The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-10-06
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

A bank at Washington, was
robbed of 81, 1000.
A new canal in East Baton
Rouge Parish drains $4,000 acres
Of land.
A test we'll in the Vinton oil field
into a gusher of $500
barrels daily capacity.
The Sabine Islands belong to
Louisiana under ruling of the
Department of the Interior.
The contract has beeh awarded
at New Iberia for the construction
of $4,000 Masonic Temple.
Fire last Friday night in the
Few Orleans Times-Democrat
offices practically destroyed the
building.
New Orleans homestead asso-
Citations built twenty new homes
during September, contracts ag-
gregating $4,000.
The Navy Department is pre-
pairing to spend S115, 900 to put
the New Orleans Navy Yard into
condition to do some work.
Mansfield Enterprise, October
1st: There has been no rain at
this place for seven weeks, and
the water supply is becoming Sc
rious.
The School Board Of st. Tam
many will. permit pupils in that
parish who are over eighteen
years of age to attend the public
schools, except when married.
Tulane University at New Or
leans, the leading educational in
stitional of the State, opened
Saturday with a great many more
students registered this session
than ever before.
After a long illness with Bright's
disease, DR.. W. L. Weber, aged
forty-seven years, President of
the Mansfield Female College, and
formerly President of Centenary
College, of Shreveport, Millsaps
College, Jackson, Miss, and En-
DRY College, Oxford, Ca, died in
Shreveport last Saturday.
The first Good Government
League to be organized in Calca-
sieu Parish Or Southwest Louisi-
ana, was formed at Kinder Satur-
day night at a mass meeting
More than 1875 signed the list, ano
practically every voter in the com
munity will be allied with the
Kinder Good Government League
Following is the vote at the
municipal primary held in Shreve
port Tuesday: For Mayors. A
} Dickson, 858; John Eastman
1850; Eastman's majority, 1872
For Commissioners of Public Safe
ty-J. F. Fisher, 816; S. c. Full
love, 1901; Fullilove's majority
275; For Commissioner of Street,
and Parks-Dr. J. M. Ledbetter
877; W. S. Atkins, 1O47; Atkins
majority, 10. AT the first prim
} airy Claude G.. Rives was nomi
mated for G Commissioner of Financ,
and John Mccullough for Com
+ missioner of Public Utilities.
Eugene Fortier, aged eighty
three years, native of jefferson
. Parish, and one of the foremos
j, sugar planters in the State, die,
Saturday in New Orleans. H
enlisted in the Confederate Arm,
at the beginning of the war an
= served until the end. He wa
: captured at the Battle of Bisland
in this State, while carrying fror
the battlefield the dead body Q
9 his cousin, Theophiie Fortier, VIII
: was killed in the engagement
> After being exchanged he return
ed to his command and took pa,
D in the battles of Mansfield an
n Pleasant Hill.
g Shreveport Times: The mont
that has just closed holds tn
), record of being the hottest Sep
n TENDER with just two exception
Q within the history of the locs
weather bureau, which runs bac
: to 1872. The Septembers With
# that time, which were hotter tina
n this, were those of 1884 and 1906
Q The mean temperature for Sep
TENDER of this year was eight
degrees. The rainfall for tn
Il month also has been very slightan
!. this has been the case Throughout
the sources of the Red River
which is now four feet below zert
. as compared with the lowest rec
= ord of the river of five and a ha
;. feet below zero.