The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-06-18
CORRESPONDENCE
Plain Dealing.


Mr.. Emmett Mading came up from
Shreveport Saturday to visit relatives,
returning Monday.
Mr.. Tucker, pastor of the Christian
Church, filled his second appointment .
at this place Sunday.
DR.. w. F. Bell went to Athens on
professional visit last Wednesday, re-
turning Friday afternoon.
Mr.. Bowman, Methodist minister, is .
conducting a meeting at this place. 1t
will be continued for several days.
Mrs. S. T. Swindle of Shreveport
spent several days of the past week Wis
iting relatives living here, returning
home Sunday.
Miss Carrie Wyche, who has been at
home for some time, returned to Shreve- |
port Tuesday to take her old position
with the Hearne Dry Goods Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. L. Safferstone were
called to Jefferson, Texas, last week to
the bedside of Mrs. Safferstone's father,
Mr.. Dreeben, but have returned home,
and report his condition somewhat i'm
proved.
Up to the present writing there has
been but little loss of live stock in the
Mller's Bluff and Gilmer overlooked
sections. And while the amount of
farming lands exposed to the river on the
Bossier side is very limited, it would be
impossible to make an Intelligent esti-
mate of the losses. Conservative hill
farmers estimate the damages to their
crops from heavy rains and Winds to be
at least one-fourth.
Robert Aiken, highly respected
negro, died at his home near this place
Wednesday night of last week, aged
about thirty five years. He enjoyed the
confidence and good will of all who knew
him. I Another good negro, one of the
old time darkies, "Uncle" George Pay
singer, died near Roberta on the 9th,
aged eighty-six years. "Uncle'' George
was born in Houston County, Ga, and
was brought to Louisiana as the prop
erty of Hamiter & Hodges by Gideon
Allen during 1915. AS slave he was
humble and Industrious; as a freedman,
intelligent and upright.
Mr.. Ally Taylor and Miss Julie Bailey
were united in marriage last Wednesday,
the 10th. Miss Julie has been quite sick
for several weeks and at the time of the
ceremony was unable to sit up. They
left Sunday fer Shreveport, where she
will be treated at one of the sanitariums.
The bride is daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. M. Bailey of this place and is quite
popular. The groom is a son Of Mrs.
L. E. Taylor of Collinsburg, who moved
into that community from Colorado
about two years ago. During this short
period the young man has made many
friends in our midst, all of whom extend
their best wishes to both.
OUR FISHING INDUSTRY.
The writer often hears people COM
planning about fish being caught out of
our streams and shipped to markets out
side of the State. Why not register a
kick against the cotton that goes to New
England and Liverpool or the rice and
sugar, for which our State is noted,
going to Northern markets and to
Europe? These objections usually come
from some individual who does not go
fishing once year and who probably
could not distinguish brook trout from
a bull frog.
Here are some figures showing what
has been paid for shipments made from
this town since the season Of 1901
S13,91.H. A pretty nice sum, and this,
too, is shown by the books of Plain
Dealing Bank and does not include by d
great deal the entire proceeds of this in
dustry. Much of it came in the way Of
express money orders and persona
checks, of which the bank has no record
These shipments are composed of buf-
alo, carp and spoon-bill, and it is an I'M
disputed fact that keeping this class O
fish caught out of lakes renders the
water more favorable to the breeding O
game fish. Only since this has beer
: begun has it been possible for any ont
to enjoy days sport with rod and linz
catching trout, perch and other gam'
fishes in these waters
Nature supplies these fish free iron
all charges, and if some OF our citizen
by hard work and the most rigid expos
ure to all kinds of weather for fisher
d man has no snaps) can turn them into
: source of revenue, the majority Q
% which is spent right here at home, VIII
% should any one so seriously object.
ar Long after our generation has passe
"A to dust, the muddy Red will, with its an
n nual overflows, restock the lakes wit
fish. Long after our struggles wit
nature for existence are echoed by tn
generations TO come, men will continu
to catch and market these fish me
who are good citizens and as honest
their labor as the farmer who plows HI
corn.
. Wednesday, June II, 1908.
Pleasant Hill.
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Mr.. George Gleason made bushes
I'd trip to Spring Hill Saturday.
re The young peach orchards around tn