The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-12-02
Local and
Personal

The year is growing old.
Read Gayle's new advertisement.
Mr. B. A. Kelly is having improve
ments made around his premises.
Willow Chute plantation is advertised
for rent in this issue of the Banner.
A fine boy was born Sunday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Stinson.
We will not run paid reading notices
under the above head. Please do not
Z ask us to do so.
Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Parker expect to
leave next Monday for Alexandria, where
Mr.. Parker will attend the Annual State
Conference.
Miss Bessie Many passed through
Benton yesterday afternoon on the way
to her home in Plain Dealing. We were
told that she spent the past several
weeks with friends living in the Linton
neighborhood.
The next teachers examination will be
held in Benton on the 22d, 23d and oath
Of December. Elementary Agriculture
will be included in the list of subjects
given. All applicants should bear this
in mind.-W. A. Fortson.
The President of the r. J. Hancock
Chapter, U. D. c., has requested that
We announce that meeting of the
chapter will be held in this place on
Friday OF next week, the 10th, at which
time design for the Confederate mon
ument will be decided upon. This is a
matter Of Importance and every member
who can should be present.
We have been requested to announce
that meeting of the stockholders of the
Bossier Parish Fair Association will be
: held in Plain Dealing next Monday, the
9th. At this meeting all unfinished
business of the last fair will be disposed
Of and officers and directors for the 1910
]. fair named. The meeting is of import
ance and should be we'll attended.
It is the plan to organize the boys Of
our public schools into corn clubs. This
/ is general throughout the State, so we
are told, and handsome purses will per-
/, haps be offered in each parish for the
best acre of corn, the best ear and the
best ten ears. The move has our ap-
prevail and our columns are open tt
assist in the work in any way we can.
Il Eg Elsewhere in this issue of thu
Banner appears a record of subscrip'
tons paid US during the past month. 1
your name should be in this list, lool
for it. If it is not there, write us, stating
the amount paid, and we will be please'
to make corrections on our books, whel
found necessary. Please be prompt t.
write. The best time to correct an erro
I is when it is first discovered.
And now the members of the r.
Hancock Chapter, U. D. c., are prepar
ing to erect in this place monument t
the memory of our Confederate dead
The movement is indeed commendabl
one, and this band of noble workers AM
generous citizens who so willingly do
mated the fund are deserving of al
praise. In this connection it is perhap
well to explain that our Police Jury sew
eral years ago agreed to duplicate tn
amount raised by privete subscription
The fund now amounts to about 5000
It is not too late to subscribe to it,
you wish to. Donations will be &C
knowledged in these columns when "
are informed of them) and we will gladl
publish the entire list of subscription
when 1t is furnished us.
One day this week Mr.. w. j. Dawso
I of this place gave US several stalks
rice that were grown on the Sligo plan
tation by Mr.. j. A. Skannal and whic
were from the exhibit made by that gen
tleman at the State Fair. Now it hap
pens that this is one of the cereals {
which we know but little; but we wis
to say that the heads are heavy and we
developed, and we were told that some
those exhibited at the State Fair wei
over eleven inches in length. All thi
together with the fact that this rio
took five first premiums at the fair, mu
indicate that it is fine. The winning (
these premiums by Mr.. Skannal h;
before been mentioned in the Bann'
and our Haughton correspondent h;
had no little to say about the growth
the crop and its yield. Mr.. Skannal
to be congratulated upon meeting wit
such degree of success with his fr
crop, and the planters of Bossier shou
feel under obligations to him for den