The Bossier banner., 1920-12-30

names, ITleuuS, duu dA SOuA AoAn'
want the Banner. Get that hint!
Mrs. May Barker, of Shreveport,
spent Christmas Day here with rela-
tiyes and old friends.
Misses Clotile Rogers and Pattle
OgiIvie, of Shreveport, We're among the
holiday visitors in Benton.
MIR. and Mrs. A. NJ. Wyche spent
last Saturday, Sunday and Monday III
Plain Dealing with relatives and old
friends.
MIR. c. X. Norris and family, of
Shreveport, spent Christmas Day here
as guests of Mrs. w. j. Shinpoch, Mr..
Norris sister.
MIR. X. L. McLeish, of Collinsburg,
called by yesterday to renew his sub
scription to the Banner. He says he
doesn't like to be without it.
Mrs. Annie Norris, of Eldorado,
Ark, recently here Oh a visit with her
daughter, Mrs. W. ]. Shinpoch, left last
Saturday for Shreveport to visit at the
home of her son, Mr.. e. II. Norris.
MIR. w. HI. Crouch, living some
miles out from Plain Dealing, while
here on business yesterday came by
and renewed his subscription to the
Banner He says he has not as yet
sold his 1920 cotton and that his son
secure an advance of $50 on two good
bales.
Among the business visitors Ill
Benton Tuesday We're Mr.. ]. Y. Brown,
residing 2h miles south Of Bellevue,
and his neighbor, Mr.. w. NJ. McVey.
They came in to pay their taxes. Mr..
Brown called by and again ordered his
prairie hay advertised in the Banner
this time for two months. We judge he
| must find it pays him, or he would
| quit us.
| As we see it, the cross tie industry
and oil and gas leases on their lands
have had much to do with keeping the
farmers of the parish going this fall.
| With four bales of cotton now bringing
only about what one bale would sell for
something more than year ago, it's
a good thing this furry in the demand
/ for ties has hit us-and the prospect
| ing for oil helps some, too.
| Mr. j. NJ McClanahan, Of Haugh.
ton, who has been subscribing for and
reading the Banner SO long that the
memory of we youngsters who Were
born after the war rulneth not to the
contrary, has just made the kind Of
remittance that maketll glad the heart
of the publisher. Thanks. Mr.. Jimmie
/ We hope you'll be around to read tht
i Banner many times three years.
i We have previously mentioned h
this column the serious Illness Of Mis-
q Ann Bfggs, Of Bellevue We learned
this week that something more thar
! two weeks ago she underwent an oper
alton for hernia, but has since steadil,
improved. She was told that she Nigh
begin sitting up by Sunday, SO she i
by this time no doubt able to wall
i around the house a trained nurs,
from shreveport was with her TO
/ some time.
MIR NJ. G. Bledsoe, who recent,
: removed from South Bossier to Bos
sier City 50 that his three younge
sons might enter good high school
: was among the callers yesterday. Hi
three other sons, he said, have goo
positions elsewhere. Mr.. BledsOe Will
! a caller ut this Office remarked that h
+ had been reading the Banner eve
since he could read, and was sure b
, would want it at least three year
r longer, so wrote us out check for s.
l The reporter learned yesterda,
from tive reliable sources, that a del
rick has been erected at the old Mi
/ ler's Bluff abandoned prospect oil we
1 and that Il rig has been put to wor
r at cleaning out the hole. 1t is now b.
+ lieved well can be brought in at th
+ site-at least good punlper. We d
T not know just what has brought abou
: this new try-out. but 1t is said by tlIos
e who should know that for some six @
e seven years past mill men have col
II stantly secured oil from the well fC
n lubricating purposes. The oil has bee
e secured by lowering a bottle into til