The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-03-06
From Over Our Great State

II FROM over OUR UFedI 0IdlC III
A league of Jewish women Of New Or ,
leans has been formed to promote culture
in Palestine.
building and loan association with
capital stock of $4,000 has been organized
in Mansfield.
More than $4,000 worth of land in Jeffer-
son Davis Parish was recently sold to
Northern settlers.
DeSoto District Court adjourned last
Thursday, after having disposed OF more
than 100 criminal cases.
Miss Gladys Randolph and Anvil Gremil-
lion were killed last Thursday in an auto
accident at Alexandria.
While crossing wire fence Timothy G.
Moreau accidently shot and killed himself
Friday afternoon at Moreauvile.
Peter Orgeron, a young man at work on
plantation near Lockport, was struck by
lightning last Thursday and killed.
Joseph O'Dywer, youthful slayer Of 7: P:
Whitehead at Shreveport, was convicted Of
murder without capital punishment.
Edward W. Robertson, charged with the
murder of Joseph L. Young, was found
guilty of manslaughter at Baton Rouge.
New York bankers have announced their
readiness to finance the construction of the
Texas and Pacific terminals at New Or
leans.
A tract of 675 acres of hardwood timber
land located on Bayou Beuf, fifteen miles
west of Alexandria, was sold last Thurs
day for $40, 500.
The Police Jury of Evangeline has given
Il half 80 ho
licenses derived from the tax, which
amounts to $4,000.
) One of the largest crops Of Irish potatoes
in the history of Forrest Hill, Rapides
Parish, has just been planted in that Sec
ton, being double that of last year.
The apportionment for February of this
year of the school fund of S757 1852, was
apportioned at S1.44 per child for the
526, 1858 educable children in the State.
The Alexandria Electric Street Railway
> Company's property has been taken over
{ by new stock company, with capital
stock of 100000, the principal stockhold-
ers being Dayton, Ohio, capitalists. The
car lines will be extended and many i'm
provements made.
The property damage occasioned by the
! head-on collisions between two Vicksburg
and Pacific passenger trains between Ar
8 cadia and Gibsland on February 21st is
estimated at $50, 900, with 81 500 for claims.
/ Evidence before the investigating commit
tee showed that orders were violated and
= that both trains, which we're running late,
y had orders to stop, but didn't.
The tenth ward of East Baton Rouge
Parish proposes to organize 9 good road
district to vote special tax for construc-
ton of good roads. The third ward road
district has already been organized, and it
. is proposed there to vote 3-mill tax for
u twenty years. The assessment of the third
ward is ST, 100000 and for 1918 it will be
IL much larger. One-half of this assessment
: represents the valuation of the Standard
Oil plant, and the officials of the company
>, while hauling no products over the dirt
a road and not being especially interested in
it, are said to be in favor Of the tax.
o Deuteronomy.
Keep all the commandments which
y command you this day.-xxvii, 1.
> And the Lord thy God shall bless thee If
the land whittier thou goest to possess it
: xxx, Is.
y And thine eye shall not pity; but life
) shall 60 for life, eye for eye, tooth fo1
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.-xix, 81
'l And when we cried unto the Lord Coo
> of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice
and looked on our affliciion, and our labor
a and our oppression.-xxvii,7 Z.
u The woman shall not wear that which
pertaineth unto man, neither shall mar
"a put on a woman's garment: for all tina
e do so are abomination unto the Lord tn,
: God.-xxii, 3.
If there be controversy between men
ID and they come unto judgment, that thu
u judges may judge them; then they shall
re justify the righteous, and condemn tn
wicked.-xxv, /.
IS Thou shalt not have in thy bag diver
~ weights, great and small. Thou shall
D not have in thine house divers measures
) great and q small. But thou shalt have
perfect and just weight, perfect and jus
re measure shalt thou have: that thy day
st may be heightened in the land which tn
Mt Lord thy God giveth thee.-xxvi, 1916.
J.
" The Farm and Home Of Louisville, Ky
or says: Farmers need first the spirit of co
at operation, then they need cooperative 80
n cieties. Cooperate with your neighbor
er and friends. Learn of their experience
1g their success and their failures. See
you cannot jointly market your crops wit
~ hottor honoEt fhon 10;nnr II al NJ