The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-11-27
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BECAUSE of illness Rev. G. &. Wood
bridge was unable to fill his appoint
ment ut Keatchie Sunday.
Mr.. G. w. Arnold. whose home is
in Reagan County. Texas. came in Mon
day night and is Il guest of Mr.. X. Il.
Hill and family.
The band of wild geese that each
year frequent the river front just west
of Benton. are again to be seen on
their old feeding grounds.
Miss Pauline Dawson left Monday
for Shreveport to spend several days
i'm the city as Il guest at the home OF
Mr. and Mrs. $. ii. bowel.
Miss Leoia Greer. of the Benton
High School faculty, spent the past
weekend with Miss Eva Hoffpauir. Of
the Rocky Mount community.
MIR. Ernest McDade. of the Prince
ton community. who was business
visitor in Rento Tuesday. WAS among
the appreciated callers ut this office
that day
MIR. and Mrs. Albert Dupuy and
little daughter. of Mindel, spent Sun
day in Benton as guests ut the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Il. Hill. Mrs. ln-
puy's reatives..
-AIeSSrS. A. j. Baker and Frank
Rogers. of the Carterville community.
were among the business visitors Ill
Benton to-day While in town they
were callers at this office.
Saturday of last week Miss Pearl
~ H.. 1IxNf1
of Shreveport. We're united In marriage
in Benton. The ceremony was perform
ed at the home Of Mrs. Mamie Logan
and was said by Rev. q. q. Wood
bridge.
We are told that some days ago
Mr. J. ii. Fullilove. jr.. gave an oil anu
gas lease on 40 acres of his Red Chute
plantation. located some miles south vi
Benton. the consideration being $A
per acre \ prospect well is being pu,
down. on the place.
A number of the pupils Of Benton
High School enjoyed an opoSSum hum
Friday night of last week. The chap
erones were Mrs X. W. EggleSton ant
Miss Mary Humble. They did not sue
coed i'm bringing in the game. hut al
are TeIoIteu W bC uSh~htS" "As' 49,
sport of hunting "opOSSunlS.
Miss Catherine Caheen. again TIL
term one of the teachers in the N1vlll
School. says in Il note to the reporter
The school here is improving eacl
day. When it opened we had seventeen
teachers. but since Superintendent
Byrd has given us two more. and tn
enrolment gains ia proportion.
MIR. Sid Adger. farming on til
Adyer old place. some miles out frOl
Benton. reports that some days ago h
sold in Shreveport two turkey hen
that netted him S1O!G5. The larger he
weighed II pounds. 1t is somethin
unusual for a turkey hen to weigh tn;
much Many of the young gobblel
weigh less.
Mr.. NJ. f.. Hyde has written to s'i
that he and the members OF his famll
have moved and that he now wants II
paper addressed to him at Rock
Mount. He adds in his note: +" We fe
lost unless we get the Banner ever
week" Much obliye. sir. We are soil
to try to see that your paper gets
you regularly
Mr.. w. l. Gayle took Il few hOu
off one day last week and tore UP Il
old broken bridge over the ditch on Il
east side Of his drug store and built
new one--niaking Il good. neat job
it, There are plenty more such publ
improvements that any puhlic-spirit'
citizen can gain the applause Of II
fellow citizens by doing
Tuesday night Benton was visit
,f<soN
cOmpanied by wind that gave pro-
Use of an approaching storm. Howevs
1t did not last long. \ number of slla
trees aEeut town were uprooted al
here and there strips Of tin roof
were blown off of buildings. No 9th
damages as Il result of the wind l;l
heen reported.
A caller Monday was Mr.. H.
PilkintOn who resides out near III;
He. like many other residents of t
parish, reports an unusually short G
ton crop for his section. However.
said corn. sweet potatoes and 9th
crops were made in plenty and that
farmers out his way had just finish
making up Il fine lot of ribbon Gu
syrup-that crop being fine this se;'s'
Mr.. I'ilkinton called at this office
renew his subscription. He has
many years been IL reader of the Il;
ner. He is now SiXty-one years Of |;
(Sometlling more than Il year ole
than the Banner-if it hadn't been 81
rended during the Confederate Wa
and says that when he was Il bod
didn't remember far enough hack
Iccall the time when the Banner fail
to come to his fathers home. He Il