The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-10-05
From Over Our Great State

New Orleans is losing lots of cotton on
account of the strike.
Caddo Parish is threatening to abolish |
its convict road camp.
Bordelonville had a little e-day fair all
by itself last Thursday.
Red River Parish farmers still say IA
cents for cotton Or no sale.
Baton Rouge Trades Unions have organ
lied Central Labor Union.
Speaker Champ Clark is to lecture in
Shreveport October 10Th.
The United States marine band will visit
New Orleans October 18th.
The parish fair season of Louisiana was
opened last week at Calhoun.
Domestic science is now being taught
in the Crowley public schools.
The railroad strike has turned 1900 idle
men on the streets in New Orleans.
shreveport's postal depository had but
three depositors on the opening day.
Lincoln Parish farmers took 81 per cent
of the premiums at the Calhoun fair.
Work on the new wagon bridge over
Red River at Shreveport was begun Mon
day.
Capt. Peter Youree proposes to build an
eight story hotel in Shreveport at an early
date
The wireless plant is all that is to remain
| of the once great Naval Station in New
Orleans.
In gun fight in Oakdale, Calcasieu
Parish, Monday three men were fatally
wounded.
The Calcasieu Parish assessment rolls
show an increase of nearly $4,000, 600
over last year.
The Order of Elks throughout the State
have offered assistance to the Pennsylvania
flood sufferers.
A company has been organized in
Shreveport for the purpose of manufactur-
ing aeroplanes.
The Shreveport Waterworks Company's
plant is to be appraised by experts with
view to its purchase by the city.
Sip Dyer, convict already serving a
life sentence, has been given two years
more for killing a fellow convict.
A man named John Smith, accused of
operating floating saloon on Pearl River,
has been arrested and imprisoned.
The September bank clearings in New
Z Orleans shows an increase Of over ST ,OOO,-
600 over the same month last year.
A Thibodeaux farmer was tried and ac-
quilted recently for firing upon and wound
ing depradators in his melon patch.
A grand stand in Abbeville collapsed
during wrestling match there Monday,
injuring fifty persons-two of them fatally.
A carload of strike breakers en- route to
New Orleans was stoned by mob as the
train passed through McComb City, Miss,
, Monday.
A Lafayette jeweler attempted to blow
up a stump near his house with dynamite.
It is said that his home will have to be
made over.
Covington city fathers are sitting up
nights to devise a method of raising money
t with which to complete its unfinished
!. school house.
/ A large crowd of South Louisiana
v sportsmen are planning big deer hunt in
= the Atchafalaya bottoms as soon as the
season opens.
;. AS evidence of the magnitude of imports
and exports at New Orleans, over 1T ships
r will sail form that port for foreign lands
3 during this month.
], In trying to beat Deputy Sheriff Miller
e to his gun, Willie Cyrus, a negro, of Baton
q Rouge, was too slow. At last accounts he
= was resting fairly we'll.
, Three students deserted Millsaps College
u Of Jackson, Miss, and were apprehended
e in New Orleans, where they tried to boarG
: a steamship for Panama.
:, The City Council of Shreveport has giver
e the Cumberland Telephone company per.
q mission to put its wires underground il
the business part of town.
In row over nickel in a crap game il
Morrow last Thursday, one negro wa.
Q killed and two seriously wounded by {
n strange negro who shot straight and raj
{ fast.
United States Senator Foster opened hi!
campaign Tuesday with an address befor,
:, large crown in New Orleans. He ar
d raigned his opponent, Joseph E. Ransdell
;. in serio-vein.
: The Democratic State Central Com
: mittee has fixed January 23d as the dat,
o for the primary, and also provided for tn,
. election of National Committeeman ant
: delegates by the people.
A. L. Emerson, an organizer for tn,
J. Brotherhood of Timber Workers, who ha
20 been creating so much uneasiness anon,
3 saw mill owners, has been jailed in LAX,
Charles on a charge of conspiracy.
On account of his refusal to report Il
J. the Charleston Navy Yard for duty, tn,
\ head mechanic at the defunct New Orlean
:. station has been given an indefinite leav
- of absence, without pay" by Uncle Sam
Is John Williams, negro, got his gul
1t tangled up in handkerchief when he at