The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-09-07
Local and Personal

1t groweth warm again.
Have you seen Robt. Adger's colts?
Now is the time to plant your fall advertising!
Attend the ice cream festival next Tuesday night!
The Caddo Parish schools will not open until Oct
2, so said
The postofice has been moved into DR.. Lassiter's
office buinding.
The School Board will convene in extra session
in this place tomorrow.
Mr.. W. J. Johnston, of Plain Dealing, spent last
night and to-day in Benton.
The Banners staff returns thanks to Attorney
T. T. Land for an appreciated favor
Mr.. Peyton Taylor returned Tuesday from
Greenwood, where he went to take his family.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Burt, of "The Corner"
spent Sunday with Mrs. Sallie White, their aunt.
Mrs. Annie Land and her daughter, Miss Paunee
Butler, were visitors at the Benton Hotel Sunday
Mr.. John Kennebrew and Mr.. w. B. Butler, both
of Belcher, spent last Sunday with Benton friends
Have you any mules for sale? span of good
ones is wanted by the parish authorities. See the
adj elsewhere in to-day's Banner.
Shreveport Times, 9Th: Mrs. E. D. Homes and
daughter have returned home from trip to the
Portland Fair and other western points.
dance, which was enjoyed by the young people
of the entire community, was given by Miss True
heart Yarbrough, at her fathers home, at Kings
tom, last Thursday night.
The date as fixed by the School Board for the
opening of all white public schools in the parish is
Monday, Sept IS. The postponement was made
on account of the quarantine.
Rev. W. A. Zeigler, of Rocky Mount filled his
regular appointments here Sunday and Sundy night.
He also announced that if at the time all things
were favorable protracted meeting would be be-
gun month later.
Miss Mary Gilrner, of Shreveport, who for some
time past has been visiting friends here and in the
VAUDEVILLE neighborhood, will leave one day this
week for Plain Dealing, where she will visit the
family of her brother, Mr.. George Gilmer.
There are at present four prisoners in the parish
iail-one white and three colored. The colored
prisoners Spence Colly, from ward Il Josh Jones'
from ward 6, and Henry Williams, from ward 2;
all of whom are held under the charge of murder
The charge against the white man is embezzling a
horse, He was arrested in ward g. but is transient
An ice cream festival will be given at the Court
House in this place next Tuesday night. The fes.
tival will be conducted under the auspices of the
local chapter OF the OnlCo0 daughters O1 the OOn'
federacy, and the object is to raise part of the
fund which will be necessary to erect the proposed
monument on Court Square to the memory of the
Confederate dead of this parsh) 1t is to be hoped
that all who love the ''Lost Cause will respond
promptly. Contributions from outside sources are
solicited.
The negro who was being held at Millvie, Ark,
subject to orders from Sheriff Edwards, and who
was thonoht tn he wanted in this parislrfOr murder
proved to be the wrong man. Sheriff Edwards
made an attempt to go into Arkansas one day last
week after the negro, but was turned back by the
quarantine authorities He had permit which
was by the States Health Officer, who later resigned
his position, and when he did Governor Davis
promptly made void all his former official acts.
This explains why the Sheriff could not enter the
State though having in possession the proper pass.