The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-06
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The people OF this community have
enjoyed unusual good health this year.
for which we are grateful to God.
Messrs. Stevens and Smith and
Misses Belle and Un'e Cooper attend
ed Thanksgiving services at Mt: Greek
last Thursday.
Willie Murray and family, from
Braxton, visited sthe families Of II.
T. Ross and e. T. Alexander last
Sunday.
The newly organized Baptist con-
gregation are preparing to build nice
church. It will ) be called Liberty,
and will be served by Rev. II. K.
Farmer next year. Preaching every
2nd Sunday.
Rev. Mr.. Oates, Of the Methodist
orphanage home, at Jackson, made q
talk to the Methodist Sunday school
last Sunday, telling Of his work, and
the needs Of the waits in the orph-
anage.
Willis Dear, q negro, was found
dead Sunday morning in an ont build
ing on j. H. Loflin's place. He was
left there by other negroes the night
before, drunk on grape juice and
blind tiger whiskey. The blood Of
the negro, though he be lost in hell,
God will require at the hands Of him
who sold the vile whiskey. When
will the best white and black people
learn that it is largely the open
saloonist and blind tiger william who
tempt the weak to drink? and that
stirs up all the beastly, hellish pas
sions Of murder, bigotry and lust that
cause them to commit every crime in
decalogue. There are two negroes that
have died from mean whiskey that
the writer has knowledge Of. One
died with jug hung around his heck.
The blind tiger vendor Is an outlaw,
living off the earnings that ought to
go for the support of the home, and
make it attractive to all that live in
it. But he does more, he entices our
boys into his nest Of hell, and there
all unknown to most OF the world,
sows the seeds Of anarchy, Of disobe-
dience to parental authority; teaches
him to curse and swear, to violate
the sabbath; tells him that the ''old
man. is keeping q great srrouting
genius down, and If he wants to be
anything in the world he will have to
start by drinking, carrying pistol,
and being a bully all round. They
do not stop here with sowing. They
teach the eager, receptive mind Of the
young that the church is sham; q
cloak to cover sin and shame; that the
preachers are all hypocrites; that all
men ara liars, (even including them
selves, so as to mix little truth with
what they say. That chastity and
purity are myth and delusion, be-
lieved in only by the weak minded
and fools. He regards neither God
nor man in his lust for gain, for he
would tear out the foundation of
civilization in order to carry on his
accursed traffic, and then with the
demons in hell would exult and gloat
over the ruin and destruction he had
wrought by his knavery. What can
be done? Hysterical wailing will not
avail anything.
The G.. & s. I. railroad il having
another switch put in on the north
side of the track. The work is being
done by Mr.. Tolbert, who lives on the
Illinois Central. He will also put in
a ''Y" near the big cut.
Rev. S. S. Holiday, Of Louisiana,
will hold a meeting at Star, COM
mencing about Friday before the 4th
Sunday in this month and lasting
about one week. He was former
citizen of Star, and his old friends
will be glad to see and hear him
preach.
G.. L. Martin, who was elected
principal of the school here, but who
has been sick, will be here today to