Plants of the Caddo Indians
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| Daniel Mills |
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Upcoming Program
"SURPRISE ARRIVALS FOR PLAIN DEAILNG MARSHAL"
The August 27, 1953 issue of the Bossier Banner-Progress told of an exciting event that a Plain Dealing Marshal experienced.
“Although he exceeded the speed limits and performed duties usually done by physicians, Marshal Emmett Allen, of Plain Dealing is a hero. He delivered a seven-pound 15-ounce baby while taking the mother to a Shreveport hospital and outran a Bossier City policeman in getting the mother and bay to the Confederate Memorial Hospital.”
“The incident happened Sunday night when he was called to the home of Mrs. Charles May, of Plain Dealing. Realizing it was too late to call an ambulance, the marshal placed Mrs. May in his car and sped toward Shreveport. Three miles south of Benton, the marshal saw he could not reach the hospital, so he stopped along the roadside and delivered the baby, although he had never performed such a task before.”
“After the birth he wrapped the mother and infant in a blanket and rushed on to the hospital where both were reported to be doing fine.”
“Enroute, police first mistook the marshal for a speeder, but when they learned of the emergency they provided an escort to the hospital.”
Two weeks later, in the September 10, 1953 issue of the Bossier Banner-Progress, the newspaper reported the following:
“Town Marshal Emmett Allen of Plain Dealing is willing to rest on his laurels as Dr. Stork after
delivering the second baby in 13 days while making emergency runs of expectant mothers to the Confederate Memorial Hospital Sunday.”
“Allen received an emergency call Sunday night for Mrs. Ethel Cagle, who lives near Plain
Dealing. Accompanied by Virgil Cagle, Mrs. Cagle’s husband, the marshal drove to Shreveport but not quite to the hospital when the baby arrived.”
“Allen did most of the emergency work, but the father gave his some assistance. The baby was born in an ambulance which Allen operates.”
“On August 24, Marshal Allen was rushing another Plain Dealing woman to the hospital when the baby was born in the rear seat of his personal car near Benton. The mother in this case was Mrs. Charles May.”
“The baby born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Cagle was a healthy boy. After the arrival the mother and child were taken to the hospital and admitted.”
To learn more about Bossier Parish happenings in bygone years, visit the Bossier Parish Libraries History Center.
By: Ann Middleton
“Although he exceeded the speed limits and performed duties usually done by physicians, Marshal Emmett Allen, of Plain Dealing is a hero. He delivered a seven-pound 15-ounce baby while taking the mother to a Shreveport hospital and outran a Bossier City policeman in getting the mother and bay to the Confederate Memorial Hospital.”
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| Confederate Memorial Medical Center - 1953 |
“After the birth he wrapped the mother and infant in a blanket and rushed on to the hospital where both were reported to be doing fine.”
“Enroute, police first mistook the marshal for a speeder, but when they learned of the emergency they provided an escort to the hospital.”
Two weeks later, in the September 10, 1953 issue of the Bossier Banner-Progress, the newspaper reported the following:
“Town Marshal Emmett Allen of Plain Dealing is willing to rest on his laurels as Dr. Stork after
delivering the second baby in 13 days while making emergency runs of expectant mothers to the Confederate Memorial Hospital Sunday.”
“Allen received an emergency call Sunday night for Mrs. Ethel Cagle, who lives near Plain
Dealing. Accompanied by Virgil Cagle, Mrs. Cagle’s husband, the marshal drove to Shreveport but not quite to the hospital when the baby arrived.”
“Allen did most of the emergency work, but the father gave his some assistance. The baby was born in an ambulance which Allen operates.”
“On August 24, Marshal Allen was rushing another Plain Dealing woman to the hospital when the baby was born in the rear seat of his personal car near Benton. The mother in this case was Mrs. Charles May.”
“The baby born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Cagle was a healthy boy. After the arrival the mother and child were taken to the hospital and admitted.”
To learn more about Bossier Parish happenings in bygone years, visit the Bossier Parish Libraries History Center.
By: Ann Middleton
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
"FORMER BOSSIER MAN WRITES OF DAYS AT OLD BELLEVUE"
The Bossier Banner published the following in its October 1, 1936 issue.
“One of the Banner’s old-time friends and a constant subscriber is L.C. Snider, prominent insurance man of Rockford, Ills. Lately, while sending in his renewal subscription, he took time to pen a newsy letter, telling of extreme weather in Rockford this summer and last winter and commenting on old times and former friends back at old Bellevue.”
“The letter, because of its interesting nature, is printed here in full.”
“September 23, 1936
The Bossier Banner
Benton, La.
Dear Banner:
I am enclosing my check for $3.75 to cover three years subscription to The Banner, as per statement enclosed.
I was interested in a statement appearing in a recent issue of the Banner about the character of the weather we have been having this year. This article said the highest temperature ever recorded in Benton or Bossier Parish was 110 degrees in the shade and this year a maximum of 109 ½ degrees was reached. Well, here in Rockford, which is about 42 degrees north latitude against approximately 32 degrees north latitude for Benton, we had an official temperature in July of this year of 112 degrees. In February we had 24 degrees below zero, and that’s variety, climatically speaking, I would say.”
“Recently I noted a visit paid by W.H. Scanland, Jr., of Dallas, Texas, to old Bellevue. I went to school with him, as well as with all of the other members of the Scanland family. My father’s law office in old Bellevue adjoined The Banner office on the south and the sound of the press— run by hand of course—as it turned out its neatly printed editions, is a memory which time cannot eradicate. My brothers, Ross and Thornton, were pals of John and Abney Scanland. I shall always be interested in the Scanland family and note with both interest and pleasure the success attained in their chosen walks of life by this family.”
“Mr. J. T. Manry was a great friend of my father’s, as was also the late lamented N.W. Sentell. I remember Mr. Manry very well. Well, after all, there are no friends like old friends and, as I sit musing over boyhood scenes, I can see the faces if many of those stalwart man and women now long since resting serenely in burial spots scattered here and there throughout the parish. Stalwart citizens, whose virtues were many and whose achievements are a permanent record in the communities in which they lived.”
“Wishing ‘The Banner’ continued prosperity, I am, Sincerely yours, L.C.Snider.”
The Bossier Parish Libraries History Center offers many remembrances such as this one. Come by and enjoy reading them.
By: Ann Middleton
“One of the Banner’s old-time friends and a constant subscriber is L.C. Snider, prominent insurance man of Rockford, Ills. Lately, while sending in his renewal subscription, he took time to pen a newsy letter, telling of extreme weather in Rockford this summer and last winter and commenting on old times and former friends back at old Bellevue.”
“The letter, because of its interesting nature, is printed here in full.”
“September 23, 1936
Benton, La.
Dear Banner:
I am enclosing my check for $3.75 to cover three years subscription to The Banner, as per statement enclosed.
I was interested in a statement appearing in a recent issue of the Banner about the character of the weather we have been having this year. This article said the highest temperature ever recorded in Benton or Bossier Parish was 110 degrees in the shade and this year a maximum of 109 ½ degrees was reached. Well, here in Rockford, which is about 42 degrees north latitude against approximately 32 degrees north latitude for Benton, we had an official temperature in July of this year of 112 degrees. In February we had 24 degrees below zero, and that’s variety, climatically speaking, I would say.”
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| W. H. Scanland, Jr. washing down the handset type forms. Scanland Collection: 0000.004.167 |
“Mr. J. T. Manry was a great friend of my father’s, as was also the late lamented N.W. Sentell. I remember Mr. Manry very well. Well, after all, there are no friends like old friends and, as I sit musing over boyhood scenes, I can see the faces if many of those stalwart man and women now long since resting serenely in burial spots scattered here and there throughout the parish. Stalwart citizens, whose virtues were many and whose achievements are a permanent record in the communities in which they lived.”
“Wishing ‘The Banner’ continued prosperity, I am, Sincerely yours, L.C.Snider.”
The Bossier Parish Libraries History Center offers many remembrances such as this one. Come by and enjoy reading them.
By: Ann Middleton
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
"103 NEW HOMES TO BE BUILT IN BOSSIER CITY"
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| James Larkin January 16, 1998 James Larkin collection, 1998.004.003 |
“Plans for a $750,000 building project which will provide 103 new homes for Bossier residents have been announced by Madden and Larkin, Bossier City building contractors.”
“The houses will comprise a new subdivision on the Minden Road approximately half a mile east of the intersection of the Benton Road. The houses will face Clarence, James, Howard, and Ronald streets and Lincoln Drive.”
“The area is adjacent to Bossier City’s present city limits. Incorporation of the new subdivision into the city limits is pending.”
“J.L. Larkin said Tuesday night that it is hoped that the first of the houses will be ready for sale by the latter part of October.”
“The houses will be priced from $7,000 to $7,900. They will be two and three bedroom houses with lot frontage varying from 65 to 75 feet. Larkin said that a variety of types of fronts are planned for the houses, in order to prevent monotony in appearance. Designs for fronts include varying use of stone, frame and brick.”
“The houses will be built in the increasingly popular ranch style. Some of them will have porches, some breezeways and some will have [a] side patio.”
“Larkin said that when the subdivision is opened streets will have sidewalks and curbs. Power lines will run along the rear of the houses.”
By: Ann Middleton
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Book Talk and Signing by Jeff Girard, Archeaologist
Come hear from author Jeff Girard about his new book from LSU Press: The Caddos and their Ancestors, Archaeology of the Native People of Northwest Louisiana, a thorough yet accessible and concise history of the 14,000 years the Caddo people and their predecessors survived and thrived in this region.
Jeff Girard served as regional archaeologist for the Louisiana Division of Archaeology and retired from the faculty of Northwestern State University after twenty-six years. He was Louisiana Archaeologist of the Year in 2015.
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
"LETTERS FROM 'OVER THERE'"
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| Chicago Daily News War Postals series Circa 1918 Mr. & Mrs. Paul McKim collection: 2002.035.139.053 |
“The following two letters were sent in by Postmaster John H. Allen, of Plain Dealing. The first is from his brother Dallas, now in training at Camp Martin, near New Orleans. The other is from John Baumgardner, a native of the Linton community, but who for some time prior to joining the colors, had employment in Plain Dealing. He is in France and should be addressed: Private John Baumgardner, Military Police, A.P.O., 707 A.M., E.F., France.”
“Dear Mr. and Mrs. J.H.A. and the Chillun: If you don’t mind and since I can’t get out a note. Feeling fine since mumps. Don’t do much. Keep radio practice up; lay round lots. Got a gun to keep cleaned and three pair of shoes to keep shined, four shirts to keep clean, four pair of trousers to keep pressed, two pair of leggings to keep spic and span, a mug to shave every day, a cot to keep in shape, a hat to keep brushed, drill three hours per day, school four hours per day, one hour for athletics, teeth to brush, buttons to sew on and eight hours to sleep. And I find time for writing now and then. See? Lots of time to rest. Yes—not.”
“How’s Plain Dealing and the oil boom? Dry up there? Rains every day here—every doggone one, I tell you. But, say, we have eats here.”
“Yes, we got the Dutchman’s goat. Every steam whistle in New Orleans blows one minute each day at eleven a.m. All business stops, and all pray for one minute—and intend to keep it up until the war is over. I am signing up a crowd to eat Thanksgiving dinner in Berlin, Christmas dinner back in New York, and get back to New Orleans for Mardi Gras next year. Want to go? Believe me, sauerkraut will be cheap as Arkansas land when the war is over. You can call it ‘liberty cabbage if you want, but the smell is still there.”
“Let me hear from you this year, please, and I’ll send your folks a pound of sugar for a Christmas present. Your brother, Dallas G. Allen.”
“Dear John, Thought you might want to hear from me since I am ‘over here.’ Am in a good camp somewhere in France. Am close enough to the front to hear the guns all the time. They sure roar at night too.”
“Would like to write you lots, only there is very little I can write. It is quite exciting when the Germans make an air raid over us.”
“This is an interesting place and I will have lots to tell you when I get back to that old place.”
“Say, if you can, mail me several copies of The Bossier Banner. I have not heard from anyone since I have been gone. Tell Maude to write every week and write yourself when you have time.”
“Sure will be glad when I get back to the good old U.S. America is the best place I have seen and especially Louisiana. Have been in England too. Like it better than France.”
“I am doing patrol duty and am on duty at night most of the time, so have to try to get some sleep.”
“Give my regards to Emmett and Mr. George. Your friend, John Baumgardner.”
Read more letters like these at the Bossier Parish Libraries History Center.
By: Ann Middleton
Saturday, September 1, 2018
This Month in Bossier Parish History
September: Though Out The Years
Sept. 18, 1906: The first “Bossier Parish Annual Fair” was held in Plain Dealing
Program for the "First Annual Bossier Parish Fair" 1906
1998.075.001
Leon Sanders Collection
Sept. 20, 1940: Bossier Parish opened a new library in Benton.
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Bossier Parish Library. Original building.
1950s.The Benton library opened
in 1940, serving as the main
Bossier Parish Library
headquarters which was the
old post office
0000.001.009 Bossier Parish library collection
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The Shreveport Times: Sept. 20, 1940
The Bossier Parish Library System was first
discussed by the PTA of Bossier High School
in 1940.The Bossier Parish Police Jury approved
the formation of the Library on a “demonstration”
basis. The first branches were located in Bossier City,
Haughton, Plain Dealing and the parish seat, Benton
as well as with a bookmobile and other equipment.
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c.1966. In 1959,the Benton library moved
from its original building to more modern quarters down the street.
2017.028.043 Bossier Library
Collection
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The First bookmobile for the
Louisiana State Library Commission, service
began in 1940 through 1968, and served as a
supplement bringing books into the
rural areas of our community
0000.011.010B Emma Pattillon
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Bossier City Bossier Central)Library.
One of the original three
Bossier Parish Library branches,
opened in 1941 in the old City Hall
building located at 503 Barksdale Blvd.
0000.005.013 unknown collection
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Henry L. Aulds Memorial Library. 1975
Bossier City donated a tract of land in the
Shady Grove subdivision in 1970 for a new
branch library and was named in honor of
Henry L. Aulds, Jr., a former Bossier Parish
Police Juror
2012.045.009 Bossier Parish library
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The Koran Station branch, was originally a
grounded State Library bookmobile and
opened in 1977 on land that was provided
by Bossier Rural Electric Corporation.
The bookmobile was operated from 1957
to Nov. 1967 when it broke down.
The driver was Mrs. G. Nicewarner.
1997.037.004 Bossier Library Collection
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Koran Library (now Tooke)A mobile building replaced
the bookmobile in 1987. In 2012, land was donated
to the Library by the grandchildrenof Anna P. Tooke,
where the "Tooke" branch is now located
1997.032.001 Bossier Parish Library Historical Collection
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Sept.22, 1932: Bids for the Barksdale Field hospital
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Bids for the construction of the hospital
were underway, supplies were already
arriving and held in temporary quarters
until the hospital was complete.
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Clearing land for the Barksdale Field Hospital
2011.053.001 Phillip and Vickie Hardin Collection
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Sept. 23, 1920: First female registered to vote in Bossier Parish
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Mary Bixler and
son John Bixler
2003.026.095
Mary Wheeler Corley Collection
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Bossier Banner: Sept. 23, 1920
After the 19th amendment,
Mrs. Mary Kate Bixler was the first woman
to register to vote in Bossier Parish .
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