The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-03-12

a probable conviction, Justice Allen
liberated him on a small bond.
Right now is good season for the
drags to be put to work on our roads.
Mr.. M. B. Kidd will soon erect nice
home near DR.. r. L. Arnold's residence.
Mr.. joe Murphy, former resident of
Antrim, but now of Zwolle, was visitor
here Saturday.
Did you see the little flower girls at
the wedding to-day? If you did not
you missed treat.
Mr.. Ed Cody is building himself a
residence about one mile west of Plain
Dealing, on the Nliller's Bluff road.
Several bales of cotton we're brought
in during the past week. They COM
manded ready sale and satisfactory
price to the sellers.
Farming operations have been greatly
delayed On account of rains, though in
some sections considerable preparations
have already been made for planting.
Oil prospectors who visited the Mil
ler's Bluff well during the past week re-
port showing OF 100 feet OF oil. Leases
are being taken and another we'll is to
be drilled near that site at an early date.
Congressman j. T. Watkins has just
written Postmaster John H. Allen noti-
flying him that he has been assured the
proposed third rural mail route out of
this place will be established, the service
to begin June 1st.
Plain Dealing is one of the cheapest
buying markets in North Louisiana, and
as consequence her trade is constantly
growing. Some day you will see fine
little city here and then wonder why
you did not invest your surplus wealth.
Mr.. G. T. Mays recently purchased
from Mr.. John Arnold the eighty acres
of land known as the club house tract,
in fine state Of cultivation, for which
he paid s2OO0-S25 per acre. This land
readily yields one bale of cotton pei
acre, and is constantly growing in value
Mr.. George Demoss, carrier for Rura
Route No. 2, has just completed hand
some residence east and just outside the
incorporate limits of Plain Dealing. Ii
fact, the country in that direction is i'm.
proving rapidly. Mr.. w. G. McCarle!
and Mr.. Percy Haines have each bull
themselves handsome homes.
A real estate boom seems to hav,
struck this section of Bossier. Hardl,
a day passes that there is not one o
more persons here hunting lands, ant
the prices obtained are considered salts
factory. 1t is reported here that MI
j. E. Murray of Shreveport has just sol
his tract of Phelps Lake land, consist
ing of several thousand acres, at SIS pc
acre. .
Mrs. Mott Martin, wife of Rev. Mot
Martin, a missionary now located i
Africa, lectured at the Presbyteria
Church in Plain Dealing last night to
large audience, composed mostly {
ladies and children, and held them spe
bound for nearly two hours in describin
the needs and necessities of that won
drous land. She urged the need of nor
missionaries and told of the great nee
of physicians in that remote countr!
and of her travels for more than &C
miles to secure the services of a phys
clan. Mrs. Martin brought with her, Z
a nurse, an African girl, some sixtee
years of age, who sang in her strane
! dialect, the hymn, "Trust and Obey.
This girl, Bacuta by name, a hunchbacl
was admitted through Ellis Island
special order from Washington, {
account of her deformity and the poss
bility of becoming public charge. ST
( is the daughter Of a former powerf
chief, who had thirty wives, and VI
I converted to Christianity several yea
ago. Mrs, Martin is a daughter OF M
George w. Sentell of Bunkie and
cousin of Mr.. N. w. Sentel of Collin
burg.
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