The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-06-18
Local and
Personal

An enjoyable dance was given IN this
Mace last Friday night.
Mr., NJ. S. Godfrey of Perry, Ohio, has
been selected as Principal of Benton
u;ob School for the coming term.
A call meeting of the Civic League
,i,l be held tomorrow afternoon at five
o'clock. Be sure you attend. ~asa
District Attorney John N. Sandlin of
M;nden was here Monday looking over
tho docket for the coming term of Court.
Miss Lee McClintock, during the past
torn one of The teachers in Benton High
school, left this morning for her home
in Jackson, Tenn.
Miss Emma Hume, Principal Of the
Linton School during the term just
closed. left Benton last Saturday for her
home in Santa Fe, Tenn.
Mr.. Frank Neeson and two other young
men from Alden Bridge, whose names
We were unable to secure, left Monday
for the West, where they will help harvest
the wheat crop and engage in other en-
ployment.
MFR. B. 2. Oneal, jr., was visitor in
Benton the latter part OF last week.
During the term just closed he was a
student in Louisiana Industrial Institute,
Ruston. but is now making his home in
Shreveport.
Miss Ethel Elston left Monday for her
home in Haughton after spending some
DAYS here as a guest of the Misses Ed
wards and Miss Kate Carter. She was
accompanied by Miss Lucille Edwards,
who will visit with her for some time.
Owing to the unusual demand made on
our columns this week by our advertisers
it has been found necessary to omit the
regular installment of our serial story.
We hope to be able to resume its publ
cation in our next issue.
The Savage brothers, largely interest
ed in the North Bossier oil project, were
here on business Monday. While here
they drove out with Messrs. r. E. Wyche
and C. O. Gayle to look over tract Of
land near Benton that has the marks 81
oil producing fields elsewhere.
A regular meeting of Cypress Lodge
was held in this place Thursday night
Two candidates were balloted upon ant
elected to receive the Entered Appren.
tice degree. Unless sooner called to,
gether, the next regular meeting of tht
lodge will be held during September.
Messrs. r. S. Doles, H. L. Boggs, L
R. Bumgarder and Loye McDade, Jur!
Commissioners, were here last Thursda!
for thc-purpose Of -arawingra Jury for thu
June term of Court. The venire appear
on our fourth page, but as Judge Drew
has postponed the term of Court on &C
count Of present high water conditions
etc., new jury must be drawn later.
Since our last issue the expected ha
happened along the river front. Tn
new leyee at Taylortown broke Sunda,
night and fully one-fourth of the allu
vial soil Of our parish was at onece flood
ed. Crops were destroyed and the live
Of both tenants and live stock endan
gered. Some stock, of course, was lost
Tuesday morning the new run around a
the Lassiter place (near Benton) CAV
way, flooding about 1000 acres of grow
ing crops and letting the water u
against the new levee that was last wee
built from the old levee out to the hills
tits thought that this will hold. Disas
trous breaks have also occurred on tn
Caddo side of the river. The river ha
been slowly falling at Shreveport fc
some days (perhaps due to the man
breaks in the levees) but the change
the stage is barely noticeable, and thel
Is another rise coming. At 2:D o'cloc
this morning the gauge at Shrevepo
read BAT, showing a fall of i of a TO,
during the past twenty four hours. tt
outlook is, however, much more er
eouraglng than it was a week ago.