The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1904-07-28

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Miss Louie Ogden is the guest of Mrs.
Courtney Fenett at Rush Point.
Go to Silliman's for loaf bread. Re-
ceived fresh Mondays and Fridays.
Some of the young people enjoyed a
hay ride on Wednesday night Of last
week.
The editor thanks Mr.. J. M. Hender-
son, of Rocky Mount, for an appreciated
favor.
Miss Grace Larkin spent Sunday in
Shreveport as the guest Of Miss Julia
Flournoy.
Mr.. Henry Oneal, now living at Beth
any, was visitor to his old home here
the past week.
Mr.. Newt Brownlee, now with the
K. G. S. and located at Shreveport, is
here on visit to his "folks."
The Rev. Hymes, Of Coushatta, viii |
conduct the morning service at the |
Methodist church in this place next |
Sunday.
Coolers! Come to US to buy them.
One and one-half, two and five gallon |
sizes carried in stock.-Benton Mercan-
tile Company.
Little George May Belcher, after a
visit Of several days to the little girls at
Mrs. L. A. Brownlee's, has returned to
her home in Shreveport.
For SALE.-A No. 2 hand pump, in
irst-class condition, with twenty-five
feet OF piping and sand strainer at
tached. Apply at this office.
Mrs. ]. C. Dickson. of Dixie, has re-
turned from Mineral Wells, Tex. where
she has been for pleasure and the bene-
fit Of health for some weeks past.
Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines
are too well and favorably known to re-
quire extensive notice. The Benton
Mercantile Company has them for sale.
Geyer and Griswold's Ten Nights in a
Bar Room Company will give perform
/
See their ad. on the second page.of this
issue.
Ice Cream, Lemonade, Cold Soda,
Celery Tonic, Cherry Phosphate,
Grape Juice, Orange Juice,
Ice Cream Soda and Kos-Kola.
| All at Smiths, of course.
Mr.. and Mrs. Heidi Kendall and Dis
trict Attorney Thos. T. Land returned
home on Tuesday afternoons train from
Webster's health and pleasure resort
Long Springs.
i Yesterday morning, during one Of the
most severe electrical and rain storms
of the summer, the Benton House was
struck by a bolt of lightning. Fortu-
nately no one was hurt and the damage
to the building was but slight.
Mrs. Kathryne Bum, of Pine Bluff,
Ark, is guest at the home of Mrs
L. G. Smith. Mrs. Bum is Just from
, Taylortown and arrived in Benton Sun
day afternoon, bringing with her her little
daughter, Dorothy, and little Madeline
: and Lucy Smith.
At stated communication of Cypress
, lodge No. 80, A. F. and A. NJ, held il
their hall on Thursday night last, Mr.
j. w. Dubois, of Alden Bridge, wa
raised to the sublime degree of Mastel
Mason and DR.. c. NJ. Tucker, of Ivan
!: joined the lodge by afiliation. The mex
: regular communication win be held OF
the night Of Thursday, October 10th.
Mrs. DR.. Mansfield Holmes, who ha
> been the guest of her mother, Mrs. M. G
Swami, at Swannhaven, for some tim
past, left Sunday afternoon, in compan,
with her brother, Mr.. Singleton Swami
q for the Worlds Fair. After her visit t.
0 the fair Mrs. Holmes win return to he
home in Colorado, while Mr.. Swami vii
:, make an extended trip through the West
Monday evening, Daisy Phillips, jeal
It GUS and enraged, met the object of he
}, wrath, Tilda Craig, in the public roa
a near Gum Springs plantation, wher
e both live, and cut her severely on tn
9 neck with razor. The unfortunate
throat was barely missed. She win re
d cover. Both are colored. The aggres
IS sor is a married woman and jealousy, 6
Il said, is what prompted the rash deed.
n In our issue Of last week we state
'e that the local passenger train, operate
IS between Shreveport and Lewisvill'
Ark, before the st. Louis special va
W put on, would again be running by th
Is following Sunday. This informatic
is was semi-oficial, coming from Cotto
Il Belt agent in Shreveport. The trai
s, was not put on Sunday and it seen
10 that the whole matter is but "brake'
man talk" Well be more careful in Il
: future; but, of course, a publisher ik'
q to give news when it is news.
4 On Tuesday of this week Mr.. S.
& Dowell and family, of Alden Bridg