The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-10-01
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The next regular meeting OF the Police
,urv will be held on the 18th.
j noniury term of Bossier District
n.nrt will be convened here on the
,,nrth Monday in this month. /
Or. George A. Wise OF Greenwood,
s,ther of DR.. J. z. Wise of this place,
vas a recent visitor.
Mr.. John Glassell has ordered the
manner forwarded to himself at Shreve-
port instead OF Belcher'
Mr.. w. F. Kelly, now of Birmingham,
Ala. is here on a visit with his mother,
Mrs Edocia Kelly, and other members
Of the family.
Mr.. Ashley Sibley of Shreveport was
regent visitor in Benton and joined
M. ]. H. Montgomery in fishing ex-
eursion to Bodcau.
Mrs. Mary Hanks returned home Sat-
urday afternoon from Plain Dealing,
after short visit with her sister, Mrs.
q 4. n. Montgomery.
Miss Lula Wallace, who is now max
inc her home with her brother, Mr.. J.W.
wallace, who resides near Brownlee,
xas visitor Sunday and Monday.
IN to Saturday night 28S bales of
eoston had been ginned and baled at
the VAUDEVILLE public gin. If we are
correctly informed, the gin was not run
he first three days of this week because
CT breakdown.
Miss Lillian Dennig, eldest daughter
ii Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Dennig of the
Linton community, expects to enter
Benton High School as student next
week. She will stop at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Larkin.
Mr.. G.. w. Durdin of the Rocky
Mount community was visitor in Ben
ton Monday. He came around to the
Office to learn the latest war news from
the editor and to join in "knocking
the country because of the present
prices of cotton.
Miss Esther L. Thomas, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Thomas of this
place, left last Thursday for Tyler,
Texas, to enter the Tyler Commercial
College as a student. She is to take a
double coarse-both bookkeeping and
shorthand.
On Sunday, the Goth of the past
month, Mr.. R. H. Roby of Vivian was
united in marriage to Mrs. Birdie Morris.
Mr. Roby's friends in this place and
elsewhere in the parish will be pleased
To- learn of his good fortune, and many
win join the writer in this expression of
we'll wishes.
Mr.. Leo Cunning and two other
sportsmen from Shreveport drove by
the Banner Office yesterday and exhibit
ed an exceptionally fine string of white
perch, caught in about two hours after
dinner in Lake Bodcau. Mr.. Cunning
reported that they were striking fine,
but that the lake was on a rise.
One day last week little Neal Blanch-
ard Lee, the fourteen month-old child
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Mack Lee of Shreve-
port, fell from the second story of the
residence where his parents boarded
and sustained fractured skull. We
learned Sunday that there was slight
chance of the child's recovery, but have
had no further report up to this time.
A paragraph in the social department
Of Sundays Shreveport Caucasian
reads: ga. D. Tilman, jr., is the first
child and son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. D.
Nlrnan, formerly of Shreveport, but now
Of Logtown. The maternal grandparents
are Mr.. and Mrs. T. M. Yarbrough Of
Bossier City. Congratulations are ex-
tended the happy parents on the coming
ct this beautiful boy"
The contractor who is doing the grad
ing on the Bossier City to Benton hard
surface road has a gang Of men and
teams at work at site not more than q
mile south of the business section Of
our town. Our impression is that the
grading on this road is about completed
up to this point. More than week age
S. gravel had been laid from Oneal's store
y Bossier City out to point beyond the
hinnebrew old store, and in shor
stretches elsewhere.
The next Parish Fair, to be held a
Flan Dealing, will be open to the pub
@ lle on the 9th, 2Sth, 10Th and 30th o
ta's month. The 9th will be Schoo
Gnildren's Day, the 18th Veterans ant
Old Fiddlers' Day, the 10Th Everybody
pay and the 30th Colored Peoples Day
S. Inc gates win be open at eight o'clocl
eaeh morning. Many premiums ant
purses are offered in the several depart
ments. You can secure a catalogu