The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-07-29

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Mr.. Joannes Smith returned
yesterday from Minden, where he
attended a session Of the Webster
District Court.
| 1t seems that the Parish Jail
can't be kept empty. Court ad-
Journed on the 9th and already
there are three in jail.
Mr.. Luther Parkerson has re-
/ turned home from Pauls Valley.
Okla, for an extended visit with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. D.
Parkerson.
We are told that District Attor-
ney John N. Sandlin became sud-
denly i'll Tuesday while attend
ing Court in the Webster Parish
court room in Minden and that
he has ever since been confined
to his bed. His friends will be
pleased to know that the seat of
his affliction is his nerves and not
his heart.
Arthur Chapel. who escaped
last December from one of the
parish road camps, was caught
near Garfield, Ark, and was on
Tuesday of this week brought
here and lodged in the Parish
Jail. The charge against him is
assault. He has not been tried,
but anticipating the result of his
case, had begun work.
Mrs. H. H. Lunsford of Shreve-
port and little son, Goodwill, are
guests at the home Of Mr.. r. A.
Smith. Mrs. Lunsford has Just
returned from an extended visit
with her sisters, Mrs. w. R. White
and Mrs. j. A. Eddy of McAlester,
Okla. She also visited Oklahoma
City. Before returning home she
expects to visit her father, Mr..
w. H. Smith, and other relatives
living east of town.
If nothing happens to prevent,
we will reproduce in our next
issue the entire list of premiums
and purses to be offered at the
next Parish Fair, which will be
held in Plain Dealing October
26th, 9th, 28th and Goth. Extra
copies of the paper will be printed
for free distribution in the parish.
Write and let us know how many
copies you can use, or send us a
list of friends to whom you would
like to have us mail papers.
Mr.. W. Covington, one of our
Carterville subscribers, returned
Tuesday morning from an ex-
tended trip to Texas. He says
that while away he saw several
former residents of Bossier and
that they were all doing we'll.
Crops out there, he says, have
suffered greatly for rain, while
forage, ETC., has been literally
parched. He visited in the Dallas
community. He thinks the Texas
soil that he saw is fine, but that
on account of drouths and hot
winds there one is surer of a
yield right here in Bossier.
Monday the editor learned that
typhoid fever had become cpl
demic on the battleship Wiscon-
sin, on which his youngest son,
Midshipman F. w. Scanland, is
now stationed. The fever had its
origin, so said, from the use of
old crop Irish potatoes. There
are said to be about sixty cases
on board the ship, and as the
young man has not been heard
from this week, very naturally,
no little apprehension is felt on
his account among the members
of the family. The editor will
telegraph him this afternoon.
Twelve hundred hunters licen-
ses have been received at the
Sheriff's office and are ready for
distribution. The new series is
printed on cardboard and they
are much smaller than those of
last year more convenient
size. They cost a resident 81,
permit one to hunt anywhere in
the State and are good :" for the
season ending June 1, 1910. +"
The only advantage in securing a
license now is that with one you
can hunt squirrels, and you will