The Bossier banner., 1922-12-14
FROM OVER THE STATE
HaynesviYe Becomes Home of New
MiIliOn-DOIIar Oil Company.
Labor Agents Operating.
Shreveport May Get Cotton Mill.
Fire Destroys Monroe Dairy.
State Fair Dates Named.

yesterday at his home In Cedar Grove.
Harry G. Barnes, Of Monroe, joined
the Navy at Shreveport Monday. He
for training
1t has been announced from New Or
leans that Catholic laymen of the state
have organized to make fight against
the Ku klux Khan.
A news item from Jonesyille says
Cathahoula Parish has signed 300 bales
above the quota set by the Louisiana
Farm Bureau Association.
Leon S. Mitchell, wanted at Delhi
for the killing Of his father-in-law,
w. ID. Lewis, two years ago, is now in
the Richland Parish jail He was ar
rested in Oklahoma some days ago.
The wife and three small children
of Mankie Spillers, of Columbia, who
disappeared from that place, have been
located near El Dorado, Ark, according
to report received in Columbia.
The Fifth Congressional District
Medical Association, composed of ply
sicians from fourteen or more parishes
in North Louisiana, held its seIhian-
nual convention in Monroe Tuesday.
The Greenhouse Dairy. located near
Monroe. and ninety seven head of fine
flooded jersey cows were lost in a fire
that occurred at midnight Saturday
night The total loss is estimated at
S25.00O.
Pete Joseph, thirty years old, Of Cut
Off Junction, was shot and badly
wounded Sunday by Caddo Parish dep
uty sheriffs in an attempt to evade
arrest when surprised by the officers
while making run at his whiskey
STILL
Judge Joseph A. Breaux, eighty-two
years old, of New Orleans, former Chief
Justice OF tile Louisiana Supreme
Court, was Knocked down by a truck
in that city last Saturday. At first he
was thought TO have been seriously
injured, but his Injuries are slight.
Mayor Arnold Bernstein and III. r.
Speed and Joseph Biedeharn, city COM
missioners, announce that they will
have IA Christmas present to offer to
Monroe residents in the shape of the
completion of the paving of the entire
business district of the municipality.
4 news item of the week says the
Shreyeport-E Dorado (Ark.) Pipe
Line Company is extending its pipe line
| leading from the Ell Dorado field to
Shreveport to the new north field in
Union County, and expects to be rum
| ming oil through it by the first of the
new year.
Considerable activity in the pur-
chase Of oil royalties is reported from
the Arcadia section. According to the
! report. the demand is for one-thirty-
! second royalty and the prevailing price
| $3.50 an acre. A showing Of heavy oil
| in a Brenville Parish test has prompt
ed the transfers.
I Isaac Wahlder, of Alexandria, said
to be the youngest lawyer ever gradu-
ated from the law department of Tu-
lane University New Orleans) be
| cause of the age qualification was
unable TO practice for a time. He was
twenty-one years Of age Thursday OF
last week and was that day presented
in court.
/ One white man and two negroes were
killed and several others were seriousl.
wounded Saturday morning in a
pitched land and water battle at Duck
| town, between Mississippi labor agents
/ and Louisiana planters, following al
attempt Of the agents TO remove Negro
laborers from plantations on the Lou
isiana side Of the Mississippi River.
Workmen at Alexandria while dig
4 ging ditch one day last weel
4 unearthed the skeleton of a man i've
feet below the surface. In the back O
the skull were found two holes, though
to lie IGlIet holes. In the coffin il
which the body was hurled was found !;
Canadian quarter minted during $50.
and another coin so corroded that i
could not lie identified.
An oil company with paid in CAPT
tai of 81 600, GOO and with Haynesvill
as its headquarters. has just been orga
nized. The new organization followe,
the dissolution of partnership Of Smith
ernan & Mcdonald and is to be know
as Smitherman & Mcdonald, Incorpo
rated The officers are r. 9. Smithel
man, president L., L. Mcdonald, vice
&. president, and G. b. Smitherman, secre
tary and treasurer.
1t is planned that the Louisiana Bar
tist Orphanage be removed from it
present site, in Lake Charles, to tn
/; Kansas plantation, four miles east 0
: Monroe. According to report. the Bal
fist churches of the state hope to pu
$250000 into the new buildings of til
institution and that Sl25.0f)0 will /
srent iii Ibis direction during the firs
, months Of the new year. Also. accert
ing to the report, $4,000 donate
through Shreyeport's Baptist churche