The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-03-16
lin and Out of Town
All the Local News Told in Paragraphs

The young people of Benton are to give
another amateur theatrical.
Mr.. |. H. Martin is advertising corn for
Gale in to- days issue of the Banner.
Mr.. W. G. Faircloth of the Bellevue
con,munity is business visitor in Benton
to-day.
Two contributions to the Banners COL
nmns are unavoidably omitted to-day.
They will appear next week.
Miss Grace Larkin left Tuesday as
delegate to the State Sunday School Con-
yention, now being held in Monroe.
Mr. r. E. Wyche returned home last
Friday from South Bossier, where he spent
some days mixing with old friends.
MFR. viii Mercer of Gillian is again ad-
vertising his hawk calls in the Banner
The advertisement appears on page one.
Wyche says that at his store all grocer
les are sold at prices consistent with mar
ket quotations. See his ad on page two.
Mrs. Addie Neeson left Sunday for a
visit Of several weeks with her daughter,
Mrs. w V. Lay of the Linton community
Registrar E. S. Dortch of Taylortown
snent several days of this week here on
official business. He reports that there are
9O4 registered voters in the parish.
Mr.. j. M. Henderson of Rocky Mount
was visitor at the Banner office early this
morning. He left home Monday morning
and is putting in the week mixing with his
friends here and there.
Karl Mckinney, seventeen year old
negro employed by the Shreveport Cotton
wood Company of Bosser City, was shot
in the head and fatally wounded last Fri
day night by some unknown person.
Mr.. r. E. Wyche came in yesterday
morning with a twenty-on pound gobbler,
killed by himself and Mr.. T. A. Wilkerson
in the Nash old field. They were seated
side by side and both pulled on the ap-
preaching game at the same time.
The first quarterly convention of the
Bossier Parish Farmers Union will be
held at Pleasant Hill on Tuesday, March
21st, at ten o'clock am. All locals are
requested to send full delegation to rep
resent them.-W. A. Bounds, Secretary.
A Linton friend contributes the follow
ing: MIR. w. H. Jordan and Miss Lenora
B1ndy were united in marriage at ten
o'clock Sunday morning (the 12th) at the
home OF the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. E. Bundy, Rev. j. F. Hinson, saying
the ceremony
Mr.. E. S. Burt's barn, together with 400
bushels of corn, plows, gear, ETC., was de-
stroyed by fire about ten o'clock Monday
& morning. The origin of the fire is not
known, but Mr.. Burt thinks it was caused
by mice or rats igniting match with their
& teeth. He resides on the Honey Grove
plantation.
A meeting of the Democratic Executive
Committee for the parish was held here
to-day. The date of the primary election
& to nominate some one as Assessor Mad
ings successor was fixed for April 18th.
As yet no candidate has filed an applica-
1 tion with the Secretary of the committee,
and none will be received after the 9th
However, Mr. L. G. Smith has announced
& In the Banner as candidate.
The editor of the Banner respectfully re-
quests that obituary poetry not be sub
nitted for publication. This is rule thai
holds good in many newspaper offices
Such verse when good is usually not orig
inal, and when original is usually moi
good. A short obituary notice Immediately
following a death is solicited in all cases
Let the length of the contribution be
gagged by the prominence of the deceased
IL the community where the family resides
Mr.. W. M. Wilson of the Ivan commu.
I nifty called Monday and left a dollar to be
spilled to the Banners paper and ink
bills. He reported that he expected t.
open the hawk season around his farm the
following day. That's right, sir. Kill 'em
H But spare the sparrow hawk and the marsf
hawk. They are useful. Kill only thu
blue darters, Cooper's and sharp shinnet
hawks. Also, the red shouldered hawl
CHIEFLY confines himself to diet of mice
as snakes and grasshoppers.
Mr.. Smith Sosicits Your Vote.