The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-03-08

The Cumberland telephone people
are busy.
See Professor Moses, the optician, at
Guenard's drug store.
Patronize the stores that advertise
They are liberal aud should receive
the patronage.
Miss Eva Davis, who has been Wis
iting friends in Greenville, returned
Monday on the Delta.
Everything for the fisherman can be
found at the hardware store of the
Providence Hardware Co.
Navigation has been resumed on the
Ohio aud Mississippi rivers, and boats
can now leave Cincinnati and ST. Louis.
One or two pure white robbins were
killed last week by sportsmen aud
brought 10 town. The birds were
quite a curiosity.
Perhaps the levying in of the St.
Francis country will demonstrate the
height that our levees will have TO be
on he coming spring rise.
The Town Council met in regular
monthly session on Thursday evening
and transacted a large amount of bust
ness. Proceedings next week.
The planters have been bustlDg
this week. and large amount of land
has been broken up. They are going
in With better spirits THE year.
We notice in the last issue of the
Mayersville Spectator that Mrs Leach
had given birth to a boy. Here's luck
TO our friend Leach aud grandpa
Stockner.
Mr.. r. j. Burney and daughter, Miss
Pearl, left Monday on the Delta, bound
for New Orleans. They will spend
few DAYS in The Crescent City before
returning home.
We understand a man was in town
on Monday securing laborers to clear
the right of way for the railroad up
near Ashton, between Pitchers Point
and the Arkansas line.
Business keeps mp well with our
merchants, which shows that there is
money among the cotton raisers. We
predict that business will be good dur
ing the coming summer.
The Banner Democrat wishes all the
advertising patronage that, 1t can get,
but if we have to beg for it, aud then
have to cut our rates down to nothing
to get it, we don't want II.
District Attorney d. M. Evans left
for Tallulah yesterday, after being
here for a civil term of court. The
district attorney lie a popular gentle
man and has many friends in our par
ish.
Mrs Emma Bell Barrett, arrived
Tuesday evening on the Na,chez TO
visit her family. Miss Emma has
many friends in her old home who will
be glad 10 learn that she is here on
visit.
W. N. Whites big stock is now ar
irving. Mr.. White has made a large
selection of Monarch shirts, the best
made, and the shirt that gives sstisfac-
ton. See White for your summer
toys.
Mr.. II. Stein, the hustling represeD-
tative of the wholesale whisky and
cigar house of Marx & Scharff of
NatcheZ, was in town for few days
this week. Bud covers a big terrific
ry, has host of friends and sells lots
of goods.
Our friend Hugh Montgomery, the
stirring manager Of the planting in
terests of Congressman Ransdell, slip
ped off to Vicksburg last Sunday, 60
ing via Blanton. The boys have il in
their uoggins the business that took
him 10 the Hill City.
The Mcclure gin, down 10 the lower
end of town, had turned out eighteen
hundred bales of cotton up to last Sat-
urday evening. This gin lost about
two weeks in the busy season on &C.
count of broken machinery, which
caused it TO lose a great deal of cotton.
We will have some water--and only
those who have "watched the river for
the past twenty years" can tell us TO
an inch or so, how much water we are
going to have. But the Ohio, Mlssis-
sippi, Tennessee aud other rivers are
booming, which means very much
water.