The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-11-25
Hauehton Happenings.

HdugntOn HdppeningS.
Little Nollie Sloan is still sick with slow
fever.
Drilling at the Oakland oil we'll is again
in progress.
Mrs. C. H. Eston of Dubberly was
visitor here Saturday.
Mrs. w. G. Faircloth Of Midway was a
visitor here Saturday.
Mr.. L. R. Sapp of Koran was business
visitor in Haughton Friday.
Miss Mamie Ledbetter spent several
days Of last week in Shreveport.
Mrs. Belts Of Eldorado, Ark, is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. c. M. Tucker.
Mr.. Conner Jameson of Ellisville, Miss,
is spening a week here with friends.
Mrs. G. W. Smith and daughter, Miss
Nettie, spent Saturday in Shreveport.
Rev. Mr.. Sadler Of Sibley filled his ap-
pointment at the Christian Church here
yesterday. ~,
Some of our farmers are selling their
spare pork in Shreveport at IL and 8
cents, dressed.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Henry are in Area
dia, where they will spend week or two
with their son.
Mr.. Frank Saunders, commercial agent
for the v, S. and P, spent one day of last
week here bird hunting.
Mrs. Sallie Stevenson returned home
Saturday from protracted visit with rel
atives living on the river.
Mr.. Nick Brown Of Claiborne Parish has
moved here and is now employed as yard
foreman at the Willis saw mill.
Mics Ethel Elctop hoe ham eo,;o,,1,,
sick during the past week. She is some
better to- day, but still quite sick.
Mr.. s. T. Hobbs Of Louisville, KY, an
erstwhile Haughtonite, stopped over Sat-
urday to see his many friends living here.
Calvin Johnson, the twelve-year- old son
of Mr.. j. H. Johnson of the Fillmore
neighborhood, died Saturday of slow or
typhoid fever.
The last quarterly conference of the
Haughton charge, M. E. Church, South,
will be held at Alberta on Saturday of this
week, the 9th.
DR.. W. M. Baker of Arcadia, State Lee
turer for the Masonic fraternity, visited
Bellevue Lodge (of this place) Wednesday
and Thursday of last week.
The bridge over Red Chute at Goat Hill
gave way one day last week while log
team was crossing. Fortunately there was
no serious damage done, except to the
bridge.
! One of our older citizens received a letter
last week from Capt. R. j. Hancock of
Charlottesville, Va, making inquiry about
the Hancock family burial ground, which
is three miles northwest of this place.
The track of the L. and A., north of this
place, is being ballasted with gravel,
giving the roadbed neat as we'll as sub
stantial appearance. 1t is expected the
new line will be open to traffic early during
January.
S. B. Bolton, teacher of the Haughton
colored school, reports an overflow of
pupils - fifty odd enrolled, and others
asking to be admitted. He has applied to
Prof. w. A. Fortson, Parish Superintend-
ent of Public Schools, for relief It would
appear that last winters exodus was not
of children.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. r. Lippincott, together
with two or three Of their neighbours chill
dren, spent Saturday in the woods hickory
nut hunting. They brought home four
bushels (hulled) which were gathered from
two trees. Their success suggests the
thought that this item of our natural re-
source might be proftably utilized, and
especially SO since hogs are not allowed to
forage in the woods.
Monday, November %, 1909.