The Bossier banner., 1922-12-21

week when the Senate Commerce Com
mittee took up the. appointment.
More than 3OO.OOOOOO board feet Of
lumber We're used in the manufacture
OF automobiles last year.
A solid train of fourteen cars of silk,
valued at $4,000. goo. recently made an
unbroken trip from Seattle, Wash. to
New York.
Mrs. Anna Catolda and her nine
year-old son. of New York. were stab
bed to death and their home set on fire
early last Saturday.
Jesse NJ. Overton. fifty nine years cid.
of Nashville, Tenn. was killed last Sat
urday when his automobile collided
with a street car in that city.
A report from Tyler. Texas. is to the
effect that the Peoples Guaranty State
Bank, of that city. has increased its
capital stock from 100000 to $3.50. 900.
James O. Davidson. Governor of
Wisconsin from 1906 to 1911, died in
afternoon, after an illness of several
months.
Compulsory vaccination in Denver.
Colo, as a prevention of smallpox, was
recently declared in effect. Within a
few weeks there were 100 deaths in
that city from smallpox.
A tourist in passing through four
states recently was required to pur-
chase four different sets OF lenses that
the headlights of his automobile might
comply with the state laws.
The first woman in Wisconsin to
head any of the important state COM
missions is Mrs. Charles A. Kading.
who has been chosen chairman Of the
state civil service commission.
Unable to quickly learn English,
Julio Garcia, of Havana. Cuba, stu
dent at the Chamberlain Hunt Acad-
enly, Port Gibson, Miss. committed sui
eide Sunday by hanging himself in his
room.
Two youthful bandits, operating in
Salt Lake City. Utah, Sunday, perhaps
fatally wounded Miss ROylance FitZ-
gerald, of Draner, that state. filled two
automobiles with bullets and stole two
others.
Lott Flannery. sculptor, of Wash
ington, d. G., best known for his statue
of Lincoln. which was recently placed
hefore the Court House in that city,
died Tuesday ait the age of eighty
eight years.
An addition to the Ouachita County
(Ark.) Court House. to cost approxi-
mately $4,000, is being planned and
an architect has been engaged to draw
the plans, according to report from
Camden, that state.
Sidney Eanes and H. B. Virgins.
both eleven years old, Of Georgetown,
Texas, We're seriously injured last Sat
urday when radio wire they were
stringing came in contact with 200
volt electric Light wire.
The naval appropriation bill, carry
ing s325. 100000 for the maintenance of
the naval establishment during the
fiscal year beginning Jule 1st next,
| was passed by the House of Represent
atives without record vote Monday
night, says Washington, d. c., dis
patch.
The Missouri. Kansas and Texas rail
road lines in Texas were sold to J. w
Seligman & Company and Hall Garten
4 Company. of New York, at Sherman
Junction. Texas. Friday Of last week
/ for consideration of S6.5OO. 100, ac
cording to a report from Denison
Texas.
After shooting and killing Charles
Linton, guard at the Denver Colo.
branch Of the Kansas City Federal Re
serve Bank. Monday morning, sever
bandits stole S20O,0OO In currency ant
escaped after waging gun-battle will
armed guards on duty at the United
Sites mint. One Of the bandits was per
haps seriously wounded by govern