The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-12-18
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Only two more days in which to
register.
The quick way to find anything
one may happen to lose in BOSSier Par
isll is to advertise for it in the Banner.
Miss LeOl;l Greer expects to leave
Tuesday of next week for Kuston to
spend the Christmas holidays with rel
ativeS and old friends.
Mrs Clifford Smith returned Tues
day night from Dixie Cross Roads.
where she had been visiting Mrs. L. :.
Peace for week or ten days.
Miss Mary Humble. of the Benton
High School faculty. expects to leave
tomorrow for Monroe. to spend the
Christmas holidays with her people.
-(-nfavorable weather and the con-
tlition Of the roads prevented Nev.
G. &. Woodbridge from filling his reg
ular appointment at the Cottage Grove
Church Sunday.
Mrs. \. H. Montgomery removed
her family last Saturday from Linton
to the Gayle old place. here in Benton.
Mr.. Montgomery is working his teams
in the Homer oil field.
There has been weather. and then
weather. since the last issue OF the
Banner. Last Saturday afternoon for
lust Il little while there was what APP
reared to he rain. Sleet and SNOW all
ut the same time.
MIR. J. Nj. Levy. Of New Orleans.
owner of the Hurricane Bluff planta-
ton. spent yesterday in Benton and re-
mcwed his contract with Mr.. Robert l..
Adger for the conduct of the planta-
ton during next year.
MIR. :. r. Striyllan. of the Hughes
Spur community. was among the Mon
day morning callers who brought in Il
substantial remembrance for the Ban
ner. He said the roads everywhere
were in very poor condition for travel.
MIR. J. H. Simmons. Of the caney
School community. local cotton census
enumerator. 'phoned the office last night
to report that prior to the LIST Of this
month there were 1897 bales of cOttO,
yinned in BoSSier Parish from the cr0l
of 1919. as compared with 1882 bale.
for the corresponding date of 1918.
Mrs. Gillum Wyche returned home
Tuesday from Natchitoches. where shs
was called last week by the death O1
her mother. Mrs. +. \. Crawford. Mrs
Wychc is ii member of the Benton Higl
School faculty and during her absence
her place was filled by Miss Eva Hoff
pauir. one of the students III the school
Mr.. w. J. Bounds. Of the cottol
Valley community. Staunch friend
the Banner of long standing. came II
Yesterday to renew his subscription
About this time each year he comes t
Benton to pay his taxes and his lOdg
dues and always remembers to com
on around and renew his subscriptio
to the Banner Luck to YOU, sir. 1t
the steady old once-a-yeir subscribe
that we like thesbest.
The first of the week the relNl
reached Benton that MIR. w. {. I've!
now working IL number of teams In til
Homer oil field had lost one good mul
and that he had about fifteen or 81,
teen others very sick. At first 1t wa
suggested that they had been l'oisone'
Tut. if so. Mr.. Ivey thinks it was frOl
feeding grain that had become sIoile'
According to last reports he had 10:
only one mule and the others were &c
ting along all right.
Mr.. Wesley Green. from way u
in the northeast corner of the parish
Horse River Section-waS among Il
callers at this office Saturday of la
week. He said that the crops Of h
section had turned out somewhat Ike
ter than WAS expected. but that d
pendable labor was still quite scare
He has one nei.hhor who has lit
unpicked cotton in the field. hut he
in worse luck. having fully 500 pOun
or more Of the staple still unpicke
He thinks now the weather will II
permit of its being picked. Rodcau
high and still rising he said, but I