The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-01-02

enough farmer to make success OF
the venture.
The public gin in this place has been
shut down for the season. About go
gin during the season.
Rain. sleet and little snow. and Il
rather cold day yesterday. This after
noon the skies are again clear, but the
weather continues quite cold.
Messrs. Jesse and Leon Jones' of the
Linton community. SONS of Mr.. and
Mrs Jim Jones. are said to be still
quite ill from attacks of influenza.
Miss Pauline Dawson returned home
Monday from Shreveport, where she
spent several days pleasantly at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. $. H. Dowell.
Mr.. j. II. Simmons. cotton census
enumeration for Bossier Parish. has re-
ported this afternoon that prior to De
cenIl,er 18th there We're u $50 bales Of
cotton ginned in the parish from the
1918 crop. as compared with 2S.573
bales for the corresponding date of last
season.
Mrs Eliot Hoffpauir has just had
two letter from her husband. still in
France Both We're written during No
vember. after the signing Of the armis
tice, and state that he was then well
and feeling fine SO the report that he
was wounded in action seems to have
been in error.
Some people will tell YOU that Christ
mas day and the eleven days that fol-
low indicate, respectively, the kind of
weather that will prevail during the
twelve months of the year. You know
what kind of weather has come yeSter-
day and to-day, so we leave it up to
you. or some one else. to say what next
August and September (the eighth and
ninth months) are to be like.
Mr.. &. y. Johnson. of the saw mill
III III VI llOStCi ~ JouIISou Nol'CI'tlh@
near I.inton). whose illness from pneu-
monia. following influenza. was report
ed last week. is said to he better. Mr..
\. H. Montgomery. of the Linton COM
munity. suffering like attack. is said
| to he holding his own. with hut little
change in his condition during the past
several days. 1t is thought that both
will recover
The condition of Mrs. Il. f. Wyche,
now residing in Shreveport. has been
referred to in several late issues of the
! Banner She suffered an acute and
exceptionally severe attack of tonSil-
| tits. Up to the time she had about re-
covered only one side of her throat had
been affected. Then the other side de-
velOped the disease. and she has for
about two weeks been up and down
However, her condition is steadily I'M
proving. and it is thought she will sool
have fully regained her health and
strength.
Among the callers at the Banner
office Tuesday were Mr.. J. w. Hosier
cur fellow townSman. and his brother
Mr.. Sam Hosier. now at his home al
Waldo, Ark, on Il furlough from Camp
Pike. Ark. AS previously reported il
these column. the young man was
wounded in France May Sd. His two
wounds We're in his right leg. and were
slight but three operations were nee
essary before the limb was again res
tored to its former functions. In fact
he has not long been cut Of the hoSDi
tails. and his color shows it. While III
| did not get to take part i'm the hotties
part of tile fighting experienced by TIN
Americans. he saw some share in it
and. aside from his SCARED leg. ha
trophies Of the battlefield to show fO
it. Among these are Il watch and chail
of German silver: and button off 0
the uniform of some enemy trooper.
\ regular meeting of the PariSl
School Board was held here to-da!
with all members present. Mr.. K. /
RurkS, the new member from War
Four, who succeeds Mr.. 4. j. Demos
(wlO did not offer for reelection), as
Sumed his duties at this meeting On
new school district was created-th
21St, located between Adner and Belle
vue. and embracing the Onley settle
ment. An election will lie held in til
district February LIST to vote on the ia
proposition. etc. The hoard passed
resolution authorizing that the teacl
erS of the parish who lost time becaus
Of the influenza epidemic be paid 70
half the time loSt-in other words,
half and half proposition carried. bu
lost time must he made up. The school
that would have been closed about Ma
18th will now have to be taught unit
; about June 18th. These schools if W
are correctly informed. are those Il