The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-04-21
Topics of a Week
, Continued Story of Current Events

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.oant last Saturday here on business.
Superintendent of Schools W. A. Fort
con and Mr. W. P. Maury have returned
from Baton Rouge.
Mr.. Will Adger has ordered his paper
torrarded to Nacogdoches, Texas, instead
- 10 Montrose. We have reference to the
Young man-W. E.
Mrs. J. A. Parker will leave Saturday
for Mansfield, where she will remain with
ona Of her sons until DR.. Parker returns
home from the reunion.
We are told that Mr.. w. G.. Vance, whose
residence is several miles south of Benton,
has been taken to Shreveport for treat
ment. He has been in failing health for
some time.
Rev. B. C. Conant of Gibsland filled his
REGULAR appointments at the Baptist
Church in this place Sunday. His next
Fixed date for preaching here is on the
third Sunday in May.
Biggs e. Hanks have now had their
Mace of business open for some time and
we are pleased to say they are doing we'll.
Later on they will handle ice, fruits, can
dies and cigars. See their advertisement
elsewhere on this page.
Mr.. Arthur G.. Lee, seed merchant OF
Fort Smith, Ark, has been giving us
transient advertisement for several sea-
sons past. In making his last remittance
he concluded his letter by saying: "We
feel that we have been very much bene-
fitted by carrying this advertisement in
your paper
Mrs. J. A. Parker is dramatizing a book
and will at an early date give production
Of the play in this place. The cast of
characters will be local. After our school
closes, Mrs. C. O. Gayle expects to assist
the young people in giving a play, which
will perhaps be ''Among the Breakers or
G Tony, the Convict
Marshall E. French, white man who
several months ago escaped from the
Caddo Parish road camp, was arrested
here Tuesday by Sheriff j. F. Edwards
and Deputy Sheriff J. A. Edwards. He
was sentenced to the roads for six months
for selling intoxicants without license. He
was taken to Shreveport yesterday.
The Banner has for some time been
crossing the Atlantic Ocean in it's weekly
trips to DR.. John L. Scales, who is now in
England, and now it is to cross the Pacific
Ocean. 1t has just been ordered for
warded to Manila, P. l., to Mr.. G. W.
0'Daniel, an erstwhile Bossier boy, now
member of Company M, Twentieth In
fantry, U. S. A.
The northbound freight train reaching
here at 1908 o'clock in the morning now
brings mail. 1t is convenience to again
have an early morning mail from the
south. Since the change in the operation
Of the local freight train, until the change
above referred to was made, the mail that
formerly reached us in the morning did
notreach Benton until 2:4O in the after
noon. The Shreveport Times was very
much missed.
The Benton Dramatic Club was again
unlucky on Friday evening of last week,
when they gave a performance in Alden
Bridge. The day was ushered in by SUM-
rain and electrical storm, which began
about four o'clock in the afternoon. The
attendance that evening was, of course,
not as large as it would have been with
good weather prevailing. The door re-
celpts amounted to S23.
Mention has before been made in this
column of Miss Camille Kelly's illness and
the attack of rheumatism which followed,
as a result of which she has been unable
70 walk for more than three months. On
Monday of this week she was taken to
Shreveport, where arrangements have
been made with DR.. Paul Geddes, an os-
teologist, to treat her for month. Her
many friends here hope permanent cure
will result. Her present street address is
90 Egan.
Mondays New Orleans Picayune gives
half-tone picture of Rev. Webb Brame
ana another Of new Baptist Church at
Long Beach, Miss, built under his pas
,orate. There is an extended article re-
lerrlng to the dedication of the church,
ana speaking in flattering terms of the
young pastors work on the coast, giving
Y ms vile credit for being his able coworker.
uur readers will remember Mr.. Brame as
eae young gentlemen who a year or two
slhee married Miss Grace Stroud, then OF
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