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The alfalfa fields are again green and
pretty.
Another inviting spring day, flooded
with sunshine.
Miss Pauline Dawson returned home
Yesterday from Shreveport, where she
spent several days with friends.
The Banners patrons will please bear
in mind that our terms for announcing
candidate for office are invariably cash
in advance.
Mr.. Claude Faircloth of the Midway
community bagged fine gobbler last
Friday afternoon while hunting near the
Nash old place.
Miss Arlene Woodbridge of Plain
Dealing spent Wednesday and Thurs
day of last week in Benton as guest of
Miss Pauline Dawson.
Put aside your turkey gun. The sea-
son closed with the last day of March,
and there is now about nothing left for
the sportsman to turn his attention to
except fishing.
An appreciated caller at the Banner
Office yesterday was DR.. J. P. Scott of
Shreveport, proprietor of the popular
drug store at the corner of Texas and
Market Streets in that city, and now
sole owner of the Scotland plantation, a
large acreage of alluvial land located in
Ward Two of our parish.
A new shipment of paper, enough to
last the Banner some months, has just
been received and stored. It consists of
i've bales, twenty-five bundles, fifty
reams, or 25, 900 sheets-as you care to
express it. It's weight is 1900 pounds.
We hope there is sheet or so in this
shipment that will reach your home.
Mr.. S. E. McCorquodale, who for
some time has been employed in the
Clerks office, has been appointed by
Judge j. N. Sandlin special deputy to
conduct the affairs Of the Office until
such time when some one has been
elected to succeed the late incumbent.
He is SON. law of the deceased Clerk
Of Court.
We have been requested by member
Of the cast to state that "Mr. Bob," the
play which will be produced by local
talent in Belcher, will be given on the
evening of the 10th instead of to-mor-
row, as was planned. Excessive rains
have left the roads throughout the coun-
try in poor condition, to say nothing
about the swollen condition of al
streams, and 1T Is thought that better
crowd will attend week later than a
thistime.
Red River at Shreveport yesterda!
registered t5.9, showing rise of l.!
feet during the twenty four hours prio
to the time the observation was made
The flood stage is 20 feet. The rive
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Weather Bureau read: "Heavy rain
falls of the past rty-eight hours vii
probably cause continued high water a
Fulton for about five days and propert,
should be accordingly protected. A sloy
rise will continue at Shreveport for al
indefinite PERIOD"
Tuesday afternoon during the rail-
and electrical storm two negro womel
BY the names of Mary johnson an
Fanny Bryant were killed on Mr.. Berni
Smisson's plantation, located seyera
miles south of Benton. In compan
with Alice Marshal they went to he
home to get out of the rain. The las
named quickly ligted a fire by the aid {
coal oil and then went about othe
duties, leaving the other two standin
in front Of the fire facing toward hersel
She suddenly saw them squat and finall
tall, one falling into the fire, but ne
before her death had occurred. Bot
died instantly, without speaking. tt
uninjured woman heard the .thunderbo
but did not feel it's shock. It left prat