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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08
Rocky Mount.

Monday, March 5.-The beginning
of the month Of March has been dis
agreeable. A lot of rain has fallen.
Hon. L. If. Burks made a business
trip to Shreveport last week.
Mr.. w. A. Bounds and family are
expected to take the measles at any
time.
Mr. Walter Bounds has been very
i'll with meas'es but is doing nicely at
present.
Mr.. G. M. Bounds spent yesterday
afternoon at the home of Mr.. R
F. Og,esby.
Sunday school was held Yesterday
as usual. at this place and a large
crcwd attended.
Mr.. c. H. Mckinney has "sprized'
his friends by driving around in 9
new Maxwell car.
Mr.. links Oglesbv of Ivan spent
SATURDAY. nioht and yesterday witt
his brother, R. F. Oglesby.
Mr.. Aaron Kirklin was a welcome
visitor at the home of Mr.. ]. ]
Bounds yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. G. A. Bounds left this morn
ing to attend a w. @. w. convention
He is to be gone for the week.
Parson Bounds called at home yes
terday morning.-as usual-thougl
the measles could not welcome him in
Mr., Carlton Oglesby and Mr.. F. E
Arledge are welcome visitors at thu
home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. Lofts. VIII,
reside near Plain Dealing.
Yesterday morning residents O
this community were SURPRISED il
finding the ground covered with snow
However. before the afternoon ha'
rassed the sun was shining on
brightly, which pleased all.
Miss Estelle Dcdson spent Sunda,
at the home of Mr.. w. A. Bounds
She expects to leave today for he
home. On account Of measles an.
- she does not expect to finisl
her school at Tough Creek.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08
Rossier City.


Tuesday. March s.-Everybody is
busy planting gardens, etc,
Several eases of measles are re-
ported this week,
Mr.. and Mrs. Gipson Of Ringgold
visited home folks last week.
The citv is contemplating the in
sta'ling of waterworks at some time
in the near future.
Mrs. O. F. Shaver of Grand Bayou
visited her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. T..
P. Switzerland, this week.
Mr.. T. A.. Wilkinson, formerly of
Al.endale, has moved to our town.
We are glad to welcome him and his
family to our midst.
Mr.. George McHay, while at work
at the Meridian fertilizer factory,
was very painfully burned about the
head and face by the bursting Of a
pipe containing acid, but Is now able
to. be up.
Mrs. M. A. Brown had the mis-
fortune of cutting her hand so badly
/. by the breaking of bottle that she
was handling that it was necessary
i for her to be taken to a Shreveport
rnritarium, where she underwent {
slight operation. She is doing NIGEL,
at present.
i Mr.. ]. w. Owslev, resident of thi
place. happened to painful acciden
one day last week. In some manne
he lost his BALANCE and fell from tn
porch of his store, breaking his arm
and sustaining severe bruises abou
the body. He has been a patient a
Shreveport sanitarium for the pas
few DAVIS but was able to be braugh
. home today. His friends hope 70
/ him a speedy recovery,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08
Rates and Rules.

,,,t4r, RaNNER,S rate for Display Advertise
i rnants is l2ss cents per inch per week, Is
cants per inch for the first insertion. cFhe "a
canfs rer inch added for the first insertion being
to nay FOR composition0 Other exceptions to the
19 cent rate are: That % cents per inch will be
charged for the first insertion Of all advertise
menss measuring less than six inches, and 20
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Reading notices, 5 cents per line per week;
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Political display advertisements, % cents per
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for subsequent Insertions. Political readers, 10
cents per line for first insertion and cents per
line for subsequent insertions.
The legal rate will be charged for all legal ad-
yertisements.
Professional cards, $40 per year.
All copy for display advertisements should
reach this Office not later than Tuesday AFTER
noon When it comes in later its insertion IN the
issue for that week is not guaranteed.
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,ished There is no objection to the use OF pen
name, but the editors demand to know VINO you
are before your contribution will be published.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08

At the present price of news print
paper 25zcent subscriptions are not
solicited, and 1t has been long time
since they were. When you make
remittance on subscription to the
Banner please send In not less than
40 cents, friends Better still, why
not always subscribe by the year.?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08
Cotton Quotatiops.

Yesterdays Shreveport cotton quotas
tions were as follows:
Ordinary, t41s cents.
Good ordinary, 1873 cents.
Low middling, 1914 cents.
Middling, III cents. =.
Good middling, liz cents.
Receipts for the day, PSI bales.
Total receipts, les, 473 bales.
Shipments to date, f24 ,676 bales.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08
Cir a}ossier 8an'ler.
Published on Thursday Of Each Week

ENTERED as second-class matter at the post
IL Office at Benton, La, under act OF Congress
of March 3, 1870
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08
Ivan.

Monday. March 5.-We have had
come pretty weather. but it was
ended the latter part Of last week
with rain, snow. sleet and hail. We
are in hopes this is our last bad
weather, as the farmers need pretty
weather just now.
Aside from the marriage reported
elsewhere, there was another. young
couple married in this community yes
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08
CORRESPONDENCE
Plain Dealing.

Tuesday March Ga new gin
ming company was organized here to-
Gay. A committee of leading citizens
Farmers and merchants) was select
ed as a board of directors to take
charge of and push the completion Of
the enterprise to successful con-
ciusion. The following named will
comprise the first board of directors:
G. G. Allen, S. L. Demoss, G.. T. Mays,
r. B. Wise. R. r. Cheshire, J. P.
Keeth and H. Cochran. The COM
mittee will meet again Saturday.
Mrs. w. B. Boggs left yesterday
for Spring Hill to visit her daughters,
Mrs. 'Mozell Browning, and Miss
Stsl1a, who is teaching music at that
place.
Mrs. w. H. Martin and her little
daughter, Jean, returned home last
Thursday from a three weeks stay
in Nashville, Tenn, with Mrs. Mar
tins mother.
Mr.. W. T. Lovelady celebrated his
10th birthday Sunday with dining,
several friends and neighbors being
invited. Where they have as good
feeds as was that may they come
often.
The Red Land and Plain Dealing
basket ball teams. will play match
came here on the high school campus
Saturday. The game will be called
at $50. Come out and root for your
! favorite.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Martinez and
their daughter Ruth, who have been
spending the winter at their residence
near Red Land, left yesterday for
their northern home, at Prairie du
Chem, Wis.
Miss Masie Herring, now living at
Grand Cane. but former resident
Of Bossier Parish, is visitor here,
representing the Edwards tyceum
Bureau. She will later visit Benton.
Residents of this section were
greatly surprised upon awakening
Sunday morning to find the ground
covered with mantle of snow. Had
it not been that the ground was
saturated with water the snow would
have lasted sons time.
Miss Mary Dexter, a pretty and
popular young lady teacher from this
place, last summers graduate from
Plain Dealing High School, and who
had been teaching the Midway School
in Caddo Parish, was married in
Vivian Sunday to Mr.. Brooks Var
Horn. They left the next day fol
Virginia and from thence they will
go to Oklahoma, the former residence
of the groom. Best wishes are
waited to the happy couple by large
circle Of friends.
Mr.. M. L. Ford, in his seventy
seventh year, and Confederate Vet
eran, died last Saturday at his resi-
denee, two miles north Of Plain Deal
Ing. Mr.. Ford had been an invalie
4 fer several months preceding hi
4 death. He was a native Of Alabama
but almost lifelong resident of thi!
section. His remains were inferred
in Plain Dealing Cemetery Monday
Rev. Willbanks, pastor Of the Baptis
Church, officiating at the grave. Mr.
Ford leaves two brothers, Messrs.
A. and G. S. Ford. and large mum
) her Of friends to mourn his departure
Before his health failed him he wa
roted as man of high intellect. hav
) ing had the advantage Of liberia
education before his four years o
; service in the cause Of the South
land.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08

If you have something on your farm
you would like to convert into money
advertise it in the Banner.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08

A regular meeting of Cypress
Lodge will be held at the lodges hail
in this place this evening.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08

Mr.. N. A. Goodwin has requested
us to forward his Banner to Gillett,
Ark, instead Of to Piggott, that
state.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08

Mr.. G. w. Dalrymple, now of
Shreveport, was business visitor in
Benton yesterday.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08

Don't complain about the weather,
brother. What do you expect during
March, anyway?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08

Mrs. Kate S. Cabeen, who for some
time past has been guest at the home
of her mother, Mrs. w. H. Scanland, ex-
poets toleave tomorrow for Shreveport
to locate. She has accepted the posi-
ton as matron at the Shreveport Charity
Hostital.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08

The R. J. Hancock Capter, U. D.
c., will hold a meeting Saturday
afternoon at three o'clock. The
members are urgently requested to
attend.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-03-08

Attorney R. Harwell Lee left yes
terday for Mansfield, where he ex-
poets to remain a week or so in work
ing up big case in which he has
been retained. 1t is to come up for
hearing at the April term of court
in DeSoto.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-13

bitterness by taking a firm grip on
the spectators in food products. 1t
is the duty of the government to set
a maximum price on all articles of
food to the end that spectators and
others be not permitted to enrich
themselves at the expense of the
people.
There will be plenty to do in fur
nishing the necessaries of life to the
dependents of soldiers and sailors,
and thousands of others unable to
pay the high cost of living. Then in
the name of justice and humanity
shake exhorbitant profits out of the
food dealers so that the people in
moderate circumstances may be able
to assist those who cannot help
themselves. The wage earners will
have more than their share in the re-
lief of suffering.
Take the food spectators by their
threats and choke them off.
1t will do little good to speed up
agriculture if spectators are per-
mitted to corner the products and
reap eXhorbitant profits from their
manipulation.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-13

be used during the war without COM
pensation, and to be surrendered af-
ter the war to the owners; such
property to include factories, ship
yards, munition plants, armor plate
mills, flour mills, arms factories, sup
plies and equipment, cloth factories,
and such other property and money
as the government may require, to
the end that all our citizens, regard
less of social position or economic
advantage, shall contribute equally
to the common need and common de-
Tense of our nation, so that citizens
of wealth may be enabled and COM
PEELED to contribute to the common
welfare and need of their country on
the same terms as the enlisted sold
iers or sailors, who give their lives
and their ALL"
Interpreting the spirit of the reso-
luton, A. c. Townley of st. Paul,
President of the Non-Partisian Lea
que has said:
"The countries of the world use
human life to carry on war and give
back to humanity what is left. And
the countries of the world should
use property on the same basis and
give back what is left"
Mr.. Townley was for years a So
cialist organizer, and in recent years
has given his time to the political
and industrial organization of the
farmers and laborers, organized and
unorganized, in North Dakota and
adjoining States.
Let US hope that the holders of
the great wealth and the spectators
shall not be allowed to make profit
from the misfortunes of their coun-
trymen as they have done in former
wars in which the United States
have been engaged.
If it is right to conscript men
for the purpose of fighting the
battles of our country it is right to
conscript the wealth to pay the cost
of war.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-13
ID. c. COATES HONORED

The last U. S. Congress created a
Council of National Defense to con-
sist of the Secretary of War, the Sec
rotary of the Navy, the Secretary of
the Interior, the Secretary of Agri-
culture, the Secretary of Commerce,
and the Secretary of Labor. 1t also
created an Advisory Commission con-
sisting of seven persons.
In order to perform its duties, each
member of the Advisory Commission
was made chairman of a committee
responsible for specific work. Sam
uel Gompers was maze chairman of
the committee on labor, including
conservation of health and welfare
of workers.
Chairman Gompers has appointed
D. c. Coates, Of Spokane, a member
of the Defense Committee, labor di-
vision. Mr.. Coates was formerly one
of the Spokane city commission. He
is printer and a partner of and
manager with H. L. Hughes of the
Spokane Labor World. Mr. Coates
is well and favorably known through
out the state.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-13
TWO SHIPYARDS
THE EXPECTATION

The mass meeting at the Everett
Theatre Saturday night, under the
auspices of the Riverside Commercial
Club, discussed the proposition of
establishing a shipyard in Everett
and threw enough light on the subject
to give hope of the realization of
the project. Subscriptions to the
capital stock continue to be made,
and it is thought the 100000 nee
essary will be subscribed before many
days have passed.
The incorporators are Dan W..
Locke, A. w. Barber and Henry Men
eel. The board of trustees for the
next six months comprise w. W..
Black, A. A. Brodeck, C. E. Spur
geon, John Watson, A. W. Barber
Henry Mcneil and Dan Locke. The
capital stock is 100000, divided in
to $40 shares.
Despite the churlish opposition
heretofore and now exhibited by the
same bunch of self-servers and two
killers the new enterprise promises
to be in operation before long.
This paper learns that another
shipbuilding project is well on its
way. The Journal wishes both of
them unqualified success.
In this ship building era the city
of Everett with it's splendid natural
advantages should have its share of
the prosperity it will bring.
When the two yards in prospect are
under way there will be more to
follow.
On with the good work!
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-13
LABOR AND WAR

There is no use now of bowling
about or declaiming against war.
We have it Notwithstanding we don't
want it. The thing to do now is to
get rid of it at the least cost of
life. at the minimum of misery which
it entails, and reach the end of it
with the least burden of debt upon
the people in the years to come.
However, you may figure the cost
of war it must be paid from the
wealth already accumulated and that
which must be produced. That which
will be produced and used to make
our country a debtless land must
be made by the Drawn and brain
of the people who live in our country.
However much or little the debt
made inevitable by the war into which
the United States have been forced
it must be paid from the wealth
produced by labor and it is to be
desired that the greater portion of
that debt be paid by those who re-
ceive the greater portion of wealth
which labor produces.
Therefore, in justice to the men
who are to do the fighting and the
women and children who are to suf-
fer death, privation and misery which
bestrew the trail of war, it seems but
just that the suggestions made by
the "Non-partisian League" and made
the subject of a memorial by the
North Dakota legislature, be urged
upon the President of the United
States and the Congress. After urg-
ing the President and Congress to
maintain absolute neutrality, and fur
Their declaring that 1T is our firm
and unalterable purpose to support
and stand by our nation in case of
war, with our lives and property"
the memorial continues:
And being mindful of the prin-
ciples Of equity, justice and free
dom, upon which this government is
founded, we do most earnestly rec
ommend and request that the Con-
gress of the United States authorize
and empower the President, so far as
it is within their power, in case war
becomes inevitable, to seize all the
property useful and necessary to the
government in carrying on the war, to
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-13
Enjoy One With Us

then you will be thoroughly con-
WINGED that there is not a cigar on
earth like the NICKEL LEADER
Cigar for Five Cents.
There are thousands of men in
Everett who are enjoying their frag-
rance. You never see a butt of
NICKEL LEADER laying around,
they are smoked as long as there's
a whiff in them.
You can get them at all cigar
dealers in Snohomish County.
A. ]. LEIBERSCHAL, Mfr.
Factory and Store, 2937 Colby
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-13

The prosecution in the I. W. w.
trial seems to be gradually "petering
out" Two things this trial will ac-
complish: Pile up a large expense
account for the people to pay and
show the brutality and rottenness of
the Commercial Club-particularly
of the sawdust aristocrats who run
the club.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-13

Uncle Sam built a substantial and
beautiful postoffice building in this
city, but the old fellow won't open
it for business until the alley in the
rear of the building is graded and
paved. The Old Boy refuses to have
his "leg pulled" The property own
ers on Hoyt are holding up the city
government and Uncle Sam as we'll.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-13
FIREMEN MAY JOIN

BOSTON, April As a result of
reports that members Of the Boston
fire department have been warned
by their superiors against joining
the union affiliated with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, Mayor Cur
ley has notified President Jennings of
the Central Labor Union that he has
ordered Fire Commissioner Grady and
his deputies not to do or say anything
that will prevent any member of the
department from joining a labor
union.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-13
SHUT OFF THE GRAFTERS

While the government is arranging
for an economic conduct of the war
it would be well to profit by the ex-
perience of those nations which have
already drunk deep from the cup Of
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1917-06-28
Governor Ferguson VS..
the University of Texas

- the Constitution and statutes of this State the Con-
~ troll and direction of the affairs of the University is
placed excus ely in Board of Regents nominated by
the Governor and appointed by the Senate. With this
nomination the Governors function ends lie is not
offco member of the board and has legal control
its actions The members of the board free to exercise
sound official discretion under the law in the manage
men of the Unversy affairs being subject to the courts
alone for any abuse of that discretion.
Governor Ferguson has demanded the removal of
era members of the faculty and has threatened to
the members of the Board of Regents unless they yield to
his demands
Failing in this attempt dictation he has vetoed the APP
preparation made by the Legislature for the maintenance
and support of the University.
BY this act he proposes to close next September the
doors of this great school, thereby deprvng during the
two years than four thousand young men and
of the educational opportunities provided by the
fathers.
This act is part of IA "RuIe Ruin" policy adopted
by the Governor by which he determined to acquire
the powers given by law and the Constitution to the Board
of Regents and to control the management of the Uni
versity destroy it,
We propose to present the issue thus raised the peO
pie of Texas, having implicit confidence in the wisdom
and justice of their decision when the facts are placed be-
fore them.
In seeking to accomplish his purposes Governor Fergu
son has shown utter disregard for the Constitution and
laws of the State.
He has sought to ntimidate the president of the Uni
yersiy at their first meeting by threatening him with the
biggest bear fight that ever pulled off in Texas" un
less the president should yield the Governors demand
that certain members of the faculty be summariy dis
missed.
UNIVERSITY UDENTs COMMITTEE
n u Audrey Charm
se1e. MARION TEvy
W d. JONES
C II LEAvELL M M M,MAuou
cAPrroN
MISS GkACE fEAlhEl
r BAILEY SAwEE
FRANK kfBUEN
IEkhELL Il WOODWARD
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1917-06-28

BY President Jeffersons request what he es'
teemed to be the great achievements OF his LIE
we're engraved upon his tomb: ITO the Au'
thor Of the Declaration OF American Independ'
ence, Of the Statute Of Virginia, for Religious
Freedom and the FATHER OF THE UNI
VERsITY OF VIRGINIA"
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1917-06-28

The benefits Of education and Of useful knowl
edge, generally diffused through a community,
are essential TO the preservation Of free gov.
eminent President Sam Houston
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1917-06-28

Cultivated mind Is the guardian genius Of de-
mooraey. II u the only dictator that free
men acknowledge and the only security that
freemen desire President mirabeau b. Lamar.