The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-10-30
Shreveport.

| According to estimates of the State
Fair officials. more than 10000 people
passed through the gates Of the fair
grounds ut Shreveport Sunday.
l.. F. Despit Of the traffic bureau of
tie Shreveport Chamber of Commerce
left Tuesday night for st. Louis. where
he goes to see Reginal Director Bush
ai,out better terminal facilities for his
| town.
The Shreveport Police began this
week rigidly enforcing the ordinance
forbidding automobile drivers to pass
street cars in the act of diSclarging
or receiving passengers. Eighteen ar
rests were made Monday.
In the Federal District Court at
Shreveport Monday twenty-six citizens
| of NacllitoclleS were fined so each for
violating the migratory bird treaty
with Canada. The OffenSeS We're COM
mitted last January when so many
robins passed through this part of
Louisiana.
During the State Fair ut Shreveport
last week the Jail was comfortably
filled with suspects" by the police. but
10 cases of actual crime We're reported.
l'ickpocketS We're effectually headed
off by an advanced cleanup Of the in
coming dips" before the opening Of
fair week.
| Sergt. Maj. Pool. son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Carleton +. Pool, Of 932 LOwerline
Avenue, Shreveport. and nephew Of
| Charles T.. Pool. Il member Of the
Times composing room force. has been
cited for valor in the Meuse-ArgOnne
offensive and for heroic service during
the VoSges fighting of last year.
One lone drunk" was registered ut
the police station in Shreveport Sun
day night He was u white man and
apparently Of the better class Of me-
chanicS A hottie of rum and Il bottle
of. antiSeptic-both partly consumed
were found Oh his person. Only
four men We're arrested for drunken
ness during the fair.
In the Better Babies contest at
the State Fair in Shreveport last week.
Robert Mclean Jeter. jr.. the first child
and son of Mr.. Robert Mclean Jeter.
ST.. and Mrs. Martin Hearne Jeter.
and also the first grandson Of Mr..
George NJ. Hearne. citizens of Shreve-
port, won Il 100 per cent estimation
from the scientific judges.
Three men giving their names as
Louis Baruue. Raymond Y. ShrOde and
John Il. CamerSola. held by the Shreve-
port police as suspects. confessed Tues
day that they had stolen an automo-
bile in Springfield. Mass. after letters
found on their person had indicated
that they had gotten into some kind Of
trouble ut Springfield. Chief Bazaar
said We think we have captured three
firSt-claSS automobile crooks"
According to Il pewS story in the
Shreveport Times of Monday. = BosSier
land comes high those dayS-that Is.
if it is potential oil land in the foot
bills of HoS<ier.' Recent attempts to
prove the existence Of oil iii the dis
trict lying east and southeast across
the river in RoSSier from the Pine
Island field have been marked by il
degree Of listening on the part OF
the owners Of the property. the Times
reporter goes on to say.
Joe Lewis. who works in the store
of John Lalella. 1915 South Lawrence
Street Shreveport. was shot in the
arm by Il negro Sunday night. The
| negro came into the store. asked for
10 cents worth of potatoes and fired
as the clerk turned to ijut the pota-
toes in Il sack. The negro fled upon
the approach of other customers. Rob-
Eery is supposed to have been his
original Object. The negro is de
Scribed as short in stature and very
black He has not yet been appre-
hended. according to Mondays news
| story.