The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-02-16
FROM OVER THE STATE.

State bankers will meet in New Orleans A pril 1926.
Grant Johnson, a negro, who weighed 405 pounds,
died Saturday at Morgan City.
During 1904 there 1876, 395 poll taxes paid in
the fifty mine parishes of louisiana
Work will begin at once on a forty room brick
hotel in Crowley, to cost about $50 ,O00
new court house on the site of the old one, to
cost $50, 900, will be built at Plaquemine.
During the month of January there fifty
marriage licenses issued in Iberville parish.
More sickness prevails at Vinton this winter than
ever before. Grippe is the prevailing ament.
Additional grain elevators, with capacity of sew
eral million bushels, are to be built at New Orleans.
G. w. Booth Of New Orleans was elected Grand
High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch
Mason at the ninety third annual meeting of the
Masons last week.
majority vote was cast recently at Hammond
in favor of issuing $50, 900 bonds for water works
and drainage.
A branch railroad will be constructed from Zach
airy, the Mississippi Valley Railroad, to Pride,
distance of twelve miles.
Over 100000 bushels of shipped
through New Orleans in January, against $780,
600 bushels through New York.
Fire at Franklin, on the 18th inst, destroyed four
business buildings and residence, entailing loss
of S9,7O0, with S., 200 insurance.
A gang of thieves raided eight residences at
Shreveport on Friday night, securing money and
valuables worth several hundred dollars.
Thirteen convicts, for terms ranging from six
months to fifteen years, consigned to the pen
tentary Saturday from Lafayette parish.
Fifty seven steamships cleared from the port of
New Orleans during January with partial cargoes of
corn for export to various European ports.
Telesfore Couter after obtaining his marriage
license, and while en- route to his home near Burn
side Saturday, dropped dead from heart trouble
Mrs. Marie Anne Brig, one of the most success
full sugar producers in Louisiana, died at her plan
tation home Franklin on Friday aged 81 years.
The joint convention of the Louisiana State Ag-
ricutural Society and the Louisiana Stock Breeders
Association will be held March 14th 18th and 10TH
at Shreveport.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows will meet at
Baton Rouge March 7-8, and the Head Camp of
Louisiana, Woodmen of the World, will meet at the
same place March 14-17.
The cotton planters of the second ward of Rich
land parish met at Rayville Saturday and pledged
themselves to plant % per cent less cotton this
than last, and to raise more hog and homny.
Summer School, lasting four weeks, will be
opened in the High School building at Shreveport,
on June II, and teachers will attend from the par
ishes of Bossier, Caddo DeSoto, Red River, Sabine
and Vernon.
An election held in Arcadia last Saturday for the
purpose Of voting fivemill tax for ten years for
school building in that town carried by vote
of 1O3 for and against The building to be erected
will cost about 500, 900.
The Merchants and Farmers bank has been made
the fiscal agent of the City of Shreveport for the
years 1866. The bank is to pay the city 81 per
cent interest on its funds The transfer from another
bank of the citys funds, which amount to $780, 791
81, made on the 7th inst.