The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-05-11
In and Out of Town
All the Local News Told in Paragraphs

Miss Annie Martin, now teaching in
Crowley, spent the holidays at home.
A regular meeting of the Police Jury
will be held in this place on Tuesday of
next week.
The days have been growing a little
longer ever since December 22d, but it is
hardly noticeable as yet.
Mrs. C. o. Gayle is still kept in doors on
account Of swollen ankle, the result, it is
thought, of spider bite.
Mr.. j. E. Bundy of Linton came in
Monday and paid us a dollar on subscrip-
on-the first for the new year.
Miss Alien Sibley, principal of school
in Cameron Parish, spent the Christmas
holidays here with the home folks.
Mr.. R. W. Hanks has ordered his paper
forwarded to Red Water, Texas, so we
presume he will not return here to live.
Mr.. j. r. Honeycutt of Plain Dealing
was caller last Thursday. He is still en-
thusiastic over the outlook for oil and gas
in our parish.
Miss Winnie Brownlee, student in the
louisiana Industrial Institute at Ruston,
spent the Christmas holidays at home with
her mother, Mrs. L. A. Brownlee, and
other members of the family.
Mr. Ralph Prince, who is here on So
cial visit, was caller at the Banner office
to-nght. He is not now living at Prince
ton, but is a railway postal clerk, having
a run from Shreveport to New Orleans,
over the Louisiana Railway.
Miss Leila White has returned to her
school in Lakeside, Cameron Parish, after
spending the holidays here with her
mother, Mrs. S. A. White. While at home
she had as guest Miss Bessie North from
Tennessee, also teacher in South Louis
lana at present.
Rev. R. w. Tucker of Ruston, Presiding
Elder for this district of the Methodist
Church will be here this week for the pur-
pose Of conducting quarterly conference.
It has been announced that he will preach
Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
! We presume he will leave on Sunday after
moons train for Plain Dealing.
Mr.. W. S. Clark, formerly resident of
this community, committed suicide at his
home in Shreveport Monday morning. He
used shotgun. Tying one end of a string
around the trigger and the other end
around tree he held the weapon pointed
at his breast and slowly backed away. He
vas about sixty-one years of age, and is
survived by his wife.
An announcement card has reached this
office reading as follows: "Mrs. William
Francis Bryant announces the marriage of
her daughter, Marguerite Isobel, to Mr..
William Harrison Timberlake on Sunday,
December 4, 1910, Dallas, Texas" The
Banner extends its congratulations and
best wishes. May you and your young
& bride ever see only the sunny side in life,
\ Harry.
During December the names of nine new
subscribers were added to our list and sew
era of our old subscribers have come back
g Us. The names of the new subscribers
1 are marked with asterisks in the list shown
elsewhere. We are aware of the fact that
this is not very big showing, but when
you stop to consider that they were unso-
hcited, and that this about represents our
average, it would seem to indicate a
healthy growth for our list.
The clever Cashier of the "Bank of
Frosperity" (the Bank of Benton) has
mailed US his check on the National
Bank of Fortune, State of Happiness" for
Three Hundred and Sixty-five Happy
lays" You have our thanks, Robert,
snd also our best wishes for yourself and
ne solid little institution you represent.
statement from the Bank of Benton ap-
pears in to-day's issue of the Banner. 1t
~ with both pleasure and pride that we
ssii attention to the fact that its earnings
an0 deposits are steadily growing.
ue have experienced something of a
wa snap this week, you bet. The change
uok place Monday. That night by twelve
sioek our thermometer registered twenty
Ysrees above zero and at the same hour
q tuesday night only eleven degrees.
ue OF our neighbors who rises early says
s.. Yesterday morning his thermometer
'sIered only six degrees above zero.
a'aay there was trace of sleet and
ae Time during the night there was a