The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1904-06-16
eeNToN, LOUISIANA, JUNE Ie, 1904.
LOCAL AND Personal.

LOCAL AND Personal.
Ravens tar soap at the brick store.
Miss Hyde, Of Bellevue, visited friends
in Benton Tuesday.
Mr.. Allen Lee has accepted place
under the new station agent.
Nothing in the way OF canned goods
heats Libbey's. Silliman has them.
The Masons are making needed i'm
movements on their hall at this place.
Mrs, o. r. Denton and children are
visiting relatives in Greenville, Texas.
Clerk Kelly has received the commits
missions for the Bossier Justices of
Peace.
Rev. C. C. Weir returned last Thurs
day from Mansfield, where he attended
district conference.
Rev. George Jackson, of Lecampte,
Rapides parish, is visitor at the home
of Rev. C. C. Weir.
Mrs. Sue T. Abney left last week for
Mineral Wells, Texas, where she will
spend several weeks.
Mr.. W. H. Scanland, Jr., an Emory
College Student Cat Oxford, Ga.) re-
turned home last Saturday.
Mr.. J. B. Blaffer, of the Shreveport
Office Supply Company, paid the Ban
ner an appreciated call Monday.
Mr.. B. F. Oneal and his son, B. F.
Oneal, Jr., returned Friday from a visit
to the Words Fair, at st. Louis.
Miss Sina Dinkins, of Greenwood, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. P. G. Taylor,
and will spend several weeks here.
Mrs. Martha Sewer, of Walnut Hill,
Ark, spent several days in Benton last
week as the guest of Mrs. Kate Wyche.
The local base ball team will cross bats
with the Alden Bridge team on the Ben
ton diamond next Saturday afternoon.
Misses Jessie and Toinette Wyche
have retsrned from Belcher where they
spent several days pleasantly with
friends.
Misses Annie and Daisy Jeter and Mr..
Garland Smith, of Shreveport, were
quests at the home of Mrs. L. A. Brown
lee Sunday.
Coolers! Come to us to buy them.
One and one-haif, two and five gallon
sizes carried in stock.-Benton Mercan-
tile Company.
As an advertising scheme, Harris
Business College, Jackson, Miss is Of
fering few scholarships at big bar
gain. Write them.
Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine:
are too we'll and favorably known to re.
quire extensive notice. The Benton
Mercantile Company has them for sale
We are sorry to announce that Mr.
P. c. Taylor's little 2-year-old girl il
suffering with broken arm, which il
the result of window sash falling on it
Our friend Mr.. J. M. Montgomery ha
recently bought delivery wagon TO
the store and will in the future sput i
down at your. very door" Goods de
ivered anywhere in town.
Mr.. o. R. Denton, formerly the Cot
ton Belts agent at this place, is now il
Leesville schooling himself in banking
preparatory to filling the place of Cash
Ter in the Benton Bank.
When you go to Shreveport the frs
thing in order is a shave. A good plac
to get it is at Strube's. He's now il
newquarters in the First National Banl
building, Milan street entrance.
Mrs. f. E. Simpson, of Taylortowr
after short visit to her sister, Mrs
L. G.. Smith, joined DR.. Simpson i
Shreveport yesterday, and from ther
they will leave for the Worlds Fair.
Among the latest additions in came
goods to be found at Gayle's are ves
loaf, corned beef hash, lunch tongue
red hot chicken tamale and chile co
carne. The usual line also well kept uI
Mr.. B. F. Baker, of Natchez, Miss
and who recently worked for the Vicks
burg, Shreveport and Pacific Railwa
Company at Shreveport is Mr.. 0. +
Denton's successor in Benton as static
agent.
Shreveport Times, nth: editor "
H. Scanland and his daughter, Mis
Mabel, passed through the city yestel
day on their way to Nashville to atten
the reunion of the United Confedera'
Veterans"
Mrs. A. ]. Murff and children, I
Shreveport, are visiting friends in Ber
ton this week. Mrs. Murff and Mi
Margaret and little Fannie are guests
Mrs. G. o. Gayle's, while Jack is a Wis
tor at Mr.. r. E. Wyche's home.
Mrs. ]. F. Mcknight, of Walnut Hi
Ark, visited her brother, Mr.. H.
Miers, Monday. Mrs. Mcknight HI
Just returned from the Worlds Fa
n y T.