The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-07-11
From Over Our Great State

II From over OuT UTcdI 0ldlC
Crop conditions improve but slowly in
Iberville.
A stock company was organized to grow
mushrooms in St. Bernard Parish.
A. w. Wilson, travelling man of Tai
lahasse, Florida, was found dead at the
Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans.
Gov. Hall, in Fourth of July speech, said
almost every demand made by the people
in the campaign will be enacted into law.
Mrs. George T. Ireland of New Orleans,
was accidently shot with her husbands pis-
toll, and died from loss of blood and shock.
Good rains fell throughout iberia Parish
last week, benefting the crops. The worms
and previous storms have done much dam
age and late corn has not made much adj
vance.
Heavy rains, with an abundance of sun
shine, prevailed in Assumption during last
week. The rains were needed, and the
crops are showing much improvement I'M
der the present weather conditions.
Four men were killed Sunday in pitch
ed battle of union and nonunion men at the
saw mill town of Grabow, Calcasieu Parish.
Ten men were arrested, charged with MUIR
der and melting riot, in connection with the
trouble.
The showery weather prevailing in West
Baton Rouge Parish was beneficial to all
crops, and rapid improvement generally is
anticipated. The corn crop will be short.
In some instances it was so badly eaten by
worms as to cause replanting.
The fine rain which fell over the Red
River cane belt on June 10Th was timely to
the crops. The corn crop is laid by. Re-
ports from the hill districts of Rapides,
Avoyelles and St. Landry indicate that the
hill corn crops are not as promising as they
were last year on the 1st of July.
The gravel has been ordered for the
building of public road from the parish
line of West Baton Rouge to the Ascension
line, distance of twenty-one miles, as we'll
as the road from Plaquemines along the
south bank of Bayou Plaqumines, some
ten miles. Both of these roads will be
completed this summer.
Louisiana has several hills slightly over
400 feet in altitude, but which is the high
est has not yet been determined. The dis
, tinction now lies between Kisatchie Hills,
t in Sabine Parish, some hills in the south
! east corner of Claiborne Parish, and some
ridges in Vernon Parish. These are all in
the western part of the State.
New Orleans has decided to wage an un
3 relenting war on rats. 1t has been proven
that the rat is the cause and distributor Of
e the germ of the Bubonic plague, and this
t disease is now running it's course in Porto
e Rico, the rat-ridden island of the south
All ships entering New Orleans from Porto
i Rico are being inspected and ridded of the
f vermin before being permitted to land.
9 New Orleans Christian Advocate: The
people of New Orleans who are so fortunate
9 as to own stock in some of the great com.
mercial institutions domiciled here, viii
+ receive during the next ten days more thar
81 zoo, 900 in dividends. Some of the com.
:, mercial institutions will pay as high as
e per cent on their capital. This is flint
;, showing, considering the depression caus
- ed by crop failures and the recent floods
Major Simeon A. Poche, who was cap
u tain of Company B, Eighteenth Louisian:
= : Regiment, Mouton's Brigade, died from
. an attack of pneumonia last Thursday il
Donaldsonville, aged eighty lone years ant
n five months. He was an expert machinis
y and several mechanical inventions wer
" patented by him. Maj. Poche participated
q in the Battle of Shiloh April 6, 1862. Hi
regiment having been transferred to tn
d Transmississippi Department, among othe
g engagements west of the Mississippi, a.
'e captain of his company he opened the frs
l. fire on the enemy's cavalry by special or
ders of Gen. Mouton, driving back tn
d enemy at the Battle of Mansfield. In tn
1t last hour of the fighting, Capt. Poche
n badly wounded in the thigh, was LEI
ID amongst the dead and dying on the battle
field, after the enemy had begun thei
N noted retreat down the Red River. He wa
# first cousin of the late Associate Justic
at Felix POche.