The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-09-03
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September Oysters.

Everybody is busy now.
Ginners will soon be busy.
Watch the date on your paper!
l75~ US ST, and take the Banner
year.
Get in your winter supply of wood and
look cheerful.
Mr.. E. J. Barker of Arkana spent last
Friday in Benton.
Enthusiasm is the great factor in the
worlds progress.
Lifelessness can never prosper. Stag
nant water corrupts.
Keep cool. Don't fret yourself study
ing the thermometer.
To secure the best and abiding results
action must be concerted.
People in search of good homes will
find them in Bossier Parish.
Make life ministry of love and it
will always be "worth living
Mrs. ]. NJ. Henderson of Rocky Mount
is guest of Miss Belle Johnston.
The next battle of the ballots will take
place on Tuesday, November 3rd.
Bossier Parish, as usual, will take it's
Democracy straight next November.
Mr., J. A. Martin of Carterville was
business visitor in Benton Monday.
Mrs. Matte Edens, of Red Land, was
guest of Mrs. ]. F.. Edwards Monday.
Mr.. Edgar P. Merrell of Shreveport
visited relatives in Benton Saturday and
Sunday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Sentell of
Cairo Plantation, on the 31st ultimo, a
fine boy.
Miss Della Brown is spending the
week in Shreveport with her sister, Mrs.
A. G. Wrenn.
1t is hardly necessary to remind the
grumblers that every age develops all
the heroes 1t needs.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. T. Land returned to
Benton Monday after an extended visit
in Mineral Wells, Texas.
We need to be as careful of our printed
as of our living companions, and our
mental as of our bodily food.
Mrs. M. L. Merrefl returned to her
home in Coushatta Sunday, alters pend
ing near three weeks visiting relatives
here.
The person who is always watching
some one else needs about twice the
amount of watching the other person
does.
According to our Spanish calendar,
this is Jueves, the 3rd day Of Septiembre,
1908, Monday (Lunes) being the last day
of Agosto.
Minnows may settle it that there are
no tides in the ocean because there are
none in their brook; but it is only be-
Cdust elley are nlIuOWS.
The record of day, week, a month
or year is very largely what we make
it. The only way to meet success is to
keep moving towards it.
Midshipman F. w. Scanland, of the
United States Naval Academy at Annap-
oils, Md, is spending months furlough
at home with mis- parents.
When the grumhlers cannot grumble
at anything else, they grumble at the
weather, and yet the weather is doing al
it can to please everybody.
Mr.. A. D. Scanland and Miss Matte
Belle Scanland left last Saturday morn.
ing for Sulphur Springs, Ark, where
they will spend several days.
Miss Dubois Elder, OF Alden Bridge
left Monday evening for Lebanon, Va.
where she will take up her work as ;
teacher in the Russell College.
Men talk about what hard times an,
lack of capital are doing to retard pros
perity, but indifference is doing vastl,
more to tie its hands and smother it.
After an absence of about three weeks
spent in Bastrop with their sister, Mrs
Kate McMeans, Misses Matte and Car
RE Brown returned home Friday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Mccall, Mrs
Luke Swords, Mrs. w. J. Dawson, Mis-
Pauline Dawson and Mr.. Wrenn Brow
spent few days camping and fishing a
Bodcau Bridge this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. o. Gayle and children
Mr.. and Mrs. H. V. Miers of this plac
and Judge A. j. Murff of Shreveport
lett yesterday morning to spend fe,
days in fishing on Bodcau.
Curiosity is a thing that makes us loo
over other peoples affairs, and overloo
our own. Xenocrates, reprehendin
curiosity, said sit is as rude to intrud
into another mans house with your eye
as with your feet"
DR.. 7. S. Parham, an ante bellum ci,
lien OF Bossier Parish and Confedera,
veteran, died at his home in Minden
his seventy-ninth year Saturday morn
ing The body was inferred Sunday
Pleasant Valley, few miles east
Bellevue.
Let all Of our people get ready for tt
lnlfd annual Bossier Parish Fair to
ned at Plain Dealino. on Octohor 0rt]