The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-11-19
Local and
Personal
oct call for cotton pickers.

Mrs. T. H. Morris of Shreveport is a
o,ast of Mrs. Ed Logan.
Rev. J. M. Hickson and family are
now living in Shreveport.
Last Friday Mr.. Ed Byrd of Linton
killed fine buck in Cypress bottom.
Mr.. B. A. Kelly has been suffering
for a week past with a sprained ankle.
Yesterday morning when we last in
ouired, nearly 625 hunters licenses had
been issued.
II you live in the parish and intend to
hunt in the parish why not buy your
hunters licenses here?
Miss Carrie Lee Riggs of Alden
Bridge spent Sunday with her mother,
Mrs. ]. S. Alison, who lives some miles
south Of Benton.
Mrs. A. H. Brown of Fort Worth,
Texas, has been guest at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. Ogden since Sutur-
day of last week.
The two new teachers in Benton High
School began teaching Monday of last
week. 1t is expected that the old school
building will be moved to the school
premises within a few weeks.
Rev. B. Hollis of Keachie preached
two sermons at the Baptist Church in
this place Sunday. We are told that he
has been called here and that he will
preach here regularly each third Sunday.
One day last week we saw black bass
"a trout that weighed three pounds and
one ounce. 1t was taken in Clear Lake
by Dan Cherry, Benton's colored barber.
1t was the largest fresh water fish of
this sgecies we have ever seen.
Mansfield Journal, 18th: Rev. w. A.
Role and family will leave here for
WINFIELD, where they will take up their
permanent residence, on the 26th, stop
ping en- route at Frierson and Benton,
and reaching their destination Deem
Der LIST. -
After spending some days in Bellevue
with his brothers, Mr.. T. H. Snider left
on Sunday of last week for his home in
Tangipahoa. He was called to Bellevue
on account of the death of his father.
This is his first visit there in about
seven years. ~
II you live in Bossier Parish buy your
hunters licenses here in the parish.
Where does the exercise of common
sense, or justice, come in in securing
your licenses elsewhere? Why not keep
your money, or as much of it as you can,
here at home as long as you can?
Preparations are now under way for
another play, to be produced here within
few weeks. We are told that it prom
ises to be more entertaining and fuller
Of real laughable scenes than any of the
past efforts OF the Benton amateurs
Watch for further announcements in
these columns.
For the first time in several years, Mr.
]. E. Adger (s'Little Joe") was caller
at the Banner Office Wednesday of last
week. His home is still in Belcher anG
he is still in the employ of the I'm
Planting Company. He says that the
bell weeyils have bothered him but little
this season, and that his crops suffered
most from the rains of early August. He
will get about It's bales of cotton off 0:
400 acres. The company is devotine
much attention to stock raising.
As the result of injuries received from
the falling of broken lever on a cant
mill, it was found necessary on the 8tl
to ampatate the right leg of the fifteer
year old son of Mr.. William Baker, ST.
who lives near Hortman. Saturday
while in Bellevue, we learned that tn,
limb was again cut off, on account o
blood poison setting in. We have no
since heard from him. DR.. Browning
OF HOFFMAN is the physician in charge
and DR.. j. Ross Snider of Bellevue wa
called in as consulting physician and t.
assist in the operations.