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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
Thirty Years Ago.

The Banner Of Feb. .. 1SSS-Bellcvuc.l
Married. in t he Clerks office, in
this place, on the I'd. by the Rev A. T.
Galloway. Mr.. John ID. Grow. of Texas.
to Miss Matte Nj. Cade, of Ouachita
Parish"
Herold York, cOlOred. was Jailed
yesterday by Constable w. f. Norris,
of Bossier City. charged with entering
Mr.. Jerrod Rives' house, near Willow
Chute. and robbing him of $225 in
money.
while the mercury has been rang
ing between 30 and 40 degrees below
zero in Dakota and Minnesota, the
mean temperature here during Janua-
ry was 44.5 degrees above zero. Come
to Bossier to live"
I'VE learn from Mr.. II. f. Wyche. jr.,
who has just returned from the upper
portion of the parish, that the CON
struction train Oh the Shreveport and
Arkansas Railroad is now running
within few miles Of Plain Dealing.
and was expected to reach there last
night The track is being laid at the
rate Of about mile a day. 1t is said
the road will be completed and ready
for business by the LIST of April" And
there i, your present Shreveport branch
of the Cotton Belt, reader
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
HOW MALTA BECAME GARDEN
Inhabitants Brought in Shipioads OF
Earth and Spread Il Over Barren
Rocks of the Island.

What Malta was like before the
Maltese found it one cannot imagine,
says the Manchester Guardian. Pre-
sumably there was some soil some
where, hidden among the little valleys
that scar the golden rock. But there
was very little soil. Most of the island
must have been just plain rock, with
nothing in particular to recommend 1t.
But somewhere in the dawn of history
there came an industrious, ingenious
race and proceeded to make the best of
it. They have been doing that all down
the centuries, till now they have re-
duced it to a fine art, and the barren
rock is a garden from end to end.
They realized, those clever Maltese,
that although they might not have
earth enough to grow their food, there
were plenty of people who had enough
and to spare. So they sent their ships
abroad, and the ships came back load
ed with just plain earth. This earth
they took and spread on the ledges Of
their rocks and sowed their seed and
reaped their harvests and prOspered
exceedingly
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
The Last Roll Call.

Mr.. Edward J. McDade. the eldest
Of seven sons Of the late Col. A. J. and
Mary Ann (Nliller) McDade. passed
away at his home near Greenville,
Texas, on Tuesday, January -, 1913.
Mr.. McDade came to Bossier Parish
from Alabama with his parents during
1S44-tO their plantation home near
FfllmOre-where lie was reared and
lived until the beginning of the Con-
federate War. During 1861 he enlisted
with the Robins Grays. Company Il.
10Th Louisiana Regiment. and served
under Gen. Il. Il. Lee in the Army of
Northern Virginia until captured by
the Federals in the battle of Mission
AIRY Ridge. He passed through the
horrors of prison life ut JohnsOn's Is
land for nearly two years. and when
pnrOled, ut the time of the surrender,
walked from that place to his home,
though weak and emaciated from star
vatiOn and cruel treatment. During
those dark hours Of struggle and those
of the years that followed he enjoyed
the reputation Of bein. brave and
ready defender Of the causes Of the
Southland.
For many years following the war
Mr.. McDade continued resident OF
ROssier Parish. highly respected and
well thought of by all. Some years
ago, before leaving the parish to settle
in Oklahoma, he was united i'll mar
riage. but the writer is not informed
as to the number of his own family
who survive him. Messrs. Nj. A., w. \.
and Ernest McDade and Misses Fannie
and LeOna McDade, of Bossier Parish,
are sisters and brothers Of the de-
ceased, and Mr.. Luther McDade, whose
death was mentioned in the Banner
two weeks ago, was also brother.
There are many other relatives who re-
side in the parish and elsewhere.
A. A. s.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
Ten Years Ago.

The Banner of Feb. s. 19OS-BentOn.
Haughton correspondence: Mr.. and
Mrs. j. b. Hall, jr., have Il pretty baby
girl at their home" Mrs. Ella Berry.
of Bellevue. died last Thursday from
an attack of measles.
Miss Lizzie Dickson died at her
home near Benton, last Friday even
ing. aged Sixty-eight years. She was Il
daughter of Michael and Hannah Z.
Dickson. who We're among the earliest
settlers and largest planters in this
Parish, aid is survived by sister.
Mrs. Gideon J. Pillow. of Washington,
-. c.. and a brother. Mr.. Palmer Dick
son. of this place. and other relatives.
The remains Of the deceased were buri-
cd Saturday i'll the Dickson old grave
yard, near Benton"
4 death notice read. in part. as fol
lows: /" Mrs. Annie NJ. Taylor died last
Thursday at the residence Of her SOll-
in-law, Mr.. Hugh Phillips, Of Dallas
Texas: aged about seventy years. Mrs
TAYLOR was daughter Of Nicholas Nj
and Rehccca Marks. pioneer citizens O1
Bossier Parish (Eoth deceased and
was born ut the Marks old place, neal
Collinsburg. where many years of hel
life were spent. She was a devoted
member of the Catholic Church, ant
lived consistent Christian life. Tit
interment was in tue cemetery at Mar
shall. Texas" Mrs. Taylor was ;
member Of large family, but of all o
her sisters and brothefs she is survive,
| to-day Gy only olie-Mr. \. NJ. Marks
temporarily making his home in tiii
place.
| Extended mention was made of til
death of Green l.. Wingett, Il Confed
| crate veteran. who was long residen
of the parish. He was born in Mort
Care,ina April 1a. l2:3.,, ard died a
/ I,ed Land January p. 1909.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
HOME GARDENS
CUT STORE BILLS
President Georgia Chamber OF Com.
merce Shows How Millions Were
Saved Last Year

Atlanta, Georgia.-(Special.)- )-"More
money was saved in 1917 through the
medium of the home. garden than ever
before, the United States Department
of Agriculture estimating that there
were fully one million new gardens
made last year." says H. G. Hastings,
President of the Southeastern Fair and
the Georgia Chamber of Commerce,
in an interview reviewing the 1917
farming operations in the South.
Thousands upon thousands of our
people in the South,'' said Mr. Hast
ings, "for the first time in their lives
learned to appreciate the money sat-
ing power of the home garden, proper
ly planned, prepared for, planted and
kept planted duriI:g the entire sea-
son."
up to the present it has been very
hard to get our people to consider the
home garden seriously as real sub
stantial factor in food production with
the consequent saving of money that
went for food supplies at the store.
Unless we are much mistaken the
home garden will from now on be
taken as seriously as any other part
of the farm work.
"A quarter to half acre devoted
to a variety of vegetables liked by the
family can be kept going nearly the
whole year in the South and give it's
owner as much as the product of two
or three acres of cotton, even at pres
ent prices, will buy at the store. The
right kind of a garden means an
abundance of healthful food during
spring, summer and fall and an abund-
ance either canned or dried for win
ter USE"
Let no one be fooled by the lies
spread abroad that the Government
is going to seize home canned goods
on closet shelves in the farm or
home. These lies are started by Ger
man agents for the express purpose of
discouraging our people in increased
food production and saving. Few can
60 to the firing line, but all can join
in and have part in home produc.
tion of food.
I'VE have never seen a permanent.
ly prosperous farm section either in
the United States or in foreign coun.
tries that was not a diversified see,
ton, and in every diversified section
the home garden has an honored and
valued place. The home garden is a
store bill cutter Of the first rank"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
VA, us cTsRTED By WOMAN
Civil Conflict in England Dated From
Tirae Jenny Geddes Threw Stool
at Eishop's Head.

A stool, such as people used to sit
upon in churches, and which was cast
at the head of the dean of st. Giles in
Edinburgh, may be said to have
marked the beginning of the civil war
in England which ended with the
downfall of Charles II. This event
took place on July %, 1887. It will
be remembered that James contrived
to Introduce bishops into the Scottish
church. His son, Charles l. desired
to go still further and introduce book
Of canons and a liturgy. Archbishop
Laud, whose tendencies were toward
the Roman Catholic church, backed
him in his project. Betweef them they
prepared a service book and the order
went forth to have it read on certain
Sunday in all the churches in Scotland.
The Scotch, however, declined to have
their religious service tampered with.
When the day came for reading the
new service book few Of the clergy
were willing to proceed with it, such
was the opposition among the people.
In the principal church of Edinburgh,
the chancel of the old cathedral of st.
Giles, which contained seats of the
judges, magistrates and other authori-
ties, the liturgy was formally intro
duced under the auspices of the bishop,
dean and other clergy.
There were no pews in those days,
each person bringing his own stool to
church with him. When Bishop James
Hannah started to read the service
one Jenny Geddes arose and threw her
stool at the good mans head. So
started the first outbreak in a conflict
that was to have important results.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
RETROSPECTIVE
Fifty Years AGO.

The Banner Of Feb. 8. 1S6S--Rellcvucl
Under the heading The Condi-
ton i'll the South the editor said:
When the war ended, and for two
years afterward. although the South
was suffering from the losses cOnse-
quent upon the struggle. she was pros
porous and happy compared to her
present condition. The negroes were.
in the main, contented and worked
cheerfully, and the realities of stagna-
ton were wholly unknown to them.
This state Of things lasted until the
Radicals took hold of the negroes to
reconstruct them into voters When
entered the South the effect was as dis-
astrOus to that reign as it was when
the devil entered the Garden of Eden.
Everything is destroyed that their po-
litical breath touches. Ruin. Starva-
ton. discomfort between the races. are
seen everywhere in the South, and they
increase instead of decrease. The four
millions of blacks have been so demor-
allied by the Radical policy that they
are lite better to-day than that num-
her of wandering vagabonds. Their
new friends have so poisoned their
minds against their former masters
that they have become hostile to them
and clamor for a division Of their lands
and other property. Too lazy to work
since they have been made politicians.
the fields lie idle for want Of tillage,
and the absence Of production is rap
idly bringing starvation on both whites
and blacks The Radical treatment
has been such toward the negroes that
Gen. Howard, chief of the Freedmen's
Bureau states that they have decreas-
ed 1,30S.GOO since their emancipation !!
Notwithstanding, the Radicals are
deaf to every appeal for mercy. Their
leading men proclaim that their hard
policy vii! not be abated one jot or
little, and at every additional groan of
the victim one more turn is given to
the screw that cruSlleS the people
down to the very ground. Under pres
ent management we cannot expect Il
change for the better, and we cannot
hope to see Prosperity again flow back
upon the South until the present party
is turned out Of power and replaced by
more liberal men and measures" The
activities of the Ku-kluX Klan during
1S6S-69. the memory Of which is cher
ished by many readers of the Banner
even to this good day. resulted in the
correction of the Outrages- above re
ferred to. In fact, the new order Of
that day, said to have been founded ut
! Pulaski, TENN. and originally for pur,
poses of amusement, was so untiring
and persistent and 80 harraSSed the
Radicals that they were fairly driven
from the South. And a more desirable
condition Of society throughout the en-
tire South was promptly restOred.l
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
Doctors Needed in Service.

To the Doctors Of Bossjer Parish.
The National Council of Defense lat
Washingtom has directed me to secure
the names. ages. year of graduation.
whether single or married, and number
of children of all practicing physicians
ilr Bossier Parish and their availability
for medical service iii the Army and
Navy. Please mail me this informa-
tlOn at your earliest convenience. Ad-
dress. Atkins, La.
ID. J. MCANN, Chairman
Medical Section Parish G.. Of j..
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
Thinking.

Thinking is quite easy when you
know how. It is true that few of us do
it. Most of US allow our minds to
dribble, to meander aimlessly about
along lines of least resistance, like wa
ter that has trickled over Mississippi
levee and gone here and there about
the flats, getting muddier and muddier
until it soaks into the lush earth or is
evaporated into the thin air. That is
what most of US call thinking. The
mind that works that way gets no.
where; it never accomplishes any
thing; it's owner is merely flotsam on
the stream of life.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
Animal Remains,

The remains of ''brontosaurus" We're
discovered in the Upper Jurass;c Of
Wyoming. It measured from 50 to 60
feet in length, had small head, arched
body, long tapering neck and tail. The
"diplodocus'' found in the Upper Ju-
rassic of Colorado has the following
dimensions: Head and neck, % feet
8 inches; body. II feet 4 inches; tail,
40 feet 2 inches; total length, "a feet
9 inches; height at the shoulder, IL
feet 5 inches; height at the back, II
feet inches.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07

Buy War-Savlnes Stamps.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
LLOYD BATTERY COMPANY

.IS Crockett street. SHfEFEfORT
Old phone, sis
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
FACE the FACTS

EFT us face the facts The war situation is critical
II Unless the Allies fight they never yet have
fought, defeat threatens. Hungry men cannot hight
at their best; nor hungry nations. France, England
and Italy are going hungry unless we feed them.
Wheat savings-They must have wheat. It is the
best food to fight 1t is the easiest to ship. We
alone can spare it to them By saving just little
less than quarter of what we ate last year-We can
do it without stnting ourselves. We have only
to substitute another food just as good.
The Corn of Plenty-Corn is that food. There's
surplus of it. Providence has been generous. in the
hour of need. 1t has given in such bounty
as was known before Tons Of Train
loads of corn Five hundred million bushels over and
learn to appreciate it. Was ever patriotic duty made
easy? And so clear?
Americas Own Food-Corn! It is the true American
food The Indians as5 M de If it.
continent For great SECTION OF our our, country it
has blong cen the staff Of life e How well a the South
win world war.
Learn something-Corn It isn't food. It's
dozen. It's cereal. It's vegetable. It's bread.
dollar for dollar, than meat or eggs most other
vegetables. It's good to eat; how good You don't
know until you've had orn-bread properly cooked.
Best of all, it's plentiful and it's patriotic.
corn? About how good it is? About the many
delicious ways of cooking it? And what you miss
by not knowing about it? Here few
of its
There are at least fifty ways to meal to
make good dishes for dinner supper lunch or break
fast. Here suggestions:
HOT BREADS DESSERTS
Boston brown bread. Corn-meal molasses cake.
Hoecake Apple cornNbread.t
Mullins. Dumplings
Biscuits Gingerbread.
Griddle cakes. Fruit gems.
Waffles
HEARTY DISHES
Cornmeal croquettes. Corn-mea fish balls
Meat and corn-meal dumplings. .s.ss.-4.
Italian polenta Tamaes.
The recipes in Farmers Bulletin sos, Corn
Meal as Food and Ways Of Using It., free from the
Department Of Agriculture
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
contrariWise.

ut seems to be q laystery Why
Dick had the door shut in his face"
"Oh, no; that closed door is an open
secret"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07
At the Resort.

ssMrs. Gruhb's husband appears to
be an unrcmittins correspondent"
"Yes, l don't notice her cash!ng any
cheeks"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-07

A clipping frCm an exchange says
that about 10000 church bells in Ger
many have been melted for munitions
OF war;
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-01-11
Income Tax Officials COMING

Farmers all over the country
are making numerous inquiries
about their income-tax returns.
Men of the field force of the
Bureau of Internal Revenue of the
Treasury Department will visit
every county in the United States
during January and February.
Notice of their arrival will be CIV
en- in advance.
The services of these officials in
making out income-tax returns
will be given without cost to all
persons requesting it. Failure to
see them, however, will not relieve
citizens of the duty imposed upon
them to file their returns not later
than March l.
Questions as to when a farmer
is to make his return of the value
of crops and stock, the relation of
these things to income, ETC., and
as to employees and other mat
tiers, will all be answered by the
revenue field force.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-01-11
German Submarines.

The allied war boards, who have
been trying to determine how
many U-boats the Germans have
and what condition they are in,
have gathered enough informa-
ton in various ways to justify the
belief that not more than two or
three dozen submarines are actu-
ally operating in the war zone at
a time. The rest of the boats are
going in or coming out or being
repaired at the bases, or suffering
some sort of delay, of which there
are several kinds.
1t is believed that when crew
returns from a cruise under the sea
they are unfit for further duty of
that kind for periods varying from
one to six months, and that it is
difficult to keep enough crews
trained to keep the boats opera
ting. 1t is extremely hard on the
nerves to operate under water in
the foul air, and frequently some
of the crew commit suicide rather
than endure the misery and tor
ture. Some lose their minds and
must be confined in asylums while
the Others are forced to rest for
months before they are in fit con-
dition again for the terrible work.
Only last week one of the u
boasts surrendered to a British
war ship, and the crew stated that
for weeks they had tried to induce
their officers to surrender, and up
on their refusal to do so the crew
murdered the officers and then
surrendered. 1t Is their belief
that many more of the U-boat
crews will surrender at the first
opportunity.
The action of the seas upon the
U-boats make it necessary to have
them undergo extensive repairs af-
ter almost every trip. And in the
manufacture of the new boats and
materials for repairing the old
ones, the lack of proper raw ma
tesial for making the different
grades of steel needed, makes it
impossible to keep up the stand
ard or the quality of material
which they formerly used.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-01-11

of the nation and to assure the fu-
ture supply for those needs he
recommends that men who have
become Fl years old since June 5,
1917 Registration date), and who
become of age hereafter shall be
added to class ! as they become
available. This will insure, the
general estimates, a supply of
700, 1000 men a year.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-01-11
Men With Dependents Exempted

Provost Marshal General Crow
der, reporting to congress on Jan.
4th on the progress of the draft,
expressed for the first time a def
mite promise and aim of the gov
eminent not to take for army
duty: any other men than those
listed in class 1 of the new draft
QUESTIONABLE.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-01-11
Cottonwood Public School News
Contributed,

! Contributed
Frances Hattrup has finished
her examination for the Palmer
certificate and the same has been
sent in to the company headquar-
tiers.
The first semester will end next
week and new classes will be or
gained in some of the work.
First and second year sewing will
follow the cooking class. Also a
class in economies, American his
tory and shorthand will be organ
lied.
Nearly every one in high school
this month has grade of 100 per
cent in penmanship. Only few
have not.
Verus Chicane is absent this
week on account of sickness.
Beginning with next month all
students in high school who secure
merit grades will be required to
make up extra time.
Another attempt was made last
week to erect the gymnasium raf-
tiers but owing to the wet condi-
ton of the lumber it was found
impossible to go ahead until the
weather becomes more settled.
The primary room was dismiss
ed last week couple of days due
to their teacher being on the sick
list.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-01-11

This classification excludes mar
ried men entirely whose wives or
families are dependent on them
for support and other men with
dependents.
General Crowder does this on
the estimate that 100000 men
physically fit for army duty will
be available from class 1.
This number he thinks suffici-
ent for the present military needs
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-06-05
REPORT NOT READY.

/ regret that it will be impossible
for me to get complete report of the
Red Cross drive in this weeks papers
There are about ten or twelve auxili-
aries that as yet have failed to send
in tn emoney collected and who have
not as yet made a full report, and
until ! can get these reports it is inn
pos ii e to make a complete state
ment as / am so anxious to do.
I regret through oversight that the
auxiliary at Mt. Hermon and Mt.
Sinai were left out of the report in
last weeks paper, however, both Of
these auxiliaries have made their re-
ports and both will be shown in next
weeks paper. l trust the public will
bear patiently another week asc /
want to give them a full report and
hope that the auxiliaries that have
not as yet made their report viii do
so by the last of this week.
G. W. DOUGHTY,
Chairman, Red Cross War Fund for
Greene county.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-06-05
THIS is LAST DAY
ON SEASON TICKETS

The local Chautauqua Committee
has arranged with the Chautauqua
Co. to continue the sale of season
tickets throughout the day at the
same price-$2.5O. No more sea-
son tickets will be sold at any price
after Wednesday. They can
be found on sale at the Central Drug
Store or Kiser Shoe & Clothing Co.
This price figures out only about 17c
a performance, and will cover during
the week program some attractions
that would cost you $2.O0to see in
any city. For instance, "The Choc-
olate Soldier" the attraction for Sat
urday night alone, would cost you
$500 to see in any city. This is the
original New York Company, carry
ing 80 people with special orchestra.
The other numbers throughout the
week are equally as good, but we
mention this one number in particu-
lar. So, remember after today
there viii be no more season tickets
sold at any price.