The Bossier banner., 1922-12-21
FROM OVER THE STATE.
Bank Doubles Its Capital Stock.
Catfish Sales Total S55,OOO.
DeSOfO Pledges Cotton.
Monroe Fishermen Earn 100000.
HaynesvilIe Votes For Bonds.
Sugar Yield Is Short.

]. b. Novo, merchant of AleXan-
dria, dropped dead last Saturday at
noon as he entered a restaurant and
called for a cup of coffee.
Ike Broussard, sixty-four years old,
who was sheriff for Lafayette Parish
for sixteen years. died at his home in
Anse la Butte, Friday morning OF last
week.
Fire Tuesday morning completely
destroyed the hospital of the Indus
trial Lumber Company at Elizabeth.
The report says no lives We're lost in
the blaze
A news item from Baton Rouge says
the production of sugar in Louisiana
for the 1922. season is estimated at
241,376 short tons as compared with
.,2i .431 tons in 1921.
The Monroe Glass Company. which
was organized in that city several
months ago and has bu.It factory
there, Monday began the manufacture
of glass lamp chimneys.
The locating Of nine stills. 1900 gal
Ions of mash and several gallons of
liquor We're the results Of work done
last Friday by deputies from the sher-
ifs Office at Alexandria.
A report from Mansfield says Vic
tory Week." for the DeSotO Parish
Farm Bureau cotton contract campaign
was success and that parish has gone
far above the allotted quota.
The Monroe Community Service ex-
ecutiye committee, at a meeting held
Tuesday. decided on holGing great
spring carnival and festival in that
city during the first week Of May.
The town authorities Of Haynesville
have purchased a siren whistle, costing
| S4OO, to be used to give notice of fires.
It is to be installed at the plant of the
Haynesville Ice and Power Company.
Officials of Oak Ridge are investi-
| eating the unusual death of Louis
Dawes, negro, twelve years old. who,
according to the veidence at hand, was
tied to the tail of horse and dragged
to his death.
The Richland Parish Police Jury has
adopted an ordinance Offering re-
ward for the furnishing of evidence
| leading to the arrest and conviction of
any one violating the Hooc prohibition
/ law. The reward is S25.
Construction work on the plant Of
/ the Calcasieu Manufacturing Company,
Incorporated, paper mill at Elizabeth
has begun, a spur track f.-om tie Santa
| Fe Railroad has been completed and
materials are being delivered at that
place.
/ According to a report from New. Or
leans, the Crowley Bank and Trust
Company. of Crowley, capitalized at
$4,000, is being reorganized into an
institution with capitalization OF
100000, which will be renamed the
Crowley Trust and Savings Bank
At an election held in Haynesville
last Saturday residents of the place
voted to authorize a S14O,O00 bond
issue, the proceeds of the same to be
used in the erection Of public school
buildings. A $4,000 grammar schoo
building is now under way OF construc
ton in the town.
The petition of Mrs. Rosa b. Winin
ger. in which she asked for $4,000
damages in the Sixth District Court. a
Monroe, from ]. W. Wininger. ST.. hel
father-in-law, for alleged defamation
| of character. was refused hy Judg,
Fred NJ. Odum in decision rendered
some days ago in favor Of the de
fendant.
Monroe fishermen are authority fO
the statement that during the past fey
months their sales of fish have totale'
100000. the. shipments being made t
St Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati. Ney
York and other Eastern and Northerl
centers. 1t is claimed that during til
past year the fish industry Of the Qua
chita Valley has doubled in productio
. and sales.
Four Columbia fishermen shippe
during the past three months 130.O0
e pounds of catfish, which netted thel
$4,000 and 1887 pounds OF fish egg.
which netted them $2S50.75. All of th
! fish eggs were shipped TO dealers i
New York City, who claim that thes
L eggs contain an ingredient that is yer
valuable from a medical standpoin
!. and that the demand for fish eggs
hundreds of times greater than the SUI
: ply. hence the very high market prie
. for this product.
7 Shreveport.
/, A 2O,oO0-yolt X-Ray machine, to