The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-11-16
Local and Personal


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Next Monday is circus day in Shreveport.
Attorney A. J. Murff, of Shreveport, was visitor
Monday.
Mr. Hudson Boinger, of Bolinger, was visitor
in Benton Sunday.
What would enhance the value of your farm more
than good roads?
The bird hunters have been busy in our commu-
nifty since the 1st.
Miss Geatrude Belcher spent several days in
Shreveport this week.
Duck and goose shooting promises to be little
better than usual this season.
Misses Sallie Tidwell and Louda Brownlee spent
Tuesday and Wednesday in Shreveport.
Mr.. R. E. Wyche expects to leave within few
days for short visit to Holdenvile, l. T., where he
has property interests.
Mr. A. B. Ivey made quick trip to Poole last
Friday for the purpose of inspectiny the situation
for proposed levee work.
Miss Mamie Neeson returned home on Monday
afternoons train from two weeks visit to Mrs.
A. J. Murff, of Shreveport.
Make your cotton pickers hustle now while the
weather is fair You didn't make much of crop
so you'd better get what you did make.
Attorney T. T. Land left last night for Minden,
where he will visit for several days. He expects to
leave next week for his new home in the Territory.
Mr.. n w. Sentell, Secretary, has requested the
Banner to state that meeting of the Bosser Cotton
Association will be held at Benton Dec 2 at which
time the annual election of officers will take place.
Mr.. A. E. Loder, Assistant Engineer for the
Office of Public Roads of the Department of Agri-
culture, of Washington, and Mr.. L. c. Buckley, of
the Alden Bridge neghborhood, were callers at the
Banner office yesterday.
We regret to announce that Mr.. Sam Yarbrough,
of :" Kingston, a son of Mr.. T. M. Yarbrough, is
a-bed with an attack of swamp fever. This is said
to be the fifth for the young man in as many
summers. We hope soon to see him we'll and out
While out answering call Monday night DR..
w D. Lassiter's horse fell with him and as result
the Doctor is suffering from severely bruised lower
limb. He thinks that he was lucky in not having
any bones broken as the horses full weight for
time rested upon his leg.
Perhaps you don't want the quail on your planta-
ton killed. They great insect destroyers and
should be protected to some extent. For $3.50 you
can run ''notice to hunters in the Banner for
one year. If you only want to run it six months
the charge would be 1925.
From time to time we have heard of proposed
plan of the Cotton Belt system to operate through
trains between st. Louis and New Orleans, or some
point on the gulf. This we hope to see materialize
some day. Probably after that time the through
trains will take of the through traveller and wen
have a local train that will run on time.
AS is our custom each fall, we are just now
mailing statements to delinquent subscribers. If
you are among those who receive one, we hope to
have a prompt remittance from YOU And bear in
mind, please, that the management of the Banner
at all times makes earnest effort to publish such
a paper as will please the greatest number of its
readers.
Mr.. John H. Allen, of Red Land, writes the Ban
that petition is being circulated in that neigh
borhood, to be later forwarded to the Postofice
Department at Washington, asking for a rural free
delivery route. This is step in the right direction
large sum has recently been set aside by the
Government for such purpose, and we should come
in for our share of it. What's the matter with
starting such petitions here in Benton? There's
sufficient population around to justify two routes
east and west.
Railroads are of incalculabe benefit. They are
the arteries through which the likelihood of commerce
must flow. Good dirt roads are close second to
railroads, and without them any community or State
is greatly handicapped. Our own parish is too
sparsey settled just to build the best of roads,
but there is excuse for not having them as dood
as we The work to be done in our town at
some future date by the Good Roads Department
OF the Agricultural Department of Washington will
be lesson in good road making that should not be
missed by any one who can be present. The cause
of good roads should be constantly kept before the
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