The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-09-05
From Over Our Great State

This years rice crop in Vermiion is of a
higher grade than last season.
The total indebtedness of the City of
New Orleans amounts to S49, 9O4 DOL.
Monroe and West Monroe have united
in movement to have fair this fall.
The rice mill at Crowley anticipates the
largest run this season the mill ever had.
Thomas J. Sheridan committed suicide
by shooting himself last Thursday at his
home in New Orleans.
Contractors have commenced work on a
sewerage system for Opelousas, which will
be completed in six months.
Rice threshed thus far in Acadia Parish
has proven to be of an exceptionally good
quality and the yield has been heavy.
Gov. Hall has appointed DR.. F. j. Frater
member of the board of health of the
city of Shreveport, vice Dr.. A. S. Reisor,
term expired.
A truck growers association, which also
will conduct annually the West Baton
Rouge Parish Fair, was organized at Port
Allen last Thursday.
The contract will soon be let for the Sec
ton of the Intercostal Canal from the Cal
casieu to the Shine River, which will cost
approximately 100000.
An average of between 100000 and
700, 900 barrels of lager beer, thirty one
gallons to the barrel has been consumed
per year in New Orleans since 1875.
From September /, 1911, to July 31st of
this year, 23,803 people we're arrested by
the police in New Orleans. There were
1861 males and 4, Isl females Jailed.
There had been four deaths from typhoid
fever at Torras up to last Thursday, and
the disease was raging among the people
there, made destitute by the late overflow.
Fire losses in New Orleans were nearly
third less during the year ending August
31st, with 556 actual fires and a property
loss of S42O, 216, as compared with $3.50, 900
for the previous year.
Several farmers from Dallas County,
Alabama, were in Monroe last week seek
ing practical information as to the methods
to adopt in order to raise cotton success
fully despite the boil weevil.
Fourteen hundred bales of Porto Rican
tobacco, valued at $4,000, was received
by firm in New Orleans Saturday. 1t
was the largest quantity of Porto Rican
tobacco ever shipped into New Orleans in
one lot.
u A cattleman from Wagner, Okla, bought
in the vicinity of Mer Rouge last week $50
head of cattle to be shipped to Oklahoma.
Morehouse Parish has shipped between
5000 and 5000 head of cattle since about
May 1st.
Lake Charles Times: Seven new brick
buildings are being erected in Lake Charles
at the present time and three more are soon
to be contracted for. More than fifty five
homes are in course of construction in
different parts of the city.
Sam Johnson, the negro who wounded
Mr.. Percy Alexander at Shreveport or
Sunday night, August 25th, was captured
at Provencal by citizens of that place las
Friday. Mr.. Alexander was seriously
wounded, but is improving, and tits though
will soon recover.
New Orleans Picayune: Louisiana's
rock salt mines have been confined, prac.
. tically speaking, to certain islands on the
gulf coast; though it is the opinion O
scientists that there are great salt springs
throughout the northern part of the State
At Pine Prairie, few miles southwest O
: Alexandria, a rock salt has been uncovered
that is said to be greater than any of thu
t other mines heretofore opened. On Weeks
Q Island, Avery Island, Cote Carlin, or JEFF
7 ferson Island, and Belle Isle, salt deposits
+ have been found. The rock salt industry
j of the State seems to have been one of it,
t earliests Industries. Evidences that tn,
Indians mined the salt have been found
though these are very rare.
Percy Crowley, Minister of Agriculture
for Australia, with headquarters at Sgd
v ney; DR.. c. j. Pond, bacteriologist TO
: Queensland, with headquarters at Brisbane
8 and Percy B. Chauvel, capitalist from
e Sydney, were in Monroe last week. TIL
v visitors are touring this section of tn
8 country studying the methods used in tn
g tick eradication work. Besides studying
i the government methods used to destro,
a the cattle tick, the visitors are investigat
4 ing the construction of the dipping vat
e and their cost. The present methods use,
h in Australia are too expensive, dipping
o vat in that country costing about $500, a
+ against something like 500 the farmers o
: this section have to pay for one. The worl
x of eradicating the tick in Australia is mucl
r the same as it is in Louisiana.
n Says the New Orleans Christian Advo
p cate: "Beer cannot stand the light
d Germans know the damaging effects o
}, light on beer" The preceding sentence
: are extracts from brewery advertisement
!. How much truth is unwittingly containe
y in these two remarks! Certainly, bee
y cannot stand the light. Neither can tn
!, acts of the men who make it, nor the me-