The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-09-23
4 News Notes
Fl of the Week
Full moon this morning.

Big change in the weather.
Better lay in your supply of winter
wood now while the roads are good.
Persimmons are ripe, but the average
small boy found it out long before we
did, reader.
The editor of the Banner left yester-
day for New Orleans. He is expected
home Saturday.
Miss Daisy Story spent Saturday and
Sunday in Plain Dealing as guest Of
Miss Nina McGaughey.
A business visitor in Benton yester-
day was Mr.. Turner Heron Of the
Collinsburg community.
The lady who has sent in correspon-
dence from Carterville will please bear
in mind that we do not publish anony-
nous communications.
Miss Winnie Brownlee returned home
Yesterday from Good Pine, where she
spent about two weeks with her sister,
Mrs. Glenn Robertson.
Mr.. V. V. Wilmington of this parish
has again entered the State University
at Baton Rouge and furnishes his ad-
dress as 5i2 Boyd Avenue. e..
Good progress is being made in grav
cling the unfinished gap in the Bossier
CITY to Benton highway. About half
Of the stretch has been completed.
Misses Katie and Minnie Wyche,
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Wyche,
left Monday evening for Nashville,
Tenn, where they will enter Ward
Belmont Seminary as students.
Mr.. L. R. Bumgardner of Linton one
day last week purchased from Hender-
sons Garage of Shreveport handsome
i've passenger Chandler automobile.
You'll have to keep the roads in good
shape now, Mr.. ROLAND.
Hon. E. S. Dortch of Taylortown re-
turned home recently from Wilmington,
Del, where he visited his eldest daugh-
ter, Mrs. Phil Colbert. Also, while in
that State he visited Fort Delaware,
where he was a prisoner of war some
ffty-odd years ago.
We have been again instructed to for
ward Mr.. T. w. Bledsoe's paper to
Sligo, instead of to Llano, Texas, where
be went a month or so ago for the benefit
of his health. We are glad to note your
return home, Tom Bill, and hope you
have been fully restored to health.
We learn that Mr.. Jim Byrd, formerly
Of this community, but now farming in
Caddo Parish, has as good crop pros
poets as anybody over his way, and, in
addition to this, has made good money
in hauling materials for the Government
construction gang now putting in revet-
ment work near Sentell's ferry. He
has recently celebrated his prosperity
by purchasing in Shreveport handsome
automobile. May Good Fortune con-
tinue to smile on you, Jim.
An invitation received at this office
reads as follows: "Mr. and Mrs. Pres
ton Joseph Key invite you to be present
at the marriage of their daughter
Sanford, to Mr. William Hugh Banks
Sunday morning, October Sd, at ter
o'clock, at home, Gibsland, La" The
young man was former resident O.
Plain Dealing, and our correspondent
at that place makes mention of the ap.
preaching event elsewhere. The couple
Texas, where the young man now ha
employment.
Our neighbors up in Ward Three
realizing what good road we have int
Shreveport, are DESTROYS of having thu
road extended on to their ward line ant
from that point on to Plain Dealing
No doubt this announcement will no
come as surprise to many. The de
mand for hard surface road connection
would naturally be expected to follow
The two important problems to sow
are the route and the source of tn
funds. The road will, of course, b
constructed some day-and the soone
the better. We cannot say positivel
that an active movement with this en-
in view has been launched, but we d
know that Mr.. M. G. Wright, Polio
Juror for Ward Three, and Mr.. G. L
Demoss, also a representative resider
of Plain Dealing, were here Tuesda
looking over the assessment roll an
estimating the sum that could be raise
from a special stipulated tax.
N-" Lahoma" is the title Of the mel
serial story to be run in the Banne
The heroine is a girl reared by rugged
elemental men of the great Westcr
frontier, living out her childhood
mountain hollow and cabin, for tin
sent to great city to learn its way
and finally blossoming into beautif1
and shrewd, though kindly woman. 4o
will ind interest in every line of tt
story and will not want to miss a sing
chapter. The first installment will al
pear in the issue dated October I'll
Why not subscribe for the Banner ar
hare your subscription begin with tt
issue OF that date? or, if you are a d.
hnquent subscriber, renew your sui
scrlption before the beginning of Il
story. Following the completion
Lahoma' a serial story Of exception
merit will appear. AS clever portray
OF ncslon it outelasses anything We ha'
seen offered publishers for long tim
3 and gives a pranhic dissertation of Il