The Bossier banner., 1916-06-22
CORRESPONDENCE
Plain Dealing.

Tuesday, June 20.-Crop prospects at
present are good.
The young people of the Epworth
League enjoyed moonlight picnic last
night.
Mrs. J. T. Many will leave this morn
ing for Simsboro to visit her daughter,
Mrs. K. E. Ball.
Mr.. R. S. Doles spent yesterday in
shreveport, where he purchased an
automobile. They are getting thick,
sure.
The drill at the new Antrim test oil
we'll is now down over 1900 feet, and
indications of a strike are said to be
encouraging.
Mrs. R. o. Eatman and her little son
of Bossier City are visiting here with
Mrs. Ed Johnson. The two ladies are
sisters-in-la
An ice cream festival will be given
next Tuesday night on the lawn adjoin-
ing the premises of Mr.. and Mrs. En-
met Whche. 1t is to be given under the
auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of
the Presbyterian Church.
Mr.. A. J. Mckinney, who would have
been eighty-three years of age next
Sunday, died at his home near Rocky
Mount at two o'clock yesterday after
noon. The interment will take place
to-day in Rocky Mount Cemetery. Mr..
Mckinney came from Alabama and had
been a resident of Bossier Parish ever
since 1865. He was known as a quiet,
unassuming, law-abiding citizen, one OF
the best farmers in his community, and
valued member of the Methodist
Church. His death is deplored by a
large circle of friends. He is survived
by widow, aged eighty-one years,
seven children - Messrs. J. j., J. F.,
Ben, Turner and Wheeler Mckinney and
Mrs. jamie Burks and Mrs. Rosa Lott
sixty-eight grandchildren and seventy
TWO at-STandcnllGren.
Mrs. Brame and children of Lewis
vile, Ark, are guests at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Herndon. The two
ladies are sisters.
WEDNESDAY.
A jolly crowd of young people are
enjoying a fsh-fry to-day up on the
big lakes.
Mr.. R. E. Dickson, a Lewisville, Ark.
attorney, has been here for several days
on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Emmons of Jones.
boro are here on visit with Mrs. EN-.
mons parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. F.
Kirtley.
Crop prospects in the Phelps Lake
country are said to be excellent. This
fertile soil will grow about anything
and its crops are always good when it il
not flooded too late in the season t.
replant.
Mr.. G. E. Jones, a former resident O.
Plain Dealing, but now living in Padu.
cab, Texas, came in last Friday nigh
for visit with relatives and old friends
He is accompanied by his two children
w. B. and Earnestine.
The remains of the late Tom McKen
zie, a former resident, were brough
through Plain Dealing at two o'clocl
this morning and will be inferred il
the family lot in the Pleasant Hill
Cemetery to-day. For some time pas
he had been residing at Grand Cane
He took his own life, which is supposed
to have resulted from dispondency owe
his failing health.
THURSDAY.
Perhaps another bell cord will be sup
piled to ring out the marriage peals-
and soon.
A report current on the streets thi
morning is to the effect that at the An
trim test oil we'll a section of pip
twisted in two last night, leaving pipin;
and the drill bit down in the we'll.
A barbecue and family reunion of tn
Gleason and Demoss families of Mort
Bossier is to be held July 4th at tn
home of Mr.. Jack Demoss. Most of tn
members of these two families now il
the parish have been residents for years
coming from Claiborne Parish, and MI
Jack Demoss' parents were among tn
first couples to be united in marriage i
that parish. Messrs. Isaac and Fini
Gleason, father and uncle of the lat
J. D. Glhason, of Rocky Mount, are sal
to have hunted bears during pionee
days where the Homer Court House no
stands. A reunion of two families s
long identified with the development {
North Louisiana and with so many con
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