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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-12-04

Tuesday. Dec. Did YOU see any
s,eaHdiaatex hast week: Things were
pretty lively up this way.
Miss Winnie Keoun spent the week
end with home folks.
Mrs. n. w. Stewart was shopping in
town Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. Glenn DOtison. of Plain Dealing.
was visiting in this community Sunday.
Miss Iadye Nellie Goodwin spent
Saturday evening with Miss Mary
King.
Messrs. Bryant Keoun and Dewey
Goodwin We're business visitors to
Plain Dealing Saturday.
Miss Ada keOun. who is teaching In
blanchard. spent Saturday night and
Sunday here with her parents.
MIR. +. Nj. johnson and SONS, Messr>
Eber. Clarence and ElstOn. We're visit
ors to Plain Dealing yesterday.
Mrs. Viola Hoss and children and
Miss Helen Cox. all of HOsstOr, spent
the weekend here with relatives.
Christmas will soon he here - st
think of all the good resolutions YOU
are going to make for the new year.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. X. Arnold, Of Mil
ler's Bluff. were visiting in this com
munity Saturday night and Sunday.
Miss Vera King, now one of th'
teachers in the Pleasant Hill School
spent Saturday night and Sunday will
home folks.
Miss Robbie d. Stewart, who i
teaching in the Spring Hill H1gl
School. spent Thanksgiving here will
home folks.
Don't forget: Singing Sunday o
| each week. PAT.
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Ok niii.

Tuesday. Dec. 1.-The weather is
somewhat cooler "a little frost last
night.
Mr.. Rirdwell Crubtree left Saturday
for the oil fields.
Mrs. w. +. Seward removed to her
new home Monday.
Miss Cecil Atkinson spent Thanks
giving with her sister. MR. X. II. DUTY.
Miss Leasy Seward way pleasant
visitor with Miss Myrtice Hamiter Sun
day night. 4.
Misses Thelma and Ldeiie Seward
spent Sunday very plealintly with
Miss Myrtice Hamiter.
Miss Myrtice Hamiter expects to
leave within few days for Dallas.
Texas. where she will remain until
next summer. ..-BEAUTY SPOT.
!. Tuesday. Dec. Miss Myrtice Ham
tier was visitor ut the Oak Hill
School yesterday.
Mr.. ]. ]. Armour is here this week
on ii visit with friends.
Wedding bells will be ringing ut Mr.
Ed Atkinson's next Sunday night at
nine O'Clock.
Miss virgie Higdon. of Dallas, Texas
is visiting friends and relatives resid
ing in the Oak Hill conTnlnnity.
Miss I4easy Seward Miss Myrtice
| IIamiter and Miss Seletef :SfIipp slRnl
Thanksgiving in Shreveport with ole
friends.
| The community Sunday school ser
vice is still held each Sabbath day. al
two o'clock i'll the afternoon. Lent
the good movement your Endorsement
by attending. blue EYES.
Concord Dots.
Tuesday. Dec. Quite warm to
day. More rain coming. perhaps.
There are again quite number o
sick folks around Concord
Mrs. W. +. Shaver spent the week
end with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs
]. l.. Fletcher.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. NJ. Mccann spen
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
J. l.. Fletcher.
The Concord School is progressing
nicely Quite number of new pupil
have been enrolled.
Mr.. :. l.. DenDss and family wer
guests Sunday afternoon Of MIR. an
Mrs. c. J. Mckinney.
Miss Lola ParkerSoll. who has bee
teaching the Blocker's Chapel SclOO
will spend the weekend with hOn
folks.
Mr.. and Mrs. y. l.. Mckinney, q
Rocky Mount. spent Sunday evenin
with their parents. Mr.. and Mrs. JO
, Mckinney.
MeSSrs. Tommie. Caleb and Marti
Mckinney motored to Benton Tuesd;l
afternoon to attend to business.
+ The children Of Mr.. Lewis Lund;i
are very much missed In school sint
they have moved to their new home
Minden. ROMA.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-12-04
CORRESPONDENCE
Phillips Hill.

Tuesday, Dec 2.-The weather has
lately been changing 80 quickly 1t keeps
IL person guessing as to what is coming
next.
The sick baby at the home of Mr..
proving.
Miss Wells. from near Homer. spent
Thanksgiving with her sister, Mrs.
J. Il. Hall. Of Rocky Mount.
Messrs. Jim and Henry Collie and
Cedric Booker started for the lake yes
tertlay morning after ducks.
Mr.. El'er ltabb spent a few days of
last week very pleasantly at the home
of his sister. Mrs. joe bounds.
Mr.. j. l.. Nortieott and family spent
the past weekend in Shreveport with
relatives. They returned Sunday morn
ing on the motor.
Mrs. Turner BurkS is still ut the bed
side of her mother, Mrs. Payne. No
improvement is reported In the conti-
ton of the sufferer.
The storms Of last Tuesday and Fri.
day nights played havoc with the tele'
| phone wires. 4 crew Of men was out
| Sunday and fixed them up.
Mr.. Walker. of Shreveport. came il
last night. He reports the saw mi'l
ready for operation. Saving at ,ht
mill was begun this morning.
Messrs Lucian Burks and John Nor
rison. working on the pipe line neal
Minden. spent last night with home
| folks and returned to Minden to-day.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Chesley Burks. Of Cot
ton Valley. were guests last week al
the home Of their daughter. Mrs. Dave
| Coyle. and while there made up theil
ribbon cane syrup.
Mr. l.. NJ. Burks. of Rocky Noun,
was an early morning caller In thi'
community yesterday. The correspond
ent was told he brought in an exi.ri
enced workman for the saw mill.
/ Mrs. Maggie Rhodes spent the week
end ut the home Of Mr.. J. Il. Booker
She had Just returned from Arkansas
where she transacted business at Lew
isville and Busy. and Also visited he
son. Mr.. J. H. Jenkins.
i MIR. and Mrs. Carl Andrews wer
both confined to their home last weel
with colds and We're not able to NOV
to their new home. Mr.. Andrews say
they are both some better and will tr
to get settled this week. Many friend
regret the departure of Mr.. and Mr..
Andrews and the good wishes Of al
20 with them for health and success i
their new home. -FREcKLEs.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-12-04
Shreveport.

The publication Monday Of the tax
assessors figures Of valuations for
CaddO Parish showed an increase of
$15.!DS4:lOO in values.
Buckner T. MckennOn. seventy-fOur
years old. died ut a Shreveport s;init;i-
rum last Saturday night. He was a
Confederate veteran. and had been Il
member Of the hoard Of stewards of
the Methodist Church for more than
fifty years. Up to five years ago he
Travelled for a large clothing house and
was known as the oldest travelling
salesman III Arkansas Two Of his SOliS
are prominent residents Of Shreveport.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-12-04

stop the slaughter Of American
boys in Europe" was the cry little
more than Il year ago. The total Of
deaths was hut trifie over $1,000.
Every year in the United States there
is three times as great Il slaughter
from tuberculosis. Stop 1t. Buy Red
Cross Christmas Seals.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-12-04
Pleasant Hill.

Monday, Dec. 1.-Time is flying
Christmas is almost here. and the new
year follows shortly after.
The many friends of Mrs. Gladney
FortSon will he pleased to learn that
she is improving after a recent opera
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-12-04
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25

llIhC y a.
IF Nature happens to a girl
with a good shape the girl goes around
acting like she did 1T herself.
In every neighhorhood the Other
women wounder how long it is going
to take some other woman to get her
eyes open to what her husband Is do
ing.
Any mutt can b. up early In the
morning. But 1t takes a lot of hard
work to get up early in the morning.
Lots of men who wouldn't steal ten
cents from you think nothing of steal
ing $40 worth of your time.
Anyway. ONE who make worry
ing their great work in life are in no
danger of running out of raw material.
We like to hear a woman start in
apologixing because she hasn't any
thing fit to eat. We know h a we
are going to get a real meal.
Do not tell any man all or your
secrets. The warmest friends make
the bitterest enemies when they fall
out.
If a woman does it herself 1T Is q
wash" But if the wagon ONE and
gets it, it is "laundry."
Some married men are so happy
tina they would have to get about
900. 00o. oee. 600 miles away from home
before they would feel homesick.
Some of the June brides are a little
doubtful right nov that they coppec
out the best man in the world.
A fat mans Idea of the way to ca
corn on the cob Is to roll up you
| sleeves and let the butter run dow
your arm and drip of your elbows.
Even when , man has to part hi
hair VIII q towel, his wife believe
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25
WITH CZECHO-SLOYAKS
AROUND The WORLD

name really were, and that they were
doing so far from home.
.sW1th Gafda's whirlwind campaign
round the end of Lake Baikal ana
the illustration of the Reds attempt
to cut the life line of steel that forms
the backbone of settled SIBERIA, the
Czechs accomplished the most miracu-
lous success of the war. The zo-year-
old leader. Gaida, forgot red tape ana
did his duty before having his plans
o, K,ed by Paris, London or rome
and thus saved Siberia until the Allied
armies from the Pacific could come
and add the @. e. D. sign TO the
Czech achievement"
Arrival of more than a thousand
fighting Czechs in this country en-
route to their homes in Central Eu-
rope marks the beginning of he end
of a sacrifcial pilgrimage to the
shrine Of liberty" says a bulletin
from the National Geographic 80
ciety.
Seventeen months 6 these in
trepid warriors started out from the
Kiev district of western Russia in rail-
way cars some of which were decor
ated with the slogan, From Wal to
War Around the World
"At that time it looked as though
the summer of 1918 would find them
in Champagne or the Argonne, join
ed with the thousands of their COM
patriots who were already fighting In
Allied armies to down the Hun.
But a strange combination of cir
cumstances delayed them in Siberia
through the short summer of long
days and the long winter of little sun
shine while in Europe Armistice gave
way TO Peace Treaty"
The bulletin quotes from a commune
cation OF Maynard Owen Williams,
first American correspondent with
the spectacular anabasis of the
Czecho-Slovaks across Siberia. hs fol-
lows:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25
Daily Horoscope

The stars incline but do not compel"
saturday, July 20, 1919.
Copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
Astrologers read this as a quiet day.
Jupiter is in n strongly benefc aspect,
while Saturn and Mercury are friend
ly.
1t is a fairly lucky rule, especially
for all lines of business.
have a propitious sign,
which, however, pressages some
anxiety brought about by world con-
ditions.
Increased responsibility for the ma
ton is again foretold. There may be
problems OF great moment presented
from the Orient before the first OF
the year.. the seers declare.
Mexico continues under a plane
tary rule making for protracted
troubles, but there will be a strange
turn that involves changes of diplo-
matte policy by the United States, the
seers declare.
Much writing and agitation on
domestic topics is foreshadowed
Dress will occupy attention. radical
fashion changes will be introduced,
There may be an attempt to persuade
business women to wear uniforms.
Education is still subject to the
stars that presage changes in cur
ricula and discussion of new methods
of work.
Mercury today Is in a place that
seems to indicate better conditions
surrounding mediums of transmitting
messages
A~strologers who have forecast con-
ditions during the autumn month.
give little hope of a speedy settling OF
disturbed cinditions in the world.
Next month may bring anxiety con
i corning a certain class of securities
and may not be favorable for State
or Federal
There win probably be a Cabinet
crisis in England and for hat reason
| the American representative at the
1 Court of ST. James will be much IL
the public prints. the seers declare.
Persons whose birthdate it Is have
| the augury of a successful year
Money and business should increase
Children born on this day will BIZ
lovable and kind. These subjects OF
Leo often have high ambitions, which
are able to realize. for the Sun
Is their principal ruler.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25
Fire Alarm Boxes

23-Raritan Copper Works.
and Sheridan Street
25-Smith Street and Central r. r.
26-Market and First Streets.
27-Madison Avenue and Paterson St
2s-High and Lewis Streets.
35-Smith and High STREETS.
26-New Brunswick Ase. and New st.
87-Smith and State Streets.
42-Atlantic Terra Gotta Works.
43-Buckingham Ave. and Hartford st
4b-Commerce and Front Streets.
estate and Washington Streets.
b4-State st. and Buckingham Ave.
b5-Parker st. and Pulaski Ave-
be-Hall Ave. and Charles st.
b7-State and Wayne Streets.
Smear United Lead Works.
69-Maurer.
B2-Washington and First Streets.
63-Naw Brunswick Ave. and Elm 81
64-SEhith Street and Watson Ave.
65-Commerce and State Streets.
72-Front and Smith Streets.
T3-Water and Gordon Streets.
74-Kearny Ave. and Gordon Street.
S1-Brace and Hanson Avenues
S2-Smfth and Herbert Streets.
Ave. and Washington St.
Ave. and Stanford Street.
S5-Near City Hospital.
S6-C1eve1and and Brace Avenues.
87-Amboy and Hall Avenues.
s2-Amboy Ave. and Inslee Street.
93-Lawrence and francis Streets.
s4-Neville and tombstone Streets.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25
DIR. STEELE SAYS.

Consider the lilies of the feld-how they grow-they toll nt neither
do they spin. and yet 1 say untoy u, that v Solomon in all his glory
was OF arrayed like m of these"
The Iessonrthat the Great Teacher was trying 20 rel to tn cor was
the absolute folly of anxious thought'-about what they should eat and
what they should put I.
With most of IS the trouble that we cannot year is the trouble that
We borrow-and borrowing is a bad habit anyway
People with little imagination pile up mountains which they're afratd
they'll have to climb. But those who have faith enough a remove tn
highest mountains
No-Tm wrong-were told that If we had faith "a big az a grain If
scotland that's the tinhst kind Of a seed-the mountains we're
afraid of would disappear.
But if ever it becomes necessary for Is to climb mountains wen be-
given Notwithstanding strength-thats part of the benefit that comes
from having "mustard-seed faith
1t isn't. after all that of u has such wonderful faith that gets US
through-its the fact that re have even a little faith n a wonderful God,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25
Walt Mason's Ripping Rhymes
GRIT

Some fellows won't stay downed when they have hit the floor;
If they have lost a round, they soon bob up for more. BY Fortune
bifed and kicked, and swatted on the shins, they don't know when
they're licked, and take it all with grins Soon Fortune weary grows
of furnishing the gan, of finding that her blows RI greeted with q
laugh. She calls off all her bets, resorts to kindly shifts, and makes
those fellows pets, and loads them down with gifts. Among SUCCESS
full men you'll find a hundred guys who, foored again, again, still to
their feet would rise; they'd spit out broken teeth like Greeks In
Homer's pomes until the victors wreath was placed upon their
domes. Methinks that every gent who to the heights arose has had
his features bent by Fortunes shrewish blows. For life Is not SO
soft that any human jay AN reach the place aloft seivet all the
way. We all encounter blows. who take the road to win; some land
upon the nose, and some upon the chin. The weaklng gives O yell
when Fortune swats his ear. and has a tale to tell of doubt and
dread and fear. The strong man gets his br, and lets his laugh
ascend, and mutters, whats the diff? I'll get there in the end"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25
Might as Well schwear on, Hic,

INIFIIPIIS II65oJ
GOOD-BY, MR.. BOOZE.
but what care we Is long as we
can get plenty of Extras. Samel-
cigar of true merit. lie
worth of quality for 7c.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25

that he would look better If he parted
1t on the side instead Of in the middle.
1t is easy enough to make your wife
believe that her opinion is wrong Just
agree with her and tell her that her
opinion is right.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25
NOticei

If any of the members are suffering
from cirrhosis they should call on DIR.
Welliver, of Dayton, Ohio.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25

Dear Luke: We know that prohibit
ton prohibits. But the morning af-
ter the Reds win the worlds series,
MANY booze bottles will be found
in waiting rooms, dressing rooms, ash
cans and alleys in Cincinnati7-Ball
Crank.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25

A lucky man is Oswald Lantz,
He certainly is blest;
For he can make a pair of pants
Wear longer that a vest.
Luke McIuk
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25

Names Is Names
Susie Few lives in Macon, Ga.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25

Oh. About e7,9ss Dozen

things
Were longer than his vest.
Newark Advocate.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25
Is He.

Sign on a store on East Washington
street. Greenville, S. G.: A. Katz's
Ready to ear.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25
Folks

You'll find strange folks In every land
No matter where o are;
Some folks are too far-sighted, and
Some go q sight too far.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25

"Silence is golden" observed the
Sage.
Maybe it Is" commented the Fool.
but just the same I'd like to have a
block of stock in a monograph COM
pany." i.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25

Well, Oswald's not so smart, by jings,
For 1t must be confessed
That his pants, when he bought the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25
Bits of By Plau
By LUKE McLUKE
Copyright, 1919, the Cincinnati
Inquirer.

Fact
When you add up how much you've
lost,
This fact may make you sigh:
The things you get for nothing cost
More than the things you buy.
Obi
'Does success mean getting what
you want p asked the Young Man.
NO." replied the Ole Man. Sue
cess isn't so much getting what you
want as getting what other people
want"
His Progeny
Last April-how it makes me sighl
/ swatted at, and missed a fly.
1 missed him. Twas tough luck, my
brothers,
For now I must swat 5.598.724,0o0,00
Others
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25

Our Daily Special
1t Takes A Strong Man To Admit A
Weakness.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25

Dear Luke: Now that Hoover has
retired, maybe we'll get all We want
TO eat. But what / started to tell you
was that an advertisement in a medi-
cal publication informs me that
Charles Fried Artificial Human Eyes
at SO East Twenty-third street, New
York City.'-Blimp.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25

"I suppose sneered the Manager,
that you feel that you have a mis-
sion to elevate the STAGE"
"Oh, no." replied the shabby-look-
ing actor. ION the other hand I feel
that the stage should give me a lift"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25
WuTi

These gossips should be choked, say
l."
The angry victim walled;
tale bearers are all ours. that's why
Their speech should be ~cur-tailed."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-25
Rusiness

Fol Sale-Ten shares in a cork
screw factory. Paid 81, 900 for them.
Will sell for 10 cents, or what have
you?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
AndreU and Lmogene
LITTLE LIFE CoNFIDENCEs THE EXPERIENCE OF
 PHlLosoPHIc. THOUGH MARRIED

mgene, looking up evening paper a of habea
 "A don't what of habeas prised! writ of habeas is the all ills to which the mortal flesh S T used place from Dan oBeerhb and Lands End John Greats! childhood careless and old
  they anything scapng knife the other football yell
 
 they of Indian Affairs and Washington and institute till spanked hires said then instituted the training school which graduated the "When old offended husband chased rail his wife alienation of his wife's affections
 If the o crude days torpid liver he took wooden the family
  liver often electric lights another the table whiskers habe the m play with his sleeves rolled his elbows. stor coued girl her father would
  bulldog hit of cke before within serenading distance of the house of his lady love- There a time when"
 Yawning prodigiously, mogene remarked: Andrew, is a of corpus?" he
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
TROOPS WITHDRAWN
 FROM WASHINGTON Attacks on Women Stop, But Holdups Continue.
 Armed Guards on Duty
By Assoeiated PresS


 Washington. July 27.-An of the 2o0o order when last weeks race rioting and street disorders got beyond control of the police. had been withdrawn tonight. but the national capial was still depend ing on the army, which was represented by a provost guard
 At the earnest request of the local au- thorities the war department recreateo the provost guard which had been abol- ished several weeks ago, and tonight the troopers with red bands on their sleeves, armed with riot sticks and six shooters in opened holsters were patrolling the principal parts of the capital in pairs,
 Although rioting and attacks by ne- groes on white women have subsided, street holdups have continued.
 The Maryland State authorities have demanded the extradition of one ne- gro whom they charge with an assault on a white woman. The Washington police who say they believe the mans alibi have refSsed to give up the prisoner for fear that he would be lynched when taken over the Maryland line. The local Maryland authorities, dissatisfied with the conclusions of the Washington po- lice, called in detectives from Baltimore who declare they have disproved the mans alibi entirely Governor Harring- ton of Maryland has issued a formal request for the negro's extradition.
 While action has been deferred in Con gress on various resolutions demanding an investigation of the police and fixing of responsibility for the crime wave, the local authorities have been preparing legislation to increase the personnel of the forces
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
CONVENTION WEDNESDAY

Anniston. July N.-(SpeciaD aD.-The con-
 vention of five hundred or more good
 roads delegates in Anniston Wednesday
 morning for the selection of a temporary
 route for the Florida short line between
 Anniston and Columbus, Ga, is attract
 ing the attention of more people than
 any other one thing just now and the doors of the city will be opened Tues day to the members of the executive committee and Wednesday. for the large number of delegates.
 Dozens of representatives from each of the counties between Huntsville on the north and the Florida line on the south, arriving in Anniston in trains of automobiles coming from both direct icns will make parking space in Anniston
 a scarcity on the two days of the conven- l tion. 1 The plans for the entertainment of the delegates have progressed nicely during | the week big barbecue to be served on l the Country club links, coupled with many and varied features designed to in- terest and amuse the visitors has been arranged for the two days.
 Wednesday will mark the transaction of the real business of the good roads convention. Selection of the temporary route for the tourist line is to. be the chief feature of the gathering and with i everybody a real good roads convention l is to be held.