The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-07-16
LOCAL NEWS
Water melons are plentiful.


Water melons are plentiful
The candidates are at Clear Greek
today.
Jack Maxey is at homo for short
stay, he has been quite sick.
w. D. Ragland is little indisposed
this week, being confined to his bed
today.
Hon. Wallace McLaurin has return
ed from a months stay at Hot
Springs.
Tom Jones arrived yesterday from
Vicksburg for a visit to Brandon
friends and relatives.
Mrs. c. ". Girdlestone and little
sou Henry, left Monday night for a
visit to reatives and at Kansas City,
Mo.
Gov. A. Ell. Longino will address
the voters of Rankin county at the
court house OH the first day of court,
August B.
S. L. McLaurin and wife, accom-
panied by Mrs r. S. McLaurin, left
Saturday for Cooper's Wells for a
weeks stay.
Every few days the daily papers
succeed in having the pope die. But
the venerable old gentleman continues
very much alive.
Misses Annie Hinton Wilson and
Lucille Ellet, two of Vicksburg's most
charming young ladies, are guests of
Brandon friends
Mrs. S. NJ Houer, of ST. Louis,
who has been the guest of Mrs. W. T.
Rehse, on Hopewell Ridge Farm, left
for Vicksburg on Friday last.
Miss Fanny Moore Jack Las return
ed from Oxford where she has been at
tending the teachers normal. She
will remain in Brandon for two weeks
or more.
Misses Annie Henry, Virgie Maxey
and Alma Gayden departed yesterday
afternoon for an extended tour, will
touch Rankin, Pelahatchie and other
eastern points.
The entertainment given by Miss
McCaskill's pupils at johnson Hall
Friday night was interesting from
start to finish, the little ones showing
the result of careful and painstaking
training.
Misses Clemmie Mckay and Estell
Barrow, who were visiting Miss Ber-
tina Buchanan near Hebron, were pre-
maturely summoned home Monday
on account of the illness of grand
mother Mckay, who is very criatical-
ly i'll.
Hon. J. L. Evans passed through
town today en- route to Pelahatchie
to attend the Sunday school conven-
ton. His friends all over the county
are very much disappointed by him
withdrawing from the race for rep
rosentative.
The election commissioners will
meet at the court house next Monday
for the purpose Of revising tile poll
lists, erasing all names not entitled to
registration and registering all lille
gally denied registration. The COM
missioners are Wayne S. May, ". B..
Easterling and J. E. Jack
Forest Register: p Henry left for
Brandon last Saturday taking with
him Mrs. Henry and his daughter,
Honoure, where month will be spent
at Busick's we'll. They were accom-
panied by Mrs. Fl. c. Simmons where
it is hoped that both Mrs Henry and
Mrs. Simmons will be greatly bene-
fitted.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Thomas, who
have been visiting their sons, Edwin
and Charlie, at Perkins, Okla, and
their daughter, Mrs. W. A. Trout.
ar Atwater, ILL.,, for the past two
months, returned Friday, much to the
pleasure of their many friends. They
ore both in excellent health, and en-
loved their trip immensely.
Dr. Walker says he was forty years
o,d Sunday last, but was too sick to
aot much cake. A rather singular oc'
s~vrence is that the doctors birthday
"a that of his brother Dr. PIP. Wal
rar Of Brandon, appear ON the same