The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-03-23
IN and Out of Town
: - The Local News Told in Paragraphs

II Al the Local News Told !" Paragraphs
Notice the change in Gayle's ad.
rhe total Indebtedness of Bossier Parish
4 date is S3776.63.
/. visitor in Benton yesterday was Mr..
r.enn Brown, who has many friends here
~ ". A. Abney of Dixie and Mr.. j. A.
.b ~, of Shreveport were visitors in Ben
Ton Sunday.
Mr. Dan Rogers returned Tuesday from
i a,,;sville, Ark, where he spent some days
!: With old friends.
ur R. E. Wyche, the most successful
,a-tav hunter in our town, brought in the
ssme :. again Monday morning.
MI. H. Peace expects to install soda
tonrtain in his grocery store and will sell
aid aid drinks during the season.
Mr.F. B. Ogden has now been up and
~ Ear week. He suffered an attack Of
one,,monia, but it proved mild case.
10 date Mr.. L. G. Smith is the only can
a;date for the Assessors Office, or rather,
q the only person who has made legal ap-
nl;eation as candidate.
Mrs David Wallace left Sunday for her
home IN Texarkana after spending week
rleasantly here with her parents, Mr.. and
Ms. j. NJ. Montgomery.
Mrs. Louisa Wallace recently returned
- her home near this place after spending
b s: ,uo -, weeks or more at the home of her son,
N. David Wallace of Texarkana.
Mr.. Warren Young of this parish, a Con-
iederate veteran Company D, Ninth Lou
. ;siana Regiment) has just been granted q
nansion by the State Pension Board.
Mr.. T. B. Bixler, the Plain Dealing Con-
sable was here Monday. He came to
hiring Emmett Stewart (colored) who was
n odped 10 Jail on charge of crap shooting.
Two visitors in Benton Tuesday were
Nsssers. Maury Mann and Clyde Biggs,
Students last term in the high school here.
They returned to Shreveport the following
morning.
Miss Grace Larkin has returned from
Monroe. where she attended the State
Sunday School Convention. She reports
i pleasant time, and a gathering that will
Rave it's beneficial effects for time to come.
NJ. John F. Adair of Ivan called last
FEday and had his subscription date
moved up from October 4, 1911, to October
1912. He says he wants his Banner
always paid for in advance. That's the
way, sir.
Mrs. W. H. Scanland left this morning
lor Alexandria to attend State confer
ence Of the chapters of the Daughters Of
ihe American Revolution. She goes as the
delegate from Shreveport Chapter (that
shY) She is expected home Sunday.
Miss Leila White, who has been teach
ing at Grand Lake, Cameron Parish, has
finished the school term there and is now
eaching in Johnson Bayou, that parish
Mss Ailene Sibley, who was teaching witt
Aef, is also now teaching elsewhere. Bott
he young ladies are from this place.
Young people of this place will give {
bneft entertainment at the school audito'
nun during the coming month, either OF
lhe evening of the 14th or 21st. The play
elscted is stony, the Convict" It is I
drama q good, strong play-but fur
alshes characters that will greatly amuse
Ihscast is good and the play will no doub
y well up to the standard in Benton
shich is saying no little.
Mf. R. E. Wyche reports that there wa
ole time at the Masonic hall in Piail
saling Tuesday night. There was worl
fhe third degree-Mr. Hinkle Strou'
geiag raised land after the labors of tn
1eaee Wefe finished for the night an oyste
q viper was enjoyed. Other visitors wer
eesrs. r. A. Smith, John Brown an
aaa Hanks of this place, E. M. Laughli
nv ~ 8. Meadows of Aldren Bridge an
rupert Butler of Red Land.
editor of the Banner respectfully re
assls that obituary poetry not be sub
Tor publication. This is "a rule ths
aas good in many newspaper Offices
81 verse when good is usually not orig
z5 and when original is usually nc
s.as 4 short obituary notice immediatel
oslng death is solicited in all cases
we length of the contribution b
by the prominence of the decease
" community where the family resides
IS Wapbsley, a negro employed on tn
spn plantation, was brought in Tues
m Mr.. A. B. McIver and lodged in ia
e1arge of stealing hogs. While in tt
Office he made break for liber'
aned some distance, but Mr.. Mclv'
mounted horse and recapture
hen he made his first dash he WI
once by Mr.. McIver and sever
ny Sheriff Edwards, but he was n
tact, they did not try hard to b
T. we charge against him is trivial.
he Singer Stocking Darner.