The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-30
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Argentina is hampered by scarcity of
skilled laborers.
One family of every eight in Kansas
owns an automobile.
The area planted in cotton this season in
the United States is $4,000, 900 acres.
The hens of Australia laid last year an
average Of four dollars worth of eggs each.
One death and three prostrations were
the toll of Sundays heat in Louisville, KY.
Five protestant denomination have COM
bined for an evangelistic campaign in
Mexico.
A new law in Scotland forbids the open
ing of saloons before 10 o'clock, in the
morning.
Roofs of apartment houses are now used
as play grounds for children in crowded
city centers.
Lawrence Robinson, facing trial at Bos
ton for the murder of a policeman, COM
mitted suicide.
Secretary of War Garrison says the
Panama Canal will be opened to the worlds
commerce on August 18th next.
Orders were recently issued by the mayor
of Ottawa, Canada, forbidding city officials
and employees to drink intoxicants either
on or off duty.
| The streets of Terre Haute, Indiana, were
used as ballroom by the Grand Encamp-
ment of Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias,
last Thursday night.
Alabama's first bale of cotton for this
season brought % cents pound at public
auction in Montgomery on the 22d. TWAS
grown in Geneva County.
The estimate of the worlds wheat crop
this year, formulated by the international
| Institute at Rome, is 2,458, 100000 bushels,
or "a per cent less than last years.
/ The First Methodist Church at Pikeville,
KY, has been sold at auction to satisfy its
creditors. This is the first Methodist
Church in that State to be sold at auction
That the Kentucky mountaineers are let
/ ting their most valuable asset, the fruit
crop, go to waste was the report made last
Friday to the Department of Agriculture
by Government experts.
During revival at Richwoods, Ark.
Friday night by the Free Will Baptists
Mrs. Fultner, aged sixty-five years, fell
dead while shouting. Her daughter had jus
, made profession of religion. The mother
was overjoyed and in her first effort al
shouting she fell dead.
:. Dublin, July 26.-Three men and one
woman were killed and more than sixty
persons were wounded when battalion o
: the Kings Own Scottish Borderers to-day
J fired into a mob in the streets of Dublin
Seven Of the wounded are expected to die
, Among them are three women and boy
} of ten.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal of las
! Monday says: The condition OF the cotton
crop, is 1872 per cent of normal. This i
!, loss in condition of four-tenths of on
} per cent since June 25th, when the condi
ton was 1916. The loss in condition com
, pares with an averageloss for July of Z Q
one per cent. The condition one year ag'
9 was 1915 and the 10-year average is 80, 81
that the crop this year averages a of on
r per cent below the 10-year average. As
1 result of the rather general deficiency il
!, rainfall for the season. hill cotton in nearl,
7 all sections of the belt is suffering more o
] less from drouth. These conditions max
the crop spotted and from many section
r reports are both good and bad. Rain
reported to be quite generally needed t
maintain conditions even in the best dis
t tricts, while in many large areas the Gro
: will lose ground every day that rain is de
0 ferred from now on.