The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-06
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the afternoon on the 2d-Candlemas
Day.
More than 7O,OOO,OOO Of the 100000
600 people Of the United States live in
the forty-two states which have rati-
fled the nationwide prohibition amend
ment to the Constitution.
The revenue bill now being finally
completed and put upon passage by
Congress carries a tax on political cam
paiyn contributions. 1t also provides
| for IL bonus for discharged soldiers.
An old feud was revived in petrose.
| Tenn. last week when Hilary Holmes
was shot from ambush and killed, SUP
posedly by Press Willoughby. Holmes
has two sons who are expected to take
up the feud. Willoughby has diSap-
peared following the killing.
Rrodie Duke. IA millionaire tobacco
manufacturer died at Durham. NC.
last Saturday. He was Seventy-three
years CT age. an eX-COnfederate soldier.
and son of the late Washington l..
Huke He was IL brother Of James B.
and benjamin y. duke. financiers and
tobacco magnateS. Deceased left an eS-
tate valued ut more than million
dollars.
Nat c. Goodwin, the well-known COM
edian. was eulogized by De Wolf Hop
per ut il meeting Of actors in memorial
service in New York. The parents OF
the deceased. Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel G.
Goodwin. of Roxburg. Mass. We're pres
ent and the body was taken by them
to Roxhurg for internent. Present also
was Miss Georgia Gardner. who was tC
have been Goodwin's sixth wife.
Georgia planters bankers and bust
ness men are met in Macon to-day t.
make plans for a war on the cOttOl
) SPECTATORS The leaders of the move
ment declare that the Georgia cOttol
} acreage will lie cut 80 per cent. and til,
present holding movement is to be con
r tinued until the price becomes attract
l i've. even if the unSold part of the 191s
crop must be held over until the 191!
crop is ready for the market.
z Brighten. Robert ID. Johnston. age,
eighty-three years. a native Of Alaham;
and one Of the last of the old line gen
$ erals of the Confederacy, died on hi
farm. White Post. near Winchester
: Va. on the LIST. He was Il brother o
e Gov. Johnston of Alabama. Gen. John
: stOn enlisted i'll the Confederate Arm
) as Il private and rose to the rank o
! acknowledgements. He has actively mar
: aged his farm since retiring from tn
: practice of law some years ago i
l. North Carolina.
A bill has been introduced in til
e New York Legislature providing fo
e the forty-ninth state of the America
/, Union by erecting the city Of New ior
[. into separate state. The bill PR
e Sition to the voters of the state mex
e fall and, If approved by them.. to Col
e greSs. with the request that the ne'
e state be admitted to the Union. III
it matter has brought forth the stat
lnent that - per cent Of the stat
q taxes are paid by New York City.
< Col. Townsend Dodd, who went
y France OH Gen. Pershing's staff, viii
IL visiting his smother recently. in AurOr
If Ills. told Il story to the effect tn,
" when the arlnistice came on the battl
le front in France Marshal Focli erie
ID with vexation and disappointment. \
te cOrding to the Colonels story, Fox
v had :1:lO.OOO Germans driven into
le great trap and they would soon ha'
he been forced to surrender. The armi
Is tice saved them from that humiliatit
rs and robbed FOch of the glory OF Gil
he turing IL great German army and l
IL yenging Sedan.