The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1917-02-08
finished up his six-month contract in
South America and says he does not
expect 20 return there.

turned home from Pineville, where she
spent some weeks with her sister, Mrs.
Glenn Robertson. She was accompa-
MED by her sisters two little boys, who
are still guests at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. r. B. Hill.
Officers and members of Cypress
Lodge, F. and A. NJ, who went to New
Orleans to attend the Grand Lodge were:
Messrs. J. F. Adair of Ivan, J. B. Hall
of Rocky Mount, and ]. T. Hanks,
Worshipful Master, and A. M. Wyche,
Senior Warden, of this place.
Parish Superintendent Of Schools
Fortson has asked the reporter to an
nounce that the next Parish Teachers
Institute for the teachers of this parish
will be held at the Travis Street school
building, in Shreveport, on Saturday,
the 18th. A program OF interest will be
prepared for the occasion.
Mr.. Wheeler Mckinney, of Rocky
Mount, aged about forty years, died at
the home of one Of his relatives near
that place on Tuesday of last week. The
interment took place the following day
in Rocky Mount Cemetery. He had for
some years been in failing health and on
that account spent some time in Texas.
He was q member Of a large family, and
well thought OF by all.
Because of the congested condition OF
such work in the Office of the Secretary
of State, at Baton Rouge, further time
(until the 18th, we believe) has been
granted for the payment of automobile
licenses for 1917. However, if you have
not yet secured your 1917 number plates
you are delinquent in that matter and
should at oncesecure blank and make
out application for same.
Mr.. G. Garrett, of Ninock, who sells
improved cotton seed for planting, has
written the office that he will not this
season advertise in the Banner for the
reason that his supply of seed has already
been exhausted. Cotton seed for plant
ing will no doubt be very scarce a little
later on, as we pointed out month o.
so ago in these columns. If you have
more than you need, Mr.. Farmer, dom
be too quick to sell. Somebody is going
to have to replant.
! For ten hogs sold on their feet to ;
Shreveport firm Mr.. L. C. Biggs o
Bellevue was paid $3.50. Aside from
these, Mr.. Biggs killed for home con
sumption fourteen other porkers from
his herd. This would seem to indicat
that there is more money and less troubl
in growing hogs for the market than ii
raising cattle. The Banner has lon
advocated hog farms, and we are no,
more fully persuaded than ever of tn
profit to be derived from this industry
ii properly engaged in.
The parish Superintendent of Publ
Schools states that there are at presen
about 1920 white children of educabl
age in Bossier Parish. OF this numbe
upwards of 400 are enrolled in the pub
lie schools of the parish. The Bessie
City and Plain Dealing schools eac
have enrollments that exceed 200, an
the Haughton and Red Land school
each top $50 in pupils enrolled. So
will be seen that fully half the whit
children of the. parish now in scho'
attend these four schools.
Some one has sent in news repo
from Rocky Mount that does not appe:
in print because the writer has not sui
scribed her name to the same. ST
merely says: "Please put these not
in this weeks Banner" Wehave alwa!
refused to publish anything anonymou
To encourage the Publishing Of con
l
munications that do not show sign;
ture would cheaper our paper and cal
Il ing in the estimation of the readir
; public. We must know who you ar
friends, if you write for the Banner.
Old friends residing in Bossier Pari'
: will be pleased to learn of the promote
of Mr.. w. H. Undertake, during b
boyhood days resident Of Benton. N
. long after Mrs. Timberlake and her t,
sons left Benton to locate in Shrev
port, Harry became engaged in railro
Z work and has since followed it. He b
7 held lucrative positions in Shrevepo
and in Houston and Dallas, Texas. On
. a few days ago he passed throuI
= Shreveport en- route to Birmingha