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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23
An Ordinance
R. B. HILL, Clerk

Ordering an election within School District No. Is
OF Bossier Parish, La, as established by the
School Board OF said parish, to take the sense
OF the taxpayers on the question of Is mill tax
tor ten years for the purpose OF supplementing
the salaries of teachers and building and repair
ing school houses in said district.
Whereas, the petition, signed by more than one
third OF the property taxpayers of School District
No. IL, as established by resolution of the Parish
School Board OF Bossier Parish, La, of date April
., 1907 in regular session convened has been pre-
sented to this body, asking that special election
be ordered in said District No. IL to take the
OF the taxpayers upon the question of levying an
nually special school tax of ~ mills upon all
property within said district for period of ten
years for the purpose of supplementing the salaries
OF teachers and building and repairing school
houses in said district, and, whereas said School
District No. 13 has been duly created and its
boundaries defined by the School Board of Bossier
Parish at regular meeting held on April 3, 1907,
Be it Ordained, That there be, and it is hereby
ordered, special election to be held in and for
School District No. Is, as created by the School
Board OF Bosser Parish April 8, 1907 for the pur-
pose of ascertaning the sense of the taxpayers of
said district on the question of levying special
school tax Of mills on the dollar of the assessed
property OF said district for period of ten years.
beginning at the earliest date possible after the
said election, and according to law for the purpose
Of supplementing the salaries Of teachers and
building and repairing school houses in and for
said district, which is defined as follows:
Beginning at the east bank of Red River near
Mrs Arnold's, just north of her residence. thence
east to the foot Of the hills; thence south along the
foot OF the hills to the line of Ward T. thence west
to Red River; thence up the east bank Of Red
River to the point OF beginning.
2. Be it further Ordained, That said election be
held at Bosser City, the regular polling place in
and for said district, Friday, May "a 1907, and
held in accordance with and under the general
election laws of the State of Louisiana, except as
hereinafter modified.
g. That the ballots to be used may be printed or
written, and shall read: "For a i mill tax for
ten years" or against a IL mill tax for ten
years."
4. That all legal voters who are property tag
payers shall be entitled to vote, provided women
who are taxpayers in their own rights shall be en-
titled to vote, either in person or by written proxy
g.. That the following commissioners and clerks
shall hold said election, to-wit: w. E. Coleman,
c. G. House and Bryant Coffee, commissioners
and j. R. Brandon, clerk, whose duty it shall be to
make due returns to this body or before its mex,
regular session after said election.
g. That thirty clear days advertisement in the
Bossier Banner be made Of this ordinance before
said election.
&c. LOGAN, President Police Jury.
r. 3. HILL, Clerk.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

ordered, special election to be held in and for
School District No. IL, as created by the School
Board of Bossier Parish April B. 1907, for the pur
pose of ascertaining the of the taxpayers OF
said district on the question OF levying special
school tax of mills on the dollar of the assessed
property of said district for period OF ten years,
beginning at the earliest date possible after the
said election, and according to law for the purpose
of supplementing the salaries OF teachers and
building and repairing school houses in and for
said district, which is defined as follows:
Beginning at point on township line in section
on bank Of Bodcau, township 81, range II, thence
west to northwest corner of township a. range IL;
thence west on north boundary of 81 and IL, to
northwest corner Of section 2, township H. range
L.; thence south on section line to the township
line between 20 and 81; thence east on township
line between townships 20 and 81 to the Bodcau
Bayou; thence up the west bank Of said bayou to
the point of beginning.
2. Be it further Ordained, That for the purpose
of holding this special election, Ivan shall be made
a regular polling place.
8. That said election be held at Ivan, the regu-
lar polling place as fixed herein, in and for said
district on Friday, May "a, 1907, and held in ac-
cordance with and under the general election laws
of the State OF Louisiana, except as hereinafter
modified
4. That the ballots to be used may be printed or
written and shall read "For mill tax for ten
years." or against mill tax for ten years"
5. That all legal voters who are property tax
payers shall be entitled to vote, provided women
who taxpayers in their own rights shall be en-
titled to vote either in person by written proxy
g. That the following commissioners and clerks
shall hold said election to-wit: J. E. Rabb, ]. B.
Wilmington and G. B. Coker, commissioners, and
John Bundy, clerk, whose duty it shall be to make
due returns to this body on before its next reg
ular session after said election.
Z. That thirty clear days advertisement in the
Bossior Banner be made of this ordinance before
said election.
J.C. LOGAN, President Police Jury.
r. B. HILL, Clerk,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

Public Ledger: The average man spends
most of his time between plans for the flu
ture and regrets for the past.
Chicago News: Every man ought to
marry woman who is good manager,
because few men are any good unless they
are properly managed.
Philadelphia North American: The
great book we all need to read, learn and
inwardly digest is the book whose leaves
are green in summer, whose chapter head
ings are the hills, and whose story is that
of all good and all happiness. The endless
Book of Nature, for which God be thanked.
st. Louis Republic; The admission to
the Union of the State of Louisiana, in
1912, introduced into the sisterhood of
States the first land west of the Mississippi
and marked the beginning of growth
which has brought into existence the
mighty empire lying between the great
river and the Rocky Mountains,
C,a-,'-sdale MISSY Challenge: 1.-THE
Clansman' was not written as Mr.. Brady
seems to think, to stir up discord and to
revivify period in our history which he
says "would be better forgotten ltpor-
trays faithfully and intelligently the story
and trials of our Southland at time when
it was overrun with set of INSCRIPTIONS
Williams, cut threats and carpet baggers,
who subjected our people to the most wan
ton and outrageous indignities.
Grandin (Mo.) Herald: The manufac-
turers of many varieties of tools, agricul-
tural and others, find themselves facing a
serious calamity in the rapid disappearance
of that most valuable of American hard
woods, the hickory, For certain uses, like
ak helves and hammer handles, almost no
satisfactory substitute can be found. One
Of the hardest, it is naturally, one Of the
slowest growing trees. Some can yet be
found in Missouri and in parts of other
States in the same latitude, but from New
England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Kentucky, Michigan and Wisconsin the
hickory has almost disappeared.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

The moneyed man has his rights and SO
has the workingman, and the proper adj
justment of their rights will call for more
craftsmanship in the near future than any
other problem that has confronted the
people of this Republic for many years.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

Chicago Journal: There is no doubt
that the world would be immensely better
off if the excessive use of alcohol could be
stopped. There would be less crime, less
misery in the world. Increasing civiliza-
ton will some day, it may be, do away
with the drink habit, but civilization is the
only agency that will do it. In this country
the demands of modern business have
worked great reform, but they have not
succeeded in lessening the national drink
bill. That can never be done until men as
whole have learned to think.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23
A Marrow EScane.

G. W. Cloyd, a merchant of PUNK, Mo-, had a
narrow escape four years ago, when he ran jimson
bur into his thumb. He says: "The doctor wanted
to amputate it but would not consent. bought
box Of Bucklen's Arnica Salve and that cured the
dangerous wound.'' % cents at all drug stores,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

There is difference between possessing
money and being possessed by money. In
the one case you are its master and it does
your bidding; in the other it is your mas
ter and you are its slave.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

The golden rule and truth should prevail
everywhere. Truth is eternal and will
prevail Truth is mighty and the rock on
which all our faith and guidance rests, and
never errs in shaping our conduct and
PURPOSES.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

Louisiana can offer more inducements
than any other State in the Union for good
settlers, but none for bad.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

The Farmers Union of Georgia has gore
on record in opposition to the immigration
movement in the South. Glad to hear it.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

Rhode Island s two capitals are survival
of the old colonial period before the Revo-
lutionary War when that little bit OF State
was two separate colonies Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

Cling to your old friends. Time and
circumstance will try to steal them, but
stick to them, for they cannot be replaced.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

Churches and schools are neglected
when roads are such as to make them
difficult of access.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

One hundred years ago the West Indies
supplied about one-half of the worlds
sugar, but the industry is on the decline.
The worlds crop of beet sugar is now
6,8O0, 900 tons.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

Life is the most frivolous of things unless
it is regarded as one great and constant
duty. Life is one of value by devotion to
what is true and good.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

Money and brains often bring power,
but true goodness alone makes true great
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

The man who is wise talks little Of his
own affairs, and less Of other peoples.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

i n WI = % OlNAA ~AND0
DEN tt S T..
A. L. WALLICK, ID. ID. $.
215, PIG and 217
First Natl Bank Building, Shreveport.
Both phones, No. 463.
r. $. TERRY
DENT IST.
Offices now over the Andrews-Spence
Dry Goods Co., Shreveport. Rooms 8
and 4. Phone, 1884.
w. D. LAsslrER'
Practicing Physician.
Office opposite bank building, Benton,
La. Hours, 9 am. to IL m. All calls
given prompt attention, day or night.
T. E. JOHNSTON
Attorney at Law.
Will practice in the courts of louisa
ma and Arkansas, and in the Federal
courts. Office at court house, Benton, La.
7. T. LAND
Attorney ut Law.
Will practice in the courts of Bossier
and adjoining parishes. Office at the
Court House, Benton, La.
R. H. euLLEDeF'
Physician and Surgeon.
Successor to DR.. G. H. Irion. Office
at the Benton Pharmacy, Benton, La,
where he can be found day and night.
Calls promptly answered.
IG G. CHANDLER, ND,
Specialist
In diseases Of the Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat. apectaoles and Artificial Eyes
always on hand. Office, Rooms 81 and
81, Cooper Building, Shreveport.
I,JoANNEs SMITH,
Attorney at Law.
Office at the court house, Benton, Bos-
sier parish, La.
IC.H H. nlNeE' IT,
Fire Insurance.
| Gins and other country risks solicited.
| Office, 521 Spring Street, Shreveport.
Cumberland phone, No. 29.
CLIFTON F. DAVIS. E. WALES BROWNE
DAVIS & BROWNE
Attorneys at Law
Suite 24O-3, First Natl Bank Building,
SHREVEPORT.
DE- T. E. WILLIAMS,
Homeopathic Physician
and Surgeon.
ONCE in First National Bank building, Shreve-
port. Old phone, 1853; new phone, 90. Both
| phones at residence.
W. J. BAIRD,
Physician, Surgeon
and Coroner
| Will attend all responsible calls day
or night. Office at residence, Plain
Dealing, La.
! DE-. A. a. GARRISON
Dentist.
Majestic Theater Building, Shreveport.
| Both Phones, No. 745.
nR. R. LOGAN ARNOLD,
Dentist,
PLAIN DEALING, LOUISIANA.
Graduate University Of Maryland.
DR.. j. H. GAYLE,
Dentist.
| High-class work in every respect. Specialist
In Crown and Bridge Work. Rooms, 8, 8 and 10
Cooper Building, Shreveport. Both phones
old phone No. n; new phone, No. 257.
ROBERT r. EMERY
Fire Insurance and
Real Estate
SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA
TORRECpONDEN SOT TCTrTEn
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

Italy has 230 convicts to the million in
habitants, which is the highest record.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23

Offices now over the Andrews-Spencel
Dry Goods Co., Shreveport. Rooms :
and 4. Phone, 1884.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-05-23
Physician and Surgeon.

Successor to DR.. G. H. Irion. Office
at the Benton Pharmacy, Benton, La,
where he can be found day and night.
Calls promptly answered.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-03-28
meeklu Arpns.
Anticipating the Canal.

The canal canno be completed in
1913, four hundred years after Balboa
stood on Culebra hill perhaps and looked
at the Pacific ocean. At any rate he
stood on some hill after crossing the
Atlantic to gaze upon that other and
vaster ocean which stretches away to
the sunrise lands. This occurred on
September 25. 1913, n after he had
cast his eyes on the waters he descend
ed to the shore, where he proceeded to
annex the entire Pacific ocean to the
possessions of his sovereign in far away
Madrid. The bold explorer fell into
quarrels and disgrace soon afterwards,
and he waa putt death on the isthmus
in 1917. But his execution by his
jealous associates does not lessen his
fame nor the historic value of his dis
yer
The hope has been that the canal could
be opened four hundred years after Bal
boa saw the Pacific ocean, but DO one
now believes that can be done. Recent
visitors at the isthmus, both from the
hall of Congress and from the COM
mercial organizations in the larger cities
of the country express the opinion, how
ever, that it will be possible to open
the canal in 1915, and that is now the
year that all are looking forward to as
the first day of water communication
between the worlds two big oceans.
Beyond doubt the calling in of army
engineers is the last evolution of adj
ministration that will take place. The
limelight will now be abolished, and
the digging will go on in a systematic
and business-like manner. he army
officers will not be worried by govern
mental red tape, for they have been
accustomed to it eve since they entered
the service, and they will know just
how to make it conform to steady and
persistent digging of the canal.
The p and downs>of this world are
shown anew in the fact that the digging
of the canal has passed wholly out OF
the hands of Spain, the nation that dis
covered the isthmus and the Pacific
nation that held the Americas
south of us long enough to impress her
language and traditions upon them, and
yet when Opening Day comes at the
isthmus, be it in 1915 or 1925 she will be
but a locker at Vienna.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-03-28
GOVERNOR HUGHES new PLAN.

The public utility bill now pending
in the New York legislature has the
governor of the state behind it. His
forceful personality will be felt in the
battle that must be fought before it can
become a law. The bill is popular
throughout the state, but powerful in
terests are arrayed against it, and Gov
ernor Hughes may be forced to accept
many unwelcome amendments in order
to gain the control he desires.
The bill abolishes all commissions
in New York charged with the super
vision of public service corporations
in order to establish two new public
service commissions. Each of the two
new commissions is to consist of five
members to be appointed by the ex-
ecutive. The bill proceeds on modern
lines, forbidding preferences, discrim-
nations inc passes. h two new
commissions are empowered by it to
establish just and reasonable rates, to
order adequate service as to cars sche-
dulles, power, safety appliances and the
like; to investigate accidents, to pre-
scribe the forms of accounts and re-
ports of the companies; to subpoena
witnesses and administer oaths, and
so on.
Better STILL, the pending bill empow-
ers the two commissions to prevent in
fation and overcapitalization, prevent
ing alike the ISSUANCE Of any bonds or
stocks based upon the possible, the fu-
ture, or mere speculative estimates.
A franchise cannot be transferred
without the consent of the commission
in charge of it, and In case of a merger
the joint capitalization must not exceed
the combined capital of the companies
Joined together.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-03-28
WHAT did 1T.

"Postmortems" are being held on
Wall streets failureless panic, but nc
two of the editorial agree in
the causes of the decline that has been
going on in stock prices ever since
December. The Wall Street Journal
has gathered these alleged causes, and
it presents them in an unexplained and
unexplainable bunch, as follows:
1. Excessive prosperity.
2. High COS of living, due largely
to the effect upon prices of the great
gold production.
8. Readjustment Of values to the
higher rates ofinterest-
4. Speculation in land absorbing
liquid capital that might otherwise be
available for commercial enterprises.
5. Roosevelt and his policy of gov
eminent regulation of the corporations.
6. Anti-railroad agitation in the
various states.
Z. Progress of socialistic sentiment
and demagog1c attack on wealth.
s. The Hartman investigation and
exposures OF Ddu pTdCtlCoS IL HlSH
nance.
9. War between big financial inter
ests.
10. OverproductioH of securities.
IL. Effect of San Francisco earth
quake.
IL. Demonstration to force Roosevelt
to do something.
13. Discounting business reaction.
IA. Bear manipulation.
II may not be possible to pick from
this list one single cause of an extra
ordinary stock market slump at the
end of a liquidation that was begun as
long ago as January 5, but possibly the
reader can patch two of them together
to his own satisfaction at least.
It is easy to say that high money in
our none centers and in London and
in Berlin did it, but then arises the
question, What made money scarce?
This is certainly a complex problem
and in the long run it will be seen NO
doubt that the answer and remedy Is
to be sought, so far as railroad stocks
are concerned, in increased publicity
and in an increased proportion of hon-
esty in capitalization and in all other
methods, in short, of stock manipula-
ton.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-03-28
Irish immigration.

The annual recurrence ofSt. Patrick's
course of rishimmigration. The popu-
lation of the green isle has fallen from
about 5000, 900 to 4.456, $40. But new
conditions in 'the Guild country have
largely lessened the outward flow. Once
nearly 1O0, 900 Irish people came to this
country annually now we get
less than 10000 a year, and the indi-
cations are hat this number will be re-
duced. Ireland may in the next de-
cennial census hold its OWL in popula-
ton. That census will be takenin 1911,
and the anticipation is that it will de-
monstrate the ending of the great emf
grafton movement.
The upbuilding of Ireland is due in
part at least to the land act which is
gradually abolishing landlordism, and
to the hope that ONE form of local
government will be granted. Irish
manufactures are keeping step with the
improvement in agriculture, and al
together there is promise IT a prosperous
and contented Ireland filled as ever by
Irishmen. When ~landlordism is actually
and fully driven out, Ireland will
certainly become attractive to Irishmen.
It is free from crime and violence,
n a happy Ireland is indeed be-
coming possible and even probable.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-03-28
Governor Higgins And a Boss.

Governor Higgins of Rhode Island
is a democrat, and he does not take
kindly to Boss Brayton, who has long
conducted that state in the name of the
republican party. It appears that in
that little state a room is assigned in
the state house to the sheriff of the
county, and that the sheriff Is q bench
man of Boss Brayton. He permits
Brayton to occupy his Office and to con-
duct in it his disreptuable work. "He
receives says Governor Higgins, "his
legislative clients and visitors there;
your room, and he, not you, says who
shall and who shall not receive ad-
mittance to that room. He acts as if
he, not you, were the one to whom that
room is assigned" The governorin his
letter to b sheriff goes on to say:
"Year in and year out he has occupied
and used your office for his vile pur-
poses with your knowledge and consent.
The mans continued presence in the
capitol offers daily scandal to the men,
women and children of the state. In
the name of common civilized virtue,
I demand that you no longer persist in
allowing a part ofth capitol to be used
as the headquarters of a notorious lob
byist."
The Providence Journal, a republi-
can paper of high standing supports
Governor Higgins in his efforts
to put and end to the Brayton spectacle
in the state house. Brayton himself is
blind, but he is still the head of a ma
chine that pays big prices for voters in
elections, and it does this so openly
that the price of voters is frequently
quoted as accurately and publicly as
the price of onions or limburge1
cheese. ----- -
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-03-28
Saved Her Sons Life,

The happiest mother in the little
town Of Ava, Mo-, is Mrs. S. Rupee.
b writes: 'One year g my son was
with such a lung trouble that our
physician was unable to help him.:
when, by our druggists advice [ began.
giving HIM DR.. Kings New Discovery,
and 1 soon noticed improvement. T
kept this treatment up for a few weeks
when he vas perfectly well. He has
worked steadily since at carpenter
work. DR.. Kings New Discovery
saved his life.' Guaranteed best cough
and cold remedy by. j. III. Hill & Sop,
Druggists. soc. and 800, Trial Bottle
free.