The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-05-29
Notes
:. Told by The Office Reporter

pav McClain of Belcher will preach
! the Presbyterian Church Sunday ev-
euing at the usual hour.
81 Mo were told the latter part of last
.ok that Mr.. J. T. McDade of McDade
.,s al a Shreveport sanitarium being
,,eated for an attack of typhoid fever.
Miss Beth Gayle, eldest daughter of
IT, and Mrs. C. O. Gayle, returned
: last Friday from GAINESVILLE, Ga,
rbers she was student in Brennan COL
lege.
Miss Leila White, who again this term
,.rrht at blackberry, Cameron Parish,
..aynected home Saturday. After about
weeks stay here she will leave for
Natchitoches to enter the Summer Nor
nal School.
Mr. R. A. Smith, now of Benford,
rsras left Monday after short visit in
g. community with relatives and old
trends. He says he would like to move
h.ck to Benton, and may do SO within
Tie next few months.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. S. White and Mr.. and
urs s. E. McCorquodale (and their lit
IL ones) of Shreveport were here Sunday
IN = social visit. They were guests at
.ba home of Mr.. and Mrs. B. A. Kelly,
Mrs. McCorquodale's parents.
Messrs. C. B. and w. H. Hodges, jr.,
u Elm Grove Gather and sony were here
Tuesday to obtain figures from the 1915
assessment roll. They are at work in the
interest Of the formation of the proposed
good roads district for the river wards
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Doran left las
/ Saturday, for Nashville, Tenn, Mrs
Doran's former home. They also expec
d attend the reunion at Chattanooga ont
aav. Mrs. Doran will be absent three
weeks or a month, but Mr.. Doran will
return within day or so.
Miss Annie Ray Martin, during tn
term lust closed teacher in the Vivian
School, is again home. She has as he
guest Miss Mabel Lam of Clinton, an
Miss Mabel Smith, who was guest, lei
Monday for her home in Mansfield. A
the young ladies were colaborers.
After a weeks absence, Mrs. w. Il
Scanland returned home last F'rida
from Brookhaven, Miss, where she wer
to be present at the commencement eS
ereises of Whitworth College. She wa
accompanied by Miss Matte Belle Scan
land, her youngest daughter, who hs
just graduated from that college.
The derrick at the new oil we'll site We
completed some days since, and as tt
machinery and piping has been trans
ferred from the abandoned well it is e.
pected that drilling will be under wa
within day or so. The operators wi
use water from the deep we'll at the 81
Of the former Bulkley-James saw mil
which is said to furnish an inexhaustib
supply.
eay@ Residents of Benton and the Ell
tire community are reminded that pi
mic will be given here next Tuesda
under the auspices of the local chapt
Of the Daughters of the Confederac
The general public, and particular
Confederate veterans, are invited to
present. The ladies are asked to bril-
baskets. A literary program will be o
Of the features of entertainment.
Mr.. A. J. Winsted of Oil City, presi
ing over the general movements of t
6ne steers, hooked up to wagon OF 81
IN keeping with their united streng
arrived here Monday and has since trar
ferred all machinery, etc., from the
oil well site to the present point OF 9
Grafton. The use of oxen was made nj
essary because of the cut up conditi
OF the roads in the flats. Mr.. Wins'
q is said to be fairly past master at
calling, putting the whole outfit repe
i edly through close places and seldom
much as barking sapling.