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State Tax Sales
Immovable Property.
State of Louisiana Us. Delinquent Tar
Debtors, Parish of Bossier.

DY virtue of the authority vested in
II me by the Constitution and laws of
the State OF Louisiana, will sell, at the
principal front door of the Court House,
in which the Civil District Court of said
parish is held, within the legal hours for
judicial sales, beginning at eleven
o'clock am. on
Saturday, June 10, 1915
and continuing on each succeeding day
until said sales are completed, all i'm
movable property on which taxes are
now due to the State of Louisiana and
Parish of Bossier to enforce collection
of taxes assessed in the year 1917, toge-
ther with interest thereon from the 31st
day of December, 1914, at the rate of 10
per cent per annum, until paid, and all
costs. The names of said delinquent
taxpayers, the amount of taxes due by
each on the assessment of said year, and
the immovable property assessed to
each to be offered for sale are as follows,
to- wit:
J. H. & R. w. Boisseau-The e1s of sec
81, VIZ of sec @, 100 acres off east
side of sec % Gao acres) Red Chute,
se14 of se14 of sec 10, sw1a of swla of
sec II, SEA of sw11 of sec "A, sell and
s1a of mel of sec %, VIZ of VIZ OF sec
% and ~ of n1a of nwl4 of sec q, tp
10, rng Is, and lots and of the Stin-
son Subdivision 60 acres)-1260 acres.
Taxes, S740.57; interest and cost to be
added.
On said day of sale l will sell such
portion of said property as each debtor
will point out, and in case the debtor
will not point out sufficient property, |
will at once and without further delay,
sell the least quantity of said property OF
any debtor which any bidder will buy
for the amount of taxes, interest and
cost due by said debtor. The sale will
be without appraisement, for cash, in
legal tender money of the United States,
and the property sold shall be redeem
able at any time for the space of one
year by paying the price given, includ-
ing cost and 20 per cent thereon.
J. F. EDWARDS,
Sheriff and ex- officio Tax Collector
Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Benton, La, May 10, 1915. jun II
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CHAR E r
Morning Star Society
mber Four

- M ~
State of Louisiana, BE IT KNOWN, That
Parish Of Cdddo. before me, the I'M
dersghed authority, personally came and APP
peared Oliver Taylor, HORACE Wiley, L. S. Ross,
E. J. Monroe, Allen G. Miller and P. Dozier, the
postoffice of all being Benton, La, residents Of
Bossier Parish Louisiana, who declaring that,
availing themselves of the privileges of the laws
OF the State Of Louisiana, and especially Act No.
PSI of the General Assembly of the year 1914,
they have coyenanted among themselves and do
by these presents covenant among themselves,
each with the other, and with such other persons
as may hereafter become associated with them,
to organize corporation and body polite in law,
for the purposes and under the stipulations and
articles as follows, sto-wit:
ARTICLE /.
The name of this corporation shall be the
MORNING STAR SOCIETY NUMBER FOUR.
ARTICLE II.
Fhe objects and purposes of this corporation
shall be, to care for the sick and disabled among
the membership hereof, and to pay an assess
ment of one dollar for each member to the legal
representative of all deceased members in good
standing, and to that end the corporation shall
have the right to assess each member monthly
dues, to be determined by the society, and the
full sum Of 81 Immediately after the death of
each member hereof.
ARTICLE III.
The domicile of this corporation shall be in
VAUDEVILLE, Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
ARTICLE ".
The officers of this corporation shall be a
President, Vicepresident, Secretary and Treas
urer, and the following persons shall hold said
offices until their successors are elected, accord
ing to the determination of the society, to-wit:
Oliver Taylor, President; Horace Wiley, Vice
president: !. S. Ross, Secretary, and E. j. Mon
roe, Treasurer, who, together with Allen G.
Miller and P. Dozier. shall be the managers of
this corporation. The managers shall hold office,
according to the de termination Of this corpora
ton, by majority vote, and all officers shall be
managers.
ARTICLE v.
Citation and all legal service shall be upon
the President, and in case Of his absence upon
the Vicepresident, and in case of the absence of
both upon the Secretary.
ARTICLE vi.
This body shall have corporate existence for
ninety-nine years, unless sooner dissolved ac-
cordng to law.
Thus done and signed at my office. in the City
of Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, in the
presence OF the attesting witnesses, on this, the
9th day of March, 1915.
OLIVER TAYLOR.
HORACE WILEY.
l. S. ROSS.
Ell. MONROE.
s ALLEN G.. MILLER
Witnesses. PETER DOZIER
E. BERCHER.
/. G. ABNEY. $780,.
S. c. FULLILovE, Notary Public
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Sherif'S Sale.

Napoleon B. Murff versus W. A. Jones. No. COIL.
In Second District Court, Bcssier Parish,
Louisiana.
pY virtue of a writ of seizure and sale,
ID issued in the above entitled suit,
and to me directed, | have seized and
will proceed to sell at public auction, to
the last and highest bidder, at the front
door of the Court House, in the town of
Benton, La, on Saturday, June 5, 1919
the following described property, to-wit:
The southwest quarter of southeast
quarter of section 8, west half of section
and west half of southeast quarter of
section Is, and that part of the north
east quarter of section Is lying west Of
the Gregg's landing road; west half of
northwest quarter and south half of Sec
ton II, north half of northeast quarter,
southeast quarter of northeast quarter,
north half of southeast quarter and
southwest quarter of southwest quarter
of section Is, south half of northwest
quarter, southwest quarter of northeast
quarter, east half of northeast quarter,
northeast quarter of southwest quarter
and southeast quarter of section 10,
southwest quarter of northwest quarter
of section 20, west half of northwest
quarter, north half of southeast quarter
and northeast quarter OF section q, and
northwest quarter of northeast quarter
Of section 80, all in township II, north
of range II west, Louisiana meridian.
Also, the west half of east half OF Sec
ton and southeast quarter of northeast
quarter of section "a, township II, north
of range IL west, Louisiana meridian.
Containing in all 1926 acres, more or
LOCI re
appurtenances thereto belonging, except
the family graveyard, which was re-
served in said sale.
Terms of Sale-For cash, without the
benefit OF appraisement, to pay two
notes for s3i72.47 each, due, respec-
lively, November 50, 1913, and Novem-
Der so, 1914, with Z per cent per annum
interest thereon from November 50, 1912,
until paid, and interest on one note for
s3472.47, due November 80, 1915, at the
rate of 7 per cent per annum from No
vember 80, 1912, until November 80, 1914,
subject to a credit of S329.21, paid Jan
uary 20, 1914, and 10 per cent as attor-
ney's fees on the full amount sued on,
to-wit: Sl0,4t7.41, and interest as above
set forth, less a credit of S329.21, paid
January 20, 1914, and all cost of suit,
subject to a further credit of SiSGo. 10,
paid January %, 1915; and on terms CT
credit to meet and satisfy the note for
S3A72.47, to become due November 80,
! 1915, with interest thereon at the rate Of
! 7 per cent per annum from November 80,
1914, until paid, as shown by plaintiff s
petition and notes attached thereto and
all orders on file in this suit, with recog-
milton of plaintiffs Vendors lein and
privileges thereon. ]. F. EDWARDS,
Sheriff, Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Benton, La, April 20, 1915. inns
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No. 1 q bond) due Sept. /, 1916.
No. 2 q bond due Sept. l, 1917.
M Z n hona1 due Sent I 1919

Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, ETC.,
That notice of election herein called
shall be given by proclamation by the
President of the Police Jury, and pub
lishod for thirty days in the official jour-
nal OF Bossier Parish, as required by law,
and that said proclamation shall set
fourth that this Police Jury will meet in
open session on the 7th day of June,
1915, at the Court House in the town of
Benton, and will then and there proceed
to open the ballot boxes, examine and
count the ballots, in number and amount,
examine and canvass the returns and
declare the result of the election, and
such meeting of the Police Jury for said
purpose is hereby called.
Sec. 6. Be it further ordained etc.,
That said election shall be held in said
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Election Proclamation.

TN accordance with an ordinance
i adopted by the Police Jury on the
Doth day Of April, 1915, notice is hereby
given that an election will be held in
Ward Six, Bossier Parish, louisiana,
On Tuesday, the 1st day OF June, 1915,
at which time there shall be submitted
to the qualified electors Of said ward
a proposition for or against hogs run
ming at large in said ward, or for or
against the repeating Of an ordinance
passed by the Police Jury on July g,
1905, declaring a four-wire fence to be
legal fence in said ward; fixing the date
of election, the manner of conducting
same, etc.
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Notice to Mortgage Creditors.
Office of State Tax Collectr, |
BENTON La Nav ii 1Qi5

benton, La, May ii, 1910. !
IN conformity with Section IS of Act
i So of the Acts of 1888, and subse-
quent laws of Louisiana, notice is here
by given that all persons holding mort
cages upon real estate located in the
Parish of Bossier, State of Louisiana,
upon which taxes for the year 1914 have
not been paid, that will begin the sale
of same at the front door of the Court
House, in the town of Benton, La, on
Saturday, June 10, 1915, and that anum-
Der OF pieces of property so delinquent
are now being advertised in the Bossier
Banner, in conformitory with the law
preparatory to such. The attention of
mortgage creditors is especially called
to these advertisements of tax sales, and
they are warned to take such steps prior
to the sales as may be necessary to pro-
tect their rights. J. F. EDWARDS,
Sheriff and ex-oficio Tax Collector,
Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Benton, La, May 10, 1915. jun17
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Road District No. 9, at the usual polling
places for elections in said ward, and
that the polls shall be opened on the
date of the election at o'clock am. and
closed at o'clock pm, and the polling
places and the commissioners and clerks
of election shall be as follows:
Precinct No. i - Bellevue: L. c.
Biggs, DR.. J. r. Snider and f. A.
Gardner, commissioners; F. E. Biggs,
clerk.
Precinct No. g aughton: T. R.
Tomlinson, F. M. Britt and P. M. Els
ton, commissioners; R. M. Sandidge,
clerk.
Precinct No. 3-Koran: D. E. AL
ford, J. A. Cawthon and E. r. Cornell,
commissioners; jeff Brown, clerk.
Sec. Z. Be it further ordained, etc.,
That the proposition shall be:
To incur debt of $50, 900 and to issue
negotiable serial bonds therefor of Road
District No. 2, to bear per cent inter-
est, payable semiannually, and to run
for a period of from one to thirty years,
for the purpose of building, constructing
and repairing permanent hard roads in
said district, as per resolution of the
Police Jury of date April Is, 1915.
The form of ballot to be used at said
election shall be as follows:
Proposition to incur debt and issue bonds of
Road District No. 2, to the amount of $4,000, to
| run from one to thirty years, bearing ~
| interest at the rate OF per centum YES |
per annum, payable semiannually, for u
| the purpose Of building, constructing r.
and repairing bridges and permanent NO
| hard roads. -
! Proposition to cancel the tax of 5 IT
mills, voted in said district for road YES
/ proposes July IA, 1913, and levied by -
ordinance of the Police Jury July Is, Fl
| 1913 NO
| Taxable valuation, S...... IL
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THE listing Of property for the assessment Of
Bossier Parish for 1915 has been completed
and the roll will be exposed in the Assessors
office, at the Court House, for inspection and
correction for period of twenty days, beginning
May 10, 19ll. L. G. Smith, Assessor.
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TreSpasS Notice.

"E have leased from the owners
w (until they can selD the Hen
bricks old place, located in Ward Three,
and have fenced same. We will not
allow any hunting or trespassing on said
place. WILL and BOB CAMPBELL.
1873 WALTER G.. IvEY.
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AN ORDINANCE


Ordering an election held in Ward Six
of the Parish of Bossier, State of
Louisiana, for the purpose Of obtain
ing the sense Of the qualified electors
of said ward as to the advisability of
the Police Jury declaring fence con-
structed with wire and posts to be a
legal fence in said ward, or for or
against hogs running at large in said
ward; fixing the date Of election, poll
ing places; and the manner Of con-
Quoting same, and qualification of the
voters.
Section /. Be it ordained by the Po-
lice Jury of Bossier Parish, Louisiana,
in legal session convened. on this, the
election be and is hereby ordered to be
held in ward six OF Bossier Parish, Lou
isiana, for the purpose of obtaining the
sense OF the qualified electors of said
ward as to whether or not the Police
Jury of said Parish shall declare fence
constructed of wire and posts (four wires
stretched on posts) which posts shall be
placed not more than 10 feet apart, to
be legal fence in said Ward Six, or
"for or against hogs running at large in
said ward.''
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, etc.,
That said election shall be and is hereby
ordered to be held in said Ward Six on
Tuesday, the 1st day of June, A. D.,
1915, and that the polling places now
fixed by law are hereby declared to be
the polling places to be used in this
election.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, etc.,
That said election shall be held under
the general election laws of the State of
Louisiana, in so far as same shall be
governed in management and conduct,
as to time OF opening and closing polls,
and in all other matters in so far as the
general election laws of the State of
Louisiana are applicable to elections of
this class and kind.
Sec. A. Be it further ordained. etc.,
That the ballots for said election shall
have written or printed upon them, "For
a four-Wire fence against hogs run
ming at large)' and against a four
wire fence (for hogs running at large).
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, etc.,
That the commissioners shall make due
return of said election, together with
the ballots, ETC., according to law, to the
Clerk of the Police Jury at Benton, La,
On the 7th of June, 1915, or at time not
later than ten days from the date of
holding said election; and the commits
sioners and clerks of said election for
the three polling places are as follows:
Bellevue-L. c. Biggs, DR.. J. r. Sni-
der aud r. A. Gardner, commissioners;
F. E. Biggs, clerk.
Haughton II. r. Tomlinson, F. M.
Britt and P. M. Elston, commissioners;
r. NJ. Sandidge, clerk.
Koran-D. E. Afford, J. A. Cawthon
and E. r. Connell, commissioners; JEFF
Brown, clerk.
Sec. 6. Be it further ordained, etc.,
That the result of the election afore-
mentioned is declared to be for or
against the repeating of an ordinance
passed by the Police Jury Of date, July
2, 1906, declaring four-wire fence to
be legal fence in said ward.
Done and signed officially on this, the
10th day of April, 1915.
j. G. LOGAN, President
1875 Police Jury of Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
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Spanish Peanuts

In any quantity desired, at 81 per bushel
as long as they last. Better send in your
order at once. Address me at Plain
Dealing. ]. T. MANRY, S
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Dc given Dy pTOCldIudGlOu ny lile FTcS-
ident of the Police Jury and published
for thirty days in the official journal of
Bossier Parish, as required by law, and
that said proclamation shall set forth,
that this Police Jury will meet in open
session on the 7th Gay of June, 1915, at
the Court House in the town of Benton,
Bossier Parish, Louisiana, and will then
and there proceed to open the ballot
boxes, examine and count the ballots, in
number and amount, examine and can
vass the returns and declare the results
of the election, and such meeting Of the
Police Jury for such purpose is hereby
called.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, ETC.,
That the ballots used may be printed or
written and shall read: "For 5-mill
special road tax for period of ten years"
or against 5-mill special road tax for
period of ten years"
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained, etc.,
That said election shall be held under
the general election laws Of the State of
Louisiana, except as hereinafter modifi-
ed; that all legal voters who are prop
erty taxpayers in their own right, shall
be entitled to vote, either in person or
by proxy. -
Sec. s. Be it further ordained, etc.,
That said election shall be held is said
Road District No. at the usual polling
place for elections in said wards, with
the additional polling place at Sligo in
| Ward Six, and that the polls shall be
opened on the day of said election at Z
o'clock am. and closed at o'clock pm,
and the following commissioners and
clerks of election are hereby appointed
to hold said election.
| WARD ONE.
Precinct No. ATKINS: H. N. Cor
nell, r. E. McDade and DR.. D. J. Nc
Ann, commissioners; w. E. Connell
clerk.
Precinct No. 2-Curtis: T. w. Bled-
soc, A. Curtis and M. A. McDade, com.
missioners; Floyd Prince, Clerk.
Precinct No. 3-Taylortown: J. H
Mercer, A. +. McDade and Thomas
Caplis, commissioners; w. H. Hodges
ir., clerk.
Precinct No. Benton: J. H. Mont.
gomery, Gray Stinson and r. E. Wyche
commissioners; C. O. Gayle, clerk.
Precinct No. 2-Vanceville: J. P
Mccain, w. S. Tidwell and Albert Kirch
commissioners; J. C. Logan, clerk.
Precinct No. 3-Bossier City: w. T
Young, w. T. Coiquitt and J. B. Oneal
commissioners; A. N. Cox, clerk.
WARD SIX.
Precinct, Sligo: D. c. Elston, w. C
Horton and T. P. Moore, commissioners
H. L. Skannal, clerk.
i Returns of said election to be made a
herein above set forth, and the clerk @
the Police Jury is instructed to have pre-
pared for use at said election all neces
sary ballots, talley sheets, ETC., and othe
officers are instructed to furnish lists, a
required by law.
To carry, said proposition must receiv
majority in number and amount of tn
assessment of those voting. Notice i
also given that the Police Jury will NEE
at the Court House in the town of Ben
ton, La, on the 7th day of June, 1915
and will then and there open the ballo
!, boxes, examine and count the ballots, il
number and amount, examine and can
vass the returns and declare the result
of the election.
Given under my hand and seal of ofsic
on this, the" Goth day OF April, 1915.
J. G. LOGAN, President
1910 Police Jury of Bossier Parish, Louisian;
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PeafOWlS

SIX PAIR, two and three years old, to
dispose of at once. Price, S. per pair.
Address me at Hughes Spur La.
2C-3-p j. M. TAYLOR.
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Assessors Notice.

Benton, La, May 10. 1916. jun II
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-28
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION
To The Qualified Electors of the In
corpOrated Town of Audubon,
Iowa

You are hereby notified that a
special election of the qualified vot-
ers of the incorporated Town of
Audubon, Iowa, will be held at the
Town Hall, the usual voting place
in said town, on the Sth day of Nov
ember, 1915, at which election the
pools will be open at o'clock A. NJ.
of said date, to Z O'Clock p. M. of
said date, at which election the fol-
lowing public measure will be sub
mitted to vote of the qualified cleo
tors of said Town of Audubon, to-
wit:
PROPOSITION
Shall K. G. Weiland of Audubon,
Iowa. his heirs, successors and as
signs, be granted franchise for the
use of the streets, alleys, highways,
bridges and public places within the
corporate limits of the incorporated
Town of Audubon, Iowa, for the pur-
pose of constructing, operating, re-
pairing, reconstructing and main
tanning an electric light and power
plant, for the gerenation and dis
tribution and sale of electric cur
rent for light, power, heating and
all other purposes for which cleo
tricity may be legimately used, as
provided for by the following ordin-
ance proposed for adoption, pre-
scribing the method of construction
and the rights of occupation 60
granted thereby; said proposed or
dinance being as follows, to-wit:
ORDINANCE No.
An Ordinance granting r. G. Well
and hic hairs SnrpaSCprS and as
signs, the right to construct, oper-
ate, repair and maintain an electric
light and power plant in the Incor-
porated Town of Audubon, Iowa; al
so the right to use the streets. alleys.
highways, bridges and public places
within the corporate limits of the In
corporated Town of Audubon, Iowa
for such purpose, and prescribing the
conditions and terms and limitations
under which said franchise and the
right to use the streets, alleys and
public places, as granted: and the
method of construction and the
rights of occupation so granted;
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE TOWN
COUNCIL OF THE INCORPOR-
ATE TOWN OF AUDUBON,
IOWA:
Section I.
Permission and authority are here
by granted TO Il. G. Weiland, his
heirs, successors and assigns, with
In the corporate limits of the Town
of Audubon. Iowa, as the same are
or may be hereafter located, to con-
struct, reconstruct, maintain and OPP
crate a power plant for the genera
ton and distribution and sale of
electric current for light, power and
heating, and all other purposes for
which electricity may be legitimate
ly used, and to enter upon the pub
lie streets, alleys, highways, bridges
and public places of said town, now
or hereafter opened, extended or err
ected, and therein, thereon, there
under, and thereover to erect, con-
struct, use maintain and recon-
struct and operate systems for the
transmission, distribution and use of
electricity, to consist Of poles, elect
rio wires, conduits and other con-
struction necessary or incident to
said system and its use; subject,
however, to the provisions of this
ordinance and the laws of the State
of Iowa now in effect, or that may
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within the time herein specified. If
the Grantee meets with such accident
or unforeseen calamity, then the
town shall by resolution so extend