The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-28

situation and just wanted to see what 1T
was like. She got $40 and thirty days.
The Red River Parish Fair will be held
in Coushatta October Sd to 9th.
The New Orleans public schools opened
last Monday with 81 900 enrolment.
In row at the Vivian barbecue, one
man was killed and three others badly cut.
The business men of Baton Rouge have
refused aid for the Mississippi River aero
plane flight.
Arthur Fincher, crazed with grief over
his diving wife, committed suicide in Mans
field Monday.
The Humason Rail Joint company has
been organized in Shreveport with CAPT.
tai of 100000.
The First Baptist congregation OF Baton
Rouge is preparing to let the contract for
a new $4,000 church.
Three men were drowned when they
jumped from burning gasoline boat near
Plaincourtville Tuesday.
H. H. Borded, pipeline worker, was
burned to death by an explosion Of gas in
the Caddo oil field last week.
District Court at Many has upheld the
validity of the special 10 mill school tax to
build an agricultural high school.
An old plantation home at LaPlace,
nearly 200 years old, has been demolished
to make room for modern residence.
Mrs. W. Westerfield, whose husband
shot and killed lewd woman and suicided
in Monroe, refused to receive the mans
corpse.
The Antituberculosis League and the
Era Club of New Orleans are forcing the
police of that city to enforce the splitting
ordinance.
The State convicts have been called in
from the road camps to be used in har-
vesting cane on four plantations under
State control.
Rapides grand jury met Saturday and
returned true bill against the negro brute,
Jack Sayles, for the murder of young
college student in Alexandria recently.
Members of the Mississippi and La
fourche Drainage District Board of Com
missioners are in session in Donaldsonville
to let the contract for four and a half
mile canal.
i Donaldsonville has refused to give the
Standard Oil Company a franchise to
build pipe line through the town to the
river front without receiving due compen-
sation.
Marshall Gunter, twenty-five years Of
) age, in attempting to catch moving train
in Alexandria Monday, fell under the cars
which passed over his right arm mangling
it from the elbow to wrist.
Looking out of his window of the engine
: cab talking to friend, a fireman on the
: Iron Mountain road struck his head on {
box car on another track and was knocked
out of the window to the ground. The
. accident occurred at Alexandria Friday.
Mrs. McCrea, the fashionable youne
society woman of Opelousas who shot ane
killed young Garland, nephew Of Dis
trict Attorney Lee Garland, several days
ago will tell nothing about what led up t
the killing, other than that he insulted her
Four members of the Crawford family
have died in New Orleans during the pas
fourteen months. Last Monday Miss Elsie
} Crawford, the eldest daughter died afte
being ill only few days-as did those be
fore her-which aroused suspicion. Afte
. City Chemist Metz had completed an ex
! animation of the dead girls stomach
2, Miss Annie Crawford confessed that sh,
, poisoned her sister because they quarrelet
s occasionally. She denied having poisoned
Q her mother, father and another sister, bu
\ it is thought proof can can be established
q that she did. All were insured and the &C
a cused was beneficiary in each policy.