The Bossier banner., 1912-10-10
From Over Our Great State

lWoDLy-1OuF I0pOIt IAAdo COlA l.,
was injured 20 per cent
The heaviest rain in many days fell at
on the 29th ultimo. ;
Fire caused $4,000 loss in the residential
section of Morgan City last Sunday. (
The Police Jury of Lafayette Parish has
just adopted an annual budget of S43, ,235.
John Bonnette, sixty-two years old,
committed suicide at Alexandria by taking
paris green.
In annual report Louisiana State Board
of Agriculture estimated cotton crop at
400, 900 bales.
The 1912 assessment of Lafayette Par
ish shows half million dollars increase
over last year.
During the year ending last Monday
Baton Rouge had fifty fires, with loss of
less ;han $4,000.
The Soil Survey of iberia Parish shows
some fourteen varieties of soil have been
found in that parish.
A train load of cotton for COMPRISING
was received at Alexandria last Friday. 1t
yielded $500 bales.
The rainfall in New Orleans during the
month of September was 3.24 inches,
against the normal of 4.48.
The grand jury of Washington Parish
lastweek returned eighty nine indictments,
mostly against blind tigers.
A baby was burned to death in New Or
leans Friday in fire started by its little
brother playing with matches.
Sixteen parishes claim that "truck" has
been profitable, while fifteen say that it did
not prove profitable with them.
A fire occurred in Franklinton Sunday
night resulting in loss of about 3O,OOO,
partially covered by insurance.
Cinnamon are said to have paid $500
each to be smuggled into New Orleans on
board of the Mexican steamer Puebla.
One of the exhibits at the Ruston fair
last week was box of home made cigars
from tobacco grown in Lincoln Parish.
The Louisiana Railroad Commission has
appealed to shippers and roads to co-ope-
rate in an attempt to prevent car shortage.
Eulogies on twenty members of the bench
and bar who died during the year were
heard by the Supreme Court in New Or
leans last Monday.
A passenger train on the Southern Pa
cifc was wrecked Saturday morning at
Midland, eight miles west of Crowley, and
twenty persons were injured.
PIaquemines is the largest orange pro-
ducing parish in the State, and the yield
this year is reported at 100. Eight parishes
place the crop at 971s per cent.
The Lake Charles American Press says
the Winfield merchants are offering
dollar bale above the market price for
every bale of cotton sold in that town.
The police jury of st. Mary Parish ap-
propriated $3.50 to help the Confederate
Veterans attend the State Reunion at Baton
Rouge next Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday.
Postoffice receipts from stamp sales and
second-class mail fees at Shreveport dur
ing the month of September amounted to
$50, ,544.s1, an increase of 1855. 19 over that
month year ago, and S545.89 increase
over August.
The iberia correspondent of the Louisi-
ana Planter says: Sweet potatoes seem
to be good crop this year, but in some
localities the tuber is infested with worm
!, that makes it unfit for food other than for
stock. The absence of the good old yam
} of twenty years ago, full of syrup and
seems to be extinct.
The recall election held in Shreveport
Monday resulted in victory for all three
of the present officials. Following is the
! vote: For Mayor. H. Eastman 1853,
: DR.. A. S. Reisor 1913, Miller SO. For Com
3 missioner of Finance-C. G. Rives 1881,
T. H. Thurmond 1872, Stone Sc. For Com
t missioner of Public Safety-Fullilove 962,
, Thoman 801, Ward 304, Noonan 81.
What if known as the Louisiana Shoe
Law" passed during the last regular ses-
sion of the Legislature, compels all man
:. ufacturers or statesmen or merchants selling
shoes in the State to brand on all boots and
shoes and foot apparel offered for sale an
honest statement as to the materials used
! in their production. It is said the Ameri-
. can people pay $500, 100000 year for
3 shoes which they suppose are made OF
! leather, but between 80 and 80 per cent
e contain substitutes for leather in the con-
r cealed parts.
Official announcement has been made oil
the purchase of Marsh Island by Mrs
J, Russell Sage of New York, at cost oi
Il $3.50, 900, as national bird preserve
Marsh Island is situated close to the main
land of Louisiana at the enhance of Vermil-
q ion Bay, and south of the town of New
e iberia. The island is about eighteen miles
in greatest length by nine miles in creates
width, and contains about $1,000 acres
II ''To wild birds it is delightful sylvan
; labyrinth, studded with lakes, ponds, bay.
Gus and creeks innumerable,'' says the
the New Orleans Times Democrat. 81
j, affords shelter and feeding grounds fol
myriads of migratory song birds, wood.
peckers and shore birds, all of which be.