The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-07-30
or more in one night. Many hogs, pigs,
etc., have also been killed.

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Office three bolls of open cotton, the first
to come in this season.
Our good friend Mr.. Lee N. Bush has
ordered his Banner mailed at this place
instead of being forwarded to Natchi-
tsehes, where he has been teaching in a
summer school.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. Hill and their little
daughter, Jeanette, expect to leave
within few days for Stafford Springs,
Miss, where they viii spend two or three
weeks recuperating.
Misses Jessie Larkin and Madeline
| and Lucy Smith left one day last week
for Hunter (near Taylortown) to visit
Mrs. E. E. Simpson, sister of the first
mentioned and aunt of the other two
young ladies.
Pastor-Evangelist w. S. Young Of
Nederland, Texas, is conducting meet
ing this week at Ivan, and is anxious to
meet his old friends and relatives. The
general public is cordially invited to at
tend his meetings. (This announcement
was authorized by himself.)
| On Wednesday and Thursday, August
18th and 18th, the Parish Sunday School
Association will hold its annual conyen-
ton in Bolinger, and preparations are
| being made by those in charge to make
this one of the best religious gatherings
ever held in the parish: Some of the
State Sunday school workers will be in
attendance. Every Sunday school in
the parish should be represented by one
or more delegates.
/ Mr.. M. B. woodward of Bossier City
while here on business Monday called
and renewed his subscription. He thinks
that since the Inauguration of the motor
car service nobody will want the Court
House moved to his town-it now being
so much easier to get into and out OF
/ Benton. Aside from that, there are ouI
modern hard-surface roads, to say moth
ing about the present financial condition
of the parish. A new parish seat is out
of the question.
The Buckelew Brothers of Shreveport
who recently extensively advertised the
REQ automobile in the Banner, and
whose place of business was greatly
damaged by fire, will rebuild. They have
acquired the site OF the present old Mer-
chants and Farmers Bank building and
the lot between it and their present store
and will erect handsome, modern build
| ing on the three lots-perhaps six stories
in height and to cost 100000. They will
occupy the first two floors with theil
stock OF hardware. The sum of 0,00(
was paid for the old bank building site
/ The greater part Of the dirt work or
that portion of the Bossier City to Ben.
ton hard-surface road lying south O.
| VAUDEVILLE has been completed and las
Saturday the delivering apd laying o
gravel was begun. Also, a number O
teams are now at work on that section O
the road lying between this place ant
i VAUDEVILLE. Work on the other twt
roads of the newly created road district
leading east and south out of Bessie
City, is also under way. The writer i
not informed as to the possible date o
completion of the three roads, but SOM
say they should easily be completed be
fore the close of 1911.
The new motor car now being operate,
over the local branch of the Cotton Bel
leaves Shreveport daily at 6:35 am.
arrives at Benton at 7:16, at Plain Deal
ing at ESQ, at Bradley, Ark, at $40, a
; Garfield, Ark, at 1888 and at Lewisville
Ark, at 9:05. On the return trip
leaves Lewisville at $3.50 pm, arrives a
Garfield at 4:21, at Bradley at 4:34, a
Plain Dealing at sos, at Benton at 5:3
and at Shreveport at $40. The lengt
of the run. is 1872 miles and it is made i
two hours and thirty minutes. Their
are fifteen stops between the two termi
nal points, including seven flag stations
The car does not carry baggage or ex
press, but brings mail pouches out G
Shreveport each morning.
We learned yesterday of the death o
the 18th of Mr.. L. P. Peyroux at hi
home on the Crescent plantation, nea
Belcher, Caddo Parish, This announce
ment will bring grief to the hearts {
many residents of Bossier Parish, wher
. this estimable gentleman was well know
and liked. The deceased was membe
: of an excellent French family of Ne
Orleans, but came to this parish to re
: side about twenty five years ago. AL
ways courteous, always thoughtful
the comfort OF others, ever happy in th
successes of those about him, congenia
, charitable, and honorable in all thing
Mr.. Peyroux won many friends and hel
. their lasting esteem. There is gener;
!, grief because Of his untimely death an
a it means to the entire community
d which he moved a distinct loss. He
survived by one brother and other rels
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