The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-30

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M. A. Durham succeeded these officials as
Constables.
In the advertising columns of the "Jun-
ior" we find the card of E. & B. Moses.
They had come from New Orleans and
established an ambrotype gallery. The
ambretype was an improvement on the
Daguerreotype, the invention of Daguerre,
of France. The "Junior" editors sat for
their ambrotypes, and were told to "look
pleasant" while the artists stock them"
The card of Mr.. William Enders shows
that he established furniture factory. It
was modest little factory situated up on
Texas Street in small frame building.
We bought an office desk from Mr.. Enders,
and have it yet.
Thomas L. Wendell, whose brother was
Government Printer at Washington, adj
vertised his card, as jeweler, at the store
of G.. H. Burnside.
A few doors from Burnside's jewelry
store, up stairs, was the office of 81. B.
Wasson, Dentist" Across the street was
the jewelry shop of L. M. Hecht.
Miss Mary Files and sister had a MILL
merry store on Milan Street, nearly oppo-
site the Aston Hotel. The younger sister
is now living in Monrovia, California.
Other advertisers in the first number of
the "Junior" were; Harry G. Summers,
restaurants G. M. Levy & Co., dry goods;
John H. Roach, cigar shop; Joseph Nc
Laughlin, saddles and harness; John Lar
mier, boots and shoes; A, Aaron, ice; E.
S. Barry, tailor; B. M. Wood, auctioneer;
A. Mark, dry goods; J. Adkins, Smile
Restaurant.
Among the other business men, whose
names we remember, were the following,
beginning with those as far as the business
town extended toward the head of Texas
Street, ending with the southern limit on
the levee, at A. Harris cotton warehouse:
John Caldwell, livery stable; A. J. Hitch
cock, livery stable; Ed. Eberstadt, eonfec-
tionery store; A. Tallmadge, boarding
house; R. B. Sterret, dry goods store; E..
Kneeland, dry goods store; Mrs. Kate
Wells, millinery store; John J. Kline, dry
goods store; E. J. Jordan, dry goods store;
W. W. Smith, dry goods store; Allen &
Paxton, tin-shop; David Pobst, gunsmith;
A. Lengfield, druggist: P. F. L. Frank,
jewelry shop; H. Linman, boot and shoe
maker; c. H. Burnside, jewelry store;
Callahan McCarty, groceries; John Walters,
dry goods store; Charles L. Trabue, auc-
ton store; DR.. Woodruff, lup-stairs); VIM.
Beck, groceries; - Coates, tin shop; A.
Armitage, tailor; Thomas H. Morris, drug
store; A. Enos, merchant tailor; T. C.
Lewis, drug store; H. Pichardie, tailor; L.
Baer, confectionery store; M. Baer, gro
ceries; - barber shop; William Ball,
drug store; E. & B. Jacobs, groceries and
plantation supplies; Winter & Weinstock,
dry goods; B. M. Johnson, banker; Lama
& Sphor, dry goods; White, Smith & Bald
win, cotton warehouse; Oglesby & Girls
void, cotton warehouse; A. Hart, cotton
warehouse.
The offices of the attorneys were all on
Market Street, mostly from Texas to Milan.
Of the attorneys we recall the names of
John NJ. Landrum, Benjamin L. Hodge,
Judge Samuel Ford, Wesley P. Winans,
Fountain P. Austin, John w. Jones, Judge
Roland Jones, Lawrence P. Grain, L. M.
Mutt, Leon D. Marks, Samuel Wells, Geo.
A. Austin, Atticus Slaughter, D. G. Brady,
George Williamson, John w. Pencil, Watt
O. Grain. John D. Ashton, L. Duncan,
Judge T. T. Land, Judge A. B. Levisee,
Judge David Creswell, r. G.. Harper, j.
H. Fitzpatrick, J. S. Flournoy, Harmon A.
Drew.
The physicians were: DR.. w. w. George,
DR.. P L. Leslie, DR.. Gilbert, DR.. w. H.
Williams, DR.. R. L. Gray, DR.. Kendell,
DR.. Lilly, DR.. Thomas P. Hotchkiss.
Our contemporary apprentices, when
we entered the Gazette " in 1854, were
Thomas A. Steele, of the South Western, y
and William Singletary, of the "Demo-
GRAFT" H. J. G. Battle was editor of the
Gazette, Fountain P Austin, assistant ed
itor; William Wyndham, foreman; and
Richard Stanley Carnes, compositor. Mr..
Battle sold the Gazette in 1867 to DR..
Samuel Bard, State Superintendent of
Public Education. Bard was wandering
journalist, and owned at different times the
Caddo Gazette, Ouachita Register, and
two or three other Louisiana papers. At
ter the Confederate War he joined the Re-
publican party, and was appointed by