The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1904-06-23
LOCAL AND Personal.

ro,,rt conyenes next Monday, the 9th.
rh.,,ence hams-the very best-at
Gayle's.
pany's for hammocks.
thursday July 7th is the date OF the
NEXT regular meeting of Bossier Levee
Board.
Miss Matte E. Newcomb, OF Monroe,
J. tha guest of her sister, Mrs. Jos. E. |,
Johnston. i
Miss Bessie Johnston, who attended
40 hirh school at Monroe the past SEES
mon has returned home.
Pow and Mrs. j. M. Hickson are Wis
;.;rc the home of their daughter, Mrs.
rhos. Hickman, at Bluffs.
Miss Annie Johnston is spending the
reek in Mena, Ark, where she is the
o1,est of her brother, Robert.
The supper to have been given to-
morrow night at this place by the mem
hers Of Cypress lodge has been post
poned.
Miss Loudie Brownlee returned home
tuesday morning from Rocky Mount,
where she visited the home Of DR.. r. B.
Martin.
AS an advertising scheme, Harris
business College, Jackson, Miss, is Of
ferine few scholarships at big bar
oain. Write them.
The School Board will convene in
regular session in Benton on Friday,
1uly list. At this meeting schools will
he located for the coming scholastic year.
Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines
are too well and favorably known to re-
ouire extensive notice. The Benton
Mercantile Company has them for sale.
Mr.. Elmer Walker of, Plain Dealing,
and Miss Loudie Brownlee are this week
at the court house assisting Deputy
Assessor Mading in reviewing the tax
roll.
Our lady readers should clip this par
aQrsph and take it to Herman Strube's
4 Hair Dressing, Shampooing and Mani
curing Parlor, in Shreveport, where it
will be good for shoe shine.
Mrs. J. B. Malone, OF ward six, who
1 for some days past has been confined in
the parish Jail, was this week taken to
Jackson by Sheriff Edwards and placed
in the insane asylum as patient.
Miss Camille Kelly returned home
Monday from Nashville, Tenn, at which
place she was student at the Peabody
Normal Institute. In company wi it'll
other students she visited the Worlds
Fair on her way home.
DR.. and Mrs. w. D. Lassiter returned
home last Friday. Our readers will re-
member that DR.. Lassiter was taken te
Z Schumpert's Sanitarium to be opperatee
/ on for appendicitis and will be pleased
tolearn that he is up and apparently well
MIL. Glanfield, of Amite City, ha,
secured the contract to erect the BentU
Bank building, the consideration being
$3.50, the building to be completed
within sixty days 1t is expected tina
the bank viii be opened for business b.
August 18th.
There are at present eight prisoner
in the parish Jail at this place, seven o
them being colored and one white
Against the white prisoner and two 0
the colored ones there rests the charg
OF murder. Two are in for arson, an
for shooting with intent to kill, one TO
theft and the eighth, who is from war
nix, for running "blind tiger
A telegram received on last Saturda
evening from Denton, Texas, announce
the serious illness of Mr.. B. G. Ivey,
brother Of Mr.. w. E. Ivey. Mr.. Ivey
together with his two nephews, Abne
and Walter, who are Mr.. w. G. Ivey'
sons, left at once on the afternoon trail
Tor the sick mans bedside. On Tuesda
evening the news reached Benton ths
Mr.. Ivey was doing we'll though still
= critical condition.
Coolersl Come to US to buy then
he and one-half, two and five gallo
sizes carried in stock. Benton Mercan
tile Company.
A handsome little volume of mol
than 100 pages, full of "reminiscences {
the Civil war and political and otht
stories OF early days in Texas, write
~ Hon. T. H. Bowman, ex-Secretal
Of State and ex-Superintendent of Il
State Orphan Home in. Texas, and VIZ
10 . brother of Mrs. F. T. Whited,
Alden Bridge, has reached the editor
0esk. We feel that we viii derive I
little pleasure. in reviewing this lit
solume-so many of its pages bringir
back to memory familiar pictures lor
aince forgot. The title is g Reminiscel
ces Of an Confederate Soldier, I
Forty Years on Crutches." The boz
reviews the whole life of the autho
ma y but a true history that should
within the reach Of our young reader