The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-09-16
Local and Personal ~
!. Continued Story of Current Events
h what a pleasant day!

All. what pleasant day!
Noxt month is fair month. Get ready!
rha backbone of summer has been broken.
noninrv term Of Bossier District Court will
convene here on the 2'th.
Mr. ". E. Ivey returned yesterday from bust
nass trio to Marshall Texas.
Mics Leila White of this place is now teaching in
chauyin, Terre Bonnie Parish
N, Avlmer Wyche left yesterday for Shreveport,
where he entered Centenary College.
Mr.. 4. R. Thompson of the Collinsburg commu-
;tv Is again up after several days a-bed
Drive to one side on the grass and you'll raise
5 tnso dnsf The streets are wide IN our town.
Mr.. John Emmett Biggs Of Bellevue mixing
Nth his MANY relatives and friends here Tuesday.
Mr. 6. s, Rounsaval Of Bodcau, one of our old
time subscribers was visitor in Benton Tuesday.
Miss Annie Johnston of Shreveport is spending
tho week here with her father, Prof. Jos. E. John
ston. and other relatives.
Mr.. ]. H. Wheeler, formerly one of our Plain
Dealing subscribers, has requested us to mail the
Banner to him at Terrell, Texas.
ss- We have been asked to announce that a
meeting of the Benton Civic League will be held at
the Court House tomorrow afternoon at O'Clock.
Mr., and Mrs. Orr of Texarkana, now guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. Mays of Carterville, are the
hannv parents of fine baby girl, born last Satur
day. Mrs. Orr is Mrs Mays sister.
Miss Carrie Brown of Shreveport spent Saturday
here with her sisters and was guest at the home
Of Dr. and Mrs. Braxton Wise. She is now teach
ING the Concord School Gin North Bossier).
Mr.. B. T. snider, youngest son of the late Col.
I A. Snider of Bellevue, and Miss Hattie E. Ros-
coe. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. W. c.. Roscoe of
Shreveport were united in marriage i'll that place
Monday night
Mr.. W. F. King, who for several years has made
his home in our parish, and whose residence was
FL g.. U,1~ ALL,
He will reside there for short time and expects
later to remove to Memphis, Tenn.
No meeting of the School Board was held here
Tuesday as the business for which the meeting was
called was previously disposed Of by the Superln-
tendent. Messrs. w. A. Bounds and l.. c. Biggs
both members of the School Board, not knowing
that the meeting had been called off, were here on
that day.
The Bossier Parish Farmers Union will meet al
Emma en- Tuesday, the 21st. All local unions are
requested to have full delegation present. There
will perhaps be barbecue and basket dinner. The
first half of the day will be public. The executive
session Of the union will be held IN the afternoon
A. Hoffpauir Secretary
Mr. r. A. Smith returned one day last week from
weeks stay in Texas. During his absence he
visited some of the largest mill plants an. thai
State with view of looking into the merits OF &
new dipping process for lumber, which he will per-
haps install at his mill 1t is said that the dit
Will prevent luulDeF lrOul Uluc anu dloo uoc'
away with the necessity of kiln drying.
Mr. W. J. Dawson of this place, secretary for the
Bossier Parish Fair Association, has received {
communication from an authoritative source stating
that On account of the Bossier Parish Fair the st
Louis Southwestern Railway Company will on De-
tober 18th to 10Th sell roundtrp tickets at Shreve
port and Lewisville, Ark. and intermediate points
to Plain Dealing at and third fare.
A postal from Rev. J. A. Parker, written at La
fayette and dated the 9Th, reads in part as follows
After stopping here few days and again a
Mansfield three or four days, will reach Benton OF
the afternoon of the 18th. Will preach at Alder
Bridge the 10TH Am indebted to the goo
people of Benton and Alden Bridge for invaluable
Improvement in health. Could not make up m,
mind, as advised by physicians of the coast, to re
main until October 1st.''
Mrs Martha l.. Raspberry, who suffered a strok
OF paralysis Friday, died Saturday morning a
Waxahachie, Texas, aged seventy-four years an
I'VE months. She native of Selma, Ala, an
came to this parish in her girlhood, where she mad
her home until about three years ago, when sh
left Benton to make her home at Waxahachie. Sh
was,wel known in this parish and had many friend
here who will regret to learn Of her death. Sh
was an estimabe lady and consistent Christian