The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-01
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The number of applications for saloon
license this year in Ohio is 6,424, as COM
pared with 8,815 last year.
Sixty three cents of every dollar collect
ed by the United States Government are
used for army, navy and pensions.
French army agents have bought 49,
600 Mexican burros for transport use in
France from the Mexican General Villa.
There are more than $1,000 moving
picture theatres in the United States, en-
PERTAINING daily about 100000 people.
Government returns show an increase in
value this year of 1921 900 900 in the Amer
lean crops of the four leading cerals and
hay.
The Illinois Central Railroad for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1914, shows an in
1918.
Joseph H. Eaton, farmer, was waylaid
and assassinated Tuesday by an unknown
person near his home two miles east of
Fouke, Ark.
American exports to Europe in August
were sos, 320,619 less than for the same
month year ago, the slump being attrib-
utable to the war.
More than half of the worlds population
lives in the tropics of the old world. I'm
der British rule alone are more than $685.
100000 tropical natives.
Shantung Province, China, the scene of
the struggle between Germany and Japan,
has population of 100000 in an area
one third as large as California.
George Everin and P. G. Allen, both Of
Louisville, Ky, were killed last Friday, and
Mildred Allen perhaps fatally hurt when a
freight train broke through trestle.
Pastors attending the Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, occu-
pied pulpits in thirty six churches of Lou
isvile, KY, and vicinity last Sunday.
No cotton at all should be planted in
1915, in the opinion of most of the Mssis-
sippi Division of the Southern Cotton AS
sociation, recently in convention at Jack
son.
A new fuel has been found in the Nile
Soudan in the shape of weed which
grows rank over an area of $4,000 square
miles. 1t is of such quick maturity that
after crop has been cut new crop twen-
ty feet high will grow in three weeks.
1t is estimated that as result of the ad =
vance in prices from July 1st to September
4th the value of the wheat crop of the
United States increased S275 100000; the
corn crop. $500, GOO, 600; and the oat crop.
ste, 100000 total for the three cerals OF
S745, 100000.
A dispatch from Seguin, Texas, reports
that the majority of the farmers of Guada-
lupe County are holding their cotton with
out assistance from the banks. They are
able to do this, it is added, because they
produce on their farms nearly everything
in the way of food that their families re-
quire.
Washington, Sept. 26.-Complete isola
ton of the Constituencies army of 5000
men under Gen. Carranza in the Isthmus
OF Tehuantepec, rendering it useless in a
defensive campaign against Villa, has been
accomplished through the destruction oil
long stretches of railroad by ex-federal
soldiers, now allies of Villa.
Exporters in China and Japanlook to the
United States for new markets. This fact
was shown recently when the steamer Min
nesota sailed in the harbor of Seattle
Washington, with cargo of raw silk, tea
and mating valued at S1O,0O0,000. This
is the most valuable cargo ever landed in
this country by steamship flying the
American flag.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal issued
its last cotton crop report for the season
last Monday, which follows:
"Reports of correspondents to this paper
indicate that the cotton crop has opened
rapidly over practically the entire belt dur.
ing the last fortnight. Pckers are rushing
in an effort to keep up with the rapidly
opening bolls. In the west there is promise
of good top crop with average frost, al.
though this has been badly damaged by
ravages of the army and leaf worms ir
: Texas. In the central valley army worn
and boil weevil have almost totally destroy.
ed the top crop, while the bottom and mid
die crops are being rapidly gathered. II
the east the old crop has opened very rap.
idly and is being harvested as fast as pos.
sible, but much late cotton is in danger d
damage of frost of average date. All ovel
: the belt farmers are holding determinedy
for higher prices, and they are being en-.
couraged bp merchants who take cotton a
10 cents on accounts; by buy-a bale clubs
and other relief organizations. Many plans
are being formulated for reduction of thu
1915 acreage.
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.