The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-10-02
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New Orleans Picayune: 1t is as wicked
to kill time as it is to kill anything else.
Assumption Pioneer: Being a good
fellow is mighty nice, but it is so costly.
Mansfield Enterprise: The cane crop is
mighty good in DeSoto Parish this season,
and the creek bottom cane is as full of
sacarine matter as is honeycomb in a
clover field.
New Orleans States: Forty-n nine teach
ers on the eligigble list of 1870 substitute
teachers in the office Of the School Board,
have been given positions in the country
parishes over the State, where it is said a
scarcity of teachers exists.
Shreveport Caucasian: In years past
the New Orleans Bosses have controlled
the State. 1t is not believed tat they can
maintain this supremacy. In their excess
sive greed for power these men Maverick
oned beyond their limits.
New Orleans States: If Judge Fogarty
will make good his promise to send auto
speeders to JAIL instead of letting them off
with a fine, he will earn the gratitude of a
good many people who feel that only some
such radical corrective will make human
life safe in the streets.
Louisiana Democrat: While the stand
ard should be sufficiently high to assure
capable and efficient teachers, they should
not be catechised upon abstruse PROPOSE
tons and recondite problems, which they
will never be called upon to teach, and
which would be of no material or practical
benefit to the scholar, should they be re-
quired to do so.
The New Orleans Times Democrat of
Saturday says: Reports to the Weather
Bureau here Friday night are that the entire
cotton area, of which Shreveport is the
center, is being deluged with one of the
heaviest rainfallls of the year. 1t is i'm
possible just now to estimate the damage
to the crops, but it will be large. Picking
practically has been suspended in South
ern Arkansas, North Louisiana and East
Texas. The precipitation in Shreveport
was $50 to-day.
New Orleans Picayune: 1t is common
notion that We do not grow any wheat in
the South, but it is great mistake. The
Census reports show that in 1850, when the
Southern States, counting among them
Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, had
$4,000, 900 population, they grew 49, 0O0,0 900
bushels of wheat, or four bushels of wheat
to each head of population. Then Virginia
led With over l0,OOO,OOO bushels, while
Kentucky was secodd with 1000. 900, and
Maryland third with 100000. In 1910,
when the South, including the same States,
had more than 80 1000, 900 of population, it
grew Is 900, 900, or 2.4O bushels to the head
of population, Missouri standing first with
80 100000 bushels, and Maryland second
with 100000.
The Monroe News-Star of last Thursday
says: There is something better and far
more beneficial than monetary returns from
such an encampment as will be held in
Monroe next week. No one can listen to
the talks of Veterans, Daughters and Sons
without being made better; stronger for
the good and noble; more convinced that
the great big heart of the country is sound
to the core. No one could see and hear
those old soldiers and those noble women
and go away empty minded. When one
knows that all those men and thousands of
others offered their lives for a cause dear
to Dixie" that many women suffered
fortunes, some of them, perhaps, in camps
and hospitals, some of them in their homes,
with their hearts gnawed by suspense, one
must think; one must imbibe a deeper
reverence for home, country and nation.