The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-01-12
In and Out of Town
All the Local News Told in Paragraphs

Plant your shade trees now.
Mr.. Grady Neeson is now at work in
Oil City.
The newly elected officers of Cypress
Lodge will be installed tonight.
4 regular meeting of the Police Jury
was held here Tuesday. All members were
present.
Have care, friend. Tomorrow is Fri
dav. the 18th. However, it won't happen
aeain until October.
Elsewhere in this issue Mr.. E. D. Taylor
offers reward for two hound puppies that
have been lost for some time.
The Jury Commissioners will convene
here on Monday of next week and draw
the juries for the coming term of court.
The children out at Mr.. w. E. Ivey's
home have the measles. We are told that
little Martha, the youngest, was quite sick
last night
Er Our terms for announcing candi-
dates for office are cash in advance in all
instances. The charge for ward office an
nouncements is So; all others $40.
The three candidates for the two district
Offices were mixing with their Benton
friends during the week. Their announce
ments are to be found on our second page.
Mr.. A. R. Thompson of near Collinsburg
and his daughter, Mrs. Mamie Fenet Of
Caddo Parish are spending the day here
with friends. We acknowledge pleasant
call from Mr.. Thompson.
Yesterday Mr.. C. B. Wimbish sold part
Of the Scopini plantation to two Nebras-
kans for $4,000. The tract sold COM
prised nearly 900 acres. The plantation is
located near Taylortown.
Miss Ethel Many passed through Ben
ton yesterday en- route to her home in
Plain Dealing. She teaches at Linton, but
the scool there has been temporarily closed
on account of the many cases of measles
in the community.
ssAunt'' Louisa Marshall, aged about
ninety five years, died recently at the
home of her son, Pete Marshall, near
Bellevue. She was the widow of ''Uncle"
Billy Marshall, no doubt as honorable and
trustworthy negro character as ever
lived in Bossier Parish.
Mr.. 0. B. Childers, aged about seventy
years, died on December 18th at his home
near Curtis and was buried in some coun-
Try cemetery in Caddo Parish. He is sur
vived by eight children. He was Con-
federate veteran, having served in Capt.
R.W. Turner'S company.
The Banner has just received forty
feams of printing paper (our usual ship
s 'ment) which laid flat sheet on sheet makes
stack more than five and a half feet in
height We will begin using from it with
our last issue in this month and it should
last until some time during June.
Tuesday Mr.. Ed Logan was brought
home from Shreveport, where he has been
for some time under treatment at a SANTA
rum. Our readers will remember of read
ing of his accident which badly dislocated
one ankle and crushed the other. He is
said to be doing we'll, but will perhaps not
BE- able to walk for month yet. The date
Of his accident was September 23d.
The local editor spent three weeks of the
past month with his brother-i law, Mr.
D. L. Jones of Shreveport, in hunting and
fishing. During this time and for some
time before Mr.. E. w. Hummel was regu-
larly employed in the office. He left US on
the 3Oth, going to Shreveport, and on the
3lst mailed us card from Joplin, Mo
We haven't since heard from him, but ex-
pect he is still going.
Mr.. Warner Young and Mr.. J. A. Bum
gardner of Linton were here yesterday
Mr.. Bumgardner informed us that there
we're perhaps hundred cases of measles
near Linton and that as result the schoo
had been closed. There are only two fam
lies in the community where the disease
y not to be found. He added that he was
Just from Cotton Valley the day before anc
the diSna so prnvailo1 thoro
MIR. Ben S. Dormon of Arcadia, known
% many of our readers, is now one Of the
Assistant United States District Attorneys
ior the Western District of Louisiana. Fol
Two years he was Private Secretary te
congressman j. T. Watkins, during which
ame he took law course in Washington
ne has done court stenography work ii
mlnden and other places, including thu
NATIONAL Capital His friends here will b.
peased to learn of his promotion.
- 1t is perhaps not out of place for thu
inter (who is only an employe) to 'brag'
= ane Banner a little now and then. 1t
.sc',lues for serving you are being reg
larry improved as the years go by, ant
~ TACT that this is appreciated is evi
nsuced by the growth of our subscription
~ ana advertising patronage from season
s 3 season. We have just put in more thar
s.so worth of new type, borders, paper
pssss rollers and other material. We ar
'-ly % serve you and await your orders
among our callers Tuesday was Mr.
\. Many of Plain Dealing. Mr.. Manr,
'oIed number of years to the cause o
~ fourth estate, and even until this da,
at resist when an opportunity is pre-
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