The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-28

Jean and Laurie McLaurin and w.
A. Rauch left Wednesday morning
to attend the marriage Of Mrs. Nc
Laurin's niece, Miss Artemise
Rauch, Of Edwards, Miss, to A. H.
Cauthen, a prominent business
man of Canton, Miss. After the
ceremony Mr.. and Mrs. Cauthen
will leave for a trip south, including
Florida and Cuba.
The petty thieving around here
lis very aggravating. Turkeys
have been stolen that had been
fattened for special purposes day
or two before the intended feasts
and one night last week some thief
had put a wire around the horns to
lead DR.. Stapleton's cow from her
stable, when he was driven away
by on. of the owners little boys.
The stealing of wood and pine is Of
nightly occurrence when the fuel is
in reach of the thief. Such thieves
will be attended to if caught.
We have the facilities to get up
as neat and as cheap letter heads
and envelopes as any office, but
this is not written only as a re-
quest for the work, but to suggest
to farmers, stock raisers and every
business man, that printed station
cry has so much better appearance
than when any old thing that is con-
venient is used for business letters.
Think about it. 1t costs very little
more than common tablet paper and
is much nicer. 1t is up-to.dateness
to have printed letter heads and re-
turn envelopes. 1t is something
you should do even if your an
cestors did not. Try it once, you
will continue it.
j. D. Biles a carpenter, on last
Wednesday was run over and
killed in Birmingham, Ala, by
Gov. Corners auto, driven by a
negro chauffeur and Gen. Sir Henry
Edward Colville came to his death
on the same day in London by a
similar instrument of death or pleas
ure Tor both) driven by Gen.
Sir Henry Rawlinson, an old army
comrade. The auto plays no
favorites but gets in its work
on both the loWly and the promi-
nent alike whether speeded by the
careless negro or the titled general.
Brandon enforces her ordnance
against fast running and there has
not been a single auto accident in
the corporation limits.
The bulk of European gold now
coming to this country is to pay
for the south's cotton, without
which the financial distress would
be SO much greater. The south is
fast being recognized as the section
that is almost complete within itself
SO far as essentials. All field crops
lumber, iron and coal, are con-
cerned, which are absolute neces-
sites in the independence of any
one portion of this great country.
1t is with the people to manufacture
the raw materials into finished
products and that day will come
sooner or later. There is one
grievious mistake that could be cor
rected in a few years if the people
of the south would commence the
work at once of raising her
meat and feed stuff at home.
Only recently was it stated that
northern packers advised their
southern agents to not take checks
for meat, but to demand cash and
send it in to headquarters. Mis-
sissippi would scarcely feel the
panic today had the actual dollars
been kept within her borders that
have been shipped to packing
houses for meat, that could have
been raised here. When a state
buys largely her mules, meat and
bread, she can never be in a po-
.sition to withstand panic without
great hurt.
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