The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-11-08
DO YOU observe the wheatless days:

DO YOU observe the wheatless days!
Indian summer days. all right, but
they are some for chilly.
Mr. NJ. S. Bolinger of Shreveport was
business visitor in Benton yesterday.
A regular meeting of the Police Jury |
will be held in this place Tuesday 'of |
next week.
Thanksgivings Day is now but three |
weeks off. Get up your turkeys and
begin to look them over.
Mr. c. l.. Hooper, now principal or
the Campti School, was Il social visitor
i'm Benton last Saturday and Sunday.
We have been requested to announce
that Rev. Will Young of the Ivan COM
munity. will preach Sunday at the Lin
ton Church.
Rev. G. &. Woodbridge Of Plain
Dealing was here Sunday to fill his
regular appointments at the Presbyte-
rian Church.
Miss Bessie Crawford, who teaches
at Gibl,sland, Spent the weekend In
Benton as a guest of her sister, Mrs.
Gillum Wyche.
Mr.. Isaac Hoffpauir of the Hughes
Spur community left Sunday for St
Louis, where he was called on business.
He is expected home the latter part Of
this week.
Mr.. j. H. Simmons reports that prior
to October 18th there were Ii. 431 bales
of cotton ginned in Bossier Parish from
the 1917 CROP as compared with 2O,OS6
for the corresponding date of 1916.
Mr.. 4. NJ. league, an industrious
farmer who resides several miles east
of Benton, reports that he is making
UP his ribbon cane syrup this week.
and that it is fine. He will have up
ward of 2G0 gallons.
We arc pleased to report the greatly
improved condition Of Mrs. Ed Logan.
1t is thought that 10y Sunday she will
be able to sit up. Her mother. Mrs.
Matte G.. 4Adger. whose illness was
mentioned last week, is again up and
able to be out.
4 visitor this afternoon was MIR. En-
nest Peace, son of Mr.. and Mrs. L. :.
Peace, who reside at Dixie X Roads.
He reported that he and his neighbors
had about finished picking cotton and
that the making of syrup was now the
order of the day.
Mr.. X. Il. Thomas, manager at the
Bossier City public gin. reports that In
Guiding to-day's ran there have been
giIned at that plant this season 1872
bales OF cotton. He expects the total
number for the gin this season to be
between 220O and 300.
Reports have reached this Office OF
several visitors to the State Fair from
Bossier Parish being touched or hav
ing their pockets picked. The heavies1
loser, SC far as we are Informed, wa.
Mr.. e. ID. Foster. who lives near tllt
site of the former saw mill town O1
Antrim Ee lost in cash nearly $1O(
and Il tote he had in his purse. ~.
There were many visitors from Ben
ton and this section to the State Fair
SO far as we have been able to learn
all give in like report-tllat the fai
was bigger and of more interest tlli
year than ever before Some who say
it enc day promptly returned the FOL
Lowing Gay. and there were many VIII
attended mere than one day.
In last weeks issue of the Banne
the dates of the coming Sunday schOt
conventions were given as the :,3t
.4th and 18th. They have since bee
changed, as is to he seen from til
notice appearing elsewhere in this issu
Of the Banner The gatherings will
held at Plain Dealing, Benton al
Haughton on the 18th, 18th and 10Th
On the Plantations south of BentG
there is still some little cotton to
picked hut the majority of the fell
are quite clean. In fact, some Of the
are about as clean as we ever remeI
Der seeing cotton picked. and most
the cotton in this entire section of Il
parish is out. On the other side Of Il
river we hear Of fields white and son
as yet untouched. One dollar per hu
bred. an unprecedented price, is bell
offered to pickers
Readers of the Basner will feel /
terested in Il double wedding celebr,l
ed in Shreveport last Saturday eve
In. at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. +.
Frost, parents of the brides. Mi
Mary Frost was united in marriage
Iiern. John Winston Willis and Mi
Elizabeth Frost became the bride
Mr.. Frank L. Whited. Lieut.. Willis
Il son of Or. and Mrs. j. G. Willis al
the other yeung man Is a son Of N
and Mrs. L. 4. Whited. SO long re-
dents Of Alden Bridge The writ
wishes to extend his best wishes
these two happy young couples.
In last weeks isxne of the Baum
and i'll many of its former issues ,
have had something to say about t
growing of necans in Rossier Paris
Visitors to the State Fair last we
had an opportunity to zee just VIII
kind of rccans can be grown In /
parish. On Mrs. John A. Skanna
plantation, in the southern portion