The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-03-14
BENTON, LA, MARCH ID, 1912.
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The News of a Week In Paragraphs

The season for hunting quail opened
November 18th and will close tomorrow
evening at shutdown.
II you have something on your farm
YOU would like to convert into money
advertise it in the Banner.
The duck hunters who camped on
Phelps Lake last week returned home
last Saturday. They again report poor
luck.
The report reaches us that Mr.. Marion
Odum of the Antrim community has
already killed two fine gobblers since
the turkey season opened.
Friends will regret to learn that MIR.
f. S. Burt has for some time been SUI
fering from stomach complaint. His
condition is now said to be improved.
Farm operations have been greatly
retarded by frequent rains, but we dare
say good crop season will yet follow.
Isn't rainy year good corn year, any
way?
Mr.. r. A. Grounds, planter from
across the river, was here last Thursday
on lodge duties. We acknowledge an
appreciated call from him during the
afternoon.
The Shreveport Cotton Wood Com
pany Of Bossier City will build a box
factory in that place. There is at pres
ent no box factory in the Shreveport
territory.
Mrs. G.. B. Terry of Shreveport has
returned home after short visit here
with her mother, Mrs. Sallie White
Mrs. White has been i'll for some days
but is now much better.
After an absence of some months
Miss Daisy Story returned home from
Rome, Ca, last Tuesday. She wa
called there on account of the illness o
her father, who died during her absence
Messrs. C. o. Gayle, l.. G. Smith, J
"A. Edwards and Jim Brownlee com
prised a party who left Tuesday morn
ing to hunt ducks on Swami Lake, cas-
of VAUDEVILLE. They are expected HON
tomorrow.
Misses Lucille Edwards and Kate Car
ter went as delegates from the Bento
Methodist Sunday School to this meet
ing of the Parish Sunday School Asso
citation, which was held in Haughto
Tuesday and yesterday.
At the meeting of Cypress Lodge he
in this place last Thursday night thel
was work in the Entered Apprentice
degree. A call meeting of the lode
will be held tonight when there will
work in the Masters degree.
The season for shooting geese, bran
all river and sea ducks, blue wing tea
excepted, closes tomorrow. Blue wiz
teals may be shot until April 15t
Snipes and wild turkeys cocks onl.
may also be hunted until April 18th.
Clerk of Court B. A. Kelly left SUI
day for New Orleans to attend a NEE
ing OF the Democratic State Cent?
Committee, of which he is the memb
from this parish. Returning home
will stop one day in Meridian, Miss
with his son, Mr.. w. F. Kelly. He
expected home tomorrow.
On Friday of last week, ACCOMPANY
by Mr.. N. w. Sentell of Collinsbur
we had the pleasure of visiting the M
ler's Bluff oil we'll, seven miles west
Plain Dealing. The we'll is said to
plugged with a sweet gum sapling, b
this is not known to be a fact. T
story hardly seems plausible as gas a
oil are freely escaping. Some one h
applied match to it and the flame
indeed pretty and novel sight as
leaps and flares, continuing to burn
the stream of muddy water that is l
peatedly gushed out. The flame canr
be extinguished by individual effo
either by the use of a flat board O.