The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-08-11
Topics of a Week
coatinued Story Of Current Events

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showers yesterday and Tuesday and a
.ontinued rain to-day.
hunters licenses are now on sale at the
....;f,s office, and several have already
been sold.
Mics Bessie Johnston, who has been in
uanroe with relatives ever since her
. at in Cheneyville closed, is now at
home.
40 Going to help some crops, but they will
ia .lso make conditions better for the boil
vesvils.
Mr. I. H. Arnold of Plain Dealing was
business visitor here yesterday. He is
.-snaring to homestead tract of land
vest Of that place.
Nj. Dan Rogers of Lewisville, Ark, is
here OF, visit with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. E. Rogers. Dayton Rogers, an
other son, is again at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Smith of Haughton
left Yesterday on pleasure trip to Gal
veston. Texas. Their children are here
with their uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
RE. Wyche.
Mrs. ]. S. Alison of near this place, ac-
companied by her daughter, Miss Carrie
Lee Riggs of Shreveport, left yesterday
for Waukesha, Wis.,, to recuperate two
weeks or more.
Since our last issue Clerk of Court B. A.
Kelly has given So to the Confederate
Monument Fund, thus running the total
raised by individual subscriptions, interest
included, up to S23O.13.
Mr.. Ben Nash of Belcher, now in the
employ of the Higgins oil interests, passed
% the Cotton Belt Monday morning on a
tour Of inspection of the several test wells
being put down in North Bossier.
Mrs. Montezuma Gulledge, accompanied
! By her four children, left Tuesday for her
home in Oklahoma after spending week
.r more here very pleasantly with her
mother and other members of the family.
MI. .and Mrs. J. E. Adger and children
Of Belcher are visitors at the country home
q Mrs. Matte C. Adger, Mr.. Adger's
mother. We are told that Mr.. and Mrs.
Adger are the parents of a pretty little girl
baby, now about six weeks old.
Monday Mr.. John Brown had second
Mmmons to come to his fathers home al
Clinton on account of the illness of his
sister, Miss Della. He left Tuesday morn
ing. News has not since reached this
place of the young lady's condition.
On Thursday of last week Miss Lula
Willis Alison of near this place was oper.
ated on for appendicitis at one of the
Shreveport sanitariums. We are pleased
hstate that she is said to be doing wei
md will leave the sanitarium this week.
The young ladies at Sheriff Edwards
home have had as guests this week Mrs
Berta Wyche of Plain Dealing, Mise:
Ethel Elston of Haughton, Dubois ane
Virginia Elder of Alden Bridge, Katie Hal
md Mary Fenet. Miss Elston is still her,
nd will remain some days.
Two pretty little girl visitors in the com
nunity are Trueheart and Eloise Cannon
dughters of Mrs. Eugene Cannon o
Shreveport, who is now away on vaca
Ton trip. They are spending the time a
he homer of their uncles, Messrs. w. G
ud ]. E. Burt, and with friends.
From tabulated statement showing tn
assessed value of property in the severa
rfishes of the State, just issued by tn
Board of Equalization, we learn that Bos
asf's assessment this year is So, 462, 1O4
y against So, 207 $3.50 for 1909 shown
nincrease in property values of 1854 ,53e
Friends will be pleased to know thu
1ns Camille Kelly has sufficiently recov
ed from her attack of rheumatism to b
gle to 60 around bit. She spent Sunda
ehome, making the trip from Shreveport
20 return by private conveyance, accom-
rnied by Mr.. Jewell Hamiter, a youn
ean friend living in that place.
Miss Grace Larkin, who has positio
nthe Clerks office is now taking vaca
20 Of several weeks. She left yesterda
g Biloxi, Miss, where the Sunday schot
citations of Alabama, Mississippi an
aoalsiana are now conducting the secon
seaelon of the Gulf States Summer Schot
Methods for Sunday school workers {
IS Seashore Camp Grounds, in which sh
~ take part.
-: J. E. Adger of Belcher while hel
eSday came in and paid US So on sui
'ptlon, which puts him in the 1912 class
said that he has good crops. He hs
eut $50 acres in cotton and he think
On the hundred acre cut he will MAX
3 quarters of a bale to the acre an
Il bushels of corn. 1t was replanted
I'll when chopped out. He expects
picking cotton next week. He hi
good crop of corn and expects lat
4 savertlse in these columns some of h
ior sale as seed. The continued h
he added, has killed thousands
seevils.
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