui nifty. Lawlessness is wrong an
nd nd should be punished. A duty th
RS RS every man owes to society and hir
self is to aid and assist the law Office
- to ferret out and punish criminals.
Mer Rouge Vidette: Persol
who desire to raise one of the fine
80 and cheapest feeds that can be grow
for fattening hogs, should rememb
S. that the Spanish peanuts head ever
=, thing. They are easy to cultivat
and when raised for the purpose
fattening hogs, it is not necessary
ices dig them. The hogs can be turn
uik i in on them and they will dig them
,ds; they need them. One acre plant
in Spanish peanuts will fatten me
|. hogs than three times that quaint
of land planted in corn.
g to At a meeting of the No
at Louisiana Agricultural Society at c