The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-09-12
From Over Our Great State

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Charlton has made its appearance in
Iberville in several places.
Fire at Campti Saturday destroyed sew
eral residences and stores.
The hay crops in West Baton Rouge and
Lafayette Parishes are good.
There was marked lull in the real estate
market Of New Orleans during last week.
AL. Watson confessed at Shreveport to
poisoning his wife and killing the husband
of his paramount
Prof V. L. Roy has been reelected
President of the State Normal School for
term of one year.
The money at the disposal of the City of
New Orleans annually for the maintenance
of her public schoolsis ST, 100, 900.
The State Central Committee will meet
next Monday in Baton Rouge to canvass the
State returns from the primary of the Sd.
Andrew j. Reid, Chief of Police of Lake
Charles, died last Thursday from blood
poisoning, caused by scratch from a
rusty nail.
Lightning struck house near Abita
Springs where Mary Thibodeaux was Wis
ing friends and instantly killed her. No
one else was hurt.
ages of money will be handled at night on
trains of the Southern Express Company
leaving New Orleans.
Major B. NJ Harold, the foremost engi-
neer of Louisiana and former member OF
the Isthmian Canal Commission, died in
New Orleans Saturday, aged seventy-five
years.
The Spokesman will be the name of a
daily newspaper which will make its ap-
pearance in New Orleans within the next
thirty days. 1t will be edited, managed
and printed entirely by negroes.
There are at present number of Ohio,
Illinois and Michigan farmers and capital
lists displaying an active interest in Lou
isiana farm lands. During last week
Northern men, some of them representing
English capital, purchased 5000 acres in
Terrebonne Parish, involving more than
1 $4,000.
The Country Review of Saturday last
Q says: Fine weather during the past week
t has greatly facilitated the harvesters OF
t rice, cotton, corn and hay. The best ad-
vices indicate that Louisiana will this year
;, produce the largest cotton crop since the
= coming OF tne OOH WeeVI. luo Flco CFOk
y is also satisfactory, corn somewhat short
while the hay crop will probably break al
r previous records-though the greater par
O of it will be used for home consumption.
# East Carroll Banner Democrat: W.
have seen the three fall months, September
s October and November, pass with very
e little rain, and should it be the same thi'
j. season, it will greatly help the planters il
saving their cotton in first class condition
70 which means a better staple and bette
"a price. The planters ought not to lose I
minute in gathering the crop and rushing
. the work as rapidly as possible, as it ha
been some years since they have had tn
prospects of making any money before
New Orleans Times-Democrat: South
It ern Louisiana's rainfall ranges we'll abov
80 fifty inches annually. Nevertheless Their
= are more days of sunshine than in an,
other portion of the Mississippi Valley eacl
and every year. In most respects the sol
> of the river-made sections of Louisiana j
"a similar to that of the Nile Valley. 1t i
" enormously fertile and highly productive
20 But the climate differs in that the wind
:. and breezes that blow over Louisiana ar
y, ~ moisture laden and cool, whereas the pre-
~ vailing winds of the Nile Valley come fror
! the desert and are hot and dry. On YER
rare occasions in December and Januar
l. very thin ice forms in exposed places i
rs New Orleans.