The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-12-17

newspaper published nearest to said
property"
Back to the farm! That's the place to
LIVE.
Mr.. J. M. Henderson, Rocky Mount
merchant, was d business visitor in Ben
ton last Friday.
Mr.. S. H. Young, ir., of the Linton
community was selling country produce
in Benton Tuesday.
We are told that principal is wanted
for the graded school at Campti. The
salary is St00 per month, with good
prospects for bonus.
Rumor has it that Mrs. Maggie Sibley
and family will move into the cottage
recently vacated by Mr.. H. V. Miers and
family, where Mrs. Sibley will conduct
boarding house.
Rev. J. M. Brown returned Tuesday
from Leesville, where ne attended an
znual Conference. He has been trans
| ferred to Arcadia, but will not move
until after Christmas.
Prof. M. F. Godfrey, Principal Of
Benton High School, left last night fol
Baton Rouge, where the high school
principals of the State will hold con-
vention to-day, tomorrow and Saturday
| Rev. J. A. Parker will be the resident
Methodist minister in this place next
year, to preach here and in Alden
Bridge. We are told that Mr.. Parker is
a man of family, but that only he and
his wife will move here. His children
are all grown and are living elsewhere
He preached last year at Melville and
Simsport.
| In our last weeks issue we stated thai
the newly elected officers of Cypress
Lodge would be publicly installed at the
Lodges hall in this pace on Sunday, the
9th, but we did not give the names O.
the officers. They are.
DR.. J. L. Scales, Worshipful Master.
L. G. Smith, Senior Warden.
J. F. Wise, junior Warden.
r. B. Hill, Secretary.
r. E. Wyche, Treasurer.
The Parish Surveyors of -Bossier ant
Bienville Parishes are to meet at Loggy
Bayou January 9th next to run thu
boundary line between the two parishes
The survey is to be the basis of !;
friendly suit, brought by Bossier agains
Bienville, to have the boundary line in
the vicinity mentioned established b,
the Courts. The uncertainty of tn,
location of the line has been the source
of confusion in the matter of taxes for
number of years.
Mr.. P. B. Holt, associate editor of tn,
Minden Democrat died at the State Hos
pital in Shreveport at an early hour yes
terday morning and was buried in Fill
more Cemetery that afternoon. He wa
forty-eight years of age. He leaves ;
wife and three children and a sister
Mrs. C. D. McCaa of Shreveport. TIL,
deceased was son of CIV. and Rebecc;
/ Iong) Holt, and was a native of thi
parish. He learned the printing trad
in this Office and later established tn,
Democrat at Haughton and the Plail
Dealer at Plain Dealing, which paper
he ran for some time.
Prof. Jos. E. Johnston returned Tues
day from Baton Rouge, where he at
tended the State Convention of Publi
School Superintendent. He report
that the attendance was good and tn
meeting enthusiastic. Among othe
things, the Capitalization of schools wa
urged, and especially those of the coun
try districts. The Convention went Of
record, so he explained, as favorin,
large central graded schools in tn
country and to give to these schools tn
benefit Of an agricultural course, to b
taught in laboratories, and granting tn
farmers Of the community the privileg
of taking the course.
The appointments for Bossier Parish
made by the Methodist Conference, re
Gently in session in Leesville, not men
toned elsewhere in this issue Of tn
Banner, are as follows:
Bossier City-Rev. H. Jameson.
Plain Dealing Rev. H. B. Vanden
berg.
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