The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-04-24
From Over Our Great State

Aleiers Methodist will build $40, 600
church.
A campaign for cheaper paving is on in
New Orleans.
Presbyterians are to erect new church
in Carrollton.
Contractors and builders expect New
Orleans to build rapidly.
Morgan City companies are making ex-
cellent shipments of fish to the West.
Three negro children were burned to
death Saturday night at Napoleonville.
The street railways assessment Of New
Orleans was fixed at SIC, 629,827 by the
City Council.
Mrs. A. F. Brown Of Gillion was seriously
injured when dynamite caps exploded in a
stove in her home.
It is said the Southern Pacific Railroad
management is planning to build branch
line from Lafayette to Abbeville.
Nine patients, all of one family from
Sardis, Sabine Parish, were admitted in
the hospital at Shreveport Monday.
Arthur Poole, aged six years, was acct
dentally drowned last Friday in sub
merged oil reservoir in New Orleans.
The body of a man who had been MUIR
dered and weighted with iron and thrown
into the river was discovered near Monroe.
The Enterprise says there seems to be q
general revival in the lease of mineral
rights in the eastern part of DeSoto Parish.
Charged with embezzling S1,750 from
notes of clients, Attorney j. Monroe Wise
of Shreveport, was arrested last Thursday
and placed in the parish Jail upon failure
to furnish $4,000 bail.
Charles Monsieur, Nick johnson and F. A.
Nejim of Shreveport, convicted OF violating
the prohibition law, were sentenced to six
months imprisonment and fined $500 each
last Thursday by City Judge Blanchard.
Rev. R. H. Wynn, presiding elder Of the
Crowley district, has been chosen president
of the Centenary College at Shreveport, to
succeed Rev. Felix R. Hill, who has ten
dered his resignation to take effect at the
end of the present session of the college.
The State Board of Appraisers, in ses-
sion at Baton Rouge last week, increased
the assessment of railroad, telegraph and
telephone corporations about $1,000, OOC
for the year 1918, as compared with the
| 1912 assessments.
Contracts for constructing 141a miles OF
permanent highways as extentions on roads
out of Shreveport to Greenwood, Mornings
port and Belcher were awarded last Thurs.
day by the Police Jury of Caddo Parish
to cost approximately 100000.
Mr.. ! B. F. Yoakum, chairman of thu
board of directors of the great Frisco rail.
road system, considers the future of thi:
State and the city of New Orleans exceed
ingly promising, and never tires of talking
of Louisiana's prospects, and of predicting
for New Orleans a commercial prosperit,
which will make her one of the creates
cities in the world. In the opinion ex
. pressed by Mr.. Yoakum there is no sum
ming up the possibilities of Louisiana
lands, and in the Louisiana lands grea
: wealth awaits the agriculturist and farm
er. There is no soil 80 rich, no climate
so conducive to the successful growing o
crops, and opportunity is now crying a
every mans door, "With such lands a.
, Louisiana possesses" Mr.. Yoakum says
'the State should become one Of the great
est and most productive in all the country
, and new lines of endeavor should be open
ed and developed to their fullest"