The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-02-27
From Over Our Great State


Mer Rouge is to have a 5000 modern
high school building.
Joe Hearsy, colored, was killed by light
ming at New Roads Friday.
A new bank, with capital stock OF
$3.50, 600, is being organized at Alexandria.
The first shipment of strawberries of the
1918 season was made Monday from Amite.
The outlook for the Ponchatoula straw
berry crop is good and shipping will begin
in few days.
A fire crop of carrots is being harvested
by truck farmers in Tangipahoa Parish
and shipped to the Northern markets.
Willis Bourgeois, sixty years old and
life time resident of St. James Parish, was
found dead in his tobacco shed at Lutcher.
The potato shipment business inaugu-
rated at Alexandria about fifteen years ago,
has grown from one car load to 400 car
loads.
Theodule Benoit, Confederate veteran,
died in Lafayette Friday afternoon at the
age of lightweight years. He is survived
by son, Homer, who also is a Confederate
| veteran.
Gov. L. E. Hall has called an election in
Caddo Parish for March 25th to select the
successor to Hon. Edgar W. Sutherlin, who
recently rendered his resignation as Judge
of the District Court.
One hundred Western land prospectors
and home seekers last Thursday visited
Amite and the surrounding country. They
were shown ground upon which four crops
per year are harvested.
,Lot ~ hrf hon
in that locality was slaughtered at Pom
The steer weighed 1910 pounds and was a
native corn-fed product.
The Times says there are at present over
100 dwelling houses in course of construc-
ton in Lake Charles, to say nothing Of the
numerous improvements that are being
made in the business district.
The Southern Pacific Railway Company
last Friday inaugurated its motor car SER
vice among the towns of Lafayette, Breaux
Bridge, St. Martinville, New Iberia and
} Abbeville, and will run a regular schedule
daily.
A garfish, weighing $50 pounds, seven
} feet and seven inches long, and 100 inches
. around the body, was caught in Bayou
J Lafourche at Belle Rose. In opening the
, fish sack in which were seven bricks and
the bones of which looked like dog, were
found.
A sale of 1000 acres of land situated neal
! Waterproof, in Tensas Parish, to capital.
lists from South Bend, Indiana, has jus
been consumated. Mr.. Klein, one of thu
purchasers, who will make his home OF
one of the tracts, considers the land more
: valable than land in the Northern State
that sells for $3.50 an acre. 1t is said ther'
are many acres of such land for sale TO
> S15 and $40 an acre.
: A canning plant, capitalized at Sis, 900
: was organized last week by the citizens Q
: Norwood, East Feliciana, Parish, one-hal
t of which has been paid, the remaining par
to be paid on the installing of the plant
Q The plant will have minimum capacity Q
10000 cans per day, maximum Of 10000
Sweet potatoes, tomatoes and blackberrie
: will be canned, and later peas, corn an,
=. other vegetables.
:. About fifty five farmers of Iowa, 1llinoi
Il and Indiana have purchased land fv
:. miles north Of Hammond and will settle OF
y their tracts as soon as possible. They ar
: enthusiastic over the crop possibilities Q
a Louisiana cut-over pine lands, and at
r banquet given in New Orleans Sunday at
e ternoon several of the Northern men mad
addresses, in which they expressed faith i
O the commercial growth of the State whic
d they had chosen for their future homes.
d A party of sixteen Pennsylvania spen
IS three days during last week injecting tn
: Schell Canal and the country adjacent, i
St. Landry Parish, with the view of pur
a chasing land and locating there. They ar
n a hardy, thrifty set of farmers, and ar
IS favorably impressed with the wonderfu
10 advantages offered by soil and climate
v The contrast and transition from the snow
l. bound homes they left only three days be
W fore, to the soft balmy air and sunshin
they encounted in Louisiana, was revela
% ton to them.