The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-21
From Over Our Great State

The Baton Rouge schools reopened Mon
day without a superintendent.
Over $40 cases of hookworm were treat
in st. Tammany Parish during the past
year.
Opium valued at S1,25O was seized in
the Chinese quarters of New Orleans last
Saturday.
Another movement has been revived to
separate the Atchafalya River from the
Mississippi.
Two Monroe boys flew across the
Ouachita River Tuesday in their home
made aeroplane.
| 1t is said that there are enough teachers
in Louisiana to meet the demand for the
| first time in some years.
The cane and cotton crops in the State
generally improved during the past week,
due to the absence of rain.
Persecution of negroes is still going on
at Pineville. A lumber plant has closed
down because of the labor famine.
The annual State Reunion of the United
Cor fet'eaate Veterans will be held in Lake
Charles October 10th, 18th and 18th next.
The Madison Parish School Board needs
Superintendent C. M. Hughes, and will not
let him resign to accept higher post at
Baton Rouge.
A Norwegian sea captain bought three
ounce wedding ring the other day in New
Orleans. He wanted to be constantly
reminded that he was married.
Morgan City is said to be providing a
fine program for the entertainment of the
guests of the Intercostal Canal Convention,
to be held there during October.
It has been shown that New Orleans
surpassed Galveston by S14, 1922, 900 in the
value of imports and exports for the CON-
mercial year ending August 31st.
The molasses from the broken reservoir
of the Planters Storage Company, in New
Orleans, has reached the lake at West
End and is killing fish by the thousands
In family row at Breau Bridge, Mrs
Watt was hit in the head by her brorher-
in-law with an axe, who was in turn
stabbed by the wife's husband, his brother
The melee occurred Tuesday.
The authorities of Shreveport are un-
usually active in bringing to justice all
violators of the prohibition law. It seems
next to impossible for these blind tigers tc
enjoy freedom for any length of time.
President Craighead, of Tulane Univer-
sity, declares that Southern students are
too much in earnest to indulge in the dis
sipations recently charged by R. T. Crane
in an arraignment of Eastern college life
While sleeping in skiff attached to a
shanty boat in Red River, one and hall
miles below Alexandria Sunday night, a
man named Renois leaped into the water
0ro Ixx,0c Io ol>,,
list.
| Boys and girls will study the hook.
worm in the schools of Caddo Parish, &C.
School Board. The children will be
taught the nature and cause of the disease
and its treatment.
Judge Halls campaign stock is enjoying
a considerable rise in the market Aswel
and the Shreveport Times make pretty
good boosters for the Judge in this section
of the State. They have forced Hall stock
up and it keeps going.
While walking with his parents on the
outside of the passenger gangway of the
Louisiana Avenue ferry in New Orleans
Sunday afternoon little Johnnie Schenck,
seven years old, slipped and fell into the
river and was drowned.
A mothers outstretched arms we're toe
late to save the life of her child on one
Of the congested streets of New Orleans
Sunday afternoon. AS the mother ran
screaming into the street in her effort tc
rescue her three year old baby, the little
one was chrushed to death under large
heavily loaded wagon.
A freight train ran into crosstie in a
blind switch on the Iron Mountain Rail
road north of Monroe Tuesday, but was
not damaged. A passenger train followed
close behind the freight. A negro, hiding
behind pile of crossties, was fired on by
the fireman Of the train who believes he
hit the suspect, though the latter escaped
hsgs" Young People and Parents Read.