The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-05-18
Local and
Personal
Only five prisoners in Jail now.

Capt. B. R. Nash was in Benton Tues
day.
Another rain and electrical storm last
night.
The northbound passenger train is
now due here at :t5 pm.
Miss Rachel Willer is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Julius Gamm, of Shreveport.
Miss Lena Dawson visited Alden
Bridge friends the latter part of last
week.
Miss Lila Belcher visited Mrs. J. B.
Adger, of Alden Bridge, Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Mr.. R. c. Stinson has just secured a
number of Mexican tenants for the Hur-
ricane Bluff plantation.
Captain S. M. Thomas will leave this
evening on visit to his daughter, Mrs.
J. w. Warren, at Lewisville, Ark.
Mr.. A. Silliman left Monday for his
old home, at Cabool, Mo-, where he was
called on account of the illness of Mrs.
Silliman.
Misses Mamie Chamblee and Toinette
Wyehe are visiting in Belchor this
week and are guests of Mrs. E. r.
Waters.
Misses Mamie Neeson and Oracle
Larkin spent Wednesday of last week in
Alden Bridge as the guests of Miss
Dubois Elder.
Mr.. John Griffin returned yesterday
from Natchitoches, where he went to be
present at the State Normal commence
ment exercises.
Mr.. w. ]. Miers, of Bloomburg, Tex,
spent several days with his son, Mr..
H.V. Miers, since our last issue, leaving
for his home Tuesday.
Mr.. Peyton Taylor, together with his
sisters-in-law, Misses Anna and Sina
Dinkins, visited his aunt, Mrs. Dave
Gibson, Of Plain Dealing, this week.
Tax Collector ]. F. Edwards made his
April settlement with the Parish Treas
urer Tuesday, paying to the Parish Fund
$2456.72 and to the School Fund 1851. IS;
total, s303e.35.
Mrs. E. E. Simpson, who has been
visiting relatives at Newport, Ark,
spent Saturday night with her sister,
Mrs. L. G. Smith, on her return to her
home at Taylortown.
Irion Nash, alias William johnson
charged with murder, and who has beer
wanted in Natchitoches Parish since
1889, was captured near VAUDEVILLE by
Sheriff Edwards last Friday.
What is the health of the town worth
Is it not worth more than it will cost t
drain the town and remove the stencil a
the seed houses? Will not a clean towr
make better impression on stranger
who visit it?
Mr.. L. T. Merritt, of Midway, hat
business in Benton Monday. He report
that the rain storm of Saturday nigh
was accompanied by considerable hal
in his neighborhood, and that as result
many stands of corn were ruined.
Assessor E. r. Mading, OF Plain Deal
ing, passed through Benton on his wa;
home yesterday afternoon. He was re
turning from an assessing tour made i
the southern part of the parish, and re
ports that his work is almost finished.
Out of $500 road tax payers of tn
parish, as shown by the Ward ASSESSOR
books for 1904, Sheriff J. F. Edward
has collected and paid into the Paris
Treasury s503i, leaving $50 delihquent
against whom indictments have bee
filed.
The total assessed value of the propert
of all railroad, telegraph, telephone
sleeping car and express companies
Louisiana, as assessed by the Stat
Board, is s34, 5O3, 1914, an increase ov.
1904 of $500, 178. Bossier's assessmel
IS S65f ,ol4.
The election held at Plain Dealir
Monday for the purpose of taking Il
sense of the qualified voters of the TOW
on proposition to levy Ave mill t;
for a period of ten years to create
special fund for the benefit of Soho
District No. 8 resulted in vote of
TO in favor of the tax.