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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-28
Remnant velvet 12c oz.

Fine rich velvet in pieces ranging from M yd to yds lengths just suits for hats collars and other mings
 Hundreds of these remnants, direct from one of New England best velvet mills There deep blacks blues browns and few other shades. And for whoever them there's a saving of about half more in cases,
 12e o7.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-28
EDITORS SORE.

London, Oct 28.-British and European continental editors wer @ breathing vengeance against the Bull garian government, today, because Lieutenant Weigener, Austrian's mi1i- tary attache and correspondent for the VienPna Reichsport, is permitted at the front before Adrianop1e. He has an uninterrupted wire service and the censor has orders not to alter or delay his filings. All other corres- pondents are corralled at Stara Za- gora.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-28
sERvIANs GREAT FIGHTERS.

Vranje, Serv1a, Oct. 28.-The Ser vians, today, occupied the Turkish town of Mitrovitza. in the Sanjak of terminus of the railroad running northwest out of SaIonfka- It's cap- ture gives the combined Servian and Bulgarian forces front of more than 100 miles in length
 Ratochanks Mountain Pass also fell into the Seryians' hands with Is Tur- kish cannon.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-28
EX-SUITAN IN PRISON.

tary governor of Kirk Kilisseh. Gen eraI Aziz Pasna, an Egyptian Prince who commands the Turkish cavalry there, and individual high officials of the garrison arrived here. today. un- der arrest, to be courtmartialed for losing the town. Two hundred sol- diers have been shot, 1t was reported, for failing to fight as effectively as the war minister considered they should.
 arrived during the night from Sa1o- nfka and is imprisoned in Constanti- nop1e. The utmost secrecy has been observed concerning him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-28

As one interested in the ethics o1 sartoria1 art. we desire to ask why horse through it's paces invariably dresses the act in evening clothes?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-28

ashington-7aving their clothes cleaned and pressed weekly at Uncle Sam's expense is new wrinkle in the governm ment service just inaugurafcd by the treasury department for tho agents.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-28
Third floor.
THE ROWLAND DRY GOODS co.

ed to Bridgeport hospital where his burns are said to be of a serious nature
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-28
ADRlANOPLE CUT OFF
 FROM THE CAPITAL

.eContinued from Page D cult but our military strength is srf- hcient to protect us.s'
 The Roumanian view is that be- tween Bulgaria and Russia, the ma ton is in danger of being swallowed in the Balkan commotion. Especial alarm has been created by a reported concentration of Russian cavalry and Russian aeroplane reconnoissances on the frontier.
 Next to Bulgaria, Roumania is the strongest of the Balkan nations.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-28

Main floor.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-08
FOR SALE
Florida Farms
Cheap, in good, healthy locality.
Correspondence solicited. Address
D. F. WEAVER, Mayo, Florida.
32-,
"No Pay, No Paper"

In substance that is what Uncle Sans
postal regulations say. In other words,
a publisher is only permitted to use the
mails to forward his paper, or other
publication, to bona fde subscribers.
In the event the regulation is violated
the post Office authorities bar the pub
Usher from circulating his publication
at newspaper rates. That would just
about take his living away from him,
wouldn't it?
kw The Government holds that the
subscriber OF weekly newspaper who
is twelve months in arrears is not bona
tide subscriber. Then it must be very
clear to all that we cannot grant credit
on subscription for term in excess OF
twelve months. This much We are will
ling to do for any reputable citizen who
is a resident of Bossier or any of it,
adjoining parishes.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-08
A Valuable Suggestion to Our
Young People,
Concentrate.

Don't spattcr A pint of brains over the
vast field OF art, science and literature.
Don't think that a smattcring Of Greek
and Latin, Analytics and college yells
make one a learned man or fits him for
business, and don't hitch business
brain to Greek lexicon. Many man
becomes nothing by trying to become
all. The shotgun uses much more am
munition than the rifle, but it isn't half
as effective except On little game.
The professions are all overcrowded.
1t requires half a life time for one to
succeed in them, and half fortune to
begin success. With business it is not so.
Get busy-do things-life's too short
for business men to spend effort on dead
languages and other things two thousand
years old, when living issues and golden
opportunities are calling them on.
The things that business men want
you to know are not taught in u"iver-
sity. They must be learned in prac-
teal business training school like the
Tyler Commercial College of Tyler,
Texas "a school that has for years
studied the demands of the business
world, and with its own specially pre-
pared text books and "learn to do by
doing" methods OF teaching, is meeting
them.
They are this year adding course Of
business administration and finance fol
those who desire the most thorough
business training possible. Young
friends, there is no walk of life that you
can pursue as successfully without 9
business training as with it..
Next week this paper will publish
statements from many of America;
greatest statesmen and business men a:
to the value ola business training.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-08
MIR. SenteIl Announces.

Mr.. N. w. Sentell of Collinsburg, the
present President of the Parish School
Board, and who has been member of
that body continuously ever since 1892
twenty years-is again a candidate to
represent ward three in the membership
of the board. His announcement is to
be found in to-day's issue of the Banner.
AS a member of the School Board Mr..
Sentell has been of undeniable service
to his ward and the parish as a whole.
This fact is patent, as indicated by the
number of years he has been one of its
members, and we learned this week that
he has become candidate to succeed
himself only upon the urgent solicitation
of number of his staunch supporters.
He is both honorable and conservative
in all things and has the interests of our
public schools truly at heart. In this
capacity referred to he has served his
constituency we'll and unselfishly, and it
should be borne in mind at all times that
the position is one almost exclusively of
honor. He is we'll known to the resi-
dents of his entire ward, to whom we
cheerfully recommend his claims.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-08
Why Removal?

There are in Bossier Parish at present
Twenty-Five postoffices. They are listed
below in alphabetical order. There are
six communities thickly enough popu-
lated to justify postoffices and which did
enjoy this privilege until the time when
rural mail routes were established in the
parish. They are included in the list
and follow the postofices. This makes
total of thirty-five postoffices and COM
munities that are furnished daily mail
by rural delivery.
Now, reader, let's make an imaginary
round trip from each of these points to
Benton and the same as to Bossier City.
Here are the distances between the sew
eral points and the two towns-in tabu-
lated form-so we'll figure for ourselves:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-08
Will Seek Oil at DOyl1ne.

A correspondent OF the New Orleans
Picayune, writing under date of the 4th,
says in that paper:
"For several years the citizens OF
Doyline have been trying to get com
pany to bore for Oil in their community,
but succeeded only a few days ago, when
the Gulf Refining Company declared
their intention of making a start. The
material is all on the ground and work
will begin tomorrow.
"This is considered one of the most
promising oil fields in Louisiana or Texas
by oil experts, and the present company
is going in with the determination OF
winning. The we'll is to be put in short
distance south of Doyline at place
known as the salt works, on Lake Bis
tireau. Gas is so prevalent in this dis
trict that hole made in a marshy place
with a stick and lighted will burn fol
several minutes"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-08
Political Announcement.
To Ny Bossier Friends.


My present opponent has published in
last weeks Banner list of speaking
dates and public invitation to me to
debate with him. l deem it proper to
state for the information of my friends
that will not be able to visit the vari-
GUS places named by him at the time and
on the dates he has chosen for the fol-
lowing reasons:
1. He has named no subject to debate
and know of nothing we could discuss,
since the only question involved is our
personal fitness for the Office, and can
not believe the voters desire the discus
sion of personalities.
2. have made my own plans to can
vass the entire district, and prefer to do
this in my own way, and not change my
plans'to suit my opponent.
3. think it best for candidate for a
local Office to go to the voters in person
and not ask the voters to come to see
and hear him.
4. | do not think that defamation
contests would be any assistance to the
voters in passing Oh our respective quail
ifications for the District Attorneyship.
Very respectfully,
T'Hos. w. ROBERTSON.
Minden, La, August I, 1912.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-08
Bolineer.

Thursday, August S.-The cool wealth
er of the past few days seems very pleas
ant, after the hot days of July.
Pulling fodder seems to be tho order
Of the day now.
Some sections of the parish need rain
badly. Others got good rain last Sat-
urday evening.
J. R. Arnold has the grading contract
on S. H. Bolinger & Company's Standard
Railway work south of Collinsburg.
B. Billingsly is moving to Plain Deal
ing this week, and D. w. Arnold is NOV
ing to the Gardner farm, south of Col
linsburg.
The dipping of cattle in this vicinity
for the eradication of ticks is proving a
success. Those dipped are now free
from ticks and appear to be doing better
than before. If you want any informa-
ton, ask J. S. Rodgers, Tom Ward OF
J. M. Cornish. MS.
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Are Much Worried, and Why?

money for another election, etc., etc.
If this is the only argument or pretext
which can be advanced by Judge Lynn
Watkins and his friends in their antici-
patton of defeating Judge Land, they
are advised to quit their campaigning
without further delay.
If Judge Lynn Watkins and his friends
do not know, it we're time they were be-
ing informed from the records historical
that many of the greatest achievements
of great men in the world were scored in
their seventies and some when they were
over eighty years.
1t may not be amiss to remind Judge
Lynn Watkins and his friends that some
men are old at forty and some at fifty
years, while ether men at sixty and
seventy and even eighty are young in
the iullness of their activity, in their
brain power, in their experience and in
their happy faculty OF firing out and OF
worrying men of lesser years in doing
things worth while.
Instead of worrying over Judge A. D.
Lands age, Judge Lynn Watkins and
his friends should worry over the votes
they can not and will not secure.
Instead of worrying over Judge A. D
Lands years, let Judge Watkins and his
friends point out a single flaw, single
detraction of Judge Land, single rea.
son, not pretense, why the jurist, thu
good citizen and the Confederate Veter
an from Caddo should not be reelected
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CORRESPONDENCE
Arkana.

Monday, August 4.-Well, we still
have nice rains up this way and the corn
crop is safe so far as the rain is con-
cerned. Turnipseed are being planted.
Some have turnips now up and doing
nicely.
S. C. Thompson spent Saturday in
Shreveport.
Protracted meetings are now in prog
ress at the Kizer (Ark. Church and also
at Oak Hill.
Mr.. j. W. Knight made business trip
to Stamps, Ark, the latter part of last
week. He is adding some real estate to
his property near that place.
Mrs. Clay Demoss visited in Bradley,
Ark, Saturday and yesterday, returning
to this place this morning, and is with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. DAVIS.
Mr.. w. H. Gray of this place, now
with the railroad bridge gang stationed
1t Stamps, Ark, was here Sunday and
attended church at Oak Hill. He re-
turned to Stamps that night.
A very old colored woman, wife of old
man Bill Rains, who resides on Mr..
c. N. Merryman's place, north of Arka-
ma, after an absence of three weeks, re-
turned to this place by rail last Friday
night. She started for her home a-foot
and alone, and soon lost her way in the
dark. She remained in the woods, with
out food or water, until five o'clock SAT
urday when she was found, in the mean
time being instantly haunted by bats,
owls, wild cats, mosquitoes, ticks and
other things that go to make the nights
and days in the woods of Arkansas hid
eous. 1t is thought she will be all 0. k
again in short time. She is formf
slave, a good old Chistian darby, and
worthy of the sympathy and respect Of
all good Southerners. RUDE.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-08

From communication in this issue of
the Caucasian, it would seem that some
Of the friends of Judge Lynn Watkins
'sare much worried lest Judge A. D.
Land might not serve out his term if re-
elected" to another term as an Associate
Justice of Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Worried?
This worry is pretense.
The very intimation OF worry, in this
instance, is ridiculous in sense and
serious in another.
1t is serious because the friends OF
Judge Lynn Watkins and Judge Wat
kins himself are realizing that it is al
most foregone conclusion that Judge
A. D. Land will be reelected by an
overwhelming majority.
The intimation "might not serve on,
his term" may be applied to Judge
Lynn Watkins as we'll.
If Judge Lynn Watkins were elected
could he give guarantee that he would
serve to the end of his term?
Where is the mortal, the Judge in the
flesh, that can escape the final call? Al
things being equal, Judge Land bid.
fair to live as long as Judge Watkins
may remain in the activities of life.
Il is ridiculous because the friends o
Judge Lynn Watkins, if not himself, arr
striving to make it appear that Judg'
Land is weighted with the infirmities o
years, and therefore his limitation 0
service would lead to an expenditure Q
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-08

We find that in travelling from each
community and town to Benton we have
covered total of 697 miles and in max
ing the round trip 1894 miles, as against
816 and 1882 for Bossier City. Let us
now divide by "a, the number of points
travelled from, and find the average dis
lance to the two objective points. Here
we have it-201a miles for Benton and
"a miles for Bossier City-a difference of
So miles in favor Of Benton. Let US
now double these figures, as these are
round trips we are making, and we have
Al, 48 and Z.
So it develops that 81 persons from
these "a places in making trips to and
from these two objective points would
travel total of 1894 and 1852 miles, res
pectively, Benton being the nearest
point by an average of seven miles, and
Z times "a gives US 238-the number OF
miles more travelled in making the round
trips to Bossier City than to Benton.
Now, reader, if the Court House and
Jail were located in Bossier City would
not this additional seven miles, year in
and year out, prove big burden on
both the individual and the parish? 1t
would cost the individual more to reach
Bossier City than Benton and the parish
more when it came to pay him off for his
services, because mileage is always in
cluded as cost in attending court. And,
too, the burden of cost would be much
greater when we stop to consider that
the majority of the white people in this
parish live in its north half.
That prompts another thought.
There are in the parish 1896 registered
voters, subdivided by wards as follows:
Ward one, 50; ward two, 1871; ward
three, 253; ward four, 1889; ward five,
1914, and ward six, 1856.
Take your map of the parish and look
at it closely. Draw an imaginary line
east and west through Benton and
across the parish. You will find that the
great majority of it's voters live north OF
that line. And voters mean families
white families at that-and they are the
ones whose convenience we should first
take into consideration. Now draw an
imaginary east and west line across the
parish and through Bossier City. South
of that line there would be the entire
vote Of ward one (only 83), about half Of
ward six and little strip off ward two
The town of Haughton would be north
of the line and the vote south of it would
only be about 155 in number-less thar
one sixth of the total. These figure;
should open your eyes.
Again, had you ever stopped to think
how far south Bossier City is located il
this parish? On an air line it is full
thirty-five miles from the northern
boundary of the parish, and the grea
bulk of the territory of the parish Ca
we'll as its population) lies north O
the town.
Why talk of new site for the Cour
House and Jail when we have such goot
buildings so conveniently located to thu
greatest number of the people?
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Gs The proprietor of the Banner has
for sale scholarship in one of the best
business colleges in the Union. It en-
titles one to complete unlimited course
of bookkeeping, shorthand or teleg-
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You may have it for S45 by applying
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Mr.. w. S. Gunsalus, farmer living
near Fleming, Pa, says he has used
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Di-
arrhga Remedy in his family for four
teen years, and that he has found it to
be an excellent remedy, and takes pleas
ure in recommending it. For sale by
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Local Happenings
Tn. News of Week In Paragraphs

More rain to-day.
Cali at this Office for copy of the
new Parish Fair catalogue.
Mr.. and Mrs. 7. A. Wilkerson of Mid
way are the happy parents of another
boy, born about ten days ago.
The next public teachers examination
viii be held in this place on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, August 22d, 23d
and Oath.
We regret to learn of the illness of
Mr.. Turner Heron, at his home near
Collinsburg. He is reported to have
been sick a-bed for some days.
Mr.. w. G. Faircloth, who resids near
the public bridge on Bodcau, recently
killed in that stream an alligator meas
uring about six feet. He says there are
several others in the lake.
Messrs. w. H. & C. B. Hodges of Elm
Grove write us as follows: "Please dis
continue our ad. We have secured the
desired results already" Their one
inch display advertisement appeared only
one week, but got for them what they
wanted at cost Of only 80 cents.
A severe rain and electrical storm
passed over this place and the adjoining
communities last Saturday evening. The
rainfall was very hard for short time
and the electrical display pronounced
Since the storm passed the days have
been pleasant and the nights quite cool
Mr.. j. M. Montgomery, together with
his family, will next week remove te
Shreveport. He has for some time hao
dirt moving contracts in that city, which
calling we presume he will continue tt
follow. During the past several month:
he has built a nice residence in the city
Our town will regret very much to lost
this estimable family.
The big dance of the season was giveT
in this place last night. There were
between thirty-five and forty dancing
couples present, including visitors from
Shreveport, the smaller towns on thu
Caddo side of the river and elsewhere
Shreveport's best band furnished music
for the occasion. Nothing that woult
further the comfort and pleasure of thu
visitors was overlooked and the dance
proved in every way enjoyable.
Some one, apparently writing from
Bossier City, but who mailed his com
munication in Shreveport, has submitted
for publication reply to the article O
Ward Five" which appeared in las
weeks issue of the Banner. He sign'
himself San Observer" but in note t.
the editor can Old Subscriber" W.
have made an effort to locate the identit!
OF the author, but thus far have not sue
ceeded in doing SO. 1t is rule with tn,
Banner, and with all well regulated news
papers, to refuse to publish Anonymous
communications, which ruling we refuse
to breach. A notice to this effect usual.
appears at the head of this column. l
the writer will make himself known t
the publisher his communication viii
appear IN print next week, but not hi
name, which we will withhold from tn,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-08-08
Selection of Materials

The Balm method Of selecting mate
rails is particularly unique. The timber
is bought years in advance Of the time
when it is ready to enter the manufact-
uring department. This carefully Sc
the frost of winters and the sunshine Of
summers season the timber to just the
right degree of bone hardness and steel
toughness.
Balm method then insists that all this
raw material go through the most criti-
cal test and when it goes to the manu-
featuring department, it is rejected if
found defective in the minutest par
| ticular.
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Get the Banner free one year oy Sc
curing US three new cash subscribers.
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Miss George V. Stringfellow of
Shreveport has been pleasant guest of
Miss Lila Belcher for some days.
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public, as it is very plainly his desire
that we do so.