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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-12-23
Hauehton Happenings.

Operations at the Oakland oil we'll are
suspended for the holidays.
Our school will close Friday, the oath,
for the week, on account of the holidays.
Mrs. j. N. Plat returned from the sani-
tarium last week, and is slowly improving.
Our boys and girls have enjoyed snow
balling yesterday and to-day to their
hearts content.
Our people are glad that conference re-
turned Rev. j. G. Sloane to Haughton as
pastor for the ensuing year.
Invitations to the wedding of Mr.. S. E..
White Of Temple, Texas, to Miss Susie May
Moore of Haughton have been sent out !;
the date is December 10Th, at the Metho-
dist Church. Miss Susie May is one Of
Haughton's most popular young ladies,
and her friends regret that this occurrence
will take her away from us.
Mr.. J. E. Wyche and Miss Lille May
Nelson were married at the residence of
DR.. J. C. Willis, the brides uncle, in
Shreveport yesterday, Rev. J. G. Sloan of
Haughton officiating. The bride is one of
Ruston's fairest flowers, and will receive a
hearty welcome in Haughton. Mr.. Wyche
Dim, we call him) is native of Bossier,
where his friends are legion, and many are
the good wishes for him and his.
Evergreen Chapter, No. %, Order Of the
Eastern Star, at its last meeting elected the
following officers to serve the ensuing
year:
Mrs. Lena Hickman, Worthy Matron.
W. H. Bledsoe, Worthy Patron.
Mrs. Emily Elston, Associate Matron.
Miss Julia Elsston, Secretary.
A. H. Ratcliff, Treasurer.
Mrs. Sallie Stevenson, Conductress.
Mrs. Clara Tucker, Assistant 6
Miss Mollie Lawrence, Adah.
Mrs. Rhoda Chandler, Ruth.
Mrs. Leila Sandidge, Esther.
Mrs. Anna Burch, Martha.
Mrs. E. f. Bledsoe, Electa.
Miss Ethel Elston, Organist.
Miss Abbie Barnett, Chaplain.
J. E. Burch, Sentinel.
w. G.. Chandler, Warder.
Monday, December 20, 1909.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-12-23
CHRISTINA

We are on the eve of the most joyous
festival of which the civilized world has
any knowledge or experience-the Christ
mastide-the season of good will, of ex-
banding hearts and human self-sacrices
the one for the other. It is the season
when selfishness becomes an 'uninvited
guest" when JOY of the generous, genuine
sort-because born of that divinely ap-
pointed faculty in the human creation that
establishes the brotherhood of man and
instates the loved ones and the neighbor
on the throne too much and too long oc-
cupied by the "self rules most hearts,
and when the pure and simple pleasures
of the children of the homes broadens into
all overlooking good will binding men in
an exalting communion of sympathy and
kindness.
At this season, if not at others, men
realize that sit is more blessed to give than
to receive" For the time being they4lve
as Christ would have them live and find
pleasure in doihgso. They ought to extend
the season so as to cover the year, but there
is something gained when, for day or
week, the hard hearted and the cross
grained yield to the softening influence of
the Christmas spirit and are for time, at
least, rendered genial and charitable by
the contagious influence of example. The
essential feature of the secular celebration
of Christmas is the unselfish desire to
make others happy. 1t is sometimes de-
graded into custom, but the real spirit
pervades it. Those who start out to observe
Christmas as matter of duty and in a
perfunctory way become infected with the
real spirit and render themselves, as we'll
as others, happy by their deeds of charity
and good will.
Even to those who unbend only in the
Christmas season there is some reward.
Happiness is contagious, as one may see
on any holiday occasion. Particularly in
the Christmas season may be observed the
spread of good nature. Each smiling face
is reflected in another. For the time being
men vie with each other in doing kindly
things. They set aside self and think of
other people and of what they can do to
make others happy. In the act of doing
so they promote the general happiness.
The money value of their gifts is matter
of small Importance even to the recipient.
Heis moved not by the gift itself, but by
the sentiment behind the gift. Does it
exhibit thoughtful consideration, desire
7 to be kindly and helpful? If so, it is the
synonym of love and friendship, more to
be treasured than gold or precious jewels.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-12-23
Indian Summer.ss
TLongfeuow.[


It is the Indian summer. The rising sun
blazes through the misty air like . confla-
grafton. A yellowish, smoky haze fills the
atmosphere,
And flimy mist
Lies like silver lining on the sky.
The wind is soft and low. 1t watts to US
the odor of forest leaves, that hang wilted
on the dripping branches, or drop into the
stream. Their gorgeous tints are gone, as
if the autumnal rains had washed them
out. Orange, yellow, and scarlet, all are
changed to one melancholy russell hue.
The birds, too, have taken wing, and have
left their roofless dwellings. Not the whistle
of robin, not the twitter of an caves
dropping swallow, not the carol of one
sweet, familiar voice. All gone. Only the
dismal cawing of crow, as he sits and
curses that the harvest is over; or the chit
chat of an idle squirrel, the noisy denizen
of hollow tree, the mendicant frair of a
large parish, the absolute monarch Of a
dozen acOrns.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-12-23
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Jose Santo Zelaya has resigned from the
presidency of Nicaragua.
st. Louis will make bid for the United
Confederate Veterans Reunion in 1911.
The coolest weather of the season has
prevailed throughout the country this week.
The death toll exacted by the railroads
during September and October of this year
was 100, while 354 people were injured.
Twelve deaths resulted from railroad
wreck at Reedy fork tressel, ten miles
north of Greensboro, N. c., on the 10Th.
Leopold II, King of Belgium, died at
Brussels last Thursday in the forty fourth
year of his reign, aged seventy two years.
The Supreme Court of Indiana last
Thursday held constitutional the county
option election law, enacted in 1908, under
which sixty-five of the ninety-two coun-
ties of Indiana have closed their saloons.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-12-23
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

Louisville Times: Violating the law is
the cheapest form of amusement for those
who have the price.
Fort Smith Record: The mother-in
law joke is silly and the mother-in-law
criticism is unmanly.
New Orleans Picayune: It has been
repeatedly charged in these columns that
the citizens who fail to cast their ballots in
public elections are responsible if unfit or
bad men are elected to public offices. By
their inaction and silence they consent to
the election of such men and are thereby
more or less responsible for their bad acts.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-12-23
Fifty Life Scholarships at Half Price or Less
Fifty Young Men and Women Made Prosperous,
Happy and Independent for Life.

Walden's Practical Business College,
Austin, Texas, and Lake Charles, La, will
save you from $50 to 500 on Complete
Business or Shorthand Course. Their
Special 500 offer will make you Book
keeper and Stenographer-total cost. 1t
pays board, tuition and stationery. Schol-
arship for both courses unlimited. No
better courses anywhere, at any price.
Why pay more?
THEY WENT LIKE HOT CAKES!
Twenty Special Scholarships placed on
sale the 10Th of last August were ''snapped' y
up in less than ten days-two weeks before
the opening of the Fall Term. They went
like hot cakes, and the fifty offered above
will go in the same way. Why? Because
this 500 proposition represents the greatest
value ever offered by business college.
LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST.
Young man, young woman, parents, why
not investigate the above special offer? 1t
will save you money! and Fpe, and give
you the Best Business, Shorthand or Prac-
teal English Training that money can buy.
The next term opens January 8, 1910.
Address either school for elegant catalogue
and circulars. 3
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-12-23

Most men are happiest while hustling!
The rust Of idleness is what breeds the
mlcrobe OF misery in a mans mind, but a
busy man even forgets his dyspepsia and
his debts.-IHe Master Printer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-12-23

A Springfield, Okla, paper says man
tired of baching' and hit on this plan to
hurry his wife home from her visit. He
sent her the local paper with some items
clipped out. She was back in less than a
week.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1909-12-23
SHREVEPORT DRUG COMPANY. Limited
The Original
Cut Rate Drug Store

Corner Texas and Market Streets, SHREVEPORT
THE public has shown by their patronage that
prices the lowest and service the best The rea-
bty of Prescription Department is guaranteed by the
constant increase of prescription work.
Showing appreciation Of the above facts, shall
make some special cuts for you, while advertised:
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-12-09
"ouD HEIDELBERG" TO COST $500
Student Life in Germany Shown in
Dramatic Club Play.

II will cost the University Dramatic
Club 500 to produce the play. 'Old
Heidelberg. tomorrow night. The
rights of production were obtained for
Sta. from the ShubertS. who hold the
copyright in this country. The use OF
the Columbia thearcr. where the play
Will he given. cost $Gr BESIDES this.
500 has been spent for costumes.
5000 for scenery and So Tor music and
incidentalS.
The Glee Club OF the university will
assist in tn" production, and there will
be fifty persons in the cast.
The play was translated from the
German for the use ui the late Richard
Mansfield. 1t is a depletion Of student
life in Germany The scene in the
second act is said to have been taken
directly from Heidelberg. 1t is laid
in a beer garden. much frequeHted by
the students. They gather there,
drink beer and sing their various
songs. Among these IS Old iieidel-
berg" known i'll every country in the
world Leslie Holman, who j. man
aging the production Of the play. said
that the scenery would be the same
as that used in III" original produc,
ton.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-12-09
.SHERWOOD'S PICTURE
IN LAW COLLECTION
EN-.)udye OF Supreme Court
One of Missouri InHuen-
tiaI .Jlri,t>.
PRESENTED BY ALUMNUS
Dean Lawson Comments on
Appropriateness, oi Gift
to School.
PRESENTED BY ALUMNUS

The first Missouri judg" whose por-
trait is included in the collection iii
the Law building of the University Of
Missouri is Thomas \. Sherwood. Til"
portrait was added To the collection
Tuesday. Judge Sherwood was i"T
thirty years a Judge of the Supreme
Court of Missouri and for many years
chief Justice OF the state
Judge Sherwood's opinions during
those thirty years said John ID. Law
son. dean of the School of Law. have
so influenced the jurisprudence OF the
state that his name will not likely b"
forgotten for many century. 1t is
very fitting hat the first living jurist
and the first Missouri judge whose
picture has gone into the collection
SHOULD be the greatest OF the living
eX-judgrS of our highest court.
The portrait is tn" gift OF Edward
j. White OF Aurora, Mo. Il graduate" OF
the law class oil i>9l and one oi the
university's most distinguished alumni.
Mr.. White is not only known as Il
leading practitioner of the state. but
"a a special authority on mining and
railroad law. He is also the author
of White on Mines and Mining Rene
die, White un Personal Injuries IN
Mines and Whit" on Personal !uiurI =
,;l.,-,tlS' hInL.-.
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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-12-09
Estate Normal School
KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI.

aggressey Teachers College OF the best type
a specially vocational studies and how to teach the"
Shorthand Business correspondence "o
OF Manual Training ana III"
equipped laboratories 1t prepares people
0 work right earth
teaching Library Work. Ian
Making Engraving Photography and Ill preparing
directors of Music
devise build equip and conduct Oh It's OWN
transportation OF pupils
Through High School Schools prepares III
possible Rural Schools, Graded School ana
City High Schools.
JOHN r. KIRK, President.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23
n ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Schedule I'm Effect
JUNE 20. 1909.

Leave 1870 a. m. for Roanok.
Norfolk anG all points oa the Shsu.
4doah division. Pullman Sleeper
Roanoke TO New York, via Hagers-
own, Pullman ParIor Car Roanoke
o Norfolk -.fa '..-F -.
8;5b a. me- for RCauoke, Rich
noni. NorIolG. PulIrnaa Sleeper.
Dining Car to Roanoke. PATlor .caJ
{oanOke 90 Norfolk.
1910 p. N. for Roanoke. Lynch.
"trg and Intermediate stations ami
h5 shenandoah valley. Philadelphia
and New York. Sleeper to Phi ado-
hia and New York. Catz car Gary
nd Roanoke
9:1S D. IN. for Roa-oke, lynch
,urg, Richmond. Norfolk. Pullman
sleeper 10 Nodolk, Roanoke TO
7iohmo1d.
Leave Bldefeld $40 p. n. for Ken
va, Columbus and all poiats Wq1i
md Northwest. Pullman Sleeper fol
columbus and Cincinnati. Cafe cas-
$40 a N. Pullman 3 eepsr for
.oIumbus. car, Dining Car.
Leave $3.50 a. N. and 2.C5 p. n.
'aily for Pazeweli Norton and "a
Stations on Clivcb valley division.
Arrive from Norton and points on
ho Clinch VALLEY divisloa ct 1920 p
o and 1905 p. On.
Leave 600 a. m. for we cb AMI
Intermediate stations.
Leave 10:45 a. m. for william.
'on a1d informed ate stations
Leave 2:15 o. m for WEIGH and
Intermediate stations.
For additional Information call on
tgent Norfolk and Western Railway
W q. BEVITT.
Gen Pssz Aeent.
Roauoks, Va
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23
NOTICE.
'o WON Il may c. ncern:

To whom II may c; ncern:
Notice is hereby given to the pub-
lie that We. the Undersigned. Will
apply TO the Board Of Affairs OF the
City OF Bluefield, West Virginia. for
"a franchise to furnish and sell gas
for Illuminating I'D heating pur-
poses to the City Of Blueneld. West
Virginia, the citizens, residents and
inhabitants thereof and for the priv
ilege OF constructing and erecting
plant for the manufacture OF ga
and Of entering any and all streets
AN" alleys of the said City Of Blue
field and lay down gas mains and
Iaterals.
The conditions and terms upon
which said franchise IS to be re-
quested can be found in the appli-
cation of the undersigned, which
application is now on file in the of
flee of the Auditor OF the City OF
Blueheld, West Virginia.
9. w. HKERS.
G. T. tsPLING.
p. J. McELRATH.
= j. KELLEY.
J. NJ. SANDERS.
r.. NJ. GARRETT.
w. j. jerks,
EARL RILEY.
Nve -1ber 16, 1909.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23

Boys Suits and Overcoats, Mems
Oyercoats 10 close at less than first
cost.
THE HAWLEY MDSE. Co.
12-2O-4t
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23

PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW FOR
~HRlsTIhS FLOWERS WITH EAST
END PHARMACY
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23

Charles Gardner of this city. f. O..
"llIispi i'y steele. c. M Barnes
DANES P"mv OF Tazewen } C.. Smith
.oi Wrlch and r. O Oliuger of Norton
-ah students "A v p. ]. were in the
city today and left for heir respec-
1--WE ''mos ON ,ae afternpon trains
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23

LuiIor Sewers who has been att,
tending school al Richmond IS spend
ing 'he holidays with his aunt Mas.
ID. w Tabor on Highland Avenue.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23

12-2O4t
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23

Joan NcGad. vim leave touigbt f.
Wis aJm- % Cincinnati
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23

Paul Clark OF Honaker is in t
CTS tpO.y buying Xmas gifts.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23

w p Hawley and his brother
j. J.. IIawley left today on a business
F. trip 10 Alabama. ...
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-12-23

Nve-nber 16, 1909.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-11-05
To the Voters OF Kootenai County

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Prohibition newih Pe
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in County,
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The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-27
MERCHANTS CARNIVAL.
Citizens Of Hereford will Celebrate Three Days
Of Next Week with Annual Picnic.

Over Hereford way next week
there is to be celebration under
the auspicesof the merchants
and the commercial club. an an
nual affair. which they propose
to make into quite a large enter.
tainment. The picnic is to be
held on Thursday. Friday and
Saturday of next week and from
reports coming from that place
the entire town is arranging to
help celebrate in big style.
The Orient Amusement com,
pany which is showing in this
city this week have arranged to
play the dates during that carni,
val. The farmers of the county
have promised a large numb Der
of exhibits. The merchants are
good premiums for the
best of stuff entered and alto
gether the affair promises to be
an interesting one.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-27

Some contend that there
should be an additional charge
that of loss of fertility of the soil
If this is charged up. on many
farms and especially those given
over toeXclusive grain raising. we
are satisfied that the cost ofgrow
ing any particular crop would
in most years exceed the market
value. The cold facts are that
taking into account the waste of
fertility and not taking into ac-
count the advance in the price of
land. a vast number of farmers
in all sections of the United
States have been producing grain
at a loss for the last half century.
1t is scarcely fair, however, to
charge up loss of fertility to a
crop, for the reason that the
man who is letting his farm run
down will not bother to make
these Investigations at all and
therefore they do not concern
him; and for the further reason
that any system of farming on
a commercial scale involving a
rotation of crops that will main
tain the fertility of the land. 9th
erwise he is simply mining, not
farming the land. If the farmer
whilst down and figure out the
elements of cost that we have men
toned. he willhave enough Difficult
ty without trying to take into ac-
cOut the indefinite loss which we
have called waste of fertility.
Our object in writing the recent
article is simply to set the farm
erS thinking on one of the most
important subjects that can pos
sibly engage their attention 1t
is one of those things that
farmer can think about when he
is blowing corn. milking COWS.
feeding cattle, or riding to town.
when he is sitting up or when he
is lying down. How much does
it cost You to grow a bushel of
corn. a buShel of wheat: When
You have answered these ques
ton: how much does it cost YOU
to produce a hundred pounds
of beef: of pork.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-27

Mr.. Brooks, until recently a
resident of Tulia. has arrived
and begun the construction of a
large residence in the northern
portion of town near the home of
Dr.. j. NJ Black. The building
is to be a large, modern struc-
ture and will add materially to
the appearance of that already
handsome portion of town.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-27

K. S. Pipkin, buyer for the
dry goods department of the
Canyon Mercantile Company. has
returned from his regular trip
to the markets where he pur-
chased the fall and winter stock
for his house. He announces
that he bought the biggest and
best line of goods that their
house has ever brought to this
city. Shipments of these goods
are beginning to arrive daily.
All the new novelties for ladies'
wear are in and they consist of
those new jets in buttons. neck
pieces and trimmings which will
be the thing to wear during the
coming seasons. Belts. Bar
rettes, Combs of all kinds, Belt
and collar Pins, and such fancy
articles and the Canyon Mercan-
tile Company especially invites
the ladies' to call at once and in
spect this new line. - Ito.
r. S. Pipkin, after spending
several days in the markets, has
returned to his home in this city.
Mrs. Walter E. Lair has gone
to Meadow where she will visit
her parents for a short time.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. J. Thomas of
Dalhart arrived in this city Sun
day for a visit with their sons in
this city.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-27

W. Il. Gillian has returned
from two months stay at his
old home at Merkel.
Mr.. and Mrs. John l.. Howell,
Jr.. from Lake Arthur, New
Mexico. who have been recently
touring points of interest in the
West are here during the reunion
visiting Mr.. Howell's mother,
Mrs. John l.. Howell. ST..
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-08-27
WONDERFUL CHANGES.
Illinois Man Pays Second Visit in Three Years
and Finds Much Improvements Made.

Nearly three years ago B. F.
Massa of Atwater, Illinois, paid
a visit to our county and pur
chased land while here. This
week Mr.. Massa made his sec
ond trip to this county and is
more than pleased with the pres
ent conditions. When approach
ed by the News man Mr.. Massa
stated that he was utterly sur
prised at the great Improvement
that had been made here during
the time, and that there was only
one thing that was needed to
make this the best farming sec
tiOn of the United States and
that one thing was more farmers.
Said he: When | bought land
in this county three years ago |
did so after investigations that
were extensive and | thought at
that time that this country would
in time become a great farming
country but that it was too spars-
ley settled at that time. | could
see two houses from the land that
| bought. When came this time
and went out to my land was
simply astounded at the improve
ments made in a farming way
here. There are now at least
twenty five farm houses in my
immediate neighborhood an d
most of these were erected dur
ing the past year. The improve
ment is simply wonderful and |
am more pleased than ever with
my investment. All this country
needs is more farmers who are
IOL dlIdlu W NDIh y ttItIu vi
investigation of the crop condi-
lions will show that the man who
has studied the farming industry
here and has applied the results
of his Investigations, has exceed
ingly good crops when you con
slider everything When | left
my home at Atwater, Illinois, it
was fearfully warm and a man
could not sleep at night. Here
you have refreshing nights for
man, beast and crops. | am 90
ing to have my land placed in
cultivation and am making ar
rangements to that effect now"
Mr.. Massa is one Of the most |
substantial farmers in his home |
country and such expressions as
these coming from men of his
kind, are merely substantiating
the claims of the people of this
greal country.