The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-05
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.


A soil survey OF iberia Parish will be
made.
Ruston has voted special tax to erect
s65, 900 school building.
A residence in New Orleans was robbed
of $685. in jewelry by daylight burglars.
The poll tax collections in New Orleans
during last year were 52,O52, breaking all
records.
Postmaster Behan says the New Orleans
post office receipts exceeded 1000, 900
during 1910.
Edward Wisener gave option on one
million acres of reclaimed land in La
fourche Parish.
Seventeen persons we're killed and sew
eral score injured in fire in church in
Mexico last Sunday.
The Weather Bureau recorded yesterday
as the coolest day in January in New Or
leans for seven years.
There were thirty six marriage licenses
issued in Rapides Parish during the last
seven days in December.
A minor cyclonic disturbance visited
Kentwood last Friday and destroyed
colored Methodist Church.
The first years cane culture on Angola
Plantation, operated by Louisiana con-
victs, resulted in profit of $4,000.
Almost arctic cold weather prevailed in
this State yesterday, the lowest tempera-
ture reported being nine degrees at Cal
houn.
The Louisiana Baptist College at Pine
vile was destroyed by fire Tuesday after
noon entailing loss of about $4,000 with
| $4,000 insurance.
Ike Beaver was found frozen to death on
DeSaird Street, Monroe, early yesterday
morning, and the body of Alcide de States,
sixty-five years old, was found frozen stiff
Monday morning at Paulina.
San Francisco interests have purchased
305, 900 acres of overlooked prairie land in
Cameron Parish for one dollar per acre,
and will drain and develop the property.
John B. Moisant, the Chicago aviator,
was killed Saturday morning at Harahan,
near New Orleans, while making a trial
flight preliminary to an attempt to break
the sustained flight record of the Michelin
Cup.
Publications of Census Bureau show that
Louisiana ranks twenty fourth in popula-
ton in the list of States. According to
population per square mile Louisiana has
36.5 people, against 1914 people in 1900,
and "a. people in 1890.
On January 25th State wide tour on
Sunday School Evangelism will be opened
by the Louisiana Sunday School Associa-
ton and will run through February Goth.
Rev. John Carman, an able Baptist min
lister of Colorado, will take the leading part
on this tour.
Special plans are being made to make
the Twenty fifth Annual State Convention
the greatest convention in the history of
the Louisiana Sunday School Association.
This convention is to be held at Monroe,
March Is, Is and II, 1911. The strongest
corps of teachers that can be had in North
America will participate in the programme.
With the thermometer at thirteen de-
grees above zero, the weather the coolest
known in Shreveport in five years, the
gas pressure almost entirely failed at five
O'Clock Tuesday morning when it was the
most demanded, almost paralyzing every
thing. Hundreds dressed in the cold and
went to work for hours without breakfast.
A large gas main in the fields burst with
the cold and caused the low pressure.
Lake Charles American: Within the
past year, a million acres of land within
| 1fty-m radius of Lake Charles have
passed from the hands Of companies which
held them largely for speculative purposes
into the hands of developers. Much of
this land is suitable for cultivation and the
rest of it can be and will be reclaimed for
agricultural purposes. The men who have
purchased it intend to improve it, reclaim
it, and secure purchasers for it among the
farmers Of the Northern and Central States
who seek to better their condition.
| Southern Magazine.
| Six years have passed since we ventured
to publish magazine representative of the
South and West. To-day we stand alone