The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-26

B !. Mulhollan has sold his home
place I the depot to @. A. Warren, Of
Patrick, the consideration being &s5
per acre, possession given January /,
1907. Mr.. Mulhollon will get him .
small place near town.
! At meeting Of the school trustees
this week the present faculty Of the
graded school was unanimously re-
elected. The past session has been
most successful one and the trustees
were fortunate in being able to retain
the same teachers.
| when q Mans Single.' at John
son Hall last Friday night was we'll
attended and all we're highly de-
lighted at the evenings entertain-
ment. Everyone acquitted himself in
q most creditable manner, and deserve
great praise. Over $50 was realized
at the door.
1t has become so much the custom
to send keepsakes and remembrances
to ones friends on holidays that ones
purse is agape almost all the year
round. This Easter the shopkeepers
have been most considerable. and
'prices for all purses is the rule in
more than one shop that makes a
speciality Of appropriate holiday
gifts.
With the opening of spring those
who patronize our merchants will find
better stocks to select from than were
ever shown in this place. Our
business men have been making a
study of the wants of this community
and they will have what You are look
ing for in stock. Give them a chance
on aeverything you purchase this
season.
| The formal opening of the soda
water season will occur at Brandon
Drug Co.'S fountain this evening from
$50 to o'clock, the public generally
being invited to join them in free
glass of soda. Joe Shurlds, of Jack
son will be on hand to assist Mr..
Ohleyer in dispensing the drinks
Their new fount was installed last
Friday.
Here is a tangle. An old man of
fifty and young man of twenty
eight, both widowers. The young
man has stepdaughter thirty eight
years old, that he marries to the
older gentleman, and in return takes
the old mans daughter for q wife.
Now what relation are those four
people to one another?
Among those at New Orleans this
week attending the reunion are Maj.
Pat Henry, Capt. McCaskill, Col. Sol
Dobson, W. L. Manning, Manuel
Collier, W. L. Fox, Nathaniel Smith
and wife, Mrs. Mangum, DR.. A. g..
McLaurin, DR.. W. W. Kersh, Miss
Bessie McCaskill, Mrs. Annie
Weathersby, A. B. Stubblefield, W.
IL. Owen, F. B. Walrod, j. II.
Richardson.
| And it came to pass that after he
had advertised his goods, there came
unto him great multitudes from all
the regions round about and did buy.
And when his competitors saw it they
marveled among themselves, saying:
"How be it that this man is busy
while we loaf idly about our doors?"
And he spake unto them: SIN this
fast age Of push and rustic it is easier
/ for a camel to enter the eye Of q needle
than for man to flourish without
Advertising"
| The postoffice department has de-
cided that children going to and from
school shall not be allowed to get
their parents mail, SO don't blame
the postmaster if your children are
refused the mail. The postofice habit
among children has become nuis-
anoe both to the public and postmas-
ter, and the department. has done
wisely in making this decision.
| Ages pass, but each returning
Easter brings again its lessons of Sac
rifice, of unselfishness and of great
love for humanity. Great snowy
banks of lilies. emblems of purity,
are offered in remembrance of the
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greatest self -abnegation in the history
of the world. In vast cathedral and
modest chapel vibrates the majestic
music Of praise for that most wonder
full resurrection, upon which is based
the faith of the mightiest people of
the earth.
There is no reasonable excuse for
any man to live in town if he doesn t
like it. II you have no word Of COM
mendation to say for your town, its
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