The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-01-08
Cores pondence
Plain Dealing.


Monday, Jan. 5.-Mr. w. c.. Banks of
Springdale, Ark, was a recent visitor
here with relatives.
Mr.. L. S. McGaughey, the Cotton Belts
local agent, celebrated his forty third
birthday Tuesday.
Mr.. j. T. Dudney has moved his market
and restaurant to his own building, just
below the Electric Theatre.
| Mr.. J. S. Rodgers has nearly sold out his
second car of mules since beginning to
advertise them in the Banner.
Mr.. R. L. Burks of Rocky Mount reports
second crop of peaches, with the fruit as
large as partridge egg the past week.
Last Saturday was beautiful spring.
like day, and some of our foremost lady
gardeners rushed out and planted seeds.
Mr.. George Mckenzie has ginned for
this season 355 bales of cotton. His gin
is located six miles east of Plain Dealing.
Since October Mr.. Ira A. Gleason of this
place has shipped by express to Shreve-
port butchers fifty head of hogs, which
brought him right around 5000.
Mr.. T. B. Demoss has something like
800 head of one-year- old hogs to carry
over for his next years meat supply.
Guess that's bacon sprouts a-plenty. Can
you beat it?
Mr.. J. S: Rodgers and family will occupy
the residence just vacated by Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. J. Allen. For some time past they
have resided at the Cavett old place, near
Collinsburg.
! Mr.. and Mrs. M. j. Allen have moved to
Natchitoches to better avail themselves of
the privileges of the State Normal School.
They will be sadly missed by their numer-
Gus friends here.
Mr.. J. R. Odom, an old resident of An
trim, and for the past four years of Pauls
Valley, Okla, is recent arrival here. He
, has Just moved to the Foster Allen place,
near Bossier City.
; Here is little inkling of what co.opera-
ton in its true sense means to our farmers.
Messrs. w. A. Bounds and J. A. Lowe
, saved to the farmers who ordered through
them one car of fence wire, (costing
t S2O4O.50) some $500 on their purchase, or
; exactly S16 per mile.
Mr.. M. B. Kidd has purchased from the
heirs of the G. w. Jones estate the store
house formerly occupied by Mr.. W. J..
Johnston and has rented the front portion
of the building to H. L. Boggs e. Company,
> firm only recently organized. Mr.. John
: ston has moved his stock of goods to the
Nuckoll's building.
Mr.. Jim Rodgers, son of Mr.. j. S. Rodg-
ers, and Miss Mary Self of Collinsburg, a
. rather youthful couple, stole march on
their friends last Sunday evening, (the
It 28th) and got married. Rev. T. J. En-
bree performed the ceremony. Congratu-
lations and best wishes were profuse, and
now all is forgiven.
4 WEDNESDAY.
l.. Little Miss Hazel Cline of Shreveport,
It has been visiting her friends here this
q week.
Miss Sallie Cole of Bernice returned
}. Saturday night to resume her school work
= at Rocky Mount.
l.. Messrs. Alma Wyche and Dayton Rog.
il ers of Benton were visitors here las
o Wednesday night.
IS Miss Oma billiard returned this after.
k noon from Ell Paso, Texas, where SHE
spent several months.
n Messrs. A. P. Butler and Frank Hud
g son Of Belcher, came in Sunday night fo
IS short stay on business.
lie Messrs. j. J. Robertson of Carterville anc
> M. G. Wright of this place were business
visitors to Shreveport to-day.
Rev. G. G. Woodbridge, because of
cold, was unable to fill his regular ap
: pointments in Benton Sunday.
70 Miss Florre Martin, who has charge o
ID music class in Red Land, spent Satur
- day and Sunday in Benton with hom'
~ folks.
N Miss Kate Mullins, one of our loca
ID teachers, spent Saturday and Sunday il
ia Red Land as a guest of Mrs. Ruper
~ Butler.
d Mr.. J. J. Mckinney of Rocky Mount i
E a guest of his daughter, Mrs. C. L. De
to moss of this place. He is here for medi
30 cal treatment.
ia Mr.. j. R. Honeycutt and his daughter
r Mrs. Berta McAlister, are now occupyin,
RS the cottage in front of Mrs. Lizzie Bar
i'll nett's residence.
D. Mrs. John Sebring spent Friday wit
Ill Mrs. Marshall, who lately moved to thei
farm (the Gardner place) five miles sout
of Plain Dealing.
Misses Stella Boggs and Aline Wood
W bridge returned home Monday night fror
Vivian, where they were guests of Mrs
We W. B. Boggs, jr., and Mrs. W. G. Banks
- Mr.. and Mrs. TIP. Garrett recent
e: moved here from Red Land, and Mr.. Gar
u. rett is now associated with his brother, MI
t l F. R. Garrett, in the mercantile business