The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-04-03
Louisiana.

The medical men of the Fifth Con
gressional District will meet in Mon
roe OH the 18th.
Three new cases of sleeping sickness
were reported to the State Health
Board last saturday. making fifteen in
all for Louisiana.
Saturday Of last week eleven per
sons We're charged in the Federal
Court ut New Orleans with violating
the Reed bone-dry law--attempting to
transport liquor into prohibition ter
ritOry
Governor Pleasant has denied re-
port that he intended to return to
Shreveport after the expiration Of his
term as Governor and become a candi-
date for Congress in opposition to Con-
gresSman Watkins.
Natalie Frey. the sixteen year old
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Frey.
| of Hammond. has been asleep for
nearly four weeks. and is in a very
enaciated condition. unable to recog-
nize members Of the family and cannot
remain awake more than few mo-
mentS ut time. The sleeping sickness
followed IA severe case of Influenza.
Capt. Harry Wilson. L. :. A.. in
charge of the government cleanup
campaign in Louisiana and four neigh
boring states. started real sensation
in an address before the Orleans Medi-
cal Society Monday night when he de-
clarel that thirty-five or forty immoral
houses are running openly in the old
restricted district Of New Orleans. sup
posed to he closed.
New Orleans. now being ravaged b!
Argentine ants. will have to spend
$13O.QOO to get rid of the pests. ac
cording to +. Il. Barber in addressing
the members of the Garden Society OF
that city last Saturday. He also sait
that within ten years the Argentine
ant will I've the worst pest III tht
United States and that they are evel
now the worst pest in Louisiana.
\ New Orleans dispatch of TueSda!
reciteS: Sleeping sickness prObabl!
finds its way into the human system
through the nose according to Il stud.
hy Dr. Leland NJ. cofer. Health Office
for the Port Of New York. Dr> OSca
bowling. President of the State Boart
of Health. has announced. Three NOR
cases reported that day brought th
total known cases In the state up t
eighteen.
The body of white man. apparently
tifty-tive or sixty years of age. WA
found i'll the yard Of the Louisiana
Railway and Navigation Company Il
Alexandria Monday night. The core
ner's verdict declared that the dece;,>
ed came to his death from natura
causes. No identification mark o
letter was found upon the body othe
than the initials j. e. B." on the co
. lar of the shirt.
According to il statement appearin
in the Colfax Chronicle. all day las
Wednesday Red River at that plac
was brown instead of red by reason G
the quantity of crude oil th;rt covere
it's surface. Fishermen feared TIL;
} the oil would kill the fish in the rive
The following morning there was sti
} a coating of oil but very much less
quantity. 1t is supposed that the 0
, was waste from the oil fields fifty {
. more miles further up the river.
At IA meeting Of business men hel
in Minden Monday night. and preside
over by Judge John \. Sandlin. the +
Port of the committee that had bee
appointed to look into the feaSibili'
8 Of building an adequate hotel for til;
city submitted il partial report. askil
for more time. as the capital stock
z the hotel company to be created III;
not been agreed upon. nor had a 81
been selected; but it was general
settled-according to Il statement fro
2 authoritative financial sources - TIL
3 the hotel would he built.