The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-05-06
Local and
Personal

My! The roses!
First call for dewberries.
A light frost Sunday morning.
The mayhaw crop is short this year.
Plant 70 sweet taters in de sandy Ian.
Miss Annie Johnston, now teaching in
Shreveport, spent Sunday at home.
nsT There is an advertisement in this
issue of the Banner the reading of which
NAV save you several dollars.
After an illness of about three weeks,
the Youngest son of Mr.. j. E. Hitler of
Haughton died yesterday morning.
The 1903 delinqent tax list will appear
in print in the Banner of an early date.
If your name is on the list you should
nav your taxes within the next few days.
Mr.. A. M. McWilliams, who formerly
conducted livery stable business in
Shreveport, and who was known to many
of our Bossier and Caddo readers, died
recently in Alexandria.
nagp Some days ago we received fifty
pounds of printing ink and we will soon
have to order forty or fifty reams of
paper. It's mighty good time to send
in dollar or two on subscription.
Since our last issue Mrs. L. C. Biggs
OF Bellevue has spent several days here
very pleasantly with her sister, Mrs.
]. F. Edwards and other relatives. She
was accompanied by her son, Clyde.
You should be present at the Chill
dren's Day exercise to be held at the
Methodist Church Sunday. 1t promises
to be entertaining and, if you are of the
right temperament, it will do you the
same lasting good as would sermon.
Mr.. ]. C. Barnett expects within the
next few days to move his good roads
camp to some point near the Tidwell
place. The present site of the camp is
at Gum Springs and he is working the
public road between this place and Pal
metto plantation.
We have been requested by Mr.. NV
Sentell of Collinsburg, Worshipful Mas
ter Of Plain Dealing Lodge, to state that
Immediately following services at the
Cottage Grove Church Sunday Masonic
bu rites will be held over the grave of
their deceased brother, ]. P. Strayhan.
A friend writing from Koran has re-
quested us to announce that an enter
tainment will be given by the teacher
and pupils of Bossier Point School at
that school house tomorrow night, be-
ginning at eight o'clock. No admission
fee will be charged, and everybody is
cornially invited to be present.
For three days, beginning with to-day
and including Saturday, the Cotton Belt
Route will sell round trip tickets, good
for transportation between this place
and Shreveport, for IS cents; child's
fare, IS cents. This rate is granted on
account of the Shreveport Carnival,
which will close Saturday night.
Mrs. ]. S. Alison, who lives several
miles south Of this place, left Sunday for
New Orleans, where she will spend some
days attending the convention of the
State Division of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy. She goes as one Of
the two delegates from the local chapter.
Mrs. w. H. Scanland of this place, a
member of one of the State committees,
is also in the city attending the con-
vention. She is not expected home until
Saturday or, Monday of next week.
Inc Tecltal given at the school mousse
last Friday night by Miss Belle Johnston
OF this place proved very enjoyable and
entertaining. Miss Bellies friends here
and elsewhere have long since learned
that she has exceptional talent in this
direction, and her entertainments are
always we'll attended. The door receipts
on this occasion amounted to $3.50,
% per cent of which the young lady has
very generously given the our school.
The musical numbers, all instrumental :
one solo and two duets-were furnished
by Eula Hanks and Matte Belle Scan
land, students in Benton High School.
They are we'll advanced in music for