The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-03-09
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

Monroe, March S.-Between midnight
and 2 O'Clock Wednesday night four differ
ent fires swept by a stiff north wind de-
stroyed houses totally a loss of 5,OOO.
The New Orleans clearing house reports
total clearings of February as SlOO, 49,
O63.O6, as against SIS 400, 673.O4 in Febru-
airy, 1915. This is an increase of $50 ,038,-
39O.O4, or 80 and fraction per cent.
A three-mil tax involving 100000 for
sewerage was carried in New Iberia last
Friday at special election, the result be-
ing as follows: Property value for, $780,
28S.27; against, 800, 1882 "a; votes for, 154;
against, 43.
Washington, March 5.-Louisiana' s cane
sugar crop Of 1915 amounted to 136,50O
short tons, compared with a crop of 242 900
short tons the year before. The cane
crushed for sugar was 2,O16,00O short tons
in 1915, and 3,19o, 900 in 1914.
Many, March 6.-The Sabine Parish
Court House was destroyed by fire this
morning about o'clock. The flames,
which originated from an unknown source,
had gained such Roadway before the fire
was discovered that it was practically i'm
possible to save the building or it's contents.
Guiding the papers of the clerk of court, the
assessor and sheriff's office.
Lafayette, March 6.-Mrs. Hampton
Benton, of Carencro, appeared before City
Judge Elliott here this morning and swore
to a charge of assault against Miss Ada
Clark, teacher in the Carencro High School,
in effect that on last Friday Miss Clark
brutality chastised Mrs. Benton's two
daug hters, aged II and II years, respect
lively, using buggy whip. The girls ex
hibited marks on theirlower limbs to prove
the severity Of the castigation.
Shreveport Times: With 10 less permits
than were issued during February, 1915,
expenditures for building operations in
February, 1916, were S3,47O in excess Of
the amount paid out in the corresponding
month of the year before. The total ex-
penditu:es in February, 1915, were Sal $40,
against $40, O46 last month. The bulk of
last months expenditures was for resi-
dences, Of which seven for white people
cost S22, $50 and % for negroes cost So, $50
Shreveport Times, 1st: Shreveport last
month passed through the driest February
in forty-five years. One one hundredth
Of an inch Ofrain fell during the month and
this 'downpour' came all in one day, on
February 22d. A search of the records at
the office of the local weather bureau fails
to reveal any February during the last
forty five years when the rainfall was SO
light and this stands as record. The
normal RAINFALL for February is 3.72 inches.
The normal temperature for the month was
so degrees.
Bastrop, March 3.-The dedicatory ex-
ercises of the new $50 900 modernly equip
ped brick public school building took place
here to-day. State Superintendent of Ed
ucation T. H. Harris made the principal
address, mpimenting the wonderful
achievement of town of one thousand
inha bitants in erecting such magnificent
euft4iHs anu Que go mpletely equipped
in every detail! He said that on yesterday
he had also visited the school buildings at
Coiinston and Mer Rouge and some of the
rural districts of Morehouse Parish and
was surprised at the progress made in that
direction during the past four years. This,
he said, was also true of other portions of
the State, the remarkable advancement be-
ing due in large measure to the assistance
given by Gov. Hall during his administra-
ton, resulting in an increase of half mil
lion dollars for schools above past admin
istrations.