The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-02-23

himself more particularly to discussion
of the remarkable events of historic inter-
est.-New Orleans Iimes-Democrnt.
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.
iberia Parish proposes to organize a
boys corn club.
A large colony of Polish Catholics will
locate in VIM Parish.
Andrew j. Cuculich suicided by gas in
New Orleans Tuesday.
Yeggamen dynamited bank at Tan
gipahoa and obtained S1,797.
The Irish potato acreage will be more
than doubled in Acadia Parish this year.
Miss Zua Pegues, who drank carbolic
acid last Sunday in Shreveport, died at II
O'Clock Monday.
Two spectators bid 81, 100000 for the
timber on 5000 acres of land in Calcasieu
and Rapides Parishes.
Dr. Bowling found sanitary conditions
at Baton Rouge bad, a live goat being dis
covered in one bakery.
The contract for new court house to
cost $4,000 has been let by the Police
Jury of Calcasieu Parish.
| Gov. Sanders has directed the tax asses
sors and collectors of the State not to COL
lect the Special Exposition Tax.
| Ninety-one miles of public road in St.
Landry Parish will be worked under the
contract system at 500 per mile.
W. R. McKowen, who died recently in
East Feliciana Parish, left $4,000 to the
Presbyterian Hospital in New Orleans.
Fire at the Southern Cotton Oil plant in
Gretna, was confined to the warehouse,
with 100000 loss. covered by insurance.
The New Inn, eight story brick, to oc-
cupy the place of the present building,
will be erected in Shreveport at cost of
$500, 900.
A winter drought of fiftyone days at
Washington, St. Landry Parish, was
broken last Sunday by heavy and much
needed rain.
OF the 1913 high school graduates in
Louisiana during 1910, forty per cent are
continuing their education in higher insti-
buttons. Only nine married.
c. F. Goldsby, forty two years old, edu-
Gator and business man, dropped dead at
Amite City on witnessing fist fight aboard
train between two politicians.
The thirty second yearly session of the
Louisiana Press Association will be held
in Lake Charles on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, April Is, 26 and q, 1911.
Assumption Pioneer: The best proof
that this is the coming State, is the fact
that strangers are coming here from other
States and planking down their hard dol
lars for Louisiana lands.
Crowley Signal: Fifty homeseekere were
in Gueydan the other day looking for re-
claimed marsh lands at $50 an acre. The
land is worth it, and there are thousands
of acres near Gueydan that do not need
reclamation, and they can be bought for
less than $50 an acre.
The contract for the erection of the ten
story building Of the Commercial National
Bank on the corner of Texas and Market
Streets, Shreveport, to cost approximately
S325,OOO was let yesterday. Work will
commence within a few days, and the
building will be completed within one year.
Jena Times: Four different groups of
homeseekers arrived in the State this week,
totaling some 400 farmers in all, and iudg-
ing from the vent of pleasant expressions
coming from these Northern and Western
agriculturists they have come to stay. 1t
will only be matter of few years when
lands that are at present almost drug on
the market, will be snapped up by these
homeseekers and land spectators, and at
prices which will cause some of us to gasp.
Bacon: Mems thoughts are much &C.
cording to their inclination.