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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-11-21
ANNOUNCING NTS.
FOR STATE SENATOR.

FOR STATE SENATOR.
We authorized Hon. w. B. BOGGS, of Bos-
sier Parish candidate State Senator from the Twenty
Third Senatorial District composed of Bosser
and Webster subject to nomination by the party
at the general primary election to be held JAN g 1905
We authorized to announce Hon. E. S. DORTCH, of
Bosser Parish candidate reelection State Senator
from the Twenty-Five Senatorial District composed
Democratic party at the primary election be held
Jan. q, 1905
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
We authorized to announce Mr.. w. C. HUGHES as
candidate for Representative from Bosser Parish the
General Assembly, subject nomination by the Democratic
party
We are authorized announce Mr.. W. j. JOHNSTON as
General Assembly, subject nomination by Democratic
party,
We authorized to Hon. j. T. MANRY a can
ddate for reelection Representative
sier Parish the next General Assembly, subject
ton by the Democratic party.
FOR SHERIFF.
We authorized to announce Mr.. ]. F. EDWARDS as
candidate for reelection Sheriff of Bossier Parish subject
to the action Of the Democratic party
FOR CLERK OF COURT.
We are authorized to Mr. B, A. KELLY
date for reelection Clerk Of Court for Bossier Parish
subject to the action OF the Democratic party.
We authorized announce Mr. p C. TAYLOR as can
ddae for Clerk Of Court for Bosser Parish subject
action of the Democratic party.
FOR ASSESSOR.
We authorized announce Mr.. E. R. MADING as a
candidate for reelection Assessor Bossier Parish
ect to the action Of the Democratic party,
FOR POLICE JUROR.
We authorized to announce Mr.. F. LOVE candi-
date Police Juror from subject
the Democratic party.
We authorized to announce Maj w. H. MEARES as
candidate for Police Juror from ward three subject
action Of the Democratic party
We authorized to announce Mr. A. H0FFPAIIR Is a
candidate for reelection Police Juror ve
ject to the action of the Democratic party.
We authorized announce Mr. F. R. GARRETT as
candidate for Police Juror from ward three subject the
action of the Democratic party
We authorized announce Mr.. j. A. BUMGARDNER
candidate for Police Juror from ward subject
| action of the Democratic party.
We authorized to Mr.. G.. T. MAYS as candi-
date for reelection Police four subject
| to the action Of the Democratic party.
We authorized to Mr.. c. O. GAYLE as can
Police Juror two subject the action
| of the Democratic party.
We authorized to announce Mr. j. C. LOGAN as can
ddae for reelection Police Juror from ward subject
to the action of the Democratic party.
We are authorized announce Mr. j. A: LOWE as can
ddae for Police Juror from ward four subject action
| Of the Democratic party,
We authorized to announce Mr. w B. SAPP as can
ddate for Police Juror ward subject action
| the Democratic party.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-11-21

We authorized to announce Mr.. j. F. EDWARDS as
candidate for reelection Sheriff Bosser Parish subject
to the action of the Democratic party.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-31
TO WATCH THE PASSING
TONIGHT OF OLD YEAR
AmeriCuS to Witness Pass
ing of 1907.

AT First Methodist church to-
night, as we'll as in many Americus
homes, the passing of the old year
and the advent of the new bantling,
1908, will be watched with more than
usual interest, and when the clock
sounds the midnight hour and boozy
old 1907 is no more, the fact will be
signalized by the Shrek Of whistles
and clang of bells. Every engine in
the city with steam up at that hour
will join in the glad chorus, and slum-
bering Americus viii know that some
things doing ont of the ordinary. As
previously announced there will be
a watch service at the Methodist
church, beginning at 1890 o'clock and
lasting until the birth Of the new
year AS this hour marks the pass
ing of Georgia into the column of
prohibition states the service will
doubtless partake of the nature of
praise meeting as we'll It is almost
ito the death" with 1907 and general
Georgia dampness, and Americus peo-
pie very generally, are glad Of it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-31
TO CLOSE UP
FOR LONG DRY SPILL
Water Wagon in Sight of
AmeriCuS.

In just twelve hours from the time
this announcement greets the gentle
reader this morning the death knell
of old John Barleycorn will have
been sounded in Americus, and the
entire populace will mount the wa
ter wagon fo rthe continuous ride
over the desert.
And>it is going to be a long, long
ride, with no oasis in sight.
Promptly at 1O:30 tonight the lights
will go out in every saloon in Ameri-
Gus for the second time in her
history, and the flask will give way
to the march of the tin dipper at the
well.
Americus has tasted prohibition
once, but this dose will be even more
drastic than the four years of thirst
which ended with the return of
booze in 1902
For there will be no return this
time, certainly not in a long stretch
of years if ever, in the lifetime of the
average citizen now here. For the
prohibition sentiment is strong in
Georgia, and growing stronger. With
the State once dry, it will be kept dry
for years.
But no city in Georgia is in better
shape for the change than Americus
In fact, the general opinion is that
her prosperity VIII increase and
that the changed conditions will prove
beneficial.
This is the opinion of many who
nave given the matter careful study
Nine years ago when prohibition
first dawned the city was not in the
tdourishing condition she now is
Then, too, other towns in this Sec
ton sold whiskey and thus took
her trade to a great extent, but this
time they are all in the same boat
Tomorrow morning Georgia will
be dry from the mountains to the
sea, and no one city will have any
advantage over any other.
+ The "dust'' will rise tomorrow in
every county in Georgia.
In Americus the liquor dealers with
two or three exceptions, have pretty
well disposed of their entire stock OF
liquors. Sales will be good today az
well, as many prohis win join the
antis in putting away case, or &
quart, for possible sickness"
And the time is short, as in a few
hours all will be over.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-31
BEGINS WORK ON PLANT
AND ROAD AT ONCE
Big Enterprise in AmeriCuS
Launched.

Americus gets as a New Years gift
that which she most desires-that
long promised $150000 electric plant
and electric street railway. Presi-
dent A. n Walker is here to begin
the work, and ere another week ac-
tive operations will have been started.
President Walker arrived yesterday
from Pittsburg, and takes up his
residence in Americus until the work
of construction is practically COM
pleted which will be three or four
months hence.
And during that time dirt will fly
all along the line-the railway line
the Americus electric line.
President Walkers arrival here has
been expected for three or four days.
He spent the holidays in Florence,
S. c., with Mrs Walker, who is there
for the winter season, at the same
time looking after the large interests
which his company has in that city.
He has apartments at the Hotel
Windsor, ond here his family will
join him a few weeks hence.
AS stated, President Walker has
come to Americus to personally di-
rect the work of construction upon
the great plant of the Americas Rail
way & Light Co. This big corpora
tiUn is capitalized at quarter mill
lion dollars and. means the develop
ment of Americus
It's immediate operations here in the
building of the big power plant and
railway will instill new life into a
condition otherwise listless.
1t means more for Americus than
any other enterprise in It's history
At means a great and modern pow
er plant, supplying power sufficient
foI a hundred industrial plants, and
at greatly reduced cost. It means,
toa, the construction of an electric
railway circuit, reaching into every
snDurb and increasing property val
ues.
Aside from Ihis great public utility.
it means cheaper gas and better gas;
cheaper electric lights and better
lights; cheaper water-as it will be
pumped by electricity at decreased
cost to the city, and of course to the
consumer. It means this, and more.
ft is the dawn of a brighter era
for industrial, progressive Americus.
The work is now to begin, and ere
another sixmonth passes a revolution
in her growth will have been launch
ed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-31
TAXES SHOT AT NEGRO
WITH HIS XMAS GUN
Small Boy is Cunning for
Game.

An Americus small boy whose home
is on Chruch street barely escaped
a head-on collision with the maternal
switch engine as the result of a pot
shot taken at a colored citizen yes
terday. The aforesaid small boy was
out cunning with his Xmas rife and,
in the absence of bears and elephants,
banged down at a coon instead. The
bullet caught the colored cit abaft
the hurricane deck and ELECTED a yell
of surrender. The rifeman was just
in the act of firing a second shot
when an officer caused him to beat
a retreat.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-31
SERVICE ON new YEARS
DAY AT ST. MARY'S
Catholic Church 10 Have
Services.

Impressive services signaliMng the
advent OF the new gear, will be held
Wednesday morning at O'Clock at
st. Mary's church here. Rev. FIR.
Mcmahon will arrive in the city this
evening, and officiate at the new
years service at the hour mentioned,
and to which the public is invited.
While in the city he will be the guest
OF Mr.. and MRS. j. A. Pinkston at
their residence on Taylor street.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-12-31
Ansley's Clearance
Sale Ladies Ready-to-
Wear Garments begins
Monday morning.

The government official who resigns
his job always wins the admiration
of fellow ofIlceholders who are in
cHned to do likewise, but need the
money! Washington Post.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-07
THE SOCIAL SIDE
Mns. ANNA RHODES CARRIER.

Mrs. oarber who ls visiting her son, Col. Alex M. 1arter. at his home on South Lawrence street, Is one of the old tyne of southern life pow rapidly disappearing. She is eighty-one years old and quite feeble; her He at her plantation home. "Chessland," near Livingston. has for many years been spent quietly with her family ana her books: much of her time has been spent in reading and gratifying her deoidea fondness for literature and history un- iii recently when she has become un- able to use her eyes. In her old age she has cherished a desire to visit hei youngest son, Attorney General Alex M Gsrber, since he took up his resi- dence here as one of the State of- ncial, and since the birth or her grandson. Alex M. Garoer. Jr.. her heart was 70 set on visit to them that she made the trip which was regarded ns a risk and with great anxiety by her family.
 In her journey from her country home, "Chesslano," she made stop of a few days with her sons. aar. Buck ner L.. 0arber and Mir. Joseph B. Gar ber, in Demopoils. When she arrived she found her little grandson was i'll and that he with his mother were 10 leave for a stay in Gainesville. Sa' MT9. 0arDer was dccoihphAhSo " S>SA4s- romery by her niece. Miss Louise Gar Der, and by one of her old ante-belium seryants. Mrs Garber has lived at 'Chessland" for seventy years and she Is sttll surrounded by a dozen or more of her ante e-bellum servants. some of whom came with her from North Car olina in the forties.
 "Chessland" is one of the few old plantation homes of former days which remains open as the home of the own or. It Is a comfortable, spacious but unassumtnx old house where for over half . century that simple refined Southern hospitality characteristic of The South both at present and before the war has been dispensed to both friend and kinsman. The family con nection ts large and all go there to see mother. grandmother. greaf.grard, mother. There are a score or more grandchildren, half as many great grandchiidren. three living sons and daughter.
 Mrs. -Garber came to Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama, early In the fortias. The trip in those days was made by stage and she made 1t in their family carriage.
 In those days she made many jour neys to and from North Carolina In the family carriage sometimes going by White Sulphur Springs. Virginia. for a visit to that resort 90 popular then Mrs. Garber was born in Goidsooro'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-07

brother in Cincinnati. will return home in a few days and later will go to Can anda accompanied by Mrs. William stratford, who win go there to spend the summer with felatives. The B. Y P. U. of the First Baptist Church met Friday evening with MT. and Mrs. G. W. Sharman at their home on Adams Avenue.
 Miss Ruth Brewer has gone to Vienna Georgia to visit her aunt Mrs c. A Brewer.
 Mrs. George B. Posten and daughter Ruth have gone on visit to friends in Mobile and other points.
 Mir. J. Haardt Weir and mother Mrs. J. E. Weir and Miss Phillippa Weir and Mr. Harry Walker left yesterday for Jamestown. New York. Atlantic City and other points.
 One of the pleasant events of the Fourth was moonlight picnic given at Electric Park by Mir. and Mrs w. H. Landgraff in honor of Misses Hall and Kent of Prattville. The party included Misses Kent, Hall and Parrish of Prattville. Ethel and Alma Jandgraff. and Annie seweil. Messrs. Charles and D. M Hall of Prattville. John Sewell, Fred Gartman, Homer Landgraff. and Mr. and Mrs Andrews.
 
 MT. and Mrs, T. B. Raines have taken the residence 721 South Court street recently occupied by MT. and Mrs. Edward Flowers. Telephone 1464. Miss Mary Mcdonald has gone to Asheville N. C., where she has taken house for the summer. Miss Mary Rousseau went with Miss Mcdonald.
 + + One of the enjoyable outings of the Fourth at Oak Park was a picnic at- tended by Mr. and Mrs. Mason, and little son J. c. Mason. and Mir. and Mrs. Robert Brooks and children Mrs V. A. Coleman, Mrs. Overton and children, Miss Russell Coleman. Miss Lovey. Miss Lomax Guy, pr. L. R. Powell and MT J. c. Orr.
 Mrs F. IL Shepard spent a portion of the past week in Montgomery en route to Grand View where she will spend the summer .-.
 Mir. Marvin Heron is out again after his recent serious illness.
 Miss Ellen May of Selma Is visiting May Ola O'Brien, at her home, 3i2 North Ripley Street.
 Miss Marian Eemmes. who is very i'll with typhoid fever at the home of her parents. Mir. and Mrs Raphael Semmes. was reported as slightly pet- ter yesterday.
 +
 Misses Lucretia and Sara wyman will leave tomorrow evening for For rest, Va. where they go to visit Mrs. Duval Radford.
 
 Mrs. Charles c. Abercrombie has gone to Atlanta to visit her niece. Mrs. spaulding speer. Mrs. speer was
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-07

Harris. Kate Booth. Lucia Richardson. Helen Steiner, Mildred Andrew, F1or- ence Davidson, Valine Sanford. Georgia Saffold. Sara Halls, Douglass, Julia May Henderson. Corrie c. Smith, Mary Cobbs. Sara Warren wilkerson; Messrs. Brownfield Wilkerson. Parker Sterling Troy Halls. Paul Parker, Brannon Hub bard. Colin Howe. Hal Brown. Julius Gay,Julius Hendricks Henry Alexander. Weatherly Carter. Fred wilkerson. Ev- erett Jackson. Morgan Browder. Harris Washburn, Galloway, Penrose Stout Trunk Browder. Sam Eilsberry. Austin 1, Pickett. Purnell Glass, sam Jones. George Mertz, T. C. Locke. James Will cox. Virgil Chandler, Ed. uraham- Mir. Chestnut.
 Mir. ard Mrs. Albert billiard and mother. Mrs. Mary F. billiard, have moved into the new family home, at 70 Virginia Avenue.
 The employees of the Nachman & Meertief store will give dance at Pickett Springs on next Saturday evening.
 Little Miss Eula Cartelou of We tumpka, is visiting her aunt. Mrs. A. W. LeBron.
 Mrs. F. M. Billing and children nave gone to Virginia for the summer.
 Miss Kate Blue has gone to LithIa Springs.
 Miss Martha Barnett has gone to Birmingham to visit her sister. Mrs. w. I. Whitman.
 AA. Maude and Marjorie. will go to Pass Christian in a few days.
 Mrs. M. R. whetstone has gone to Norfolk. Va. to visit her niece. Mrs.
 Master James Powell and Miss Dor- othy of Selma are the guests of their aunt. Mrs. Pat McGauley. at her home on Washington Avenue.
 Miss Fanchon Armstrong; will leave in a few days for Jamestown and other parts of Virginia.
 Mrs. Hallie Graves Lewis left yester- day afternoon for Louisville. Ky. to visit her sister, Mrs. w. F. Heins.
 Former Governor W. D. Jeiks and Mrs Jelks are spending a couple of days in Montgomery. They are stay ing at the Exchange. Mrs. H. c. Gunnels and children re- turned last night from a visit to Dr. and Mrs. John W. Abercrombie in Tus- caloosa.
 Mrs. Ollie Hall and Miss Allebiiier Kemp of Prattville are visiting Miss | Ethel and Alma LandgYaff. | Miss Claude and Linda de Yampert and Master Claud Horweli have xone to Biloxi Miss, to spend July and Au- gust.
 Mrs. A. D. Warren and Miss Belle of Hillsborough, Tex, are visiting their sister, Mrs. G. B. Snodgrass. at 23S Motion Street.
 Miss Pauline Adams has returned after several weeks visit to Miss Jessie Fontaine, in Georgiana.
 < + Miss Katie McBryde has gone to Bir- mingham to visit her mother, Mrs Bul. ger.
 Mrs. Archibald Cunningham enter tained the Flowers Circle of the Court Street Methodist Church on Wednesday afternoon at her home on Wilker .or Street.
 Miss Nellie GaIaspie and Mrs W. A Bowman are visiting relatives in At lanta,
 + +
 Mrs. J. C. Hutsr ana Miss Carrie Hammond. who are visiting their
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-07

formerly Miss Annie Biard of Monte gomery aad Washington. She and Mir Speer have spent the past several months travelling abroad and have noW returned to their home in Atlanta Mrst Speers mother, Mrs. Annie Baird. v with her daughter in Atlanta.
 Mrs I. Moog will leave today fer Point Clear. where she will spend tho summer.
 Mir. J. J. Rutter, Mas Willie RuktspS and Mir. Lawrence Rutter have Ucn4d 10 Norfolk. Va. to visit relstivsa4 While there. they will visit the Jamse<s town Exposition.
 Mrs Sutherland Noble has retnrnsN from delightful visit to friends iR Birmingham.
 Hon and Mrs. J. H. Bankhsad are spending some time al the Enehangs Hotel
 Mrs. R. F. Hunt and dauGhters. Mrs. o. F. Film and Miss 0sraldins to visit her mother, Mrs. Wtifam Pound.
 Mrs. Jane M. whealen and Mir. Al c. Garber of Demopons. are spendin9 today with her cousin and his unc1~s Col. Alex M. Garber, at his home on Lawrence street.
 Mrs. Alex M. Garber and infant son Alex M. Garber. Jr.. are spending soms time in Gainesville. Ga. for the bs&ter health News has been received snea the little fellow is improving.
 Mir. and Mrs. G. W. Craak an@ daughters, Misses Juliet Crafax. ceei4 Craik and Jean craik. have taken . cottage at Perdido Bay for montnS and have as their guests Miss Jane4 Hurter, Miss office MacDonald. Mis Virginia Abercrombie. Miss katnerin4 Baldwin, Miss Lillian Hill and Mia Etheldra williams.
 Miss Cecilia Payne who has hesH amending a week at 'The Wigwam iH Indian Springs. Ga. with her aunt. Mrss O. F. willingham, has gone 70 At- lanta to attend house party given bN her cousin. Miss Carolyn Wiliingham.
 Misses Annie and May oia oBrlsa have returned from visit or t"S weeks to friends in Selma
 Mir. Lawrence McCune who has been visiting friends here has returned " his home in Selma.
 + +
 Miss Annie Chandler has gone to BIT. minuham where she is the guest of heN sister, Mrs. Pope Seals
 + +
 MT. and Mrs. W. D. Moore and son have gone to Arizona to spend the sum-s msr.
 MT, and Mrs. Richard Arlington oE Enterprise. are expected tomorrow 70 he inc guests of his mother, Mrs. Mary Airing at her home on Church. street during the session of the Legs fslature.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-07

country home of their parents. MT. and Mrs. B. B. Smith. on the Woodley Road, Thursday. The guests of these young folk were: Marion Dixon. Colon Car ter. William Saffold. Cecil Forbes. ver- non Avera. Grant Lamar, May Middle ton Smith. Ella Holt. Alice Smith and Lizzie Smith.
 Miss Mary Louise Croswell has been entertaining a number of friends at n house party as the home of her par sats. Mir. and Mrs. Robert Crosweil, IT., in neatsville
 Miss Myrtle Abercrombie, who has Leen the guest of Miss Willie Jones at her home on Court Street, mas r"turh- cd to her home in Tuscaloosa.
 
 Miss Adna Hey who has been vis- iting Miss Gladys Hudson. has return ed to her home in Union Springs.
 Mrs. N. Benton Holt has gone to Mecklenburg Springs. Va. to spend some time.
 Miss Annie Laurie Powell of Hurts horo Is the guest of Miss Elizabeth Williams at her home on Washington Street.
 Miss Estelle Adler, who has been wis., iting Miss Cecile Lo<5, has returned to her home in Selma.
 E. The wetumpka Herald says: Mrs. W. l.. Lancaster and children VIII go to Montgomery next week to be with MT. Lancaster while the Legislature Is in session. 
 Miss Annie Stone and Miss Lucy Young have returned from Hayneviile where they have been visiting friends
 Miss Lyla Watts Collins of Washing ton, D. c. is visiting her parents Mir and Mrs Robert M. Collins at their home on Madison Avenue.
 Miss wilmer Smith of opelika is the guest of her sister Mrs, Eulan Smith.
 MT. George Roane has gone to Gin cinnati. Pittsburg. Washington, New York and Boston, and will be absent Tor about a month. Mrs. Roane and fam fly will join him In few days. Mrs J. B. Chatheld, President of the Central Division of the State w. c. T: U. and State Organizer. has organ ized during the past week three new Unions, one at Talladega, one at CO., lumbiana and one at Alexander City. These three new organizations have membership of sixty. Mrs. Chatneld organized the W. c. T. U. in both Dothan and Ozark last week. Mrs. G. A. Doyle entertained Tues 1 day evening at her apartments at Mrs ! Milhous. complimentary to Miss Mattie I Mcoueen of Montgomery. Four tables were arranged, and bridge was in- | auIred in. At the close of the evening l delicious refreshments were served | Selma Times.
 Miss Frances and Theresa Blakey have gone to Selma to visit their grandmother, Mrs. Craig.
 Mrs. Hattie Graves Lewis has gone to Louisville, Ky. to visit her sister Mrs. w F. Helms.
 Mrs. Hervey W. Laird has gone tt Birmingham to visit her mother, Mrs George E. Cassidy, and her sister, Mrs Leslie. Later Mrs. Laird will go t' Norfolk and New York.
 Mir, and Mrs. Joseph Galloway hav' gone to Biloxi Ior the summer.
 Mrs. George A. Montgomery ha gone to Moprisburg, Canada. to visi her parents. k A number of young people who en f ioyed 8 dance at Pickett Springs ol Friday evening were: Misses Mar,
 Metcalf, Mary Meyer. Gertrude Berr of Columbus. Mcdonald of -Colum bus, Kate Steiner. Mary Knowles, An nie Danziger, Frankie Jones, Maud Howe, Rebecca Rutledge. Mary Ellel