The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-03-12

FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.
An epidemic of measles at WINFIELD has
seriously affected attendance at the public
schools.
A beaver weighing twenty five pounds
and the fur netting So, was recently killed
near Plaucheville.
John T. Colligan, aged eighty four, and
a Confederate veteran, died at Church
Point last Sunday.
Scott johnson suddenly went blind in a
church at Amite, and was taken to New
Orleans for treatment.
The receipts for the New Orleans Post
Office for February, 1914, amounted to
S98, 1920, compared to S92, 132S5in 1913.
Two Germans from Hamburg, Germany,
and farmer from Oregon, have purchas-
ed farms on Talley's Creek, near Bogalusa.
Fire, supposed to have originated from
dences in Shreveport last Sunday, entail
ing loss estimated at 81 900.
Thomas P Chaplin died in Natchitoches
on the 4th instant, aged seventy one years.
He served with honor all through the civil
war as member of the Second Louisiana
Regiment.
One hundred and seventy thousand dol
lars worth OF bonds voted by the Police
Jury of Acadia Parish will be sold and the
proceeds spent in replacing wooden bridges
with iron ones.
| The Rapdes Cotton Club offers prize
of $50 to the farmer who raises the best
acre Of corn in Rapides Parish this year.
The only restriction is that strict account
must be kept of the amount Of fertilizer
used.
Owing to the great success OF the Church
Point Canning Factory in Acadia Parish,
which has put up 10000 cans of berries,
vegetables and syrup the past year, an
effort is being made to establish cannery
at Crowley. ..
Sixty farmers from the North visited
Tangipahoa Parish last week and two
thirds of the number purchased lands.
The cut-over lands are selling actively and
the population of the parish is growing at
a phenomenal gate.
ever shipped from Abbeville was billed out
by the local canning factory last Tuesday
to Houston, Texas, jobbing concern. 1t
consisted of $50 cases of two-pound cans
of Vermiion-grown potatoes.
Wild ducks to the number of 308, 315
were shipped into New Orleans during the
hunting season of 1913 14-from October
1st to March 1st. Besides the ducks, 2467
wild geese, 2467 poule d'eaux and 50,592
snipes were killed and shipped into New
Orleans.
| Napoleonville, March About forty
| families of negroes left here yesterday for
North Louisiana where they will be given
employment on cotton plantations. Their
expenses of transportation and some OF
their debts were paid. Only negroes with
families were taken.
The police jury of Calcasieu Parish on
the 4th instant let contracts for road work
amounting to S27O,OOO, on an improved
highway thirty miles long and extending
through the parish from east to west. The
highway will be of brick construction for
a distance of thirteen miles in the imme-
date vicinity of Lake Charles.
There are now forty EIGHT families in the
Bohemian colony in the pine woods near
Alexandria. They are arriving at the rate
of one to three families day. A quantity
of seed has been ordered for planting and
the construction of school building com
menced. The families are arriving so rap
idly that there are not yet houses enough
for them, and large force of carpenters
will be put to work.
A Gibsland special to the Shreveport,
Times, signed by by over one hundred cit
liens, declares: 1--WE, the undersigned
citizens, most heartily indorse the action
taken by the good people of Shreveport in
their public condemnation of the jury's
verdict in the case of the Littles, recently
on trial in that city. Human life seems tc
be cheap in Caddo, as we'll as elsewhere in
our State, and the murderer and assassin
ply their trade without much fear of pun.
ishment. The fault is not in the law, but
in its method of enforcement and in its
last analysis; this can only be secured
through an insistant and overwhelming
) demand from those of our citizens who
stand for law and order. We desire to e
on record as being of that GLASS;"
!. Items of Interest.
,, Palms live under favorable condition!
+ for $50 years.
Two-thirds of the worlds beet crop il
used in sugar-making.
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