The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-06-03
Local and
Personal

Down with the flies!
cwat ZEN! kill 'em! the flies.
The days are growing very long and
very hot.
All schools in the parish are now
closed and the heart OF the average
voungster is made glad.
Tho moon will be full this evening
between eight and nine o'clock. Won
dor if that will stop the rains?
Mr.. Robert Lyles Wyche, during the
term lust closed student in Centenary
college of Shreveport, is again at home.
The Police Jury will convene as a
BOARD of Review in this place on Mon
dav of next week and on July 10th in
reoular business session.
Mrs. J, A. Rodgers of Arlington,
Texas, is here on visit to her son, Mr..
+. G. Smith, and his family. She ex-
nocts to remain some weeks.
Mr.. Fred Byrd, a student in the State
Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, located
in Baton Rouge, returned home last
Friday. He paid us an appreciated call
Monday.
Benton High School closed Monday
afternoon. On account of small pox
among the pupils the entertainment
marking the close of the school was not
held Tuesday evening.
For the first time in many months Mr..
Turner Heron, now of the Collinsburg
community, was visitor at the Banner
Office yesterday. Mr.. Herron's many
Benton friends were glad to see him.
bas No paid paragraphs are carried in
the Banner under the above head. You
may sometimes find a paragraph that
has the appearance Of paid reader
but depend upon it it is complimentary
We are told that the copy for the
Parish Fair catalogue will soon be
ready for the printers. This year We
will give away number OF subscrip.
tions to the Banner to exhibitors, which
will be shown in the premium list. 49,
Mr.. Frank Creswell, until recently {
resident of Kansas, is here visiting hi
brother, Mr.. J. P. Creswell. He is nov
married and has three children, but thu
members of his family are not with him
They are at present visiting in som'
other town in the State.
Mrs. Kate S. Cabeen and her two littl'
girls, Amelia and Catherine, returne,
last Saturday from Talladega, Ala.
where the two children were students il
the Alabama Synodical College during
the past term, and where their mothe
had a position in the college.
Small pox has again broken out i
this community. There are three case i
Benton and several cases up and dow
the river front. However, as before, thi
is very mild type of the disease (leav
ing no dishguring scars) and no on
seems to particularly dread it.
We are told that Hon. T. H. Harris
State Superintendent of Public Educa
ton, will visit Red Land on the 14th fe
the purpose Of making a public addres
in the interest of consolidation {
schools. AS he returns Con the 18th, "
pfesume) he will be asked to stop off
Benton and make an address on scho
topics.
The Memorial Day service and dinn'
Tor the Confederate veterans was n
given here to-day, as was the purpose
the members of the local chapter of Il
daughters of the Confederacy, and
was previously announced in the Banne
The entertainment has been abandon.
on account of the prevalence of sms
pox in the community.
We have been authorized to announ
mat a meeting of the trustees al
patrons OF Benton High School will
held at the Court House next Wednesd
az three o'clock pm, when propositi
q much Importance will be discuss
aud passed on. The President of t
Board Of Trustees urges full atten
anee. II you feel an interest in t
school you should be present.