The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-08

upright man in public or private life.
am, with greatest respect,
Yours truly.
IT. WATKINS.
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.
A solid train of lumber was shipped from
Bogalusa to Chicago.
Last Sunday was the hottest day in the
year in New Orleans.
Rev. A. SIEVE committed suicide at French
Settlement, Livingston Parish.
Coffee receipts in New Orleans increased
about 100000 bags over last year.
Soil surveys for Northeast Louisiana will
be made by the national government.
Primary elections will be held in the
new parish of La Sale on August 10th.
Joseph w. Gill was drowned in the Mis-
sissippi River at New Orleans Saturday.
It rained more last month in New Or
leans thsn it has in June in fourteen years.
The fireman of a grading machine was
scalded to death when the boiler exploded,
near Collinston.
The aggregate earnings of eleven New
Orleans banks for the past year approx
mated s1,588,1 15.
The years decrease in customs receipts
was comparatively less in New Orleans
than at other ports.
A colony of tobacco growers from Ken
lucky will be established near Covington,
St. Tammany Parish.
A towboat sank in Grand Lake, Came
ron Parish, during squall, and negro
deck hand was drowned.
The agricultural course at the approved
high schools Of Louisiana will be inaugu-
rated at the next session.
An election on the proposition to levy a
2-mill school tax throughout st. John
Parish will be held on August Sd.
New Orleans bank statements for the
first six months Of 1909 show deposits to be
SIC, OOO, 900 ahead of June 80, 1908.
Eight men were injured in wreck on
the Kansas City Southern Railroad at
Frerson, DeSoto Parish, last Thursday.
Gov. Sanders, in an address at Arcadia,
gave further assurance Of his desire to aid
parish police juries in the good roads
campaign.
The New Orleans Clearing House state
ment for the first six months of 1909 shows
an increase of S14, 100000 over the same
period in 1908.
Reunion of the Louisiana Division of Con-
federate Veterans will be held in Alexandria
on September 9th and 10th.
! The Fifth Levee Board, Police Juries
and Federal Government are cooperating
in a Typographical survey so as to reclaim
million acres of land in Northeast Lou
isiana.
/ Another human victim of Charlton is re-
ported to have died at Mermantau. The
disease is said 70 have caused 500, 600 loss
to live stock in Acadia and Calcasieu
Parishes.
Col. Benjamin F. Eshleman, native OF
Lancaster County, Penn, and citizen OF
New Orleans since 1850, died at Narragan-
sett Pier, Rhode Island, Tuesday morning
from heart trouble, aged eighty years. In
1851, as captain of the Washington Artil-
lery, COL Eshleman left New Orleans for
the seat of war. At Manassas he distin
guished himself as a soldier. His COM
mand went through the first battle OF
Manassas, or Bull Run, on July Fl, 1861,
with honors. At this battle Col Eshleman
was severely wounded by bullet pass
ing through his leg. He commanded the
Washington Artillery at Gettysburg, re-
ceiving marked distinction for the promi-
nent part he took. Several years ago he
was honored by the United Confederate
Veterans by being elected Major General
of the Louisiana State Division.
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.
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