The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-08-03
Local and
Personal

A big barbecue will be given in Dow
: line on the 9Th.
A cement brick and pavement block
plant is advertised for sale at bargain
4 elsewhere On this page.
Misses Sauna and Mabel Handy left
Yesterday morning for their home in
/ Monroe after spending some weeks very
pleasantly in Benton as guests of Mrs.
L. C. Parker.
ag Mr.. w. A. Fortson, Parish Super
inton1ent of Public Schools, has asked
us to announce that the next regular
teachers examination will be held in
s this place on the 18th and 18th.
After spending more than week here
as guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. A. Kelly, Miss Blanche Phelps left
last Friday for Haynesville, where she
will visit for some days before proceed
ing to her home in Natchitoches.
~ am enclosing check for 81, for
which please send me the Banner for
another year," writes Mr.. F. A. Hensley,
whose postoffice is still Nacogdoches,
Texas. cit seems that l can't well get
along without it, for l like to keep up
with the Bossier news.''
Mr.. Alex Adger of Belcher is now
convinced that the Banner is the proper
advertising medium. He says he would
!, have taken Is cents for his chances to
to get back the coat he lost July 4th,
but one small advertisement in these
columns found it for him.
Miss Curtis Sibley is in Vivian on a
visit with her sister, Mrs. John S. Boggs,
but is under the treatment of Shreve-
port physician and makes visits to that
place about once in every ten days.
Readers of the Banner will remember
that she has suffered several severe at
taeks of acute Indigestion.
COOP SHOWING MADE.-During July
Sheriff Edwards forwarded to Auditor
Capdevielle his final report, which shows
his collections on the 1910 roll to be
closer than all collections made hereto
lore, lacking only two-tenths of pei
cent Of collecting 100 per cent of the
amount charged on the roll.
Mr.. ]. r. Kirklin of the Antrim COM
munity passed through Benton yester.
day afternoon on his way home from
Shreveport. He reported that there wa
good rain in Shreveport Tuesda.
afternoon, which fell as far up as Vance
vile in this parish. His cotton, he said
had fruited well, but was being ruine'
by boil weevils. After several examina
tons, he found no weevils on the cottol
between this place and Shreveport.
The readers of the Banner will regre
to learn that Mrs. L. A. Brownlee o
this place was to-day taken to Shreve
port sanitarium to be operated on. Sh
was taken to Shreveport July IL, 1908, t
be operated on for like complaint
which is tumor of the stomach. Sh
suffered long illness, but survived tn
operation,- and her many friends ar
hopeful that she is as we'll PHYSICAL
able to undergo an operation to-day a
she was then.
Mrs. William Allen, native of Belle
vue (this parish) was stricken with apo
IS plexy at her home in Abilene, Texa.
]. July 18th, and died three days late
She was a daughter of L. F. Steele,
Sheriff in this parish before the late wal
and a sister of Mrs. Jennie (Steele
Oneal, who died here some years agt
She is survived by her husband and sey
eral children and two sisters, Mrs. g.. :.
Hunter and Mrs. w. G. Johnson of Waz
ahach' Texas,
4 friend of this place who attende
the Curtis barbecue (given yesterday
reports that it was we'll attended and th
meats, etc., good. While there wei
several hundred people present, and tt
affair was declared to be a social success
the movement to establish drainae
district in our parish--the chief end I
the promoters in giving the barbecue
Was not carried out. Sentiment as re
cards this step seems to be abo'
equally divided, so nothing definite tn;
would lead to its organization W;
agreed upon. The Police Jury will
patitioned to order an election to tai