The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-03-06

AuOtner QrOVe OF mules aTrlVeu IN
town on Monday.
Call at Whites tor pretty styles Of
goods just received.
Dry goods sell ia Providence
cheaper than in Vicksburg.
Max Levy has commenced opening
his large stock of spring goods.
We are glad to report that Mr.. Fred
Schneider continues to improve.
Lake Providence should have first
class hardware house. 1t would pay.
Only two more of the Millikin &
Hamley front lots for sale on the lake.
Do away with few chronic kickers,
and we have the best town in the
State.
Jim Scott is now ready to do white
washing and vanishing. His terms
are cheap.
Every carpenter in town is at work,
and saw aud hammer music are heard
everywhere.
THERE'S only one store in town car
rying Earl & Wilson's collars and cuffs
Call at Whites.
Messrs. ]. E. Ransdell and E. J.
Hamley returned from Vicksburg on
Monday evening.
The Hon. Mayor and Board of
Aldermen met in regular session on
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. T. j. Powell is receiving a nice
line of spring goods. Call aud take o
look at the pretty selection.
Rev. G. Maize returned home on
Monday morning, after spending q
week with friends in Monroe.
1t is said that the second ward
levees are being destroyed by the con-
slant use of heavy ladened wagons.
Col. E. w. Constant, one of the lead
ing citizens Of the second ward, was q
pleasant visitor to town on Monday.
Help the drouth sufferers all you
possibly can. The time may come
when we will have to ask for. outside
aid.
Mr.. Gilmour has the Jail in o nice
clean condition. We hope that it will
be sometime to come before he has
another boarder.
The Board of Aldermen should pass
an ordinance requiring all barb wire
fences to be taken down within the
corporate limits.
The hitching posts lately put up by
the Cemetery Commissioners along
the sidewalk at the Cemetery is a
great convenience.
The river was only on a stand two
days when the present rise reached
here on Sunday morning last. 1t is
now rising rapidly.
DeVoe predicts that after the 9th it
will continue warm until the 25th,
then there will be a cold wave until
the close Of the mouth.
Mr.. Phil MEG uire left for Vicksburg
on Monday morning. We wonder
what IL is that is taking the old man
down that way SO often.
Col. G. d. Benton, Col. Jno. A.
Buckner, Mr.. Routh and several others
from the country, we're in town on
Tuesday to help along the drouth suf-
ferers
The children of the white public
school donated $1,000 last. week for
the benefit of the drouth sufferers.
The money was sent 10 the Times
Democrat.
The funeral of the late Mr.. d.
O'Sulliyan on Sunday evening last,
was the largest attended IN years, and
showed the high regard in which he
was held by our citizens.
Generally when the river begins TO
get out of its banks and the people be-
gin to get little uneasy as to how
high II 10 going, the bad rainy weather
sets in and continues for weeks.
The coal that the ten tow boats were
pushing down the river and which
passed Providence on Thursday oflast
week, If placed on cars would take
eight thousand TO transport the load.
Mr.. l.. Aschaffenburg, of Henderson,
was up on Tuesday shaking hands with
his many friends. Mr.. Aschafenburg
is one of the popular men of our
parish, who counts his friends by the
score.
After receiving new sail, nicely
painted and overhauled generally, the
sail boat was launched on Tuesday. aud
the boys will now spend their idle
moments on the bosom of our beauti-
full lake.
Mr.. j. G. Oldfield arrived from
Memphis on Monday evening. MIR.
Old6eid is now representing several
houses of that city and we hope that
he meets with the success that be
deserves.
There are some business houses 10
town that would increase their busi-
mesa by advertising. You keep iu
touch with the people by telling them
through the paper that you are an up
TO date merchant.