The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-06-27
From Our State Exchanges

Samuel Eubanks was killed by train at
Vinton Saturday.
There are about twenty four automobiles
now in use in Mansfield.
A seven yearold boy was killed Satur-
day by New Orleans street car.
jefferson Parish has called a special tax
election to build twenty miles of good roads.
James c. Fleming, Natchitoches at
torney, shot and killed himself Saturday.
it's reported that there are already twelve
candidates for sheriff in the new parish of
jefferson Davis.
Appropriation bill for 1912, in the House
of representatives, carries grand total of
81, Psi ,606.79. Many items are cut.
Corn in St. Mary Parish, even that which
is best, does not indicate good yield, and
most of it does not look healthy and Wig
orous.
William Lafargue, shoemaker, was
drowned in Lake Catherine, near New Or
leans. Sunday morning, while on fishing
expedition.
f. r Major, alternate for the late R. c..
Wickliffe as delegate to the National Dem
ocratic Convention in Baltimore, dropped
The n-American Insurance Company,
new organization, has demonstrated its
faith in the South by investing $500, 1000 in
Southern securities. Most of this amount
was spent in Louisiana.
The corn bud worm and bill worm have
already ruined many fields of corn in the
vicinity of Ringgold, Bienville Parish.
Many people have plowed their corn up
and replanted. Cotton has also been strip
ped of its foliage by worm similar to the
grass variety.
The New Orleans Picayune of Tuesday
says: Since the opening of its through
service between New Orleans and Shreve-
port the Louisiana Railway and Navigation
Company has been handling nearly capac-
ity business. This is especially true re-
garding passenger trains.
During the week ending last Friday the
weather generally was favorable to the
growth Of the cotton crop and the rainfall
was sufficient, except in a few places of
small area. Fields are clean and the plant
has made good progress. There were very
few reports of boil weevil. Planting was
still going on in the area that was over
! flowed.
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/ Orleans during the month of May, of which
number 1929 were whites. Drunkenness
constituted the major portion of offenses !;
however, there were six murderers and
twenty five gamblers arrested. The police
force recovered stolen property valued at
1874. One out of every $50 residents of
New Orleans, including children, were
taken into custody for crimes.
| Louisiana Planter: The bad weather
has done the Louisiana cane crop as a whole
as much harm this season as has the
crevasse water in the various sections af-
fected by it. The season is now fully a
month behind the normal. Had all our
cane been successfully harvested in 1911
we should have had a sugar ropof 400, 900
long tons. We secured crop of some
1926 1000. long tons. There wasn't enough
sugar machinery in the State to harvest the
crop in due season and the harvest was
prolonged month on that account and
until the cane was too bad to be profitable,
or to yield the cost of harvest and manu-
facture. Seed cane was reserved for larger
area with all of our immense losses we be-
lieve 1912 will give us sugar crop of
about 100000 long tons, worth thirty
millions Of dollars.