The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-10-19


low prices are prevailing.
Supt. Myers states that all the free
schools in the county are in session
since Monday, all having secured
teachers. The prospect for good
schools was never better.
The Brandon. Mercantile Go. has
purchased the lots below Gayden g.
Cos store and are preparing to erect
a steel warehouse. The old frame
buildings are being removed.
Mrs. J. II. Whitfield, who has been
very sick for several days, is repol ted
much better this morning. Mr.. Whit
field, who has been out in the country
surveying, returned home yesterday.
Mrs. Bate and attractive daughter,
Miss Julia, who have been spending
the summer at Brandon, left Tuesday
morning for sheir homo at Monroe,
La. much to the regret of their many
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. @. McCabe, of
Vicksburg, are spending while with
Mr.. and. Mrs. r. s. McLaurin.
They have been spending the summer
in the Blue Grass regions of Ken
lucky, and report a most pleasant
stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fl. Glass have
moved to cabin on their new place,
where they will remain until their
residence is vacated by Mr.. and Mrs.
G. O. Sprague, who will move to the
place now occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
W. W. Robson about the first of the
year.
Next week The News hopes to be
able to resume it's usual size--eight
pages. Only four pages have been
printed during the past two months on
account of quarantine restrictions,
which made it impossible fol us to
get our usual supply of paper.
Miss Mary Kerr Dunbar, one of the
accomplished teachers in the graded
school, won the years subscription
offered by The News last week to the
one guessing the name of the young
lady who furnished the documentary
proof to the quarantine inspector that
she had been in Louisville, KY, ten
days since leaving Natchez.
An exchange speaks of a man who
always paid for his paper a year in
advance. AS reward he was never
sick in his life and never had a corn
on his toes, or toothache, his potatoes
never rot, the frost never kills his
pears, his babies never cry at night,
his wife never scolds and he has sue
ceeded in serving three terms as school
trustee without being criticised.
The post Office department. has put
in practice the new rule of removing
from the employ of the department
railway postal clerks, city and rural
mail carriers who persistently neglect
or refuse to pay their honest debts.
All employees in the postal depart
ment appointed under the civil SER
vice rules are included in the list and
many removals are being made. It's
all right.
John Mckay has returned from a
weeks stay at Pisgah, his old home.
He is we'll pleased with the progress
the people are making in that part Of
the country. and says it is the garden
spot OF the state. While there he
laid out a town, making the lots so K
14o, which he has put on the market,
and has sold several already. If the
proposed railroad is built through
that part of the country, Pisgah will
be town and good one too.
The rural mail carriers in Missis
sippi have received notice from the
postoffice department. at Washington
that all rural mail boxes must be
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paint within the next few mon tbs,
and they will be given an opportunity
to earn few dollars by performing
the work. This painting will will be
done regardless of the owners opinion
about the matter.
The Women's Home Mission Society
of the Methodist church has adopted a
very unique plan to raise money for
repairing the church. The ladies are
going to open up rummage sale in
the rear end of the postoffice. This
sale, as the name indicates, consists Of
all manner of things from second hand
shoes, clothing, furniture and bric-a-
brac to beautiful new and attractive
articles. The sale begins Saturday,
October 21st, continuing through Sat-
urday, October 28th, OF the following
week. AS all articles have been con-
tributed, they can undersell the
lowest.