The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-12

much improved, and Mrs. Purcell and the
children returned home Friday morning.
Nettie May Purcell returned home last
Friday from Natchitoches. She will spend
few days and then return to school. She
will complete her work in few weeks.
B. H. Bolinger and B. B. Terry made a
trip from Shreveport to this place in their
auto last Thursday. B. H. says one hour
and forty minutes is all the time he wants
in which to make the run.
Mr.. E. R. Mading was in our town one
day last week, looking after some closing
details of assessments. Incidentally, he
purchased gas plant, so we may soon
look for more light and gas to burn about
Plain Dealing.
Mr.. c. A. Dutherage, travelling salesman
for the Southern Saw Works, was in our
city to-day. He will be remembered by
many readers of the Banner. He was
hotel keeper and mill foreman here some
years ago, and later was a resident of
Benton and then of Shreveport. MS.
Hauehton.
Monday, May 9.-An effort to organize a
drainage district in South Bossier is again
on foot and the Police Jury will be asked
to order preliminary election in further
ance OF the move.
Mr.. J. E. Wyche spent yesterday in
Shreveport.
Capt. N. B. Murff of Oakland was a
business visitor to-day.
Mr.. P. P. Cook returned home from
Oklahoma last Thursday.
Mr.. Arthur McDade of Curtis spent Sat-
urday here with relatives.
Miss Martha Johnston of Palmetto was
pleasant visitor here yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. McDade of Shreve-
port were weekend visitors in Haughton.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Moore from the river
spent Saturday and Sunday here with
relatives.
We now have three cold-drink stands in
town, and still the weather makes fires
comfortable.
The children of our school have begun
rehearsals of the closing exercises for the
| Goth and 9th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grin Plat of Denison,
Texas, are here with their sick mother,
Mrs. j. N. Plat.
Mrs. j. N. Plat is still seriously ill.
| Her relatives and friends are growing
more anxious each day.
DR.. Murff Bledsoe of Port Arthur, Texas,
spent last Wednesday evening here with
his father, Mr.. W. H. Bledsoe.
The many friends of Mr.. j. F. Edwards
living here have been very anxious about
the outcome of his recent operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Padgitt of Shreve-
port spent Saturday and yesterday here
guests of Mrs. Padgitt's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Odom.
Miss Winnie Brownlee, who has been
attending school in Ruston, stopped off
| here Friday en- route to her home in Ben
| ton. She was pleasant guest until to day
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Bledsoe.
Rev. Mr.. Jones, young student in the
theological department of Mt. Lebanon
School, filled Rev. A. J. Wharton's ap-
pointment in the Baptist Church here yes
terday. His discourse was good.
Our community was made sad by the
sudden death Saturday of little Jimmie
McDade, resulting from appendicitis. The
remains were inferred in the Fillmore
Cemetery, Rev. H. j. Boltz of Shreveport
saying the last sad rites.
DR.. Ashton Blanchard of Shreveport
headed party of autoists who made the
trip from Shreveport to Minden and return
yesterday. They detoured via Haughton
on the return trip, and were loud in their
praise of the Bossier roads.