The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-10-09
claiming. however. that more men are
applying for work every day.

Setlhc tIIousslOuI tie lldlIOl SecNl. dc-
cording to Chicago dispatches. to have
settled down to II long-drawn-out test
of endurance.
Three thousand workers at the
Great Southern Lumber Company's
plant at BOgalusa. this state, quit work
last Saturday because the management
refused to recognize their union.
\ Chicago dispatch of the Sd says
that housewives are looking forward
to Il drop in the price of pork within
few days, following the quotation of
the lowest price for hogs since July.
1917.
Beginning on the 1st the dairymen
Of New Orleans made their long threat
ened advance in the price Of milk. All
dairymen save one joined in the ad
vance The consumers are fighting,
and the dairymen admit the loss of
some sales.
Miscellany.
Senator johnson last week addressed
large audiences in California in OppO-
sition to the League Of Nations.
The Boston lunch Of King Albert
and his queen consisted in part of
baked beans. served ill golden pots,
says Il dispatch from that city.
Jack Peddy was arrested in Texar-
kama, Ark, last Saturday, charged with
the theft Of an automobile from J. w.
Durrett. Of Tenaha, Texas. The car
was recovered.
Mrs. c. n. Warren, Of the Wood
worth Apartment, swallowed her false
teeth while sitting ut Mount Vernon
Square. Washington City, Sunday and
died as she reached Emergency Hos
pital.
There was born last week to Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. Mcmillan, Of Falkner,
| Miss, Il girl-their fifteenth child.
They have eight boys and seven girls
all living at home and none of them
are married. The mother is forty years
of age and the father fOrty-four.
| Washington news is to the effect
that the bodies of all American sol
diers hurled in France, Italy, North
Russia, Belgium and England are to
he returned to Amehric;l us soon as
transportation arrangements can he
made. The announcement came from
the War Department.
Emmett Martin Mississippi plant
er, and George w. Vann. Il Louisiana
blacksmith, met in New Orleans last
week and fought out quarrel over Ill
anvil trade that was negotiated but moi
made fifteen years ago. The black
smith licked the planter. and was givel
Il So fine or thirty days in Jail.
An Oklahoma City story quotes Gov
ernOr Robertson as saying: Senator
Reed got just what was coming t,
him" (;lluding to the fact that tn,
Senator had been the target for rottel
eggs ut Ardmore, Okla. Il few night,
before while trying to deliver sleecl
4 against the ratification Of the Treat.
and League of NatiOnS).
c. Z. Liitleton, Chairman of the Re
publican Council of Texas. issued
statement from Fort Worth last weel
in which he proclaimed Il lilly white
policy for the Republican party 0
Texas. The statement says, in part
Texas is a white mans country. Gov
ernment must rest exclusively in tn
hands of the Caucasian race"
Emma Goldman. who was recent
, discharged from the Missouri penitel
tiary. after serving Il term for hinder
ing the draft. was to have apl,eare
, last week before the immigration off
GERS at Ellis Island on a cllareg 0
being '.ln undesirable citizen bu
orders from Washington have cause
the indefinite postponement of the cas-,
\ story current in London since til
, close of the war. originating in til
War Office. is to the effect that til
/, Germans made three attempts durill
the war to bottle up the British Gran
/, Fleet by sowing mine fields in front d
. the harbOrs in the shape Of half mOOn
/ Only one battleSlip. the King Edwar,
: fell Il victim to this scheme, the mine
n being discovered and removed by til
British as fast as they were laid.
United States Attorney General Ia
mer. in an address made last week b
fore the Tennessee Bar Association
t said that the United States Cover
! ment would most likely decide to r.
!. turn. in part. the funds realized fro
the sale Of enemy alien property
h some instances He said, however. til,
h the Government has the option Of d
|. Gliding in which cases part of the funt
= may be paid to the former owners
such property. The inference Is til;
:. there will lie some good fees for lay
4 .yers representing German residents
J this country.
/ According to information received
Natclez. Miss. that town has been de
=, ignated as on the Lone Star Ira
!. The trail is to lie made nation
- highway. its western terminus beil
:. San Diego. Calf. and it's eastern ell
- ing at Jacksonville. Fla. The ''trai
" leads eastward through Phoenix. Ari
through New Mexico, by way of Del
l. ing through Texas. by way Of FL Pas
Z to Henderson. and through LOuisian
y by way of IOgansport, Mansfield. ct
:! fax. Jena and other towns.
;" During the early part of August J
seph Plough rented an Office in Ne
ie going to use the room for sug
Y brokerage business. He placed an Il
70 vertiSement in New England new
T. paper. offering to furnish New Orlea
sugar to all customers at 10 cents y
d, pound. freight prepaid The po>totii
m was flooded with his mail-address
le to THE Wahl Company Orde
Id were soon sent out by tn eauthoriti
d. to arrest Plough. but he had gone el.
where, with great deal Of New FL
= land money. Plough. with his wi
u and iaby, made his home ut DOna
= Sonyille and mOtored to his Office
10 New Orleans every day in Il 5000 d
el tOmobile.
IL Washington, D. c.