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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

Five hundred Rotarians who attended
the International convention held in Edin-
burgh, Scotland, arrived In Paris after
visit to the battlefield in France.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

Because of the destruction Of the main
ammunition dump at Smyrna, the Greek
army in Asia Minor may be compelled to
suspend operations against Turks
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

Gar" Wood drove his power boat MISC
America, with which he won the Harms
worth trophy and gold cup last year. at
the rate of 10 miles an hour in race
with an airplane.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

Budget Director Hawes reduced dry
enforcement fund 100000.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

Two armed men held up United Cigar
store. Broadway, New York. They fore
ed the clerks to hand over receipts for
the day totalling $500.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07
BRIEF TELECRAMS

Department of labor estimates cost Of
living in a year showed average decline
of Is per cent.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

Attorney General Daugherty in not yet
prepared to make a recommendation for
or against pardon for Eugene V. Debs,
he announced.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

John ArtemiS, recently released from
Jail at Boston after a sentence for coun-
terfeiting, was sent back again for two
year term on a charge Of conspiring to
make counterfeit plates.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

Prices of shoes declined 80 to 40 per
cent. over the scale of year ago, ac
cording to delegates attending the Illinois
Shoe Retailers Association convention.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

Several hundred employees of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Co., of Brooklyn
went on strike because of reduction in
wages.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

The number of idle or surplus freight
cars on June % totalled 377,S50, or 1895
less than the previous week, according to
the American Railway Association.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

American Sheet and Tin Plate Co.'S
mills at Scottdale resumed operations aft
er more than a months idleness. Over
500 men will return to work.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

Ol ~ pS1 CSAe'
General reduction of the army at all
military points in the United tates and
Porto Rico was ordered.
A new heat record was established at
Montreal when the mercury climbed to
1905 degrees.
Ford Motor Co. in twenty-five cities in
the United States produced 1oS,962 cars
and trucks.
Union leaders meeting in Chicago an
nounced the Organization will accept Il
per cent. cut of railroad workers wages
Admiral E. w. EberIe assumed COM
mand of the United States Pacific feet
He succeeds Admiral Hugh Rodman.
The number Of idle or surplus freight
cars on June 20 totalled 377,S50, or 1896
less than the previous week, according to
the American Railway Association.
Several hundred employees of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Co., of Brooklyn
went on strike because of reduction in
wages.
Attorney General Daugherty in not yet
prepared to make a recommendation for
or against a pardon for Eugene V. Debs,
he announced.
Prices of shoes declined 80 to 40 per
cent over the scale of a year ago, ac-
cording to delegates attending the Illinois
Shoe Retailers Association convention.
American Sheet and Tin Plate Co.'s
mills at Scottdale resumed operations aft
er more than a months idleness. Over
500 men will return to work.
Two armed men held up United Cigar
store. Broadway, New York. They fore
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

Sir Robert Horne, chancellor of the
excheuer, announced the British govern
ment had decided to offer for subscription
an issue of 1-2 per cent. treasury bonds,
maturing April l, 1929 at 81.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

Admiral E. W. EberIe assumed COM
mand of the United States Pacific fleet
He succeeds Admiral Hugh Rodman.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-07-07

More than nve hundred of the visiting
Rotary club delegates and their wives
went to the grave of the unknown SOL
dier in the Place D'Etoile. Paris and
sood by while DIR. Crawford Y McCul-
Tough of Fort Williams. Ontaria. presi-
dent OF the International Rotarian organ
ization. laAd wreath on the tomb.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24
1870 Ceassss rseaeee

There cnme ~. tha Rann.~ ,ast .,;,,o.
Ming. from INC Federal Ruroau q tha
ce,,x,,s.. 4 ,u,mnhlet sl,owinr tl,a ,,so0 M,
ce,,.;,,s .of I.onisiana its ,y,risl,es minor
civil divisions citipx town. atc ,rha
population of the state q atven M
l.7.S.an Ten wears aro Il was / az,
ass: twenty yenr. ngos 3S1 ts2:, and
thirty years aro. 11S5SS E1ftv ve.a -
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24
The Maintenance Of Soil Fertility

:. Suggestions for farming Plans in
Louisiana for 1921. !. just issued by the
Extension Division Of the Louisiana
State University and Agricultural and
Mechanical College, may prove "A disap-
ponitment to some for 1t contains notli-
Ing new II Is really just u repetition
In j concentrated form OF the lessons
on better farming that have been is
sued by this institution that have
been talked by its and all agricultural
teachers ana with which the agricult-
ural press and the bulletins Of the va
rious educational institutions have been
filled for many years.
There is nothing new in it because
there is nothing new about the MAIN
tenance Of soil fertility. The lesson it
teaches is the same that dire necessity
has forced farmers In the older settled
sections Of the world to learn.
It IL were necessary that soils should
decrease In their productive power
By continued cropping. then Germany
would not have been able to have
waged the World France could
not hare resisted the German hosts
with her splendid lleroism and Great
Britain would long since have ceased
to rule the waves. There would now
be no Germany, no France, no Great
| Britain. Th0rlls and thistles would
have occupied the place of the popIAes
lof Flanders fields and there would have
been no blood shed upon these fields.
becnuse tllorns and thistles are not
worth fighting for.
The latest proof. that soils Gun be
continuously cropped and still maintain
their productive power is to be found
| In pamphlet jnst issrIed = Returns
Ion Produce of Crops In Scotland for
! 1el9,v with y similar statement for
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24

Get the BANNER free one year b,
securing us three new subscribers
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24

Great Britain. 1t must lie remembered
that Scotland and England have been
in cultivation since the Romans invaded
these islands. The fields making the
yields reported In this pamphlet have
made hundreds Of crops. Yet COM
parisun Of their acre yields Of stand
ard crops with similar results obtained
for the s;line period In the United States
IL not fiattering It would Indicate that
these old lands are really better than
our virgin soil. The ten-year average
for Great Britain shows that her soils
exceeded ours i'm the production of
wheat by lis bushels; oats. 21.1 bush
els; barley, IS bushels; potatoes, 132.4
bushels. and 14.7 tons Of hay. For 1919
her excess acre yield over ours was
Wheat. 1G.4 bushels; oats. 10..s bush
els; barley. SO bushels: potatoes, 1866
bushels. and hay. So tons.
The explanation of this superiority
Of yield Is to he found in the fact that
long ago these Scotch and English
farmers were forced to learn the value
of rotation and ,diversificatiOn OF crops
and the systematic handling Of their
farms. with 4 view to soil building. to.
gether with the part played by live
stock in the maintenance of soil fer.
tility.
SO accurately have cropping systems
been worked out with q view Of what
Is best for the farmer, as well as tlle
i .&s,k.
same are handed down from father Il
son and have been followed for gener
ati6ils;; and before the bar Of public
opinion there can be no more heinou.
crime committed than d variation from
these rules. u. n. BARRow.
Extension Division, Louisiana Stat.
] University.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24
Elm Grove Oil and Gas Field
Steadily Gains i'm Production

Many readers of the Banner win per-
haps be surprised to learn the present
extension and production Of the South
Bossier oil and gas field. The greatest
width Of the field (north and south) is
about three miles; its greatest length
northeast to southwest trend) Is about
ten miles. The daily production of the,
field is now about 1000 barrels of oil
and about 7O,OOO,OOO feet Of gas The
oil wells when brought In usually flow
from 100 to 800 barrels per day and
settle down to steady producers Of
about so barrels.
The greater number of the Oil wells
are ON acreage owned by the Messrs.
Hodges and their relatives; on the
J. w. Elston plantation there are three
wells, and on acreage owned by Mr..
$. s. Hunter. of Shreveport, there is
one well. Also there are perhaps sis
many. as dozen tests now under way.
The Standard Oil Company is making
a deep test on the !. I. McDade plan
tation, the location being a half mile
north OF McDade Station. This will be
the first deep test In the South BOssier
field usually referred to as the Elm
Grove district. The Hodges producing
wells are only one mile north. Their
depth Is from 1860 to 1850 feet.
What is referred to as the shallow
gas strata Iii the Elm Grove district is
struck at the depth of about $40 feet !;
the deep strata Is of about 2sai5 feet.
One Of the best gas producers in the
entire district s YanHoose No. 1,
drilled IN during November, 1919. by the
Arkansas Natural Gas Company. and
having the exceptional production of
~. .OOO, 600 feet Of dry gas. More than a
week ago this hig gasser was hridged
over but has since been cleaned out
and IL no doubt by. this time again
on the pipe line.
Another big gasser of this district
Is AIcAnn No. 8, which has daily pro.
lluctlon Of $4,000, 600 feet Of good gas
1t IL on one Of Dr. d. ]. NIcAnn's plan
tations. III this new well salt water
trouble was experienced. the gas press
ure being so great the casing Of the
well was cracked at the salt water level
A bleedef !" was then put In and the
trouble was overcome, and dating from
L
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24
.Sale Misses. Peckets. :.
From sunday's Shreveport Tsmcs.l

from Suu0Ny shreveport eWcS.J 8E*i As. III s8
Most drillers quit too quick when
they find salt water in a wildcat well.
Stated briefly, this IL the theory Of
w. A.. Stephens, general manager Of
the Lakeside OIL Compiliy's Bienyflle
Parish properties, under whose direc-.
tion, the colnpany's gasser, Rienville's
first successful wildcat, was completed.
Stephens declares that when he drilled
Into i sealed pocket 0f salt water ut
2J14 feet all the scouts on the location
spat with disgusted iinality and left,
and the big companies carried Gid
dens No. /, In 1t-16-1O. on their field
reports as il salt water well until the
hole blew In at 2:l26 feet with 10, ,0OO, 600
cubic feet of gus. with the drill pipe
in the hole.
felt a little dubious myself when
she headed 30 feet over the rotary us
salty as army bacon.' Stephens said,
=. but l hailed 'er and l bailed 'er until
she was dry as powder house, and |
knew then tlidn't have any natatOriuln.
There Is no casing or liner In the
hole from 15O feet above the bottom
for the simple reason that the well blew
In before we were expecting It. When
the salt water first showed in the ditch
l decided on q test. We were ut about
2:514 feet when started washing, and
after pumping In the fresh water l
ran the bailer top and bottom. The
| first bailer Oh the top was as salty as
possible. old rusty salt water that had
been there Il long time. The bailer Oh
the bottom came up full Of the fresh
wash water.
:. When We showed hesldway against
| the water l knew then we had sealed
pocket. and no man can tell me there's
10 such thing as sealed pocket OF suit
water. Afted we'd bailed a few tin1es
she made her head and a short while
after she WIS dry as u hone and we
resumed drilling 8
There's test over across the lake
given up as d salt water well. Y It may
be, but / doubt it. Most men quit tS0
quick when they find suit water. They
don't bail long enough. IL the water
gains ON the bailer, or the bailer IL
able only to hold level against It,
then there's a reason to give up the
test ax natatorium, but not before"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24
Anew Prshitltioa RuIiat.

The following reader. addressed :. to
permit holders" has just come to the
Banner from the Office Of the Federal
Prohibition Director at New Orleans:
:. Effective June 1. 1921, the follow.
Ing preparations are classed as intox-
icating liquors and lit for beverage use /:
Wine of Pepsin, Wine Of Beef, Elixir
Terpin Hydrate and Spirit Ether, Or
Hoffman's Drops.
s These preparations can be handled
only hy drug store holding permit
aud sold only ION prescription, By doc
tors holding government permit 70 pre-
scribe liquors. They can be purchased
by drug stores only on Form 141O.'
Get the BANNER free one year by
securing us three new subscribers
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24
Number IL.

the 10th the enormous volume OF gas
has regularly been marketed.
As stated in the Banner two weeks
ago, it Is thought that the new big
gasser In Bienville Parish (0nly about
eight miles east) Is I'M extension of
the Elm Grove field. 1t was financed
by the Pharon interests philadelphia
and New York capitalists). According
to the promoter. Mr.. r. ]. Giddens, the
broken drill stem has now been re-
moved from the well and It Is making
JOOO0,O0O feet Of dry gas. The syndi-
cate has under lease considerable
acreage. and will put down another
well 200 feet northwest OF the MANI
moth gasser lin the bed OF Lake Bis
teneau) and make a test In the oil
sand ut the 1650-foot depth. which was
passed when the other we'll was drilled.
The reader will at first wonder Over
the statement that there are at present
perhaps fifty good gas wells In the Elm
Grove district that are capped. They
are capped for the reason that they
are shallow wells of small production
and OF such less pressure that the big
wells do not permit their product to
flow into the pipe lines. This condition
ts soon to be overcome BY the putting
In Of powerful pumping stations. The
erection Of one Of there plants, to ee,st
approximately q half million dollars,
was begun last July by tile Louisiana
Reserve Gas Company. 1t II. located on
the Sam Hunter plantation, ut Elm
Grove. and 1t Is expected 1t win be
ready for operation BY May 1st. Just
across the f.. II. and n. Railroad from
this plant the Atlas Oil Company is
putting In another for like uses, to cost
PERHAPS &ANM9 or more.
The two above mentioned plants viii
add much to the wealth of Bossier Par
ish, to say nothing about the facilities
they will afford for the marketing Of
i valuable natural resource now lying
dormant. And as yet we have not mem
TONED the mammoth plant ut McDade,
which has been under operation for
about twelve months past. It II owned
by the Standard OIL Company, and Ii
also referred to AZ compressor sta
tfon, but cssing head gasoline is taken
from the natural gus for their own rlse.
L
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24
Mr.. FOrtsOn Writes of
Trip North to Attend
Teachers Convention

To the School Children Of B0ssier Parish.
Dear Pupils: have just returned
from most delightful trip to Atlantic
City. New York and Washington. ID. G.
While on my trip wanted to send
each and every one Of yo,i post card,
showing you some Of the most import
ant places visited, with a description
of each place. But when remembered
that there would he about two thou
sand cards to write and mail / decided
1t would be most too great a task to
undertake while attempting to attend
all sessions of the convention At that
moment, too. / remembered the dear
old Banner back home and wondered IL
! could not induce Mr.. Abney to publish
q letter addressed to all Of you in which
l could say much more than / could
on dozen post cards. / mentioned
the idea to Mr. BYRD. my guardian, !"
and he thought 1t Was a capital idea,
provided | would send him copy of
the letter, NIL Of which promised to
do. provided the Banner was :. willing. !"
70 begin ut the beginning, ! will
state that Prof. G. II. Byrd and left
Shreveport over the Y, s. and Z. Rail-
road at two o'clock pm, Thursday. Feb
ruary oath. headed for Atlantic, City,
n. j.. to attend q session Of the Nation
al Education Association, which would
convene February 26th and close March
Sd, following.
We reached Atlantic City Saturday
afternoon, at five o'clock, after having
been on the road exactly fifty-one hours.
Such a trip gives one considerable time
for meditation and speculation. Mr..
BYRD, playing the part Of the . Profess
sor at the Breakfast Table, was first
to meditate- ALOUD. His meditation ran
something like this: !. Fortson, isn't
it marvellous that We should leave home
Yesterday about this hour two o'clock)
and now lie approaching the renowned
city of Clattanooga. made famous by
that memorable battle above the
clouds? . And so it was. We had trav.
eled almost entirely across the State OF
Louisiana. across Mississippi, Alabama,
and we'll up into Tennessee I'm twenty
four hours time.
We then discussed the accuracy OF
timetables the endurance Of. man and
locomotives; the comfort Of Pullman
sleepers and diners. and the compare.
tive safety Of present day travel. We
matle tlnis entfre frif1 of 6fosit Inn
miles. froni Shreveport to Atlantic City
without mishap. and with not ovel
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24
csll Meetins FOR Degree Work.

| take this means OF notifying the Of
ticers and members OF Red Land Lodge,
+. and A. NJ. Of Il call meeting to be
held on April I'd. There will be work iii
the Masters degree. We extend cor
dial and fraternal invitation to NIL
Master Masons, and especially invite
the brethren Of Plain Dealing Lodge,
+. and a. n, to be, present with us on
this occasion. II. b. KILGoRE,
Secretary Red Land Lodge.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24

You enjoy reading the Banner. So
would your relative who haasremoved
from the parish. Why don't You order
1t mailed to him?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1921-03-24
Sheep For Sale

Il S1eflng for sale at my home two
E west OF Bellevue) about 100 head
II ut $50 per head. Average
I pounds of wool per head
sup. Address = Haughton. La,
4. llo4-pl HENRY DAVIS.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-25
A Little Love Story.

dreamer and man of action
loved woman. The dreamer said:
81 shall write verses in her praise;
they will touch her vanity and she
will love me for Il en-
But the man of action said: "HOw
OLD fashioned! | shall corner the
stock market. and that will bring
her"
so the dreamer wrote verses, and
he induced friend of his, who ran "A
ten-cent magazine to print them. And
the man of action cornered something
or other and became Millionaire.
In the meantime the girl married Il
mhn who inherited hrs money, and
lived happy ever after.
But the dreamer was so proud of
his verses that he didn't care; and the
man of action was so busy that he
didn't care.
The only one to suffer was the man
she married-EXchange.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-25

The two degrees, ID. D., and LII. D..
are quite different. The first is doc
tor of divinity, that is, person
learned in those subjects that form
the education of divine or theolo-
gian. The second, LID, is doctor of
laws. the two LIS being the plural
form where initials are used This
degree Is. or should be conferred upon
those deeply learned in the subjects
that make up higher education and
culture-in languages, literature. sci.
ence and philosophy. The former de
gree is only conferred upon ministers
of religion. the latter upon both min
listers and laymen. The ranks in the
British peerage. ascending, are Baron
v'scount earl, marquis. duke. Ex-
oficiO a Latin term. from office. thai
is by virtue of his office. means thar
by reason of person holding Ger
tain office he also holds certain other
offices or performs certain other func-
tons. For example the rector of u
parish is eX-ofiicio. that is because he
is rector, chairman of meeting Of
n" veStry. or gation.-MontreH'
Herald
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-25
Oak Point,

E. Y. Eldridge and family spent
the weekend at their summer home
here, the former Emerson Ladd
place. Mr.. Eldridge has had many
improvements made since he pur-
chased this place, and it is now one
of the most attractive in town.
Merrill Dolliver, while working
on Ralph Leland's automobile, had
his wrist caught and badly man
gled. 1t is feared he may lose the
use of his hand.
R. G.. Douglass and family are at
home, after spending the winter in
Bangor.
Dewey Whitaker was called to
West Franklin Friday by the sud
den death of his sister, Mrs. Tena
Coombs.
Bernard Eaton of Northeast Har-
Dor and Miss Lillian Davis of Seal
Harbor are visiting Mr.. Eaton's sis
ter, Mrs George Conary.
F. E. Barlow, who has been in
Connecticut the past month, arrived
home Sunday. He was accompa-
MED by his granddaughter, Dorothy
White.
Mrs. Willis Trim, who has been
in Bangor the past week for treat
ment. returned home to-day.
May %. X. Y.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-25

Capt. Harold Lawson has bought
the sloop Leslie, and is repairing
her here at his wharf.
Mrs. Jennie Dow is visiting in
Rockland and Owls Head, accom-
panying home her daughter, Mrs.
VIII Sawyer, who had been Wis
iting here.
w. H. Webster and wife have
gone to Isle au Haut to cook for the
Ferris Sawyer pulpwood crew. in
stead of to Brooklin, as reported
last week.
Mrs Mildred Norwood, the blind
lady of Mckinley, who is visiting
her niece, Mrs. Edwin Lopaus, spent
onS day last week with one of her
Schoolmates, Mrs. Eliza Rumill
who is now visiting Mrs. Nettie
Rumill.
Carl Reed left for his home in
Rockland Thursday in his car.
Mrs. S. c. Webster attended
grand lodge of X. of p at Portland
Mrs. Lena A. Robbins has gone
to Bar Harbor, where she is to be
employed for the summer.
w. H. Lunt, who has work at
Northeast Harbor, spent the week
end at home.
May %. "Thelma."
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-25

The other morning when Mrs.
BIS new neighbor accompanied her
husband to the door as he was about
TO start on his way to his work, she
lovingly called out To him: "Good-by,
sweetheart" Soon after Mrs. b
and their little daughter went to the
door with Mr.. B.. He kissed the
little one and said good-by to Mrs.
B.. She, not wishing to be out
done by her happy neighbor, called to
Mr.. B. as he was half way down
the walk: "Good-by, dear" Mr..
b turned around so quickly to
look back at his wife that he Stun
hled and with difficulty kept on his
feet Il saw him shaking with sur
pressed laughter as he went down the
street." said the indignant Mrs. b.
indianapolis News.