The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-07-16
Local and
Personal
It's hot some.


And getting dusty, too.
But the days are growing shorter.
Mrs. ]. f. Burt left Tuesday for Min
eral Wells, Texas, to join her husband.
Miss Juliette Chaffe of San Antonio,
TEXAS. is a guest of her cousin, Miss
Jessie Wyche. /
The Banners thermometer to-day reg
;stered 96 in the shade at noon and 101
at three o'clock.
DE-. T. N. Keoun and Assessor Z. r.
Mading of Plain Dealing were here on
business yesterday.
The next regular teachers examina-
ton for both white and colored appli-
cants1 will be held on the 30th and 31st.
We are told that Mr.. Floyd Prince,
whose home is near Fillmore, is a-bed
with an attack of typhoid fever. We
hope to hear of your speedy recovery,
Floyd.
Mr.. Luke E. Bass of Shreveport and
Miss Maud May Brumlow were united
in marriage in Bossier City Sunday
afternoon, Rev. C. B. Hollis performing
the ceremony.
The play Diamonds and Hearts, is
to be produced here during the summer
by local talent. The funds derived are
to be devoted to improving and beauti-
flying our streets.
Both the Police Jury and the School
Board will convene here on Monday, the
9th. So far as we are informed, their
principal business will be to discuss and
fix the rate of taxation for 1908.
Mr.. L. C. Biggs of Bellevue was here
last Saturday and again Tuesday. His
neice, Miss Lucille Edwards, returned
with him Saturday and spent the inter-
yening days at his home as a guest of
her aunt and others.
From Sundays Shreveport Times we
learn that Antrim has had two fires re-
Gently. One was at the planer of the
Antrim Lumber Company and the. other
at the home Of Mr.. J. H. Murphy. The
damages were slight.
The election held at Fillmore Monday
to vote on the proposition of levying
special tax for. school purposes in the
recently annexed portion of the Seventh
School District carried by four votes
Gall that were polled.)
Mr.. D. M. Morrisan of Ivan, one of
our old-time subscribers, passed through
Benton last Friday afternoon returning
from a business trip to Shreveport. He
stopped over to chat few minutes and
renew his subscription.
Miss Annie Johnston left last Satur-
day for Belcher, where she will spend
the remaining portion of the summer
with her sister, Mrs. A. D. Calhoun.
During the coming scholastic year she
expects to again teach in Shreveport.
Mrs. T. T. Land arrived home last
Friday afternoon from Homer, accom-
panied by her sister, Mrs. Drew Fergu-
son of that place. They left us again
Monday Mrs. Ferguson to return to her
home and Mrs. Land to join her husband
in Mineral Wells, Texas.
Deputy Sheriff L. G. Smith left yes
terday for Texas, where he expects to
spend about ten days. He will join his
family in Arlington, his mothers home,
and will later go on to Grandview to visit
his only living paternal aunt, whom he
has seen only once during the past
twenty-five years.
Mrs. L. A. Brownlee's illness was
mentioned in our issue of the I'd. We
regret to state that on account of COM
pllcation Of troubles her condition last
week became alarming and she was on
Sunday taken to Shreveport to undergo
an operation. The operation was per-
formed Monday, but at the time it was
stated that another would be necessary,
perhaps to-day. Mr.. G. w. Arnold OF
Garden City, Texas, a brother, and her
Two sons, Jim and Newt, were summoned
home. Mrs. Sue T. Abney of this place
Is assisting in nursing her.
Miss Lille E. Perkins, who has been
here for some weeks as a guest of Miss
oaille Brown and her sisters, left last
FRIDAY for Memphis, where she spent q
rev days with Mrs. l.. Thompson, hel
aunt. She arrived in Martin, Tenn, hel
nome yesterday. During her stay here
MISS Perkins enlisted many of the resi-
aents OF our town as friends. She has {
sweet, rich and full voice and very
ooiigngly sang whenever asked to do so
her popularity was perhaps as much
attributable to this as to her buoyan
ana sunny disposition and grace of man.
nefs. Her many new friends hope tina
sne Will again visit us soon.
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