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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13

ularly and constantly make an honest
effort to that end.
The Banners January subscription
receipts are published on page two of
this issue.
Mrs. Belle Wise is spending few
days in Shreveport with her niece, Mrs.
f. f. Simpson.
Miss Mildred Harrington, of Shreve-
port. spent the weekend in Benton as
a guest Of Miss Clotile Rogers.
Mrs Alice Heifner went to Plain
Dealing yesterday morning because OF
the illness of her father-in-law. Mr..
John Heifner.
Mrs. Harwell, of Frierson. came i'll
last Saturday to visit her sister. Mrs.
X. l.. Strobe. She returned home the
first Of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Richardson. of
Caddo Parish, came in to-day to visit
Mrs. Richardson's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. II. +. Thomas.
Mr.. A. r. Banks. known to many of
the Banners readers. has written to
order the Banner mailed to himself at
Port Arthur. Texas.
Mrs. X. L. STROBE left to-day for
| Kingsland. Ark. to spend few days
| with her husband. who is Cotton Belt
agent at that place.
Mrs jim Campbell and her brother,
| Mr.. Louis Willhite. Of the Phelps Lake
country, were in Benton Tuesday at
tending to business matters.
| Barring accidents. illness, etc, the
Banner will continue to come out for Il
while longer. We have just gotten III
Il ton shipment of newSprint paper.
! Lieut.. |. ]. Goode. from Florien. was
visiting friends in Benton yesterday
and this morning. He has only recently
gotten his discharge from the Army.
Mr.. H. l.. Stone of the firm of Craw
ford. Jenkins 4 Booth. Of Shreveport
made his regular trip to Benton this
morning for the first time in about tv,
months. He has been kept at home b!
influenza and pneumonia in his family
The r. J. Hancock Chapter. I. ID. {.
will hold meeting tomorrow after
noon, to convene at three O'Clock, al
the home of its President. in this place
They will on this occasion adopt reSO
lutiOns in honor of Il greatly beloved
member. lately deceased = Mrs. Il. +
Wyche.
Mr.. Walter c. Ivey has been busy
this week hauling to Benton from thu
Stinson plantation the steam shove
and outfit belonging to the Buchanan
Company, 1t was used in the leve,
work there some months ago and l:
now to be shipped to some point IL
Alabama.
Sergt Linton Perry. son Of Mr.. ant
Mrs. J. Perry, of Plain Dealing, passed
through Benton this morning on hi:
way home from his wireless station ii
the West. Lieut.. Perry is at home OF
furlough. He belongs TO the Regula
Army Wireless Service, and has hat
four years Of it. He has been in tn,
Army nearly ever since he resigned a
station agent at Benton.
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Travelling and Visiting.

Early Saturday morning of last week,
accompanied by the Montana brother
in-law, we left for Bellevue. What we
wanted was one more view of the old
homestead and the old red hills around
the once metropolis Of Bossier. But
we didn't get there.
The trip was attempted in an auto
mobile, and by way of BOsSier City
and Haughton. What finally stopped
us was the roads-or rather, the lack
of good roads.
From this place to Bossier City the
gravel road is in fairly good condition.
1t remains the hest stretch of such road
way Of that length in the parish. From
Bossier City east there are stretches Of
road that are still good, but the greater
part Of such mileage is by far between
Red Chute and Haughton. Before
reaching Red Chute the condition of
the road in places was found to be
quite bad-its gravel and clay coating
about worn through here and there.
From Haughton north to old Fillmore
there is good road (graveled as the
other stretch last mentioned) but be
yond that point just now little can be
said that would sound favorable to our
common dirt roads. We made about
three red hills and valleys and saw
that the big six would no doubt stick
on the fourth-sO turned and retraced
our labored way.
After recrOssing the handsome. new
concrete bridge across Red Chute land
it looks to be IL dandy and making
some miles further west, in the dis
lance was to be seen a cOlored farm
hand leaning ON Il shovel by the side of
a heap of freshly dumped gravel. We
| didn't learn from what source the
gravel came, or what, if anything, he
| finally did with it. We think he was
awaiting an earthquake shock to jolt
it into place in the deep-cut ruts-the
easiest way out for him. As further
evidence of the demand for roads that
will permit Of speeding her along i'll
high" road drag that looked bust
ness-like enough had evidently been
busy an hour or more OH the south end
of the Benton to BOssier City highway.
BOSSier Parish now has many miles
Of hard-Surface roads, and is reaching
out for more. Such roads are source
of pleasure and profit-just the thing
indeed. when well kept up, but not in
viting to travel when run down. 1t re.
quireS much labor and expense to re.
store such roadways as these to Their
once fit condition when they become cut
to see that they have the constant at
teiltion of skilled road-builder! There
is maintenance fund. Let us expend
it judiciously.
Let's hear from some Of you fellows
on this subject.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13
Birthday Party.

Jeanette Hill. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. X. b. Hill. entertained some of
her girl friends Sunday with Il dinner
in celebration of her fifteenth birthday
anniversary 1.-THE 10TH. There were
present, Mamie L. Burt. ClariSse and
Inez Gayle, Matte Gray and Mary Sue
Logan. Ruth Smith. and Miss Gladys
Thompson.
Ever since her fifth birthday ami
verSary she HAS entertained the three
Younger Gayle sisters Ruth Smith and
Mamie L. Burt at her yearly parties.
until this year. when for the first time
one was absent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13

day night, Mr.. William Benton Boggs,
jr.. to Miss Annie Belle Curry, Rev.
J. d. Ford officiating. The groom is a
son of Hon. w. h. Boggs, and is well
known. The bride is daughter of the
late Hon. r.. H. Curry, and is one of
the sweetest girls of our town"
Mr.. Otis Hoffpauir. game warden
for Vermilion Parish. reports that 2OOO
geese, $4,000 ducks, 5000 rails, 1000
snipes. 1000 duails, 5000 doves and
fifteen deer, valued at $472O. were kill
ed in that parish during the month OF
January. From November II, 1908, to
January 30. 1909. 57SS raccoons. 261s
opossuns. 2767 minks, 4315 muskrats
PA skunks and five offers We're killed
the total value of the pelts being 1929
The mink pelts were valued at S5134
and the raccoon pelts at $2S94.'
this place: w. NJ. Mccall. Of Bossier
City. and \. Il. Ivey and S. G. Adger
of the neighborhOod. left Tuesday fol
Plain Dealing. They will camp for sev
eral nights near that place and spend
the time hunting birds during the da!
and fox hunting after night"
All those ''old timers are still here
and still making life miserable for the
foxes and wolves-that is, all but Mr.
Ivey. and he's itching" to get back fol
Il few more Of the famous runs like
the bunch used to enjoy.
Seventy-siX years ago Louisiana
was visited by an old-time blizzard
Extraordinary cold weather set il
about the middle of February, 1923
To unusually warm weather there sue
ceeded on February 10th cold weather
of such severity that the river at New
Orleans was partially frozen over. ant
| people skated on the marshes. Severa
| watermen persisted with cold in theil
| boats. also negroes in their cabins, ant
animals were found dead in the woods.
All the orange trees are said to have
| perished.'
| And still there are people who com
| plain that the winters are much cOlde
now than they used to lie.
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$40 Reward

viii br paid for the return to me or infor-
nation leading to the recovery of Il small
davc-oolorrd mare MULE. about seven or
eight years old: name and tail need roach
ing; no brands remembered; right front
hoof worn blunt left hind hoof rather fiat
l3-tfl Jack GILLIARD. Benton, La
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ReWard!

\ reward of SD will be paid for the return
to me or fer information leading to the re-
cevcry of II dark brown horse MULE wire
cut on right front foot. weight about 500
pounds: long. bushy tail. Address, Box
1o2, Route l. llaughton, La.
l5-l-pl ROGER SMITH
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13

The Banner of Feb. IA, 1SS9-Bellevue.l
The Cdligrdph says the Methodists
of Ruston are preparing to put fine
new organ in their church.
Capt. Joseph Il. Smith. Il native Of
Shelbyville. KY. and a citizen of
Shreveport for the past thirty-six
years. died at his residence in that
city last Monday morning. Capt. Smith
lore without offense the grand old
| nime Of gentleman
THE ginhouse on Cash Point planta-
ton. about six miles below Benton,
was destroyed by fire Oh Tuesday night.
| the 9Th instant. About forty-one bales
| Of cotton We're consumed with the
building. The building was insured for
$1,000. hut there was no insurance on
| the cotton"
=" For fresh garden seed call at DIR.
w. J. Mohley'S Drug Store
| Dr. Motley is well remembered by
many of the Banners readers. Soon
following the date above mentioned he
moved to Gibbsland. shipping his stock
his death occurred some six or seven
years later. His widow died in Shreve-
port few months ago. An adopted
son. DR.. J. w. Mobley, resides in Wv
ian. Caddo Parish.
All advertisement read:- IS. Levy,
jr., banker. A general banking, eX-
change and collection business trans
acted. Particular attention paid to
collections and returns made with
promptness.
Capt. Levy was Shreveport man.
He married Miss Hattie Bodenheimer.
whose parents were long residents of
old Bellevue. Members of the two fam
lilies still reside in Shreveport and IL
son and daughter of Capt. Levy In New
Orleans.
There were 32.0OO.OOO silver dollars
coined by the United States last year.
The silver dollar is IL pretty coin and
we are glad to learn that it is multi
plying itself
The silver question was about to
break upon the country and the fore
going was provoked by the oft repeated
illusions of politicians to what became
later known as the crime Of '13. >
William Jennings Bryan was not yet
generally known to he a great man.
hut seven years later he made his
famous speech at Chicago. And it Is
almost certain that when the currency
begins to contract under the influence
of Reconstruction" we will have the
yreenlack revolt and the silver ques.
/ ton all over again.
I'VE are glad to learn that our
courts are enforcing the Sunday laws
Of this state. Nowhere is proper Oh
Seryance of the Sabbath SO important
and necessary as where universal sui
frage prevails and where the govern
nnent Is supported, not by large stand
ing army but by the intelligence and
integrity Of the people
At the time the foregoing paragraph
was written there was wave Of pub
lie sentiment sweeping over the cOull'
try in favor of Sunday observance. The
people Of the South were just energ-
ing from the financial depression and
social DISCRIMINATION consequent upon
the losses of the Civil War. Their
spirits were chastened and they had
learned to lean upon religion during
their many years Of suffering as con.
sequence of carpetbag rule, etc.
Ten Years AGO.
The Banner of Feb. IL, 19O9-Bentonl
| 4 nara vr., nh from tho plain loa limo
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13
For Rent

\ good upland FARM. about two miles east
of Hughes Spur. known as the LARkIN
Ti.A'E-ahout 40 or 10 acres open: good
water and plenty of wood. Apply at once
ADDRESS, Benton, Il. +. ID. No. :.
la-3-pt w. +. DENNlG.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13

You enjoy reading the Banner. SO
would your relative who has removed
from the parish. Why don't You order
it mailed to him!
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13
To the Ladies

l have taken the agency for the SPIRELIA
CORSErS. Should you want anything in
this line before | see you, write to me-
Address. Plain Dealing, La.
aStfl Mrs. j. PERRY
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Ten Years AGO.

The Banner of Feb. IL, 1909-BentOn.]
A paragraph from the Plain Dealing
correspondence read: " Married, ut
the home Of the brides mother. Sun
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AgentsWa nted

We will pay ptra$h, salary of $50 per
week for N.Y. or Ney<h 9Th rig to in
troduec ErEtNA PetLTnV1M1NTURE. Six
months eentr;Nt. - Eu1tea Manufacturing
Company. East st. LOUIS. Ills II-.-pI
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13

\ business visitor in Benton Monday
was Mr.. Bernie SmisSon. IL successful
farmer who resides some miles south.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13

Among the visitors in Benton Mon
day was Mr.. John X. Arnold, Il sue
ceSSful farmer from the lake region in
the northwest corner of the parish.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13

Miss Fannie Mae Heifner spent the
weekend in Benton with her mother,
Mrs. Alice Heifner. She is now teach
ing school in Caddo Parish.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13

Mrs. Van Gillespie. of Texas. and
Mrs Virginia Peckham. of Little Rock,
Ark. are in Benton on Il visit with
their mother and sister. Mrs. Y. l..
Gould and Mrs. Eliot Hotfpauir.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13

Mr.. +. ii. Belcher. now farming near
Curtis. was here Monday mixing with
his many old friends.
Supt. W. \. Fortson spent Tuesday
in Plain Dealing and yesterday ut Red
Land attending to school business.
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Thirty Years AGO.

The Banner of Feb IA, 1SS9-Bellevue.l
The Cdligrdph says the Methodists
of Ruston are preparing to put fine
new organ in their church.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13

We have been requested to announce
that Rev. King. of Bossier City. will
prach ut the Benton Baptist Church on
the fourth Sunday 1.-THE 23d) the ser
vices to begin at three o'clock pm.
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ton. about six miles below Benton,
was destroyed by fire Oh Tuesday night.
the 9TH instant. About forty-one bales
Of cotton We're consumed with the
building The building was insured for
$1,000. hut there was no insurance on
the cotton
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-02-13

Capt. Joseph Il. Smith. native of
Shelbyville. KY. and citizen OF
Shreveport for the past thirty-six
years. died at his residence in that
city last Monday morning. Capt. Smith
lore without offense the grand old
maine Of gentleman
Evening star., 1919-11-22
Contracts Let to Rat-Proof Docks.

NEW ORLEANS, La. November %
Contracts for rnt-proofing two
docks here at the cost of 100000 have
been let, for the purpose of minimizing
the chances Of bubonic plague infec-
lion.
Evening star., 1919-11-22
JAMES s. ALEXANDER
HEADS ALLIED COMPANY

James s. Alexander. president of the
National Bank Of Commerce in New
York. was elected chairman of the board
Of directors Of the French American
Banking Corporation at meeting of
the board.
The French American Banking Cor
poration. which is located at 81 William
street, New York city, was organized
last April with Il ca pital of So, COO, 900 and
a surplus of 100000, all paid In Half
of the stock is held by American inter-
ests and half by French. The American
interests are the First National Bank of
Boston and the National Bank of Com
merce in New York, each holding one
quarter of the stock. The French par
ticipant is the Compton National d Gs-
compte de Paris, which holds ne-half
Of the stock.
The interests behind the corporation
represent combined resources Of one and
O quarter billion dollars. 1t was organ
lied to promote trade between France
and the United States. aiming to place
at the disposal of American business
men banking facilities in France as ad-
vantageous as Frenchmen themselves
have. 2....
The officers of the corporation are as
follows: Maurice Sylvester. president:
Roger p. Kavanagh, vice PRESIDENT. F.
Abbot Goodhue, vice president; John F.
Rovensky, vice president; Thomas E.
Green, secretary, and Arthur Terry,
treasurer,
Evening star., 1919-11-22
CASH
!. RUNS INTO BILLIONS

- "where" said the head of one large
Industrial corporation. would the
New York banks be without the cash
deposited with them by Industrial
companies? 1t IS largely this money
that has been responsible for our con-
tirued commercial and industrial de-
velopment since the armistice was
signed. Without it the banks would
have been unable to finance enter
prises that needed additional working
capita on account of expanding pusl-
ness"
The largest cash contributor to the
banks is the United States Steel Cor
poration. It's cash. time loans, ND
erty bonds and Treasury certltcateS
at the close of last year aggre Sateo
the enormous total of $45l,552 ,zzo
which alone could be used as a bass
for credits far in excess of the mucn. .
talked-a5out s1,500,00Q,000 of brokers
loans
The du Pont company showed s222,-
633,5S2 of cash, liberty bonds, etc.'
General Electric. sl2.340,23.: Bethle-
hem steel, s67.3i2.23s; American Car
and Foundry, S49.966.S67 American
Sugar Refining. $53.s1I232; Generai
Motors. S59,660.?43; American Locomo-
tive, s35.O00.U00; International Har
vester, s49.299.69S; Midvale Steel. SAT-
O23.375; Armour & Co., ss2,019. 31o
Swift & Co, S5l.374045; Republic Iron
and Steel, $17.s39.l49; Westinghouse
S35 10 N0O and 50 on dow" the ifst:
Evening star., 1919-11-22
Credit to Senator Lodge.

The president OF large rnanufac-
turing company expressed the opinion
that business men generally would be
pleased with the rejection OF the
II believe" he said. Senator Lodge
and those who have been co.operat-
ing with him have shown splendid
patriotism and plenty OF backbone
and should have the comnendation
are better off without the treaty as
proposed and I see no benedt on the
league Of nations. Neither do / think
the heart Of the world will be broken
by the failure Of our Senae to adopt 1t.
''It strikes me that the whole situa-
ton will be clarified by having the
question thoroughly thrashed out now
and not have complications come up
later. The whole thing looked to me
we were not familiar with all the de-
tails"
The defeat Of the peace treaty in the
Senate may be practically disregerdsd
80 far as It's bearings on the future
course Of the country'e business is
concerned, according to the head Of a
prominent investment house. He says:
'T do not see how the annulment Of
the treaty can have any material ef-
feet on the country's business, for the
simple reason that there are already
far more potent factors Of the situa-
tion which are having an adverse eff
feet on the country's Industrial activ-
ity. These are the income tax and the
refusal Of American investors to pur.
chase foreign securities. Unless the
income tax is revised downward to in
ducs moneyed persons to invest in
bonds far more heavily than they are
Evening star., 1919-11-22
TRADE CONDITIONS.

NEW YORK. November 2a.-Brad-
streets review of the weeks trade
says: Distributive trade continues at
n.rsr,1x swift pace: a,st with demand still an
q number of ordinarily dfsturbinr
elements. Indeed. the ruling complaint
might well be summed up in the word
scarcity, which still seems to domi-
nate all lines from the mine or mil to
the ultimate consumer. Hardening
money rates, unsettled stock markets
advancing prices for many staple com.
modities, insufficient supplies of soft
coal in large areas of the west. de-
moralized exchange markets. high
priced and inefficient labor and re-
tarded export trade, all operatives as
they are. seem to offer no important
check to domestic buying. which con.
tinues eager for current account and
confident for spring and the further
future.
statistics of bank operations show
no let-up; indeed they are larrer this
week than ever before. and failures.
after the apparently momentary flip
of last week. have dropped off again
to low point compared with records
of previous years."
Evening star., 1919-11-22

that anything should have prevented
conclusion OF the matter. Mr.. Sis
BON further said that while some res
ervations should unquestionably have
t psen made to the original document,
tney ought not to have been such as
to invalidate the whole matter. "It
is to be regretted" ne said, shat the
of1cials OF the administration and
representatives Of our country have
apparently not been able to realize
this fact and bury personal differences
to the public interest. 1t seems to
blocking the wheels Of progress"
). B. Forgan Not Discouraged.
James T. Forsan. chairman of the
First National Bank Of Chicago. who
Is here in New York. after having
attended the conference OF the fed.
eral advisory council with the Fed
eral Reserve Board at Washington
on Tuesday. says that he is by no
means discouraged that a satisfactory
peace treaty Will not be put through
the next session of Congress-, with
suitable reservations. "Mr Wilson"
says Mr.. Forgan, has not said his
last word yet on the treaty. We
know by experience that he is q good
hghter in these matters. with q sue
come. back left in him. In the
meantime, Of course, business and
commerce must remain, to a certain
Samuel McRoberts. vice president
Of the National City Bank. said that
was a bad thing from the interna-
ional point of view. ut complicates
the situation, from which so much
had been expected"
Evening star., 1919-11-22
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
OUTLOOK REVIEWED
Europe Sadly in Need of
American Credit to
Aid Revival.

From the n. Y. Evening Post Financial Bureau.
NEW YORK. November 22-In jan
uary, 1895. a panic in foreign ex-
change occurred at New York. similar
in some respects to the Generalization
of that market in the present week,
but with the movement Of rates the
opposite of what they were last
Wednesday.
New York was still a free gold mar
let, but, in the panic over the possi-
BILE collapse of the gold standard for
the currency, sterling exchange had
risen well above the normal gold ex-
port point, gold was going out on the
European steamers at the rate Of a
million dollars per day and the Treas
ury's gold reserve for redemption of
legal tender currency was approach
ing exhaustion.
Panic was stopped on that occ q n
and an awkward period bridged over,
through the advancing of unprece-
IDENTIFY large amounts Of credit by
European bankers to American houses
whereby the extreme pressure for re-
mittances to London was relieved.
The relation Of the two markets is
not only reversed in the present in
stance. but the obligations aris ng
from trade in merchandise and from
international borrowing are vastly
larger than those of twenty-five years
ago.
Evening star., 1919-11-22

now, and unless people generally are
more alive to the Importance of pur-
chasing foreign securities to promote
our foreign trade, which Is already
showing signs of declining, the busi-
ness o fthe country Is bound to suffer
and the action Of the Senate may well
be disregarded from the economic
standpoint"
W. n. Chi1ds Holds Defeat Proper.
William H. Childs, president Of the
Garrett Company. expresses the opin-
ion that the rejection of ~the peace
treaty In it's original form is good
thing. Adoption of the treaty in its
original form might have impaired
the independence of the country. he
believes. Mr.. Childs is of the opinion
that a compromise on the proposed
reservations to the treaty which
would would make 1t more favorable
to this country. will be agreed on in
the near future.
Il am a follower of Lodge on the
question Of the treaty and would
rather forfeit peace than give up my
Americanism," was the statement
made by leading banker. what did
we go to war for. if 1t was not for the
preservation of American independ-.
ence? Then why should we sacrifice
1t by such treaty? l am glad it was
defeated