The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-05-18
Correspondence
Plain Dealing.

+. Tuesday, May 16.-A good rain fell here
last Thursday.
Mr.. Abney Cavett of Belcher was here
Saturday evening and Sunday.
Robert Keoun of Shreveport came up
Saturday evening, returning Sunday
morning.
Messrs. F. M. Cline, G. T. Mays and
H. H. Montgomery were visitors to Shreve-
port Monday.
Miss Pearl Collins of Antrim spent last
frlday night in Plain Dealing as guest
of Miss Beulah Keeth.
i Misses Graverta and Sadie Demoss came
IN from Brownlee Saturday evening to
spend the week with friends.
i Miss Grace Christian of Shreveport was
pleasant guest of Miss Lucy Perry from
Saturday morning to Monday morning.
Married, out Miller's Bluff way, Satur-
day night, Mr.. John Donley to Mrs. Min
ME S. johnson, Justice j. L. Crawford
officiating.
Mrs. Roberta Baker, who has been here
few days, left yesterday afternoon for
Lewisville, Ark, where she will stay day
or two with friends.
Hon. w. j. Johnston left here Sunday
morning for Baton Rouge, where he went
to attend to K. of P. Grand Lodge, which
convened there this week.
Miss Eunice Mattox of Bolinger spent
Friday night here with Miss Grace Will
liams, who returned home with her Satur-
day evening, the two going to Antrim to
visit Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Mitchell and son,
Edgar, of Texarkana, Ark, came in Sat-
urday morning and remained over until
Sunday evening with their many old
friends living here.
Word was received here Sunday that the
Health Exhibit train of the State Board of
Health would arrive here yesterday so q
general cleanup day followed for every
one in the downtown district.
The receipts from the ice cream supper
given last Friday evening by the ladies of
the Baptist congregation of this place
amounted to S26.25, from which something
had to be deducted for expenses. The
writer has been asked to say that the
kindly cooperation of the public was much
appreciated by the ladies.
Mr.. L. S. McGaughey, local agent for
the Cotton Belt, says that he sold thirty
one tickets yesterday to persons who left
for the Reunion on the big special. Your
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the names of twenty seven of them, as
follows: Messrs. D. w. Adams, H. M.
Bailey, W.B. Boggs, NJ. Covington, j. w.
Dodson, R. s. Doles, J. A. Ford, R. E.
Hamiter, ST., E. F. Kirtley, H. J. Lenoir
(of Hosston) H. M. Matlock, T. X. Nc.
Cranie, John H. Nattin, M. B. Smith, H. L.
Wheeler, M. c.. Wright, Mesdames. E. L.
Allen, r. L. Arnold, T. z. Barnett, W.B.
Boggs, j. W. Walker, Misses Hattie Kirt-
ley, Eppie Nattin, Maggie and Leora
Neighbors, Master Jack Arnold and two
old darkies-Robert Thompson and Tobe
Lyles.
| THURSDAY.
Mr.. John Hanks, carrier on rural route
No. z, form Benton, was here on business
Tuesday.
A portion OF the Cotton Belts freight
platform was cut off yesterday to make
room for the new track to be put in.
Mr.. Will McClenaghan, of Howard, La,
came up Tuesday evening and stayed a
short while with his mother and sisters.
Mr.. W. T. Lovelady, formerly of this
place, but who now is in business in
Shreveport, was here again Tuesday and
yesterday.
Rev. and Mrs. Fitzhugh L. Banks and
children, of Star City, Ark, arrived here
yesterday morning and will spend a few
days as guests of relatives.
Mesdames. w. A. Thompson and j. B.
Adger from the other side Of the river we're
guests Tuesday Of Mrs. W. L. Sibley.
Mrs. Sibley returned with them to visit for
few days.
'sThe Brookdale Farm rural drama
in four acts, will be presented at the Opera
House by local talent Saturday night-the
Goth. An admission fee of Is and Is cents
will be charged.
Hauehton.
Monday, May 15.-Crop prospects are
good in this vicinity.
Mrs. j. J. Crow is visiting her son living
in Hope, Ark.
/ Mrs. D. E. Afford returned home from
the sanitarium last Thursday.
Mr.. w. P. Bowen was visitor to Bos-
sier City Saturday and yesterday.
Miss Maude McAnn has gone to Little
Rock, Ark, to attend the Reunion.
Mr.. C. D. Murff and family of Oakland
attended church services here yesterday.
Mrs. H. G. Nelson of Ruston is visitor
here with her daughter, Mrs. j. E. Wyche.
Mrs. Louis Padgett of Shreveport was q
visitor here last week-a guest of her
parents.
Rev. j. H. Afford filled his regular ap-
pointment at the Baptist Church here