The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1908-04-23
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The School Board is in session to-day.
uhv not make the new schoo! house a brick
building?
Mr.J D. Rogers, OF Carterville. was mixing with
friends here Monday.
Or, C. H. Irion, of New Orleans, President of the
state Board of Health, was here Tuesday.
Miss Eunice Evans, of Bolnger, spent last Sat-
urday here as a guest of Miss Daisy Story.
Rev. Briscoe Carter, Presiding Elder of the
Methodist Church for this district, was visitor
Tuesday.
Miss Luda Brownlee has returned from Cotton
Valley where she spent some weeks with Mrs. H.
H. Smith.
Master Jim Wyche, of Plain Dealing, a son Of
Mrs. Berta Wyche, has come here to enter Benton
High School.
Messrs. A. P. Clark and L. NJ Chapman, repre-
senting Hoff & Company, Shreveport tailors, were
soliciting here Tuesday.
Prof S. E. Weber, of Baton Rouge, inspector of
high schools for the State, was here to visit our
school the latter part of last week.
Mr.. A. B. Many, of Plain Dealing, who has the
smell of printers ink and the ties of the exchange
table, spent some time with US to-day.
The ball game played here last Friday afternoon
between the Benton and Alden Bridge mines re-
shifted in score of ii to 8 in favor of the home
team.
Mrs. Newt Ogden, of Baton Rouge, is here on
visit to her brothers, Messrs W. G. and J. E. Burt,
their families and other relatives living in the
munity.
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her aunt and sster-in-law, Mrs. Brazton Wise and
Miss Grace Larkin She arrived Monday and will
remain here several weeks.
Miss Carrie Brown who is still teaching North
Bossier School, spent the latter part of last week at
home Miss Anna Denmon, of Red Land, was her
guest during her stay here.
Miss Bessie Many, daughter OF Hon. J. T. Many,
CT Plain Dealing, passed through Benton yesterday
en- route to Smiths Mill where she will spend the
week as guest of Mrs. w. D. Smith
Amovement is on foot to erect handsome new
school house in our town, to be located near the
present site of the Presbyterian Church. We need
the building, our people want it, and the Eighth
School District well afford the expense, so let
us have it. Why not, anyway?
The planning mill now being erected here by
Messrs. w. H. Smith & Son is nearing completion.
For some time these gentlemen were unable to
secure from the Cotton Belt Company the site de-
sired, but lease has just been granted and the
work win be pushed to completion.
We are pleased to state that Mr.. A. r. Thompson
and Mr. R. j. 7. Heron, who for several years past
have made their home in Hosston and that neigh
borhood, have just moved back to our parish. Mr.
Thompson has built residence at his Gilmer plan
tation, about three miles west of Collinsburg.
Benton was full OF visitors yesterday and to-day.
The majority of those who are here to-day came
expecting to hear the trial in the Plain Dealing
High School matter, but they were disappointed.
We are told that there will not be trial and that
the School Board is now in secret session, and will
quietly dispose of the case.
Messrs. R. E. Wyche, j. M. Sentell, c. O. Gayle
and J. E. Burt returned last Thursday afternoon
from Half Moon Lake, where they spent three days
and nights The fishing was fine, we are told. On
Wednesday Mr.. Wyche and Mr.. Sentel caught
ninety-six, lightweight of which were fine white
perch, while Mr.. Gayle and Mr.. Burt took sixty
nine.
ia We are pleased to state to the young men of
our parish who expect to compete for the prizes
De offered for the best agricultural exhibit made at
the Parish Fair next October that the Banner has
arranged to offer them price, in addition to those
already arranged for by the management of the fair.
1t is % caliber Repeating Winchester Rifle, and
We feel sure that in offering this we have hit upon
something that will be appreciated by any boy who
lives on farm-or anywhere else. 1t is bran new
and beauty. In fact, it has not yet reached us
nom the factory. The proper authorities are re-
quested to offer the Banners prze along with the
others, and the working boys of the farms of our
parish are urged to keep the prize in mind.