The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-12-12
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Mrs. Benjamin Lee was drowned IN
cistern in Morristown, Tenn.
President elect Wilson will leave Ber-
muda for New York next Saturday.
Five men were killed by boiler explo-
sion at sawmll in Wayne County, West
Va, last Friday.
Nearly 100000 pounds of red snapper
was brought to Pensacola by three vessels
Saturday afternoon.
The Methodists of South Carolina will
raise $500, ZOO for their colleges at Wofford,
Lander and Columbia.
John Follis, grocer in Frankfort, KY,
was blown to pieces Sunday while carry
ing box containing twenty sticks OF dy-
Mantle.
While hurrying to church to attend the
funeral of friend, Mrs. Emma Marcum
was run down and killed by street car in
Louisville, KY, Sunday.
In his final general message to Congress
President Taft touched upon all depart
ments Of government, but leaves tariff re-
form to the incoming administration.
Charles L. Hawley, Prohibition party
candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in
1908, was killed last Saturday by fall
from the porch at his home at Scranton, Pa.
The body of a young negro who con-
fessed that he murdered B. B. Bush, a
planter, Friday morning was found dang
ling from the limb of tree at Butler, Ala.
Up to December LIST, which marked the
close of the hunting season in number OF
States, 1O1 persons had been killed and
seventy others had been wounded during
the 1912 hunting season.
The sixth cotton ginning report of the
Census Bureau, made last Monday, shows
"a. per cent of the crop in, with II ,844 432
bales reported to December 1st against
1856, 1907 bales to December 1st last year.
From the isolated Santa Maria mines,
situated about sixty miles from Hermosillo,
Mexico, comes the graphite which provides
the lead for 80 per cent of the pencils OF
the world. This has been the unbroken
record of the Santa Maria property for
the last eighteen years.
The increase in the worlds gold output
in the past quarter of a century is one Of
the marvels of an age which has seen mar.
wells of many sorts. In 1883 the gold out.
put for the mines of the world amounted te
S95, 100000 This had increased to S11S,.
600, 900 in 1890, and to S454 900, 900 in 1910
, The output was S467 ZOO, 900 in 1911, ane
it will be S485, OOO,O 900 for 1912 if the rats
of production along to October 1st con-
tinues to December 31st.
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.
Rayne Tribune: Let US have NOR,
factories.
Louisville Courier journal: Never pu
off till tomorrow the bill you can pay to
day.
New York Tribune: What would tn,
"de luxe" book publishers do withou
fools?
Washington Post: Come to think of il
we can't recall any former Presidents VIII
ever starved to death.
,, Memphis Commercial Appeal: Did yo
> ever notice that people who always sa
what they think never have pleasan
t thoughts.
J New Orleans Picayune: 1t is might
+ easy to trade your reputation for money
Y but you are up against it when you try
2 trade back.
Assumption Pioneer: The right kind G
a friends never grow stale. In order to hav
o such friends, one must himself be the rigt
o kind of man.
= Norfolk Landmark: You are gettin
: old when you pass through the woods un
mindful of the hickory nuts and chestnuts
e and leave the permsimmons untasted in tn
: frost.
. Lake Charles American-Press: NJ
= even the professional fault-fnders coul
) kick on Gov. Halls disappointment of D
= Bowling, which must have been grievou
= thing for them.
The Mansfield Journal says Hon. j.
n Watkins ''is an untiring worker, and
h you wish anything done at the Nations
Capitol, you will find him a ready and wi
- ling helper in all matters for the best in
: terests of his constituents
d New iberia Iberian: Lake Charles he
we'll managed canning factory, putin
n up sweet potatoes. This is the first tin
h that such an enterprise has embarked
d this business, and it should succeed fl
d the reason that the material is the best an
!. purest, and it is a pleasure to learn fro
If the press of that city that it is payin
proposition. Potatoes supplies the mo
prolific crop, are easily raised, and can
!, considered one of the finest food produt