The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-09-14
From Over Our Great State

Crowley shipped its first car of new rice
Friday.
Coushatta is figuring on $4,000 school
building.
A farmer near Houma has just harvest
ed seventy pound pumpkin.
Cotton farmers are busy all over the
State picking cotton between showers.
The Standard Oil Company's plant at
Baton Rouge is being further enlarged.
Charlton has broken out among the cat
tie in the neighborhood of Amite City.
Four Chinese students are at L. S. U.
to study rice and cotton culture at first
hand.
Morgan City expects to take definite
steps toward water works and sewerage
this week.
The Dixie Lumber Company, near Mon
roe, has promised to employ no negro labor,
and all is serene.
The State Normal School at Natchi-
toches opened with marked increase in
attendance over the past two years.
Wireless telegraphy will be among the
branches taught at the Lafayette Indus
trial School during the coming year.
A negro saved Foreman Leverett of the
Genesse from assassination by killing an
other negro who had the drop on Leverett
Louisiana will have twentyfi five agricul-
tural schools this year, an increase of nine.
Evangeline Parish gets one of the new ones.
The farmers association Of Iota has
completed warehouse to store the crops
of the members without charge until sold.
Because she was afraid to tell of the loss
of her position, young girl attempted to
commit suicide in New Orleans Saturday.
The large sugar refinery that the State
is building on Angola plantation will prob
ably be completed before the middle of
next month.
! Dr.. G. B. Adams, the hookworm expert,
who has been working in St. Tammany
Parish, has been given an appropriation
by the police jury.
A banner crop of.sugar cane in Louis
lana at high prices, was predicted by plan
tiers and factors, the condition of the crop
being reported good.
The Postoffice Department has cut down
the area of the delivery service in Baton
Rouge on account of poor sidewalks. The
citizens are indignant.
Mrs. John T. Michel, wife of the candi-
last Saturday morning. She had been in
i'll health for some time.
A little child was almost drowned by
falling into a Franklin ditch during very
heavy rain recently. Two hours hard
work by the doctor saved it.
New Orleans wholesale merchants have
begun to send drummers to Central Ameri-
ca in order to work up a trade before the
opening of the Panama Canal.
Organization of the Louisiana State Rice
Milling Company, with an authorized cap
+ ital stock of So, 100000, and said to con-
troll about thirty mills in Louisiana, was
announced recently.
Alexandria, at public meeting, took
| steps toward erecting an auditorium that
, will seat $500 people for the use of the
various State conventions which are tC
meet there next year.
man named Kimble, while assisting te
repair an auto at Hammond, drove off with
> it. He ran into a ditch and smashed the
, machine, and its owner promptly had hin
| arrested on a charge of grand larceny.
, At recent meeting of the Alabama ane
| Mississippi Oyster Commissions with the
t Louisiana Game and Fish Commission, i1
New Orleans, a proposition to permit thu
. shipment of oysters in the shell from
! Louisiana was refused.
t Six hundred thousand gallons of molas.
4 SEES flooded the streets of New Orleans thu
r other day when a reservoir broke, causing
] a loss of at least $4,000. Children of al
nationalities rushed to the scene with tir
pals, wash bowls, pitchers, barrels, buck
cts, foot tubs and every other available
receptacle for storing away winters sup
ply of that very necessary article of diet