The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-22
From Over Our Great State

The cane crop is not up to the average
in st. Martin.
Playing in canal, boy drowned at
Easterwood Sunday.
There has been too much rain of late in
Ascension to suit the planters.
.Ponchatoula will have canning factory
in operation by October 1st.
The new corn crop is being used by
nearly all West Baton Rouge planters.
While taking part in fire drill in Lake
Charles, Frank Blaisdell dropped dead of
heart disease.
New Orleans has two Mike Miller's on
the pay roll, working for the city, and they
are not related.
Realty trades we're few and unimportant|
in New Orleans during the week ending
last Saturday.
The streets and residences of Collinston
were ablaze with electric lights for the first
time last Saturday night.
In the September Sd primary the parishes
will have separate ballot for parochial
officers and one for State officers.
The caterpillar has made it's appearance
in most of the cotton fields of Black and
Miss Mabel Benton, aged thirteen years,
of Colfax, was drowned while fishing in
the Bayou Pierre, in DeSoto Parish.
During July 1896 accident cases we're
treated at the Charity Hospital in New Or
leans, 1926 more than the average for that
month.
From all sections of Avoyelles the crops
are said to be doing REMARKABLY we'll. The
pea crops are in almost every instance,
splendid.
The late Miss Anna Bonnabel of New
Orleans asked in her will that no mourning
be worn for her, as she deemed death a
deliverance.
The Vernon Parish Fair Association was
organized Saturday and arrangements are
being made for parish fair at Leesville
October 18th, 18th and 10Th.
Crop conditions continue favorable in
Iberia; there are some fine cane crops in
the parish; corn is maturing rapidly, some
is hard enough to feed, and the rice crop
is full one.
Laying-by has been completed on all
cane farms in Iberville, and the planters
are looking for odd jobs to keep their labor
busy during the off season.
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Baton Rouge Parish for the coming session
amounts to a total of $50, 756. The coming
session will begin September 10Th.
The Lake Charles Times of last Friday
says: Two more train loads of homeseek-
ers from Kansas City and other Western
cities passed through Lake Charles this
week en- route to Vermilion Parish.
The first bale of new cotton was received
in Shreveport late Saturday afternoon, two
weeks later than last years first bale,
which reached Shreveport August I'd.
The cotton was from DeSoto Parish, and
was sold for fifteen cents pound.
The cane in Assumption made little
progress during last week, and is very
The crop has been laid-by and very little
work is now going on. All the crops in
Lafourche are as backward, and in some
cases not as large as the crops in Assump-
ton.
East Carroll Banner Democrat: Some
planters say that the parish has the best
; prospects for a cotton crop that it has had
in ten years. If it had not been for the
overflow and the great damage done in the
first and second wards, the whole of East
Carroll would be straddling the top rail.
In a speech at Amite last week, Mr.. Nor
gan, one of the candidates for member of
Congress from the sixth district, said that
eff he were a member of the Legislature
at the present time he would strive to have
only two bills passed. One would be to
have 30 per cent of the present laws abol-
ished and the other would be to have the
other so per cent enforced"