The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-10-26
annual session of his association,
which was held at Pisrah ahnnt a

MOuUu ago. MI. Mll6y ~ ROOu mau
and makes an efficient clerk. The
minutes will be printed and mailed
out to the various churches within
the next few days.
The case Of Wallace Rogers against
| Willie Duran, young son of O. L. Gu
ran, came up for trial in Judge Robe
sons court Tuesday afternoon.
and after hearing only small
part of the testimony the judge
discharged the defendant, the state
having failed to make out case. The
affidavit charged young CIran with
shooting Rogers in the right eye.
A man remarked the other day: IF
the newspaper man knew how many
knocks he gets behind his back, he
would adopt another calling But
says an exchange, the newspaper
man does not know and has learned
to expect it. The newspaper man who
is successful as an editor is cordially
hated by every law breaker and swim
der, penny pinching knocker on
progress and every hypocrite in his
town and locality, and glories in the
fact that he does not meet the approval
of such class Of cattle. -
A special from Leland, Miss, to
the Commercial Appeal, says:
Thursday morning at 9:45 O'Clock
the Methodist church was the scene
of pretty wedding, when Miss Clio
Legard Best became the bride of Dr.
Walter B. Dobson, Rev. J. W. Raper
the pastor, officiating. Mrs. Dobson
is the youngest daughter of r. B.
Best, Sr. !, the efficient town clerk, and
has been since her removal here from
North Carolina one OF Leland's most
popular and attractive young ladies'.
DR.. Dobson, formerly of Brandon, is
one of Washington County's most
prominent young physicians.
Guernsey (Wyo. Gazette: Gossip
is humming bird with eagle wings
and voice hKe foghorn. 1t can be
heard from Dan to Beersheba, and
has caused more trouble than all the
ticks, feas, mosquitoes, coyotes, grass
hoppers, cinch bugs, rattlesnakes,
sharks, sore toes, cyclones, earth.
quakes, billiards, smallpox, yellow
fever, govt and indigestion that this
great United States has known or will
know when the universe shuts up shop
and begins the final invoice. In 9th
er words, it has got war and hell
backed up in a corner yelling for ice
water.
The following special from Brandon
was printed in the New Orleans
Times Democrat last week Wednes
day: The Rankin County Fiddlers
Convention met in the pavilion at
Busick's we'll last night, with good
attendance, After attending to the
usual routine business, they opened
the dance with the old virginia
Reel" The adjoining county and
Jackson were prominently represented.
After several hours the convention
adjourned to Busick's restaurant and
INDUCED in "possum and taters. and
the host having ON hand a lot of grape
juice eight years old, the boys didn't
get back to town till late.
A dispatch from Cincinnati says the
reward of SIS for the return of a
package of certified checks, notes and
other commercial papers supposed to
be worth $50 900 was spurned yester.
day by Caspar Schlei, we'll known
business man, who acted in behalf OF
his 15-year. old son, the finder of the
package Mr.. Schlei said if the
papers were valuable the reward
should be more than So. This sum
was offered by John Peterson Of
Brandon, Miss, who claimed the
papers, but did not clear up the
mystery surrounding their discovery
in suburb of that city. They were
said to have been lost in Virginia.
The Pallas Brown Concert company
the first of series of entertainments
furnished by the Rice Bureau, Of
Nashville, Tenn, appeared at johnson
Hall last night, and was greeted by 9
large and appreciative audience. The
company is we'll balanced, each one
being genius in his or her role, fully
sustaining every claim made for them.
Those present were highly entertained,
as was attested by the numerous deaf
ening encores. The next Of the series
will be Herbert A. Sprague, the we'll.
known lmpersonator, in Rip Van
Wrinkle and other monologues, on Sat
urday night, November 25th. Mr..
Sprague bears the reputation of being
an entainer Of rare ability, and nc
doubt will be greeted by full house
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