The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-05-15
Local Notes
"A Told By The Office Reporter

The weather is at last favorable for
growing crops.
Miss Nina McGaughey of Plain Deal
50 is q guest at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Swords.
Rev. T., j. Embree of Plain Dealing
slled his regular appointments at the
uethodist Church in this place Sunday.
i party of gentlemen (six) from Rus
Inn accompanied by two ladies, passed
through Benton last Friday afternoon,
j, three automobiles, on their way to
dallas, Texas, to attend the Shriners'
Convention.
Mrs. Jennie Enslee, from the southern
nortion OF the State, is now guest at
.ha home of Mr.. and Mrs. N. w. Sentell
u collinsburg. She is Mrs. Sentell's
amt and will make her home with them
permanently.
Our visitors from Bradley, Ark, won
the baseball game played on the local
diamond last Friday afternoon by a score
IT 6 to 5, and refused to play the second
game, as agreed. The home boys say
thew we're afraid to "buck" it.
Mr.. F. H. Farrar, the Cotton Belts
local agent, left last Saturday evening
for his home in Waldo, Ark, returning
10 Benton Monday morning. During
his absence he was represented by Mr..
Dallas Allen of Plain Dealing.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Hicks have moved
to Benton and are occupying the Butts
cottage, across the street from Mr.. P. c..
Taylor's cottage, now occupied by Mr..
s.W. Scott and family. Both Mr.. Hicks
and Mr.. Scott are oil field operators and
are at work near Benton.
The many friends of Miss Aileen Sibley
! Of Plain Dealing will regret to learn that
she is still suffering from some throat
trouble and this week underwent a slight
operation at a Shreveport sanitarium.
Ii wholly successful she will later un-
dergo another operation, represented to
the reporter to be serious.
Readers of the Banner will regret to
learn Of the death of Capt. Charles
Sherburne, which occurred at his home
at Baker, East Baton Rouge Parish, last
Saturday. Capt. Sherburne was the
father CT Mrs. N. w. Sentell of Collins
burg. Mr.. and Mrs. Sentell were sum-
moned to his bedside, but, as he died
suddenly, arrived after his death and
burial.
Readers of the Banner have before
been informed that the test we'll for oil
put down three miles north of this place
by the Producers Company was fail
ure and has been abandoned. Last week
We limited that another we'll would per-
haps be put down and we are pleased to
state that such steps are being taken.
Already the company's engineer has
been here and located the site and the
contract for the derrick timbers has been
to the local saw mill. The site is
about two thirds of a mile southeast Of
the abandoned we'll, nearer the railroad
and nearer Benton.
Saturday night Messrs. A. S. Brown
and ]. F. Hall, the driller and one of the
operators at the test oil we'll near this
place, when driving out from town or
their way to the camp, figured in team
accident that came near proving serious
One Of the bolts holding the tongue il
place dropped out and the vehicle was
suddenly wrenched to one side, the team
At the same time becoming frightened
and manageable. Mr.. Brown escaped
With only slight bruises, but Mr.. Hal
when thrown out suffered a fractured
shoulder blaze. He left Tuesday for hi
home in Madisonville, Tenn, and doe
not expect to return here to resume worl
before about July LIST. The outfit was ;
double rig from the local stable, il
charge Of a colored driver.