The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-04-13

that the geese did remain on the plan
tation unusually late and that that NO
doubt gave rise to the belief that they
were nesting there.
Little Bobby, the thirteen -year-old
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Byrd, who
live near Benton, was operated on at a
Shreveport sanitarium for appendicitis
yesterday at noon. He is said to be doing
nicely to-day.
Mr.. John RIAL, son of Mr.. L. V. Rial,
sawyer at the Brown saw mill, arrived
in Benton this morning from Mansfield
and spent the day with his father. He
IS on his way to Ardmore, Okla, where
he will engage in the mercantile bust
ness.
Mrs. S. J. Braunig and little daughter
of Amarillo, Texas, reached Shreveport
Tuesday and are now guests of relatives
residing in that city. Mrs. Braunig is a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. S. Willer of
this place and will later come here for a
visit.
Mr.. Thomas J. Baten of Beaumont
was in Benton Saturday and while here
called upon old friends. Mr.. Baten was
born and reared near Alden Bridge, in
this parish. He has done honor to his
rearing by making a name for himself
as a very successful lawyer in Beau
mont, Texas.
A paragraph in last weeks issue OF
the Banners Minden exchange reads i:
''E. NJ. Carstarphen and son, contract
ors, have signed up the contract for the
construction of six-room bungalow on
Pine Street for w. C. Mckinney, work
to commence Monday next" Messrs.
Carstarphen are we'll known residents of
this parish.
One of the Banners Benton sub
scribers has about thirty hens from
which he collected during the month OF
March 375 eggs. About thirteen eggs
to the hen is not bad, when it is remem-
bered how many hens are nothing in the
TOWN world but gadabouts and cacklers,
not worth their chicken feed. Some
could have done better and others might
have done worse, but on the whole our
friend has been we'll served.
Friends will regret to learn that Miss
Annie Ray Martin, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. 1. H. Martin, of Shreveport, who
for some years resided in this place, was
taken to sanitarium in that city Sun
day for treatment for appendicitis. 1t
seems her case is of some weeks stand
ing and she is now too i'll and in a too
weakened condition to undergo an oper-
alton. 1t is expected the operation will
follow as soon as she has regained
strength.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Edwards arrived in
Benton Monday, returning from their
tour of sever weeks duration along the
gulf and Atlantic coasts. Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwards sailed from Key West to Cuba,
returning by steamer to New Orleans.
They report the Florida resorts crowded
with Northern people who, though usu-
ally in Europe during the winter months,
are seeing America at last because they
dare not venture into the war zone. Mrs.
Edwards returned Tuesday to Shreve-
port; @ ~"-@s
A neatly printed wedding invitation
received at this office reads: "Mr. and
Mrs. William Charles Banks request the
honor of your presence at the marriage
of their daughter, Nina Burdit, to Mr..
Lewis Eugene McClaran, on Wednes-
day evening, the 18th of April, 1916, at
Sis O'Clock, at home, Vivian, La" The
bride and her parents were former resi-
dents of Plain Dealing and all are prom
inently connected and we'll known in
Bossier Parish. The reporter has not
the good fortune to know the young
man, but wishes to join the many friends
of the couple in hearty congratulations.
AS you drive south on the Benton and
Bossier City road soon after passing
VAUDEVILLE look to the right, across the
railroad, where may be seen a continu-
Gus row of stumps from which large cot
tonwood trees have recently been felled
Some of these trees must have been
from three to four feet in circumference,
yet the reporter is told that they were
not planted as trees, but merely placed
in the ground as green fence posts. II
is not uncommon for round fence post
set in the ground in the fertile soil Of
Red River bottoms to grow and later be-
come tree. Almost anything will grow
in Boosters rich river soil.
Test Well Progress.
The prospect oil we'll being put dowr
one-and-a-quarter miles west of Benton
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