The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1916-04-06

| playing on a pile of ties stacked at the
railroad crossing in Haughton.
A seasonable rain, the first in a mum
Der of weeks, fell here last Saturday.
Miss Pauline Dawson recently &C
cepted position in Clerk of Court Jas
M. Henderson's office.
Mr.. W. A. Johnston came down from
Plain Dealing Sunday to take charge OF
rural mail route No. out of Benton
Mr.. Johnston has been teaching school
IN South Louisiana. Glad to have him
for citizen.
A representative Ivan citizen author
ICES the following reader: GA box sup
per will be given at the Ivan School
building Saturday night, the 9Th, fol
the benefit of the church organ. Every
one is invited.'
The reader will note that in this issue
(see page FOUR the publication of the
Banners Retrospective Column" has
been resumed. The data for this has
been compiled by Mr.. j. N. Thornton,
who will regularly have charge of the
column.
Miss Jessie Larkin, now teaching a
Caddo Parish school, near Shreveport,
spent the weekend in Benton at the
home OF her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. A.
Larkin. She was accompanied by some
young lady friend, whose name the re-
porter did not learn.
Mrs. Edwin w. Doran requests the
| Banner to state that the meeting of the
Self Culture Club to have been held al
her home on the afternoon of the 9Th
has, because of another gathering to be
held in Benton at that time, been post
poned until the afternoon of the 18th,
The Banner is in receipt of an obitu-
airy notice from Plain Dealing, the writer
having failed to sign his or her full
name, and the name of the deceased is
also not plainly written. The Banner is
always glad to print such matter, but
names of deceased and author of article
must be plainly written. Use only one
side of the paper and make the commun-
| ication brief.
The reporter is informed that Tues
day and yesterday fully thirty-five 0,
forty delegates from this parish attended
the State Sunday School Convention
still in session in Shreveport. Those
going from this place were Mr.. and Mrs
W. B. Wilbourn, Mr.. and Mrs. L. G..
Smith, Mrs. L. Swords, Misses Grace
Larkin, Jessie Wyche, Lucille Edwards
and Eula Hanks and Messrs. E. w
Doran, H. R. Mccullough, R.. Harwel
Lee and J. T. Hanks. Mr.. M. M. Adail
is attending the convention today.
Mr.. Marshall Terry, aged, twenty
nine years, died at the home of his par.
ents, in Shreveport, at 2:3O O'Clock yes
terday morning, death being due to iniu-
ries received in an automobile accident
which occurred in that city at an early
| hour Monday morning. His head strik-
ing telephone pole, he suffered severe
| conclusion of the brain and never re-
gained consciousness. The interment
will take place in a Shreveport GENE
terry this afternoon, the service to be
conducted by Rev. w. F. O'Kelly from
the Dunlap Memorial Church. Mr.. Terry
was born in Benton and leaves in this
parish number of relatives and friends
to mourn his untimely death. He was
an honorable, capable and energetic
young man and his death will be uni
versally regretted. The immediate sur
viving relatives are his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G.. Bruce Terry, and two sisters
Mrs. P. R. Johnson and Miss Ernestine
Terry-all of whom reside in Shreve-
port.