The Brandon news., 1906-11-01

In daughter, Miss Annie Hinton,
and 'tending the dedioation Of the
Illinois monument;
w. D. Ragland, who 10 recovering
from his recent spell Of illness, ID
spending this week with his father 1
family ut Dry Greek Heswill prob
ably return TOMORROW.
The Mississippi Industrial Expo.
sition At jackson opens November
and will continae through the 10th.
Everybody should attend this grand
display Of tho wonderful resources Of
our state.
" 8. Hull, the contractor for the
new 81, 900 annex to the court house,
came over this week and begun work.
1t will probably be sixty or ninety
days before the building Is COM
pleted.
D. A. Kersh, Of Patrick. who was
in town yesterday, reports . great
deal OF sickness in his neighborh hood,
there being several cases of typhoid
fever in the families Of Press. Kus-
sell, N. Il. Nash and Mr.. Marshall.
Mrs. E. ]. Robsnson Is moving
into her new home on College street,
which has just been completed by
Berry Mckay, contractor and builder,
Of Pelahatchie. 1t 10 one Of the
prettiest little homes in town.
Lethia Sparkman, colored woman
about 80 years Of age, living on the
Stevens place west of here, gave birth
to four babies last week. three boys
and one girl. The children were
we'll formed, and seemed to be perfect,
but died shortly after birth.
Circuit court and the board Of
supervisors meet Monday, and the
election is to be held Tuesday. On
account Of the circuit clerks Office
being occupied on Tuesday by the
grand jury, the election will probably
be held in the Office Of the superin.
tenndent Of education.
The Rankin County Teachers
Association held q very interesting
meeting at johnson Hall last Satur.
day. About 40 teachers were
present, and all seemed to be greatly
interested in the work. The proceed
ings Of the meeting are printed In
this issue OF The News.
A big lot of fruit trees from for
eign nurseries were haul~d into Bran
don this week. Thousands of dollars
worth of these trees are distributed
over Rankin county every year. Most
of them are absolutely worthless, and
the poor farmers are just faxed out Of
that much.
That whisky Is being sold in Bran.
don 10 an established fact, and some
of our citizens who are opposed to
blind tigers have pretty good idea
where the traffic is being carried on.
Parties that are indicted for the
offense may expect to be vigorously.
prosecuted. is,
All the voters in beat 8 who signed
the petition to the board Of supervisors
praying for voting precinct at Dob
SON will take notice that their names
have been transferred from the
various other books to the Dobson poll
book, at'which precinct they will be
entitled to vote on and after the 9Th
day of November.
The congressional election will be
held Tuesday November 6. The bal
lot boxes for the various precincts Of
the county have been prepared by the
commissioners Of election and are now
ready for delivery to the returning
officers, list Of whom were printed
last week.
Come ont to hear the famous i'm.
personator. James Frances O'Donnell,
next Thursday night and spend two
hours Laughing our cares and SORROWS
away. To hear the same person in a
city would cost two dollars, but to
hear him in Brandon costs only fifty
cents.
Edgar Pittman, worthy young man
who spent number Of years in Bran
don decided to make farmer Of him
self studying with that view while at
the A. s. NJ College. He is succeeding
finely. He brought in last week seven
sweet potatoes that averaged six
pounds each. Other young men
would do we'll to follow Edgar's ex-
ample.
Cards are ont announcing the mar
riage Of Msss Mary Madge Lucille