Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-06-05

SAINT visit to her friends in Shreveport
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Maybe we shall soon have trolley
railroad connecting this town with
points bttween DeRidder and SIagIe,
a company to finance the enterprise
being about to be organized.
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Drilling for oil is coming nearer and
nearer Ito Leesville. For some DAYS
past men have been busy on wells near
Pickering, and expectations of striking
a gusher are running high.
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Mrs Sam Stidham has returned
from a visit to friends in Shreveport,
and the family Of Mr.. and Mrs. Y. A.
Miller are home from Hornbeck. Mr..
Fred Bullock, who is known to every
body IN this vicinity because he ably
fills an important position in the Lees
vile post office, recently went to Beau
mont, Tex. to visit relatives. Miss Luz
clle Hicks, who has been student at
the Pennsylvania Institute at Lexing-
ton, KY, has returned to this city.
Miss Rose Simpson of New Orleans has
come to visit her sister, Mrs. S. A.
Mitchell Of LeesvilIe. Misses Bertha
and Marjorie Powell Of Jasper, Texas
were visiting their sister, Mrs. James
B. Roark, in this city, and Mos. A. R.
Hicks had her sister, Miss Dorothy
Swart Of Ragley, for her guest. Miss
Jamas A. Clark is visiting relatives and
friends in Texas and New Mexico.
Miss Pearl Willis is home from college
in Meridian, Miss.
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Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Turner have an
nounced the marriage Of their daugh-
ter, Miss Jessie Turner, to Mr.. James
Laurent, the webbing ceremony hav-
ing been performed at the Methodist
parsonage by the Rev. w. S. Henry.
The spring crowd Of buyers assem-.
bling in town to make their purchases
for the summer and fall having disap
: peared, Leesville merchants are nov
busily engaged in replenishing thei
stocks to be ready for the multitude tC
, be expected as soon as the tempera
. ture of relief again revives active bus
: mess. Stores are being overhauIeC
: newly decorated, shelves are refiIIed
{ additional help is about to be engaged
and when all is ready the enterprisinS
seller may complacently await whom
, and what is coming to him. We car,
not to whom we sell Everyone il
welcome with no distinction of creed
, color. or nationality. The principa
concern of the business man is wha
. his customers may purchase from hin
and how much Of it.
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, The Happy Hour Restaurant is nov
! being supplied with milk from tn,
dairy recently established by the New
llano Cooperative Colony at Stables
The cows which have been added tc
the Colony's herd were purchased fo
$1,000 from the owners OF. the Happy
Hour Restaurant, who have entered in
to contract with the Colony's manage
ment to furnish all the milk required
for the restaurants business. As there
is not any other dairy in the vicinity o.
Leesville, it is obvious that the colony
will rapidly extend the operations anc
volume Of its milk producing stock
among which are several fine Holster
cows and two young bulls of excellent
pedigree TIE managers of the dairy
are Messrs. Pickett and Baldwin anc
their staff is composed Of number oi
expert danymen and women.
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Travelling statesmen have been nu-
merous in Leesville of late, displaying
their samples to the commercial mer
of the town and taking large orders
for tht fall and winter trade. The
popular headquarters for the travellers
fraternity is the Hotel Leesville, re-
nowned for its modern convenience
and exquisite cuisine. whose chef daily
composes a menu for breakfast, lunch
con, and dinner the like Of which any
metropolitan hostelry might pride it
self.
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The National Bank Examiners who
arrived in LeesvilIe to investigate con
didons which will Justify the establish
ment of a new National Bank. have re
turned to Washington to make theiI
report. which Dr.. Jones and his asso
ciates heading The enterprise are as
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