The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-09-28

Mr.. B. F. Oneal, Jr, expects to leave next Mon
day for Ruston, where he will enter the Louisiana
Industrial Institute.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Wyche are now permanent
residents Of our town. They are living with their
aunt Miss Sallie White.
Mrs. NJ. H. Hanks and family moved Tuesday
from Belcher to this place. They are occupying
Mr.. l. H. Martins residence.
We told that there are forty five converts to
Friendship Church Ga colored congregation in the
Midway neghborhood) who will be baptized next
Sunday.
Monday was indeed pleasant day, as have been
all the days of the present week, though week
past from that day the thermometer at this office
registered $50 in the shade.
The Banner has not been asked to make an
but wishes to call attention to the fact
that next Sunday is the day on which the Presby-
terian protracted meeting is scheduled to begin at
this place.
Mansfield Journal, 22d: DR.. j. B. Bxler who
lives near Lenor postofice, in the third ward was
stricken with paralysis in his right side and leg at
his home Saturday. He came here Sunday for
treatment.
Sunday night Mr.. J. J. Wilcox's store at Vance
S14OO. No insurance carried. Mr.. Wilcox
believes that his store was first burgarized and
then set fire.
Benton High School will open next Monday.
Miss Martha Ingram, of Culleoka, Tenn, and Miss
Jessie Cook, of Nashville, Tenn, have been en-
gagged as teachers in the intermediate and primary
departments.
We are sorry to learn of the illness Of Mrs W. j.
Hughes, of Rocky Mount. When we last heard
from Mrs. Hughes Qast friday she was still con-
fined to her bed with carbunke, very painful and
malignant in type. We hope soon to be able to
announce her complete recovery.
Irene Marshall, wife of Pete Marshall, died last
Saturday at her home Bellevue; aged about
Al years. She leaves husband and thirteen living
children. She was daughter OF Cicero Afford,
and Pete Is son Of Uncle Billie Marshall (now
dead) both families being we'll thought OF in the
community in which they live.
1 Mansfield Journal: The cotton crop in the third
ward of this parish is as failure as the old
est inhabitant has ever seen. On many places, we
are told, the yield from at least ten will be
quired to make BALE It is pretty certain that the
boil weevil contributed largely to the abort CROP
though little is said about it, In no other ward is
the outlook so gloomy it is in the third, which
lies west of this town.
I DR.. and Mrs. R. B. Martin, of Rocky Mount LEFT
last Friday for point on the Texas line where
Mrs. Martin will remain for several days Tin com.
pance with quarantine regulations) and then pro-
coed to Rhome, Tex, to the bedside of her son. DR.
3 E. E. Martin. Our readers will remember that tht
t young man was several weeks ago removed from
Colorado Springs to Rhome by his father and lef
there at the home of brother. We regret to stat
. that since that time his condition has shown bu
slight Improvement
We have been informed that the fund being RAISED
i to erect monument to the Confederate dead OF GU
: parish now exceeds 1915 The last contribution tt
Il the fund (S15 in amount) came from Capt. r.
Handbook, of Charlottesville, Va, who grew to man
hood in our midst and was also volunteer frou
Bossier during the Confederate War. This is tn
, second remittance the Captain has made to tn
). Treasurer OF the local Chapter of the U. D.
"a Others have subscribed handsomely to the fund,
" list of whose names will appear in the Banner {
some future date.
q Mr.. Jack Oglesby, overseer on the Foster planta
ton, several miles south of this place, was fired
five times Sunday night while returning home fro1
% Shreveport. The shots came from the darkness
ID the roadside, and Mr.. Oglesby was, of course IN
If able to identify the ambushers, though he state
that they were white men and three in number.
). escaped unhurt, but had hand-to-hand encountt
70 with two of his assailants He claims that he sue
;. ceeded in routing them by striking each over tt
II head with revolver, and that he could have klle
=, all three of them. The third man it seems did n
" show fight after Mr.. Oglesby dismounted from
horse. He gives as reason for not returning tt
fire that he is under bond to appear before tt
~ Grand Jury for killing young McMichael, bool
% keeper on the plantation, and that he thought
i, had troubles enough. (This paragraph is extrac
:. from an article that appeared in the Shrevepo
90 Times Monday)
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