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E atter at the post- office at Benton, La., unrfer act ot Congress

March 3,1379. /

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among the schools of the parish and are now being used by the pupils in ! practice, preparatory to take part the athletic events of the rally.

Mrs. R. L. Strode, who for some I months past has been teaching a | school at Buena Vista, Ark., re­turned home the latter part of last I week, her school having been brought j to a close.

Capt. Thos. Lyles now wants his I paper forwarded to Winnsboro, S. C.. [ instead of to Strother, that state.He says in his note to the office : 1 ‘Don’t fail, for I don’t want to miss |

a single copy of the Banner.’Rev. James Evans has contributed]

the following paragraph: “Pleaseannounce in the Banner that I wil' preach at Rock Mount Sunday eleven o’clock a.m., and will celebrate | the Lord’s Supper, and hope to see all | fhe church members present/

At a succession sale held in Benton j ast Saturday 150 acres of Red River

bottom land brought $8600. This was the Wade Washington tract, in spent the cultivation and wcl’ improved, and is * ^Vcated near McDade, in Ward One.' - p 1S. *Dr. D. J. McAnn’s last bid on the property is said to have been $8400 and Mr. J. T. McDade’s last bid $8500.

‘Irish Rose” has sent in a news report of interest from a North Bos

community, but it is not pub- ’i?bed for the reason that she does not make her identity known. Sign yourname to what you write for publica-1 home from Arkansas, tion. friend. It will always be with- visited her children, held from the public when you so in- Mr. Idom has moved into his new struct. Wc want the news from all home and Rev. M. Kidd has moved points in Bossier Parish, but we must I into the house he vacated, always know who sends it in. Rev. c B powell( pastor of the

Friends of Mrs. Brenton Tempest Methodist Church at Plain Dealing, of Garfield, Utah, will be pleased t" preached at Walker’s Chapel yester- earn of the coming of a little son to | day afternoon,

riadden her heart and home, and who has been named in honor of his father. Mrs. Tempest, whose maiden

Red Land.Monday. March 12.—Mrs. S. E.

helps is ill.Mr. Andrew Johnson of Benton

week-end with his parents. Estelle Dodson is now at home

from her school, near Rocky Mount.Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mizelle are en­

joying the pleasures of a new Max­well car.

Mrs. Mattie Barnett has moved to Plain Dealing and Mr. Dolphus John­son is occupying the home she re­cently vacated.

Mrs. J. F. Hudson has returned where she

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Mr. C. K. McClanahan, one of the Banner’s Haughton subscribers, has for the present ordered his Banner mailed to Monroe, box 558.

After a short visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Larkin Miss Jessie Larkin returned Sunday to Caddo Parish. She is teaching a school located near Vivian.

Mrs. H. Lunsford of Shreveport was a recent visitor in Benton, as guest of Mrs. L. G. Smith, and before leaving for her home also went out to vie it at the country home of her father, Mr. W. H. Smith.

A special communication of Cy­pres". Lod"e will be held in this place Monday night of next week, at which time there will be work in the Mas ter’s degree. As a number of visitors are expected to be present, light re­freshments will be provided.

Mr. J. P. Kent, who for some years past her been enetraged in the news­paper business in Minden, and who is re’atrd bv marriage to residents of this town, has pone to Dallas, Texas, to locate. He is said to have pur­chased an interest in a newspaper or mr.oaoine published in that city.

Superintendent Fortson left Tues­day to visit several of the schools of North Bossier. Hife trip at this time is chiefly to inspect new school build- in<*s. and four have been built since th° July meeting of the School Board.

* Whi’e absent he will also visit the Emma, Tyler and Cook schools. He

% is exnected home to-morrow.Walter C. Ivev has for two

we: kr or more been ill from fever, and by Sunday, his condition not h?vi:•- imnroved, Dr. C. H. Irion wa' called in to see him. As his condi­tion at present demands that some

! one he at bis bedside practically al’ the time. Mrs. Ivey is being assisted in nursing him bv her friend Miss Ida B’oxom, of Shreveport, both of whom are trained nurses.

A caller at the Banner office Tues day was our old friend Mr. R. M. J \Vi"e. a North Bossier farmer. We ccu’dn’t “prize” a good news para­graph out of him, but did learn that the dav before he was sixty-six years o’d. He and his good wife did .not think of this annual occurrence in

“’time to celebrate it, so he put in the dav about as usual—burning brush and chunks in his new ground field, and had his dinner from a bucket.

Mr. Con Grav of Vanceville left Tuesday for Ft. Worth. Texas, on business and pleasure trip, and is not expected home until the latter part of the week. He has leas2d about a 90 acre pasture on the North Riverside plantation, and while in the Texas city expects to purchase fine or more car loads of cattle, which will be grazed and fattened on this pasture In addition to the pasturage he has just leased, he has a small pasture or His own r.lace and expects to pur­chase additional stock for it.

Mr. W. A. Fortson, Parish Super­intendent of Public Schools, has authorized the Banner to state that the bir.- school rally, to be held in Bos rier City next month, will be held o”1 the 6th and 7th, instead of the 5th and 6th. as was the intention. The date has bean set up because of meeting of the Parish School Board, to bo he’d in this place April 5th- Also, he said that he had received six vaulting poles and four 12-pound fVts. which have been scattered

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J E T E R - E M E R VI Insurance Agency Old'phono, 87 j 210 Milam Street, Shreveport

name was Mamie Johnson, was left mother1 ess in her infancy and was

March 15, 1917. -oared in this parish at the home of v'er devoted aunt. Mrs. Mattie Graver Edwards, her mother’s sister

Mr. O. E. Giddens of South Bossier was an appreciated caller at the Ban­ner office Saturday of last week. He has for some years past been en­gaged in the cattle business, having always made it a paying side line along with his farming operations Asked about the practice of dipnin cattle, he said that he would not like to be without a good vat near by ^iunin". he thinks, has' saved to him

Miss Annie-Lee Allen, who is teach- the Tyler school was at home for

the week-end with her parents, Mv. and Mrs. G. G. Allen.

A -singing class has been organized and will meet at the church eve Sunday afternoon at three o’clock. Everybody is invited to attend.

Mr. Eber Johnson, who holds a po rition in Cotton Valley, was forced to leave his work and come home for a rest on account of serious illness.

Rev. J. E. Wakefield, a student in Hie Baftist College at Pineville, de­livered two interesting sermons at nur church—one each Saturday after­noon and yesterday morning. He will hold services again at this place on

MURDERED AND ROBBED

E. E. Wart, Traffic Bridge Night Toll Colollector, Victim.

Reward of $1000 Offered Jointly by This Parish and City of Shrevoport

for A rrest and Conviction.

many head of cattle and greatly the second Sunday in April, wve’led his profits from that industry. Misses Robbie Dale and Nata’ie

Mr. Wi’l Hamilton of Shreveport R*ewart. students in Plain Dealing has purchased from the Jacobs estate High School, spent the week-end at a tract of timbered land in Ward I ^°me. Thev were accompanied byFive that comprises several hundred ucre« and which he will a~ nuickly as u-wsible convert into a stock ranch. The impression here in Benton is that he will eivc his attention to cattle, hogs, sheep and goats. The acreage is near Bodcan Bayou and adjoining the Manry old place, sometimes re­ferred to as the Cade tJd place. The ’-oung man only recently married and :t :s said that he and his wife will reside on the p’acé and give it an.J its live stock their entire time and attention.

Mr. Strayhan Gives Bond.In last week’s issue of the Banner

was reported the homicide in which Mr. J. W. Taylor lost his life at the hands of Mr. J. F. Strayhan. But ittle further has developed to be re­

ported this week.It seems that a controversy of long

men, the same having arisen because f a difference of opinion as to the ocation of a land line between their

farms. The two p’aces join and are ocated about three miles north of

Dixie X Roads. Mr. Taylor is said to have on more than one occasion gone to Mr. Strayhan’s home to renew the quarrel. The outcome of his last isit is said by some to be due to the

fact that Mr. Strayhan thought that he had come armed and with a view of making trouble.

The charge against Mr. Strayhan is

their aunt, Miss Ruth Nuckolls. On Saturday night Miss Stewart enter­tained at cards for her charming guest.

Dr. R. Butler left Wednesday of 'ast week for Chicago, where he will

ttend a series of medical lectures. Mrs. Butler accompanied her husband as far as Shreveport, where they were met by Mr. and Mrs. Sam Martiner, of Wisconsin, and. a most enjoyable day was spent.

Mr. G. G. Allen left yesterday afternoon for Dallas, Texas, where he will attend to the purchasing of the new ginning plant to be located at Plain Dealing. Mrs. Allen is spending a few days during her hus­band’s absence with her daughter, Mrs. Wingett, of Plain Dealing.

From Tyler.Monday, March 12.—We are hay-

tanding had existed between the two I jng warm weather now.— ^ -------- u~”s-------*— u-------- 1 spring is near.

Seems as if

From Borneo.” It is of the highest comedy and we feel sure it will

be the biggest hit of our school year.Teachers and pupils are both work­

ing over time in preparation for our part in the corning rally. On Friday right, the 13th, we plan to hold our preliminary contest and choose our representatives for the Bossier City contest. We hope to make the pro­gram as varied and interesting as possible and expect to charge small admission fees of 5 and 10 cents to help defray the expenses of the con­testants to Bossier City. We hope to have a packed house of interested patrons and friends.

Last Saturday our boys and girls went to Plain Dealing and played a double-header basket ball game with the boys arid girls there. The score in the boys’ game was 51 to 7 in favor of Red Land. In the score count in the girls’ game there was a slight discrepancy. The count of one of the score keepers showed a score of 23 to 21 in favor of Red Land. The other count showed a tie—21 to 21. We decided to reverse the usual law of courtesy and give the home team Hie henef t of the doubt. Of course, in doing this we had to accept the ti count, which was played off in i final score of 23 to 21 in favor of Plain Dealing. We wish to thank the Plain Dealing people for their whole- hearts d welcome and hospitable en­tertainment, and hone to have the P’ain Dealing boys and girls out at Red Land in the near future for another game.

Rocky Mount Dots.Monday, March 12.—The weather

is warm but unsettled. Everybody is anxious to get to farming.

Deacon Bounds made a business trip to Shreveport last week. .

Mr. G. A. Bounds still fills his reg­ulär appointments over at Mr. E. C. Wilcox’s.

Miss Iton.ia Baird has applied to teach out the unfinished term of the Valley School.

Mr. Carlton Oglesby has been in Grand Bavou on a social visit ever since last Friday.

Miss Annie Lou Ogelsby was a welcomed visitor at Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Bound’s yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bounds spent yesterday with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Bounds.

Mr. Will and Walter Bounds were visitors at the home of Mr. R. F. Ogelsby yesterday afternoon.

Master Dalton Ogelsby, son of Mr. R. Oge'sby, returned home last week from Serapta, where he spent the winter.

Quite a crowd of young people attended the dance given by Mrs. R. D. Whittington. All report an en­joyable time.

Miss Ludie Pilkinton of Ivan spent Saturday and yesterdav with Miss Mqbel Saniford, one of the belles of Rocky Mount. —moonshine.

La grippe and whooping cough are the complaints of many now.

Miss Delphia Teague spent Satur­day night and Sunday with her friend Miss Isa Powell.

Miss Annie-Lee Allen, teacher of our school, spent the week-end with home folks, near Red Land.

Mr. John Goodwin of Red Land is visitor up this way every week.

Wonder what the attraction is?Miss Fannie-Mad Coyle of Arkan-

that of manslaughter, and he has „as was a welcome guest of Miss Mat- been permitted to furnish bond. A t j3 Glasgow Friday night and Satur- preliminary hearing will not be asked day.for as was at first reported. a s usual, the young people of this

Mr. Strayhan is a man of family community met at the church Sun- and has long resided in the commun-1 ^a,7 nj?ht and sang, all apparentlyity where he now lives. He is a mem­ber of an old fami'y here in Bossier Parish, and is well known. Mr. Tay- ’or was a native of Georgia. He came to this state during 1892 and to Bugsier Parish during 1896. He was fiftv-four years of age, and unmar ried. A niece and nephew of the de­ceased from Georgia and a married

enjoying the gathering.Considerable land has been clear­

ed here during the past winter. Seems as if some one is going to have an old-time log rolling.

The social event of last week was a party given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Glasgow Friday night. All

£lain Dealing.Wednesday, March 14.—A good

rain fell here yesterday, and as consequence farm work will be further delayed.

Miss Mattie Kelly is spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Bolin- ger.

Mr. Dal'as Jones of Shreveport, fertilizer inspector for this district,

as here Monday in the discharge of s duties. _Dave Bryant, a colored man who

lived on the Stroud’s bridge road, and well known by nearly every one here as a painter,*died last night. He had plowed the day before. Acute indi gestion is the supposed cause of death.

c tu se a lru m u e u re m a:iu a nm iiie- i ---- - , — . 7 . - , . -rioter from Ogden. Utah, arrived at present enjoyed it fine and hope they his home several days fo’lowing the wl1* Slve another soon. .date of the tragedy. The remains. I Miss Mattie ahd Clifford Glasgow following the arrival of the married I have been out of school the Past ist er Tuesday, were that day fo r -1 week on account of high water. They

warded to some point in Georgia forlorn attending the Spring Hill High interment. | School and report that it is well con­

ducted and that its enrollment is growing. ____ _____

Pleasant Hill.Tuesday, March 13.—Mr. S. L. De-

Moss is in Dallas, Texas, this week in the interest of the new ginning company organized last week at Plain

The Veterans.It was necessary to make use of

every stool and chair in the Banner office that’s fit for use in seating those who were present last Satur­day to attend the meeting of Loudon Butler Camp, U. C. V. We were agreeably surprised when they kept Dealing.dropping in, and if it had been found Mrs. M. M. Gleason was in necessary we could have hustled | shopping Saturday.

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around and found a few boxes for the “boys” to sit on.

Those present were Mr. J. A. Ford of Plain Dealing, Capt. J. H. Nattin of Collinsburg, Mr. H. L. Wheeler of Plain Dealing, Mr. J. S. Overcash of Taylortown, Mr. S. T. Taylor of Ben ton, Mr. J. S. Alison of near Benton, Mr. J. O. Nuckolls of Plain Dealing, and Mr. W. H. Smith, who

Messrs. J. D. and I. A. Gleason were in town Saturday on business.

Miss Overton McKenzie spent Sat­urday night and Sunday very pleas­antly with Miss Lena Dennis.

Misses Linda and Mattie Morrison enjoyed a pleasant day Sunday with their sister. Mrs. R. L. Burks.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Andrews and

Another exciting basket ball game was played Saturday afternoon be tween the Red Land and Plain Deal ing girls.

The Red Land girls motored to Plain Dealing in the morning and wero verv cordiallv received by the home girls at the high school build­ing. v’hcre they were given a sumptu ous dinner.

The game was watched with much nterest from the beginning to the t.s cVse. After a hard fight put up by both teams, the final score was 25

23 in favor of the home team.The Red Land and Plain Dealing

hoy’s basket ball teams also played Saturday afternoon. The score be­ing 51 to 10 in favor of Red Land. The Plain Dealing boys are not at all discouraged over their defeat, taking n consideration they have only been

playing basket ball a short time.

Teachers’ Examination.The next examination for the bene­

fit of those who wish to apply for certificates to teach in Bossier Parish will be held in Benton on March 26th to 31st, both dates inclusive. The first three davs will be devoted to examining white applicants and the last three to colored applicants.

W. A. F ortson,Parish Superintendent of Schools,

Mr. E. E. Wart, serving temporar­ily as night toll collector for Bossier Parish at the new Shreveport-Bossier traffic bridge has been missing ever since an early hour Sunday morning and there is every reason to suspect foul play in connection with his sud­den disappearance. It is thought that he was murdered and robbed and his body thrown into the river. The room provided for the collector cf tolls for Bossier Parish is not at the east end of the bridge, as might be supposed, but about half way the length of the bridge, and it was here while Mr. Wart was on duty that he is supposed to have lost his life. If lie was murdered and robbed, and all evidences seem to point undeniably in that direction, it is bo’ieved to have been the deed of at least two white men, and perhaos as many as three.

Near the center of th:. box-like j room was found a pool of blood on the floor and near this spot lav the glasses that were worn by Mr. Wart.A long smear of blood led from the door of the room out to the left and over the railing of the bridge at a point perhaps twenty feet from the room. Leading away from the scene of the tragedy and in the direction of Bossier City were bloody footprints. In view of these evidences, it is thought that the two men who com- mitteed the double crime approached from the east end of the brige, that 'nc of them paid the toll for two. and that the other struck him in the back

f the head with some heavy death­dealing object just as he had turned to walk back into the room. He was then perhaps robbed and his body dragged to one side and thrown into the river. The two men then evidently returned to the room to earch for more loot and while there tepned into the pool of blood. This

world account for the bloody tracks leading off in the direction of Bos- ier C’tv. That a chest in the. room

containing about $115 was net broken open and robbed would seem to indi­cate that the criminals were frighten­ed nwav by hearing what they thought

be the approach of some one frnn the Shreveport end of the bridge. This is the theory advanced by a riiond well familiar with all physics1 evidences of the crime to be seen on th= bridge Sunday morning.

Sheriff Edwards is'being assisted in his efforts to apprehend the ^ui’ty persons by Sheriff Hughes of Cadd-1 Parish, the police force of Shreveport and detectives of that city. A joint reward of $1000 for the arrest and conviction of the criminals has been offered by the authorities of Bossie” Parish and the Citv of Shreveport. Some arrests have been made, more on general suspicion than otherwise, hut as yet there is no real clue to the identity of the criminal.

Mr. Wa.rt was in the forty-sixth vear of his age. He was born in Co- lumb'a County. Ark.* where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Wart, re­sided for four years, hut was reared and spent near’v the whole of his lifer in Bossier Parish. His home for many

cars was in Haughton, where be "lerked in the stores of Mr. J. W. Elston and Mr. Joel Hodges, and he continued as an employee of Mr. Hodges after that, gentleman removed to Sweetwater, Texas. About the time he went to Texas he was in verv poor health and after an absence o ' only a vear or so returned to Louis- :ona. He suffered for some years from rheumatism and habitually used

stick when walking. He was an un ­obtrusive and retiring man. reliable und honorable and, so far as is known had no enemies.

His father formerly resided at Haughton, but is now living at Tay'ortown. Other surviving mem hers of the immediate family are one brother and two sisters, who are Mr. E. C. Wart, of Bossier City; Mrs Nora Sanders, cf Natchitoches, and Mrs. Pehey Morris, of 1920 Dove Stmet. Shreveport.

To make the burden of their griei greater still, the members of the family have thus far been denied the privilege of giving their deceased relative a decent interment. Th" rive” has been repeatedly dragged at a point just below the bridge, but the corpse has not been found. It is thought that the current has per- hans carried it far down stream.

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Dress Hats, $5 to $ 2 7 .SOStreet Hats, $5 to $15

Children’s Hats, $1 to $7 .50Sport Hats, $3 .50 to $15

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a’so resides near Benton- They are Mrs. M. A. Lowe were Sunday visitors named here in the order of their at the home of Mr. A. J, DeMoss. ages. Mr. Ford and Capt. Nattin are Mrs. Minnie McKenzie spent the in their seventy-eighth year, and Mr. jay Sunday with Mrs. Joe Waggoner. Smith, the youngest, is not yet sixty- who was quite siek for a few days, nine. . Mrs. Emmett DeMoss and little

All present expressed a desire to daughter were pleasant visitors with att:nd the Washington Reunion. I »jjgg Mattie DeMoss Saturday. Mas- When we stop to sum up their past ter Rcejnald spent the day with his service and hardships in the cause ( v j uncle, Madison McKenzie.

the South, their advanced ages, the Mr and MrS. will Slack are the many pleasures they are afforded by happÿ parents of another girl, who these annua! reunions (the big made her appearance last week. This

SEE my Show Windows for newgoods and prices. The win- i

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of the whole year to all of them) and when the thought is brought home to us that soon there can be up more reuninns for them, it would ?eem that a’l of us would like to s-e them go this one more time. While all of them wish to go. and would

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daughter and tenth —DOSS.

Red Land School NotesWe have only four more weeks of

a., ox «.««. lu „„u:u .school. It is a pity that our schoolgladly make any reasonable sacrifices | authorities could^noton their own account so that the

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might bs able to go. none of them feel that they can afford the trip un- ’ess the Police Jury provides the fu^1 rVr their transportation. This written Tuesday, the dn,r a session of the Police Jury is bcinrr held here. That body is to be petitioned to ad­vance the sum necessary for the pur­chase of transportation for all Con­federate veterans of the parish. This courtesy was not. asked last year, so we.hone to sse it freely granted on this occasion.

tous at least one more month In addi tion to this. We need the time finish our work. „

At the close of school we are plan r.ing to present the play, ‘'The Man

Dr. A. M. EICHELBERGERGraduate Veterinarian

Shreveport, La.

Ocffle and Hospital Spring and Milam Streets Telephones: Office, 1453; residence, 1582

L ig h t U pAn E l Cubo C igar. Take one puff and you’ll ag the best in the cigar line.

A Farm Loan Association.Mr. J. V. Brown, who resides on

rural mail route No. 1 out of Haugh­ton, has written the Banner, in part, as follows:

“Some of we farmers around here are interested in organizing a farm loan association, and Mr. W. Ratcliff of Bossier City has suggested that we get you to print a notice in your paper for two weeks asking all farm­ers interested to meet at Haughton on the afternoon of the 26th. There will be men there prepared to explain any­thing not fully understood.”

In many sections of the Union rural, residents are organizing so as to be better able to have the bene­fits of the Federal Farm Loan Act. The full text of the act would have to be explained at length and by some one better informed on that subject than is the writer, but let it suffice to say that it provides a method, under national supervision, through which farmers may co-operate to ob­tain lonsr-time mortgage loans at reasonable rates and upon easy terms of .repayment.

The meeting should be freely at­tended by these who are anticipating the making of loans for growing of crops, etc., or merely for the purpose of getting at first hand a better un­derstanding of the working plans of this rew Farm Loan Act. It will no doubt in some measure result in a greater prosperity for the people as a whole.

The Police Jury.A regular meeting of the Police

Jury, at which all members were pres­ent. was held in Benton Tuesday.

A matter taken under considera­tion and acted upon was the granting of transportation to Confederate veterans who wish to attend the Washington Reunion. After some

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«no « .iff ond vonMI ao-i-PP it’s discussion, the jury agreed to extend one putt ana you h agree u s tWa Drivilcee to all members ofLoudon Butler Camp who expect to attend the reunion and who feel that they are unable to defray their own expenses.

The jury authorized the expendi­ture of $1500 for gravel to be used

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in Benton to the Arkansas old road. This work will be done according to state specifications, but the jury has not a6 yet perfected the plan of im­provement.

There was much discussion on the tick eradication oroblem, one or more of the state authorities on this sub­ject being present. The jury decided that it would be well for compulsory dipping of cattle to become effective in Borsier Parish at that time when it becomes effective throughout the state by .virtue of legislative enact­ment.

The new “jitney” ordinance was not presented andrihe matter did not come up for consideration at this meeting.

The parish officials will be paid every two months in the future, in­stead of fretting their salaries quarterly installments, as heretofore.

If you have something on your farm you would like to convert into money advertise it in the Banner.

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