The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-05-15
MISCELLANY.

Fire destroyed the Natchitoches cot
ton oil mill last Friday night The loss
was $4,000, covered in part by $4,000
insurance.
Submarines, flying boats and de-
stroyers are teing brought to New Or
leans from Key West, Fla, for the pro-
posed trip up the Mississippi River to
get recruits for the Navy.
Prof. w. Il. Bond. State Superin-
tendent of Education for Mississippi.
has announced that all teachers in that
state who attend summer schools this
year will he required to take at least
ten lessons III the subject Of :" Thrift
President Wilson. in a proclamation
made public Sunday. recommended
that the period beginning June Sth to
Flag Day. June 14th. be observed over
the country as Boy Scout Week. for
the purpose of strengthening the work
Of the Boy Scouts Of America.
A dispatch from st. Johns, New
Foundland, says the United States
Government plans to spring surprise
on the flying world in the race across
the Atlantic hy letting slip a new pat
tern Of dirigihle airsllip as well as the
flying machines already announced by
the Navy.
The Board of Bishops Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, sitting last Sat
urflay in Buffalo. \. Y, passed a reso-
lutien i'll denunciati0n Of the effort
beinng made to have the wartime pro-
l,ihition act set aside BY presidential
inaction. A copy of the resolution has
been forwarded to President Wilson.
/ A st. Louis dispatch of Tuesday
says: The interchurch world move
nient was to-day attacked as 'unau-
thorized. unreEresentative, precipitate.
underlined and extravagant,' by the
loard Of home missions of the presby-
terrain Church, composed Of one repre-
sentative of each Of the thirty-six
synods In the United States
The three-day caucus in st. Louis of
the leaders who are promoting the Or
ganization Of the American Legion ad-
jOurned Saturday. The race question.
which threatened to cause the with
drawal of the Southern delegates. was
completely sidetracked-e state be-
ing left to settle the question Of negro
membership in the organization in its
own way.
| Compulsory federal incorporation Of
railroads. government guarantees of
income and the removal of the roads
from the jurisdiction Of the present
state commissions, as steps proposed
pricr to the return Of the railroads to
private ownership, were condemned by
Elihu Root in letter read Tuesday to
the Missouri Bankers Convention, i'll
session at st. Louis.
At Chicago Tuesday Maj.-Gen. Leon
ard Wood was stopped by traffic pO-
licennn when on his way across the
street to the reviewing stand where he
was due to review the :. Fighting Thir-
teenth Division of the Army. The pO-
licenmh was busy and could not be
made to understand who Gen. Wood
was. So the General saw the troops
marcl, by on level with the other
| SpectatOrx-On the sidewalk.
Alvin G. Yorke. 237th Infantry. and
a Tennessee mountaineer. went out
with his automatic pistol during a
great American advance in France and
cleaned up single handed more than a
score of machine gun nests, taking
many prisoners. Tennesseeans call him
the greatest individual hero Of the
war, and he won great fame in all the
armies in France. Tennesseeans are
raising $4,000 with which to buy him
farm near his mountain home. where
he will live with his widowed mother