The Bossier banner., 1918-10-10
CORRESPONDENCE
Plain Dealing.

Tuesday. Oct. S.-The first public meet
ing in the interest of the Fourth Liberty
Loan drive was held here Sunday afternoon
at three o'clock. The meeting had not been
well advertised, consequently was not as
well attended as it should have been.
DIR. T. n. KeOun, Chairman of the Ward
Committee. was suddenly summoned on IL
professional call returning after the meet
ing had been brought to a close), and Mr..
G. L. Mays acted as Chairman, introducing
as the first speaker Maj. Mccullough, of the
Canadian Army. who spent three years in
France. His address. at times, was thrill
ing, and deserves to have been heard by
every citizen in this entire section, us it
would have shown them their duty in this
great war for the liberation of mankind
The next speaker was Rev. Drake of
Shreveport. who is pleasing and no less
forceful orator. and helped to arouse those
present to their duty.
While the meeting was not as numcrously
attended as it would have been if longer
notice had been given. it has sufficiently
aroused the citizenship of the surrounding
conutry to cause them to come forward with
their subscriptions to the loan, and the
chances now are favorable for the ward to
Oversubscribe its quota.
DIR. c. II. Irion and Mr. E. s. Burt, both
of Benton, were among the visitors in Plain
Dealing sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Curry and family
spent Sunday here with Mr.. Currys moth
er. Mrs. J. $. Gray.
Mrs. J. +. Murray. of Shreveport was Il
guest Sunday at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. s. II. Cochran.
Mr.. \. Curtis, of Ward One. Chairman
of the Bossier Parish Liberty Loan Commit
tee. as usual, is in evidence whenever some
thing is needed to be done, and was in at
tendance Mt the speaking here Sunday.
Mr.. W. II. Hodges and Miss Mary Hodges.
both of Elm Grove, were in attendance at
the Liberty Loan meeting Sunday. Miss
Hodges Is Chairman of the WomanS Com
mittee soliciting for the fund, is an earnest
worker in the cause, and has made many
friends here.
Last Thursday there were two tractors
of Il different type from any formerly used
in this section unlOaded here for Mr.. John
Nurray's Phelps Lake place. They were
taken to the farm and given a try-out, and
at last reports were said to be fulfilling
every condition in satisfactory manner.
Friday afternoon of last week the Il. f.
Lee Literary Society held it's first meeting
since the opening of the 191S-19 term of
Plain Dealing High School. AS usual, it
was success from start to finish. Carl
Perry acted President and Miss Maggie
Fenet Secretary. The pupils all rem
dered their parts WELL
Mr.. J. w. Guy, long known in this sec
tion as plOw man of no mean ability,
came in last Friday, leaving soon after for
the Phelps Lake section to try out a new
disc pillow on the Murray farm, under trac-
tor conditions. He and others who wit
messed the test, on alluvial soil never be-
fore broken. with cockleburs nearly ten
feet high, asy it buried them completely,
leaving not Il vestisc remaining to retard
cultivation. They later tried out disc cul-
tivators over the land previously broken,
leaving it in excellent tilth.
WEDNESDAY.
Five or more eases of Spanish Influenza
are reported here-mostly in Il mild FORM,
Mr.. George Demoss, carrier on Rural Mail
Route No. ?, has been quite sick for some
days.
Miss Nora Arnold. who has been quite
sick at Il Shreveport sanitarium, is report
ed to nave recovered so rapidly that she is
expected home the latter part of the week.
The death OF Henry Reach. in France,
was announced in a dispatch from Wash
ington yesterday. He was Il son Of the late
William Roach. who resided near Ivan, and
volunteered for service several months ago.
Mr.. -Adolphus Keeth, brother of Mr. Ben
keeth, of this place, died yesterday in
Shreveport as Il result of an attack of Span
ish Influenza. He had only been sick few
days. The interment will take place in
Plain Dealing Cemetery ut two o'clock this
afternoon.
So far the Woman's Soliciting Committee
for Ward Three for the Fourth Liberty
Loan is ahead of any like committee in the
parish, having already raised about $14,450
Miss Blanche McClenaghan is doing a fine
work in this cause. Being appointed at a
later date than those first named, she did
not have an equal showing with the others.
but is now looming ahead. Hand in your
subscription to her-as the writer will do.
She had raised $1,000 up to yesterday.