The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13
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lost. and it was for this reason that his
commanding officer reported him as
among the missing.
The Shreveport police continue to re-
cover cars stolen for joy-riding pur-
poses by boys of that city,
Billy Smith. manager-elect Of the
1919 Gassers, will arrive III Shreveport
on the 18th to take charge Of the club.
Mayor Ford. of Shreveport. and
three Of the council members favor a
vote by the people on the proposed tel
cphone merger.
\ test at Shreveport of the Pine
Island crude oil showed 30 per cent Of
higll-grade motor oil. The movement
for refinery by the independent oil
concerns was given an impetus thereby
this week. says Il news story appearing
in the Times.
The Shreveport police raided gam
bling games during the small hours Of
Sunday morning capturing number
Of white gamblers and a greater num-
Ter of colored players. They are being
prosecuted this week under the state
law against gambling.
Miscellany.
Nat Goodwin. the actor. who died
recently, left an estate Of $1,000.
Twenty-four thousand men have been
discharged from the Army since the
beginning of the war as tnbercular.
An Ell Paso, Texas, dispatch express
es doubt of the truthfulness of the
latest report that the bandit Villa has
been shot.
The memory of the late Theodore
Roosevelt was honored by memorial
services held ut the national capital
and throughout the nation Sunday.
Georgia writer's are to have their
names honored by the planting Of trees
in Piedmont Park. Atlanta. The first
tree is to he planted in honor of Jaques
Futrell, who went down on the Ii
tantic. ~
y New York dispatch says that the
American troops are to he brought
honeat the rate Of 6O.OOO additional
per month because of the aid in that
way thEt number of German ships
wilI give.
Mrf. Naomi " Campbell. head Of the
UndfMominational Orphans Home in
Mafetta, Ga, is held under $50 bond
on il charge of cruelty to children, one
of the specifications being that she
trSded a little girl for COW and $50.
hliss Hope. an eighteen year old half
bHeed Greek Indian girl, who has land
| near Eufaula. Okla. upon which Oil
h4s been developed. is being protected
| bX the states attorney while visiting
inf Chicago against many people who
with to marry her. borrow her money
or act as her guardian.
Ffety-four aliens. including twenty
four Industrial Workers of the World,
nine anarchists. and other undesira-
bles. VIA We're brought to New York
from SeatNe, Wash, and other West
ern cities. an being held at Ellis Island
awaiting deportation.
There is develGfiag great rivalry
between the British AM. siellll
| flyers as to which will first make the
flight across the Atlantic in flying
boats. The Americans propose to make
the trip. using the Liberty motor and
an all-made-in-Americas seaplane.
Thomas Edison. the inventor, upon
the occasion Of his seventy-secOnd
birthday anniversary Monday, was
able to kick as high as his outstretched
hand. and dared any one to call him
old. He left the following day for
Florida for il rest Of six weeks from
his war work.
Fifteen hundred delegates to Il cot
ton convention in Dallas, Texas. voted
Tuesday to call upon all the governors
of the cotton-growing states to sci
aside the I'D as Pledge Day." whel
all farmers are to he asked to pledge
themselves to reduce their cotton acre
age hy one-third.
4 remedy for sleeplessnesS is givel
by an English woman. You review the
number of your acquaintances whose
Christian names begin with a. and sc
on through the alphabet to Il; but tht
inventor claims that one letter Of tlt
alphabet is never finished before tht
patient sinks to sleep.
\ general strike of the basic build
ing trades in New York and through
out the country was called for Tues
day. About 25O.OOO men were supposed
to lie affected-One-fourth Of the uniol
men of those trades throughout til,