The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-08-18
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.
Rice threshing is general in 1berville.
Madison will sell its parish farm, which
has proved Improbable.
White as we'll as negro chicken thieves
are operating at Jennings.
| Mrs. John Henderson was killed by
lightning near Abita Springs.
The Rhodes scholarship examination will
be held October 18th and 26th at Baton
Rouge.
Ward Lipscomb, age seventeen years,
accidently killed himself while hunting
near Welsh.
During the month of July 1000 tonsof
salt were shipped from the Avery mines in
iberia Parish.
The contract has been let for the erec-
ton of the st. Martinville High School,
costing S18,3O0.
iberia has almost abandoned the cotton
plant. Sugar cane has dethroned it, and
from all appearances permanently.
The annual reunion of the Louisiana
Division, United Confederate Veterans,
will be held September 18th, Goth and 30th,
at Opelousas.
Exports of domestic merchandise from
the port of New Orleans for the month of
July, 1910, shows decrease compared with
the same month last year of 81, 108, 279.
The resignation of DR.. J. Harvey Dillon
as president of the State Board of Health
to take effect September list, has been for
warded to Gov. Sanders and has been ac-
cepted.
Vancouver, B. c., capitalist, attracted
by land reclamation in Louisiana, closed a
deal for plantation near New Orleans in
eighteen hours after inspection, paying for
the plantation S1C2, 500.
In an excellent letter published in the
New Orleans Times Democrat of Monday
W. w. Finley, president of the Southern
Railway, urges the development of the
manufacturing industry of the South.
A. H. and C. H. Sexton of Chicago, who
visited Ruston last week and were greatly
impressed with that section as truck and
live stock country, bought a farm contain
ing 44O acres, and will raise stock and
poultry.
The corn crop in Lafayette is made and
is the best in years in quantity and yield.
The rice crop promises to be the largest
and best ever produced in the parish. The
haymaking season is now on, and much
fine provender will be cured and stored.
The first bale of cotton for this season,
raised on Bayou Natchez, Natchitoches
Parish, by Mr.. B. L. Sandlin, who received
barrel of flour as premium, was sold in
Shreveport Saturday for III cents. It
arrived there on the same date as last
years first bale.
Capt. Horace M. Rutherford, aged sixty
eight years, deputy city license tax col
lector and gallant Confederate veteran,
died suddenly with appoplexy at his home
in Shreveport Monday night. Capt. Ruth
erford was born in Alabama, July 2, 1912,
and moved to Caddo Parish in 1862. He
was member of the Caddo Fencibles and
served throughout the war in the Sixteenth
Louisiana Regiment, Preston Pond first
Colonel, and participated in the Battle of
Shiloh and many other battles and en-
gagements in which that regiment partici
pated during the Confederate War.
Marsh and unreclaimed lands situated
along the lakes and gulf coast of Calcasieu,
Vermilion and Cameron parishes, to the
extent of lis, 900 acres, have recently been
purchased by company of Northern and
Eastern capitalists, and will be reclaimed
and developed for rice farming, corn rails
ing and truck farming and for such other
purposes as may be decided upon later.
The land, properly drained, will afford
room for the settlement of hundreds of
thrifty tillers of the soil, thus bringing
about greater development of that section
of the gulf coast country than anything
which has been undertaken within great
many years.
Too Many Pardons.
At the meeting of the State Boord of
Pardons, held in New Orleans Monday, a
long list of pardons was recommended,
4 amono them that of Maddan R,eh who