This Month In Bossier Parish History

 January: Though the Years

Jan 1951: Haughton High School Newspaper "The Buccaneer Trove".  

    Images are newspaper clippings from the Haughton High Schools' newspaper and photos relating to clippings are from the 1951 Haughton High School's yearbook

Weekly News From 100 Years Ago

· Mr. and Mrs. M.B. Kidd are proud parents of a baby girl: Shirley Beth Kidd

· Gardeners get busy!

· Mr. M.R. (Michael Roy) Bolinger and Mr. J.E. White stopped by to renew their subscription.

· Frances Abney spent Sunday with his parents.

· Mr. R.B. (Robert Beverly) Hill, owner of the Bossier Abstract and Title Co., gifted a desirable wall calendar to the Banner.

· A petition for concrete sidewalk along Cane St (a.k.a. Barksdale Blvd) to the foot of the Traffic St. Bridge at the point of the Bossier City Lumber Company was brought to the City Council.

Newspaper clippings are from the 11 Jan 1923 issue of the Bossier Banner.

Jan. 17, 1920: Prohibition was declared. 

The Prohibition Era began in 1920 when the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors, went into effect with the passage of the Volstead Act. Despite the new legislation, Prohibition was difficult to enforce. The increase of the illegal production and sale of liquor (known as “bootlegging”), the proliferation of speakeasies (illegal drinking spots) and the accompanying rise in gang violence and organized crime led to waning support for Prohibition by the end of the 1920s. In early 1933, Congress adopted a resolution proposing a 21st Amendment to the Constitution that would repeal the 18th. The 21st Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933, ending Prohibition. 

Jan. 26, 1939: Mathilde Gatlin, a native of Bossier Parish, was the first female to be chosen as a company sponsor in the R.O.T.C. at Louisiana State University.